FE REPORT | 2025-11-26 00:00:00
The securities regulator has granted additional time to eight more market intermediaries to ensure compliance with provisioning requirements for unrealised losses and to adjust negative equity.The extension will take effect after December 31 this year, when the current deadline expires."Some...
MUMBAI, India, Nov 25 (AFP): Bitter rivals India and Pakistan have been clubbed together in the same group and will play each other on February 15 in Colombo in the T20 World Cup, cricket's world body announced Tuesday.Defending champions India...
Rangpur Division moved to the top of the points table in the 27th National Cricket League (NCL) after securing a five-wicket win over Rajshahi Division in their fifth-round match at the Rajshahi Divisional Stadium on Tuesday, reports BSS.Pacer Mukidul Islam...
Gold prices eased on Tuesday, slipping from an over one-week peak as the dollar held firm, while investors awaited a batch of delayed US economic data that could help refine expectations for future Federal Reserve rate cuts, reports Reuters.Spot gold...
LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters): Britain will scrap a sugar-tax exemption for pre-packaged milk-based drinks, including bottled milkshakes and milky coffees, the health department said on Tuesday, as part of efforts to curb an "obesity epidemic".The sugar tax, also known as...
LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters): Oil prices extended an earlier decline on Tuesday after news reports cited a US official saying that Ukraine had agreed to a peace deal.Brent futures were down $1, or 1.6 per cent, at $62.37 a barrel...
GENEVA, Nov 25 (AFP): The United Nations called Tuesday for swift and impartial investigations into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including a deadly attack on a Palestinian refugee camp last week.The UN rights office decried that nearly a year since the...
GENEVA, Nov 25 (AFP): Israel's war in Gaza has ravaged the Palestinian territory's economy and is threatening its very survival, the United Nations warned Tuesday, calling for "immediate and substantial" international intervention.Rebuilding the Gaza Strip will cost more than $70...
KABUL, Nov 25 (AFP): Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight border strikes it blamed on Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tensions soar following a suicide bombing in Peshawar a day earlier."The Pakistani invading forces bombed...
MOHAMMAD ASIF | 2025-11-26 00:00:00
"I live on the tenth floor at Wari with my two elderly parents and my wife. When the building started shaking, I felt helpless. I kept thinking that if something happened to them, I wouldn't even know how to get...
Jarin Tasnim OhiYou may be familiar with Mirpur's National Botanical Garden. But do you know why it's so well-liked? With about 56,000 species, a dedicated study herbarium, a variety of leisure amenities including lakes and cactus houses, and a sizable...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan | 2025-11-26 00:00:00
As we stand at a critical juncture in history, the urgency of addressing climate change has never been more apparent. Scientists around the globe agree that our planet is in peril, grappling with the effects of extreme weather events, rising...
Barkat-e-Khuda | 2025-11-26 00:00:00
Because of a major shift in dietary patterns and lifestyle changes due to urbanisation and rising incomes, low- and middle-income countries are experiencing a rapid nutrition transition, leading to 'double burden of malnutrition', with under nutrition co-existing with obesity. The...
The rapid pace of modern civilisation, propelled by information technology, has transformed the way we communicate, learn and entertain ourselves. Social media, in particular, have become central to the lives of Bangladesh's youth, with platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok,...
The absence of English language clubs has become a major factor behind students' weakness in English in many educational institutions across the country. Students often struggle to express themselves in English despite learning it from the start of their academic...
Wasi Ahmed | 2025-11-26 00:00:00
The recent findings about the Leather Industrial Park in Savar by the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) have once again brought Bangladesh's struggle with industrial governance, environmental compliance and export competitiveness into sharp focus. What was once envisioned as...
In today's world of ever-shifting balance of power, global trade and economy are getting fragmented and, in some cases, protectionist and regionalised, while supply chains are facing disruptions. Amid these developments, the economies of countries so far bracketed as Least...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 12:00:00
Almost 4 per cent of the street-involved boys in Dhaka are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, according to new national research launched on Monday by The Freedom Fund with government agencies, research partners, and national child protection organisations. The findings,...
MUMBAI, Nov 24 (AFP): India's hugely popular star Dharmendra was lovingly known as the "He-Man" of Bollywood, thanks to his roles in a string of action movies that cemented his legacy spanning more than six decades and 250 films.Born Dharam...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the seizure of 36 bighas of land in Gazipur owned by Salman F Rahman, former adviser on private industry and investment to the prime minister.The court also ordered freeze on his IFIC Bank account...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh reported 88 dengue deaths in the first 24 days of November this year, making it the deadliest month of 2025 for the disease, even with a week remaining.Two more people died of dengue in the last 24 hours until...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday said controlling commodity prices by engaging administrative officials is difficult while a political government is more successful in this regard. "You can't resolve these (price controls) by involving administration. This can be done...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
Some 90 per cent of the South Asian population including Bangladeshis will be at risk of extreme heat and nearly a quarter at risk of severe flooding by the year 2030 due to the region's high climate vulnerabilities, a World...
BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, undergoing treatment under intensive medical supervision at Evercare Hospital in the capital, on Monday urged the people of the country to pray for her speedy recovery, reports UNB."Since her admission to Evercare...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
The country's top earthquake specialists have urged the public to remain calm and steer clear of growing online misinformation after a series of mild tremors rattled parts of the country over the weekend. At an emergency meeting in Dhaka on...
The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), the capital development body, said on Monday that it has identified around 300 small and large buildings out of the 3,252 assessed that are vulnerable to earthquakes, report agencies.RAJUK has only assessed the earthquake resilience...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
Discussants at a session titled "From Silos to Systems: Rewiring the Global Data Order" stressed the urgent need for interoperable governance, ethical data practices and people-centred digital transformation.Speaking at the fourth edition of the Bay of Bengal Conversation (BoBC) 2025,...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00
After hiccups on journey for a cashless society, the regulator now signs deal with Gates Foundation for backbone installation to fully implement interoperable payment system.Under the broader objective, the central bank signed a virtual agreement with the Gates Foundation to...
Covered vans and trucks are illegally parked on Bangladesh Railway land at Dhaka's Tejgaon Railway Station. A number of roads in the industrial neighbourhood are occupied by such vehicles, compounding the scourge of traffic gridlock. The photo was taken on...
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