As many as seven Pakistan players who were signed by different franchisees of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) were named in Pakistan's squad for the next month's three-match T20 International series against Sri Lanka, report agencies.Those seven players would miss their...
Bangladesh pacer Mehedi Hasan Rana became the ninth bowler to claim a hat-trick in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 tournament, report agencies.Playing for Noakhali Express, the pacer achieved the feat against Sylhet Titans at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium...
Russia will achieve its Ukraine aims by force if Kyiv doesn't want peace: PutinMOSCOW, Dec 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow...
PARIS, Dec 28 (AFP): French film legend Brigitte Bardot, a cinema icon of the 1950s and sixties who walked away from global stardom to become an animal rights protector, has died aged 91, her foundation said Sunday.Bardot had rarely been...
BANGKOK, Dec 28 (AFP): At a Thai university-turned-shelter for displaced people, Kanlaya Somjettana is reluctant to go home even after a truce halted weeks of border clashes with Cambodia, fearing the violence may not be over.She said some people forced...
GAZA, Dec 28 (Agencies): Israeli forces imposed a lockdown on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, their second day of operations there after a local resident killed two people in Israel."The IDF (Israeli army) is operating...
YANGON, Dec 28 (AFP): Voters trickled to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government and triggered a civil war.Former civilian...
Dhaka to host HackerOne bug hunt and InfoSec conference again Dhaka will host the Information Security Conference and HackerOne Bug Hunt for the third time on January 10, featuring an on-site hacking competition at the National Science and Technology Complex,...
TECHEXPRESS DESK | 2025-12-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh's industrial sector is entering a critical phase in its energy transition. The central question is no longer whether renewable energy will be adopted, but how reliably it can support industrial operations in the long run. Rising fuel costs, grid...
Bazlul H Khondker and Samah J Majid | 2025-12-29 00:00:00
Remittances have long underpinned Bangladesh's economy - boosting household consumption, stabilising the balance of payments and acting as a buffer against shocks. From a modest US$1.4 billion in the 1997 financial year, inflows surpassed US$30 billion in the 2025 financial...
Muhammad Zamir | 2025-12-29 00:00:00
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has recently pointed out that climate change is beginning to become an existential threat for humanity. In this context environmentalist Cecilia Russel has drawn the attention of the world to some observations made recently...
Public services are a key way through which a state ensures administrative support, development and justice for its citizens. However, in Bangladesh, prolonged delays in public services have become a persistent problem, causing widespread inconvenience and harassment.Even for simple certificates...
In the modern healthcare system, alongside doctors and nurses, medical technologists and diploma pharmacists play an essential role in ensuring accurate diagnosis and proper medication management. From the delicate scientific work of diagnosing diseases to guaranteeing the safe distribution and...
The headline of the editorial in the December 28, 2025 issue of The Financial Express was erroneously printed as "Ensuring expeditions commercial justice". It should have been "Ensuring expeditious commercial justice". We regret the inadvertent mistake.
Neil Ray | 2025-12-29 00:00:00
That 40-41people terminate their lives every day, according to recent police data, in this country should send a chill down the spine. The very word 'suicide' has a story behind and that certainly is not very positive. People by nature...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-12-29 00:00:00
The interim government inherited the virtual wreckage of a state left by the autocracy toppled in the popular upsurge. The financial sector, especially the banks were in a shambles. The ousted autocracy would like to portray a rosy picture of...
Bangladesh is predominantly a rural country, with around 68 per cent of its population living in rural areas. A large segment of this population is deprived of formal banking services due to a lack of bank branches in remote areas....
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
A 25-year-old man, Abu Sufian Siju, was beaten and hacked after being tied to an electric pole in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj, leaving him in critical condition. He has been admitted to the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure by Islamic banks in Bangladesh has witnessed a persistent downward trend, with spending in the third quarter of 2025 falling significantly from what it was a year ago.According to the latest Bangladesh Bank (BB) data,...
KISHOREGANJ, Dec 27 (BSS) : A total of 35 sacks of cash, along with gold ornaments and foreign currency, have been recovered from 13 donation boxes at the historic Pagla Mosque in Kishoreganj.The donation boxes were opened at around 7:00...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
At least 30 leaders of the central committee of the National Citizen Party (NCP) have raised strong objections to any potential political alliance or seat-sharing arrangement with the Jamaat-e-Islami-led eight-party bloc.In a letter sent on Saturday to NCP Convener Nahid...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project, originally planned for 9.5 years with a budget of Tk 1.13 trillion, is set to reach the end of its tenure next Tuesday. So far, around 72.5 per cent of the works has...
Joypurhat, Dec 27 (UNB): Indian Border Security Force (BSF) attempted to construct a barbed-wire fence at the Ghonapara border in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat on Saturday morning, violating international border regulations, but were forced to stop after intervention by Border...
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 27 (BSS) : A fire broke out on the Saint Martin-bound vessel 'The Atlantic Cruise' at the Nuniachara BIWTA (Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority) Ghat here early Saturday, killing one crew member.The fire erupted in the engine...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
The push to expand agro-processing is running up against a fundamental constraint: much of the country's farm output does not meet industrial specifications. Despite frequent bumper harvests driven by fertile alluvial soil, ample freshwater and a monsoon-based agro-climate, processors say...
MUNIMA SULTANAA delegation from a leading South Korean rolling-stock manufacturer is expected to visit Dhaka soon to explore the possibility of setting up an assembly plant for metro- and conventional-railway coaches in Bangladesh.The move comes as authorities seek ways to...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
Almost all of Bangladesh's development partners have put their aid commitments on hold ahead of the national polls in February next year, adopting a wait-and-see approach until a politically stable government is in place, analysts said on Saturday.The pause --...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
Tarique Rahman completed voter-registration formalities Saturday, besides offering three commemorative services, including his only sibling who died in exile. The Acting Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) completed the process of becoming voter from Dhaka-17 constituency, ostensibly to stand...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-12-28 00:00:00
Industrial consumers will get top priority in gas supply as the government prepares such a fuel-feeding recipe aimed at fuelling economic growth, now largely subdued following political upheavals, sources say."Industry will be on top of our priority and we want...
Weather may remain dry with partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Sunday). Night temperature may rise and day temperature may remain unchanged. The highest temperature in the country on Sunday was...
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