MIAMI, May 22 (Agencies): The US has charged Cuba's 94-year-old former president, Raúl Castro, with murder - stoking speculation that Havana could be next on Washington's regime-change list.Amid a maximum pressure campaign that has led to the most significant fuel...
Zimbabwe will host Bangladesh for a full series, starting next month, Zimbabwe Cricket confirmed on Friday (May 22). The two teams will play one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is across two venues, reports Cricbuzz.Bangladesh will first play a one-off...
Star footballer Hamza Choudhury dominated the Cool-BSPA Sports Award 2025 by winning three major honours, including the prestigious Sportsperson of the Year award.The grand award ceremony, organised by the Bangladesh Sports Press Association (BSPA), was held on Friday at the...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has appointed former US Men's Team World Cup captain Thomas Dooley as the new head coach of the national team, reports bdnews24.com.The appointment was confirmed on Friday morning, concluding days of intense administrative tension and discussions...
IG Chowdhury | 2026-05-23 00:00:00
Money can be a source of worry for both rich and poor. For the rich, how to make it perform better. For the poor, how to balance the books. For those in between, it is even worse. These are people...
Shafiq R. Bhuiyan | 2026-05-23 00:00:00
Every time a president, prime minister, minister, senior bureaucrat or influential politician travels abroad for medical care or even routine check-ups, it sends a clear message to the public: our own healthcare system is not good enough, not even for...
Abdullah A. Dewan | 2026-05-23 00:00:00
The impact of a national newspaper is not measured by circulation alone. Circulation counts copies and clicks; it does not measure influence. Influence is the capacity to shape what a society discusses, how issues are framed, and which questions those...
In recent years, incidents of child rape and sexual abuse in Bangladesh have increased at an alarming rate. Every day, newspapers, television channels and social media report horrific cases of child abuse. In many instances, children are not only abused...
With the advancement and widespread availability of Artificial Intelligence (AI), many individuals perceive that the world is becoming increasingly accessible, as information can now be obtained instantly from virtually anywhere. AI is like a sharp weapon; we should have enough...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2026-05-23 00:00:00
In most industries, an abundant supply of raw material is considered an advantage. In Bangladesh's leather trade, that same abundance has somehow turned into liability. Every Eid-ul-Azha, nearly 10 million animals are sacrificed across the country and an enormous volume...
There is no gainsaying the fact that a nation's real wealth is its skilled manpower with the youth playing the central role. But have all the graduate-degree-holder youths of the country been able to contribute desirably to become the nation's...
Bogura, May 21 (UNB) - A housewife was slaughtered allegedly by unidentified assailants at her house in Gabtali upazila of Bogura early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Rita Rani Majumder, 45, wife of Biplab Chandra Roy of Mominhata Southpara area...
Amid mounting public outrage over the brutal "rape and murder" of 7-year-old Ramisa Akter in the capital's Pallabi, rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) has released a grim account of violence against children.It documented over a hundred rapes in...
FE REPORT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Persons with disabilities have demanded special allocations in the upcoming national budget, along with financial and institutional reforms to ensure the protection of their basic rights, in line with the election manifesto of the BNP government.The demands were placed at...
FE REPORT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman visited the house of rape victim Ramisa at Pallabi in the city on Thursday night.He inquired about the tragic incident and assured the victim’s family of meting out stringent punishment to the accused in the shortest...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 21: A Chattogram court has issued five-month civil imprisonment warrants against S Alam Group Chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam Masud and 10 of his family members and associates over Tk 0.8449 billion Islami Bank default loan.The order was passed...
FE REPORTCity dwellers began leaving the capital on Thursday ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha to celebrate the festival with their families in their ancestral villages, triggering the annual rush at major transport hubs.Visiting key terminals -- including Kamalapur Railway Station,...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh's insurance sector has been operating without full-time leadership at two of its most important institutions for more than two months, fuelling concerns over policy delays and slower administrative activities. Officials and industry insiders say the prolonged vacancies at the...
FE REPORT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
A new policy brief has warned that vaccine gaps could worsen antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Bangladesh amid the ongoing measles outbreak, which experts say has been driven largely by low immunisation coverage.The Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP), led by One...
FE REPORT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Seven more children died of measles and measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am Thursday, raising the total death toll to 488 since mid-March this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.Of the total fatalities, 83 were...
YASIR WARDAD | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Cattle markets are set to buzz with activity in the capital ahead of Eid-ul-Azha as farmers and seasonal traders have already started bringing sacrificial animals to makeshift trading points.Official trading will begin on May 25.According to data, 24 cattle markets,...
Bangladesh's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have drained nearly Tk 882 billion from the national exchequer in a single year, emerging as one of the country's biggest fiscal risks, according to a World Bank study, reports UNB.The study highlighted that the deteriorating...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
The government may offer a special tax amnesty allowing non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to invest undisclosed income in several sectors back home facing no questions from revenue authorities or other agencies.Under a proposed arrangement, already approved at government's high level, NRBs...
FE REPORT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Utilise the upcoming budget as a strategic instrument for reviving economic growth and restoring macroeconomic stability, economists urge the government as they find Bangladesh's economy under "significant strain".Speaking Thursday, they said the country's macroeconomic situation continued to be fragile --...
FE REPORT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
A technical committee formed by the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) on Thursday recommended hike in power tariffs at the retail level too to cut the volume of subsidies.Consumer-rights groups, business representatives, and other stakeholders, however, opposed the tariff hike...
OUR CORRESPONDENTCHATTOGRAM, May 21: A teacher of a government primary school in Satkania upazila of Chattogram district has allegedly raped a five-year-old student after luring her with chocolate.The accused is identified as Md Jasim, an assistant drawing teacher at South...
GAZIPUR, May 21 (UNB): Professor Mohammad Iqbal, the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) in Gazipur, finally joined office on Thursday amid a 'complete shutdown' enforced by a section of students.He entered the DUET...
JU CORRESPONDENT | 2026-05-22 00:00:00
Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have announced a monetary reward amounting to Tk 50,000 asking for information to confirm the identity of the suspect in the attempted rape of a female student on the university campus.The authorities have also announced five...
A young man died after falling from the sixth floor of a building while repairing an air conditioner in the Nabinagar area of Kamrangirchar in the capital on Thursday, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as Md Rabiul, 24, an AC...
The headquarters of the police's Special Branch (SB) has been left "completely in the dark" about field-level operatives knocking on journalists' doors or phoning them to demand extensive personal data, including their political affiliations, reports bdnews24.com.The intelligence agency's chief, Additional...
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