Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina on Monday gave away the Independence Award-2024 to 10 distinguished individuals in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the country, reports UNB.The premier handed over the highest civilian award to the recipients or their family...
The Politburo of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh in a statement has condemned the so-called 'Boycott India' movement called by BNP and its allies, reports BSS.According to the statement, the Workers Party said BNP intensified this campaign through speeches, statements...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said because of the opposition of BNP, Bangladesh have yet to get the international recognition of the genocide the Pakistani forces carried out during the Liberation War in 1971, reports BSS."They (BNP)...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) alleged on Monday that the government is trying to impose one-party rule in the country in the name of democracy. Secretary General of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the allegation while addressing a rally...
MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters): Russian brokers on Monday launched a swap scheme that could allow Russian retail investors to sell their frozen foreign securities to non-resident investors with assets stranded in Russia.Moscow presents the plan as a way for both...
Rupali Bank inaugurated its 25th sub-branch on Monday in Manda, which falls under the bank's Mugda branch in Dhaka. Kazi Sanaul Hoq, chairman of Rupali Bank, joined the occasion as the chief guest. Mohammad Jahangir, managing director and CEO, attended...
Shahjalal Islami Bank has signed a participation agreement with Bangladesh Bank's Sustainable Finance Department to promote green products, projects and initiatives under a refinancing scheme recently introduced by the central bank. Chowdhury Liakat Ali, director of Sustainable Finance at Bangladesh...
SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters): A week ago Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007 in a move that marked a historic shift in monetary policy.Yet the currency fell. Now Japanese officials are talking of official intervention to...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Summit Power has reported higher earnings per share for the first half of FY24, compared to the same period of the previous year, despite a 30 per cent year-on-year decrease in revenue and 15 percent year-on-year increase in finance cost.According...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Stocks saw another massive fall on Monday as panic-stricken investors exerted a selling pressure across the trading floor of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Prolonged bearish trend of the market frustrated general investors while pre-Eid sale pressure coupled with forced...
Silverlake Group, founded by Goh Peng Ooi, Southeast Asia's first tech billionaire, looks to partner with Nagad, one of the country's top mobile financial services. After learning about Nagad and studying the related case studies, Goh Peng Ooi has shown...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is set to resume its flights on the Dhaka-Rome-Dhaka route tomorrow (Wednesday) after a nine-year gap.The first flight of Biman, BG-355, will depart for Rome from Dhaka at 3:30 am on March 27, says a press release...
A daylong seminar on 'Development and Governance Experience in China and Bangladesh' was held at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University on Monday. DU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr ASM Maksud Kamal presided over the inaugural session...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to speed up its efforts to secure both bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) to maintain its economic growth after graduating from least-developed country (LDC) status, said South Korean Ambassador to Dhaka Park Young-sik. According to the...
NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (AFP): The Indian Premier League (IPL) final will be played on May 26 in Chennai, the cricket board said on Monday, releasing the full schedule of the hugely lucrative T20 tournament.The IPL, which began on March...
Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto said on Monday that they need to back Liton Das in his bad times because he is one of the best batters in the team, reports Cricbuzz.Liton copped a lot of flak for a nothing...
Dhaka Ahahani Limited earned its seventh consecutive victory in the 11-team Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League, beating Bangladesh Police SC by 4-2 goals at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium in the city on Monday, reports UNB. With...
SYLHET, Mar 25 (AFP): Kasun Rajitha claimed his second five-wicket haul in Test cricket as Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by 328 runs on Monday in Sylhet to go 1-0 up in the two-match series.The visitors bowled out Bangladesh for 182...
Myanmar's next election may notbe nationwide, Junta chief saysYANGON, Mar 25: Military-ruled Myanmar plans to have an election if there is peace and stability in the country but may not be able to hold it nationwide, its top general said,...
SINGAPORE, Mar 25 (Reuters): Singapore's former Transport Minister S Iswaran was handed eight more charges in a corruption case on Monday, the anti-graft body said, in one of the city-state's highest-profile corruption scandals.The additional charges involved allegations he obtained valuable...
MOSCOW, Mar 25 (Reuters): Russia on Monday cast doubt on assertions by the United States that the Islamic State militant group was responsible for a gun attack on a concert hall outside Moscow which killed 137 people and injured 182...
GAZA STRIP, Mar 25 (AFP): The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that Israel had definitively barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest."Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch,...
JASHORE, Mar 25 (UNB): The body of an employee of a rice wholesale depot was recovered from his workplace in Jashore Sadar upazila early Monday.The deceased Bayezid Hasan, 28, son of Nazrul Islam of Banargati village in Khulna city. Kotwali...
A CORRESPONDENT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
JKKNIU, Mymensingh, Mar 25: Iftar makes a festive atmosphere at the Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University central field in Trishal upazila as students get together here to break their fasting.Under open sky, they sit in groups and take iftar...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
BOGURA, Mar 25: Weavers and loom operators in Pabna, Sirajganj and Bogura districts are now passing busy time in producing Saree, Lungi and Gamchha (napkin) as Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, and Pahela Baishakh, the largest festival...
Bangladesh stands at a precipice, gripped by a crippling gas and power crisis that threatens to plunge the nation into severe load shedding during summer. Overpopulated cities teeter under the crushing weight of insatiable energy demands. The government, despite allocating...
As Ramadan commences and the celebration of Eid, the main festival of Bengali Muslims, approaches, many Bengali women consider purchasing gold ornaments to mark the occasion. However, buyers must ensure the value of the gold before making a purchase, as...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
We were part of the team that completed one of the most extensive collections of documents on the History of the war of Independence. The 15 volumes are almost entirely based on official narratives/documents, which are official- governmental and administrative...
The making of a nation is the ultimate occasion for celebration because it recognises the uniqueness of a people and sets extra energies to burst forth for realisation of their collective dreams. But not all nations emerge in an environment...
Tareq Ahmed Robin | 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Since 2022, the exchange rate between the US dollar and Bangladeshi taka has been volatile and continuously rising. The relentless fluctuation in the dollar rate has made the nation face economic uncertainties. In 2021, US$1 was exchanged for Tk 80-90...
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