FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 12:00:00
The beleaguered ICB Islamic Bank's accumulated losses surpassed Tk 20 billion by the end of 2023. It has been in the red for long, and with time, instead of making any financial recovery, it piled up losses, intensifying the wounds....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday officially inaugurated the first training aircraft manufactured by the country's air force. The Bangladesh Air Force's first Bangabandhu Basic Trainer (BBT) aircraft was unveiled during the Military Hardware Display 2024, held on Sunday at...
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 24 (UNB): Owner of the Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah that was hijacked by Somali pirates on March 12, does not support armed operation to free the ship and its crew.Mizanul Islam, media adviser of the ship owner KSRM...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday issued status quo on a High Court verdict that directed Awami League lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy to hand over a house at Gulshan in Dhaka, which he has allegedly kept under...
A fire broke out at a Superboard TK Group factory that produces super board, a type of particle board, in Munshiganj's Gajaria Upazila.The incident was reported around 1:15pm on Sunday, according to Talha Bin Jasim, a Fire Service official, reports...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) has expressed concern about the numbers of arrests, ongoing detentions, pending court cases and actions taken against garment workers in Bangladesh following their demonstrations for a wage hike.The ETI, a UK-based independent body that influences...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
The consignments of onions from India are expected to arrive in the country within 2-3 days, State Minister for Commerce Mr Ahsanul Islam Titu said on Sunday. "Onions have already boarded on trains which will arrive through Darshana," he said...
YASIR WARDAD | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
Rocketing demand for maize from the feed and food-processing industries is driving the continued expansion of the cereal crop's farming across the country, with production reaching an all-time high in the last financial year.Maize production reached a record 4.55 million...
The nation is set to observe the Genocide Day today (Monday) in remembrance of the brutality carried out by the Pakistan occupation army on unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971 under the infamous 'Operation Searchlight'.The...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has strongly condemned the concert attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow that killed over 130 people.In a letter sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Bangladesh premier strongly condemned the "cowardly and senseless terrorist...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
Seven flyovers between the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) and Gazipur were formally opened to traffic on Sunday ahead of Eid, taking into account the comfortable journey of the homebound people.Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader attended the inauguration...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
After a Tk 182.21 billion shortfall in domestic revenue mobilisation by February this year, the revenue authority now needs to collect Tk 458.53 billion in each of the remaining four months of the current fiscal year to achieve its target....
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
Dollar feeding by the central bank to stabilise the market of foreign currencies continues even as forex holding of the commercial banks marks a significant increase in recent times.The nation's falling foreign-exchange reserves bear further pressure for such continuous injecting...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
A special economic zone (SEZ) for Bhutan will be established in Bangladesh under one of three cooperation deals ready for signing during Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck's tour beginning today. President Mohammed Shahabuddin would receive the monarch of the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated on Sunday the combined Military Hardware Exhibition at the National Parade Square in Dhaka on the occasion of Independence and National Day-2024.She opened the display by cutting a ribbon and releasing balloons in the morning,...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
Bangladeshis now may live less as life expectancy in the country shortens by one month to 72.3 years, as per official survey for past year, amid a rise in certain deaths.The male life expectancy was recorded at 70.8 years while...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office. Weather...
The fire which broke out at Godown slum in city's Banani area has been brought under control, reports UNB.The fire started at the slum at around 04:05 pm on Sunday and engulfed it, said Talha bin Jasim, station officer of...
KISHOREGANJ, Mar 24 (UNB): Three more bodies were recovered from the Meghna river on Sunday, two days after a trawler capsized in the part of the river flowing through Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district.The latest additions took the death toll...
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 24 (UNB): Two people were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chattogram's Mirsharai on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Abdur Rahim, 47, driver of a covered van, and Masum Billah, 42, owner of a cargo...
Photographed on Sunday, vehicles negotiating a road submerged by rainwater in front of the Bir Shrestha Shaheed Shipahi Mustofa Kamal Stadium in the city in the afternoon — FE Photo
Additional Inspector General of Police (IGP) Atiqul Islam on Sunday asked filed level officers to take necessary measures for preventing crimes by teen gangs after identifying the area based teen gang members, reports UNB. "Police have been asked to remain...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent former Secretary Proshanto Kumar Roy to jail after he surrendered in a case filed for amassing about Tk12.5 million beyond his known source of income.Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Joglul Hossain of the Metropolitan Senior Special...
Russia is keen to recruit skilled workers from Bangladesh for its shipbuilding industry, State Minister for Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury said on Sunday, reports UNB.He shared this information with the journalists after a meeting with the...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-25 00:00:00
C-section has outnumbered the normal delivery in the country as over half of the total childbirth took place through c-section in 2023.The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has provided the information after conducting a survey.Of the total childbirth, 50.07 per...
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Sunday announced the names of 118 more martyred intellectuals in the fourth phase, raising the total number to 560, reports BSS.The ministry announced 191 names of martyred intellectuals on April 7 in...
A court in the city on Sunday set June 3 for submitting probe report in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar (SK) Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha for allegedly owning a three-storey building house in...
Jatiya Party has taken an elaborate programme to observe the Independence and National Day in a befitting manner on March 26, reports BSS.In the morning, the party leaders will hoist national and party flags at its central office in the...
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