Principal Secretary to the Chief Adviser (CA) M. Siraj Uddin Miah has called on Bangladesh's civil service to fundamentally reform itself, stating that the administration stands at a historic crossroads following the July Uprising, reports UNB.Speaking as the chief guest...
FE REPORT Police arrested on Saturday two persons with 390 bottles of foreign wine from Gulshan area in the capital.The arrestees are Abdul Quddus Ali (28) and Jahid Bali alias Apu (40).Deputy Police Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) Muhammad Talebur...
The first year admission tests -2025 for BSc Engineering and Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch) programmes under the academic session 2024-2025 of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) will take place today (Sunday), according to an official statement.The tests...
KUNMING, Aug 09 (UNB): Authorities from various hospitals in Kunming have assured easier access to their medical services for Bangladeshi patients, as China wants to attract medical tourists from Bangladesh.The assurance was given during exchange of views with a 23-member...
FE REPORT Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Administrator Md Shahjahan Mia on Saturday urged city dwellers to put waste into designated places to keep the city clean and tidy. He also hinted at forming a Citizen Committee incorporating people of...
Artistes performing a dance on the premises of the Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Saturday on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2025. Bangladesh Adivasi Forum organised the event. — FE Photo
FE REPORT | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, a nationwide study conducted under the "Community-Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD)" has revealed that nearly one-third of the adult population -- around 40 million people -- suffer from joint, muscle, or bone-related conditions. The number...
PARIS, Aug 09 (AFP): The US tariff rate now averages 20.1 per cent, the highest level since the early 1910s-except for a brief spike earlier this year-after new duties took effect Thursday, WTO and IMF data showed Friday.The figure, calculated...
BEIJING, Aug 9 (AFP): Consumer prices in China remained stable in July, official data showed Saturday, providing a respite for the world's second-largest economy, which is facing strong deflationary pressure and fragile domestic demand.The consumer price index-a key measure of...
As part of the process of a series of consultations with the stakeholders on the revision of Public Procurement Rules, 2008, the Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA) has started field-level consultations in districts and upazilas.Two such consultation workshops were held...
The Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific General Insurance Company Limited, at its meeting held on Thursday, unanimously re-elected Aftab ul Islam, FCA, as the chairman and Wahidul Haque Siddiqui as the vice-chairman of the company for the next...
FE REPORTThe Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has revoked its earlier decision to suspend the ban on importing, producing, and marketing single-band Wi-Fi routers, effectively reinstating the restriction.A single-band router is a Wi-Fi router that operates only on one frequency...
Karmasangsthan Bank organises Foundation Training Course Karmasangsthan Bank inaugurated a 'Foundation Training' course for Officers, Assistant Officers, and Data Entry Operators at the bank's Head Office on Saturday. Dr. A.F.M. Matiur Rahman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the...
England all-rounder Chris Woakes said rehabilitation is a risk he is willing to take to be fit for the Ashes rather than undergoing surgery on the shoulder injury he sustained during last week's fifth test loss to India, reports Reuters.The...
Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain congratulated on Saturday the U-20 women's football team for their 8-0 victory over Timor-Leste in the second match of the AFC Women's U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers, reports BSS.In a congratulatory message, the...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is all set to increase the match fee of the cricketers, participating in the upcoming NCL T20, reports BSS.BCB Tournament Committee chairman Akram Khan confirmed the development, saying that the match fee of the players...
FE EDUCATION DESK | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
The stage was set on Saturday (August 09) at North South University's Auditorium for one of the most anticipated annual events in the country's academic and entrepreneurial calendar. Business Genius Bangladesh (BGB), in association with the Department of Marketing &...
Sheikh Shabab Tawkee Rupok | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
For many years, a resume was the main tool for getting a job. It lists education, skills, and work experience in a short format. Employers would look at it and decide who to call for an interview. But the way...
Taufiq uz Zaman | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
In a city like Dhaka, it is easy to feel like you are always behind. Deadlines stack up. Emails flood in. Three dashboards blink with urgent numbers. One young analyst sat in this familiar storm when his mentor leaned over...
SHERPUR, Aug 09 (bdnews24.com): An 80-year-old man has allegedly tried to bury his paralysed wife alive in their yard. A video of the incident has gone viral on Facebook.The incident occurred in broad daylight around Friday noon in Khoshalpur Kanipara...
BOGURA, Aug 09 (UNB): Two siblings were killed and 11 others, including two of their uncles, were severely injured in two separate road crashes in Bogura on Saturday, police said.The deceased, who died in the crash in Shajahanpur upazila, were...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
MAGURA, Aug 09: Bumper production of jute as well as its lucrative prices have come as hope raising factors for the farmers of the district this season. Satisfactory yield of jute has brought smiles to the face of the local...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
MANIKGANJ, Aug 09: A jetty at the Paturia launch terminal in Manikganj's Shibaloy Upazila collapsed on Tuesday amid a week-long erosion in the turbulent Padma, leaving lunch crews and passengers in hardship and trade revolving the infrastructure in a crisis.The...
GENEVA, Aug 09 (AFP): Kenya has eliminated sleeping sickness as a public health problem, the World Health Organization announced on Friday, making it the 10th country to do so.The vector-borne disease, formally called human African trypanosomiasis, is endemic in sub-Saharan...
SEOUL, Aug 09 (AFP): North Korean troops have started removing propaganda loudspeakers used to blare unsettling noises along the border, South Korea's military said Saturday, days after Seoul's new administration dismantled ones on its side of the frontier.The two countries...
MEXICO CITY, Aug 09 (AFP): Mexico said Friday that it "would not accept" the deployment of US military forces on its soil to combat drug cartels."Mexico would not accept the participation of US military forces on our territory," the foreign...
NEW YORK, Aug 09 (Reuters/AFP): US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug 15 in Alaska to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Trump said on Friday.Trump made the highly anticipated announcement on...
Nayma Akther Jahan and Shahana Afrose Chowdhury | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh is faced with two closely-related rural challenges: the growing demand for domestic energy and the growing load of organic waste. For a country as agriculturally dependent as Bangladesh and still economically struggling with rural poverty, the possibility of generating...
Salman Rahman | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
Imagine this: your lights never flicker, your industrial machinery runs without interruption, and voltage stays perfectly within safe limits. If you care about climate, you can choose to source more of your electricity from renewable energy. Your utility predicts demand...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
The growing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector in Bangladesh is facing numerous challenges, especially the illegal cross-filling due to lack of monitoring and awareness.Cross-filling, which means transfer of LPG from one cylinder to another, is being done by many unauthorised...
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