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...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
As of July, 2025, Bangladesh's installed solar energy capacity reached 1,307.15 megawatts (MW), up from 949.65 MW in June 2023-a 38 per cent increase in just over two years. While this surge underlines the growing momentum in the country's transition...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
Seventeen years after its first renewable energy framework done, Bangladesh has launched the Renewable Energy Policy 2025, aiming to generate 20 per cent of total electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and 30 per cent by 2040.The policy marks a...
RIYADH, Aug 09 (Arab News): Saudi Arabia's non-oil revenues rose by 6.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the same period of last year, reaching SR149.86 billion ($39.96 billion).According to data from the Ministry of Finance's...
PARIS, Aug 09 (Reuters): World food commodity prices rose in July to their highest in over two years, as a jump for vegetable oils and record levels for meat outweighed falling cereal, dairy and sugar prices, the United Nations' Food...
BARVIDA organises blood donation camp To mark the July Mass Uprising Day, Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (BARVIDA) organised a blood donation camp at its office in the capital on Saturday. Sandhani, Dhaka Medical College Unit, provided the...
LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters): Visiting Beijing at the height of US President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" trade war rhetoric this April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a "broken ... global order". He declared that Kenya would work with China to...
Prime Bank for Financial Inclusion of Youth Prime Bank in collaboration with Jashore University of Science and Technology (JUST) and JUST Career Club organised an impactful seminar recently on the university campus on financial inclusion of the youth. The seminar...
Mohammad Mufazal | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
While all market stakeholders have been clamouring for listing of fundamentally-strong companies to invigorate the equity market, the mandatory self-listing of the Dhaka bourse has conspicuously remained absent from the conversation. The listing of the exchanges is mandatory as part...
Dipok Kumar Roy | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
The objective of reforms of any system and structure is to reorganise the existing one in order to ensure efficiency and effectiveness by improving quality, governance and accountability. Efficiency means doing the things right, whereas effectiveness means doing the right...
Yousuf Jamil | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
Behavioural safety may seem straightforward and self-explanatory, but it's more complex than it seems, carrying deeper sense of purpose related to safety and well-being. Before we begin discussing how behavioural safety can be important within an organisation, it is essential...
By now, almost all of us have heard about "Labubu" or at least have seen the mischievous elf-like monster toy with pointed ears and a distinctive smile hanging on someone's bag or on social media. It is not just a...
The debate between minimum wage and living wage is more than just an economic issue; it's a matter of basic human dignity. While the minimum wage sets a legal floor for earnings, it often falls short of covering the real...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
Dhaka is adjudged one of the most polluted cities in the world in various international rankings. Due to high percentage of carbon compounds, lead and various particulate objects, air pollution in the city have reached such an alarming level that...
Asjadul Kibria | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
The announcement of a 20 per cent reciprocal tariff on all imports from Bangladesh by Donald Trump, the president of the United States (US), has brought a palpable sense of relief in Bangladesh. This announcement, made on July 31, set...
Just when it seemed the worst of the inflationary storm might be passing, official data confirm that price pressures are rising again. After three consecutive months of moderate decline aided by strong agricultural output, inflation in Bangladesh has reversed course....
Muhammad Mahmood | 2025-08-10 00:00:00
On July 31, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order imposing tariffs on almost all US trading partners. His actions represent a departure from the open liberal trading system established after World War II under the auspices of the...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has expressed his determination to build Bangladesh as a democratic welfare state if his party is voted to power in the upcoming national elections, reports BSS."Fascism has been defeated in the mass...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions withmoderately heavy falls at places until 6:00 pm today (Saturday)....
FE REPORT | 2025-08-09 00:00:00
A marathon titled 'Run for Fair City' - aimed at promoting a just, inclusive, and liveable city - was held in the capital's Agargaon area on Friday. More than 500 youths took part in the marathon, which included 5.0 km...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-09 00:00:00
At least 190 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals in the 24 hours leading up to Friday morning. Of these, 127 cases were reported from outside Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The new cases bring the...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-09 00:00:00
Police arrested 17 people on various charges during separate raids in the capital's Mohammadpur and Adabar areas. DMP Deputy Police Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) Muhammad Talebur Rahman said a team of Mohammadpur Police Station nabbed 13 people during a...
The government has taken a move to introduce a tougher new policy to regulate the rampant and risky movement of unregistered battery-operated three-wheelers, commonly known as electric auto-rickshaws or easy bikes across the country, including the capital, reports UNB.The reckless...
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