Bangladesh now has the highest prevalence of cancer among women in the world. Particularly alarming is the rising rate of breast cancer among women aged 30 to 44, with 19 out of every 100,000 in this age group diagnosed with...
As digital payments become the new normal, everywhere we turn, from sleek cafés to clothing stores, we see QR codes are being scanned. For many, this shift is a symbol of progress and convenience. But outside urban hubs and air-conditioned...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-08-09 00:00:00
The proliferation of motorcycles, driven by various incentives for mobility, has made them a popular alternative to public transport. In the first seven months of this year, a staggering 153,468 new motorcycles were registered across the country, with Dhaka alone...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-08-09 00:00:00
When people from all walks of life rose up against the Awami League regime in July last year, their focus remained firmly on toppling an authoritarian government. With the state forces unleashing violence on unarmed protesters on the streets, there...
There is no gainsaying the importance of keeping a government running effectively within its budget. So, the entire process of procuring its funds, allocating those, monitoring their use and, finally producing financial report are the key areas of fiscal management....
Md Ariful Islam and Syed Md Aminul Karim | 2025-08-09 00:00:00
In today's challenging economic landscape, access to timely and appropriate credit has become a critical factor for survival and growth. Yet, in Bangladesh, many fundamentally sound businesses are being denied financing due to a structural rigidity in our credit classification...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed strong interest in supporting sustainable reforms and providing technical assistance to the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) to help modernise and develop the country's capital market.A delegation from ADB conveyed this commitment...
ASMA Haseeb | 2025-08-08 12:00:00
The number of our university graduates remaining unemployed and under-employed is rising every year, as the supply of graduates is outstripping available jobs. We desperately need to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among our university graduates to turn a good number...
We mistakenly published the name of Uttara Finance instead of United Finance in the graph in a news item in Thursday’s paper of The Financial Express (FE) on page 9 with the title “NBFIs’ earnings growth in H1 relies on...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday), according to the Met...
The revaluated results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination will be published on August 10, reports BSS.This was stated in a notification, signed by Dhaka Education Board Examination Controller Professor S M Kamal Uddin Haider on Thursday.The notification said...
In the light of Bangladesh's recent political landscape and one-year anniversary of the July uprising, the Center for Peace Studies (CPS) at North South University (NSU) and Germany's Arnold Bergstrasser Institute (ABI) jointly organised a special dialogue and a three-day...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
The Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) on Thursday expressed deep concern over the recent "untoward incident" involving the Daily Janakantha newspaper as well as the overall freedom of press and the safety of journalists."We firmly believed that fundamental rights...
Hospital admissions for dengue in Bangladesh have surpassed 23,000 this year, as three more patients died and 408 were admitted across the country over the past 24 hours, reports bdnews24.com.With the latest data, dengue cases this year have risen to...
Six bodies, which had been kept in the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after their deaths during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement last year, have been handed over to Anjuman Mufidul Islam, a charitable organisation that arranges burials, reports...
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Sumaiya Zafrin, wife of Major Sadikul Haque (currently under military custody), on a five-day remand in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act over a secret meeting - allegedly organised by activists of banned...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
Dhaka metro rail's MRT-2 project is set to move as the World Bank offers approximately US$2.5 million in technical grants for its feasibility study. Officials say it happens to be WB's first involvement in Bangladesh's mass rapid transit (MRT) infrastructure...
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus attended his office at the newly-constructed building of Cabinet Division at the Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital for the first time on Thursday. — PID
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
A prolonged shortage of radioactive iodine -- a critical post-surgical treatment for thyroid cancer -- has left patients across Bangladesh in limbo, with many facing delays of over six months amid growing uncertainty and distress.The import of the life-saving medicine...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a money laundering case against five individuals, including chairman of Rangdhanu Group Rafiqul Islam, on charges of laundering money amounting to TK 8.78 billion, reports BSS.The CID filed the case under Section 4(2)(4)...
Five senior leaders of National Citizens' Party (NCP) have submitted their written responses to the show-cause notices issued over their absence from the first anniversary event of the 'July Uprising' and their controversial trip to Cox's Bazar on the same...
A Dhaka court has sent former Chief Justice (CJ) ABM Khairul Haque in a case filed over graft and the delivery of a manipulated judgment, reports UNB.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman passed the order on Thursday when police produced him...
The youths who will turn 18 years by October 31, 2025 will be able to exercise their voting rights in the next parliamentary elections to be held in February next as the Election Commission has taken a decision to incorporate...
LONDON, Aug 7 (UNB): A one-on-one meeting was held between BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and US Chargé d'Affaires to Bangladesh Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson in July last in London.Tarique Rahman's Foreign Affairs Adviser Humayun Kabir and the US Embassy...
The High Court (HC) has quashed the proceedings of a case filed under the Section 57 of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act against noted photographer Shahidul Alam, report agencies.A two-member HC bench led by Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam pronounced...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
Islami Chhatra Andolan (ICA) Bangladesh has become the first student organisation to announce a full panel of candidates and a detailed manifesto ahead of the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) election, scheduled for September 9.The announcement was made at...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Prof Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, former vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR), to jail in a graft case filed by the ACC.Judge of the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court in Dhaka, Md Jakir...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said the government has met the people's demand and expectations by announcing that the upcoming national elections will be held before Ramadan, reports BSS."Preparations have started as the...
The scholarship examinations for fifth-grade students under the Ebtedayi madrasah will be held in December this year, reports BSS.According to a press release, candidates under the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board will take exams in five subjects.The examinations will be held...
Cultural Affairs Adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has expressed the hope that Bangladesh's friendly relations with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries will deepen further in the coming days, reports UNB. "The roots of our relationship with ASEAN countries run...
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