The growing availability of easy loans and microcredit schemes may seem like a blessing for low-income individuals, but in reality, they are pushing many into a dangerous cycle of debt. Loan apps and quick approval systems often target the poor...
Shiabur Rahman | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
A disturbing piece of news recently went viral on social media - the hanging and beating to death of a dog in Barisal. Several youths killed the poor creature on camera like it was nothing. The main culprit faced a...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury | 2025-08-08 00:00:00
As Artificial Intelligence-based software and tools continue to take over many aspects of professional and personal lives, concerns have been raised by AI experts as well as authorities in various advanced countries regarding the ethical usage of AI. A niche...
Despite repeated calls from businesses and think tanks to enhance the NBR's revenue mobilisation efforts in a systemic manner, shortfalls in collection have become a recurring issue. A report by The Financial Express, citing official sources, reveals that the NBR...
Acclaimed Bangladeshi writer, journalist, and translator Mashiul Alam has been awarded the prestigious Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, an international honour conferred on distinguished visual artists, writers, and composers from around the world. He is the first writer from Bangladesh to receive...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 12:00:00
Major political parties in Bangladesh have expressed mixed reactions over the timeline for the next national elections recently announced by Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus.The BNP on Wednesday welcomed both the July Declaration and the election schedule announced by the...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 12:00:00
Only four non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) out of the 15 that have published financial reports for January-June this year posted a year-on-year profit growth, driven by a surge in investment income. IPDC Finance, IDLC Finance, DBH Finance and United Finance...
Amidst countrywide festive celebrations of the first anniversary of the fall of the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday, Chief Adviser of the interim government Dr Muhammad Yunus made a couple of declarations that the nation has been eagerly...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at most places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Thursday). Day and night temperature may remain unchanged.The highest temperature on...
The School of Law at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) held a public lecture on Wednesday, which brought students, academics and legal scholars for a discussion on the historic July Uprising's relevance to contemporary legal thought.Dr. Mohammad Shahabuddin, Professor of International...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
Experts at a discussion in the city on Wednesday called for taking urgent steps to shut operation of the lead-leaking industrial sites that cause harm to children in Dhaka.icddr,b organised the discussion titled "Fighting Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh - Progress...
A newly-promoted deputy director of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP being adorned with rank badge at a programme at its headquarters in the capital's Khilgaon area on Wednesday. Ansar and VDP Director General (DG) Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud and...
FE REPROT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
Speakers at a dialogue in the capital on Wednesday said freedom of the country's media is now being compromised in various ways. A new kind of pressure has emerged - figuring out who belongs to whom, who needs to be...
A regional leader of the banned Purbo Banglar Communist Party was shot and hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Khulna on Tuesday, reports UNB.Police identified the deceased as Sheikh Shahadat Hossain.
Police have arrested nine leaders and activists of Awami League (AL) and its affiliated organisations in different places of the capital, reports BSS.The arrestees are President of National Shramik League Narayanganj District unit and Organising Secretary of Dhaka South City...
A Dhaka court has showed former state minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak and former Awami League (AL) lawmaker from Dhaka-5 constituency Kazi Monirul Islam Monu arrested in a case lodged over the murder of one Fardi Ahammed in...
The Supreme Court (SC) has deferred until today (Thursday) the passing of the order on a plea seeking a review of the apex court judgment on Warrant of Precedence, reports BSS. A six-member Appellate Division bench headed by Justice Md...
Superintendents of Police (SPs) and officers-in-charge (OCs) of different police stations across the country will be transferred through a lottery system ahead of the upcoming 13th parliamentary election, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
Two more prosecution witnesses testified on Wednesday before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) in the capital in the crimes against humanity case filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others. Rina Murmu, a former student of Begum Rokeya...
KISHOREGANJ, Aug 06 (UNB): A Kishoreganj court on Wednesday sentenced three people, including a father, to death for killing his daughter in Karimganj upazila nearly nine years ago.Judge Muhammad Nurul Amin Biplob of the Kishoreganj Senior District and Sessions Judge...
Three more deaths were reported from dengue in the past 24 hours until Wednesday morning, raising the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 92 this year, reports UNB.The deaths have been reported in Chattogram division (out of...
Only 25 aspirants have completed preliminary registration to perform the next Hajj under government management in the first 10 days since the registration process began on July 27, according to sources.So far, they said, no one has registered under private...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir's exhibition to mark July uprising day featuring Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Abdul Quader Molla, among a few others convicted of crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War, has sparked outrage from leftist activists.As part...
Weakened by hunger, many Gazans trek across a ruined landscape each day to haul all their drinking and washing water - a painful load that is still far below the levels needed to keep people healthy, reports Reuters.Even as global...
National Citizens Party (NCP) has served show-cause notices to five of its top leaders, including Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam and Tasnim Jara, reports UNB.The notices were issued on Wednesday in five separate statements signed by Saleh Uddin Sifat, Joint Member...
The government on Wednesday approved procurement proposals for importing one cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG), 70,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser, and 25,000 metric tonnes of refined sugar to meet the growing domestic demand, reports UNB.The approval came at the...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
The government is set to hold an inter-ministerial meeting today (Thursday) to formulate strategies aimed at stabilising the price, stock, and supply of potatoes.The meeting, to be chaired by the commerce secretary at the Ministry of Commerce (MoC), will be...
At least seven people were killed and four others were injured when a speeding microbus, carrying family members of an expatriate, plunged into a roadside canal in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district early Wednesday, according to the Fire Service, report...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
One of the key stages of cold and hot functional tests has been completed during a set of commissioning activities, such as the blowdown of fresh steam pipelines in the turbine compartment, at unit 1 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh plans to seek duty-free quota-free (DFQF) or preferential access to the Pakistani market for agricultural and processed products, as well as jute and jute goods, sources said.The proposal is likely to be placed at the upcoming meeting between the...
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