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'Capital market highlights page'

2025-08-03 00:00:00

The Capital Market Highlights page (previous version) of The Financial Express page was a unique feature of your newspaper giving detailed information of all the Shares in DSE and CSE., which was useful for the investors and analysts. Unfortunately, this...

Women in journalism

2025-08-03 00:00:00

The word "woman" may consist of only two syllables, yet its meaning carries immense depth. Every printed letter in a newspaper is like an invisible battlefield, and a woman journalist is a warrior, holding a pen in one hand and...

Cost of buying now, paying later

2025-08-03 00:00:00

The growing popularity of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services has transformed the way people shop, especially among young consumers. While these platforms offer convenience and instant gratification, their darker side is becoming harder to ignore.BNPL schemes often encourage overspending...

Quality learning should get priority at DU

Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-08-03 00:00:00

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a Tk 28.41 billion project for the infrastructural development of Dhaka University (DU). The five-year project, scheduled for completion by June 30, 2030, includes the construction of six academic...

Monetary policy on right track

Asjadul Kibria | 2025-08-03 00:00:00

Despite a gradual moderation of the inflation in the last six months, the central bank has decided to maintain its tight monetary stance for another six months by keeping the policy rate unchanged at 10 per cent. The announcement of...

Resolving gas crunch issues

2025-08-03 00:00:00

Natural gas has been the lifeblood of Bangladesh's energy security since the '60s of the last century when a global energy giant, Shell Oil, first hit upon five major gas fields in this part of the world. Since then, the...

US bends steep tariffs to 20pc for Bangladesh

FE REPORT | 2025-08-02 12:00:00

Bangladesh finally clinches a deal leveling the trading field amongst the competitors on the US market as the United States cut tariffs on Bangladeshi exports to 20 per cent from the threatened 35 per cent.Sources said the decision on the...

Weather (2025-08-02)

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Dhaka, Khulna, Chattogram and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country...

Battery-driven rickshaws illegally plying the main road at Matuail

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Battery-driven rickshaws illegally plying the main road at Matuail in the capital on Friday, defying the DMP-imposed ban. — FE Photo

IUB alum Abrar gets Marie Curie Doctoral Fellowship

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Abrar Jawad Haque, a graduate of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellowship under the European Union's Horizon Europe research programme, according to a press release.He is...

Jhenaidah Journalists Forum, Dhaka elects new leadership

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Jhenaidah Journalists Forum (JJF), Dhaka has elected its new leadership for a two-year term from August 1, 2025, to July 31, 2027.The election was held on Friday at the JJF's annual general meeting at the National Press Club, according to...

Two drown while filming video in Gazipur

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Two people have drowned after a boat capsized, as they were filming a video on a mobile phone at Shapla Beel in Gazipur's Kapasia upazila, reports bdnews24.com.The incident occurred around 8:00 am on Friday in the wetland near Panchua village,...

Govt rebuilding Hindu houses in Rangpur

2025-08-02 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Aug 1 (UNB): The local administration has started renovating the dwelling houses and other structures damaged in an attack by a mob over an alleged derogatory remark on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Gangachara upazila of Ranpur on Saturday.Police, however,...

DU's infrastructural landscape to undergo major changes

DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-02 00:00:00

A comprehensive infrastructural development project for Dhaka University with an estimated budget of Tk 28.40 billion (Tk 2,840.39 crore) has been approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC). The project which got the ECNEC go-ahead on...

138 dengue patients hospitalised, one die of Covid-19 in 24 hours

FE REPORT | 2025-08-02 00:00:00

A total of 138 people were hospitalised in the past 24 hours after being infected with Aedes mosquito-borne dengue disease, taking the total caseload of hospitalisations to 21,118 this year, according to the health authorities. Of the total, 27 patients...

DB nabs Apu after Riyad in extortion case

FE REPORT | 2025-08-02 00:00:00

Detective Branch (DB) police on Friday nabbed Jane Alam Apu, joint convener of BAGCHAS, in a case filed over demanding extortion from an ex-MP.Deputy Police Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Muhammad Talebur Rahman said that...

Protesters continue sit-in at Shahbagh, causing gridlock

DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-02 00:00:00

A group of protesters continued their blockade at Shahbagh intersection in the capital on Friday for the second consecutive day, bringing traffic in the area and its surroundings to a standstill.The demonstrators, under the banner of the 'Families of July...

July Revolution graffiti on metro rail pillars inaugurated

FE REPROT | 2025-08-02 00:00:00

The graffiti highlighting the country's 'July Revolution' painted on the pillars of metro rail from Agargaon to Karwan Bazar was officially inaugurated on Friday.Local Government Rural Development & Cooperatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain inaugurated the artwork at a ceremony...

Former Rangpur city councillor Fulu held

2025-08-02 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Aug 1 (BSS): Police have arrested former councillor of Ward 13 of Rangpur City Corporation and Awami League leader Fazle Elahi Fulu in several cases of attempted murder and attacks on the participants of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. "We arrested...

Chinese envoy meets acting BCFA chief

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen has held a meeting with Nozmul Haque Nannu, acting president of the Bangladesh-China Friendship Association (BCFA), reports UNB.During the meeting on Thursday, they reviewed the history of friendly exchanges between China and Bangladesh in...

Jamaat Ameer thanks President Trump for tariff cut

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has thanked United States (US) President Donald Trump for his decision to lower its reciprocal tariff on Bangladeshi products from 35 per cent to 20 per cent, reports BSS. Shafiqur Rahman also thanked the interim...

Indian national held on intrusion charge in Khagrachhari

2025-08-02 00:00:00

KHAGRACHHARI, Aug 1 (UNB)-Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained an Indian citizen from Logang Bazar border area in Panchhari upazila of Khagrachhari district on Thursday.The detainee is Jamesing Tripura (45), a resident of Deshpara village under Rainagarbari police station...

Ex-home secy Jahangir Alam sent to jail after remand

2025-08-02 00:00:00

A Dhaka court has sent to jail Md Jahangir Alam, former secretary of the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs, in a case lodged over the killing of Russel Bakaul in the capital's Jatrabari area during the...

JCD gives directives to activists on Aug 3 rally

2025-08-02 00:00:00

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) have given six important instructions to its leaders and activists regarding the previously announced rally of the student front of BNP on August 3, reports BSS.The instructions state that no banners, festoons or placards can be...

Nationwide demo declared for Aug 3, non-cooperation movement from Aug 4

2025-08-02 00:00:00

The Anti-discrimination Student Movement leaders on August 2 last year declared a nationwide demonstration scheduled for August 3 and a non-cooperation movement from August 4, to protest the killings and press home their pre-declared nine-point demand, including an apology from...

July Charter to be signed soon, hopes Salahuddin

2025-08-02 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Aug 1 (UNB): BNP senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed has said except for 51 points his party has no disagreement with the National Consensus Commission (NCC) on the remaining recommendations."We are hopeful that the July Charter will be signed soon....

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaking at a rally at Uttara

2025-08-02 00:00:00

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaking at a rally at Uttara in the capital on Friday, marking the first anniversary of the July-August Uprising. — Focus Bangla

19 basic issues decided in second-round talks

2025-08-02 00:00:00

A total of 19 fundamental reform issues were decided amid political consensus and notes of dissent in some cases during the second-round dialogues between the National Consensus Commission and political parties, reports UNB.The second-round reform dialogue that opened by Chief...

A Palestinian boy receives the last drops of lentil soup

2025-08-02 00:00:00

A Palestinian boy receives the last drops of lentil soup at a food distribution point in Gaza City on Friday. — AFP.

Woman beaten to death at Hazaribagh, five held

2025-08-02 00:00:00

A 60-year-old woman has allegedly been beaten to death in the captal's Hazaribagh area over a longstanding land dispute, reports bdnews24.com.Five people have been arrested in connection with the incident, which occurred around midnight on Thursday, according to Additional Sub-Inspector...