Entrepreneurship is the act of starting a new venture or one's own business based on creative ideas, innovation and skills. In some ventures, women have proven to be more successful than their male counterparts. Women are becoming increasingly prominent in...
Rising costs pose a vicious threat to Bangladesh, making life more difficult for households and dampening hopes for the country's economic recovery. For ordinary people, especially the least fortunate, inflation has become a daily struggle that impacts everything from necessities...
Zahid Huq | 2024-03-15 00:00:00
Some developments are surely brewing in the country's banking sector, as the rot has gone too deep to ignore anymore. Loan scams and plundering of bank money are among major issues that feature in public discussions. A few policymakers, who...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-03-15 00:00:00
At a seminar on multi-layered connectivity in the Bay of Bengal, Japanese ambassador Iwama Kiminori shared his futuristic insight into the potential of economic prosperity in the sub-regional belt surrounding the Bay of Bengal. He could not be more to...
As Bangladesh approaches graduation from the band of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the imperative for facing the post-LDC era head-on becomes increasingly conspicuous. With the much cherished graduation barely two years away, the need for moving ahead without preferential cushioning...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-03-14 12:00:00
High interest rate is one of the key factors behind the downward trend of the country's capital market that was expected to become upbeat and stable after the national election. During an interview with The FE, Saiful Islam, president of...
The Dhaka-Sylhet Highway is now extremely busy, with a rapidly increasing number of passenger vehicles and goods-laden trucks. Narsingdi is known for its nationwide cloth market, textile industry, and spinning mills. With a significant export-oriented textile industry located here, there...
Anas Mahmud alias Rezwan and Maruf Reza are escorted by police to jail. The two men were sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for the murder of housewife Sagira Morshed in Dhaka's Siddheshwari 35 years ago. — Photo Focus Bangla
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday issued two specific directives for the authorities concerned to help control unusual price-hikes, reports UNB.One directive is to develop agriculture-based cooperatives and the second is to construct modern preservation storages in the country's eight...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has set minimum age range for non-bank financial institutions (NBFI), reports BSS.From now on, no one below the age of 45 or above 75 can be appointed as an independent director of a NBFI, said a BB...
FE ONLINE | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway will start selling tickets for the April 3 travel of Eid passengers on March 24 and it will continue till March 30 entirely online to provide services to 33,500 passengers daily. Like last year, tickets of all trains...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
The telecom regulator, BTRC, has drafted the 'National Broadband Policy 2024' with the aim of ensuring affordable universal access to high-speed broadband connectivity, fostering economic growth, social inclusion, and innovation to create a digitally empowered and prosperous nation.The policy sets...
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved in principle the draft of Road Transport (Amendment) Act, 2024, reducing penalty mostly pecuniary ones for a good number of offences as well as making offences under two more clauses as bailable one, reports UNB.The...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday wanted to know the details of the employees of different hotels and restaurants arrested in the drives conducted by government agencies following the Bailey Road building fire that left 46 people dead.In response to...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
At least 544 people, including 79 women and 82 children, were killed and 867 others injured in road accidents last month (February), according to a report of the Road Safety Foundation (RSF).The casualties occurred in some 583 road accidents across...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
Despite the government's efforts to regulate the prices of dates, one of the staple items for iftar, consumers are still facing inflated costs in the retail market.The commerce ministry on Tuesday set maximum retail prices for two common types of...
Bangladesh won the first of a three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka that got going Wednesday in the port city of Chattagram, as young skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto scored a spectacular ton with unbeaten 122 runs.The hosts beat Sri Lanka...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday approved a US$71 million worth of loan for improving flood control, irrigation, and water resources management in rural Bangladesh. With the financial support, the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) will implement a project...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) -- a Washington-based trade association representing US textile manufacturers -- has accused five Asian apparel suppliers including Bangladesh of "unfair trade practices". These countries, particularly Bangladesh, benefit from ultra-low-cost pricing structures and ties...
Chattogram, Mar 13 (UNB): Eleven out of the 23 crew members of a Bangladeshi cargo vessel, MV Abdullah, that was hijacked by a group of Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, are residents of Chattogram.Earlier on Tuesday, the ship, carrying...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
Handover of the automated VAT system from Vietnamese company stalls as none of Bangladesh's software firms responded to revenue board's call for takeover, officials said.National Board of Revenue (NBR) sources say they have to drop their plan for makeover of...
GULAM RABBANI | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
A petition has been filed with the High Court for winding up non-bank financial institution Fareast Finance and Investment Limited (FFIL) after it repeatedly failed to repay depositors' money.Sterling Creations Limited, a garment-manufacturing company, filed the petition recently. They have...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
Usual festival-time liquidity stress on the money market isn't tangible now as the central bank’s various policy interventions keep call money cool even in this peak time of religious festivals, sources say.The call-money rate drops below the floor of corridor...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
People's cost of living rises further as the latest power-tariff hike increased monthly expenditure of a family by around 9.50 per cent as per finding by a leading think-tank.The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Wednesday revealed the findings backed up...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-14 00:00:00
The government has taken necessary measures to bring back Bangladeshi sailors of the MV Abdullah who have been abducted by pirates in the Indian Ocean."The government is working to get back the sailors in safe and sound condition," Foreign Minister...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the Met Office.The highest temperature in the country on Wednesday was recorded at 34.5 degrees...
Dhaka ranked seventh on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, with an AQI score of 160 at 9:06 am on Wednesday.Dhaka's air was classified as 'unhealthy', according to the air quality index, reports UNB.Pakistan's Lahore, India's...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Wednesday said the construction of Bangabazar Market, which was burnt a few months ago, will begin after the Eid-ul-Fitr, reports BSS.The mayor said this while distributing iftar items...
North South University (NSU) Architecture Department celebrated Dhrupod 6, a signature cultural programme, on the university campus in the city recently with a rich and vibrant array of lights, colours and captivating performances by the students and teachers. Architecture Department...
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