PM to open canal excavation in Sahapara of Dinajpur on Mar 16Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will formally inaugurate the canal excavation programme in the country by re-excavating a canal in Sahapara area of Kaharol Upazila in Dinajpur tomorrow (Monday). In...
The price of gold has been reduced by Tk 2,683 per bhori in the local market, with the new rate for 22-carat gold set at Tk 262,265 per bhori, the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) announced on Saturday, reports UNB.In a...
State Minister for Textiles and Jute Md Shariful Alam has said closed jute mills across the country will be reopened to increase employment opportunities, reports BSS.He said this while inspecting the activities and progress of the Pirojpur Textile Vocational Institute...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 14 (AFP): President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday the Afghan Taliban had "crossed a red line" by launching what the military called "rudimentary drones" against civilian targets in Pakistan.Pakistan's military said they were intercepted on Friday night...
ROME, Mar 14 (AFP): Italians vote next week on a highly divisive judicial reform that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says is essential for impartiality, but which opponents condemn as a power grab.The referendum comes amid an ongoing struggle between Meloni's...
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (AP): The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship.After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans wanting to give up their citizenship, the department on...
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (AFP): US President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has been "totally defeated" in the US-Israeli military campaign against the country and wanted a deal he would not accept, despite Iranian officials pledging to continue the fight."The...
Ahamedul Karim Chowdhury | 2026-03-15 00:00:00
Energy crises rarely arrive without warning. They usually begin with geopolitical tension, rising oil prices or disruptions in global shipping routes. Yet the real impact of such crises is often determined by how governments manage domestic markets. Recent developments in...
The main entrance to the ChandinaUpazilaParishad and Chandina Bazar, located adjacent to the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Cumilla, has now become a nightmare for the general public. Thousands of people are enduring unbearable hardship every day due to the massive wholesale...
On Eid day, many people like to give new notes to younger family members as a token of love. This is one of the joys of Eid, especially for the children. So, although there is not much demand for new...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2026-03-15 00:00:00
The tragic accident on the Khulna-Mongla Highway on Thursday afternoon, which claimed at least 13 lives, is yet another grim reminder of how unsafe our highways have become. Among the victims were 11 members of the same family, including a...
If everything goes smoothly, within two weeks, trade ministers and negotiators from more than 160 countries will meet in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to reach deals on the multilateral trading system. It will be the 14th ministerial conference (MC14) of the World...
The maiden sitting of the 13th parliament was convened on Thursday after a long and difficult political journey. After fifteen years of authoritarian misrule that reduced successive parliaments to little more than rubber stamps, the country has now returned to...
Mabroor Mahmood | 2026-03-15 00:00:00
When the BNP first proposed the idea of Family Card last year, this scribe immediately wondered: is BNP leadership considering Zakat as a source of funding this initiative? This is because providing such a widespread cash allowance is not financially...
Mohammad Masoom | 2026-03-14 12:00:00
The country's banking sector has been badly impacted by non-performing loans (NPLs), or toxic assets. The amount has surged to an alarming 36 per cent, or Tk 6.00 trillion, out of the country's total outstanding loans of around Tk 18.00...
Rain is likely to occur at few places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Saturday). Temperature may rise slightly. The highest temperature on Friday was recorded at 33.8 degrees...
Vehicles waited for long to collect fuels at a filling station in the capital's Matsya Bhaban area on Friday amid the ongoing fuel supply scarcity. — FE Photo
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2026-03-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 12: Faujdarhat Cadet College, the first cadet college in the then East Pakistan and present Bangladesh, has been nominated for the country's highest civilian honor, the 'Independence Award' (Swadhinata Padak) in 2026. With this, its students, for the...
FE REPORT | 2026-03-14 00:00:00
Four people suffered burn injuries on Friday after a fire broke out at a residential hotel at Khilkhet in the capital. Identified as Mohammad Monsur Ali (32), Md Abdul Matin (67), Mohammad Mahi (17) and Md Abdul Jalil, (67), the...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2026-03-14 00:00:00
The ancestral home of Md. Saifullah, organisational secretary of the Jatiya Chhatra Shakti (JCS) Dhaka University (DU) unit, was set on fire in Dhobaura under Mymensingh on Thursday. The victim's family has accused activists of the banned Awami League (AL)...
MAGURA, Mar 13 (UNB): Police on Friday morning detained a businessman in Mohammadpur upazila of Magura district on charges of illegally stockpiling a large quantity of diesel.The arrestee, Gopal Saha, 45, was held during a raid at his residence in...
FE REPORT | 2026-03-14 00:00:00
Chicken prices have increased further in the market ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr amid rising demand as well as falling production, say traders.Like every year, higher demand has pushed prices up.Over the past week, chicken prices rose sharply by Tk 30-40 per...
Vehicles crossing the busy main road in the capital's Purana Paltan area amid a spell of downpour that provided some respite to the city dwellers on Friday. — FE Photo by K Asad-Uz-Zaman
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2026-03-14 00:00:00
The scheduled banks' sub-branch banking model has emerged as a powerhouse for financial inclusion in the final quarter of 2025, with credit disbursement skyrocketing by 17.4 per cent - nearly nine times the growth rate of the overall banking sector....
Road Transport and Bridges, Railways, and Shipping Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam visited the BRTC Bus Depot at Kamalapur in the capital on Friday to observe its Eid journey preparations. — PID
RANGPUR, Mar 13 (BSS): Disaster Management and Relief Minister Asadul Habib Dulu MP has said that action will be taken against government officials and employees who do not come to work on time. "The government officials and employees must come...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 13 (BSS): Out of 21 posts in the Rajshahi Advocate Bar Association election, including President and General Secretary, the panel of the Jatiyatabadi Ainajibi Oikya Parishad won 20 posts.In the election, Alhaj Abul Kashem was elected President and...
CHANDPUR, Mar 13 (UNB): Education Adviser ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon on Friday strictly instructed that students must not be made to stand on roadsides to greet ministers or guests."Making students stand on roads to welcome ministers or guests is completely...
Abdul Hannan Masud, an MP of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has defended the Opposition members of parliament not rising while the national anthem was playing when the 13th parliament convened for the maiden session, reports bdnews24.com.In a Facebook post...
Some 70 individuals, including members of the British parliament, and 15 organisations from different countries have called for Shahriar Kabir, writer, researcher and president of the Advisory Board of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, to be granted bail and...
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