As many as 64,864 Bangladeshi pilgrims have returned home after performing Hajj this year, reports bdnews24.com.Meanwhile, 42 pilgrims have died during their stay in Saudi Arabia. Among them, 31 were men and 11 women.The Ministry of Religious Affairs provided the...
SYLHET, July 04 (UNB): Police have arrested three young men in Sylhet's Kanaighat upazila on charges of abducting and gang-raping a mentally challenged girl. A court sent the accused to jail on Friday.The arrested individuals are Shuvankar Das, 27, a...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Government job seekers and students blocked Shahbag intersection in the capital and clashed with police on Friday, demanding reforms of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC).The protest march under the banner of Chhatra Samabesh began at 4:00 PM from in...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
The Detective Brach (DB) of police arrested three alleged members of a fraud gang on charge of swindling money out of high government officials and renowned persons in society impersonating top terrorists.They used to extort the money by issuing threats...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
A total of 204 dengue positive patients were hospitalised across the country in the 24-hour period till Friday morning. As a result, the number of total dengue patients reached 11,660 this year.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)...
The Council of Advisers on Thursday approved the draft of Government Service (Second Amendement) Ordinance, 2025, reports BSS.The decision was taken at a council meeting with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in the chair, a Cabinet Division press release said.The Govt...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday said that dispute between two brothers was behind the heinous rape of a woman in Cumilla's Muradnagar upazila and circulation of the incident's video.RAB-11 Commanding Officer (CO) HM Sazzad Hossain disclosed the matter at...
Five people were killed in separate road accidents in two districts on Friday, reports UNB.In Pabna: three people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Pabna Highway in Santhia upazila...
Enthusiastic visitors thronged stalls of the ‘Hilly Fruit Fair 2025’ at Bailey Road in the capital on Friday. The five-day fair ends today (Saturday). — FE Photo
FE REPORT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources have adopted a locally developed virtual meeting platform, Convay, for their national training programme on climate finance-marking a significant shift towards homegrown digital solutions. The programme,...
BARISHAL, July 04 (UNB): A Barishal court has ordered police to register a case against leaders and activists of Gono Odhikar Parishad over the vandalism of Jatiya Party's (JaPa) office in the city.Central President of Gono Odhikar Parishad Nurul Haque...
As July 5 last year was Friday, a weekend holiday, the coordinators of the "Anti-Discrimination Student Movement" carried out a coordinated outreach campaign, both online and offline, to engage more students in their movement to press home their four-point demand,...
THAKURGAON, July 04 (UNB): National Citizens Party (NCP) seeks to build an equal, democratic Bangladesh for farmers, workers, students, and ordinary people, said Nahid Islam, convenor of the party.Speaking at a public gathering in Thakurgaon on Friday afternoon, Nahid said...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
BNP on Friday reassured its position against any form of 'mischief' and 'unlawful' activities saying that the party had already punished four to five thousand partymen."Some individuals, who are making mischiefs, creating panic among people using our party name, we...
Transactions through cards maintain a steady growth in Bangladesh, indicating a positive trend towards a more digitalized and cashless financial ecosystem, reports BSS.Over the past five years, both the issuance of debit, credit and prepaid cards, as well as the...
RANGPUR, July 4 (UNB): Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Friday said a free and fair election is not possible without fundamental reforms.Speaking to reporters at Saidpur Airport in Nilphamari before attending a public rally in Rangpur, he said,...
Malaysia's police chief says authorities in the country have dismantled a network among Bangladeshi expatriate workers in the country that used social media to spread extremist ideology and raise funds for the Islamic Statem (IS) militant group, according to media...
SANTIAGO, July 4 (AFP): A polar air mass has brought record low temperatures to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, causing at least 15 deaths and forcing governments to restrict gas supplies and activate emergency shelters.The three South American countries have all...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Disbursements of farm credit posted a robust 28.9-percent year-on-year growth in May last, according to the latest data from Bangladesh Bank (BB).Agricultural loans amounting to Tk 41.11 billion were disbursed in May this year, compared to Tk 31.91 billion during...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, July 04: The Chattogram Customs House (CCH), the largest revenue-collection centre in Bangladesh, collected a total of Tk 754.32 billion in revenue in the last fiscal year (2024-25).The CCH had collected a total of Tk688.66 billion revenue in the...
REZAUL KARIM | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh Police, a state law-enforcement agency, has urged the government not to take any counter-step against India's recent restrictions on the entry of some items from the former.Although Bangladesh has already taken a counter- measure after cancelation of transshipment facility...
YASIR WARDAD | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Prices of rice are increasing in local markets despite a decline in the global market, causing hardship for lower-income groups in Bangladesh.Global rice prices fell in June, as shown in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) latest monthly report....
JASIM UDDIN | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh is breaking new ground in market diversification with robust trade growth elsewhere while the United States stays as its single-largest export destination with a 14.38-percent annualised growth in the just-past fiscal year.Non-traditional markets like the Netherlands, Sweden and Mexico,...
GAZA CITY, July 4 (AFP): Gaza's civil defence agency said Friday that overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people, after nearly 21 months of war in the Palestinian territory.Israel has recently expanded its military operations in the Gaza Strip,...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh's jute and jute goods sector has become pale as year-on-year exports have slipped from the billion-dollar club even after huge government investments for sectoral development, analysts say.Local manufacturers and jute processors exported goods worth $820.16 million in the just-concluded...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh now gears up drives for striking free-trade deals, with negotiations underway with a couple of countries, as the country prepares for post-graduation trade sans tariff concessions. The country is likely to start negotiations with two more countries this month...
Soma Dhar and Arif-Uz-Zaman | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
In the rapidly changing world of global economics, it is crucial to comprehend labour markets, particularly in developing countries. One key topic is the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU), which helps economists understand the balance between inflation and unemployment....
Moin Uddin Muslim | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
As Bangladesh charts its path toward upper-middle-income status by 2031, few projects encapsulate the country's ambitions more than the National Special Economic Zone (NSEZ) in Mirsarai. Envisioned as a transformative industrial corridor on the country's southern coastline, the NSEZ is...
Md. Kamruzzaman | 2025-07-05 00:00:00
'Development' of any country can be defined as 'growth plus changes'. Simultaneously sustainable development means registering a reasonable growth persistently over time and happening positive changes in the people's standard of living. Growth occurs when real value of goods and...
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