Mustafizur Rahman, the left-arm pacer from Bangladesh, suffered a head injury during a practice session with his Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) team, the Comilla Victorians at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram, raising questions about his continued participation in...
TOKYO, Feb 18 (BBC): New recruits to the Japanese military will be allowed to have longer hair in a bid to attract more young people, the country's defence ministry has said.The announcement comes as Japan struggles with a shortage of...
BAGHDADD, Feb 18 (Reuters): A visit by the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force to Baghdad has led to a pause in attacks on US troops by Iran-aligned groups in Iraq, multiple Iranian and Iraqi sources told Reuters, saying it...
BANGKOK, Feb 18 (BBC): Thailand's convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived at his mansion in the capital Bangkok after being released on parole.The billionaire was freed from a police hospital, where he had been serving a one-year jail...
GAZA STRIP, Feb 18 (AFP/Reuters): Prospects for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire dimmed Sunday after the United States signalled it would veto the latest push for a UN Security Council resolution and mediator Qatar acknowledged that truce talks on the other diplomatic...
White Chrysanthemums, a floricultural, ornamental and medicinal plant, blooming in the fields owned by Sabuj Mia add splendour to the landscape of Chaknodi village at Sadullahpur upazila in Gaibandha district. The picture was taken recently — bdnews24.com
MYMENSINGH, Feb 18 (UNB): A 17-year-old boy was hacked to death allegedly by a youth over a trivial matter in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh Saturday night.The dead is Mustakim, son of Surjot Ali of Charshakchura village and an autorickshaw driver...
Imtiaz Hasan Rubel, younger brother of expelled Faridpur Awami League (AL) general secretary Sazzad Hossain Barkat, and his associate Rezaul Karim Bipul have been jailed in an arms case, reports bdnews24.com.They have been sentenced to 10 years and seven years...
A Chattogram court has sentenced a madrasa teacher to death for raping four minor boys, reports bdnews24.com.Judge Joynal Abedin of Chattogram's Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 delivered the verdict in the presence of the convict on Sunday.All charges against...
TANGAIL, Feb 18 (UNB): Four people were killed when a pick-up van rammed a CNG autorickshaw on Gorai-Sakhipur regional road at Bashtoil Telipara in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail district on SundayThe dead are Lutfur Rahman alias Moijuddin (40), son of...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-02-19 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Feb 18: Dead dolphins have been washing ashore on the Cox's Bazar sea beach for the past several years. In the past four years, carcasses of 23 dolphins were recovered from the shore of Cox's Bazar.Of them, dead...
The prevalence of drug dealing and consumption within educational institutions across the country is alarmingly on the rise. Regrettably, many students are becoming entangled in the drug trade, tarnishing the educational environment of their institutions. Under the influence of drugs,...
Despite the High Court's ban in 2020, plastic bags are still being used in hotels, restaurants, and shops. The continued use of single-use plastic is responsible for plastic pollution, threatening the seas, rivers, lakes, and fish species in Bangladesh. It...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) are totally indifferent to the sufferings that the commuters and motor vehicle drivers endure day after day because of the traffic congestion in front...
Neil Ray | 2024-02-19 00:00:00
So long news of manufacturing counterfeit currency notes has made the rounds. The dens of counterfeiters are also busted by law enforcement agencies from time to time. But this time the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) unit of Jatrabari, according to...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-02-19 00:00:00
The three-day event titled, International Fire Safety and Security Expo 2024, that kicked off on Saturday (February 17) in the city has been a well-timed one. For, it is indeed the time of the year when fire incidents begin to...
It is of concern that startups, as reported in this newspaper, are facing severe fund shortages despite the directive issued by the Bangladesh Bank for granting easy loans to small enterprises. The central bank's instruction for all commercial banks to...
Mohammad Adnan Rahman | 2024-02-19 00:00:00
Financial fraud is an issue that pervades almost every level of society in Bangladesh. From individuals to domestic banks, none has been spared from varieties of financial fraud, scams, and deceptive schemes masquerading as get-rich-quick schemes or multi-level marketing cabals.Regular...
Muhammad Zamir | 2024-02-19 00:00:00
A careful historical survey (carried out under the leadership of Bangla Academy, Dhaka around 2002) pertaining to the agriculture process in Bengal over nearly the last three thousand years revealed that initially, a larger number of people in Bengal, like...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2024-02-18 12:00:00
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established on December 8, 1949, by the UN General Assembly to provide basic support including food, health care and education for all refugees resulting...
FE REPORTThe government has given more than Tk 19 million in aid of physically-challenged children of migrant workers in the past three years. A total of 865 children have received the money since 2021 in various instalments, according to the...
SINGAPORE, Feb 17 (Reuters): Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices slipped to a near three-year low this week, as inventories in Europe remain at healthy levels and buying activity in northeast Asia was subdued due to the Lunar New...
MUNICH, Feb 17 (AP): Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a "candid and constructive" discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia's war against Ukraine and synthetic...
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 17 (AFP): UN chief Antonio Guterres on Friday called for a full investigation into the reported death in jail of Alexei Navalny, the prominent critic of the Kremlin."The Secretary-General is shocked by the reported death...
Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus does not have any share or ownership in the organisations created with the money of Grameen Bank (GB), says the bank's chairman, Professor Dr AKM Saiful Majid, on Saturday.In a press conference organised at Grameen Bank...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2024-02-18 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 17: The Chittagong Port, the prime seaport of the country, got two fixed container scanners on Saturday.State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury formally inaugurated the newly-imported container scanners at the gate number 4 of the port.Addressing the...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-18 00:00:00
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) Nasrul Hamid said that the government would introduce smart gas meter for gas distribution within the next four years to check gas wastage and save revenue.He said, "The government is working...
Rawalpindi Commi-ssioner Liaquat Ali Chattha, in a shocking revelation on Saturday, confessed to his "involvement in rigging election results in the city", and resigned from his post demanding to be "hanged for doing injustice" to the Rawalpindi Division, reports The...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2024-02-18 00:00:00
Energy transition leads Bangladesh to plan substantial cut in import of petroleum products in 2024 as gasoil demand falls amid increasing switch to power production from coal-fired plants, sources said.State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation's (BPC) has projected import of around 6.51...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh could add only a few new products to its export basket during one and a half decades, showing exceedingly high concentration on ready-made garment and poor diversification of products.The country's export basket is very different from its competitors as...
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