CHATTOGRAM, Aug 30 (UNB): Miscreants shot and killed two Awami League (AL) activists in the Kuiyash Burischar area of Hathazari thana of Chattogram.The incident occurred in front of Nahar Garden in the Kuiyash Burischar Sheikh Mohammad City Corporation College area...
The body of Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, a Chhatra League general secretary, has been officially recovered by police in India's Meghalaya, reports bdnews24.com.Meghalaya police said the decomposing body was found at a betel nut plantation in Dona Bhoi village in...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said none would become victim of enforced disappearance, if his party is voted to power by the people.He also stressed the need for ensuring justice against the crime (enforced disappearance)."Enforced disappearance...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday requested providing state allowances to the families of those persons who became victims of enforced disappearances during the Awami League government.He made the appeal at an event marking...
KISHOREGANJ, Aug 30 (UNB)--A murder case has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, and several other leaders in Kishoreganj over the killing of two BNP activists during the Anti-Discrimination...
BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Friday stressed the need for all-out resistance against the extortionists and miscreants as they try to create chaos in the country, reports UNB."The country is ours. Some masked men are creating chaos everywhere. They...
Bangladesh indigenous people's rights activist Michael Chakma says he was woken up by his captors earlier this month in the dark, tiny cell where he was being held and thrown into a car, handcuffed and blindfolded, reports Reuters."I thought they...
NARSINGDI, Aug 30 (UNB): A fire that broke out in a building at Pran Industrial Park in Narsingdi has been brought under control after 3 hours.The fire originated in a warehouse of plastic goods in a two-storey building in Danga...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
The e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) faces a leadership crisis as nine members of its executive committee, excluding the acting president, announced their resignation. The resignations were announced on Thursday, with five members stepping down on Friday according to information...
MUNSHIGANJ, Aug 30 (BSS): A case was been filed on Friday with the Sadar Police Station of the district against 313 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other leaders and activists of Awami League (AL) and its front...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 30: The Forest Department has successfully recovered another 100 acres of forest land in Sukhbilas area under Padua union at Rangunia in Chattogram.The land had been under the control of Ershad Mahmud, the younger brother of former foreign...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday stressed the need for revitalising SAARC.The issue came up when the Pakistan Prime Minister called the Chief Adviser over the telephone on Friday.The Prime Minister of...
As part of the interim government's activities, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus will sit with representatives from the major political parties today (Saturday), reports bdnews24.com.The chief advisor's schedule shows a five-hour block of time from 3pm to 8pm on Saturday for...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
The net sales of state-run savings instruments in June showed a negative growth of Tk 33.81 billion over the matching period of the last year due to the prevailing higher rate of encashment than the investment. The substantial negative growth...
The families of enforced-disappearance victims during the 15-year reign of Sheikh Hasina gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar Friday to demand their return, reports bdnews24.com.They demanded they be returned soon. They have also demanded that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina,...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
The recent floods in at least 11 districts, triggered by heavy rainfall and hill slopes, have submerged crops in vast areas.However, as floodwaters start to recede, the supply of raw vegetables and other essential products in the capital markets remains...
A mother navigates deep water with relief materials on her hands while juggling her baby in the flood-affected Burichang upazila of southern Cumilla district on Friday. — Focus Bangla
The education ministry has instructed senior professors to take on urgent administrative and financial responsibilities in the absence of vice-chancellors, pro-vice-chancellors, and treasurers at public universities, reports bdnews24.com.A letter from the ministry's Secondary and Higher Education Division, issued on Thursday,...
India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has emphasised that India will engage with "the government of the day" in Bangladesh and will try to identify and pursue areas of mutual interest, reports bdnews24.com.He made the comments during the launch event...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
The UNHRC will deploy a fact-finding team in Bangladesh in the coming weeks to report recent rights violations and abuses during student protests as the UN advance team ended its mission last week.The fact-finders will analyse root causes and make...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
A degrading standard of living amid higher inflation and housing costs forces many to rent small homes or shared ones especially in towns and cities, besides compromising on food intake, analysts say and official findings attest.The tenants across the country...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
A large lacuna exposes BBS miscalculation of Bangladesh's economic growth as its latest report shows some Tk590 billion was missed out in the GDP count last fiscal year. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) report launched Thursday revealed such discrepancies...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh government won't encourage businesses to use Indian ports for rerouting export-import trade as no special facility comes therefrom and a local deep-sea port is forthcoming, sources say. Vessel traffic from the under-construction Matarbari deep-sea port is not far off...
Asia-Pacific markets climbed Friday after economic data from the US calmed recessionary fears, while investors also assessed a slew of data from Japan, reports CNBC.Initial jobless claims in the US fell to 231,000 from the prior week's 232,000, but were...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Major state-owned banks were buying dollars in China's onshore foreign exchange market on Friday to slow down a rising yuan, four people with knowledge of the matter said.The banks' actions come as the yuan strengthened to an...
Global bond funds attracted the biggest weekly inflow in six weeks in the seven days to August 28, buoyed by heightened purchases of government bonds amid anticipation of a September Fed rate cut and ongoing Middle East tensions, reports Reuters.According...
Md Nazrul Islam Swapan, a prominent businessman and industrialist, was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of EXIM Bank at the 174th Emergent Board Meeting of the bank held on Friday, says a press release.Earlier, he...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-31 00:00:00
British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATBC) dominated the weekly turnover chart this week for the first time in more than two years, while ten most-traded firms accounted for 37 per cent of the transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Being...
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