SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
The National Consensus Commission (NCC) believes the crisis centring constitutional reforms and the July Charter's implementation will be resolved if political parties negotiate and reach a consensus.The parties, too, agree that negotiations could ease the complexities. However, some parties have...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
The interest-rate spread between banks' weighted average lending and deposit rates narrowed to a 25-month low of 5.75 per cent in July, raising concerns over profitability in the country's financial sector. The decline, driven by higher deposit costs and sluggish...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has asked the chief executives of six state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) to take necessary steps for quicker recovery of their default loans. He also advised them to ensure good governance in the banks, emphasising that...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
The standing committee on non-concessional loan approved seven hard-term loans worth US$1.44 billion at its meeting on Wednesday, officials said.This is the largest amount of hard-term loans, approved by the committee in one sitting, within the tenure of this interim...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Nassa Group, one of Bangladesh's leading garment manufacturers, is set to permanently close 16 of its factories after failing to sustain operations due to severe financial and other crises. The move, finalised through a tripartite agreement, affects more than 12,500...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
A majority of respondents - 41.3 per cent - in a latest survey said they would vote for the BNP, while 30.3 per cent showed interest in the Jamaat-e-Islami and 18.8 per cent in the Awami League (AL).The survey found...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Private-sector credit growth hit a historic low of 6.49 per cent as of June 2025 by official count, signalling deep slowdown in business investment and stoking concerns about Bangladesh's long-term economic momentum.General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission shows...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Half a dozen international firms are vying for contract to construct a new floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) at Moheshkhali island as Bangladesh opts for enhancing LNG-handling capacity amid falling domestic gas reserves against rising demand.Sources say they have...
Serajul I Bhuiyan | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Every country carries a thick book of sorrow-some hidden in secrecy, others etched on history as an eternal reminder to generations yet unborn. For Bangladesh, a country born out of the 1971 war of liberation and genocide, its heritage of...
Once again, a brief spell of rain has thrown Dhaka into chaos. On Monday morning, roads from Nilkhet to Azimpur, including areas in front of Bangamata and Kuwait Friendship Halls at Dhaka University, were knee-deep in water. The university's student...
Bangladesh today is moving forward on the path of development, and one of its greatest strengths is education and the practice of knowledge. For the progress of a nation, natural resources are important, but even more essential are the growth...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
As the government moves to merge five crisis-ridden Shariah-based banks into a single state-owned entity, one pertinent question arises as to whether the same recipe would be applied to state-owned financial institutions. The state-owned commercial banks as well as specialised...
There is a race among many countries, barring those which have huge fossil fuel reserves, for transition to renewable energy. In fact, if the planet Earth has to meet the challenges posed by the global warming, the option for such...
Barkat-e-Khuda, PhD | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Brain drain refers to the emigration of skilled persons from developing countries to developed countries. A large numbers of highly educated South Asians, especially from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, have migrated to developed countries such as the United...
Shiabur Rahman | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Today is the day when one of the brightest sons of this soil -- Samson H Chowdhury - came into the world 100 years ago. He was an industrialist and public figure whose lifestory is intertwined with the modern entrepreneurial...
GENEVA, Sept 24 (AFP): Generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable HIV-prevention drug should be available for $40 a year in more than 100 countries from 2027, Unitaid and the Gates Foundation said Wednesday.The two organisations have entered into separate agreements...
MOSCOW, Sept 24 (AFP): The Kremlin on Wednesday said it had no choice but to continue its military offensive on Ukraine, as Moscow rejected US President Donald Trump's claim that Russia was a "paper tiger".The comments come a day after...
DUBAI, Sept 24 (AP/AFP): Iran has begun rebuilding missile-production sites targeted by Israel during its 12-day war in June, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press show, but a key component is likely still missing - the large mixers needed...
NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters/AFP): If US President Donald Trump really wants to win the Nobel peace prize, he needs to stop the war in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.Speaking to France's BFM TV from New York,...
YANGJIANG, Sept 24 (AFP): Fierce winds, pounding rain and rough seas battered southern China on Wednesday as powerful Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in Guangdong province after killing at least 17 in Taiwan.Ragasa churned into Guangdong, home to tens of millions...
NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters): The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after the US President Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a...
NEW YORK, Sept 24 (AP): From France to South Korea, South Africa to Suriname, leaders gave strong support Tuesday to the U.N. chief's call to work together to address global challenges - war, poverty and climate chaos. But U.S. President...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
Former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman instructed police to open fire with maximum force to protect their lives, property, and those of the public during the July-August 2024 uprising.He issued the directive via a wireless message on July 17,...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi and Mymensingh divisions with moderately...
A fireman, who sustained cent per cent burn injuries in the explosion of a chemical warehouse in Tongi, Gazipur on Monday, died at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) on Tuesday afternoon, reports BSS.The deceased, Shamim Ahmed...
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 23 (BSS): Two more people, who were critically injured in a gas cylinder explosion at a warehouse in Chandanaish upazila, died while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS) in Dhaka on Tuesday...
Families of those killed and injured in the July 21 plane crash at Milestone School and College in Uttara demanded justice, compensation and rehabilitation on Tuesday, reports UNB.Grieving parents, relatives, and guardians at a press conference at the Jatiya Press...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
Abidul Islam Khan, Abdul Kader, and Umama Fatema, defeated vice-president (VP) candidates of the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) elections, accused the DU administration of negligence in addressing alleged irregularities in the polls.They raised the allegations after meeting DU...
The 139th board meeting of Southeast University (SEU) Trust was held at the university's permanent campus in Tejgaon, Dhaka on Monday. SEU Trust Chairman Rezaul Karim presided over the meeting, attended by its board of trustees (BoT) members along with...
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