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Indonesian Embassy hosts batik workshop and fashion show

2025-05-21 00:00:00

The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia hosted a Batik Workshop and Batik Fashion Show on the embassy premises in Dhaka on Monday. The event was organised in collaboration with Batik House Indonesia (BHI), represented by Venny Afwany Alamsyah, a...

IFAD approves $70m for new climate-resilient agri project

FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a new US$70 million project to help rural communities in flood-prone and drought-prone regions in Bangladesh adapt to environmental shocks and improve their livelihoods. The Climate Resilient Agriculture and Livelihood Enhancement...

BRAC Bank's Syed Abdul Momen wins SME Banker of the Year

2025-05-21 00:00:00

Syed Abdul Momen, additional managing director and head of SME Banking at BRAC Bank, has been awarded 'SME Banker of the Year - Bronze' at the Qorus SME Banking Awards 2025.Held at the Qorus Reinvent Forum in Vienna, Austria, the...

Walton appoints partner to access Singapore market

FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

Local electronic giant Walton Hi-Tech Industries has appointed a partner organisation in Singapore to increase its market access.Walton seems to have considered taking advantage of the market accessibility of the new partner, Flair M&E Pte Ltd in Singapore as it...

Licence of Shah Mohammad Sagir revoked

FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

The securities regulator has revoked the TREC licence of Shah Mohammad Sagir & Co over the embezzlement of clients' funds worth around Tk 137 million six years ago.Trading at the brokerage firm was suspended in September 2019 to protect investors...

IPO quota for retail investors 60pc, pooled funds may be redeemed earlier

FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

The capital market taskforce on Monday submitted final reports - on initial public offering (IPO) and mutual funds -- to the securities regulator without major changes in the draft reports.The only notable change in the final report on IPO rules...

'Supply of services' definition in the VAT law

Mohammad Abu Yusuf | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

In the Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act 2012 of Bangladesh, ‘supply of services’ means not a supply of good, money, or immoveable property, which, without prejudice to the generality, shall include the following: (a) a grant, assignment, termination,...

When protest becomes a source of nuisance

2025-05-21 00:00:00

For the past ten months, since the formation of the interim government, citizens have faced a nearly daily ordeal of traffic paralysis. While organisers claim to schedule such events on weekends to limit disruption, the reality tells a different story....

Dual income, shared burden

2025-05-21 00:00:00

Dhaka has emerged as one of the South Asia's most expensive cities, posing serious financial challenges for newly married couples. With rising inflation, soaring rents, and modest entry-level salaries, managing household expenses on a single income has become nearly impossible....

Reassessing current state of arsenic mitigation

Wasi Ahmed | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

The presence of arsenic in groundwater across almost all regions of Bangladesh is not a recent discovery. In fact, it has been more than two and a half decades since the alarming levels of arsenic contamination were first detected in...

Focus should be on job creation

2025-05-21 00:00:00

Rising unemployment means the economy concerned is not doing well. Then, unemployment is not just about a figure. The individuals or families whose members are without work know how it hurts. From that point of view, the recently published report...

Addressing protectionism with grit in the FY2026 Budget

Zaidi Sattar | 2025-05-21 00:00:00

Our hope is that the forthcoming FY2026 Budget could be a crucial reform budget that could change the direction of the economy, like the budget of FY1992 did. Addressing the economy’s persistent and deep-rooted protectionism will have to be one...

BD needs inclusive labour reforms and effective institutions

FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 12:00:00

International Labour Organisation (ILO) has suggested inclusive labour reforms and effectiveness of institutions for protecting workers' rights in all sectors of Bangladesh.For doing so, there is a need for strengthening capacities of inspectorate, courts and grievance authority to help enforce...

Sudan's army chief names former UN official as new PM

2025-05-20 12:00:00

KHARTOUM, May 19 (AFP): Sudan's army chief and de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan appointed on Monday former UN official Kamil Idris as the country's new prime minister, more than two years into a brutal war.Idris, a career diplomat and...

Weather (2025-05-20)

2025-05-20 00:00:00

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers with temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions; at a few places over Rajshahi and Dhaka divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Barishal...

Vice-Chancellor of BUP Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam

2025-05-20 00:00:00

Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam, along with others, posed with the awardees at the university's annual prize giving ceremony on its campus in the capital on Monday.

17 SPs transferred, 10 get Add’l DIG charges

2025-05-20 00:00:00

The government has transferred 17 Superintendents of Police (SPs), with 10 of them receiving the current charge of Additional Deputy Inspector General (Addl DIG), according to two gazette notifications issued by the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home...

CCH collects Tk 628b in taxes in 10 months of FY25

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, May 19: The Chittagong Custom House (CCH) collected a total of Tk 628.18 billion in taxes in the first ten months of fiscal year (FY) 2024-25.CCH sources said a drop in imports of some goods, as well as the...

MoYS, UNFPA sign MoU

FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangladesh will assist the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) in meaningful youth engagement and empowering young people and strengthening youth-centered policies.The MoYS and UNFPA Bangladesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this...

Civil Aviation and Tourism Advisor Sheikh Bashir Uddin handing over a crest to the captain

2025-05-20 00:00:00

Civil Aviation and Tourism Advisor Sheikh Bashir Uddin handing over a crest to the captain, first officer and a cabin crew member of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight - at the Balaka Bhaban in the capital on Monday - for...

Ishraque supporters continue protest, block roads

FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

Supporters of BNP leader Ishraque Hossain continued their sit-in in front of Nagar Bhaban in the capital for the fifth consecutive day on Monday, demanding that he be sworn in as mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).They under the...

Over 13pc bridges in country's six zones vulnerable

FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

Over 13 per cent of the bridges in six zones across the country are in different stages of vulnerability, with over 8.0 requiring immediate maintenance.The Roads and Highways Department (RHD), in its first round of inspection of 15,437 bridges and...

Hasina, 211 others sued in N'ganj murder case

2025-05-20 00:00:00

NARAYANGANJ, May 19 UNB): Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former local MP Shamim Osman, former Narayanganj city mayor Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, and 207 others were sued in a case over the...

Salman, Qamrul, two others shown arrested in murder cases

2025-05-20 00:00:00

A Dhaka court has showed Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq, Qamrul Islam and Dr Dipu Moni arrested in two separate cases lodged over the killings which took place during the July-August mass uprising, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Mazharul Islam...

British envoy meets Jamaat's women wing leaders

2025-05-20 00:00:00

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing and discussed the issues of mutual interest, reports UNB.They had an insightful discussion about their community engagement and the policy issues that matter most to them...

SC upholds bail of 61 pro-AL lawyers

2025-05-20 00:00:00

The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the High Court (HC) order that stayed the bail of 61 pro-Awami League (AL) lawyers in a case filed over the alleged assault and attempted murder of fellow lawyers during July movement, reports UNB.It...

Actor Nusraat Faria sent to jail

FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

A Dhaka court on Monday sent popular actor Nusraat Faria to jail in connection with an attempted murder case linked to the July-August uprising.Judge Sarah Farzana Haque of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka passed the order.The court also fixed...

Clear DU campus of vagabonds: BDSU

DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

The Dhaka University (DU) unit of the Bangladesh Democratic Students' Union (BDSU), also known as Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad, has submitted a memorandum to the university administration calling for immediately removing the floating people and vagabonds from the campus on...

BNP will protest move to rehabilitate AL: Nazrul Islam

FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan has said any move to rehabilitate Awami League (AL) will be resisted.He also demanded the election to be held in December this year."Some are spreading the falsehood that the BNP...

NCP is neither 'secularist' nor 'theocratic': Nahid

2025-05-20 00:00:00

Nahid Islam, convenor of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has swept aside all ideas of the party being secularist or theocratic, saying it believes in 'religious coexistence, harmony and the practice of responsibility and compassion', reports bdnews24.com.Sharing the ideals of...