The use of courier services across the country has increased significantly in recent years, driven by the rise of online shopping, inter-district product delivery and the exchange of official documents. From e-commerce platforms to remote job applications, countless individuals and...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-05-17 00:00:00
For the first time after 17 years, the annual national budget will not be placed in national parliament. Instead, the budget for the fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26) will be announced by Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, the finance adviser of the Yunus-led...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-05-17 00:00:00
The cost of keeping the lights on in Bangladesh is drawing ever more intense scrutiny, especially over electricity imported under the agreement with Adani Power. In early May, Adani Power's Chief Financial Officer Dilip Jha disclosed that Bangladesh owes approximately...
Rising protectionism and tariff wars among the world's leading economies in recent years have put the case for multilateralism at a disadvantage. Encouraging local manufacturing by reducing reliance on imported goods or the so-called policy of import substitution might now...
Md. Farooque Hossain | 2025-05-17 00:00:00
Blockchain technology is rapidly becoming one of the most transformative innovations of our time-promising greater transparency, security, and efficiency in how we store and share information. While still in its early stages in Bangladesh, blockchain's potential spans critical sectors such...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 12:00:00
The demonstrating teachers and students of Jagannath University (JnU) announced a shutdown of the university's activities on Thursday to press home their three-point-demand.Prof. Rais Uddin, general secretary of the Jagannath University Teachers' Association, made the announcement during their sit-in protest...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Thursday that they have received green light from the government regarding the upcoming tour of Pakistan as the highest body of the country agreed in principle to give them a go-ahead for the...
The National Pension Authority (NPA) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 12 banks to facilitate registration and contribution collection under the Universal Pension Schemes. This brings the total number of banks partnering with the NPA to 24,...
The council of advisers approved two ordinances and two policies at its meeting on Thursday with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in the chair.The meeting was held at the Chief Adviser's Office (CAO), a Cabinet Division press release said, reports...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
The government has banned the planting, collection and sales of eucalyptus and akashmoni saplings to protect the environment, ecosystems and biodiversity in the country. To this effect, the Forest-1 Wing of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Agitating officials and staff members of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have made a three-point demanded including immediate cancellation of the gazette notification that bifurcated the NBR into two divisions.Their other demands include making the report of the advisory...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
The leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Thursday observed a full-day strike rejecting the Dhaka University administration's half-day mourning programme on the murder of DU student and JCD activist Shahriar Alam Shammo. Shammo, who was stabbed to...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
As Bangladesh is scheduled to graduate from the least-developed country (LDC) status in 2026, businesses and trade experts on Thursday stressed the urgent need for strategic preparation to overcome the post-graduation challenges. With the impending loss of duty-free market access,...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved $270-million financing to bolster Bangladesh's flood recovery efforts and enhance its resilience to future disasters.The programmes include support for constructing and rehabilitating critical infrastructure, strengthening agricultural systems, and improving livelihoods in...
SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Sector insiders and experts have called for a major government investment in the capital's road transport as the authorities' call to remove old buses from the roads has received little response from owners.Several hundred old and unfit buses still ply...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh has initiated the move to re-negotiate tariffs with the power-plant owners to reduce "excessive" tariffs or "additional" costs as inscribed in the power-purchase agreements (PPAs) inked during the previous Awami League government.State-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has picked...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Dhaka’s metro rail is operating at a daily loss of nearly 47 per cent, raising concerns about the long-term financial sustainability of the capital's high-profile mass-transit project, according to officials at Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL).The state-owned operator reports...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Japan is intent on step up engagement with Bangladesh under the heretofore-dormant Bay of Bengal Industrial Growth Belt (Big-B) initiative and also signals continued duty-free trade facilities even after Bangladesh's LDC graduation. The desires of the host were expressed during...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank is armed with adequate bucks to intervene if the local currency depreciates deeply following the introduction of market-driven foreign-exchange regime, one of major financial-sector reform undertakings. Deputy Governor of the central bank Dr Habibur Rahman explained Thursday the...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Country's forex market did not witness any unbecoming development on Thursday following the introduction of market-based Taka- Dollar exchange rate, as the regulator watched with adequate intervention bucks, officials and market players said.It gives a sign of stability on the...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers with lightning flashes and temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions...
Vice-chancellor of Uttara University Prof Dr Eaysmin Ara Lekha along with others poses at a seminar titled 'Relationship First Aid for Female Students' organised by the university on its campus in the capital on Wednesday.
Mynul Mridha, founder chairman of Sydney International School, and Rizwan Bin Farouq, chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Foundation Bangladesh, signing the sub-license agreement on the school premises in the capital on Thursday. Under...
The National Shop Employees Federation on Thursday warned that over 6.0 million shop employees across the country will enforce a nationwide closure of shops and shopping malls ahead of Eid-ul-Azha if they are not paid Eid bonus, reports UNB.The ultimatum...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Speakers at a policy breakfast Thursday underscored the need for enactment of a Clean Air Act and inclusion of certain standards on air pollutants from power plants in the 2022 Air Pollution Control Rules.They also called for effective administrative mechanisms...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on all kinds of meeting, rally and procession in nine places in the capital.The residence of the chief justice, the judges' complex, the main gate of the Supreme Court, the entrance gate-1...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
The authorities of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) demolished on Thursday a number of illegally built structures at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.The demolition drive was carried out in the morning near the gate adjacent to the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC)...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-16 00:00:00
Prices of eggs, chicken, and onion increased further in the city markets last week ending on Thursday over the previous week, raising consumers' woes. Prices of other essential commodities remained more or less unchanged at their previous high levels, according...
Former MP Kazim Uddin Ahmed Dhanu has been arrested from the capital's Aftabnagar area, reports UNB.He was arrested around 3:00 am on Thursday, said DMP's Deputy Commissioner (media) Talebur Rahman.According to Jatrabari Police sources, he was arrested in connection with...
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