NEW YORK, Sept 5 (AFP): Reigning champion and world number one Aryna Sabalenka will play Amanda Anisimova in the US Open final after the American ended the run of Japanese star Naomi Osaka on Thursday.Sabalenka overcame Pegula 4-6, 6-3, 6-4...
LONDON, Sept 5 (AFP): Women's Super League newcomers London City Lionesses have completed the signing of Paris Saint-Germain's Grace Geyoro for a world record fee for a female footballer of £1.43 million ($1.93 million), a source with knowledge of the...
WELLINGTON, Sept 5 (AFP): New Zealand cricket great Ross Taylor announced Friday he was coming out of retirement, nearly four years after quitting, to help Samoa qualify for next year's Twenty20 World Cup.The 41-year-old former Blackcaps skipper said it would...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has raised the valuation for sponsoring the Indian cricket team, setting a new base price higher than what Dream11, the outgoing sponsor, had been shelling out, reports Cricbuzz.According to industry sources,...
Bangladesh will take on host Nepal in the first of the two-match FIFA Tier-1 International Friendlies scheduled to be held at Dashrath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal today (Saturday), reports BSS.The match kicks off at 5.45 pm Bangladesh time.The main...
LOS ANGELES, United States, Sept 5 (AFP): Inter Miami forward Luis Suarez, who spat at a Seattle staff member after the Sounders' Leagues Cup final triumph on Sunday, apologised in a statement on Instagram on Thursday."It was a moment of...
MONTEVIDEO, Sept 5 (AFP): Lionel Messi scored twice for Argentina in emotional scenes in Buenos Aires on Thursday while Uruguay, Colombia and Paraguay joined the reigning champions at next year's World Cup.In his last home qualifier for his country and...
Euro zone government bond yields lagged behind US Treasuries, which dropped sharply after data releases on Friday, sending the spread between German and US borrowing costs to its lowest level since early April, reports Reuters.US job growth weakened in August...
Shahjalal Islami Bank's Training Academy organised a two-day induction training course for 50 newly appointed officers of the bank at its Training Academy. Managing Director of the bank Mosleh Uddin Ahmed inaugurated the training course as the chief guest on...
Global equity funds drew their biggest weekly inflows in three weeks in the period to September 3, lifted by growing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month and a favorable antitrust ruling for Alphabet that buoyed sentiment, reports...
BRAC Bank has extended landmark financing to MJL Bangladesh PLC for the acquisition of two ocean-going 'Aframax' oil tankers -- the largest vessels registered under the Bangladeshi flag to date.This transaction represents the largest single-ticket foreign currency (FCY) offshore banking...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) climbed past the 5,600-point mark this week for the first time in over a year, as investors' buying binge buoyed the equity market despite worries over political uncertainties.The index rallied for the...
In September of 2025, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was held in Tianjin, China, drawing the world's attention to the shores of the Bohai Sea. President Xi Jinping attended the "SCO+" Meeting and delivered an important speech, proposing for...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Vultures, as creatures of nature, have their norms. Even when they are hungry they do not pounce upon the dying. They wait till the body of its next meal becomes still after the last breath has been exhaled. It is...
Good governance is the transparent and effective management of public affairs and resources for the benefit of society. It operates under existing regulations, where laws are enforced impartially and human rights are upheld. It is a public sector management system...
Since 1947, the US has been pursuing a policy of unilaterally supporting Israel in expanding its settlements in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem, triggering the displacement of Palestinians and thwarting their right to live in a sovereign state. The...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Celebrating a birthday or observing a death anniversary is generally not encouraged in Islam. There are also no ample historical records showing that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself ever observed his own birthday or encouraged his companions to observe the...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Not long ago, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines reported its highest ever annual profit of Tk 9.37 billion. The record earnings in the financial year (FY) 2024-25 seemed at first to offer a rare moment of good news for the national...
That the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has, at last, embarked on its avowed plan to rescue the problem-ridden five Shariah-based banks through a process of merger or otherwise is a piece of welcome news. For thousands of depositors of these banks...
Mohammed Rakib-ul-Hassan | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
We are living in an age where the transformation of life from physical world to digital is transitioning through various means such as artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, large language model so on and so forth, in a way which is...
BNP senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has stressed the need to democratise Bangladesh's economy to ensure equal opportunity for all citizens to participate in economic and development activities, reports UNB."Democracy should not be confined to politics alone. We have...
The United Nations has pledged to assist Bangladesh in the general election scheduled for February, report agencies.On Thursday, UN Resident Coordinator Gwyn Lewis met with Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka, where she gave...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
The government has approved the Telecommunication Networking and Licensing Policy 2025, a major reform initiative aimed at overhauling Bangladesh's telecom licensing system. Officials described the move as a long-awaited breakthrough to replace the outdated, rigid and multi-layered licensing regime with...
The Editors' Council has issued a clarification on a mistake that occurred in its Wednesday's statement carried on Page 8 of Thursday's issue of The Financial Express.The statement erroneously referred to "media workers protection law," which actually should read "Media...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 04: The expansion work of the four-lane Dhaka-Chattogram Highway to 10 lanes may begin in June next year after completion of all required procedures. Besides, the Development Project Proposal (DPP) is expected to be completed this year. The...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh's telecom sector posted modest growth in July this year as both internet and mobile subscriptions increased, although the numbers remain below the highs recorded a year earlier, according to fresh data released by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).The...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB), as part of its foreign- exchange market intervention, bought US$134 million through auctions from five commercial banks to stabilise the dollar-taka exchange rate, taking the total volume of purchased dollars past the $1.0- billion mark.With the latest...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
Under the authoritarian regime, $16 billion was stolen from Bangladesh on average every year, Transparency International (TI) Chair François Valérian said on Thursday, the last day of his first visit to Dhaka. "Had this money not been stolen, Bangladesh's gross...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh for the first time is set to receive loans from the Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to import fertiliser, officials said on Thursday.The government would sign two deals with the Jeddah-based corporation next week to get the first instalment...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh's liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification has reached almost the saturation level to around 1,053 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) with the country's two operational floating-storage and re-gasification units (FSRUs) running at 95.72-per cent capacity.With the present infrastructure the...
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