Bangladesh's T20I skipper Litton Das believes the upcoming T20I series against Netherlands would provide the ideal preparation for his side ahead of the Asia Cup. However, he is hoping Bangladesh would build a habit of notching totals in excess of...
GOPALGANJ, Aug 28 (UNB): A 12-year-old schoolgirl died tragically in Gopalganj Sadar upazila on Wednesday after being chased by a dog.The deceased was identified as Sohagi, daughter of Abdul Hamid Chowdhury of Moulvipara area in the district town and a...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-29 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Aug 28: Rajshahi University (RU) engineering students blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway on Thursday as part of their protest over the police 'attack' on engineering students' march in Dhaka.Students started their procession from RU's ZabirIbn-e-Hayyan building at 11 AM and...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-29 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Aug 28: A large number of low-income families in Rajshahi and surrounding districts fall into devastating consequences due to mounting pressure of debt, mostly driven by high-interest loans from NGOs and informal moneylenders.Recent investigations reveal that many farmers, rickshaw-pullers,...
A Flagship programme under the 'Youth Festival 2025' was celebrated at BADC High School, Mirpur on Wednesday, under the initiative of Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC). Chairman (Grade-1) of BADC Md. Ruhul Amin Khan was the chief guest of the...
Janata Bank PLC Managing Director Md. Mazibur Rahman presides over the asset-liability management committee meeting of the bank at its head office in Dhaka on Thursday.
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (Reuters): India has extended an import duty exemption on cotton by three months, until the end of December, a government order showed on Thursday, as New Delhi seeks to support the local garment industry that has...
Gold prices rose on Thursday, hitting an over one-month high, as the dollar softened while investors hunkered down for Friday's US inflation data for cues on the Federal Reserve's policy path, reports Reuters.Spot gold was up 0.3 per cent at...
LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters): Oil prices edged lower on Thursday after rising in the previous session, pressured by expectations of lower US fuel demand at the end of the summer travel season and by the restart of Russian supply to...
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana | 2025-08-29 00:00:00
The future of the global energy landscape will be shaped by Asia and the Pacific. Over the past two decades, our region has been the principal driver of global energy demand and emissions. Energy has powered prosperity, lifted millions out...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2025-08-29 00:00:00
There are all the mysteries remaining unsolved. There are the questions which have not had answers. Perhaps we will never arrive at circumstances where our enquiries will be looked into, to our satisfaction. In a world where some of the...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the Met Office. Day...
Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP, Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud, along with other officials inaugurating the fifth founding anniversary of Ansar Guard Battalion (AGB) at its headquarters in the capital's Vatara area recently.
BRAC and BRAC University (BRACU) organised a youth engagement programme featuring activities including interactive talks, panel discussions, debates, and the showcase of youth-led initiatives at the university's Merul Badda campus recently.The core objective of the initiative was to inspire the...
Four hundred and thirty more new dengue cases were reported in the 24 hours until Wednesday morning, raising the number of confirmed cases to 29,944 this year, reports UNB.The number of deaths remained at 118, as no new fatalities were...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-28 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed BNP and other parties to file an appeal against its 2011 verdict that scrapped the election-time Caretaker Government (CG) system from the Constitution.A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed...
The nation on Wednesday is observed the 49th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, recalling his undying legacy of defiance against injustice as well as his profound messages of love, humanity, and equality, reports UNB.The poet, lyricist, composer...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-28 00:00:00
The government has formed an eight-member high-powered committee to examine the demands of both BSc degree and diploma holders in the engineering sector.The Cabinet Division issued a gazette notification in this regard on Wednesday, saying that the committee has been...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-28 00:00:00
Vice-President (VP) candidate in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) election, Jalal Ahmad Jalal, was expelled from his residential hall on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing his roommate during a violent altercation.The incident occurred around 12:45am in room no...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-28 00:00:00
The liveability of the capital and its neighbouring areas has already been endangered, which would deteriorate further to become a 'death-trap' for the city people, if the DAP is amended in an unjustified manner, planners said on Wednesday.Keeping this in...
A Dhaka court has placed former Vice-Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah on a five-day remand in a graft case, reports UNB.Acting Judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court Md Ibrahim Mia passed the order...
A Dhaka court has showed five people, including former ministers Anisul Huq and Qamrul Islam, and former adviser to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Salman F Rahman, arrested in three separate cases filed over murders committed during the July...
At least five people have allegedly been injured in a clash between activists of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, in Chattogram's Banshkhali, report agencies.The violence sparked over an incident at the field of Darul...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has uncovered evidence of illegal assets worth approximately Tk 33.6 million in the names of former Food Minister and Awami League Presidium Member Md Abdur Razzaque, his wife and son, report agencies.The commission has decided to...
The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday wrapped up its four-day hearing on claims and objections over the re-demarcation of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) constituencies, ahead of the national election planned to be held in February 2026, reports UNB."The hearings on claims,...
FE REPORT | 2025-08-28 00:00:00
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) has begun trial proceedings in the crimes against humanity case filed over the killing of Begum Rokeya University (BRU) student Abu Sayed during the July-August 2024 mass uprising. Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam delivered his...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that a section within the government is deliberately working to prevent pro-democratic forces from coming to power in the country, report agencies."A section within the government is deliberately trying to prevent...
The government has set a minimum price of Tk 22 per kilogram for potatoes at cold storage gates and announced a plan to purchase 50,000 tonnes for storage and later sale, officials said Wednesday, reports UNB.The decision follows concerns that...
JU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-08-28 00:00:00
A Jahangirnagar University (JU) research team has unveiled a new technology, called the Liquid Tree, which is aimed at mitigating urban carbon dioxide (CO?) levels. The innovation is a photobioreactor that uses indigenous microalgae to absorb CO? and release oxygen,...
Litter floats on a part of the Gulshan Lake in the capital, spoiling the beauty of the water body. The photo was taken on Wednesday. — FE Photo
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