Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (DUET), Gazipur, Prof Dr. Mohammad Zoynal Abedin speaking at a programme on the campus on Friday, marking the Mechanical Day-2025.
An elderly woman has been killed after being hit by a bus while crossing the road in the capital's Jatrabari, reports UNB.The deceased is Anwara Begum (65), daughter of late Nazim Uddin of the Ali area under Bandar Police Station...
Bangladesh has condemned the recent bombing of a hospital in Rakhine and expressed concern over the rising violations of international humanitarian law and escalating violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State.Dhaka conveyed its condolences to the families of the deceased and sympathy...
CHUADANGA, Dec 13 (UNB): The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has imposed maximum alert along all borders of Chuadanga and Meherpur districts following the attempted assassination of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inquilab Mancha and a potential independent candidate for Dhaka-8.Security...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
The admission test for the first-year undergraduate programmes of the Arts, Law and Social Sciences faculties of Dhaka University for the 2025-26 academic session was held on Saturday (December 13).The examination took place from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. A...
Home Adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said the interim government will implement special security arrangements for the forefront July Warriors following the terror attack on Inqilab Manch spokesperson Osman Hadi, reports BSS."The interim government is fully committed to ensuring...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
Speakers at a programme on Saturday emphasised that Bangladesh should prioritise technology-based entrepreneurship, time-relevant education, and skill development for youths to fully benefit from the country's demographic dividend.They also highlighted the need to strengthen industry-academia linkages, promote technical education, and...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has claimed that the newly-adopted fundamental changes to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Ordinance 2025 have placed the commission's formation under direct bureaucratic control, erasing prospects for independence from government influence.TIB expressed deep concern in...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
A massive fire that broke out at a 10-storey building in the Dhaka's South Keraniganj on Saturday was brought under control after nearly seven hours of intensive efforts by firefighters.The blaze started around 5:37am on the ground floor of Jabel-e-Noor...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
The Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), at its 146th session held on December 9-10, approved US$51.4 million in financing as IFAD's contribution to a $211.7 million project in Bangladesh, a spokesman said on Saturday.The new...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
The government is likely to significantly reduce the project aid portion in the upcoming Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year (FY) 2025-26, as many agencies have failed to implement projects on time, officials said on Saturday.The...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
The interim government has announced a reward of Tk 5.0 million for information leading to the arrest of Faisal Karim Masud, the prime suspect in the shooting of Inquilab Mancha spokesperson and Dhaka-8 independent election hopeful Sharif Osman Hadi. The...
The nation observes the Martyred Intellectuals Day today (Sunday), reports BSS.The nation recalls on this day the mass killing of a large number of Bengali top brains by the Pakistan army and their collaborators visibly sensing their defeat just two...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
The 26th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the International Publications Limited (IPL), the owning company of The Financial Express (FE), was held on Saturday at the board room of the Apex Footwear Ltd in the city's Gulshan area.Chairman of the...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh is facing a growing "systemic shock" from non-performing loans (NPLs), with bad debts reaching record highs in 2024-25 and laying bare deep vulnerabilities in the country's banking sector.The sharp deterioration in asset quality has constrained banks' ability to lend...
Six Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured when terrorists attacked a United Nations base in Sudan's Abyei, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday, reports UNB.ISPR said the attack took place amid ongoing fighting in the area,...
Iranian authorities detained 18 crew members, including Bangladeshis, after seizing a foreign tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Friday that they said was carrying 6 million litres of smuggled fuel, Iranian media reported on Saturday, citing the Hormozgan province...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
The government mulls converting around 30 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of unutilised natural gas of gas-rich Bhola island to LNG and carrying it to gas-starved industries in the mainland for consumption, said sources.The volume of converted LNG to...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
Doctors said on Saturday the condition of Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi remained critical due to the severe brain injury he suffered in the shooting by assailants in the city on Friday.Director (media services) at Evercare Hospital Bangladesh Dr...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh's major political parties pledge to stay united against a "coordinated bid" to jeopardize the July uprising and jointly protest the shooting of an activist and prospective independent election candidate, Sharif Osman Hadi.Leaders from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2025-12-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh's apparel export to the United States, its single-largest market, circumvents tariff tempests and records a double-digit growth of18.64 per cent, the highest among major competitors, in the first nine months of 2025.According to US official count, the exports grew...
PARIS, Dec 13 (AFP): Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as "brutal" by the Norwegian Nobel committee.Mohammadi, who was granted temporary...
NEW YORK, Dec 13 (BBC/AFP/AP): US President Donald Trump's overseas envoy will travel to Germany this weekend to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders for the latest round of high-level talks on ending the war.Steve Witkoff, who has...
GAZA, Dec 13 (AFP): Gaza's civil defence agency on Friday said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.Heavy rain...
NEW YORK, Dec 13 (BBC): Fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces continued early on Saturday hours after US President Donald Trump said the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire.Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he told Trump a ceasefire...
ISTANBUL, Dec 13 (AFP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned that the Black Sea should not turn into an "area of confrontation" between Russia and Ukraine, after several strikes in recent weeks."The Black Sea should not be seen...
NEW YORK, Dec 13 (AFP/Reuters): The expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is at its highest level since at least 2017, when the United Nations began tracking such data, according to a report by the UN chief...
Sylhet Titans have confirmed the service of the English all-rounder Ethan Brookes for the upcoming season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 tournament, reports BSS."The acquisition of the versatile player, known for his work in the English T20 circuit,...
PARIS, Dec 13 (AFP): France will play Brazil and Colombia in the United States in March as part of their build-up for the 2026 World Cup finals, coach Didier Deschamps said on Saturday."It's always good to go the place where...
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