GAZA, Jan 01 (Reuters/AP): Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza on Sunday, residents and medics said, as battles raged through the rubble of towns and refugee camps in a war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would take "many...
BEIJING, Jan 01 (AFP/Reuters): China's President Xi Jinping said Monday he was willing to work with the United States to promote stable bilateral ties, exchanging congratulations with his US counterpart on the anniversary of diplomatic relations, state media said.Xi and...
TOKYO, Jan 01 (Reuters/BBC): A powerful earthquake and tsunami struck central Japan and its western coast on Monday, triggering warnings for residents to evacuate, knocking out power to thousands of homes and disrupting flights and rail services to the affected...
HARARE, Jan 01 (AFP): Uncapped Tapiwa Mufudza has been included in the Zimbabwe one-day international squad for three matches in Sri Lanka during January.The 33-year-old was called up by caretaker coach Walter Chawaguta after Dave Houghton quit last month, saying...
Lionel Messi's legendary No 10 Argentina jersey will be retired 'for life' when he hangs up his boots, the country's FA President has revealed.Messi, considered by many as the greatest soccer player in history, put the cherry on top of...
Coach of Women's Football Team AKM Saiful Bari Titu and captain Sabina Khatun receiving a cheque from Chairman of Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) Sharifa Khan, former Senior Secretary, Economic Relations Division, at a grand reception event at a city...
Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed posing with the winners of the 2nd Prime Bank New Year Cup Golf Tournament 2023 at a prize giving ceremony at Army Golf Club in Dhaka Cantonment on Sunday — ISPR
SYDNEY, Jan 01 (AFP): Dynamic Australian opener David Warner called time Monday on one-day international cricket ahead of his farewell Test against Pakistan this week, but kept the door open to play the 2025 Champions Trophy if needed.The 37-year-old will...
Bangladesh are all set to have their busiest year in Test cricket in 2024 as they will play as many as 14 matches in the coming 12 months, report agencies.The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the FTP (Future Tour...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced on Monday a 15-member final squad for the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup' 2024 to be held in South Africa.Left-arm spinner Mahfuzur Rahman Rabby will lead the Bangladesh team in the Global Youth Cricket meet,...
RIYADH, Jan 01 (Arab News): Saudi Arabia's National Industry Strategy continues to make strides, with the signing of contracts worth SR538 million ($133 million).The Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones, known as MODON, announced the inking of 10...
BEIJING, Jan 01 (Reuters): China's new home prices rose for the fourth straight month in December, a private survey showed on Monday, buoyed by a slew of government support measures.Prices rose 0.1 per cent on average in December from the...
RIYADH, Jan 01 (Arab News): The total catch from marine fisheries in Saudi Arabia reached 64,264 tonnes in 2022, representing a 1.4 per cent increase compared to the previous year, official data showed. According to the latest report released by...
DUBAI, Jan 1 (Reuters): Oman is forecasting a budget deficit of 640 million rials ($1.66 billion) this year, around 1.5 per cent of the country's GDP, state TV reported on Monday, swinging from a surplus in 2023 as lower oil...
As part of different anti-drug drives in the capital, the members of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 37 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Monday, reports BSS.According to...
CHANDPUR, Jan 01 (UNB): Ferry service on Chandpur-Shariatpur route resumed on Monday morning after nearly six hours of suspension due to dense fog in the Meghna River.The authorities concerned were forced to suspend the ferry services from 3 am to...
KHULNA, Jan 01 (UNB): Though commuter train services on Jashore-Khulna-Mongla route was supposed to start from January 01, it has been postponed due to incompletion of construction work of the train tracks.Asim Kumar Talukdar, general manager of Railway Western Zone,...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 01 (BSS): Right to Information (RTI) has a crucial role in improving living and livelihood standard of the grassroots marginalised women. The RTI is also helpful in ensuring climate change adaptation, justice and social accountability. So, all the...
Farmers busy planting onion sapling at a field. The photo was taken from a village in Saltha upazila of Faridpur district — Focus Bangla
CUMILLA, Jan 01 (BSS): Farmers of the district are happy for bumper production of tomato and fair prices of the popular winter crop this season.According to Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the produced tomatoes have made a significant contribution to...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-01-02 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Jan 01: The date molasses industry in Rajshahi region expects the year 2023 to be a most successful one fetching windfall profit for the businesses. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Rajshahi set the molasses production target at 9,140.34...
Wahiduddin Mahmud | 2024-01-02 00:00:00
We know that the global arrangements are passing through an extraordinary period of political and economic turbulence. The disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic and then by the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the West in the wake of...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a science fiction. It is now in our hands through smartphones and making revolutions in many sectors. And the rapid expansion of AI does not seem to slow down anytime soon in the future....
The foreign exchange (forex) market is a global marketplace for exchanging national currencies. Because of the worldwide reach of trade, commerce and finance, forex markets tend to be the world's largest and most liquid asset markets. Currencies trade against each...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-01-02 00:00:00
With fast-depleting reserves of non-renewable sources of energy, Bangladesh's power sector's dependence on imported fuel is increasing. Of late, imported coal and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) are becoming the driver of the country's power generation regime based on non-renewable fossil...
The economy, now on a roller coaster ride, is like a tumour, which, if ignored or left untreated, might turn cancerous and deadly. Similarly, the vexing issues of money laundering, default bank loan and macro-economic mismanagement which became a culture...
Muhammad Zamir | 2024-01-01 12:00:00
After days of wrangling to avert a threatened United States (US) veto, the United Nations (UN) Security Council on December 22 passed a resolution urging steps to allow "safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access" to Gaza and "conditions for a...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2024-01-01 12:00:00
One of the toughest years is gone and good riddance to it. Nobody wants this kind of a year as political issues – global and national – continued to dominate and economics were affected by the same negatively. There is...
FE Report | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Nurul Islam Hasib of the Dhaka Tribune was elected President, and Ashiqur Rahman Opu of ATN News general secretary of the Diplomatic Correspondents' Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) on Sunday.The other elected office-bearers are: Arifuzzaman Mamun, joint secretary, Morshed Hasib, office...
FE REPORT The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Syed Hamja Alamgir, managing director of asset management company Universal Financial Solution (UFS), and 23 others for allegedly embezzling Tk 3.11 billion from the stock market.Md Hafizul Islam, deputy...
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