FE REPORT | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
The Netherlands-based 'Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)' seeks proposals from governmental and non-governmental agencies for financially support projects to fortify commodity value chains, alleviate poverty and achieve sustainable goals.Any interested governmental or non-governmental agency of Bangladesh like SME, enterprise and...
FE REPORTPrices of potatoes and onions have showed a slight decline but are still much higher than the expected level of the consumers, said market insiders.However, this slight dip in the prices of the two commodities was balanced largely by...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has extended mass contact through the leaflet-distribution programme for two more days until Monday as part of its ongoing 'noncooperation movement' against the government. The party will spread its message urging people to boycott the...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal on Saturday said the next general election will surely be free, fair and neutral and the Election Commission (EC) is determined to ensure that."It is possible to hold a free and fair election...
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday categorically said Bangladesh won't accept any foreign meddling into the January 7 national polls.She also sounded a strong warning that the conspirators against the election will suffer severe consequences, reports...
Regional markets recovered in 2023 but BD stocks were stymied by floor priceEquity-based securities worth 60 per cent of the total stock market value have remained trapped on the floor this year. The lowest stock prices set in July last...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
Hope against hope for a better luck is cherished as the economy reels from setbacks as 2024 dawns in world chronicles with shadows of war and trade sanctions hanging over. By all accounts, 2023 has been quite a gloomy year...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
The setback in external payments against energy- import bills is expected to be over within 8-9 monthsafter the country's general election slated for January 7, State Minister Nasrul Hamid has said, taking a cue from the central bank's report on...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
Textile millers have urged the government to make use of 70-percent local cotton yarn in export-oriented garment manufacturing mandatory for an interim period.They made the suggestion with an eye to retaining foreign currency amid a dearth of dollars and boosting...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Sunday), according to the Met Office. Light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere over the country during midnight to...
The picture snapped on Saturday shows salesperson at a shop at Baitul Mukkarram Market in the city eargerly waits for customers with a vacant look as winter clothes sale took a sluggish trend with the rise in mercury — FE...
SYLHET, Dec 30 (UNB): A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead allegedly by Indian Khasia people along the Bangladesh-India border in Sylhet's Gowainghat upazila.The deceased, Kawser Ahmed, 22, son of Roshan Ali, was a resident of Bhogaiya Dakhshin Para in Bichanakandi...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed restriction on carrying all types of licensed firearms in various residential hotels, restaurants, public gatherings and festivals in Dhaka city on New Year's Eve, from 6:00 pm on 31 December in 2023 to 5:00...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 30 (UNB): Four members of a family, including two minor girls, died after being electrocuted in Birghoshpala village under Nandail upazila of Mymensingh on Saturday, leaving the entire village in shock.The deceased were identified as Jamal Uddin, 32,...
Dr Debapriya Bhatta-charya, convener of Citizen's Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh and Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has raised significant concern regarding the misuse of state resources and lack of transparency in the political sphere, reports UNB. During...
BENGALURU, Dec 30 (Reuters): India's blue-chip Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex rose around 20 per cent in 2023, their second-best year since 2017, and were among the top-performing stock indexes globally.The rally was driven by sustained domestic mutual fund inflows,...
IFIC Bank inaugurated 'Blanket Distribution Programme 2023-2024' on Thursday at the bank's head office in the capital, aimed to support the underprivileged across the nation. The programme was officially inaugurated by Shah Alam Sarwar, managing director and chief executive officer...
M. Khorshed Anowar, DMD and head of Retail and SME Banking, Eastern Bank (EBL), and Ziaul Hoque Khan, chief business officer of CPDL, a real estate company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the former's head office in Dhaka...
Babul Barman, Mohammad Mufazzal and Farhan Fardaus | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
Equity-based securities worth 60 per cent of the total stock market value have remained trapped on the floor this year. The lowest stock prices set in July last year to avert free fall of the index made the market suffer...
The 33rd death anniversary of Comrade Moni Singh, founder president of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), will be observed today (Sunday), reports BSS.Comrade Singh was a member of the Advisory Council of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh during the Liberation...
LALMONIRHAT, Dec 30 (UNB): A replica 'boat' installed in a public spot by Awami League supporters as part of their electioneering was set on fire allegedly by supporters of an independent candidate for the Lalmonirhat-1 constituency in Hatibandha upazila in...
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 30 (BSS): Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said BNP is destroying public properties, carrying out arson attacks on public transports and killing people in the name of...
Election Monitoring Forum arranged a training workshop for the election observers for the upcoming 12th parliamentary election at the National Press Club in the city on Saturday — Focus Bangla
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General (DG) AKM Nazmul Hasan on Saturday said that they would work with professionalism to maintain law and order during the upcoming 12th national parliamentary election scheduled for January 7, reports UNB.He said this while...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 30 (UNB): The election camp of a Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM) candidate from Chapainawabganj-3 constituency was set on fire at Shankarbati in Chapainawabganj municipality area on Friday.The miscreants set the election camp of BNM candidate Maulana Abdul Matin...
Ganatantra Mancha, an opposition platform opposing the election under the Awami League government, on Saturday said the ruling party would lose interest in staying in power once the foreign powers show it a 'red card' after the January-7 lopsided national...
KUSHTIA, Dec 30 (BSS): Awami League Joint General Secretary and its nominated candidate for Kushtia-3 constituency Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Saturday said that the time for dialogue with BNP has passed so there is no chance to sit for dialogue...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP has taken the path of sabotage after failing in regular movement, reports BSS."We are getting news that messages are being sent from London instructing to carry out assassinations, if...
Google has agreed to settle a US lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in "private mode", reports BBC.The class action sought at least $5bn (£3.9bn) from the world's go-to search...
The 52nd annual general meeting (AGM) of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) was held at the ICMAB Ruhul Quddus Auditorium, ICMA Bhaban, Nilkhet on Friday, said a press release. Md Abdur Rahman Khan, president of...
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