The 2025 SSC results have revealed a troubling reality in Bangladesh's education system. With pass rates falling and thousands failing in key subjects such as English, Mathematics, and Science, serious questions are being raised about teaching quality and the implementation...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-07-26 00:00:00
Around 34 years after the fall of the autocratic regime of Ershad, the country has witnessed another mass uprising against the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina in the last year. Although the two events are not entirely comparable due to...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-07-26 00:00:00
In less than a week, the Trump administration's new tariffs will come into effect. Unless Bangladesh manages to strike a deal with the US before then, which it has been attempting to do for a while now, its exports will...
There is no denying that Bangladesh's shipbreaking sector is now past its prime as it struggles on multiple fronts to keep itself sustainable. The headwinds it is facing have to do with regulatory and compliance issues as well as a...
Matiur Rahman | 2025-07-26 00:00:00
In July 2025, the United Nations released its 'Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025', offering a sobering and urgent assessment of the global effort to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report reveals that only 35 per cent of...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 12:00:00
Election to local-government bodies reverts to nonpartisan system as the interim government scraps the party-symbol provision widely disliked for "politicisation" of local governance."The Council of Advisers of the interim government Thursday approved amendments to four laws related to local governance...
The anti-discrimination student movement leaders on July 25 last year declared to continue their movement with placing a series of demands including justice for the killings amid the nationwide mass arrest, reports BSS. "The movement will not end with the...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2025-07-25 12:00:00
Tajuddin Ahmad would be a centenarian on 23 July. He was a mere fifty years old when he was assassinated in November 1975. Yet in those brief five decades of his life, he achieved a feat rare in the history...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
The country's total debt consisting of domestic and external surged by approximately 18 per cent to nearly Tk 20 trillion over the past one year ending in March 2025, according to a report of the Finance Division.The total domestic debt...
Chattogram, July 24 (UNB): A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight (BG 148) arriving from Dubai was forced to return to Shah Amanat International Airport shortly after departing for Dhaka due to a technical fault Thursday morning, said a Biman official.The flight,...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
The council of advisers approved a proposal on Thursday to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to stop harassment and enforced disappearances by law enforcers.It was approved at a meeting presided over by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. Once...
Picking up and dropping off passengers randomly by bus drivers is an everyday phenomenon in the sprawling capital city and such malpractice contributes significantly to traffic congestion. In the photo taken at the entrance of the Mohakhali Flyover on Thursday,...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Bangladesh has expressed profound shock at the tragic deaths of students and others in a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crash into Milestone School and College in Uttara early this week.Apart from the students,...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
Indian authorities have expelled hundreds of ethnic Bengali Muslims -- many of those Indian citizens -- to Bangladesh in recent weeks without due process, in what Human Rights Watch (HRW) has described as a "discriminatory" and "unlawful" crackdown on Muslim...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has ordered the authorities concerned to compile a comprehensive list of individuals killed in political violence carried out by the Awami League (AL), its student wing Chhatra League, and in state force-led operations under government...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
The interim government has initiated steps to amend power-purchase agreements (PPAs) and lower tariff rates for nine power plants that have been selling electricity to the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) without securing official approval for their tariffs, according to...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
Despite recent signs of macroeconomic stabilisation, economy faces deep-rooted fiscal-and financial-sector challenges, economists warned on Thursday.Speaking at an event in the capital, they listed challenges like subdued growth, persistent high rate of inflation, elevated fiscal risks, and a vulnerable banking...
JASIM UDDIN | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh's exports to India rose by 11.05 per cent year on year in the fiscal year 2024-25, reaching a record $1.76 billion, up from $1.57 billion in FY24, despite non-tariff barriers, port restrictions, and regulatory bottlenecks.According to data from the...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
A new pay commission has been formed to determine the revised salary structure for government officials and employees, in tune with interim government's pledge for pay rises. "Former Finance Secretary and current Chairman of the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation Zakir Ahmed...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday identified five bodies of individuals who died in the Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crash at Milestone School and College in the capital's Uttara area through DNA tests.The deceased have been identified as...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
Former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque, widely blamed for tampering with the verdict that abolished the election-time caretaker-government system, was held Thursday and sent to jail in a murder case. In an instant reaction, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party that had...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh's external trade is set to get costlier as the government Thursday approved a proposal for increasing tariffs on both goods and vessels at Chittagong seaport, in some cases up to 10 times or above, officials said. The ministry of...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-25 00:00:00
A US-Bangladesh crucial virtual meeting is set for July 29 amid an eager wait of businesses for pullback of 35-percent additional tariff hanging over select Bangladeshi exports-barely three days before its prescheduled effect.Commerce Adviser of the interim government Sk Bashir...
Premier Bank signs tripartite deal with Bank of HuzhouA tripartite Strategic Business Cooperation Framework Agreement was signed among The Premier Bank PLC, Bank of Huzhou Co., Ltd. (China), and May International Trade Services Ltd. to enhance cross-border financing and multilateral...
BRAC Bank has emerged as one of the first institutions in Bangladesh to publicly disclose 100% of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, covering the full spectrum from internal operations to emissions generated through its financing activities, says a press statement....
FE REPORTThe government is planning to import three liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from the spot market in late August and September to meet the growing domestic demand.State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) has floated a tender to purchase...
YANGON, July 24 (AFP): Myanmar's junta claimed on Thursday to have ousted anti-coup rebels from a gold mining hub after a year-long battle, its second declared recapture of a key town in a week.A civil war has consumed Myanmar since...
Bangladesh Bank has purchased another US $10 million from commercial banks through an auction to boost dollar exchange rate against taka, reports UNB.On July 23, the central bank made this strategic move aimed to signal an upward trend for the...
FE REPORTThe Ministry of Industries has asked Bangladesh Ship Recycling Board (BSRB) to take necessary measures to issue DASR in favour of compliant yards for operating their ship recycling activities in line with the Hong Kong Convention.To this effect, the...
Light to moderate rain accompanied by gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday). Mild heat wave may...
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