FE REPORT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh and China took a significant step towards deepening their people-centric cooperation with the signing of a series of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) among their academic and medical institutions in the capital on Sunday. The agreements were formalised during the...
FE REPORT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Sunday approved 16 development projects, including the Marine Infrastructure Development at the Bay Terminal. Of those, 13 are new initiatives, while the remaining three are revised proposals.The ECNEC approved two...
FE REPORT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
A special court in Dhaka on Sunday ordered freezing 70 bank accounts of Nasrul Hamid Bipu, former state minister for power and energy, allowing an application filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).The court also ordered the confiscation of the former...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Government payment backlog to privately-owned furnace oil-fired power plants declined to around Tk 70 billion, or by 30 per cent, from Tk 100 billion over the past three months since January, market insiders said.Less-than-expected electricity purchases by the state-run Bangladesh...
FE REPORT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday urged the United Nations to hire more women peacekeepers from Bangladesh as he reaffirmed Bangladesh's unwavering commitment to international peace-keeping and security efforts.The chief adviser made the call when UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party cherishes a vision of transforming Bangladesh into a US$1.0-trillion economic powerhouse through serious liberalisation, deep financial reform and a youth-driven investment model, if in government next time.Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, a senior BNP leader and former commerce...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Foreign corresponding banks start easing line-of-credit tightening for their Bangladeshi counterparts as quick payment of overdue import bills following governance change pays off, officials and bankers say.Large international banks that typically act as correspondents for commercial banks here had squeezed...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
All district-level government offices should be placed under elected district councils and elections of all the local-government bodies held under a single schedule, the current reform commission recommends. Also proposed in a radical reform recipe for the outworn local-government system...
Rain/thunder showers with lightning flashes and temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office.It also may...
A youth, said to be a leader of Jubo Dal, sustained critical injuries after being shot by unidentified assailants in the capital's Hatirjheel area late Saturday night, reports UNB.The victim, Arif Sardar, 35, is a member of the Ward-36 unit...
Police recovered the bodies of a couple from their residence on the 5th floor of a building at Wari in the capital on Friday night, reports UNB.The deceased were identified as Md Muid, 35, from Araikandi village in Titas upazila...
KHULNA, Apr 20 (UNB): Teachers of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) have decided not to return to classes unless their three-point demand including justice over the February 18 attack on students and teachers is fulfilled.The decision came from...
Three members of a family sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion at Fakirapool in the capital on Sunday, reports UNB.The injured were Quamrunnesa Rozina, 45, her son Riaz Hossain, 21, a student of Habibullah Bahar College and Kulsuma...
FE REPORT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
A Primeasia University student was stabbed to death on Saturday by peers after an altercation between the students of two departments of the university, located in the capital's Banani.The deceased, Zahidul Islam Parvez (23), hailed from Mymensingh district and was...
FE REPORT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Polytechnic students held on Sunday a rally in front of Dhaka Women Polytechnic Institute in the capital's Agargaon area to press home their six-point demand including cancellation of the High Court (HC) order promoting craft instructors to junior instructors. They...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
Strong lobbying is on to introduce an additional 8,000 CNG-driven autorickshaws in three of the country's main cities - Dhaka, Chattogram, and Sylhet. Of the total number, the demand for 5,000 CNG- or petrol-run autorickshaws with four-stroke engines was placed...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM Apr 20: One Jubo Dal leader was shot dead by armed miscreants at Garib Ullahpara in Raojan upazila of Chattogram early Sunday.The ill-fated victim was identified as Mohammad Manik Abdullah (36), son of Abdul Motaleb of Bhandari Colony of...
KHULNA, Apr 20 (UNB): Activists of the Awami League (AL) staged a surprise procession in Khulna city on Sunday morning, the first such demonstration in the city since the party's fall from power on August 05 last year.The procession began...
Ten leaders and activists of Awami League and its banned student wing Chhatra League (BCL) were arrested in separate drives in the capital early Sunday and Saturday following their alleged attempt to bring out surprise processions across the capital, reports...
CHATTOGRAM, Apr 20 (UNB): Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has urged the government not to allow the authorities concerned to hand over the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at the Chittagong Port to any foreign company.Shahjahan Chowdhury, ameer of Chattogram Metropolitan unit Jamaat-e-Islami...
An investigating agency says it has found initial evidence of organised "crimes against humanity" during the July Uprising against Awami League General Secretary and former minister Obaidul Quader and 44 others, reports bdnews24.com.Chief Prosecutor Advocate M Tajul Islam presented the...
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Saturday said Bangladesh is not a country where one would find any government-sponsored systematic discrimination against the minorities, reports UNB. "It is unfortunate that the death of Bhabesh Chandra Roy has been described...
A BNP delegation held the second round of discussion with the National Consensus Commission - to present the party's views on the reform proposals of five state commissions - at the National Parliament building in the capital on Sunday. —...
WASHINGTON, Apr 20 (AFP): Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday.But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap...
ROME, April 20 (Reuters): Iran and the United States agreed on Saturday to begin drawing up a framework for a potential nuclear deal, Iran's foreign minister said, after talks that a US official described as yielding "very good progress."US President...
NEW YORK, Apr 20 (Reuters): Thousands of protesters rallied in Washington and other cities across the US on Saturday to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump's policies on deportations, government firings, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.Outside the...
GAZA CITY, Apr 20 (AFP): Gaza's civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes since dawn on Sunday have killed at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip, including women and children.Israel resumed its aerial and ground assault on Gaza...
PUBG MOBILE returns to Bangladeshwith local server, national tournament,and big plans PUBG MOBILE, one of the world's most popular mobile games, is making a major comeback in Bangladesh with many new updates-most notably, the launch of a dedicated local server...
Ishtiaq Mahmud | 2025-04-21 00:00:00
A new wave of anime-inspired avatars has taken over social media feeds, as millions of users transform their selfies into dreamy, cartoon-like portraits. From Lionel Messi to Donald Trump-and countless everyday users in between-this latest trend harnesses artificial intelligence to...
© 2026 - All Rights with The Financial Express
