Volunteers carry relief materials for flood victims in Feni, in south-eastern Bangladesh, on Saturday. Nearly 300,000 people are taking refuge in emergency shelters from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country. The floods were triggered by...
Students at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) staged a protest on Saturday in response to an announcement by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement's chief coordinator, Asadullah Al Galib, instructing students to vacate their residential halls, reports UNB.Galib cited security...
Three hundred and three dengue patients were hospitalised with dengue fever in 24 hours until Saturday morning, reports UNB.Of the new patients, 158 were hospitalised in Dhaka city, while the rest were outside the capital, according to the Directorate General...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 24 (UNB): Floods continue to wreak havoc across Chattogram, with five confirmed dead and thousands of families stranded. The affected areas include 11 upazilas, where at least 100 unions have been submerged.According to the Chattogram district administration, the...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 24 (UNB): A case has been filed against 40,000 unidentified people for carrying out an attack on Kotwali Police Station, looting arms and torching police station on August 5.Ripon Kumar Das, inspector (investigation) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP),...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOLCHATTOGRAM, Aug 24: A 45-kilometre tailback was created on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway due to the severe flooding in the district with some 3,500 vehicles stranded on Thursday night.The gridlock stretched on the both sides from Lalpole of Feni to...
Chief Adviser of the Interim Government Dr Muhammad Yunus exchanging views with top officials of different non-governmental organisations on the prevailing flood situation in the country at a meeting at his Jamuna State Guest House residence on Saturday — PID
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2024-08-25 00:00:00
A drastic fall in humanitarian funds and uncertainty about repatriation mark the seventh anniversary of Rohingya influx into Bangladesh, thereby putting both refugees and host communities at risk, experts said.Those involved in the humanitarian assistance at grass-roots level have cautioned...
FE REPORTSupport staffs known as duftry of government primary schools held a sit-in programme to press home their three-point demand including their job nationalisation.They took position on the street in front of the National Press Club on Saturday. They are...
Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) formed a human chain on the Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on Saturday to place the demand for building a democratic, non-communal and human state through an all-out reform process. — FE photo
KHULNA, Aug 24 (BSS): Secretary General of Jammat-e-Islami Bangladesh Mia Golam Parwar expressed the hope the interim government will soon withdraw ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh imposed by fallen Awami League (AL) government."Ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir imposed...
Nahid Islam, Adviser for Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, has directed to provide free diesel to keep mobile network towers in Feni district operational amidst ongoing power outages, reports UNB.Nahid directed the Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Saturday...
KHULNA, Aug 24 (BSS): Two cases were filed against 215 Awami League men including ex-KCC mayor and ex-parliament members with Khalishpur Police Station.Police filed the cases on Friday night on charge of vandalism, arson and looting of local BNP offices,...
LAXMIPUR, Aug 24 (BSS): BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday said, as per the instructions of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and acting Chairman Tariq Rahman, the party leaders and workers have been engaged in humanitarian...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir addressing a discussion at the National Press Club in the city on Saturday marking the ninth death anniversary of Kazi Zafar Ahmed, a former prime minister and chairman of a faction of Jatiya...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday demanded the cancellation of what he described as "secret" and "unequal" agreements signed with India over the past 15 years under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government, reports UNB."I urge the...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has instructed banks to unfreeze the accounts of Abdul Awal Mintoo, a noted businessman and vice-chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), along with his spouse and son after keeping the accounts blocked for...
The Rural Electrification Board, the Power Development Board and the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission are receiving new chairmen amid a widespread reshuffle in the administration, reports bdnews24.com.Maj Gen SM Zia-ul-Azim was appointed as the chairman of the Bangladesh REB in...
LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters): HSBC aims to double the assets under management in its British wealth business to 100 billion pounds ($131 billion) in the next five years, the division's head told Reuters, joining rivals in targeting more fee income...
Monira Munni | 2024-08-25 00:00:00
The Bangladeshi readymade garment industry continues to undergo the highest average number of social audits, which assess labour and human rights risks, even as audits have declined in other surveyed countries including China, Vietnam, Turkey and India, according to a...
Pakistani fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi and his wife Ansha Afridi have welcomed their first child, a baby boy, on Saturday while the dad participates in the ongoing two-Test series against Bangladesh, reports Pakistani Tv channel Geo Tv.The cricketer received...
Bangladesh batter Mushfiqur Rahim missed a double-ton by just nine runs in the ongoing Rawalpindi Test against Pakistan on Saturday. He ended up on 191. Despite missing on the chance of his fourth double ton, Mushfiqur brought some changes to...
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Aug 24 (AFP): Senior batter Mushfiqur Rahim hit a brilliant 191 on the fourth day of the first Test in Rawalpindi on Saturday, giving Bangladesh an outside chance of a maiden victory over Pakistan.The diminutive batter was the...
Mansura Islam Orthy"INTERN," an annual business case competition organised by the IUT Career and Business Society (CBS) for first-year students of the Islamic University of Technology, is in its sixth edition this year. Since its inception in 2018, this intra-IUT...
Afiea Ibnat Suchi | 2024-08-25 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, the opportunity to study at a public university is like gold dust. Due to obvious reasons, every year a large number of students embrace the battle of securing it, and in the end, few fortunate ones become successful...
Mahbubul Haque | 2024-08-25 00:00:00
The Rohingya have faced a continuous process of de-legitimization, systematic persecution, and worsening abuses culminating in genocide. Today is the seventh year of the Myanmar military's genocidal attacks against the Rohingya. The Rohingya diaspora in different countries observe today as...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 24 (BSS): Abu Zafar Ahmed, a farmer of Mohanpur village under Godagari upazila, has been cultivating guava on eight bighas of land for the last couple of years. He had to arrange irrigation to the orchard regularly through...
DINAJPUR, Aug 24 (UNB): A 15-month-old girl drowned in a pond in the Birganj upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Vanu Rani Roy, daughter of Dharma Narayan Roy, from the Jharbari Devdarupara area of the Shatagram Union.Sub-inspector...
OUR CORRESPONDENTSTomato cultivation is now getting popular in the summertime in different districts for its high demand and good profits.Our Khulna Correspondent says that Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute has developed Bari-8 variety of summer tomato which is being cultivated commercially.Summer...
PIRGANJ, Rangpur, Aug 24 (BSS): Mokhbul Hossain in an illusion looks for his son Abu Sayeed killed in police firing during the student-mass upsurge as thousands of people irrespective of party affiliations, professions, castes and creeds regularly visit the grave...
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