NEW DELHI, Dec 05 (Agencies): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Friday to expand and diversify trade beyond oil and defence despite Western pressure on New Delhi to scale back its decades-old close ties...
The recent decision by Bangladesh Bank to allow local entrepreneurs to sell their products on global platforms such as Amazon and Alibaba through the B2B2C model marks a transformative moment for the country's digital economy. This policy shift has opened...
A growing number of young people in our country are becoming increasingly trapped in mobile games, online betting and virtual casinos. With easy access to smartphones and the internet, combined with a lack of proper supervision, these harmful activities are...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-12-06 00:00:00
Three and a half decades ago, people of Bangladesh ousted the country's first autocratic regime through a mass uprising that reached its climax during the last three months of 1990. The united stance of all the students' organisations, keeping aside...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-12-06 00:00:00
Counterfeiting is a crime that has existed for millennia, but in contemporary Bangladesh it has evolved into one of the most sophisticated forms of financial deception. Detecting the newest generation of fake notes has become extraordinarily difficult, even bordering on...
With close to 9.0 million hectares of available cultivable land, which too is shrinking by around 2,500 hectares annually, thanks mainly to urbanisation, feeding some 175 million mouths is a challenge of miraculous proportions. But the farming community of the...
Matiur Rahman | 2025-12-06 00:00:00
Across the developing world, migration has long been a pathway to economic mobility, a strategy for families seeking stability or upward movement. But in recent years, a new force has reshaped how young people think about leaving home. Social media...
FARHAN FARDAUS | 2025-12-05 12:00:00
A large volume of reinsurance claims pending with the state-run Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) is a major reason behind the low claim settlement ratios in the insurance sector, according to industry insiders.Sadharan Bima Corporation owes insurers more than Tk 14...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-05 12:00:00
SYLHET, Dec 04: A total of 24 buildings considered to be highly vulnerable in Sylhet city would soon be demolished, official sources said. These structures have remained in a dilapidated condition for a long period of time, although these were...
Police obstructed a procession of the Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) - from the National Press Club towards the chief adviser's Jamuna residence - at Kakrail in the capital on Thursday. The demonstration was held to protest against the government's decision...
Lalmonirhat, Dec 4 (UNB): A Bangladeshi man was shot dead allegedly by members of India's Border Security Force (BSF) along the Patgram border in Lalmonirhat early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Sabuj Mia, 29, son of Sirajul Islam of Pochabandar...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed commercial banks to go for partially writing-off the bad and loss-category of loans that are hardly recoverable.To this effect, Banking Regulation and Policy Department (BRPD) of the central bank issued a circular on Thursday.It said...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
A mild earthquake, measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale, struck Bangladesh early on Thursday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the tremor, which occurred at 6:14 AM. The epicentre was located in Shibpur Upazila of Narsingdi...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The government has invited qualified individuals to apply for the post of Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed Sammilito Islami Bank PLC.The Financial Institution Division under the Ministry of Finance on Thursday issued a notification to this effect...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) has delivered a dissenting judgement on a writ petition that challenged the legality of the government's move to award the container-handling contract of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at the Chattogram port to a foreign...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank has strengthened its intervention in the foreign exchange market, purchasing US$132 million from five banks in the interbank spot market on Thursday to help stabilise the dollar-taka exchange rate. The move comes amid continued pressure on the...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
Treat policing the upcoming national elections as a historic responsibility and work towards ensuring a credible, peaceful and inclusive vote, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus directs district police chiefs. The direction from the head of post-uprising government of Bangladesh comes...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday launched a joint-financing framework for two development projects in Fiji and Tonga while Bangladesh is also under consideration for the next round of mutual investment, said the lenders.Bangladesh will get...
A variety of cold-weather vegetables are growing as the winter season is just on the doorstep. In the photograph taken at South Keraniganj on Thursday, farmers are seen harvesting mustard leaves. — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The currency held outside banks has been flowing back into vaults in greater volumes in recent months, providing some sort of respite to commercial lenders amid persisting liquidity tightness.Deposits amounting to Tk 260 billion that flowed out returned to the...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The Council of Advisers, on Thursday, approved the long-anticipated Police Commission Ordinance, paving the way for the formation of an independent five-member commission aimed at making policing in Bangladesh more public-centred, accountable and rights-sensitive.Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan announced the...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh's single-month merchandise export earnings in November 2025 declined for the fourth consecutive month on a year-on-year basis, registering a 5.58 per cent fall compared to the same month in 2024.The fall was caused by a negative growth of readymade...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld a High Court ruling that declared the formation and swearing-in of the current interim government headed by Noble Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus legal.A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division headed...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
Critically-sick BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia is set to be flown to London by Friday as her medical teams from home and abroad recommended the travel, said the party on Thursday.The decision to take Khaleda to London...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
Business leaders urge the government to grant relief from excessively high bank interest as they find current borrowing costs as an unbearable burden for industries already weakened by rising operational expenses.They also seek exemptions from advance income tax (AIT), describing...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-12-05 00:00:00
Collection of corporate taxes from large taxpayers has declined for a fall in their business profitability for factors like high-rated interest, rising costs and falling purchasing capacity for inflation, sources say. Corporate insiders say their ability to pay taxes squeezing...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday). Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country. The highest temperature on Thursday was recorded...
Three more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours until Thursday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 394 this year, reports UNB.During the same period, 565 new patients were admitted to hospitals,...
Ahead of the national election, the list of new officers-in-charge (OCs) for 50 police stations under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been published after a lottery-based selection process involving 527 stations nationwide, reports bdnews24.com.In an order signed on Thursday...
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