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Foreign consultants being hired, port smarts from viability problems

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

A move gets underway to hire local and foreign consultants for Tk 274.20 million for operating systems automation of Pyra seaport while the port struggles for viability, sources said Friday.Besides, they said, superfluous purchases and staff training at additional costs...

Tourist havens overwhelmed, potential new products emergent

JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

Tourist havens like beaches and bewitching forests across Bangladesh being overwhelmed with backpackers, potential new tourism products are now envisaged for the fast-growing economic sector. The country's tourism sector is evolving into a significant economic pillar, contributing around 4.0 per...

Tariff talks focus core issues

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin Thursday met with US Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer at his office in Washington, DC, discussing core issues related to Bangladesh-US trade relationship, including new tariffs."The two dignitaries discussed issues of mutual interest, with particular...

Ex-Jubo Dal leader shot dead in Khulna

2025-07-12 00:00:00

KHULNA, July, 11 (BSS): Unidentified miscreants shot dead an ex-Jubo Dal leader in the city here on Friday.The deceased was identified as Mahbubur Rahman, 40, ex-vice president of Daulatpur thana unit of Jubodal, the youth front of BNP.Miscreants shot dead...

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh held a rally at the north gate of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque

2025-07-12 00:00:00

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh held a rally at the north gate of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital after Jumma prayers on Friday, protesting against the move to set up the UN Human Rights Office in Dhaka. — Focus Bangla

‘Jamaat must attain desired result in upcoming nat'l election’

2025-07-12 00:00:00

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Professor Mia Golam Parwar on Friday said Jammat Islami must achieve desired result in the 13th parliament elections, reports BSS."We are passing through a special time in the history . . . it is the expectation...

Khaleda urges govt to ensure treatment for Farida Parveen

2025-07-12 00:00:00

BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has urged the government to take immediate steps to ensure advanced treatment for folk singer and torchbearer of Lalon songs Farida Parveen, reports UNB.She also enquired about the health condition of...

Students continue blockade protesting police assault

2025-07-12 00:00:00

The students continued blocking highways and railways even on the weekend holidays across the country on July 12 last year, protesting the police attack on the protesters on July 11 and demanding reforms to the quota system in government jobs,...

Salman Rahman, Anisul sent to jail after remand

2025-07-12 00:00:00

A Dhaka court on Friday sent to jail Salman F Rahman, the former adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, after end of his remand in a case filed over the killing of one Al-Amin during the July-August mass uprising,...

July 11 was first resistance day of 2024 Uprising: Asif Mahmud

2025-07-12 00:00:00

CUMILLA, July 11 (BSS): LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Friday said July 11 was the first resistance day of the 2024 mass uprising."The first blood of the 2024 mass uprising was shed at Cumilla University on July 11,...

Gayeshwar hopes for next election as per CA's promises

2025-07-12 00:00:00

BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy expressed the hope that a free and fair election would be possible if the promises made by Chief Adviser (CA) Dr. Muhammad Yunus regarding the upcoming national election are properly implemented, reports BSS."If...

Rizvi slams move to make July Charter a core principle

2025-07-12 00:00:00

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday described the call to include the July Charter in core principles of the Constitution as "misleading"."BNP has already accepted many points from the July Charter. But why must it be...

Weather (2025-07-12)

2025-07-12 00:00:00

Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Saturday). Day and night temperature may rise slightly.The highest temperature was...

NSU hosts launch of 3rd cohort of NSU Startups Next

2025-07-12 00:00:00

North South University (NSU) successfully hosted the launch of the 3rd cohort of NSU Startups Next (NSUSN), its flagship startup incubation programme, on Wednesday at its campus in Dhaka.The event marked the formal induction of a new group of high-potential...

Tk 250m realised in fines for breaching environmental rules

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

The government has realised Tk 250 million in fines from raids conducted across the country against brick kilns, factories and business entities that violated environmental regulations.A high official at the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said on Friday...

Killing of businessman near Mitford Hospital: Four held

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

Four accused have been arrested along with a firearm in connection with the brutal killing of a businessman outside Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital, over a dispute related to illegal wire trading.The arrestees are Mahmudul Hasan Mohin (41) and...

Five of a family sustain severe burn injuries in city fire

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

Five members of the same family, including a child, sustained severe burn injuries in a house fire at Kagjitola in the capital’s Sutrapur area on Friday. The victims were identified as rickshaw-puller Md Ripon Peda (35), his wife Chandni (24),...

Waterlogging persists in Ctg despite mega projects

2025-07-12 00:00:00

Despite spending billions of taka over more than a decade and launching multiple large-scale drainage projects, the port-city of Chattogram still continues to suffer from crippling waterlogging during monsoon, reports UNB.The delays in project implementation, uncoordinated efforts, lack of proper...

Bomb threat triggers panic at HSIA

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight bound for Nepal's Kathmandu from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka was delayed on Friday after an unidentified person informed the Air Traffic Control (ATC) about the presence of a bomb on it. Panic...

138 dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

A total of 138 new dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours until Friday morning, taking the total number of cases to 14,069 this year.Of the total, highest 60 hospitalisation cases were reported in Barishal division, which is the most...

32nd ASEAN Regional Forum

2025-07-12 00:00:00

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain attended the 32nd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday. — AFP

Credit scheme for livestock, poultry, fish farmers thru' agent banking underway

FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

The central bank has planned to introduce a credit scheme through agent banks for the livestock, poultry, and fish farmers at upazila levels, aiming to meet the country's growing demand for protein, sources said.Initially, some 100 upazilas are expected to...

How to impress your boss and advance your career

BHOLA NATH KUNDU | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

Technically savvy professionals who are proficient in cybersecurity are valued in any organisation. These individuals serve as the first line of defence against cybersecurity threats. However, maintaining cybersecurity professionals can impose a significant financial burden on an organisation which most...

Sports and games: where one ends, the other begins blurring the margin

Nilratan Halder | 2025-07-12 00:00:00

There may hardly be a healthy child on this planet, who has not taken part in any kind of games and sports in childhood. But when it concerns outdoor games and sports, only a small fraction of the urban children...

Child malnutrition doubles in battleground Sudan: UNICEF

2025-07-12 00:00:00

PORT SUDAN, Sudan, July 11(AFP): The number of severely malnourished children in Sudan's battleground state of North Darfur has doubled since last year, the UN children's agency said on Friday.Since April 2023, war between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary...

South Korea, US and Japan top military chiefs meet in Seoul

2025-07-12 00:00:00

SEOUL, July 11 (AFP): The top military chiefs of South Korea, the United States and Japan met in Seoul Friday, as US President Donald Trump piles pressure on Washington's allies over defence spending and trade.General Dan Caine, the top US...

Nigerian troops kill 150 'bandits' in ambush, air strikes

2025-07-12 00:00:00

KANO, Nigeria, July 11(AFP): Nigerian soldiers killed at least 150 members of a criminal gang in an ambush in northwestern Kebbi state this week, a local official said Thursday.For years, heavily armed kidnapping gangs known as "bandits" have been intensifying...

More than 3,000 people killed in Haiti violence so far this year: UN

2025-07-12 00:00:00

GENEVA, July 11(AFP): More than 3,000 people have died amid escalating gang violence in Haiti since the beginning of the year, the United Nations said Friday.Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere with swathes of the country under...

Israeli strikes kill six, says Gaza civil defence

2025-07-12 00:00:00

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, July 11(AFP): Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Friday killed at least six people in the Palestinian territory's north, including five at a school-turned-shelter."Five martyrs and others injured in an Israeli strike on Halima...

Solar becomes Europe's main energy source in June, says consultants

2025-07-12 00:00:00

PARIS, July 11 (AFP): Solar power became the European Union's biggest single energy source for the first time in June, an energy think tank said Thursday.The Ember group that researches the clean energy transition said that 22.1 percent of Europe's...