Eastern Bank PLC. (EBL) arranged "Annual Risk Conference-2023" today at its head office in the city's Gulshan area. Around 140 executives of the bank including DMDs, head of the divisions, senior managers and branch managers attended the conference. The risk...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Export-focused shoemaker Craftsman Footwear and Accessories looks to get listed on the SME board three years after beginning production, as it secured an exponential growth in profit between FY21 and FY23. Sadat Hossain Salim, who founded the organisation from his...
SABANG, Dec 02 (Reuters): Some 170 ethnic Rohingya people arrived in Indonesia on Saturday, head of a provincial fishing community said, in the latest boat arrivals in recent weeks that have brought more than 1,000 from Myanmar's Muslim minority to...
CALIFORNIA, Dec 02 (AP): South Korea launched its first military spy satellite into space Friday, a little over a week after North Korea claimed to put its own spy satellite into orbit for the first time as tensions rise between...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 02 (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, currently in jail facing myriad charges he says are rigged to keep him from contesting elections next year, was replaced Saturday as head of the party he founded, officials said.Khan...
KHAN YOUNIS, Dec 02 (AP/BBC): Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties."This is going to be very...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Argentina elected Javier Milei as its new President on Sunday a week before (November 19) who describes himself as “anarcho-capitalist” and believes in the classical model of free market above all other things. He won by a wide margin of...
The escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip is having a catastrophic impact on children and their families. Children are dying at an alarming rate - more than 5,000 have reportedly been killed and thousands more injured. Well over 1.7...
Construction work contributes to a nation's development efforts. However, the safety of the construction workers does not seem to be a priority in our country. Most workers in Dhaka city's construction sites work in risky conditions. Lack of safety equipment...
Being a BCS (Bangladesh Civil Service) cadre is a dream job in Bangladesh. It is the most prestigious job status one can have in this country. Every year, thousands of candidates -- from engineers to doctors to social science students...
Anisur Rahman | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Samuel P Huntington said in his book 'Clash of Civilisations' that people's cultural and religious identities would be the primary source of conflicts in the post-Cold War era. That does not mean he wanted conflicts. He just alerted the world...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Food security worldwide is declining and becoming a matter of major concern. There are many reasons behind the decline in food security or rise in food insecurity. Even before the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, the world had witnessed the...
The fact that financial reporting by public sector enterprises in this country, in most cases, has always been opaque and it could hardly help the policymakers concerned to design suitable plans and programmes for improving their performance, financial or otherwise....
The United Nations has said they do not deploy observers to elections like Bangladesh one, noting that they rarely do that without a specific mandate, reports UNB. "The UN is not deploying observers to these elections. We don't… we rarely,...
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (TASS) :The Board of Directors of the World Bank made the decision to approve the extension of a $1.2 bln loan to Ukraine, the World Bank's press service said.Money will be allocated to support 29 social aid...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 1, (AFP) : Meta filed a lawsuit late Wednesday arguing that US regulators planning to change the terms of a 2020 privacy settlement are overstepping their authority and should be stopped.The Silicon Valley tech giant, known as...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 01: One worker was killed in an accident at GPH Ispat factory at Sitakunda in Chattogram at around 8 pm on (Friday).The victim was identified as Md Fallat (35).Sources said, Md Fallat was killed when an iron sheet...
KATHMANDU, Dec 1 (Reuters): A new group is among the two political parties chosen by Bhutan's people to contest its fourth free vote since democracy was established 15 years ago, while the outgoing ruling party was knocked out, the Election...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
In response to a surge in fire incidents and other disasters in recent years, the government has decided to construct 59 more fire stations across the country by spending nearly Tk 24 billion in the next four years, officials said.These...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh has requested China to extend loan-availability period for the Padma Bridge rail- link project by one year as the project execution trails the train, already on commercial run. Officials say the lending timeline has been requested to be extended...
DUBAI, Dec 1 (AFP): Negotiators released the first draft of a UN agreement on climate action Friday calling for fossil fuels to be reduced or eliminated, setting up a fierce fight at the COP28 talks in oil-rich UAE.Divisions over the...
Day labourers gather at Madhya Badda in Dhaka on Friday morning, hoping to be hired for work on construction sites. Amid a struggling economy, political turmoil and rising living costs, these labourers face challenges in finding sufficient employment. — FE...
GAZA, Dec 1 (Agencies): Israel's warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas broke down, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and others onto the streets to seek safety.Earlier the United States will...
SAIF UDDIN | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
Prices of rod along with some other key construction materials have decreased slightly on the back of lower demand in recent time while the manufacturers are striving to survive, insiders said.However, the prices of rod and other building materials like...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
Despite billions of takas of public investments over the last one decade, the country's technical skill development is on a weaker trajectory as only 0.81 per cent of the total educated population is technically skilled, according to official data.Over the...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh saw its perennial budget deficit widen to Tk 1.98 trillion in the past fiscal year as, economists say, economic adversity in crunch time plays out on usual incremental budgeting. The gap between spending and revenue earnings widened as tax...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, COX'S BAZAR | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
At the end of an eager wait, intercity train travels started on Dhaka-Cox's Bazar route on Friday, bringing good news for tourists.According to the Bangladesh Railway schedule, 'Cox's Bazar Express' started its journey from Cox's Bazar iconic railway station to...
Asia Climate Mobility Champion Leader Award has been conferred on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in acknowledging her voice of leadership in championing climate actions and a lead global advocate for vulnerable communities.The Global Centre for Climate Mobility, supported by IOM...
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