FE REPORT | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh continues to report new cases of both Covid-19 and dengue fever, raising concerns about the country's preparedness to tackle the dual public health threats as the monsoon season approaches.According to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, June 12: The Chittagong port is currently experiencing severe container congestion due to delays in the delivery and handling of containers caused by the long Eid-ul-Azha holiday. Despite the port's operational activities continuing during the holidays, a shortage of...
JASIM UDDIN | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
A dozen income-tax write-off SROs have been scrapped by the interim government in a fiscal measure meant for enhancing state revenues and enforcing tax transparency, as the generosity was allegedly misdirected. A major perverse use of the benefits was found...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
After a year-long slump, short-term external borrowing by Bangladeshi corporates is showing signs of recovery, reaching $10.25 billion in April, as easing import restrictions and steady export growth breathe life back into trade-financing demand.According to data from Bangladesh Bank (BB),...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
Six proposals from national and international commercial banks have so far been received as the bankers queue up for funding Bangladesh's LNG import with the World Bank playing the guarantor, officials said.Now, they said, the country's energy and mineral resources...
More than 290 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, in the world's worst aviation disaster...
LONDON, June 12: British King Charles III Thursday conferred the prestigious 'Harmony Award 2025' on Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in recognition of his lifelong efforts to promote peace, sustainability and harmony between people and the environment.In June 2024, the...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
A model study forearms the government to face three major risks to Bangladesh's fiscal outlook from macroeconomic volatility, sovereign guarantees extended to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and disaster-related shocks.According to risk analytics laid down in the latest budget document, under the...
In recent years, Bangladesh has seen a worrying rise in extreme weather, with heatwaves posing a serious threat to the economy-especially for small businesses. While climate change is often viewed as an environmental problem, its economic effects are now strongly...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the global economy-redefining industries, reshaping labour markets, and creating new opportunities at an unprecedented scale. Yet, as we race toward an AI-driven future, it is vital that we do not lose sight of the human...
Shiabur Rahman | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
Videos on army personnel conducting drives against errant bike riders and drivers in capital Dhaka have been a popular item on YouTube. The videos have exposed a bitter truth about law abidance in Bangladesh society. If anyone minutely watches the...
Makhan Lal Dutta | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
Increasingly frequent cyclones, saline water intrusion, prolonged waterlogging, erratic rainfall, and rising sea levels are drastically altering the agricultural landscape in southern Bangladesh. Smarting under the adverse impact of climate change, the vulnerable coastal regions of southern Bangladesh comprising Khulna,...
Raw hide trade, following the Eid-ul-Azha, is facing serious disruptions, sending distress signals not only to those directly engaged in the business but also to the leather industry as a whole. Seasonal traders, who collect raw hides from across the...
Serajul I Bhuiyan | 2025-06-13 00:00:00
It is an age of innovation, global interconnectedness, and accelerating advances in technology. It is an age when education can no longer be an indulgence but a necessity on which nations build their futures. Nowhere is this truer than in...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-06-12 12:00:00
The fiscal incentives on electric bikes (e-bikes) in the new budget have appeared as an opportunity for local manufacturers to make hefty investments to promote environment-friendly vehicles in Bangladesh. The proposed budget for the fiscal year 2025-26 has offered tax...
A Dhaka court has sent three highway dacoits, who were arrested by Uttara West Police, to jail, reports BSS.The three dacoits are Md Mizan (65), Md Rasel (27) and Md Hassan (19).Uttara West Police Station produced the dacoits before the...
National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Jubairul Alam Manik has been served a show-cause notice after he described his party as 'the biggest mafia' at an Eid-ul-Azha reunion in Chattogram, reports bdnews24.com.The letter, sent on Tuesday by Joint Office Secretary Saleh...
BENAPOLE, June 12 (UNB): A BNP activist was hacked to death allegedly by Awami League (AL) supporters in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district on Tuesday night.The victim is Liton Hossain (30), son of Asgar Ali of Durgapur village under Laxmanpur...
Labor and Employment and Shipping M Sakhawat Hussain held a bilateral meeting with US Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling at the sideline of International Labour Conference at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday, reports BSS.Various issues including...
NARAYANGANJ, June 12 (UNB): A 32-year-old man was shot to death allegedly in a clash between two factions of BNP centering the arrest of a leader of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Majhipara in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district...
LONDON, June 12 (BSS): Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey on Tuesday said the organisation was keen to support Bangladesh in political reforms ahead of the planned general election next year."We will be happy to provide the support if Bangladesh requires...
LONDON, June 11 (BSS): A group of UK parliamentarian under the banner of All Party Parliamentary Group called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his hotel in London on Tuesday.Earlier in the day, Wouter van Wersch, Executive Vice President...
Anisha lost her father when she was only five months old as Md Riton Uddin (32) was shot dead during the anti-discrimination student movement in the Jatrabari area on August 5, 2024, reports BSS.Riton, father of three children, joined student-led...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has expressed optimism that the expected meeting between Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and his party acting Chairman Tarique Rahman in London will usher in a fresh breeze for democracy in Bangladesh,...
Basad organised a human-chain in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Wednesday to press home realisation of their various demands regarding the oppressed Palestinians at Gaza. — Focus Bangla
Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur has confirmed that his daughter, Mehreen Sarah Mansur, owns a flat in Dubai, though he maintains that she bought the property before he took office as the chief of the central bank.He insisted that...
FE REPORT | 2025-06-12 00:00:00
City-dwellers started returning to the capital on Wednesday after celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha festival at their village homes across the country with near and dear ones, but the pressure of the returnees was still low. People were making their way back...
FE REPORT | 2025-06-12 00:00:00
The capital city wore almost a deserted look on Wednesday even after four days of Eid-ul-Azha as the offices and businesses remained closed due to extended public holiday.Streets, lanes, by-lanes and public places like shopping malls were largely empty, allowing...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-06-12 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 11: Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is going to appoint a contractor for operations and maintenance (O&M) of the country's Single Point Mooring (SPM) facility with double pipeline.The procedures of the tender are continuing now. BPC invited international tender...
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