Modern-day living hardly gives one the opportunity to take adequate sleep. But sleep is as important for good health as diet and exercise. Good sleep improves one's brain performance, mood and health. Therefore, people should make an effort to get...
Imam Hossain | 2023-11-23 00:00:00
Dhaka is often stigmatised as one of the least desirable cities on earth to live in. The Global Liveability Index for 2023 conducted by the British weekly, The Economist, has already ranked Dhaka the seventh least liveable city in the...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-11-23 00:00:00
In death, Rosalynn Carter reminds us of the devotion with which she assisted her husband not only in his political career but also in his post-presidential life. Theirs was a marriage of love, with the fullness of affection and commitment...
Banks have become quite tight-fisted with dollar ever since the country's foreign-exchange reserve started plummeting following the energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war. During the pandemic, there was hardly any demand for dollar from people looking for tours abroad....
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-11-22 12:00:00
The announcement of establishing a competition commission years ago did inspire hope among sections of conscious citizens that the move, a timely one, would help strengthen market efficiency while protecting consumers from the machinations of business cartels and the like....
Two commercial ships that diverted their course in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden were connected to the same maritime group whose vessel was seized by Yemen's Houthis, according to shipping data and British maritime security company Ambrey, reports...
Bangladesh's Jannatul Ferdous, a burn survivor, has been included in BBC's list of the 100 most powerful and inspirational women from around the world in 2023, reports BSS.BBC today revealed the list which includes attorney and former US First Lady...
The government is going to give the "President's Award for Industrial Development" to 21 industrial units for their contributions to industrialisation, employment generation and overall economic development, reports BSS.The Industries Ministry is going to recognise the industrial units for their...
Eight more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,562 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 1,084 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according...
The United Nations has reiterated its desire to see a "peaceful, inclusive and credible" national election in Bangladesh, reports UNB. "We continue to call on all stakeholders, the government, the political parties to do whatever they can, to promote a...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
The domestic RMG or textile sector need not worry over the recent announcement by US secretary of state Antony Blinken, said state minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam on Tuesday.This was not at all Bangladesh-specific, he added.Mr Blinken did...
Amid spiralling food prices, people wait in long queues to buy essential commodities at subsidised rates from a TCB's open truck-sales point in Khilgaon area of the city on Tuesday. — FE photo
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 21: The Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) is now set to lease out the Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) to a foreign operator.The initiative has a twofold benefit - ensuring a healthy competition among terminal operators and making international-standard services...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Speakers at a consultation meeting on Tuesday stressed the need for combined global effort to address the challenges of climate-induced migration.They also suggested that climate change and labour mobility should be brought under the framework of sustainable development to make...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Even amid low-income people grappling with near double-digit inflation, government subsidy allocations to their bank accounts dropped substantially in September compared to August this year. The central bank attributes the drying up of fund flow to the poor to the...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Country's foreign debt repayment in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY 2023-24) stood at US$1.10 billion, nearly 52 per cent higher than the amount paid against the concessional loans in the same period of the last...
Sixth round of countrywide blockade enforced by The BNP-led opposition camps begins today. Parties announced countrywide blockade in a bid to realise their demands centring on the upcoming general election.The blockade programme will begin from 6:00 am today and will...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Economists see little chance of inflationary pressure easing and economic activities picking up before the upcoming national elections because of government's policy inaction.Pointing at the ongoing political unrest, they feels that the economy won't be able to perform well as...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday nothing could be achieved through arson violence, expressing her hope that the BNP-Jamaat alliance will come back to their sense and put an end to the anarchy."Nothing can be achieved through burning people...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON AND JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Non-performing loans (NPLs) belonging to banks edged down by a meagre Tk 6.41 billion to Tk 1.55 trillion in September, quarter on quarter, following two major rescheduling events. However, competent sources have said, the real burden would be heavier with...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Wednesday), according to the Met Office.Light rain is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Khulna,...
The first phase of the government primary school assistant teacher recruitment test, 2023 will be held on December 08, reports UNB.The decision over the recruitment test was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting, chaired by State Minister for Primary and Mass...
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) Vice-Chancellor-in-charge Dr Carmen Z Lamagna along with Ishtiaque Abedin, founder member and chairman of the university participated in the IAUP semi-annual meeting in Japan recently, hosted by Osaka University of Commerce and The Tanioka Gakuen Educational...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Dhaka says a rights statement crafted by three UN special rapporteurs seems fraught with a desire to "malign" Bangladesh government with "false and fabricated" information. "Their one-sided observations appear as ill-intentioned particularly in the context of the Government's active engagement...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
A four-year-long new project, 'Shomotay Tarunno: Youth for Equality' will be launched soon to address negative gender stereotypes and promote gender equality in Bangladesh.The Netherlands will support the project, according to a Plan International Bangladesh (PIB) statement. Negative gender stereotypes...
Students of several educational institutions formed human chains in different areas of the city, demanding timely holding of exams amid the ongoing hartals and blockades. The photograph was taken from Moghbazar area on Tuesday — FE Photo
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has termed the new minimum wage for the garment workers a 'juggling with figures' and urged the wage board to review the same.In a statement on Tuesday, it also claimed that it announced a 52-56 per...
A total of 1,179 aspirants have collected nomination forms from Jatiya Party (JaPa) in two days to get party nomination to contest in the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) polls slated to be held on January 7, 2024, reports BSS."A total...
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