Towhid Hridoy defied Indian bowlers to lead Bangladesh's recovery in the opening match of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy at the Dubai International Stadium in Dubai on Thursday. The middle-order batter scored 100 runs from 118 balls with six boundaries...
The Republican-controlled US Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI, putting a loyal defender of President Donald Trump and a frequent critic of the bureau atop the most prominent US law enforcement agency, reports Reuters.Patel was...
GENEVA, Feb 21(AFP): United Nations aid agencies need to adapt and become more efficient, the UN humanitarian chief said on Thursday, in the face of a funding freeze by the US, the system's largest donor.UN aid agencies have been left...
JACOBABAD, Pakistan, Feb 21 (AFP): In Pakistan's hottest city, fresh and filtered water can quench the searing onslaught of climate change - - but US President Donald Trump's foreign aid freeze threatens its vital supply, an NGO says.Sun-parched Jacobabad city...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb 21 (AFP): Arab leaders were gathering in Saudi Arabia on Friday to hammer out a recovery plan for Gaza aimed at countering President Donald Trump's proposal for US control of the territory and the expulsion of...
Manmohan Parkash | 2025-02-22 00:00:00
The Indian Ocean, one of the world's most strategic and ecologically diverse regions, faces mounting challenges related to resource management, environmental sustainability, and geopolitical tensions. As the lifeline of global trade, home to critical shipping lanes, and a region of...
Mohammad Navid Safiullah | 2025-02-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh is often touted as a successful case of export-led growth among the least developed countries (LDC). Bangladesh has consistently prioritised export diversification, as reflected in its key national policy documents. These strategies focus on identifying potential sectors ripe for...
The global financial landscape is undergoing a profound transformation with the advent of digital currencies, particularly cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). While cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin offers scope for decentralisation and financial autonomy, they also present regulatory challenges and...
Bangladesh's development sector has relied heavily on foreign aid for years, but recent events have exposed the dangers of this dependence. The United States and Switzerland, two of the country's major donors-have cut back their funding, leaving NGOs scrambling. The...
That the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) will have changes in the original allocations for different sectors of the economy is nothing unusual. But what is unexpected is the drastic cuts effected in the allocations for the health and education...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2025-02-21 12:00:00
Bangladesh should annually review its wage-setting process as apparel workers, who get minimum wage, are losing income year on year with current inflation rates, said a policy brief of Cornell University.The brief titled 'Waiting Game: Minimum Wage-Setting in Bangladesh's Apparel...
BABUL BARMAN | 2025-02-21 12:00:00
The stock of Khulna Printing & Packaging more than tripled in the three months through Thursday despite repeated warnings by the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) that it was non-operational. The packaging company's factory has been producing nothing since 2021. Accumulated...
OUR CORRESPONDENTCHATTOGRAM, Feb 21: The International Mother Language Day was observed with due solemnity in Chattogram on Friday. Since early morning, various political parties and social organisations offered floral wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar. Government and socio-cultural organisations, political...
A fire erupted out at a sawmill near Taltola Bazar in Dhaka's Khilgaon, prompting three fire service units to respond and bring it under control, reports bdnews24.comFire Service Control Room Duty Officer Rashed Bin Khalid said they received word of...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 21: A team of the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday conducted an operation at the Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) office and quizzed officials about allegations of irregularities in a sewerage project. A four-member team led...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
Domestic politics remains a major obstacle to economic reforms in South Asian countries including Bangladesh, particularly in trade liberalisation, according to an international trade expert.Dr. Shanta Devarajan, a professor at Georgetown University, said that vested interest groups often resist trade...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOLCHATTOGRAM, Feb 21: The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 in Chattogram arranged by the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has gathered momentum. The fair arranged at the Gymnasium area of the port city gets crowded particularly in the evening....
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
Currency buildups outside banks are flowing back into bank vaults amid a lax investment regime and also trust rebuilding in the banking system, improving liquidity crunch, officials and bankers say.Rise in deposit rates and persisting lawlessness across the country also...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) have signed a new Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) to deepen their collaboration on cofinancing public-sector projects. The FMRF, the first ever arrangement between the multilateral development banks (MDBs), aims...
DIVING INTO THE WORLD OF WORDS: An aerial view of the ongoing Ekushey Book Fair at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka. The photo shows visitors crowding the book stalls on Friday, the Language Martyrs' Day. — FE Photo
MONIRA MUNNI | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
Apparel exports to one of Bangladesh's promising non-traditional markets, India, recorded a significant double-digit growth during the first seven months of this fiscal after a fall in the last financial year.Exporters believe an improvement in the global-market situation following a...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
A Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) workshop, which was shut down in 2012, has been brought back to life, and it has regained its capacity to overhaul heavy vehicles. The Integrated Central Workshop (ICWS) in Gazipur can now fix engines,...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
Building an inland container terminal (ICD) at Dhirasram near Gazipur, aimed at augmenting rail-freight services, stalls as Bangladesh Railways couldn't commence its physical support works long after the project approval, sources say."Due to various clerical errors in the project documents,...
With tender hearts, children pay homage to language martyrs by placing flowers at the Central Sheheed Minar in the capital on Friday, the Language Martyrs' Day. — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam
FE REPORTThe Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has sought an allocation of 3.15 million tonnes of rice, which will be sold to 6.3 million smart card-holding families, for March as part of its month-long essential commodity-sale drive, sources said.The rice...
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has dismissed the notion that learning a new language weakens one's proficiency in their mother tongue, calling it "baseless", reports bdnews24.com.Speaking at the International Mother Language Institute event on Friday, he said: "There is no foundation...
SM Shawon Mahmud and Md Mashiur Rahaman have been elected Chairman and Secretary respectively of the Dhaka Branch Council (DBC) of Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) for the year 2025 in the 1st meeting of the...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-21 00:00:00
Tension in the Bangladesh-India relationship -- strained following the fall of Awami League government in a mass upsurge -- is now easing with both sides agreeing to advance towards 'good working relations', says foreign adviser Touhid Hossain.Bangladesh's ties with India,...
Dubai (AFP): In-form Shubman Gill made an unbeaten 101 to anchor India's chase in a six-wicket win over Bangladesh as the two teams began their Champions Trophy campaign on Thursday in Dubai.Needing a tricky 229 for victory on a seemingly...
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