FE REPORT | 2025-05-14 00:00:00
Both BRAC Bank and City Bank secured a year-on-year growth in profit in the first quarter through March this year despite a decline in interest income as their investment income jumped. City Bank showed a 2.88 per cent year-on-year rise...
ANINDETA CHOWDHURY | 2025-05-14 00:00:00
There is something about the first whiff of mangoes in the air that feels like a season turning a page. In Bangladesh, summer does not just arrive with sweat and storms-it comes with our favourite fruit, mangoes. Yellow, green, golden...
NAFISA ISLAM MEGHA | 2025-05-14 00:00:00
Resin crafts capture these vanishing moments and give them permanence, which can also be seen as a form of preservation. A daisy trapped in a pendant, a wedding garland turned into earrings, a tiny shell from a last beach walk,...
Istequemal Hussain | 2025-05-14 00:00:00
To tap the liquidity of Sharia-compliant banking area for financing the government’s deficit budget and for supporting the country’s overall development, a decision was made to introduce Islamic bond, or ‘Sukuk’, in the fiscal year 2019-20.On the one hand, a...
As summer sets in with rising temperatures and severe heatwaves sweeping across the country, it is crucial to exercise caution in our food and lifestyle choices to stay healthy during this period.One growing concern is the increased consumption of open...
Healthcare is one of the fundamental needs of human life, yet in Bangladesh today, many hospitals and clinics appear to be "sick" themselves. Ailing infrastructure, poor treatment standards, exploitative syndicates and deep-rooted corruption have pushed the country's healthcare system to...
Wasi Ahmed | 2025-05-14 00:00:00
The recent surge in Bangladesh's potato exports underscores the crop's growing potential in overseas markets. Potato exports have quadrupled in the current fiscal year, reaching 50,000 tonnes between July and April-up from just 12,300 tonnes in FY 2024. While this...
One of the reasons why the nexus of corrupt politics and its crony oligarchs could get away with plundering the banking sector during the autocracy was the powerlessness of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to stop it. Obviously, the interim government...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2025-05-14 00:00:00
After remaining a role model for poverty reduction for over three decades, Bangladesh of late is beginning to show signs of sliding down on the scale of metrics used domestically and internationally. According to the latest survey by Bangladesh Institute...
Betel leaves are very popular among both urban and rural people, especially the elderly. They arrive in large quantities at Dhaka's Shyambazar market from different regions across the country and are sold wholesale to retailers. The photo was taken on...
US President Donald Trump said Monday that US intervention prevented a "bad nuclear war" between India and Pakistan, after the South Asian rivals agreed a ceasefire following a series of clashes, report agencies."We stopped a nuclear conflict. I think it...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
The environment ministry on Monday issued a gazette notification, banning new industrial establishments within 10-km stretch of the Sundarbans in an effort to protect the world's largest mangrove forest. The ministry exercised the powers conferred under Section 5 of the...
The interim government at a meeting Monday decided to remove lethal weapons from the police force, which has faced an image crisis due to the indiscriminate use of arms during the July-August protests, report agencies.The decision came during the ninth...
FF REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
The National Citizens' Party (NCP) has denied allegations that its members raised controversial or anti-historical slogans during the recent anti-fascist protests by students and ordinary people.In an official statement issued on Monday, the party clarified that none of its activists...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
The government is set to form a trade expert pool (TEP) to preserve the required knowledge and experiences gained from trade-data analysis and negotiations, sources said. The commerce ministry has already started working on this. Its FTA wing will carry...
Bangladesh Bank has raised the limit of funds to be sent abroad for medical treatment expenses from US$ $10,000 to $15,000, reports UNB.The foreign exchange policy department of the central bank on Monday, through a circular confirmed this. The new...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
North West Power Generation Company Ltd (NWPGCL) plans to set up two solar power plants with a combined electricity- generation capacity of 140 megawatts as part of the government's effort to enhance the share of clean power in energy mix,...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
Locally-made denim items' exports to the two major destinations - the US and the European Union (EU) - during the first two months of 2025 witnessed significant growth of over 56 per cent and more than 32 per cent, respectively....
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
With a view to ensuring safe journey for Eid holidaymakers, the government has taken some initiatives, including special train operation and establishment of temporary cattle markets distant from roads and highways.Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, adviser to the rail and road...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
All activities of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's Bangladesh Awami League party and its front organisations are banned until their trial completes as the interim government Monday issued gazette of proscription to this effect. In a fast development on the...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
Negotiators are upbeat about receiving the stalled IMF funds as the central bank agrees to make exchange rate more flexible or lift control as part of advice of the multilateral lender.The major move for getting fourth and fifth tranches of...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh plans to complete labour-law amendment by June next year, a high-level meet with diplomats of key western countries was told Monday, as they noted this issue is linked to market access, trade decisions and tariffs.The diplomats remind that labour...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh's remittance receipt breaks annual record in over 10 months of this fiscal year with more than US$25 billion bagged, in a much-needed prop to its foreign-exchange reserves.With the receipt of $922 million in the first 11 days of this...
Rain/thunder showers with lightning flashes and temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions with hails at...
Adviser to the shipping and textile and jute ministries, M Sakhawat Hossain, poses with the awardees at a reception titled 'Gorobini Ma-2025', organised by Universal Medical College Hospital at Rawa Convention Centre in the capital's Mohakhali on Sunday, marking 10...
Prof Dr Abu Borhan Mohammad Badruzzaman, vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and Tan Tieniu, chairman of CPC Council of Nanjing University and fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences, signing the memorandum of understanding on behalf of their...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called for an integrated economic strategy between Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Seven Northeastern States of India, emphasising the potential of cross-border collaboration in hydropower, healthcare, and road connectivity. The Chief Adviser made these...
YASIR WARDAD | 2025-05-13 00:00:00
Despite a 9.0 per cent hike in procurement rates, the government's ongoing 'Boro' purchase drive is progressing in a slow pace with traders attribute the situation to higher grains prices at open market and lack of proper purchase mechanism.The government...
SYLHET, May 12 (UNB): A local leader of Jubo League (JL), who was injured in a clash with the supporters of a BNP leader over establishing dominance in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet, died at a hospital in the capital.The deceased...
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