FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
A Dhaka court Wednesday ordered freeze on over 4.37 billion shares of 42 companies, worth Tk 51.09 billion, owned by beleaguered S Alam Group chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam and his family members. Judge of the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
The government has slashed its bank borrowing target by 28 per cent, or Tk 385 billion, for this fiscal year, due to lower expenditures and slower implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP).Under the revised target, the government will borrow...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
Faruque Ahmed, a Bangladeshi expatriate having experiences to work on different metro rail projects worldwide, has been selected as the managing director of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL).Sources said a six-member committee, headed by Bangladesh University of Engineering...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
The planning commission is under pressure to approve the MRT-5 southern line project, although it was sent back more than a month ago for bloated costs and having less priority than another MRT line, officials said on Wednesday.The commission is...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
Global rating-agency Fitch paints a downbeat outlook for Bangladesh economy on several grounds that include political unrest surrounding polls. Fitch Solutions in its latest appraisal report forecasts headline inflation to average 8.5 per cent and intends to revise down its...
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has described the secret torture cells (known as Aynaghar) as horrific after visiting three of those, reports UNB."If I want to narrate it can be said that it is a horrific scene! Everything that happened...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her minions in government, security services and her Awami League party systematically engaged in serious human-rights violations during last year's student-led protests, according to UN findings. A 105-page report prepared by the fact-finding...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the Met Office. Temperature may rise by (1-2)°C over the country.The highest temperature in the...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
The Department of Environment (DoE) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) signed an agreement to strengthen environmental governance, promote sustainable development, and accelerate climate resilience in Bangladesh.DoE Director General Md. Kamruzzaman and UNOPS Asia Pacific Regional Director...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
The labour and employment ministry has sought the government's intervention to encash its Central Fund (CF) Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDRs) stuck at three crisis-hit banks and one non-bank financial institution (NBFI), sources say.Labour and Employment Secretary AHM Shafiquzzaman requested the...
The government has launched a cleanup drive to protect the environment and biodiversity of ecologically vulnerable St. Martin's Island, reports UNB.The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change started the two-day drive on Wednesday in coordination with the local administration...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
Former president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) ATM Waziullah died of old-age complications at the age of 87 at United Hospital in the capital on Wednesday. He left behind a son, two daughters and a host of...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism (MoCAT) has issued a circular mandating airlines and travel agencies to ensure transparency in airfare, aiming to protect passengers from overcharging and facilitate fair ticket sales.The directives issued on Tuesday night outlined several...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
Digital media, led by social media platforms, is grabbing stakes in the country's advertisement market over the past several years, gradually taking away shares of the conventional media, market insiders said.Social media platforms like Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Netflix are...
PATUAKHALI, Feb 12 (UNB): Content creator Nuruzzaman Kafi's house in Kolapara of Patuakhali has been burned down in an arson attack, fire service said on Wednesday.Mohammad Elias Hossain, Kolapara Fire Service Station Officer, said, "Upon receiving news of the fire,...
A Dhaka court has set May 7 for submitting probe reports in two separate cases filed against former Social Welfare Minister Dr Dipu Moni and her husband Taufiq Newaz, reports BSS. Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the cases against them on...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
Police have arrested former Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) commissioner Saiful Islam and Tanvir Saleheen Imon, superintendent of police (SP) of Sarda Police Academy, Rajshahi.Saiful Islam was arrested from the capital while Tanvir Saleheen Imon from Sarda Police Academy. They were...
Law enforcement agencies have detained Hossain Muhammad Murad, personal assistant (PA) to ex-MP Sheikh Helal Uddin, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) upon his return from abroad, reports BSS.Immigration police detained Murad on Tuesday evening and later handed over to...
Two separate courts in Dhaka have showed five people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's former private industry affairs adviser Salman F Rahman and former state minister for industries Kamal Ahmed Majumder arrested in four cases filed over murders committed...
A Dhaka court has placed former state minister for disaster management and relief Dr Enamur Rahman on a five-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Cumilla University student Abdul Qaium (25) in the Savar area during the...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's health has significantly improved and is now in a stable condition, her personal physician Prof AZM Zahid Hossain said, reports UNB.Speaking to reporters in London on Tuesday, he also said doctors from The London Clinic have...
BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu speaking as the chief guest of a programme, organised to distribute warm clothes among poor people, in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Wednesday. — Focus Bangla
MANIKGANJ, Feb 12 (BSS): The ferry movement resumed after two hours suspension in Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma which was suspended for dense fog, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) sources said.BIWTC Paturia Ghat Deputy General Manager (DGM) Nasir Mahmud...
SHERPUR, Feb 12 (BSS): Two farmers died from electrocution while working on an irrigation line at a field at Chhattarkandi village in Sadar upazila of the district on Wednesday.The deceased were Akram Hossain, 45, son of late Latif, and Hanif...
MUNSHIGANJ, Feb 12 (UNB): Local people have vanalised Sirajdikhan police station alleging police inaction to trace a schoolboy who has been missing for nearly 23 days.Sirajdikhan Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shahina Akter said Roman Sheikh, a class IX student of Thoirgaon...
Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Mirsharai and Pabna districts on Wednesday, reports BSSIn Chattogram, a motorcyclist was killed in a road accident in the Nizampur College area under Mirsharai upazila here on Wednesday.The deceased is Akthar...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Feb 12: Forest Department officials have recovered an elephant's carcass from a tobacco field at Chakaria upazil in Cox's Bazar district on Wednesday morning.The officials said that the elephant aged between 42 to 45 years was male.According to...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-02-13 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Feb 12: The farmers of the district have made healthy profits by cultivating plums commercially this season.Quality plums are being sold at Tk 2,000 to Tk 2,500 per maund (40 kg) at local wholesale markets.At the primary stage of...
DOHA, Feb 12 (AFP): Elena Rybakina progressed to the Doha Open quarter-finals on Wednesday with a 7-6 (7/1), 6-2 win over Slovakia's Rebecca Sramkova.The fifth seed from Kazakhstan battled inconsistency in the first set after racing into a 3-0 lead,...
Nearly 10 players from different teams have been ruled out from the much-anticipated Champions Trophy - set to commence on February 19 in Pakistan - due to injuries, according to Pakistani Television Geo Tv.Pakistan's Saim Ayub, who suffered a right...
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