MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
Taskforce meant to suggest reforms to the capital market recommended that investors having less than Tk 1 million in equity investment do not get margin loans and only 'A' category companies be considered as marginable stocks. The changes to the...
SEOUL, Feb 11 (BBC): A teacher has fatally stabbed an eight-year-old girl at an elementary school in South Korea, in an incident that has shocked the nation.The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in...
ARIZONA, Feb 11 (Reuters): At least one person was killed on Monday after a midsize business jet skidded off the runway while landing at the Scottsdale, Arizona, municipal airport and collided with another jet that was parked, authorities said.Dave Folio,...
KABUL, Feb 11 (AFP): A suicide bomber killed five people including Taliban security forces on Tuesday in an explosion outside a bank in northern Afghanistan, police said.Seven people were also wounded in the attack which targeted a queue of people...
LUANDA, Feb 11 (AFP): A cholera outbreak in Angola has killed at least 108 people since the start of the year, the health ministry said Tuesday, with deaths on the rise in the last few days.The resource-rich African nation has...
BERLIN, Feb 11 (AFP): Corruption threatens to "derail" global cooperation to tackle climate change, graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) warned in a report on Tuesday.Its "Corruption Perceptions Index" for 2024 showed that many countries involved in climate action-either as hosts...
NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters/AFP/AP): US President Donald Trump said on Monday that if all the hostages held in Gaza are not returned by Saturday at noon he would propose cancelling the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and letting "all hell break loose."Speaking...
Shohaly Akhter, the Bangladesh spinner, has been handed a five-year ban by the International Cricket Council (ICC) after she admitted breaching five provisions of the ICC anti-corruption code, reports Cricbuzz. The charges were in relation to corrupt approaches made during...
COLOMBO, Feb 11 (AFP): Captain Steve Smith admitted on Tuesday the Champions Trophy would be on Australia minds when they play Sri Lanka in two one-day internationals this week, the final warm-ups for the eight-team tournament.The Champions Trophy begins on...
The career of captain Sabina Khatun-led 18-rebelling women's national footballers, who continued their boycott to train under English head coach Peter Butler, now under huge threat following the latest stand of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), reports UNB.As per latest BFF's...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said that veteran local coach Sarwar Imran will replace Hashan Tillakaratne as the national women's team head coach, reports Cricbuzz.The online sports portal had earlier reported that Imran was likely to replace Hashan, while BCB...
CUMILLA, Feb 11 (UNB): In Laksham upazila of Cumilla, the Topya Mayurunnessa Government Primary School is facing serious safety concerns, thanks to its location directly next to a railway track.With no boundary wall or any other barrier to separate the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
PABNA, Feb 11: Professor Ali Riaz, head of the Constitutional Reform Commission and Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University in the United States, said on Tuesday that the discrimination, which has been going on for years, would not be eliminated...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
SYLHET, Feb 11: An organised gang has been actively involved in illegal extraction of stones from the remote reserved site at Sharpin Tila on the Companiganj border for a long time causing much harm to the local environment and ecology....
DR IMTIAZ AHMED | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
Do you or any of your loved ones suffer from hypertension? Then you know the struggle to keep the blood pressure in check. It is imperative since high pressure can lead to serious consequences, like heart failure or stroke. Our...
JARIN TASNIM RAFA | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
As winter's crisp air ushers in a season of warmth and togetherness, the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy transforms into a colourful culinary and cultural celebration arena. The National PithaUtsab 2025, held from February 2 to February 8, is a spectacular seven-day...
Everyone desires a pollution-free environment, yet many hesitate to take action due to a lack of awareness and guidance. In recent years, rapid urbanisation and industrialisation have led to improper waste disposal by industries, which have become a major concern...
The country is now facing a defining moment that requires the empowerment of young entrepreneurial ventures to achieve stable economic progress. A substantial pool of creative talent and leadership ability exists among students from school to early university stages. Young...
Sarker Nazrul Islam | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
If morning shows the day and past experience is any guide, the apprehension that road accidents will continue to claim more lives in the coming days cannot be ruled out. Neither the latest statistics about loss of lives and injuries...
Wasi Ahmed | 2025-02-12 00:00:00
Despite the large pool of workers seeking overseas employment, their lack of skills remains a major barrier to achieving the benefits their efforts are intended to bring. As a result, unskilled migrants continue to dominate the country's manpower exports, even...
Considering inflation as the key challenge facing the economy, the incumbent governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), in his first-ever presentation of the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the second half of the current fiscal year (FY2004-25) on Monday, February...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 10: The Dhaka-Chattogram fuel oil transportation pipeline is likely to become operational in April as the project is completed. The 250km pipeline is likely to be commissioned next month, while Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) plans to commence transporting...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, or TCB, started Monday the sale of five products, including chickpeas and dates, at subsidised prices ahead of Ramadan, reports bdnews254.com.The initiative kicked off in Dhaka and Chattogram on Monday, according to Kamal Hossain, an...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
A team from the crime scene unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Monday visited the demolished residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhanmondi 32 and collected some crime-related evidences.The team consisting of five to six members made the...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
A good number of transport workers blocked Janopad intersection in Sayedabad area of the capital on Monday, protesting against the counter-based bus services.However, they demanded the contractual bus services on the city routes.The Dhaka Bus Transport Owners Association (DBTOA) launched...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking immediate suspension and departmental action against Md Habibur Rahman, chief engineer of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), as he is accused in several corruption cases.Six Supreme Court...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Police have detained 343 persons, including a former member of parliament, during the ongoing 'Operation Devil Hunt' in Gazipur district and elsewhere across the country.Seventy-nine of them were detained in Gazipur metropolitan area. On the other hand, district police detained...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
The Election Commission (EC) has revealed that sensitive information from the National Identity Card (NID) system has been leaked by five institutions that utilise its services. These institutions are: the Directorate General of Health Services, UCB Bank's Upay, the Chittagong...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
A Dhaka Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed over corruption allegations. The court also ordered the government to request the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to issue a Red Notice...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Industrial output saw a massive plunge from the ousted Sheikh Hasina government's doctored statistics in the FY24 revised export earnings estimation, causing Bangladesh's overall economic growth to fall markedly, according to official data released on Monday.The final economic growth for...
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