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...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Chief Adviser of the interim government Dr Muhammad Yunus calls for post-uprising national reconciliation and says the election roadmap will be finalised through consultations with political parties.The CA's press secretary, Shafiqul Alam, quoted the head of interim government as making...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh is getting US$400 million from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as budget-support credit to finance policy actions for infrastructural development in climate-critical sectors, sources said.The agreed loan will be given under the AIIB's climate policy-based financing arrangement (CPBF)...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Several hundred demonstrators on Monday blocked the road stretching from Shahbagh intersection up to Science Laboratory in the capital demanding appointment as assistant primary teachers. However, following baton-charge and hot water splashing by police, registered job seekers from the 1st...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
The central bank is going to review both the Bangladesh Bank (BB) Order and the existing Bank Company Act to ensure corporate governance in the country's banking sector. "We will update and modernise the BB Order and the Bank Company...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
The non-performing loans in Bangladesh's banks may cross 30 per cent of the total outstanding loans by this financial year-end, the central bank predicts in a cautious half-yearly monetary policy it has crafted. Such predicted spurt in NPL buildup raises...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed concern over the central bank's decision to maintain a contractionary monetary policy until June 2025, keeping the policy rate unchanged at 10 per cent.Terming the Bangladesh Bank's stance rigid for curbing inflation,...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) continues to pursue contractionary monetary stance to manage inexorable inflation and financial constraints retaining the regulatory lending rate high at 10 per cent. Despite calls from businesses to lower the policy rate, the BB has retained...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the Met Office. Night and day temperature may rise by (1-2)°C.The highest temperature in the country...
The eighth death anniversary of Hasna Abedin, founder and former chairperson of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), will be observed today (Tuesday), says a statement. AIUB will hold special prayers, recitation of the Holy Quran, and milad marking the day. The...
Mentioning that some 0.16 million (1.61 lakh) people die every year due to tobacco consumption in Bangladesh, speakers at a seminar said the media should play a crucial role in countering the manipulative tactics of the tobacco industry, reports UNB.These...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
Police have arrested 12 persons for allegedly committing robberies, who posing as members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Police, in the capital's different areas including Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur. The arrestees are Md Manju (40), Saiful Islam (40), Md Russel...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
The battery-operated easy-bikes, nosimon, auto-rickshaws, etc, and Mahindra-type automobiles caused the highest number of road accidents in January, according to a report, published on Monday. These vehicles were involved in 163 accidents, causing 139 deaths and 336 injuries, representing 24.73...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-11 00:00:00
The director general (DG) of Directorate of National Consumers Rights Protection (DNCRP) on Monday said the organisation will intensify its market vigilance from February 21 to ensure that consumers get essentials at rational prices along with benefits of the tax,...
Mahmudur Rahman, editor of the Amar Desh, has been acquitted following an appeal against his seven-year sentence in a case over kidnapping and murder plot against Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, reports bdnews24.com .Dhaka's Fourth...
GAZIPUR, Feb 10 (UNB): Former Awami League MP from Sirajganj-6 (Shahjadpur) constituency Chayan Islam has been arrested from a residence of his relative in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur.Chayan's wife and an associate were also detained from the house and taken...
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