WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (AFP): A senior adviser to US President Donald Trump said Thursday she was moving to cancel long-established contracts between three international news agencies and the federal body that oversees US government-funded news organizations.In a post on X...
BEIJING, Mar 14 (Reuters): China and Russia stood by Iran on Friday after the United States (US) demanded nuclear talks with Tehran, with senior Chinese and Russian diplomats saying dialogue should only resume based on "mutual respect" and all sanctions...
YANGON, Mar 14 (Arab News): The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of "critical funding shortfalls", it said Friday.The United States provided the UN's World...
GENEVA, Mar 14 (AFP): The UN migration agency, which has been hit hard by US foreign aid cuts, has launched more mass layoffs, impacting around a fifth of staff at its Geneva headquarters, employees said Friday.Fresh cuts at the International...
OTTAWA, Mar 14 (AFP): Former central banker Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada's next prime minister on Friday with the country rattled by a breakdown in relations with the United States.He succeeds Justin Trudeau who announced his resignation...
MOSCOW, Mar 14 (Agencies): Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the telephone to discuss a possible settlement of the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin said Friday.The call took place shortly after Putin on Thursday...
Bangladesh, a land of natural beauty and immense potential, holds significant geographical importance for local business among South Asian countries. However, the nation faces multiple ongoing challenges due to political instability, law and order problem, unemployment, low GDP growth, a...
Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, has a significant impact on economic activity worldwide, particularly in Muslim-majority countries. Consumer spending habits during this month are distinct, characterised by increased expenditure on food, shopping, and charity. Despite fasting, overall...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-03-15 00:00:00
Two young female students, standing on a rickshaw, audaciously chanting slogans by raising their right hands with a vigorous posture of protest, ignoring heavy rain. They are surrounded by their fellows on the street who are all marching at droho...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-03-15 00:00:00
On July 27, 2024 in the midst of nationwide student-citizen uprising, then-State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak made a claim that disastrously backfired. Referring to the ongoing internet blackout, he stated that the government did not order the shutdown...
The media report that the interim government has fast-tracked the work of the high powered 11-member inter-agency task force to bring back a part of the money stolen, laundered abroad and deposited in foreign banks or lying in other forms...
Aniqa Tasnim Hossain, Ema Akter and Md Toufiq Hassan Shawon | 2025-03-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in reducing childhood mortality over the last two decades. Yet, every year around 1,15,000 children die in Bangladesh from various causes, according to the most recent national demographic and health survey. Pneumonia and prematurity or...
FE REPORT | 2025-03-14 12:00:00
The eight-year-old girl, who was raped while visiting her sister's house in Magura, died at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Dhaka on Thursday, leaving her family and the entire nation in grief.She died at 1:00pm and was buried hours after...
Towheed Feroze | 2025-03-14 12:00:00
Well, then, mate, I must say you are sitting on a gold mine! The common trend among many middle class families is to either sell books or give them away while moving house. That’s exactly the reason why many homes...
Golam Rasul | 2025-03-14 12:00:00
The interim government of Bangladesh formed an 11-member Administrative Reform Commission in October 2024, led by Abdul Muid Chowdhury, to recommend ways to make public administration more people-centric, accountable, efficient, and impartial. On February 15, 2025, the Commission submitted its...
Miscreants on Thursday attacked a group of workers on the land owned by Dhaka Sangbadik Samabay Samity Limited (DSSSL), a cooperative society of Dhaka-based journalists, in the Jhilpar area of Pallabi, reports UNB.They brandished pistols, machetes, and other sharp weapons,...
Women and Children Affairs Adviser Sharmeen S. Murshid called for stronger global cooperation and investment to advance gender equality, renewing commitments to ensure that no woman or girl is left behind, reports BSS. She made the call while delivering Bangladesh's...
The names of three medical universities have been changed in a meeting of the advisory council as part of the ongoing efforts to remove references to deposed premier Sheikh Hasina and her family members from different establishments, reports bdnews24.com.Bangabandhu Sheikh...
The government has said in a circular that all the arrears of industrial workers such as salaries and festival allowances, will be paid within the 20th of Ramadan, reports bdnews24.com.It was also decided that factory authorities will pay workers 15...
The High Court (HC) has issued a rule asking why Tk 500 million should not be paid in compensation after a mother and her newborn child died due to 'negligence' at a hospital in Noakhali, reports bdnews24.com.The bench of Justice...
The government will set the minimum wage scales for physicians and nurses working in the private hospitals, said Chief Adviser's Special Assistant Prof Dr Md Sayedur Rahman, reports UNB.He came up with the disclosure while speaking at a press conference...
FE REPORT | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Thursday imposed a ban on meetings, gatherings, processions and rallies near the Bangladesh Secretariat, the official residence of the chief adviser, Jamuna, and its surrounding areas until further notice to maintain public order.The announcement...
The government has decided not to defer the deadline for Bangladesh's graduation from a least developed country, or LDC, to a developing country.At an advisory council's meeting chaired by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday, it took the final decision...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 13: Three persons, including two school-going siblings, were killed after a passenger bus crashed into a battery-powered rickshaw on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Chattogram.The accident took place at Dohazari Bazar under Chandanaish upazila around 8:30 am on Thursday.The...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 13: The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges is going to extend the deadline for building the six-lane 11.50-km Karnaphuli Tunnel connecting road by one more year until December 2025.The previous deadline ended in December 2024.According to sources,...
FE REPORT | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
The dedicated dual-gauge double-lane railway bridge over the Jamuna will be formally inaugurated on March 18, thereby launching the operation of all modes of train between Dhaka and the western zone.On February 12, the Bangladesh Railway (BR) launched the 4.8-kilometre...
FE REPORT | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
The central bank of Bangladesh on Thursday provided Tk 25 billion more as an emergency liquidity support to two Shariah-based Islamic banks for meeting their emergency needs. Of the total amount, Tk 15 billion was provided to Social Islami Bank...
FE REPORT | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has sought government intervention to encash its Tk 350 million deposits stuck at various private commercial banks in the form of fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) for long.It recently requested the Financial Institutions Division (FID) under...
Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus is likely to hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on March 28, the foreign ministry's spokesperson said on Thursday, reports BSS."A bilateral meeting with the President of China is scheduled...
FE REPORT | 2025-03-14 00:00:00
Prices of a few vegetables, beef, mutton and riverine fish have increased while most of other commodities have shown a static trend or a decline in a week.Cauliflower and cabbage prices have increased by Tk5.0-10 a piece after maintaining a...
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