Gold prices soared to an all-time high on Friday as the dollar weakened on growing expectations for an interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve in September, and as tensions in the Middle East bolstered demand for bullion, reports Reuters. Spot...
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters): Global jet fuel demand is poised to soften as a slowdown in consumer spending hits travel budgets, a shift that could weigh on oil prices in the months ahead.Global oil demand has struggled to meet...
Light to moderate rain/thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Rangpur, Rajshahi and Mymensingh divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy...
CUMILLA, Aug 16 (BSS): A woman and her son were killed and father was injured after being hit by a covered-van on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sadar Dakshin upazila of the district on Thursday.The dead are Mariam Akter (20), wife...
Fifty dengue patients were hospitalised with dengue fever in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, reports BSS.Of the new patients, 14 were hospitalised in Dhaka city, while the rest were outside the capital, according to the Directorate General of...
BRAHMANBARIA, Aug 16 (UNB): Bangladesh Army has rescued an elderly woman who was locked in a room for three months by her own children in Brahmanbaria.Jahanara Begum (70) is the widow of late Haji Md Abdu Mia of Gorkanghat area...
People of various ethnic communities of plain land marched in a procession from Shahbag to the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on Friday to press for their various demands. — Focus Bangla
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs (CHT) Adviser Supradip Chakma has said the government will mitigate the crisis of school education in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), reports BSS."We want to ensure quality education for our children. Multimedia classrooms and digitisation education system...
Thirty-five-year-old Ramiza (not real name) was a sex worker. Her parents died in a fatal road accident while she was only nine and a half years old. She took shelter at her maternal uncle house after the incident. Her grandmother...
The United Nations (UN) as said they are willing to support the interim government and people of Bangladesh as required, reports UNB."Regarding what you said about support for Bangladesh, I can certainly confirm that we remain willing to support the...
Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus presiding over a meeting of the interim government's advisory council at Bangabhaban in the capital on Friday. — PID
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Najat Maalla M'jid, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence Against Children, called on the new interim government on Friday to seize the current transition as an opportunity to address the existing gaps in laws and methods to protect...
Abdul Quddus Makhan was attacked by a group of youths while paying his respects to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi Road No. 32 on Aug 15, reports bdnews24.com."I love Bangabandhu, so I went," said Makhan after the attack.On Friday,...
The Anti-discrimination Student Movement will visit those injured in recent violence at different hospitals as part of their Resistance Week programme, reports bdnews24.com.Abu Baker Majumder, one of the group's coordinators, announced the programme early on Friday morning.In his statement, he...
BNP has inducted its vice chairmen Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and Dr AZM Zahid Hossain into the party's standing committee, the highest policymaking body, reports UNB.BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at...
The Anti-discrimination Student Movement will expel any of its coordinators or deputy coordinators if they were involved in the untoward incident that erupted at the Bangabandhu Museum when some people came to pay their tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the opposition leaders and workers to create 'peace brigades' in their respective area saying that ousted autocratic ruler Sheikh Hasina is plotting to incite chaos in the country from India, reports...
Village policemen form a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka on Friday, calling for a national pay scale, food rations and to be placed under the home ministry. — Photo Focus Bangla
COPENHAGEN, Aug 16 (AFP): Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said Friday it was seeking European approval to use its mpox vaccine in children aged 12 to 17, after the WHO declared the current virus surge a global public health emergency.The World...
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Dhaka Metropolitan Police recovered Tk30 million in cash and foreign currencies worth Tk1.0 million from the residence of former Senior Secretary of the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry Md Shah Kamal. A team of DMP, acting on a tip-off, raided...
A Dhaka Court on Friday set September 22 to submit a probe report in a case filed against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 22 others over killing of a 26-year-old student, Md Sifat Hossain, amid a student movement in...
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A Dhaka court on Friday placed former army officer Major General Ziaul Ahsan on eight-day remand in a case filed over the killing of hawker Md Shahjahan in New Market area of the capital during the anti-quota student movement.Arfatul Rakib,...
Shoppers return to a holiday market in Dhaka's Motijheel area on Friday, a sign that life is slowly returning to normal despite struggling sales. — Focus Bangla
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia would fly abroad soon for receiving advanced medical treatment.Mentioning her long struggle for democracy, he said, "No woman leader in the world...
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The finance ministry has asked the central bank to take necessary steps to provide more than $7.6 million for an instalment to the ICBC and Exim Bank of China under a buyer's credit syndicated loan agreement.Under the agreement, more than...
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Short-term corporate borrowing from external lenders has reversed a months-long decline, rising slightly to $11.40 billion as of June, according to central bank data, as firms seek to steer domestic economic challenges and tap into stabilising global financial conditions.According to...
Dhaka's Ramna Park is once again filled with families seeking respite on a Friday afternoon, a welcome return to everyday life after a tumultuous month of protests, curfews and the subsequent downfall of the government. — FE Photo by Shafiqul...
Nigeria has recorded 39 cases of mpox since the beginning of the year, a health official said as concern mounts over the global spread of the disease, report agencies.The cases were across the country and have not been fatal, according...
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