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After losing their homes back in Rakhine in an army crackdown in Myanmar, many Rohingya parents are now going through another trauma as they have lost their children in the...
Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as Manchester City moved top of the table and handed Watford their heaviest ever top-flight defeat. Previously unbeaten Watford could have also topped the...
The board of directors of Eastern Housing Limited (EHL) has recommended 22 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Sunday....
A court in Dhaka has ordered BNP chief Khaleda Zia to appear before it on a defamation suit by Oct 5 and said it would issue a warrant against her...
A koala has been released into the wild in Australia after recovering from a 16km (10-mile) car journey clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive. The female had...
Around 40 per cent of the city's hotels, restaurants, fast-food shops, guest houses and beauty parlours are yet to have tax files despite running full-fledged business, according to a preliminary...
A location scout for the Netflix crime drama Narcos has been shot dead while working in central Mexico. The bullet-riddled body of Carlos Muñoz Portal, 37, was found in...
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has "a last chance" to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingyas to flee...
Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no three. Squally weather may affect the maritime ports, North Bay, and...
A two-day drama festival 'Natya Utshob 2017’ will begin on Sunday at Dhaka University. Dhaka University Natya Sangsad will organize the drama festival for the first time, reports UNB....
The US has insisted it will leave the Paris climate accord, despite reports that it may be softening its stance. Officials who met a White House representative on Saturday...
BMW is reviewing the necessity of car keys, Ian Robertson, the company’s board member responsible for sales told the Reuters news agency. The fact that customers now all carry...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said devotees will have to immerse the goddess’ idol in water before 8pm on the day of Bijoya Doshomi of Durga Puja this year. ...
India is prone to overhaul Japan and Germany to become the third largest economy in the next 10 years but needs to be unswerving in reforms and focus more on...
Three storms are spinning in the Atlantic, with one already a hurricane and another one strengthening and forecast to threaten areas battered by Hurricane Irma last week, reports CNN. ...
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said Bangladesh may face challenges and risks in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal-16 (SDG-16). The SDG-16 stressed promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable...
A second man has been arrested in connection with Friday's attack on a London Tube train, police said. The 21-year-old man was arrested in Hounslow, west London, on Saturday...
Scientists have invented a new technology that could enable every childhood vaccination to be given in a single injection, reports independent.co.uk. The all-in-one jab stores the different vaccines in...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the country’s biggest dam on Sunday, ignoring warnings from environment groups that hundreds of thousands of people will lose their livelihoods. The controversial...
The price of rice of open market sale which began in Dhaka and other cities and towns across the country on Sunday has been doubled. The government says it has...
The past few weeks have been a grim reminder that natural disasters know no borders. They can strike countries at opposite ends of the globe simultaneously and whether in Asia...
Bangladesh has been experiencing the highest rainfall in decades. Unprecedented floods inundated northern Bangladesh, causing havoc. Dhaka city is often swamped with trapped water, causing traffic paralysis. City dwellers dread...
The maintenance of Dhaka city's drainage system, it seems, is now nobody's responsibility. A report published in this paper last week said the incumbent managing director of the Dhaka...
THERE is a striking similarity between old age and childhood. As children need to be brought up with care and affection, the elderly people also require love and care of...
THIS refers to your thought-provoking article "Preparing for natural disaster" published on September 16. If we need to change anything, it has to start from our home. As we know...
RADIO has made a comeback in the life of urban people through private endeavours as we now see a large number of people taking interest in listening to FM band...
Kuwait has ordered North Korea’s ambassador to leave within a month as the Gulf country downgraded diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, a North Korean diplomat in the Gulf region said on...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading Sunday as investors continued their buying binge on sector-wise stocks. Following the...
For the second year in a row, Oxford University has been declared the best university in the world by the Times Higher Education rankings. British rival Cambridge took second...
Police have arrested a man on charge of killing his wife in South Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka on Saturday night. Md Shariful Islam, sub-inspector of South Kerniganj Police Station,...
Seven young suspects have been arrested in connection with a fire at a school in Malaysia which left 21 students and two teachers dead. Those arrested are all aged...
The government is working to build five major oil-carrying pipelines having the total length of over 600 kilometres (km) at a cost of around Tk 81.21 billion by 2020, officials...
A third grader student was reportedly raped by a youth at Sajiara village in Sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon. The alleged rapist was identified as Badsha, 17, son of...
The 225-megawatt Shikalbaha power plant in Chittagong will run at full blast from next month, feeding an additional 75 megawatts (MW) of electricity to the national grid. Located in...
Status change entails a cost as the World Bank is going to make lending to Bangladesh much costlier, with interest rates rising above 2.0 per cent, for the country's economic...
There are hilsas (ilish) galore in the market nowadays. Perhaps the most favourite Bangalee delicacy, hilsas are making their merry rounds in droves only to be netted by fishermen in...
The continuing tug-of-war between the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) and two city corporations, as reported in the FE on Saturday, over flushing stagnant water out of the capital...
To recall, the National Budget for the fiscal year 2017-2018 got dramatically passed in Parliament with the decision of stay for introducing the VAT Act 2012. VAT Act 2012, which...
A Supreme Court lawyer has moved the High Court seeking directives for a new law to manage and protect refugees at a time when more than 800,000 Rohingya have fled...
A section of teachers of Dhaka University formed a human chain at Aparajeyo Bangla on Sunday protesting the repression on the Rohingyas by the Myanmar authorities. They also demanded...
It is not debatable anymore that what has been happening to the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state of Myanmar is genocide and crimes against humanity. The brutal treatment meted...
A local private company signed a deal with Chinese-Bangladeshi consortium for construction of a furnace oil-based power plant. The consortium of CRRC Siynang Co,. Ltd of China and local Green...
The acronym BRICS stands for an association of five major emerging national economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The term "BRICS" was coined in 2001 by...
Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele will be out for up to four months with a hamstring injury. The club's record signing, who joined from Borussia Dortmund in a deal which...
Fans, friends and followers showered the mortal remains of naturalist Dwijen Sharma with flowers as the body was taken to Bangla Academy and the Central Shaheed Minar on Sunday, reports...
Rohingya refugees fleeing violent persecution in Burma could starve to death amid a growing humanitarian crisis, said an aid agency. Nearly 410,000 Rohingyas face shortages of food, water, and...
The government directed district and police administrations to arrest those hoarding rice illegally across the country. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said while talking to reporters after a meeting with...
Eastern Housing Limited (EHL)’s board of directors recommended 22 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017, said an official disclosure on Sunday. The final...
The government is still carefully studying the Supreme Court's verdict that cancelled the 16th constitutional amendment. A formal letter will be sent to the attorney general for starting a...
A trade delegation of nine UK rail companies, led by Bangladesh-origin British lawmaker Rushanara Ali, began a week-long tour to Bangladesh on Sunday. Rushanara Ali is also a Trade...
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