The Bangladesh Bank has backtracked on its earlier decision to discontinue the 14-day repo facility 鈥� a key tool for borrowing from the central bank 鈥� following significant disruption on the financial market caused by acute liquidity shortages, central bank officials said...
I HAVE written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points: (1) The number of people who are hungry is greater now than last year; (2) the amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year; (3) yhere is enough food to feed the total world population...
I HAVE written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points:...
A case was filed on Thursday over an attack carried out allegedly by a collaborator of the Awami League and his supporters on the premises of Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night...
Uttara Bank PLC declared 35 per cent dividends 鈥� 17.50 per cent cash and 17.50 per cent stock 鈥� for the year 2024 and passed its Annual Report-2024 along with the profit and loss account in its 42nd annual general meeting held on Monday digitally, said a press release...
BANGLADESH stepping up 16 notches in the World Press Freedom Index 2025, prepared by Reporters Without Borders, is comforting, but the country has ways to go and issues to address to further improve on press freedom. The index, made public on May 2, ranks Bangladesh the 149th among 180 countries. Bangladesh ranked the 165th in 2024, the 163rd in 2023 and the...
Prime Bank PLC on Thursday announced its first quarter financial reports for the period ended on March 31, 2025, said a press release...
A Dhaka court on Thursday set May 18 as the new deadline for submitting the probe report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist case of 2016...
A workshop on the role of media in flood preparedness was held in Dhaka on Monday.
The Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Limited has sent a statement in reaction to the 抖阴精品 report published on March 29 titled 鈥楶ower plants exaggerate bills.鈥�...
At least three staff members of the Dhaka Reporters Unity were injured in an attack allegedly by local miscreants and the employees of Karatoa Courier Service on Friday....
The International Financial Reporting Standards will strengthen access to finance and investment, boost global competitiveness and reduce the risks of financial misreporting...
Cassetex, a pioneering Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) startup dedicated to sustainable electrification, has announced that its co-founder and CTO, Gopal Kumar Mohoto, is one of 100 global experts who contributed to the Earth Action Report 2025 by ChangeNOW and KPMG, said a press release.
REPEATED court interventions and an apparent unwillingness of relevant public agencies to execute whatever plans that the government has made to contain air pollution over the years have fallen flat. A report of the Swiss air technology company IQAir, which monitors the quality of air with 40,000 monitoring stations across 8,954 locations in 138 countries, territories...
Young people from different walks of life at a discussion on Monday urged the government to let them know whether their recommendations were incorporated in the voluntary national review report...
Excess liquidity in Islamic banks surged by Tk 9,272 crore in December compared to September 2024, mainly due to the Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 massive bailout to crisis-hit shariah-based banks...
Southeast Bank PLC has recently organised a training workshop titled 鈥業mportance of timely and errorless reporting of Export transactions in Online Export Monitoring System鈥� for representatives of its exporter clients, said a press release...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
THE much-awaited fact-finding report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, on the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh has been seen as instrumental in resolving many debates related to accountability and justice for the human rights violations from July 1 to August 15, 2024. Though all human rights violations may not...
Different student organisations will observe Autocracy Resistance Day today recalling the student uprising in 1983 that forced the then government to cancel Mazid Khan Education Commission report and forged unity among political, social and student organisations against the then military rule of Hussein Muhammad Ershad...
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
Persistent underfunding continues to hinder effective road maintenance, resulting in deteriorating road conditions and increased costs for repair and rehabilitation, according to a task force report...
The information ministry has termed the Indian media reports on chief adviser鈥檚 instruction to remove War of Independence-based content on government radio and television as 鈥榝ake and purpose-oriented鈥�...
WOMEN鈥橲 rights activists and media scholars consider developing a gender-sensitive reporting strategy and an effective system to monitor journalistic practices in print, broadcast and digital media as a priority agenda for media sector reforms. They have expressed their concern at a roundtable discussion on gender-sensitive reporting and said that the...
The 38th meeting of the Inspection Report Review Committee was held at the Shaheed Dr Milton Hall of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka on Saturday...
United Nations high commissioner for human rights Volker T眉rk said that the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities during the July-August uprising was at final stage and would be released by mid-February...
THIS is unfortunate that the proposed National Small and Medium Enterprise Policy 2025 offers almost no new strategies to facilitate the growth of the sector. The proposal appears to echo the strategies of the 2019 policy that failed to help the sector grow. Such a repetition of failed strategies reflects, as experts say, the government鈥檚 lack of commitment to...
A forensic report confirmed that dismembered body parts recovered during West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department鈥檚 investigation into the murder of former Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, belonged to...
BUET students on Tuesday demonstrated in front their vice chancellor鈥檚 office to protest against the delay in submitting the report of investigation against banned Bangladesh Chhatra League...
The Reporters Without Borders 2024 Round-up has highlighted a grim picture of press freedom worldwide, with 54 journalists including five in Bangladesh killed in 2024...
