The Financial Express Bangladesh

07/08/2025

The government must proceed with prudence and fiscal discipline, ensuring that even with reduced allocations, development priorities are met, and austerity is maintained across governance

The government must proceed with prudence and fiscal discipline, ensuring that even with reduced allocations, development priorities are met, and austerity is maintained across governance   Despite repeated calls from businesses and think tanks to enhance the NBR's revenue mobilisation effor

07/08/2025

Besides amending existing cybersecurity laws, Bangladesh could take lessons from advanced countries that are trying to regulate AI usage

Besides amending existing cybersecurity laws, Bangladesh  could take lessons from advanced countries  that are trying to regulate AI usage   writes Syed Tashfin Chowdhury   As Artificial Intelligence-based software and tools continue to take over many aspects of professio

07/08/2025

The agonised deaths of the voiceless creatures underscore their everyday vulnerability. Still, we, as a nation, do not give the attention it deserves which is why we have no data on animal cruelty

A disturbing piece of news recently went viral on social media - the hanging and beating to death of a dog in Barisal. Several youths killed the poor creature on camera like it was nothing. The main culprit faced a lenient punishment - Tk. 5,000 fine - awarded by an executive magistrate while three

07/08/2025

Adequate efforts in creating an innovation ecosystem and capacity building should be at the top of the agenda of university management

The number of our university graduates remaining unemployed and under-employed is rising every year, as the supply of graduates is outstripping available jobs.  We desperately need to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among our university graduates to turn a good number of them into job

07/08/2025

A journalist was hacked to death in Gazipur last night, reportedly in a targeted attack. Md Asaduzzaman Tuhin, 38, a staff reporter for Dainik Protidiner Kagoj, was attacked around 8:30pm in the city’s Chandana Chowrasta area, police said. He was originally from Bhatipara village in Fulbaria

07/08/2025

আন্দোলনের পর কেটে গেছে সাত বছর! কতটা নিরাপদ হলো সড়ক?

07/08/2025

বকেয়া বেতন, সুযোগ-সুবিধার দাবিতে অবস্থান কর্মসূচীতে গার্মেন্টস কর্মীরা

07/08/2025

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md. Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order as police produced him before the court and the investigation officer pleaded to keep him behind bars until the end of the probe.

A court in Dhaka on Thursday sent former vice chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Professor Dr. Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, to jail in a case filed over embezzlement of funds from the university's development project. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md. Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order

07/08/2025

'গত ১ বছরে সরকার শহীদদের প্রকৃত সংখ্যা নির্ণয়ে ব্যর্থ হয়েছে'

07/08/2025

"August 5 marked the end of the first chapter. From today, the second chapter begins. Our main task is now to ensure a fair (national) election," the Chief Adviser was quoted as saying...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Thursday said the interim government’s main task is now to ensure a fair election in Bangladesh. "August 5 marked the end of the first chapter. From today, the second chapter begins. Our main task is now to ensure a fair (national) election," the Chief Ad

07/08/2025

দেশকে স্বৈরাচারমুক্ত করায় প্রবাসীদের ধন্যবাদ জানালেন তারেক রহমান

07/08/2025

“The government has been actively working to settle outstanding bills, including those owed to (India’s) Adani Power and others,” Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Dr Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan said.

The interim government has repaid an amount of Tk 186.31 billion (Tk 18,631 crore) as outstanding foreign power bills against electricity imports, Power Division officials said today. “The government has been actively working to settle outstanding bills, including those owed to (India’