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BSEC's plan to eavesdrop on stakeholders' conversation awaits MoF nod

Arrangements were all set by the securities regulator under now-sacked Prof Shibli Rubayat to set a virtual booby trap on bourses in cahoots with a state telecommunications agency to gather information about online activities and voice-call records of stock-market investors, officials say.The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) moved to...

Ansar agitators arrested as saboteurs, whisked into jail

Some 377 Ansar members have been held and whisked to jail after clashes with student-people vigilantes on Sunday night after government Secretariat gatecrash, witnesses and officials said.A Dhaka court Monday sent the auxiliary law-enforcers, including two female members, to jail in four cases filed over the clashes and forced entry...

Banks lament deposit depletion as investors bet on lucrative treasuries

Government securities (G-sec) become hotcakes to institutional and individual depositors as their investments in treasury bills and bonds increased manifold in recent times, in an unhappy coincidence with bank deposit squeeze.Bankers and officials say allured by a record rise in the rates of returns on the government fundraising instruments, both...

Flood concern rises in south-east amid red alert in Tripura

Water levels receded on Monday in the south-east river basins but concern grew for a red alert issued in the Indian state of Tripura over heavy rainfall in the next two days.Meanwhile, the north-western regions are set to be flooded as India has opened all the gates of the Frakka...

Hasanul Haq Inu arrested

Former Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was arrested from the Uttara area in the city on Monday afternoon.A team of detectives arrested Inu, the president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), from a flat, said Kazi Ziauddin, deputy commissioner of Gulshan Division (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).Inu was arrested...

New Delhi bins rumours, fake videos on Farraka gates

Regarding Farraka barrage, India has said they have seen fake videos, rumours and fear mongering to create misunderstanding which should be firmly countered with facts, reports UNB."We have seen media reports of the opening of Farraka barrage gates that will allow the flow of over 1.1 million cusecs of water...