FE Report | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
Plummy Fashions in Narayanganj, world's first green knitwear factory, was visited by senior representatives of leading European buyers Tuesday. Markus Reinken, a senior official of Lidl, a German-based global discount supermarket chain, along with Klauss of German-based Juritex reached the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought from the Dhaka district’s deputy commissioner a list of encroached plots in the Kuril-Purbachal area. She ordered the list during an Executive Committee meeting of the National Economic Council that endorsed the excavation of...
The prices of essential items, including cardamoms, cumins and cloves were up, while that of onions and green chillis slid, in retail markets of Dhaka city two days ahead of Holy Eid-ul-Azha. Spices were selling at higher prices than usual...
A young man was stabbed to death allegedly by his friendd in Dupchanchia upazila in Bogra district on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Muktar Hossain, 35, son of late Sona Miah, a resident of Talore Bazar. Witnesses said...
With hours left for the three-day Eid-ul-Azha holiday to begin, the exodus of holidaymakers from the overpopulated Dhaka city started on Wednesday morning as they want to celebrate the Eid with their near and dear ones in their native villages...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here for New York on Wednesday morning on an eight-day official visit to the United States to attend the 70th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that that China and the USA could work together to address cyber crimes, a problem that has sparked mutual tension. Xi is now on an official tour in the United States. His statement came...
Four persons have died in a road accident in Sunamganj district on Wednesday morning. Witnesses said they died in a head-on collision between a truck and an auto-rickshaw on the Sylhet-Chhatak Highway. District police chief Harun Ur Rashid said the...
The 13 cricket players, selected for the 3-day match against Australia in Narayanganj on October 3, have been asked to report at the home of Bangladesh cricket – Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at Mirpur on October 2. The Bangladesh Cricket Board...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has asked city dwellers to dump the wastes of sacrificial animals into designated dustbins during Eid to keep the city clean. Over 0.1 million (one lakh) sacrificial animals are expected to be slaughtered in the...
A madrasah girl has been tortured by some young men at Sonapur village in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila as she gave testimony in a rape case. Police and family members said a group of youths, two of them named as Kiron...
The fire that erupted at a multi-storey building at Secretariat in Dhaka on Wednesday morning, has been doused. Police said a fire broke out on the fourth floor of Building No 4 at the Secretariat on Abdul Ghani Road around...
Tanners have lowered the prices of hides and skin on global cues. They will buy cow hide at Tk50-55 per square foot in Dhaka and Tk40-45 in the rest of the county this year, reducing the rate for straight second...
Muslim pilgrims from around the world on Wednesday began massing at Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat and its surrounding plains, to mark the peak day of Holy Hajj. According to Saudi media, over two million Muslims from around 150 countries are...
A minor boy drowned in a well at Baulia village in Jessore Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as one-year-and-three-months old Siam, son of Shahidul Islam of the village. Family members said Siam fell into the well...
A mobile court of Chittagong District Administration has fined 6 pharmacies Tk 60 thousand for selling doctors’ sample medicines and unapproved Indian medicines. Deputy Revenue Collector and Executive Magistrate of Chittagong District Administration Mohammad Ruhul Amin led the mobile court...
A total of 23 mobile courts have been operation in cattle markets in Dhaka metropolitan areas for the last couple of days since Sept 21 to check setting up of cattle markets on roads, taking additional amount on hasil (charge)...
A Narsingdi court has convicted a man and sentenced him to death, and handed down life imprisonment to 7 others for killing a minor boy. District and Sessions Judge Fetama Nazib delivered the verdict on Tuesday afternoon, awarding capital punishment...
Members of law enforcement agencies arrested 90, including a local Islami Chhatra Shibir leader, from different upazilas of Chittagong district early Wednesday. During the drive, the law enforcers also seized some contraband drugs from them. Additional Superintendent (special branch) of...
The British High Commission in Dhaka and its office in Sylhet will be closed to the public on September 24 (Thursday) and September 27 (Sunday) for Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious event of the Muslims.The UK High Commission issued a...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to reassure US business leaders, in a wide-ranging speech covering China's economic reforms and cyber crime. Speaking in Seattle at the start of his state visit to the US, Mr Xi said foreign firms...
Trains and launches leaving Dhaka are crowded with people rushing back home on the last working day before the Eid-ul Azha holidays. The river-terminal in Dhaka city was overflowing with thousands of people on Wednesday morning. The Kamalapur Railway Station...
Australian housing sector has "peaked", increasing the risk of recession, according to new report. Analysts at investment bank Morgan Stanley said lower migration rates, tighter financial lending rules and over-supply would blunt housing growth. Australia's official cash rate is a...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday warned of exemplary action against the people involved in raising extra bus fare taking the advantage of on rush of Eid passengers. People were seen crowding buses, trains and launches yesterday...
India's cabinet has approved a $2.5bn (£1.7bn) deal to buy 37 military helicopters from the US aviation company Boeing. The news comes ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US later this week, a BBC report said....
Despite movement of a large number of vehicles, the traffic remained normal in and around Chandra Trimore point on Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Gazipur district on Wednesday. Community police along with highway, traffic and district police continue to perform their role...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in separate raids arrested 13 members of dope (agyan) gangs from different parts of the capital on Wednesday. The arrestees are: Ali Hossain, Sazzad Hossain,Manu Mia, Omar Faruk alias Kalu, Amir Hossain alias Tukon, Md...
The government has appointed Engineer Shahjahan Mahmud chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) changing its previous order appointing senior secretary Iqbal Mahmud about a month ago. Shahjahan Mahmud will now replace Sunil Kanti Bose whose tenure expires on...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) disposed of some 495 complaints, out of a total of 496 received from bank customers in August this year (2015). The percentage of settlements is an impressive 99.8 per cent. A central bank statement said that its...
Condemning the killing of four people in police firing in Tangail, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said now killing people is much easier than killing a fly. “People only staged demonstrations protesting the assault on a mother in front...
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