A large amount of Indian currency notes have been found in a container at Chittagong Sea Port. The Indian currency notes were found in the container that arrived from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and was marked as loaded with...
Heavy Rains around the country for the last two days triggered the landslide in the hills overlooking in Jalalabad area in Chittagonj district on Monday. A woman and her daughter were killed in this landslide. The deceased were identified as...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
Stocks posted marginal gains Monday, extending the positive trend for the third sessions in a row amid choppy trading. Analysts said the market witnessed a choppy trading throughout the session as both the optimist and shaky investors demonstrated their active...
With only three days left for Eid-ul-Azha, cattle markets in Rajshahi city and nine upazilas of the district along with its adjacent areas have gained momentum with numerous buyers and hundreds of sacrificial animals of both local and imported. A...
The valley of Mina is all prepared to welcome the Guests of Allah who will start streaming into the tent city from tomorrow (Tuesday) in preparation for the Day of Arafat which falls on Wednesday. Custodian of the Two Holy...
India's stock markets recouped some of the initial losses to end flat on Monday following weaker US markets last week after the Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates steady at record lows sparked worries about global growth. The BSE...
The main jamaat (congregation) of the Holy Eid-ul-Azha will be held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises in Dhaka at 8:00am on Friday (September 25). The decision has been taken at a meeting on overall preparation of...
The Cabinet on Monday adopted two separate thanksgiving motions, one greeting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for being named as a winner of 'Champions of the Earth Award' for her government's role in addressing climate change in Bangladesh. The Cabinet adopted...
The government has decided to bring in a concerted law for the management of public sector trusts. Once it is enacted, there will be no need for separate laws for the formation of each trust. A decision to this regard...
A writ petition seeking judicial inquiry into the recent incident of killings in police firing in Kalihati upazila of Tangail was filed with the High Court. Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) executive director Salma Ali filed the writ, making...
Two people were shot dead during a clash between two factions of Jubo League over establishing supremacy at a market in Sandwip upazila of Chittagong on Monday. The deceased were identified as Kabir, 40, sales representative of a private company...
Police on Monday morning foiled a human chain of admission seekers who arranged the programme demanding cancellation of the results of this year's MBBS and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) admission tests over alleged leak of question papers. A group...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel seized a large consignment of Yaba pills on Monday in the outskirts of Narayanganj city. More than 500,000 Yaba tablets were seized from six persons in Siddhirganj Upazila of Narayanganj, said RAB-2 official Major Syed...
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has endorsed guidelines on retaining mobile-phone number after switching operator. Minister of State for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim has said that the Prime Minister’s Office has greenlighted guidelines on mobile number portability (MNP) that...
German Foreign Minister Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Laurent Fabius on Monday visited Bangladesh to witness the effects of climate change on this country. In the run-up to the crucial climate conference COP21 in Paris, the two Foreign Ministers wanted...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ruled out the possibility of any impact of radicalization in secular Bangladesh. "Radicalization does not affect much Bangladesh as it is a secular country. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies are very much active to...
A joint meeting of BNP and its associate bodies was held on Monday at the party’s Nayapaltan central office. The meeting, chaired by BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, discussed various issues relating to its organisational activities and party’s...
BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Saturday warned the government that the country's political situation may take a serious turn if the government does not resolve the current crisis, reports UNB. "Political crisis is prevailing in...
Digital services have been introduced at the apex court as well as many lower ones across the country as part of bringing the entire judiciary under digitisation process to make it time-befitting, reduce harassment of justice seekers and dispose of...
Teachers in all government colleges in Chittagong have begun their two-day abstention from work protesting the discrimination in the new pay scale and abolition of time scale and selection-grade, reports bdnews24.com. No classes and tests at 20 colleges in the...
Updating of electoral rolls has failed to generate much interest among the under-18 citizens in Bangladesh, leaving the Election Commission (EC) worried and groping for answers, reports bdnews24.com. The inertia appears most pronounced among those in the 15-16 age group....
A Supreme Court lawyer has sent a legal notice to the government seeking cancellation of medical and dental colleges' admission test, reports bdnews24.com. The notice had been sent to the secretaries to the Cabinet Division, and the ministries of law...
FE Report | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) launched Saturday its second Strategic Plan (2015-2019) that, it expects, would contribute to the task of achieving sustainable and inclusive growth and maintaining financial stability. BB governor Dr. Atiur Rahman formally unveiled the five-year plan at...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
Taxpayers are now barred from claiming rebate on investment of previously earned profit gains from savings instruments in the current fiscal year's (FY) tax return. Officials said those who have already submitted income-tax returns have to get those revised following...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
Continuous erosion in export receipts in recent months has stirred up worries among economists. They attribute the slow growth in export revenue to fall of Euro and appreciation of local currency Taka against US dollar. Many economists have also listed...
M. A. Taslim | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
When the World Bank withdrew its proposed funding of $1.2 billion for the construction of Padma Bridge alleging 'corruption conspiracy' at the high level of the government, the latter responded by promising the people that the bridge would be built...
A three-member probe body headed by additional DIG (Discipline) Mohammad Alamgir Khan has been formed to investigate Friday's untoward incident in Tangail that left three people killed in police firing. The other enquiry committee members are: additional police super of...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
The timing of creation of a special economic zone for the Chinese investors was announced unheralded and as a coincidence recently. And now is the time to woo beleaguered Chinese businesses. Side by side the careful but much maligned management...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh is not sitting around waiting for the world "to save us" rather it's fighting for its own future with limited resources and technologies, reports BSS. "We are keen to see the Sustainable Development Goals...
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