Visiting Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma met on Saturday Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and apprised her about the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Malta in November next, reports UNB. After the meeting held at the Prime...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Economists say the devaluation of Chinese currency RMB, also known as yuan, against the US dollar will not harm Bangladesh's external trade rather help through cheaper import of raw materials from the giant economy. If effective negotiation is done, it...
FE Report | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA said Saturday the government would soon review the entire cash incentive package for the exporters and make a few more export items eligible for the benefit. Mr. Muhith also laid emphasis on diversification of both export products...
Minister for Primary and Mass Education Mostafizur Rahman said on Saturday if the number of students in any primary school stands below 35, those would be integrated with a nearby school, reports BSS. He said this in response to a...
FE Report | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Students of different private universities in the capital and other cities again demonstrated Saturday as they began a three-day strike to press for withdrawal of VAT on tuition fees. Students of universities located in the city's Dhandmondi, Sobhanbagh, Banani and...
Saudi Arabia has begun an investigation into why a crane collapsed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, killing at least 107 people, reports BBC. The huge red crane crashed into a part of the Grand Mosque as it was...
Bangladesh missions and the Hajj office in Saudi Arabia have opened hotlines to assist the pilgrims and expatriate workers following the fatal crane crash at the Grand Mosque on Friday. Consul (Hajj) at Bangladesh Hajj Office Md Jahirul Islam can...
The body of a BGB member, Jewel Rana, who went missing after a boat capsize on Thursday, was recovered from the Sangu River in Thanchi upazila of Bandarban district on Saturday afternoon. Jewel’s body was found around 2:15 pm, but...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Saturday said Bangladesh will set up warehouse at any country among Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, former Soviet republic) to boost exports. "The government will take every necessary step to introduce warehouse at...
Nagorik Chhatra and Jubo Oikya, the student and the youth wing of Nagorik Oikya, on Saturday demanded withdrawal of 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on private universities. The demand came from a human chain formed in front of...
Police have arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) from Baniachong Upazila in Habiganj district for allegedly violating a schoolgirl. The arrestee was identified as Samsul Alam, 35, vice-president of Kagapasha union unit of BCL and son of...
A man has been killed and his body dumped in a water body in Pathorghata Poura town in Barguna district. Locals found the body, bearing injury marks, in a ditch in municipal area and informed police on Saturday. Police recovered...
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that stormy winds knocked over the crane which collapsed onto one of Islam's holiest mosques in Holy city of Mecca and killed 107 people on Friday. "Heavy rain and strong winds of unusually high speed...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-13) personnel have arrested Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) councillor Raju Ahmed, 44, with illegal firearms and ammunitions in Rangpur. RAB-13 and police sources said in a press briefing arranged at RAB-13 Battalion Headquarters on Saturday afternoon that...
Chief Justice SK Sinha says it is high time that lawyers stopped wearing black coat and gown in courtroom during summer. SK Sinha, at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday, noted that court sessions were often hit by power cut....
England will play two Tests and three one-day international (ODI) matches against the Tigers during their Bangladesh tour in October-November, 2016. In 2010, Bangladesh toured England and England visited Bangladesh and both countries hosted complete series for one another. After...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the law enforcers would keep strong vigil to curb extortion from cattle head carrying transports ahead of holy Eid-ul- Azha. The Home Minister told journalists after speaking at a gathering of eminent...
Heath Streak of Zimbabwe, the bowling coach Bangladesh national cricket team, has been appointed as A team coach for the India tour this month. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday declared the appointment of the Zimbabwean pacer in new...
Kader Siddiqui’s Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL) has decided to put up candidate for the Tangail-4 constituency by-poll. The seat fell vacant after Kader Siddiqui’s elder brother and former Cabinet minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui resigned as member of the 10th...
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested six people for their suspected involvement with outlawed outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir Bangladesh (HuTi) in the city on Saturday night. A team of detectives conducted a drive in Khilkhet on Saturday night and picked...
Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma met with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her political office at Gulshan in Dhaka on Saturday night. The meeting lasted for about one-and-half hours, sources at the BNP chief’s media wing have said. They said...
The latest faith-based drama from the Kendrick brothers concerns a couple whose troubled marriage is healed by prayer. With such box-office successes as Facing the Giants, Fireproof and Courageous to their credit, there’s no denying that the Kendrick brothers have...
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a "day of action" in several European cities - and in Australia - in support of refugees and migrants. There have also been counter-demonstrations in some countries. Europe is struggling to...
Four firefighters were injured yesterday in a fast-moving wildfire in Northern California that forced the evacuation of thousands of people, officials said. The firefighters suffered second-degree burns as they battled the so-called Valley Fire, in Lake County, north of San...
Discussants at BBC Sanglap here yesterday observed that the imposition of 7.5 per cent VAT on tuition fees of private university students is discriminatory as it will raise education cost. “It’s a discriminatory attitude. It goes against the Article 15...
After getting a circular from the country’s Jute Commissioner’s Office yesterday, Petropole port authorities did not clear any truck with jute products waiting at Bangladesh’s Benapole port to enter. But Bangladesh authorities say they are yet to receive copy of...
Flavia Pennetta beat fellow Italian Roberta Vinci to win her first Grand Slam title at the US Open-2015, and then announced her retirement. Pennetta, the 26th seed, won 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to become only the second Italian woman to win...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading on Sunday, the first trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 8.53 points...
Wesley Snipes is legend among a certain section of the movie-watching public. As the human-vampire hybrid Blade from the cult 1998 film and its two sequels, the actor defined the superhero genre before a 'genre' really existed. So when reports...
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