Rezaul Karim | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
Most private sector importers of petroleum products and banks concerned are allegedly not complying with a necessary provision in opening L/Cs (letters of credit) to import the same. Taking their non-compliance into account, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has...
FE Report | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
The latest pay hike of the government employees will not create any new inflationary pressure, according to the country's economists. The government, however, needs to strengthen vigilance, so that unscrupulous quarters can't take any undue advantages, they opined. The economists...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
The government finally awarded contract to Russian gas-major Gazprom for drilling five onshore gas wells, skipping tender process for the second time, official sources said. Under the unsolicited deal, the Russian firm will be paid US$ 98.19 million for the...
The Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) passed Monday the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Bill 2015, aimed at spurring investment in the country. The bill was unanimously passed in the house, with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair, by voice vote. Agriculture...
Those who have registered their mobile-phone SIM cards properly during purchase will not be required to go through the process again, says the telecom regulator. Bangladesh Telecommun-ications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose at a press briefing Monday said,...
Customs Intelligence officials have seized huge illegal Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment worth Tk 100 million (10 crore) at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Briefing reporters at the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) office, its Director-General Mainul Khan said 'Sadia Trading...
Bangladesh National Football team will play their home match of the FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers against top ranking Jordan today at 5 pm at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city, reports UNB. Private Satellite TV...
Tamanna Akter finished 18th position in the woman 100m sprint athletics event of the 5th Commonwealth Youth Games now being held in Samoa, reports BSS. She took 13.01 second to finish the spot among the 28 participants. In the men's...
Hosts Bangladesh suffered 2nd consecutive defeat in the ICRC T20 International Cricket Tournament for Physically Disabled after conceding a three- wicket defeat against Afghanistan on the BKSP ground-3 in Savar on Monday, reports UNB. Bangladesh made a good start beating...
A case was filed against Bangladesh National Cricket Team player Shahadat Hossain and his wife Nitto Shahadat over torturing their housemaid early Monday, reports UNB. A journalist named Mojammel Hossain filed the case with Mirpur Model Police Station in the...
The latest stage of the 2015 Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup, one of the sports largest and most exciting amateur tournaments, was held at Kurmitola Golf Club in the city on Saturday, said a press release. The 56th of 70...
The government has introduced a new pay scale for the armed forces employees in line with the civil servants, bringing the chiefs of the three services under a uniform pay scale. A regular Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh...
Despite a sharp fall in the cattle influx from India due to their tight border monitoring, Bangladesh has already got a stock of three million (30 lakh) cows and buffalos and 6.9 million (69 lakh) goats, and the number may...
A man has been killed in a road accident in Jatrabari area in Dhaka city. Police quoting witnesses said Abul Kalam, 45, was actually sandwiched by two buses. Pedestrian Mizanur Rahman who also witnessed the accident, said that a recklessly-driving...
A suspected robber was killed in mob beating in Mohichail-Gozaria area under Chandina Upazila in Comilla district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Yunus, 32, son of Salim Uddin. Police, quoting local sources, said a gang of robbers swooped...
Police have pressed charges against 11 people, including Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) president Subrata Biswas and its general secretary Shamim Hasan, in a case filed in connection with the killing of JUST...
A young housewife and her minor daughter were strangulated to death allegedly by her husband over a dowry-related feud in Kaliganj upazila in Satkhira district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Sabina Khatun, 24, wife of Abdur Rauf, a...
Asian stock markets were lackluster Tuesday after weak Chinese trade and Japanese growth figures showed headwinds for the global economy. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index fell 0.9 per cent to 17,699.52 and the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.5 per cent...
An elderly man with physical disabilities drowned in a pond at Kanainagar village under Mohammadpur Police Station in Magura district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Akhil Biswas, 40, son of Ananto Biswas, a resident of the village. Family...
Police arrested a fake member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district on Monday. The arrestee was identified as Dipak Chandra, son of late Anil Chandra, a resident of Amdanga village in Ullapara upazila. Sub-inspector of...
Police arrested 15 Islami Chhatra Shibir activists from a students’ dormitory in Daulatpur in Khula city on Monday. Police also seized jihadi books and leaflets from their possessions. Additional Deputy Police Commissioner Moniruzzaman Mithu said, being tipped off, a team...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-08 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday, the third trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 12.88 points...
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 19 suspected dopers from different places of the city in separate drives from Monday night till early Tuesday. The law enforcers also seized huge sedatives and herbal medicines from...
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Tuesday took the charges against nine people, including former BNP and Jamaat MP Maulana Shakhawat Hossain, into cognizance in the cases for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1071. The three-member tribunal...
India has made it easier for minorities from Bangladesh and Pakistan to stay in the country. A release by the Press Information Bureau of the Union government circulated on Monday said “India has decided, on humanitarian considerations, to exempt Bangladeshi...
India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the state government of Tamil Nadu and the Chennai police over alleged harassment of refugees from Myanmar. Taking suo moto cognizance of a media report about alleged mistreatment of...
Germany told its European partners they must take in more refugees on Monday as it struggles to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers and as police in Hungary used pepper spray on migrants who broke out of a reception...
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