Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-08-31 00:00:00
The finance ministry has instructed the revenue board to form a panel comprising intelligence officials of its income tax, value-added tax (VAT) and customs wings to face mutual evaluation by the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) of the progress on combating money...
Siddique Islam | 2015-08-31 00:00:00
The credit-deposit ratio (CDR) of all banks again dived down 70 per cent in the middle of July as available foreign-currency loans at lower interests are virtually crowding them out, bankers said. All banks' CDR came down to 69.79 per...
Sadiq Ahmed | 2015-08-31 00:00:00
South Asia is well known as a region of conflicts, poverty and poor governance. While the rest of the world has found ways to cooperate, South Asian countries remain suspicious of each other and keep old wounds alive. There are...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-31 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Aug 30: A fire at the Shikalbaha 60-megawatt power station was brought under control by 6.00 pm on Sunday, fire control sources said. The fire occurred from a short-circuit in the transmission line of the station, forcing suspension of...
SYLHET, Aug 30 (UNB): Seven teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) were assaulted allegedly by leaders and activists of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in front of the vice-chancellor's office on Sunday morning. Prof...
Alleging that all the incidents of enforced disappearance took place at the behest of the government, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia urged on Sunday the United Nations to take an initiative for forming an international probe team to look into the...
The 10th parliament is set to go into its seventh session around 5:00 pm tomorrow (Tuesday). President Abdul Hamid summoned the parliament session on August 16 last exercising his power bestowed upon him by Article 72 (1) of the Constitution....
CHITTAGONG, Aug 30: Muggers looted Tk 10 million (1 crore) after shooting three people at Mithachhara Bazar in Mirsarai upazila Sunday. The victims were identified as Emran Uddin, owner of three filling stations, his manager Jahangir Alam and driver Barun...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert W Gibson said Sunday cricket is not just a sport in Bangladesh rather it is a passion, and hoped that it would strengthen bonding among nations further, reports UNB. He made the remarks at...
The 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) will go into its 7th session around on Tuesday afternoon. President Abdul Hamid summoned the parliament session on August 16 last exercising his power bestowed upon him by article 72 (1) of the Constitution. The...
A Dhaka court has issued a warrant for the arrest of 20 BNP leaders and activists, including its standing committee member Mirza Abbas, in two violence cases filed with Mirpur Police Station. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the order after...
The Supreme Court has turned down the pleas of BNP standing committee member Dr Khandker Mosharraf Hossain seeking the review of its earlier verdict imposing guidelines for the High Court to grant anticipatory bail. A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed...
The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) will not accept any handwritten passport from early next month in Bangladesh. In a statement, it said no no handwritten passport will be accepted for Indian visa from September 1. The decision was taken...
A probe committee will be formed to investigate Sunday's fire incident at Shikalbaha Power Station in Chittagong. The committee will also assess the losses caused by the fire to the 60 Mega Watt power plant situated in the port city's...
A businessman abducted by identified miscreants from Adabar area in Dhaka on Saturday, has been rescued from the city’s Dhanmondi area. Police rescued abducted garment businessman Sohel and arrested one of the kidnappers on Sunday afternoon. The arrested abductor was...
At least six people have been killed and an unspecified number injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Maynamoti in Comilla district on Monday morning. Identitities of the deceased could not be known. Maynamoti Highway police sources...
A teacher who has allegedly raped a female student of a madrasa in the city reportedly managed to escape hoodwinkink madrasa authorities, local people and the police. Teacher, Hasan Khandaker, allegedly raped a girl in the madrasa situated in Dholairpar...
A young man has been killed in a road accident in Sadarghat area in Chittagong city. The deceased was identified as Shahed Mallik, 26, an employee of ‘4H Group’. Police and local sources said a covered-van ran over Shahed in...
President Md Abdul Hamid on Monday morning returned home from London wrapping up his eight-day visit to the United Kingdom for medical treatment and check-up. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-31 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hour of trading on Monday, the second session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 14.89 points or...
Asian stocks fell Monday after a US Federal Reserve official suggested a September interest rate hike still was possible and Japanese factory activity weakened. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.6 per cent to 3,148.08 and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 retreated 1.7...
A suspected pirate was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Dorjarkhal area of Swarankhola upazila of Bagerhat district on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Khalilur Rahman, 32, hailing from Pathorghata upazila...
Oil prices fell in Asia on Monday as traders took profits, snapping gains last week that saw the biggest two-day rally in six years. The fall came after Brent climbed 10 per cent last week, while US crude finished the...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday extended for six weeks its earlier order asking BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, now staying in the United States for treatment, to surrender before lower court in...
Gulf stock markets fell in early trade on Monday after oil prices retreated again and China dragged down Asian equities. Brent crude slipped 1.3 per cent to $49.41 per barrel on Monday morning as traders took profits after last week's...
A man was allegedly killed after being hit with a stick by his elder brother over a trifling matter at Dodanghi village in Manda upazila of Naogoan district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Ishhak Ali, 37, son of...
Australian shares fell 1 per cent on Monday, capping its worst monthly performance in 7 years, amid confusion over central bank policy direction in the US and China. The index fell 8.6 per cent in August, its biggest monthly decline...
The honours admission test for Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) admission test for will begin on November 14. The decision was taken at a meeting of the admission committee on Sunday afternoon with SUST Vice-chancellor Dr Aminul Haque...
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