Army claims to have nabbed an accomplice of Myanmar separatist outfit 'Arakan Army' from the hill tract district of Rangamati, reports bdnews24.com. Army's Rangamati-based brigade said that one Ong Owong Rakhain, 20, was detained from Rajsthali Upazila's Taitong Parha during...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-08-28 00:00:00
Economists and experts have expressed mixed reactions over the latest hike in electricity and gas prices. Some of them argued that there are justifications for the price hike on the ground of substantial subsidy, being provided by the government, especially...
FE Report | 2015-08-28 00:00:00
The country's energy regulator increased natural gas and power tariffs on Thursday on an average by 26.29 per cent and 2.93 per cent respectively for retail consumers with effect from September 01. The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) also raised...
FE Report | 2015-08-28 00:00:00
The country's revenue board has made a list of businessmen who have deprived the government of huge revenues annually by dodging taxes in various ways, its chief Md. Nojibur Rahman said Thursday. The Chairman of the National Board of Revenue...
Siddique Islam | 2015-08-28 00:00:00
The central bank has imposed cap on lending rate for onion import financing until December 30 to ensure smooth supply of the essential item to the local market, officials said. Under the restriction, the banks are allowed to charge maximum...
FE Report | 2015-08-28 00:00:00
Import of software would be costlier as the government slapped 15 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) Thursday giving it retrospective effect from June 04, 2015 in a bid to facilitate local software producers. Except operating system (OS), all types...
NAOGAON, Aug 27: A Bangladeshi young man was allegedly beaten to death by members of the Border Security Force of India (BSF) near the Kolumdanga border in Sapahar upazila of the district early Thursday. The deceased was identified as cattle...
A woman was killed and 10 others were injured as a boat sank in the Sonai River in Madhabpur upazila headquarters of Habiganj district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Firoza Begum, 40, wife of Nur Mia of Madhabpur...
Asian stocks rose Friday as upbeat US economic data lifted investors' spirits following days of stomach-churning turbulence sparked by a heavy sell-off in China. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index led regional gains, adding 2.5 per cent to 19,020.35. The Shanghai...
A local leader of Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Siladi in Sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Sabuj Hossain, general secretary of no 1 Siladi union...
Oil soared more than 10 per cent Thursday, its biggest one-day gain since March 2009, lifted by resurgent global stock markets and a report showing the US economy grew faster than previously reported in the second quarter. US oil rose...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a drive seized 0.21 million pieces of Indian bidi of ‘Nasir Group’ and an engine-run boat at Asam Para village in Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet on Thursday. Acting on secret information, a team of...
US stocks are closing sharply higher after China's main stock index logged its biggest gain in eight weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 369.26 points, or 2.3 per cent, to 16,654.77. That took the two-day gain for the index...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a man along with three firearms and five bullets and a magazine from Sabur Market area in Laxmipur district on Thursday. The arrested was identified as Atikur Rahman, son of Abdur Rahman of Gandhyabpur...
Talk about a social network: Almost one out of every seven people on Earth used Facebook (FB). Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post that 1 billion people logged into the world's biggest social network. "This was the...
The first namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party (Z) chairman and former Prime Minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed was held at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Friday morning. BNP central committee member Hasan Uddin Sarkar, general secretary of JP's Gazipur city unit...
Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying up to 500 migrants capsized off the Libyan city of Zuwara, residents and officials say. The first boat, which signalled for help early on Thursday, had nearly 50 people on...
A teenage boy died after he was bitten by a snake at Gandhodatta village in the municipal area of Zakiganj upazila of Sylhet district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sayeedur Rahman, 14, son of Abdul Halim of the...
A college student drowned while taking bath in Tangon River at Ghidor village in Pirganj upazila of Thakurgaon district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mrinal Kanti, 17, a student of Pirganj DN Technical College and son of Ikru...
At least 30 people were injured, 15 of them with bullets, as they locked in clash with robbers during a robbery incident in a bus at Burni in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet district on Thursday midnight. Locals said when a...
A suspected thief was killed in a lynch-mob attack while trying to steal money from the donation box of a mosque at Manikmura village in Nangalkot upazila of Comilla district early Friday. The deceased could not be identified immediately. Nazrul...
Indian and Pakistani border guards traded gunfire in the divided region of Kashmir, leaving two Indian civilians dead and another 16 wounded, an Indian official said Friday. Simrandeep Singh, a local administrator, accused the Pakistani guards of unprovoked firing of...
A labourer, whose job is to load and unload bricks, was killed as he slipped down under the wheels of a truck on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Changil in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet district on Thursday. The deceased identified as...
The S&P BSE Sensex surged over 450 points in trade on Friday tracking positive trend seen in other Asian markets. The broader 50-share Nifty barometer also managed to reclaim its crucial psychological resistance level of 8050 and was nearing its...
Police recovered the body of a woman, who had remained missing from Thursday night, from a pond at Borai village in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Beauty Rani Das, 36, wife of Gopal...
European equities opened higher on Friday, having already recouped all their losses from a bruising 8 per cent correction earlier this week, with investors betting on easy central-bank policy to combat a slower growth outlook. The FTSEurofirst 300 index was...
Water levels in 47 rivers stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 36 stations recorded falls in the country. Among the 84 monitored water level stations, none is above danger level, a bulletin issued...
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