Suspected terrorists killed a man and dumped his body in a canal near his house in Sonaimuri upazila in Noakhali district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Md Abdur Rashid 70, son of Md Abdur Rahman, hailed from Rasulpur...
Peace talks between India and Pakistan has collapsed hours before they were scheduled to start, as the nuclear-armed rivals were unable to overcome deep-rooted mutual mistrust. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif agreed to the talks during...
Bangladeshi gold merchants have raised the prices of the yellow metal by around Tk1,500 per bhori (11.664 grams) after it became costlier in the international market. Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) have said they raised gold prices on August 6, 2015,...
Railways Minister Md Mazibul Hoque has termed Finance Minister AMA Muhith as ‘prime minister’ at a programme in Dhaka. Hoque was speaking in English while addressing the Centennial Celebration of Hardinge Bridge. The railways minister termed Muhith, the chief guest...
A half-day hartal is being observed in Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur district on Sunday. The shutdown programme, announced on Saturday by Kaliakoir upazila unit of Awami League protesting the killing of Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, former president of the upazila unit...
President Md Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for London on Sunday morning on an eight-day tour of the United Kingdom for medical checkup. According to the President’s press secretary Joynal Abedin, Hamid left Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport for London by...
Police in a drive arrested a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh from Syampur bridge area in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Sunday on sabotage charges. The arrestee was identified as Abu Bakar, 37, son of Shukur Uddin, a resident of...
For the moment, North and South Korea have pulled back from the brink, agreeing Sunday to continue their first high-level talks in nearly a year and temporarily pushing aside vows of imminent war. The first round of marathon talks, however,...
Police in a drive arrested a man along with 32 grams of heroin from a bus on the Magura-Jessore road in Arpara area of Shalikha upazila of Magura district Saturday evening. The arrestee was identified as Faruk Ahmed, 32, son...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-23 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 20.64 points or...
The culture of impunity, lack of rule of law, moral degradation and vulnerabilities of women and children in society are among the main reasons behind the recent spate of child killing and rape, experts say. They think incidents like brutal...
The Appealed Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday rejected the writ petition filed by former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique against the High Court (HC) order dismissing his writ challenging the jurisdiction of Election Commission...
British Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne arrived in Dhaka on Sunday to reaffirm Britain’s commitment to supporting Bangladesh’s development. During the three-day visit, the UK state minister will also assess progress made towards promoting economic prosperity and...
Three people, including a police constable, were killed as a bus hit the police constable and an auto-rickshaw in Gournadi bus stand area of Gournadi upazila of Barisal district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Jahid Hossain, 35, a...
Three people, including a police constable, were killed as a bus hit the police constable and an auto-rickshaw in Gournadi bus stand area of Gournadi upazila of Barisal district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Jahid Hossain, 35, a...
Expelled Awami League leader and former minister Abdul Latif Siddique says he will resign from Parliament. “I will resign voluntarily. That’s my decision. There is no need to hold a hearing on it,” he told a hearing at the Election...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-23 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the red Sunday after three sessions, with turnover dipping below Tk 5.0 billion-mark after one month, as investors were reluctant to make fresh investments. The market opened higher in the morning but failed to sustain. DSEX, the...
The High Court has quashed two pleas by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Barapukuria Coal Mine graft case. Justices Md Nuruzzaman and Abdur Rob gave the order on Sunday regarding the petitions asking for submission of lower court records...
Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated India’s newest bank, Bandhan Bank Ltd, in a ceremony in Kolkata attended by regulators, policy makers and luminaries from financial sector and corporate India on Sunday. Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman was also present....
The three lawyers, who were arrested on charge of terror financing, reportedly made their confessional statements before a court here on Sunday. Banshkhali senior judicial magistrate Sazzad Hossain recorded the statements of the three lawyers, including two of the Supreme...
Detectives on Saturday night arrested two drug traders with 60,000 Yaba tablets from the capital’s Khilgaon area. The arrestees were M Hasan Ali, 31, and M Rakib Ali, 32, a news agency report said. A team of DB police conducted...
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Sunday pressed charges against two people for violating an indigenous woman in a microbus in the city on May 21. Ajmila Nasrin, ASP of Rab-1 and investigation officer of the case, submitted the chargesheet...
Pirates abducted 26 fishermen from different areas of Barguna Sunday morning. Pirates abducted 20 fishermen from Pakkidia area, 50 kilometer away from pathargata, Barguna while six other fishermen were abducted from Kachikhali area near Sundarban. Pirates attacked fishing boats at...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith today said another instalment of IMF's US$ 1 billion loan would be released on early September. "I believe another instalment of IMF's loan will be released by the end of this month or early...
A 'shootout' between the police and a ‘robbers’ gang’ early on Sunday has left a youth dead in South Keraniganj. Local police’s Officer in Charge Monirul Islam claimed the shootout took place at Par Gendaria’s Shatpakhi area around 1:45am. The...
Usain Bolt retained his World Championship 100m crown by edging out Justin Gatlin in Beijing on Sunday. The Jamaican produced a season best time of 9.79 – just 0.01 quicker than his American counterpart – to secure his ninth World...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque Sunday called upon the law enforcement agencies to gear up drive against drug traffickers and peddlers to get the society rid of drug abuse. He called for launching a social movement to...
Observing that conflicts among Muslim countries are creating a scope for others to take advantage over the Muslim Ummah, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Muslim nations could settle their disputes through talks and take a united stance against...
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed has secured six-month’s interim bail from the High Court (HC) in two mayhem cases filed with Motijheel police station in Dhaka. Justices AKM Abdul Hakim and Ashish Ranjan Das gave the order...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-08-22 00:00:00
Child marriage - defined as 'formal marriage and informal union in which a girl/boy lives with her/his partner as if married before the age of 18 ' - is one of the most serious social menaces in the world. It...
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