Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
More areas in the country's south and southeastern districts are likely to be flooded again due to collapse of many river dams there in the last 24 hours ending at 6:00pm Tuesday, officials and public representatives said. They said river...
FE Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
The government has decided to form two joint investigation teams to deal with anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing issues, officials said. The decision was taken Tuesday at a meeting of the working committee formed earlier to make policies and implement...
FE Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
The German consulting firm -- ILF Consulting Engineers -- has carried out a fresh survey over building the country's maiden single-point mooring (SPM) system and suggested changes in the project. However, the changes as suggested by the consultant will push...
FE Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) investigation team submitted its report on BASIC Bank loan scam to the commission on Tuesday, recommending filing cases against 56 people, excluding the bank's then chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, sources said. The report, submitted at...
India is expected to surpass China as the most populous in seven years, according to a report by www.economist.com on Monday The world's population is projected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050, according to a new...
FE Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
Bangladeshi exporters and importers can save a handsome amount of foreign currencies annually by switching over to multicurrency exchange-rate system from the existing US dollar-dominated international trading regime. How such higher benefits from foreign trade can be reaped was shown...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
Country's first nuclear power plant, being built at Rooppur in Pabna, generated some pertinent questions as officials said the project proceeded without full feasibility study and its overall cost assessment. The government obtained a loan worth US $500 million (Tk...
A minor boy was tortured to death allegedly by his employers at Tutpara Central Road in Khulna city Monday evening, report agencies. The deceased was identified as Rakib (12) son of Alam Haldar of the area. The father of the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
There was no celebration by investors in the streets of the business district of Motijheel Tuesday, the day following the newly-formed special tribunal delivered its maiden verdict in a stock market-related case. The tribunal sentenced one Mahbub Sarwar, a former...
FE Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
Higher inflationary pressure heralded the current financial year (FY) 2015-16 as the rate of inflation, on point-to-point basis, rose to 6.36 per cent in July by official count. Higher consumer-price index in the urban areas mainly pushed up the important...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has initiated move to scrutinise the bank accounts of the country's telecom operators for assessing their tax returns for fiscal year (FY) 2014-15. The Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) under the income tax wing recently...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone of Information Bhaban on the Circuit House Road in the city tomorrow (Thursday). The 16-storey building on 38 acres of land will have offices of three directorates under the Information Ministry....
The 2nd phase of written examination of government primary school teachers’ appointment will be held on August 28. Primary and Mass Education ministry public relations officer Rabindranath Roy has said the test will be held from 3:00pm to 4:20pm on...
A college girl was gang-raped by miscreants in the city on Tuesday afternoon. Sub-inspector of Jatrabari Police Station Abdullah Biswas said the 20-year-old girl along with her boyfriend came to the house of one of the acquaintances of the boy...
A court in Rangpur has sentenced a couple to life term rigorous imprisonment for possessing and trading in contraband drugs. Rangpur District and Sessions Judge Manjurul Basit delivered the verdict on Tuesday afternoon in a crowded courtroom in presence of...
Police in a drive arrested the president of Sherpur district unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and one of his friends along with ‘hemp’ from Sarmara village in Bakshiganj upazila on Tuesday afternoon. The arrested were identified as Junayed Nurani...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert W Gibson has taken up responsibility as the new Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Bangladesh. “Honoured today to become Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps in Bangladesh. Respect for my predecessor,” the British diplomat...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a young man along with two pistols and four magazines in Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday afternoon. The arrested is Abdul Momim, 20, son of Ismail Hossain of Sodashibpur village. A team...
Another girl of Garo tribe has allegedly been raped in Bhatara near Badda in Dhaka city, where a girl of the same tribe was raped two-and-half months ago. Police sent the girl to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for medical test...
‘Uncle, please stop now, or else, I will die,’ pleaded Khulna boy with killers who were filling his body with toxic air. Md Rakib’s screams could not melt the hearts of his torturers, says one of his friends who heard...
Two trains were partially swept off a flooded bridge over a river in India's Madhya Pradesh overnight, killing at least 20 people and injuring 100, the government said on Wednesday. Divers using gas cutters pulled out passengers trapped in waterlogged...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday amid volatility, the fourth session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 11.42...
A police official in Khulna earned peoples wrath for allegedly assaulting an elderly villager on Tuesday, prompting a local court to order investigation into the charge against him. Court and local sources said officer-in-charge (OC) of Batiaghata Police Station Moniruzzaman...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
Two additional judges of the High Court (HC), who were made permanent judges on Monday, took oath on Wednesday. Justice Md Shahinur Islam and Justice Kashefa Hussain were sworn-in by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in the morning as permanent...
Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has formed a three-member probe body to investigate the brutal killing of 12-year-old boy Rakib in the south-western city on Monday. The probe body was formed on Wednesday with Additional Police Commissioner Mahbubul Hakim as its...
A boy drowned in a pond at Borodaho village in Shailakupa upazila in Jhenidah on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Nayan Hossain, 8, son of Sekandar Ali of the village. Locals said Nayan slipped into the pond in...
A mobile court in Sirajganj has sentenced three people to different terms of rigorous imprisonment for possession of contraband drugs. The convicts were identified as Abdur Razzak, 34, Rana, 31, and Sanowar Hossain, 29, hailing from Sonamukhi Bazar in Kazipur...
The High Court (HC) has lifted the freeze on Gatco graft case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and others about 8 years ago. It ordered that the case will continue. The HC on Wednesday rejected two writ petitions filed...
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