India has enhanced a line of credit (LoC) of US dollar 1 billion to Bangladesh for a range of projects in the railways, communications, infrastructure and other sectors. Out of this amount, $200 million was converted to grant which has...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
Stocks ended flat in green on Wednesday amid choppy trading throughout the session as investors booked profit.The market opened lower with high fluctuation and finally closed in mixed trend. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went...
Border Guard Bangladesh personnel recovered 24 gold bars from Bhuidoba Sautalpara area under Panchbibi upazila in Joypurhat district on Wednesday. The BGB members also arrested a man in this connection. The arrested was identified as Mamunur Rashid, 35, son of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the Turkish entrepreneurs to invest in Bangladesh for mutual benefits. “Invest in Bangladesh’s potential sectors for the benefit of the two brotherly countries,” the prime minister said on Wednesday morning when outgoing Turkish...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government colleges should be brought under the aegis of public universities as affiliated institutes. This would help reduce the pressure of coping with huge student populations for the public universities, she suggested, a...
Coaching centres and government employees have been part of a big nexus in leaking question papers prior to all the public examinations, reveals a new study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). The study says it is quite impossible to...
Yet in another shocking incident, police recovered the body of another minor boy who was allegedly tortured to death at Amkhola village in Taltoli upazila of the district on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Rabiul Awal, 10, a...
Former Pakistan cricket team captain Wasim Akram has been shot at while travelling in his car to the National Stadium in Karachi on Wednesday. He is safe and the nature or motive behind the attack is yet to known, reports...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Ministry on Wednesday suggested the government raise the penalty rate for violating traffic rules after amending the law. The committee came up with the recommendation at its 9th meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Wednesday set August 11 to pronounce judgement in the case against Bagerhat Razakar duo Sheikh Sirajul Haque alias Siraj Master and Khan Akram Hossain. Abdul Latif Talukder, accomplice of Siraj and Akram and another...
A fishing boat carrying an estimated 600 migrants capsized on Wednesday in the Mediterranean north of Libya, and at least 150 people were spotted in the sea, Irish military officials said. The Irish naval vessel Le Niamh was one of...
The Department of Environment has slapped a housing project run by Bangladesh Army with a Tk 5 million fine for harming the environment in Narayanganj’s Rupganj Upazila. The ‘Jolshiri Abashon’ project is located between Shitalakhyya River and Balu River in...
As many as 346 doctors were promoted as associate professors on Wednesday. Of them, 214 promoted doctors were also given new postings in various government medical colleges outside Dhaka at the directive of the Prime Minister, said a handout of...
Police in Chandpur have arrested a couple for beating to death their three-year-old child to drive off the jinn who they said possessed her. Emran Hossain, 40, and Amena Begum, 35, were implicated and sent to jail following a court...
Three women, including a dumb and a physically challenged one, were raped in Sirajganj, Satkhira and Gazipur districts on Monday. In Sirajganj, a physically handicapped young girl was gang-raped by some unidentified miscreants in the BSCIC area of Shajadpur upazila,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed on Wednesday the authorities concerned to immediately send emergency relief assistance for the flood-hit people of Myanmar, according to a news agency. --- Syed Shahjahan
Amid the widespread criticisms over the death of children in torture across the country, two more people, including a teenage boy, have brutally been tortured after being tied with trees over a trifling matter in Baraigram upazila in Natore district....
The government will procure 30-50 MW power from the open market of India to meet the country’s power necessity. The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) on Wednesday approved the proposal for procuring power through bilateral deal. Finance Minister Abul...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
The growth of intra-regional trade in South Asia, fraught as it is with barriers, is slow. Although most of the barriers are already identified, removal of these becomes difficult due to lack of effective commitments. SAARC to SAARC trade increased...
Saleh Akram | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
Unusual symptoms sweeping over nature and environment have become talking points of the environmentalists around the world. The nature now is characterized by inconsistencies and irregularities unknown to us until recently. Variations in weather, nature and frequencies of cyclone, extent...
The hope for an early engagement of the international oil companies (IOCs) in oil exploration in the country's offshore blocks following the settlement of maritime boundary disputes with Myanmar and India is, apparently, fading fast. Prior to the settlement of...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
As usual, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has announced the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the next six months of the FY 2015-16. This time it has created two special funds totalling $ 500 million and kept other components and targets...
Anwar Faruq Talukder | 2015-08-05 00:00:00
A policy gives direction to objectives to be achieved. The Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), announced by the Bangladesh Bank (BB) is such an instrument that guides one to plan one's business for the next six months. However, the aim of...
The electronic and print media reported on Friday, July 31 that six people died in a landslide from a hill in Lama, Bandarban. Every year in rainy season landslides cause several deaths. It must be stopped forever. We can do...
Friends are a very important part of our life as they are always with us no matter what the situation is. One may have many friends, but the number of close friends is always a few and they remain friends...
Prices of essentials often go up and middle- and low-income people are inevitably the worst sufferers. When price of a particular commodity goes down in the international market, it does not take effect in our local market. For example, price...
Commercial Paper (CP) is basically a short-term debt security issued by highly rated companies to raise funds for funding operating expenses as well as current assets such as account receivables and inventories. Maturities on CP rarely range any longer than...
RANGPUR, Aug 4 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here Monday stressed the need for inspiring the private sector small entrepreneurs in promoting jute-based handloom industries for enhancing production of eco-friendly diversified jute products. They said this while speaking at a...
RANGPUR, Aug 4 (BSS): Cultivation of different kinds of fruits has been boosting fast in recent years in five districts under Rangpur Agriculture Region making over 25,000 farmers and common people self-reliant. Repeated bumper production with lucrative price have been...
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