The production of high quality smart national identity (NID) card will begin this (August) month. The Election Commission (EC) said people of Dhaka city and its adjoining area would get smart cards first. The EC said it would distribute the...
Police recovered the body of a vegetable vendor at Dakkhin Char Mokimpur village in Manikganj Sadar upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Majnu Bepari, 45, son of late Bishu Bepari of the village. Family members of the deceased...
FE Online Report | 2015-08-04 00:00:00
Stocks posted marginal gain on Tuesday with turnover crossing Tk 9.0 billion-mark on the main bourse after two months as investors remained active in the market. The market opened with a higher note, but late hour profit taking sale wiped...
The inflation in the country witnessed a slight rise as it reached 6.36 percentage point in July, up from 6.25 percentage point in June. "The general point to point inflation rate in the month of July increased to 6.36 percentage...
European stock markets lost ground on Tuesday, with French bank Credit Agricole and German carmaker BMW among the worst performers after reporting results, while weak oil prices also weighed on energy stocks. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index, which had risen...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked authorities concerned to ensure power within three months to all enclaves. The prime minister came up with the directive during Tuesday's meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC). The meeting was...
Detectives in a drive at Demra area of Dhaka city on Monday arrested three college teachers involved in leaking question papers of different examinations. The detainees include a member of examination committee of Mostafa Model College in the area and...
Three pedestrians, including a couple, were killed while 15 passengers of a bus injured as the bus overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway at Fasitola in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Ismail Hossain, 40,...
A pedestrian was killed as he was crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck at Signboard area on Daulatdia-Khulna highway in Goalundo upazila of Rajbari district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sadek Mondal, 50, son of Alam...
The 30-share BSE Sensex closed the session down 115.13 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 28,071.93. The broader 50-share Nifty barometer settled the trading session at 8,516.90, down 26.15 points, or 0.31 per cent. 18 of the 30 Sensex stocks...
At least 12 people have died after a building collapsed near India's western city of Mumbai. Many others are feared trapped beneath the three-storey building in Thane after the incident early on Tuesday. Reports say the municipality had declared the...
The rate of food inflation in the first month (July) of the new fiscal 2015-16 eased slightly, although general and non-food inflation witnessed a rising trend. The food inflation came down to 6.07 per cent which was 6.32 per cent...
Two people were killed and three others injured in a collision between a covered van and CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway in Santirhat area of Patiya upazila of Chittagong district on Tuesday. One of the deceased was identified as...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday said there is no international pressure on the government to hold mid-term elections. “Next election will be held as per constitution in 2019 under Sheikh Hasina. You (journalists) can be hundred percent sure of...
Police have detained three agents of bKash, a popular mobile banking service, for transacting money on behalf of a syndicate involved in HSC question paper leak. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said ‘Kalam’, ‘Faruk’ and ‘Hira’ were picked...
The father of the boy, tortured to death in a motorcycle repair shop in Khulna, has filed a case against three people detained by police for his son’s murder. Twelve-year-old Md Rakib’s former co-workers inserted a high-pressure air pump nozzle...
Police in Dhaka have filed a case against BNP’s US unit leader Mohammad Ullah Mamun for ‘plotting to murder’ prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Mamun’s son Rizvi Ahmed Ceaser was convicted by a US court for bribing an FBI...
A Magura court on Tuesday sent three accused to jail after turning down their bail petitions in a case filed in connection with the Jubo League factional clash that left a man dead and an expecting mother and her baby...
Voicing deep concern over the ‘sharp rise’ in criminal activities in the country, BNP on Tuesday alleged that the country is heading towards anarchy for lack of an elected and democratic government. “BNP is worried over the country’s dignity as...
Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc said on Tuesday strict measures will be taken to stop visa trading and nuisance of middlemen in the immigration process. He came up with the remarks at a views-exchange meeting with...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone of Information Bhaban at Circuit House Road in the city on Thursday. The 16-storey building on 38 kathas of land will have offices of three directorates under the Information Ministry. The...
The Japanese translation of The Unfinished Memoirs of Bangabandhu was presented to Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Sunday, reports UNB. Kazuhiro Watanabe of the Bengali Department of the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), who translated the book from Bengali, presented a...
FE Report | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
The parliamentary standing committee on public accounts (PA) Sunday recommended resolving audit objections for the fiscal years 2005-2009 and 2010-2011 involving Tk 321 million of 20 export branches of 12 commercial banks under banking and finance division. The committee asked...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
SYLHET, Aug 2: Finance Minister AMA Muhith said on Sunday poverty came down to 22 per cent in Bangladesh. He also said poverty would no longer exist in the country after three years in 2018, since the government had been...
Arafat Ara | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
The government's net borrowing from state-run savings instruments increased by over 145 per cent to Tk 287.32 billion in the last fiscal year (2014-15) compared to that of the previous fiscal, official sources said. Officials concerned have attributed the higher...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) sought on Sunday a cut in lending rates to help make trade and businesses more competitive on the global market, reports BSS. Commenting on the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) of...
FE Report | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
Transport owners, workers, CNG auto-rickshaw drivers and local people continued their demonstration on the south side of Buriganga Bridge-1 on Sunday protesting toll hike for using it. The transport workers blockaded nearly two-kilometre of the highway at Ekuria under Keraniganj...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
Norwegian firm Statoil has sought more rewarding fiscal terms from the government to ink production-sharing contract (PSC) for hydrocarbon exploration in three deepwater blocks in the Bay of Bengal, said officials. Statoil pleas happen to be latest in a series...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
The cabinet is expected to give its nod today (Monday) to the proposed amendment to the coinage law of 1972 with a view to establishing the government control over note and coin of taka-five denomination. Officials familiar with the development...
Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
Farmers, agriculturists and officials fear extensive agricultural damage in the current flooding that has already inundated nearly 0.1 million hectares of cropland in southern and southeastern districts. Their prognosis is stoked up by onrush of hill waters from beyond borders...
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