Siddique Islam | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
Banks would soon slash their interest rates on both lending and deposit due to a number of factors including the decline in call money rates. The interest rate on call money decreased by nearly 1.0 percentage points until May 21...
Heat wave has intensified and is sweeping across the country forcing the people to stay inside their houses or in cooler places to avoid scorching hot weather, reports BSS. The sweltering summer heat was unbearable for those working in the...
Zaidi Sattar | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
When it comes to trade policy, one can say that Bangladesh changed gear in the early 1990s, turning from an inward-looking import substituting policy towards an outward-looking export-oriented policy. This shift was accompanied with a radical move towards trade openness...
FE Report | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday it was time for the apparel industry, which has become matured enough by now, to offer some benefits to the government. He said: "The government has been providing different incentives and fiscal benefits to...
FE Report | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
Speakers at a discussion meeting expressed Saturday their frustration over the failure to tap the country's living and non-living marine resources for want of technology and skilled manpower. They suggested working out some strategic plans for developing the country's capacity,...
Robbers looted gold, cash and other valuables after strangulating a young woman to death in the city's North Jatrabari area on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Syeda Sajedun Nahar (35), daughter of SM Kamruzzaman, a resident of Jatrabari....
Bangladesh has been placed ahead of India in the Human Capital Report 2015 of the World Economic Forum (WEF), released last week. The report, which includes 124 countries, placed Bangladesh in the 99th position, one notch ahead of India. The...
Indonesia has informed Australia that most of the 7,000 migrants stranded at sea in Southeast Asia are illegal workers from Bangladesh, not Rohingya Muslim asylum seekers, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Saturday, report agencies. Over 3,500 migrants have reached...
FE Report | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
The biennial election (2015-17) to the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) board of directors was held on Saturday amid great enthusiasm and festivity. The voting started at 9.0 am and ended almost peacefully at 5.0 pm...
Arafat Ara | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
Around 46 per cent of the Bangladeshis who set out for Malaysia by boat on a risk ride through high seas left home without informing their family, says a survey report amid the current people-smuggling crisis. And 10.76 per cent...
At least ten people were killed and 48 injured in a collision between two buses and a truck on the western link road of the Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj on Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll was updated until filing...
FE Report | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
Transport unions will extend their ongoing strike across the country if their demands are not met within three days, sector leaders warned. The strike is now being observed in southern districts only. Khulna Division Owners Workers United Council issued the...
FE Report | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
The government has extended again the deadline for submission of bids to June 11 for picking an Indian sponsor to supply 250 megawatts (MW) of electricity to Bangladesh. The deadline was extended, as the invitation of bids before selection of...
Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, moved a bail application Friday before the first class judicial magistrate in Shillong of Meghalya state of India for his release, Indian media reported, reports UNB. BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday urged all to remain alert so that the evil forces like BNP and Jamaat who only believe in destructive politics cannot raise their heads and destabilise the country again. "I would like to request you...
NOAKHALI, May 23 (BSS): A Jubo League (JL) activist was hacked to death Friday night by some unknown miscreants in Kabirhat area under Begumganj upazila of the district. The victim was identified as Md Jahir Uddin (30), son of Md...
NARAYANGANJ, May 23 (UNB): The lawyers of condemned prisoner Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid met him at Narayanganj jail Saturday, ahead of today's (Sunday) appeal hearing against the ICT-2 verdict sentencing him to death for committing crimes against humanity...
Strongly reprimanding the gang-rape of an indigenous woman in a moving vehicle in the city, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Saturday alleged that the rapists are on the prowl due to state instigation and patronage, reports UNB. In a statement,...
CHITTAGONG, May 23 (UNB): Police in an overnight drive arrested 109 people, among them 31 BNP-Jamaat men, including accused in different types of cases, from various places of Lohagara and Sitakund upazilas Saturday. Of them, 21 are accused in different...
Shafiqur Rahman has been relieved of his post as Vice-Chairman and primary membership of Jatiya Party (JP), says a press release, reports BSS. JP Chairman HM Ershad took the decision as per the section 39 of the party constitution.
JHALAKATHI, May 23 (BSS): Industries Minister and Awami League Advisory Council Member Amir Hossain Amu said today BNP has destroyed democracy in the country. "There is no practice of democracy and patriotism in that party (BNP)," he said speaking as...
FE Report | 2015-05-24 00:00:00
Speakers at a roundtable on Saturday called upon the government to create necessary employment opportunities for marginal people to help combat human trafficking. They also called for punishing the human smugglers and rooting out their circle. The call came at...
Doctors at the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a test found the evidence of gang-rape of a 22-year-old indigenous woman in a moving microbus in the capital on Thursday, reports UNB. Chairman of the Forensic Department...
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