In a battle of two lowly teams, bottom ranked Team BJMC forced Chittagong Abahani to play 1-1 draw in the Manyavar Bangladesh Premier Football League at the Bangbandhu National Stadium in the city Tuesday, reports UNB. With the day's outcome,...
CHITTAGONG, May 12 (UNB): The Dokhina First Inter-University T20 Cricket Tournament, organised by the Chittagong Divisional Sports Association (CDSA), began at the Divisional Women's Sports complex here Tuesday. Newly elected Mayor of Chittagong City Corpo- ration AJM Nasiruddin inaugurated the...
The 3rd edition of the country's biggest franchisee based cricket extravaganza Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will begin in December this year, reports BSS. However, the dates of the league matches are yet to be confirmed but it is expected to...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Tuesday announced a 32-member preliminary national squad for the two FIFA invitational friendly matches scheduled to be held on May 30 and June 2 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city, reports BSS. The first...
The 18th 1st Division Kabaddi League will begin on May 17 at the Kabaddi Stadium in the city, reports BSS. A total of 12 clubs will compete in the eight-day meet, organised by the Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation. The top two...
Modhumoti Bank Limited (MMBL) participated in the third Microsoft Projukti Cup Six-A-Side Cricket Tournament-2015 at the Clemon City Club Cricket Academy in the city recently, says a press release. A total of 32 teams, including bank and corporate house, took...
RANGPUR, May 12 (BSS): Agriculture experts at a training here have stressed the need for enhancing production of tuber crops and changing food habit to reduce pressure on rice as well as meet nutritional demand of the growing population. The...
NARSINGDI, May 12 (BSS): Cultivation of melon (Bangi) is gaining popularity in the district due to its good market price and less risk in production. Good yield of Bangi brings a substantial amount of money for the farmers. Bangi is...
FE Report | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith called on the businesses on Tuesday for enhancing their ability to sustain and compete in the market without support of the Supplementary Duty (SD). He said there will be some 'crisis' in tax system in future,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, it seems, has been in a dilemma over the issue of revising downward the rates of profit offered to the holders of the government's savings tools (Sanchayapatras). Being under pressure from two opposing groups, he could...
Salahuddin Ahmed, a former Bangladesh minister and joint secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who had remained missing for over two months, says he does not know how he surfaced in this mountainous state capital of Meghalaya on Monday morning....
A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in Bangladesh on Tuesday, the third killing of a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation in less than three months, report agencies. The Sylhet Ganojagoron Mancha called a half-day...
An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in Nepal also hit Bangladesh, India and Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon followed by an aftershock, according to the US Geological Survey, report agencies. The fresh quake killed at least...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved the 'Regional Submarine Telecommunication Project, Bangladesh with an outlay of over Tk 6.60 billion (660.64 crore) aiming to connect Bangladesh with the 2nd submarine cable to meet the...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
The government has backtracked on its plan to establish a fuel supply company (FSC) with dominance of a private firm for import and supply of furnace oil to country's oil-fired power plants, said officials. State Minister for Power, Energy and...
JAKARTA, May 12 (Agencies): Indonesia has turned away a boat carrying hundreds of migrants believed to be from Myanmar and Bangladesh. However, Indonesia's navy provided food, water and medical supplies to around 500 passengers late Monday, before sending the boat...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Both cost and construction schedule of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge are set to overrun the government estimates as the Bridges Division has sought Tk 82.86 billion more and time extension until June 2020. This revised project cost is 40 per...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will divulge indicators on labour market on quarterly basis instead of doing it at several years' intervals. The government agency has taken the initiative under a donor-aided project for catering regular information on job situation...
FE Report | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
The government will impose income tax on anyone owning a house or car from the upcoming financial year in a bid to widen the existing tax net, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith Monday. A survey will be carried out to...
FE Report | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Country's leading business leaders Tuesday proposed a host of fiscal measures including raising existing ceiling on wealth tax, widening tax net instead of increasing its rate and tax-free threshold for individual taxpayer for the upcoming national budget. They also suggested...
Women rights activists denounced on Tuesday the police attack on Bangladesh Chhatra Union activists during their protest against sexual assaults on women at Dhaka University on April 14, reports UNB. On Sunday, about one hundred Chhatra Union activists came under...
Awami League presidium member and spokesperson of central 14-Party Alliance Mohammad Nasim said on Tuesday the incident of Salahuddin Ahmed, once again, proved that lying was innate to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), reports BSS. He said, "The news of...
Arafat Ara | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Enactment of a couple of Acts has hardly made any headway in combating human trafficking from Bangladesh mainly due to their poor enforcement, experts and rights activists have said. According to them, no instance of punishment for the human trafficking...
The police chief has been asked to inform the High Court about steps taken against those police personnel who used brutal force to disperse a group of protestors Sunday, reports bdnews24.com. The protestors were demanding arrest of those who sexually...
FE Report | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
The securities regulator has approved the IPO (initial public offering) proposal of Bangladesh National Insurance Company (BNIC) which will raise a fund worth Tk 177 million under fixed price method, officials said. The approval came Tuesday at a commission meeting...
FE Report | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
The Karmasangsthan Bank will provide loan at lower rate to the dairy farmers to help enhance their capacity in liquid milk production for the sake of a sustainable dairy industry in the country, officials said. The bank will disburse the...
SABINCO at its 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM) held recently declared Taka 280 million as cash dividend. Mr. Badar Ibrahim H. Al-Mazyad, Financial Analyst, Public Investment Fund, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Mr. Arijit Chowdhury, Additional Secretary, Bank and Financial...
FE Report | 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed a mild correction Tuesday, snapping five consecutive session rally, as investor booked short-term profit mainly on financial stocks. Brokers said price correction pulled down stocks prices as short-term traders took profit mainly on NBFIs, banks and cement issues...
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