BERLIN, Feb 11 (AFP): Greece's foreign minister said yesterday his left-wing government wants to resolve the nation's debt squeeze with Europe, dismissing suggestions Athens could seek help from the United States, Russia or China. "My favourite is Europe and I...
Mumbai, Feb 11 (PTI): The rupee lost 11 paise to 62.30 against the US dollar in early trade Wednesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange due to rise in the Greenback's value against other currencies overseas. Forex dealers attributed the fall...
Bentonville, Arkansas, Feb 11 (Reuters) : Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would invest about C$340 million ($269.16 million) this fiscal year to expand in Canada, lower than what it had budgeted for last year. Wal-Mart's move comes less than a...
Reiterating that there will be no dialogue with 'terrorists and militants' like BNP-Jamaat alliance, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina warned on Wednesday that they would be put on trial for their militant acts, reports UNB. "Dialogue? With whom? With killers?...
FE Report | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in a statement on Wednesday alleged that some detainees are being forced to make confessional statements to implicate the BNP-led 20-party alliance leaders in the ongoing acts of violence. The statement, issued by its Joint...
JHALAKATHI, Feb 11 (UNB): A court here sentenced on Wednesday five members of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death in a case filed for killing a public prosecutor (PP) eight years ago. Among the condemned convicts,...
CHITTAGONG, Feb 11 (BSS): Inspector General of Police (IGP) A K M Shahidul Hoq emphatically said today that police would show zero tolerance to terrorists and saboteurs. "We have no reason to show laxity to terrorists and steps would be...
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Benoît- Pierre Laramee said on Wednesday the ongoing political violence is 'inflicting a terrible cost' on the people and country and it must be stopped, reports UNB. "There must be an end to violence, and...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Mosaddak Ali Falu and former BNP lawmakers Ashraf Uddin Nizam and Nazim Uddin Ahmed were taken on fresh remand on Wednesday in two separate arson cases, report agencies. A Dhaka court placed Mosaddek Ali Falu...
FE Report | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
Sromik-Kormochari-Peshajibi-Muktijoddha Somonnoy Porishod (SKPMSP) announced on Wednesday that they will march towards the BNP chairperson's political office at Gulshan in the capital on February 16, if her party does not withdraw the ongoing hartal-blockade. They said they will not return...
Observing that democracy cannot be established by hurling petrol bombs, Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad said on Wednesday the politics of killing may kill politics itself, reports UNB. "What's going on in the name of politics can never be...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 11 (UNB): Miscreants blasted six crude bombs at Rajshahi University (RU) on Wednesday amid an indefinite strike enforced by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal 9JCD). University sources said the crude bombs went off in front of different academic buildings and...
FE Report | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) summoned on Wednesday five top officials of five financial institutions (FIs) in connection with the alleged swindling of nearly Tk 13 billion (1300 crore) by Ananda Shipyard. "I have already sent notices asking them to be...
FE Report | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been nominated a founding member of the 8-member Steering Committee of the US-led Equal Futures Partnership (EFP) and made Chair of the EFP Asia Pacific Regional Sub-Committee. This was disclosed at a meeting held among the EFP members...
SRIIP, Nirapod Sorok Chai sign deal Project Director of LGED Sustainable Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project (SRIIP) Md Ali Akhtar Hossain and Chairman of Nirapod Sorok Chai Ilias Kanchan signed an agreement on behalf of their sides at LGED headquarters in...
BAGERHAT, Feb 11 (UNB): In an effort to protect wildlife and forest resources of the Sundarbans, the forest department has imposed a ban on plying of trawlers (engine-run ones) in the rivers and canals of the mangrove forest as these...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) settled 92.58 per cent of a total of 661 complaints during the last five years and realised fine to the tune of more than Tk 97 million from unscrupulous traders for violating...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will visit Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Academy at Shafipur in Gazipur today (Thursday) to attend the 35th National Rally of the Bangladesh Ansar and VDP, reports UNB. The PM is also expected to address the...
Ten newly-appointed additional judges of the High Court (HC) division will take oath of office today (Thursday), reports UNB. Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha will administer the oath at 10:30 am at the Supreme Court auditorium, said an official release...
Weather is likely to remain dry with partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Thursday), reports UNB. Light to moderate fog may occur over the river basins of the country until morning, Met Office said. The night...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) appears to be in a race to incorporate a large number of new development projects into the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) although there is no allocation of fund for fresh ones, officials said...
Bangladesh will import 1.3 million tonnes of crude petroleum oil from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the current calendar year, reports UNB. Of the total amount, 700,000tonnes crude oil will come from Saudi Arabia while the remaining...
FE Report | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
The 37th day of indefinite blockade and 108-hour shutdown, enforced by BNP-led 20-Party Alliance, passed off 'rather peacefully' across the country on Wednesday, after separate petrol bomb attacks in Noakhali, Feni and Netrakona on Tuesday night. No procession or picketing...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
Two foreign giant life-insurance companies are likely to enter Bangladesh's oversaturated market. The insurance multinationals are Taiyo of Japan, which have more than 5.0 million policyholders, and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), a company having an annual turnover of...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
The country's economy is now badly battered. Prolonged blockades and frequent hartals have continued to disrupt the supply-chain of goods and commodities. As a consequence, overall businesses have severely been affected. The government's efforts for raising revenue earnings face severe...
Pankaj Dastider | 2015-02-12 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Feb 11: Garment exports through Chittagong seaport now hurtled down to half the volume in normal times, sources said. Continued transport blockade almost cut off the country's commercial lifeline. Industry-insiders said the booking of orders for apparels is not...
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