FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-12-30 00:00:00
The Tk 7.73 billion Maghbazar-Mouchak flyover is getting another year to complete its construction as the government has extended the project completion timeline up to December next year, officials said Monday. Planning Commission (PC) officials said they had extended the...
Speakers at a function on Monday laid emphasis on the basic need for financing and simplification of policies for the tea sector, which was one of the important areas of the country, reports UNB. They also discussed the administrative hassles...
One person was lynched by a mob at Lalbagh in the capital on Monday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Swapan, 35, son of Lt Motaleb, a resident of Munshir Hat of the city's Kamnangirchar area. Police said local...
VILNIUS, Dec 29 (AFP): Lithuania hopes joining the eurozone on January 1 will boost its security at a time of heightened anxiety over Russia, but many in the Baltic state fear the currency switch will also bring price hikes. The...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-12-30 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 29: Stating that they are in dire straits, the rubber gardeners have demanded government support and protection of their industry through financial assistance and exemption of VAT (value added tax) and AIT (advance income tax) as in other...
Results of this year's Junior School Certificate (JSC), Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC), Primary School Certificate (PSC) and equivalent examinations will be out shortly. Minister for Education Nurul Islam Nahid and Minister for Primary and Mass Education Mostafizur Rahman will hand...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to address a rally in the heart of the city a day after the New Year’s Day. Party insiders said Khaleda Zia will address a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) rally on January 2. Confirming...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will deliver its verdict on Tuesday morning in war crimes cases filed against Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam. The ICT-1, headed by Justice Enayetur Rahim, set the judgment day on Monday. The war crimes tribunal...
BNP alleged that the government’s insincerity, mismanagement and negligence caused Monday’s train-covered van collision inside the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka killing 6. ‘This fatal accident has again proved that the government has totally failed...
The results of this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC), Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC), Primary School Certificate (PSC) and Ebtedayee examinations have been published. According to reliable sources at the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education,...
Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam has been brought to the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 ahead of the imminent verdict on his war crimes trial. The microbus carrying him reached the ICT in Old High Court from the Dhaka Central Jail...
Security around the war crimes tribunal has been tightened ahead of the verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1, led by Justice Enayetur Rahim, is expected to deliver the verdict around 11am on...
All is set to celebrate the textbook festival in the country on the New Year’s Day (January 1, 2015). The book festival will be celebrated in all primary and secondary schools and madrasas across Bangladesh. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-1) has started delivering its verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. The verdict is being delivered in Azhar’s presence, who is in the dock....
Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of genocide during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1, headed by Justice Enayetur Rahim, found him guilty of five out of six...
The ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawarakandi waterways has resumed after more than a 9-hour halt due to blurred visibility caused by dense fog. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) assistant director at Shimulia Ferry Ghat (terminal) Safayet Hossain said four...
At least four people have died and 28 injured as a bus overturned after colliding with a tree at Birganj in Dinajpur. The accident took place on the Dinajpur-Birganj road around 9am on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Qurban...
A Habiganj court has sent Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury to prison after he surrendered before it. He sought bail from Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akter’s court on Tuesday in a case over the killing of former Finance...
Asian shares fell on Tuesday as a stronger dollar fueled a further selloff in commodities. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down about 0.8 per cent on the day, and off less than 1 per cent for...
Hartal supporters exploded improvised bombs and clashed with police in Sylhet as they enforced a half-day shutdown in the north-eastern district, including the divisional city. Local unit leaders and workers of the BNP-led 20-party alliance were out on the streets...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 2-day nationwide nonstop hartal (shutdown) starting from Wednesday morning. The Jamaat-e-Islami’s acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmed announced the shutdown programme in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. The announcement came immediately after the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1...
An Indian girl, who crossed into Bangladesh to marry the man she loves, has been sent back home after serving a six-month jail term. Police handed over Pompa Rani wife of Amjad Ali of Kushtia’s Dharmadah village, to Border Guard...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-30 00:00:00
The last trading session of the outgoing calendar year ended positive Tuesday with turnover improved slightly as investors took position on lucrative stocks amid optimism. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went up by 50.80 points...
None saw it coming when the search for child ‘Jihad’ reached a dead end. But several youths, strangers to each other, gave the word unexpected a whole new meaning on Dec 27 (Saturday). The expression on the face of the...
Terming the government an ‘unelected and illegal’ one, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Khandker Mahbub Hossain has said that the regime has no right to stay in power anymore. ‘This illegal government must step down. Or else, the country’s...
Rescuers found 40 bodies in and around the crashed AirAsia jet, Indonesian Navy, which is leading the salvage and rescue mission in the coasts in south Pacific and Indian Ocean, said on Tuesday afternoon. The navy said the bodies were...
The 2-day biennial conference and election of Chittagong Press Club (CPC)-2014 began on Tuesday afternoon. The inaugural session of the conference is being held at Engineer Abdul Khalek auditorium of CPC. President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Manjurul...
Additional Inspector General of Police (Administration) Shahidul Haque has been appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) while Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Benazir Ahmed made the Director General of the police’s crime busting unit – Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)....
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