Shamsul Huda | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The prevailing sluggish business trend in the housing and real estate sector has left an adverse impact on its backward linkage industries as the demand for their products and prices have fallen while production costs have gone up. Former acting...
FE Report The unconscious body of Jihad, the minor boy who fell into a deep well at Shahjahanpur in the capital on Friday, was recovered on Saturday by locals. He was recovered just minutes after the fire brigade declared their...
FE Report | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
A galaxy of civil-society leaders Saturday identified the factors such as "absence" of democracy, rampant corruption and weak public institutions as major impediments to real development of Bangladesh. They also alleged that the people's right to decide on important national...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 27: Bangladesh is mulling rice export to India as it has exported the first consignment of rice to Sri Lanka today. Senior officials said a proposal from India to export rice to Uttar Pradesh is in place. The...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance announced on Saturday a daylong hartal for tomorrow (Monday) across the country protesting the foiling of its scheduled Gazipur rally, reports UNB. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the shutdown programme after an...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in the city on Saturday evening on a three-day visit to discuss the progress in deals and MoUs (memorandums of understanding) signed between Bangladesh and China during Prime Minister's Sheikh Hasina's China visit. The...
Customs officials arrested a man with 3.75 kg gold from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Friday night. The arrested was identified as Masum Hossain, 31. Customs officials said that Masum landed at the airport from an...
TUNGIPARA (Gopalganj), Dec 27 (UNB) : Issuing a stern warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday those who are making disparaging remarks about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will not be spared. "People know the country's...
SYLHET, Dec 27 (agencies): Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mohammad Nasim said here today that those who came up with derogatory remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would bring ruination for themselves. "Bangabandhu is like the Himalayas...none can defame...
Law Minister Anisul Huq said Saturday that a harsher law would be enacted soon increasing jail term to prevent frequent road accidents, reports UNB. He said this while inaugurating the 6th grand conference of Nirapad Sarak Chai (We demand safe...
Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam said Saturday that the BNP will have to face public wrath if it creates anarchy in name of movement, reports BSS. "BNP has again been hatching a new conspiracy to destabilise the country in the...
PATUAKHALI, Dec 27 (UNB) : Police in separate drives arrested a local leader and three activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from Mirjaganj and Baufal upazilas early Saturday. Of the arrestees, one was identified as Sahabuddin Nannu, president of Mirjaganj...
SYLHET, Dec 27 (UNB) : Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal from Pathantula point in the city on Friday evening. The arrestee was identified as Rasel Ahmed,27, convener of Sylhet city ward no. 8 unit Swechchhasebak Dal,...
MADARIPUR, Dec 27 (BSS): Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami are pushing the country towards conflict. About the scheduled Gazipur rally, the Shipping Minister said, "The BNP had a plan to...
FARIDPUR, Dec 27: Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain alerted the law enforcing agencies Saturday against any kind of terrorist activities and vandalism in name of political demonstration in the district. Addressing a meeting of the...
Bangladesh Shikkhak Samity demanded Saturday that the government include all the private secondary schools and higher secondary colleges in the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme by June next, reports UNB. It also demanded forming an independent service commission to recruit...
A workers' council of Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) was held at the District Council auditorium in Chittagong Friday. BNP president SM Abul Kalam Azad, MP, was present as the chief guest while its Chittagong unit member secretary Osman Ali Musa...
A workers council of Bangladesh Islami Front (BIF) of Bakolia thana unit was held at Kalamia Bazar in Chittagong Saturday. BIF joint convener SUM Abdus Samad was present as the chief guest while Shafiul Alam Shafi presided over the meeting....
Moazzam Hossain Alal, who leads the BNP’s youth front, was arrested on Saturday night for what the police said ‘plotting sabotage’ ahead of the 20-party alliance’s nationwide hartal (shutdown) on Monday. Mohammadpur Police Station’s OC Azizul Haq confirmed the arrest...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Dhaka on Saturday night to give further boost to the bilateral relations. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited China in June this year, when Beijing’s leadership promised to support Bangladesh in massive infrastructure projects....
World record holder Shakib al Hasan and fast bowler Rubel Hossain guided Legends of Rupganj to a 76-run win over renowned sports outfit Abahani Ltd in the first match of the 2nd round of Dhaka Premier League’s Super Sixes cricket...
The capital was covered under a blanket of thick fog from Saturday night to Sunday morning. A mild cold wave is sweeping different districts of Rangpur, Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions from Thursday night, paralysing normal life and causing sufferings to...
The law-enforcers had picked up ‘Jihad’s father Nasir Uddin moments after an announcement that there was no sign of anybody down an abandoned pipe. Nasir claimed he was ‘threatened in the name of ‘Rab’ to tell the ‘truth’. Nasir was...
Budget carrier AirAsia confirmed on Sunday that its flight QZ 8501 from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore had lost contact with air traffic control. The French-made Airbus 320-200 aero plane had 155 passengers and crew on board, officials...
China expects follow-up actions on the agreed important issues with Bangladesh and mapping out commemorative activities to be held next year, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying. She said China also wants to extend bilateral cooperation in economy and...
Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma River resumed after 9 hours’ disruption caused by dense fog on Sunday morning. Safayet Hossain, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Shimulia Ghat (terminal) in Munshiganj, said they...
Awami League leader Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif has said that time has come to think whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be allowed to hold any rally in the future if she does not apologise on behalf of the party’s senior vice...
Police in overnight drives have arrested 10 local leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from different Upazilas in Jessore district. The drive started on Saturday night and continued till early Sunday. Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge of Jessore Kotwali Police...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 25.73 points or...
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