Nazmul Khan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Industrial revolution on a national basis has been the driving force of economic growth in the modern era. This is true for a country like ours as well. The territory of Bangladesh saw the expansion of industry during the period...
Salim Shadman Pathan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh has an emotional attachment with the radio as a medium. Radio played important roles during a lot of our achievements and triumphs as a nation, starting from the war of liberation to the spreading of the news of winning...
Ferdaus Ara Begum | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Growth of business and investment is a reflection of good policies a state pursues. Bangladesh embraced free-market economic policy in the early eighties and the country has been passing through several painful policy reforms ever since. The country has been...
Mahbubuddin Ahmad | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The well-known dictum that Knowledge is Power needs no elucidation. If you ask how the world has advanced and is advancing in science, technology and in all other fields of human activities the inevitable answer is that it is the...
Kritika Kumary | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
How often do you spot a woman in a driving seat, amidst a myriad of vehicles plying in Dhaka City? Only rarely does one get to see a woman driving. Does it not surprise you that only 12,455 driving licences...
Drabir Alam | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Digital marketing is a buzzword now. Everyone wants to do it, but at the same time everyone is concerned about what it could do for them. As a result most companies test a little bit of advertising on Facebook by...
Zareen Tasnim Lazima | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Although the purpose of business and economics degree is to encourage entrepreneurship in the long run, most students these days, however, join an organization after graduation. We do not have proper support system to promote entrepreneurship. Somewhere along the line...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh has emerged as a modern and high tech shipbuilding nation making a place in the shipbuilding globe. The industry has made very a positive image of the country in western world by building ships for European and African buyers....
Rail communication of Dhaka with Ishwardi remained suspended since Sunday morning as four compartments of a train derailed near Sayedabad Railway Station on the west side of Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge in Sirajganj district. Ashraf Uddin, senior sub-assistant engineer of railway,...
Ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia waterways resumed on Sunday morning after a four-hour disruption due to dense fog. Mahiuddin Rasel, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Aricha Ferry Ghat (terminal), said the ferry services as well as the...
Trashing reports that there was a meeting between their party chief and government officials, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir again said that it was Awami League which come to state power by hatching conspiracy. ‘It is Awami...
Two people were injured in a gun attack in Panchari Upazila in Khagrachhari district on Saturday night. The injured are Ramjan Ali, 50, and his wife Anwara Begum, 39, hailing form Haladhar Para of the Upazila. Locals said some unidentified...
Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bussairy met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office on Saturday night. The nearly 2-hour-long meeting that began around 8:00pm was followed by a dinner. BNP acting Secretary General...
The Department of Health sealed off an illegally set up private hospital in Dhaka city and sentenced six of its employees, including three fake doctors, to various jail terms with fines on Saturday. Sources said a team of the Health...
The woman who was declared dead even though she was alive at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, was a case of sheer negligence by a duty doctor, it has emerged in an investigation conducted by an Internet newspaper. During the...
Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammed Ershad has said that ‘conspiracy being hatched by BNP’ will not work as people have dumped the party. In an oblique reference to a reported meeting between some government officials and the BNP high-ups, Ershad...
A newlywed woman has succumbed to her burn injuries, allegedly caused by her husband, after fighting for life for several hours at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). The victim, Irene Akhter, 24, wife of Asaduzzaman Jhantu of Ispahani Road in...
The government of Bangladesh has decided to send 100 tonnes of drinking water and five desalination plants to the Maldives to address its safe water crisis caused by a fire at a water purifying plant in the Indian Ocean country....
The three-day Dhaka Apparel Summit began in the city on Sunday. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) is organising the 1st-ever summit titled ‘Bangladesh RMG 2021: $50 Billion on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh,’ at Bangabandhu International Conference...
Grade-VII student Sabiha Akter Sumi was about 20 minutes late to school for her final examinations on Saturday. She had set out in good time but was caught in the traffic like many others during Bhutan’s Prime Minister’s visit. It...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed positive trend while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the 1st session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by...
Noted actor Khalil Ullah Khan Khalil died of cardiac arrest at Square Hospital in the city on Sunday morning. He was 80. Khalil, a popular actor in television drama, theatre and cinema, breathed his last around 11:10am. Sources at the...
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide in Alir village under Goainghat Upazila in Sylhet district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Arina Begum, 16, daughter of Junab Ali, a resident of Alir village. Quoting family members, police said Arina,...
A Dhaka court on Sunday turned down detained ex-telecoms minister Latif Siddiqui’s bail petition. The court of Mohammad Asaduzzaman Noor, Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka, also rescheduled charge the framing for March 15 against the sacked minister in a case filed over...
Barely a decade ago, Gaibandha’s Abdul Gafur worked as a day labourer and lived from hand to mouth. But the commercial production of grass changed it all. Gafur became a millionaire in a matter of a few years. His success...
Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh has been awarded the prestigious “Bank of the year” award at The Banker Awards 2014. The award was handed over to Abrar A Anwar, Head of Corporate & Institutional Clients of Standard Chartered Bangladesh at a...
BNP's senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has voiced the apprehension that party chief Khaleda Zia could be arrested at any time as per an ‘evil plan’ of the government. ‘The illegal government is making a blueprint and Deshnetri (BNP Chairperson)...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The market ended lower for the second running session on Sunday amid choppy trading with turnover hitting below Tk 4.0 billion-mark once again as investors followed cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Sunday threatened to announce a non-stop nationwide protest programmes if gas and power tariffs are hiked as per the government’s move. ‘Non-stop programmes will be thrown from the day the prices of power and gas...
At least three college students were killed and 20 other people injured many of them critically, in a road accident in Paba Upazila in Rajshahi district on Sunday. The dead are Mahmuda Akter Tania, a 1st year student of Social...
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