A member of parliament (MP) of the ruling party has been injured in an attack near Alia Madrasa in Old Dhaka’s Bakshibazar during a clash between the activists of Awami League and BNP on Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses said Awami League...
The hearing of the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been deferred. The court of Dhaka’s Third Special Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar set January 7 for the next hearing in the case filed by the...
At least eight people were killed and an unspecified number injured in a fatal road accident in Tangail district on Wednesday. Local people and police were rescuing the injured. Witnesses said a rashly-driven truck rammed an auto-tempo (small human hauler)...
Asian shares traded higher on Wednesday, taking the lead from Wall Street where shares closed at a record level overnight. The Dow Jones finished over 18,000 for the 1st time after data showed the US economy grew at its fastest...
A police sergeant has died after being sandwiched between two trucks in Fardipur. The dead is Saroj Kumar Roy, 57, a traffic police sergeant and resident of Kotalipara Upazila of Gopalganj district. He was supposed to retire on February 15...
A series of clashes between two rival groups leaft least 10 persons injured many of them crictically, at Birgaon village at Roypura Upazila of Narsingdi on Tuesday afternoon. The clash originated between the two groups to establish dominance at the...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-24 00:00:00
Stocks ended marginally lower for the second running session on Wednesday with turnover dipping below Tk 2.0-billion level as investors followed cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went down by 15.06 points or 0.31...
An air passenger has been held along with ornaments and gold bars weighing over 4 kilograms (kg) at Hazrat Shah Amanat (R) International Airport in Chittagong 33 gold bars weighing almost 4kg airport. Customs Assistant Director Sushanta Paul of Hazrat...
A head on collision between a truck and a battery-run auto-rickshaw has left four persons dead in Naogaon district. The dead were all passengers of the auto-rickshaw. The accident around 11:00am on Wednesday at Mahadebpur area left two other people...
Attributing the ongoing battle between the government and KEPZ to ‘bad political culture’, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has assured Youngone Corporation of resolving the issue soon to attract more foreign investment to Bangladesh. Describing the history of land allocation to...
In another controversial decision, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has relieved Awami League MP Enamul Haque of graft charges. The Commission recently cleared the ruling party MP from the allegation of illegal wealth accumulation worth Tk 21.3 billion, an ACC...
Renowned writer and popular author of children’s books Ekhlas Uddin Ahmed passed away at the age of 74 on Wednesday morning. He breathed his last around 4:00am while being treated at Square Hospital at Panthapath in the city. ‘Ekhlas Uddin...
A teenaged black youth was shot and killed by US police at a gas station late on Tuesday in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August, police and local...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Board of Investment (BOI), Bangladesh and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU), Japan on cooperation in promoting Foreign Direct Investment was signed today (Wednesday) in the city. Amir Hossain Amu MP, Minister, Ministry...
The Agricultural Marketing Company Ltd–AMCL (PRAN) has declared 32 per cent dividend to its shareholders for the year 2013-2014. The dividend was announced at the 29th annual general meeting of the company held at Trust Milonayaton, 545 Old Airport Road,...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Wednesday issued the guidelines for bidding of Bangladesh Government Islami Investment Bond, which is known as Islami Bond. According to the guidelines, only Islamic Shariah-based banks and financial institutions will be allowed to participate in the...
The Christian community of the country, as elsewhere across the world, will celebrate Christmas on Thursday, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, according to a news agency.
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and pioneer of Social Business, has ranked 5th among global influential thinkers in the Global Thought Leader 2014 survey. The survey was carried out by Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler...
The director general (DG)-level formal border talks between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) will begin at the Pilkhana BGB headquarters in Dhaka on Friday, according to a news agency.
A court of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh of India on Tuesday sentenced 19 Bangladeshi nationals, including women, to five months’ imprisonment for entering the country illegally, according to a news agency.
The expert team of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is working to assess the extent of impacts caused by the oil spill following an oil tanker crash in the Sundarbans, will submit its report to the government on...
At least 200 shops of a market and 100 shanties gutted as a slum caught fire at Barapol in the city’s Halishahar on Wednesday evening. Sub-assistant director of Chittagong Fire Service Jasimuddin said the fire broke out at the slum...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Wednesday night urged the leaders and activists of her party’s labour wing Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal to play a strong role in the ongoing movement to make it a success. She made the call when pro-BNP senior...
A total of 26,55,731 acres of agricultural land have been transferred to non-agricultural uses in rural areas of the country in the past 11 years. In the same time, the total area of water bodies transferred to non-agricultural uses in...
Yousuf Kamal | 2014-12-24 00:00:00
The incident happened in the early morning of December 09, 2014 when an oil container (OT Southern Star 7) carrying more than 350,000 liters of furnace oil collided with another cargo vessel 'Total' amid dense fog. It was reported that...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2014-12-24 00:00:00
Recession, skyrocketing prices, and a huge devaluation of Russian ruble against US dollar are tormenting Russia. How long will Moscow be able to sustain before changing its policy on Ukraine? The pro-establishment mainstream Western media groups - both print and...
The Election Commission's (EC's) move to introduce smart national identity cards (NIDs), replacing the existing ones, has evidently been prompted more by practical needs than any cheap motive. In fact, the NID card a citizen of this country now proudly...
Wasi Ahmed | 2014-12-24 00:00:00
One may feel buoyed. According to the latest HSBC's Trade Confidence Index survey, Bangladesh's trade confidence has risen by 38 points in six months, the second highest among 23 countries globally. It is a survey-based assessment of how the business...
Mamun Chowdhury | 2014-12-24 00:00:00
Good economic relation with the USA is important for Bangladesh. The USA is the most important trading partner of the country. The USA is not only the highest importer of Bangladeshi products, it also stands out as more important than...
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