Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The government has approved the maiden debt strategy with a paradigm shift in the pattern followed for borrowing resources to finance the budget deficits. Under the strategy the government will have the option to borrow from the external sources 60...
FE Report | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The government formed Sunday a 5-member body to probe the tragic accident that killed eminent journalist and Consulting Editor of the Financial Express (FE) Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury Saturday night. A day after the tragedy, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul...
KUSHTIA, Nov 30 (UNB): Authorities on Sunday closed the Islamic University (IU) for an indefinite period as the students went berserk following the death of a fellowman in a road accident. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of...
GUWAHATI, Nov 30 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed Sunday to halt illegal immigration from Bangladesh into Assam, saying they were "destroying" the northeastern state. Modi, whose right-wing Hindu nationalist party stormed to power in May elections, said: "Bangladeshis...
Siddique Islam | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The country made higher import of petroleum products and capital machinery in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY), as the overall imports grew over 11per cent during the period. Officials said the actual import in terms...
The High Court has ordered Sunday the preservation of Bengali scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose's ancestral home in Munshiganj's Barhikhal. The director general of the Department of Archaeology, deputy commissioner of Munshiganj and Sreenagar police OC have been asked to execute...
A private university student and a bus helper were killed in two road accidents in the city Sunday. The student was pinned to death by two buses in the city's Malibagh area Sunday morning. The BRTC bus helper was killed...
Renowned journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, who died in a road accident in the city on Saturday night, will be laid to rest at Azimpur Graveyard on Monday afternoon. Family sources said the first Namaj-e-Janaza of Zaglul, the Consulting Editor of...
A Chittagong court has placed five suspected militants, including a Pakistani citizen, on different terms of fresh remand. Metropolitan Magistrate Farid Alam passed the order when police produced them before his court seeking a five-day remand for each of them...
People affected by flood, drought and cyclones struggle with growing food prices for up to 8 months after the disaster, a new study has found. The new data also demonstrated that higher levels of acute under-nutrition are emerging in the...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed profound shock at the death of renowned artist Qayyum Chowdhury. In a condolence message, the President recalled Qayyum Chowdhury’s contributions to the field of art and said the nation has...
The 4th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) was prorogued on Sunday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation order of the President after 10 sittings that passed 7 bills. Leader of the House and Prime Minister...
Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad has urged the government to take steps to attract more foreign investments and create employment in the country. ‘Now, Bangladesh needs employment and investment. The scope of employment must be created keeping pace with...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has expressed profound shock at the death of Qayyum Chowdhury. In a condolence message, the BNP chief said the death of the genius artist has created a big vacuum in the field of art and culture....
A half-day hartal (shutdown), enforced by Mahanagar Dokan Malik Samity, is passing peacefully in Rangpur city on Monday. The hartal was announced by the Samity last Friday, protesting the killing of a Jubo League leader in the city a few...
Just 11 days into their marriage, a man has allegedly beaten his teenage wife to death in Jessore town for dowry. The victim, Rekha, 15, wife of Jahirul Islam of Kharhki area, was a Grade-VIII student at Tangramari High School....
Jatiya Party's member of parliament (MP) Pir Fazlur Rahman has blamed the ministry of education for Primary School Certificate (PSC) examination question paper leak. The education ministry officials who are responsible for safekeeping the question papers were involved with leaking...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) rose in early hours of trading on Monday, the 2nd session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up...
A daylong hartal, enforced by city and Rajshahi University units of Jatiyatabadi Chchatra Dal (JCD) to press home their demands, including the immediate arrest of the ‘real’ killers of RU teacher AKM Shafiul Islam, is passing peacefully in the district...
Detectives are certain that militants of both Bangladesh and India have been involved in the October 2 Burdwan bomb explosion, a Bangladeshi delegation says after visiting India. Police’s Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Mahfuzur Rahman said: ‘There is nothing the 2...
Some miscreants killed a young man and dumped his body at Joksin Bazar in Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila at sometime between Sunday and early Monday. Local people spotted the blood-stained body lying along the side of a road and informed police....
Movement of ferries on Shimulia-Kawrakandi and Daulatdia-Paturia river routes resumed on Monday morning after several hours’ of disruption caused by thick fog. Abdul Alim, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC)’s Shimulia Ghat (terminal), said they kept suspended ferry...
Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura won the toss and elected to bat 1st in the 5th and final limited-overs (one-day) international cricket match against Bangladesh on Monday. All-rounder Soumya Sarkar and left-arm spinner Taijul Islam make their debut for Bangladesh in...
Zimbabwe lost their second wicket, that of Hamilton Masakadza , and were 96 for two in 18 overs against Bangladesh in the fifth and last ODI in Dhaka on Monday. Jubair Hossain's googly went through the gates of Masakadza (52)...
Awami League nominated Gazi Amzad Hossain Milon was elected uncontested in by-election to the Sirajganj-3 constituency. Returning officer Subash Chandra Sarkar made the announcement on Sunday evening. Earlier two candidates submitted their nomination for Sirajganj-3 (Raiganj-Tarash). They are AL’s Amzad...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, an avid cricket fan, is scheduled to go to Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka to watch the later part of Bangladesh-Zimbabwe one-day international (ODI) match on Monday afternoon. A member of her media wing said the...
Three suspected militants were arrested in the city on Sunday night. Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner Krishnapada Roy claimed that the arrestees are citizens of Myanmar. He said: ‘Police arrested three Rohingya militants – Nur Hossain aka Rafikul Islam, 26,...
Despite the countrywide outcry against rapes since the gruesome Nirbhaya case in December 2012, young women in Haryana still have to fend off molesters on their own. This, even when they are travelling in a bus brimming with men, reports...
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