FE Online Report | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed sharp gain Monday after passing sluggish days in the last few trading sessions as investors went for buying spree amid optimism. The market opened with a positive mood which continued till the market closure. At the end of...
The hospital at Panthapath in the city that allegedly neglected treatment of grievously injured journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury before he died, lacks necessary approval. A Health Ministry official, who visited the Mohona Hospital on Monday before shutting it down, said...
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 evening. The first Namaj-e-Janaza of Zaglul, the Consulting Editor of the Financial Express,...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has cancelled the acquittal order issued by the High Court in favour of former communications minister Barrister Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma Huda in a bribe case filed by the Anti Corruption...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Efforts taken by the local administration to rehabilitate beggars in Kishoreganj Upazila (UZ) of Nilphamari district have paid dividend. The upazila in the northern region of the country is now free from beggars. Nearly 1000 beggars of the upazila have...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Inadequate infrastructure for the fuel transportation, handling, processing and storage may impede government's mega-plan for massive electricity generation from imported coal, officials and experts said. Power division officials said the government had already taken programmes for setting up thermal power...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The country's energy regulator is scrutinising proposals from the state-run power and gas marketing and distribution companies before inviting them for public hearings for raising electricity and natural gas tariffs to the user-ends, a senior official said. "We are working...
shahalamnur@gmail.com | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is ready to begin a probe into suspected fabulous wealth of Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBA) officials allegedly having a nexus with gold-smuggling rackets, official sources said. On the other hand, police intelligence is learnt to be...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said on Saturday the Transport Ministers of the Saarc countries would meet in the next three months to finalise the Saarc Motor Vehicles Agreement and Saarc Regional Railways Agreement, reports UNB. "Bangladesh will play active...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The regulator has decided to appoint auditors for many life-insurance companies which have been found extravagant in their management expenses. Official sources said the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA), the regulator of 77 life and non-life insurance firms, in...
FE Report | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal expressed satisfaction over the transformation in the apparel sector of Bangladesh after the Rana Plaza tragedy. She called for more hard work, particularly in the export-processing...
FE Report | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Renowned journalist and columnist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, passed away on Saturday night at a city hospital following a road accident. His son told the FE quoting the attending doctor that he was declared dead at 8:30 pm on the day...
FE Report | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The government is planning to formulate a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy soon aiming at providing necessary guidelines for enterprises and companies working in the country for making their impact on the society. "The Ministry of Planning has already undertaken...
NABIGANJ (Habiganj), Nov 29 (UNB): Voicing her high hope to produce over 20,000 megawatts of power by 2021, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the much-awaited Bibiyana Gas Field Extension Project and the newly constructed Bibiyana-Dhanua gas distribution transmission...
COMILLA, Nov 29 (UNB): Claiming that corruption has been the current regime's basic principle, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said on Saturday the country was now under the rule of one person. "Now the country is not only under a one-party...
Former Jessore MP Shakhawat Hossain has been arrested on war crimes charges. He was detained from Dhaka's Uttarkhan on Saturday evening, DMP Uttara division Deputy Commissioner Iqbal Hossain confirmed. Uttarkhan police OC Yunus Ali said he had been arrested after...
Faruq Ahmad Siddiqi | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Market crash of 2010-2011 affected a large number of investors. Many of the three million investors became paupers overnight. Behaviour of the institutional investors in those days was not very different from that of retail investors. Many of them were...
Abdul Bayes and Mahabub Hossain | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Credit market in rural Bangladesh has been in operation since time immemorial. However the market was informal, and controlled mostly by professional moneylenders (Mohajans), land owners, and traders. They used to charge usurious rate of interest - commonly more than...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The media in the recent past has highlighted several reports not only about observations made by studies carried out by important international institutions but also drawn attention of the readers to existing challenges within the Bangladesh economic paradigm. In a...
Adnan Habib | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Investing in the share market was never the first choice for Bangladeshi savers to earn some return. People who earn in excess of their regular expenditures usually end up saving their money in commercial banks as savings account or fixed...
Asif Khan | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
As an employee of a stock brokerage I frequently find myself in situations where people want investment advice. This has to be a Bangladeshi investment analyst's worst nightmare. It is a clear case of 'heads I win, tails you lose'...
Raihan M Chowdhury | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
A large number of investors are passing their days in extreme worries as they are burdened with a huge overdue margin loan they had received from stock brokers during 2007-2010. The commercial banks and brokerage houses had hiked their margin...
Saadman Khan Nabil | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Every year a large chunk of graduates entering the job market are not getting suitable jobs they deserve as per their merit or remaining unemployed. Currently 47 per cent graduates in Bangladesh are unemployed, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit...
Mohammad Masum | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Sustainability and going green have become interlinked and different international and local agencies are contemplating adopting green methods in mainstream businesses in the globalised environment where cross-border, intra-country transactions have shored up significantly. To make business greener and cost-effective it...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Corporate governance has become a much-discussed matter in recent times in Bangladesh. Reasons are numerous. But this is mainly because of occurrences of a series of irregularities and scams in the country's corporate world, particularly in the last couple of...
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