BNP’s Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu and his wife were injured in a road accident in Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla district on Friday night. Abul Hasem, the upazila unit BNP General Secretary, said Bulu, along with his wife was going...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Department of Customs, in separate drives, have seized a total of 40,875 Yaba tablets in Dhaka city and Cox’s Bazar district and arrested six people in this connection. In...
Authorities have put war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee on gardening duties at Dhaka Central Jail-1 located in Kashimpur in Gazipur district. The Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Amir there is serving an 'imprisonment until death' sentence given for his crimes against humanity committed...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has rejected BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s leave-to-appeal against High Court verdict allowing the framing of charges by trial court in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. A five-member Appellate Division bench, headed by...
A Dhaka court has fixed December 7 for hearing of framing the charge against axed telecoms minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui in a case filed over his rant on Holy Hajj and Tabligh Jamaat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Asaduzzaman Nur passed...
A five-member probe body has been formed to investigate a road accident in Dhaka city that left senior journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury dead on Saturday night. Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, the Consulting Editor of The Financial Express, died after he was...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
A young man was killed in a road accident at Dhaka’s Mouchak More on Sunday morning. The dead was identified as Kanchan, 23. He was doing his intern course at Uttara Bank Ltd in the city’s Badda area. The accident...
The Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh has mourned the demise of senior journalist and eminent columnist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury whi died in a road accident in Dhaka on Saturday night. ‘This has dealt a cruel blow to Bangladesh’s media fraternity...
The Namaj-e-Janaza of senior journalist and noted columnist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, who passed away on Saturday night at a Dhaka hospital following a road crash, will be held after Ars prayers on Monday at the National Press Club in the...
The Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia has been closed indefinitely after the death of a student on the campus sparked violent protests. Authorities have ordered students to leave the dormitorows (residential hall) by 8:00am on Monday. Proctor TM Lokman Hakim...
A man died after being run over by a bus on Sunday in Dhaka's Kalyanpur area. Mirpur Police Station's sub-inspector (SI) Md Moktaruzzaman said the man was trying to cross the road in front of Kalyanpur BRTC Bus Depot around...
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The stocks ended flat on Sunday amid choppy trading with turnover hitting a fresh 4-and-half-month low as investors remained mostly inactive amid lack of any clear direction. The market opened with a positive mood, but could not sustain the trend...
War crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali has moved the Supreme Court (SC) against his death sentence for war crimes. The Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s counsel Shishir Mohammad Monir said they had submitted the appeal documents to the SC on Sunday. Mir Quasem...
To everyone's surprise, chairman of Sunamganj’s Tahirpur Upazila Kamruzzaman Kamrul on Sunday morning went to the Upazila (UZ) Health Complex with broomstick in his hands and started cleaning up the compound. As the news spread around, the health complex authorities...
The police officer of Ferguson, USA, who killed a black teen, has resigned from the force. The resignation of Darren Wilson from the Ferguson, Missouri, police force comes nearly 4 months after he killed 18-year-old Michael Brown and days after...
The committee tasked to investigate Bangladesh Chhatra League’s factional clash in Sylhet’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) is yet to get down to business even over a week after the incident. The head of the committee, mathematics department’s...
The ACC has submitted charges for 2 corruption cases excluding Yusuf Ali Mridha, former general manager of Bangladesh Railway (East Zone). The cases were filed last year over alleged irregularities in appointing assistant locomotive master and inspector (grade-1), said ACC...
A Jubo League activist was chopped to death and 10 people were injured in a clash between the activists of Awami Leauge and BNP in Narayanganj district on Sunday. The dead is Amjad Hossain Mollah, 45. Local sources said Narayanganj’s...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organised a dinner in honour of outgoing Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh Dr. Abdullah Bin Naser Al Busairi at a Dhaka hotel on Saturday. The outgoing ambassador attended the programme as the chief guest. Presided...
Kabul's police chief has resigned, following a surge in attacks by Afghan militants on foreigners in the city over the past two weeks. General Zahir Zahir gave no reason for his resignation, his spokesman said. Three South Africans and an...
Voters in Switzerland have decisively rejected a proposal to cut net immigration to no more than 0.2% of the population, partial results suggest. Data from a majority of the country's 26 cantons show about 74% voting no in Sunday's referendum....
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to take steps to “chase out Bangladeshi illegal immigrants” from Assam while reiterating that there will be no ‘compromise’ on the state’s security. "I am aware of the problems of Assam and there...
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on Sunday unanimously adopted a thanksgiving motion on receiving Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's South South Cooperation Visionary Award for two times. Lawmaker Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh proposed the thanksgiving motion under the Rule 147 of...
Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have condemned the treatment of many Christians in the Middle East. In a joint declaration, the Pope and Patriarch Bartholomew I said they could not resign themselves to a...
Sakhawat Hossain Badsha, special correspondent of the daily Inqilab and Elias Hossain, special correspondent of Independent TV, were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday for the 2015 term, according to a news agency.
The High Court (HC) on Sunday granted interim bail for four weeks to BNP’s Dhaka city unit member secretary Habibunnabi Khan Sohel in a case filed for vandalism. An HC bench comprising Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Haque and Justice Mohammad...
Four devotees attending the five-day ‘Jor Ijtema’, a preparatory event of the two-phase Biswa Ijtema, have died at Tongi. They died of old-age complications, said doctors at Tongi Govt Hospital, according to a news agency.
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 the IU syndicate. The...
Al-alim, Shariyar Khan Reyad and Khorshed Alam | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
Access to information (A2i) is an important programme under the Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office (PMO) which is financially supported by UNDP and USAID. A2i has been working successfully with a view to making Bangladesh a digitally developed and transforming Bangladesh...
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