Customs officials, in separate drives, arrested two persons on Monday with 43 gold bars and ornaments worth about Tk 25.8 million from HSIA in the city. HSIA customs intelligence DG Mainul Khan said that one Anis Mia, 23, who arrived...
A devastating fire gutted at least 100 dwelling houses at Saotalpara village at Nilphamari Sadar Upazila on Monday evening. However, no casualty is reported in the fire which broke out in a house around 7:00pm. Station Manager of Nilphamari Fire...
The war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict on former state minister Syed Mohammed Kaiser within a few hours. Kaiser, a Muslim League leader during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971, was later made a minister of state in the government...
Over a dozen more cases have been filed against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman across Bangladesh for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a ‘Razakar’. The courts on Monday issued arrest warrants for him in 7 of the cases. Tarique, elder...
Experts from the USA, France, Finland, Sweden, Japan and Canada joined hands with the UN Sundarbans Oil Spill Response Mission, which is supporting Bangladesh government in containing the spillage and cleaning up, and assessing the situation and develop an action...
The Department of Environment (DoE) in a drive on Monday destroyed 28 cauldrons and chimneys, and 7 feed processing machines for producing poultry and fish feed using tannery waste in the city’s Hazaribagh area. A DoE team, led by its...
Former Jatiya Party (JP) minister Syed Mohammed Kaiser has been brought to the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 ahead of the imminent verdict in his war crimes trial on Tuesday. The vehicle carrying him reached the ICT premises in Old High...
Security around the war crimes tribunal has been beefed up ahead of the verdict in ex-Jatiya Party minister Syed Mohammed Kaiser’s trial. Additional RAB and police personnel have been deployed in and around the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 in the...
A woman has been killed in a road accident in Dhaka. A speeding bus ran over the unidentified woman, estimated to be in her 50s, at Mirpur on Monday night. Kafrul police station’s sub-inspector Idris Ali said the accident occurred...
The 2nd war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh has started delivering its verdict on former Jatiya Party minister Syed Mohammad Kaiser for his crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. The verdict was being delivered in Kaiser’s presence, who...
The 2nd war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh has started delivering its verdict on former Jatiya Party minister Syed Mohammad Kaiser for his crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. The verdict was being delivered in Kaiser’s presence, who...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the third session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 5.68 points or...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-23 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the third session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 5.68 points or...
North Korea, at the centre of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, a US company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New...
Two motorcyclists were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident in Bahirdia area in Faridpur Sadar Upazila on Monday. The deceased were identified as Moshiur, 20, and Jony, 24, a resident of Khabaspur area of the district town....
A BNP committee investigating the oil spill in Sundarban’s Shela river has alleged that the government is indifferent towards the concern of foreign donors over the impact on the world’s largest mangrove forest. After a visit to the Sundarbans in...
A lawyer has filed a defamation case against Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan for his comments against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman. Advocate Shamim Kabir, joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, a pro-BNP lawyers’ organisation, filed the case on Tuesday...
Former Jatiya Party (JP) minister and ex-Muslim League leader Syed Mohammed Kaiser has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 delivered the verdict in Kaiser’s presence on...
The members a Jatiya Sangsad (JS) panel have visited 4 state-run primary schools that are now allegedly under illegal occupation at Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and Dhanmondi area. During the visit, the members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Primary and Mass...
Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident in Kelamu Bridge area in Pirganj Upazila in Rangpur district on Tuesday morning. The deceased could not be identified. Police said the accident took place around 5:30am when...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday grilled three officials of state-owned Sonali Bank for their alleged involvement in a Tk 15 billion (1,500 crore) loan scam. An ACC team led by its senior deputy director Mir Md Joynul Abedin Shibli...
Asian markets fell back despite big gains on Wall Street on Monday, which saw US indexes closing at record highs. The Dow Jones rose 0.9% to 17,959.4, while the S&P 500 gained 0.4% to 2,078.5 - both breaking records. However,...
Police in a drive arrested 13 members of a gang of pirates from Padma River in Pabna Sadar Upazila on Monday evening. Superintendent of Police (SP) of the district Miraz Uddin Ahmed said being tipped off, a team of police...
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The stock price of RAK Ceramics declined to Tk 57.8 per share today (Tuesday) against Tk 60.9 of yesterday despite the disclosure that Middle-Eastern drug manufacturer Julphar and its partners will acquire a 77.5 percent stake in RAK Pharmaceuticals. UAE-based...
President M Abdul Hamid has invited Chief Minister of India’s West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee to visit Bangladesh. Hamid extended his invitation to Mamata while they attended a dinner hosted by Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at Raj Bhavan in honour...
BRAC Bank has received USD 70 million (BDT 5.46 billion approx.) syndicated loan from the Dutch development bank FMO to expand its SME financing. The landmark transaction is the largest internationally syndicated loan for any bank in Bangladesh. The syndicated...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced three persons to death for killing ‘Rubel’, a mechanic, in Old Dhaka in 2010. Judge Md Rezaul Islam of Dhaka’s fifth Special Court pronounced the verdict in the presence of the convicts – Md...
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Stocks slipped in the red again today (Tuesday) after previous session’s upturn with falling turnover as investors remained cautious. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went down by 29.83 points or 0.61 per cent to close...
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