Police in a drive arrested a man along with 25 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Bidirpurhat border camp area in Godagari Upazila of Rajshahi district on Wednesday night. The arrestee was identified as Golam Mortaza, 32, son of Abdul...
Police arrested a young man along with a pistol and a magazine from Chakpara village in Naldanga Upazila of Natore district on early Wednesday. The arrestee was identified as Shahin Firoze Rony, son of Anwar Hossain of the village. Tipped...
An Awami League local office and three shops were gutted as a fire broke out in Lamakazi Bazar area in Bishwanathpur Upazila of Sylhet district on early Thursday morning. Fire service sources said originating from an electric short circuit, the...
The Dhaka University (DU) Syndicate has axed 2 ineligible lecturers at the Urdu department following allegations of irregularities in their recruitment. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the university’s top decision-making body on Wednesday night,...
At least seven people, including four policemen, were injured in a gunfight between police and a terrorist group at Uttar Joypur in Laxmipur Sadar Upazila on early Thursday. Superintendent of police of Laxmipur Shah Mizan Safiur Rahman said a team...
A local Awami League leader was shot to death by some miscreants near Sheikhati Jamrultala area in Jessore Sadar Upazila on Wednesday night. The dead is Mahfuzur Rahman Khokon, 42, office secretary of Ward No-1 of Sultanpur unit AL and...
Cultural Affairs Minister Azaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday said the government has decided to build a cultural complex in the northern part of the capital Dhaka so that north city dwellers can get opportunities to involve in cultural activities more. ‘We...
South Asian leaders flew to a mountain resort near Nepal’s capital on Thursday for a last ditch effort to reach agreements on roads, railways and energy, and for a much-anticipated meeting between Pakistan and Indian leaders. Indian Prime Minister Narendra...
Police are now following the RAB lead in investigating the murder of Rajshahi University teacher. RAB claimed that Professor AKM Shafiul Islam was killed to avenge personal insults. Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mohammad Shamsuddin said at a press conference in...
Bangladesh's immunologist Firdausi Qadri has been named as a member of a high-level panel of the UN which will assess the scope and functions of its proposed new ‘Technology Bank’. Prominent scientist Qadri is the director at Centre for Vaccine...
A delegation of Bangladesh intelligence officials is set to leave Dhaka for New Delhi on Thursday. The tour by the 7-member intelligence team is a follow-up to the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) delegation's visit to Dhaka. The 2 neighbouring...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Stocks closed marginally higher amid volatile trading on Thursday with turnover on the major bourse dipping below Tk 3.0 billon mark as investors remained reluctant to make fresh exposure amid weak sentiment. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
At the Saarc retreat hosted by Nepalese Prime Minister Shushil Koirala in Dhulikhel for all heads of state and government of the 8- nation group on Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif finally exchanged...
Three employees of Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) suffered critical burn injuries on Thursday morning in an electric transformer explosion at Mirpur in the city. The injured – Rakibul Hasan, 26, an electrician of DESCO, his helpers Jony, 18, and...
A Youth Training Centre was formally inaugurated at Ramu Upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday with an aim to provide need-based training facilities targeting youth communities in the south-eastern region to improve their status through creating employment. This project was...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said a cyber crimes unit of police will be formed soon for dealing with cyber crimes in the country. ‘We’re reshuffling the police administration to modernise the force as criminals now...
The Railway is going to add 150 new bogies to its fleet soon under a project funded by Bangladesh government and Asian Development Bank (ADB). Indonesian firm Inka PT will supply the bogies (coaches/compartments) under ‘Bangladesh Railway Sector Investment Programme’’...
A meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) has been convened at the official Ganobhaban residence of Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina in the city at 7pm tomorrow (Friday). President of AL chief Sheikh Hasina will...
A mobile court in Rangamati sentenced a fake dental surgeon to 3 months’ jail for failing to show his valid degree certificate to the court on Thursday. The court, led by executive magistrate Salma Ferdous, conducted a drive at Tabalchhari...
A worker died on Thursday morning after falling from a multi-storey building at Gulshan in the city. Witnesses said Rezaul, 28, fell from the 6th floor of the 12-storey under-construction building of Kohinoor Developer Company at Gulshan-1 around 9:30am. He...
President Abdul Hamid on Thursday assented to five bills passed in the 4th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament). The bills are Non-Formal Education Bill, 2014; Bangladesh Hotel and Restaurant Bill, 2014; Rangamati Hill District Council (Amendment) Bill, 2014;...
The foreign ministers of Saarc countries have signed a regional electricity deal at the last minute, making way for greater energy cooperation among the 8-nation group. The Saarc Framework Agreement on Energy Cooperation for a common grid to share power...
Bangladesh’s premier Sheikh Hasina stayed off from joining other South Asian leader in the Saarc retreat in Dhulikhel, 30 kilometres from Kathmandu, on Thursday. A member of the Prime Minister’s entourage said that she slipped the retreat in the morning...
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal arrived in Dhaka on Thursday on a three-day visit. Biswal will meet BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence at 6pm on Friday, BNP Chairperson’s press...
Pirates kidnapped more than 100 fishermen and looted 10 trawlers with fish and other valuables worth about Tk 30 million from Fairway buoy in the Bay adjacent to Dublar Char in the Sundarbans, according to a news agency.
Dhaka and New Delhi signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Dhaka on Thursday to strengthen their cooperation in the leather sector. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran witnessed the signing of the MoU on Cooperation between Indian Footwear...
Salehuddin Ahmed | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
A safe path of global balance and stability will be a lot easier if global liquidity growth is tied to the growth of real global output in some mechanism that injects and withdraws liquidity counter-cyclically as global real output growth...
Mirza Azizul Islam | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
The most important and common feature of external sector management in South Asia is their deliberate effort towards greater integration with the world economy. Such integration is popularly known as globalization .Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate economist, defines globalization as...
Three listed companies of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will be allowed on spot market from Sunday, November 30. The companies are Bengal Windsor, Envoy Textile, and Pharma Aids, according DSE website postings on Thursday, according to a news agency.
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Without going for a new bidding round for offshore oil blocks, the government is now set to launch a survey in the new blocks that were regained by a judgement of the international court of justice. Energy analysts believe the...
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