FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
US Ambassador Dan W Mozena, in his goodbye press address, had all praise for made-in-Bangladesh apparel, leather and pharmaceutical products which, he said, would dominate the world market. Bangladesh can become number-one premium and best brand on the world clothing...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
A vital project like Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) Park is now poised for a belated start with handover of plots to the manufacturers of raw materials for medicines by next March, officials said. After the commissioning of the industrial park,...
Voicing grave concern over the recent oil spill in the Sundarbans, WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact which would help assess the ecosystem recovery...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The prevailing 'unusual' political situation is hurting country's economy and affecting the quality of governance, politicians, economists and experts said Saturday. They called upon the major political parties to engage in an immediate dialogue for, what they said, restoring democracy...
Calling for vigilance to avert any incident like the 2009 BDR massacre in any force in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked on Saturday members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to convey her immediately in case of any...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
Commercial banks have expedited their loan-recovery drives to bring down the volume of non-performing loans (NPL) to a reasonable level by the December deadline. Officials of a good number of commercial banks said the default loan is expected to come...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The National Pay and Service Commission will submit today (Sunday) its report on possible pay hike for government employees. Commission chairman Mohammad Farashuddin will submit the report at 9:00 am at the ministry of finance, officials said. He will hand...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 20 (UNB): Six people were killed in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar Highway in Satkania upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased were identified as M Sayed, 35, an auto rickshaw...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
Russian Atomenergoproekt, a sister concern of state-run state nuclear company Rosatom that designs nuclear power plants, has floated a tender for engineering survey, environmental monitoring and development of project documents for the Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP) site. The contract...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formed a seven-member high-level committee to investigate the oil spill in the Sundarbans following an oil-tanker crash. The committee, led by BNP vice-chairman and former water resources minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, was formed at a meeting...
WASHINGTON, Dec 20: The United States issued a worldwide travel alert Friday, warning Americans to be vigilant during the holiday period, especially in the wake of a deadly siege in Australia. Sydney this week saw a dramatic siege in a...
Admission tests in nine government high schools in Chittagong has begun amid tough contests. A total of 21,369 students applied for the admission tests against 3574 seats in different classes of the 9 govt high schools in the port city....
A housewife has been killed by her husband over family feud at Kasta village under Keshabpur Upazila in Jessore district. The victim Aklima Khatun is mother of a child and 2nd wife of Abdul Wahab of the same area. Police...
A new intercity train – Bijoy Express – was introduced on Mymensingh-Chittagong route on Saturday to ease railway connectivity of greater Mymensingh region with the port city. The train will leave Mymensingh for Chittagong at 8:00pm everyday and depart the...
Eminent scientist Dr Maqsudul Alam, who decoded jute genome, died in a US hospital at the age of 60. Family members said he breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Queen’s Hospital in Hawaii, United States (US), around 1:00am....
The International Farakka Committee (IFC) has organised parallel human chains in 11 divisional headquarters, cities and towns across Bangladesh to protest India’s move to build 16 more barrages on the transboundary Ganges River. The committee also organised human chains in...
Three persons were arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing of two brothers over dispute related to business in Chittagong city. Officer-in-Charge of Chandgaon Police Station Shah Mohammad Abdur Rouf said the arrestees were involved in business rivalry with...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed profound shock at the demise of scientist Dr Maqsudul Alam, the decoder of the sequence of the indigenous variety of jute who passed away at a hospital in Hawaii, USA, on Sunday. Maksudul, 60,...
The Pay and Services Commission on Sunday proposed a new salary structure for government employees, raising the public servants’ pay from 77 per cent to 100 pc. It has recommended Tk 80,000 as highest basic salary and Tk 8,200 as...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed mixed trend in early hours of trading on Sunday amid choppy trading, the 1st session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, plunged 2.57 points...
As part of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s plans to achieve the vision of Digital Bangladesh by 2021, the government has launched free Wi-Fi (Wireless Internet Access) at the country’s secretariat. State Minister for ICT Division of Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications...
President Mohammad Abdul Hamid on Sunday expressed deep shock at the death of eminent scientist Professor Dr Maqsudul Alam, who discovered jute genome sequencing. In a condolence message, the president recalled his contribution to the field of agricultural science saying...
A gunman ambushed and fatally shot two New York City police officers on Saturday and then killed himself, police said, and a social media post indicated it may have been in revenge for the police chokehold death of an unarmed...
A young man came to Shahbagh Police Station to sue his parents over torturing his 7-month pregnant wife in the city on Saturday afternoon. Gulger Alam, husband of Fatema Akter, 21, came up with the allegation while talking to the...
The BNP has formed a 7-member strong committee at the behest of the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia to investigate the sinking of an oil tanker in Sundarbans in Bagerhat district and its impact on the mangrove forest. The committee has...
The Pay and Services Commission has submitted a new salary structure for government employees. It recommended Tk 80,000 as highest salary and Tk 8,200 as lowest. The commission proposed 100 per cent increase in wages for employees at the very...
A Narayanganj court on Sunday placed another member of Rapid Action Battalion-11 on a 7-day remand in a case filed over abduction and killing of 7 people here. The remanded Rab man was identified as Asaduzzaman Nur. Senior Judicial Magistrate...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the red on Sunday after previous session’s upturn amid volatile trading throughout the session as investors remained cautious. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went down marginally by 6.72 points or 0.13 per...
A Habiganj court has issued warrants of arrest against 11 persons including Khaleda Zia's former political secretary Harris Chowdhury and Sylhet City Corporation's Mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury, in the case over the murder of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria....
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