Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
Payments on account of pension and retirement benefits of government employees from public exchequer have been ballooning, following a significant rise in the number of retired personnel, officials said. Rise in life expectancy, coupled with thousands of retirements of public...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
The government is set to award two deepwater blocks, instead of chosen three, to the joint venture of US-based ConocoPhillips and Norwegian Statoil for oil-and-gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal. Officials said the Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD)...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
Several thousand foreign nationals are allegedly involved in serious financial crimes across the country as organised gangs are now eyeing a bonanza in various thriving sectors. According to intelligence sources, the foreigners are involved in illegal voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) trade,...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
The Road Transport and Bridges (RTB) Ministry is in search of funds for turning the Dhaka-Mawa road into a four-lane highway. It is mulling reconstruction of the road to facilitate smooth transportation passengers and goods using the planned Padma Bridge,...
SYLHET, Nov 22: A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of the Indian tribal community Khasia at a Guabari border point in Jaintapur upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Kudrat, 30, a day labourer and son of...
LAXMIPUR, Nov 22: A cargo trawler sank with 160 tonnes of salt in the Meghna in the Motirhat area under Komolnagar upazila of the district on Friday. Naval police and locals said the cargo trawler "MV Ziron" was going to...
Primary School Certificate (PSC) and Ebtedayee examinations begin today (Sunday). This year 2.7 million students have registered to take the PSC tests and 311,265 will appear for the Ebtedayee examinations. The exams will start with the English test from 11am...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has met the leaders of the constituents of the 20-party alliance to discuss strategies for their anti-government movement. However, neither what was discussed nor the decisions taken at the meeting were disclosed to reporters after it...
Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit (RMMRU), a Dhaka University institute, has recommended the creation of an inter-country commission for taking effective actions to stop illegal migration from Bangladesh to Malaysia via Thailand. The research unit came up with the...
The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) has rubbished the claim of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) that the university authority was responsible for Thursday's clash on the campus that killed one. Rejecting BCL's claim, Vice-Chancellor Aminul Haque Bhuiyan on...
A woman has given birth to twin boys on a bus in Raiganj Upazila in Sirajganj district. Shahina Akhter, along with her husband Khatibar Rahman Bhutto, was heading home to Rangpur on a ‘SM Elegance’ bus on Saturday. The 30-year-old...
A leader of Jessore's Abhoynagar Upazila unit of Awami League (AL) has been shot to death by some unknown assailants. Locals said Oliar Rahman, 50, joint General Secretary of the Abhoynagar Upazila unit of AL and also a councillor of...
The government will not allow the separatists of India and Myanmar to operate from Bangladesh’s soil, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said while speaking with the reporters after attending a programme on Saturday. However, he declined to...
The Primary School Certificate (PSC) and Ebtedayee examinations-2014 began at 11:00am today (Sunday). This year 2.7 million students have registered to take the PSC tests and 311,265 are appearing for the Ebtedayee examinations. The exams started with the English test...
Cox's Bazar transport workers have lifted the strike they called after a mobile court recently penalised transport workers in the town. Long-route buses have been operating since Saturday evening, after almost a 3-day halt. Transport owners and workers withdrew the...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will deliver its verdict on Mobarak Hossain in war crimes cases on Monday. The (ICT)-1 concluded the trial of Mobarak on June 2 this year and kept the verdict pending. The 62-year-old has been charged...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday amid modest see-saw, the first session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the government will very soon appoint 17,000 people in Bangladesh police force. ‘There is only one policeman for 1,035 people in Bangladesh currently,’ the state minister said adding that...
Some miscreants have strangled a young man to death in Lalbagh area in Dhaka city. Police recovered the body of Alauddin Shikder, 29, from a wardrobe at a house in on Sunday morning. Confirming the incident, Lalbagh Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge...
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami on Sunday filed a petition with the apex court challenging the death penalty awarded to him by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on October 29 for wartime offences. The (ICT)-1 handed capital punishment to...
Police on Saturday night nabbed the suspected mastermind of the gruesome killing of a woman and her three daughters at Tangail’s Mirzapur Upazila. Jahangir Hossain was arrested from his house at South Sohagpur village at Mirzapur’s Gorai Union around 8:30pm,...
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday will give its order on 2 leave-to-appeal petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 2 graft cases. The 5-member Appellate Division bench, led by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain, set the date today...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed sharp decline Sunday with turnover dipping below Tk 4.0 billion-mark after four months as nervous investors went for selling spree, fearing further fall. The market opened with a negative mood which continued till the market closure. DSEX, the...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have arrested six people in connection with the murder of Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam, including the crime’s suspected ‘mastermind’. RAB Additional Director General Ziaul Ahsan said that the men were arrested during...
Two suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob in Keraniganj Upazila early Sunday. The identities of the deceased could not be known. Quoting locals, Majibar Rahman, officer-in-charge of Keraniganj Model Police Station, said local people caught the two...
Set a victory target of 252 by hosts Bangladesh, Zimbabwe lost the wicket of their opener with just 1 run on the board in the 1st over their 2nd one-day international (ODI) in Chittagong on Sunday. Hamilton Masakadza played Mashrafe...
A convicted prisoner, who had been serving two years’ rigorous imprisonment in Magura Jail in a theft case, died on way to Magura Sadar Hospital on Saturday evening. The dead is Abdul Kuddus Sheikh, 60, son of Emarat Sheikh, a...
Police on Sunday arrested five suspected militants, including a Pakistani national, in Chittagong. Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP)’s Additional Commissioner (crime) Banaj Kumar Majumder said that those detained are being questioned. Police detained the five from ‘Hotel Lord’s Inn’ in the...
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