FE Online Report | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green on Thursday after five sessions' losing streak with turnover falling slightly as investors followed cautious mood. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went up marginally by 18.16 points or 0.38 per...
Several cases have been filed in courts across Bangladesh against BNP leader Tarique Rahman for his description of Bangabandhu Shekih Mujibur Rahman as ‘Razakar’. Four supporters of the ruling party filed the cases on Thursday in the courts of Dhaka,...
A Dhaka court on Thursday summoned BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for calling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ‘a killer’ and her party Awami League ‘a party of killers’. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Adit Kumar Dey passed the order...
Ay least three construction workers have been electrocuted in Ashulia Model town under Savar Upazila in Dhaka district. The dead are Md Hashem, 33, and Anwar, 35, hailed from Mymensingh district, and Mamtaj, 32, a resident of Mughda area of...
Two female officers of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) were commissioned as combat pilots for the first time. They were commissioned in a cetremony held at the BAF Base Bir Sreshto Matiur Rahman in Jessore district on Wednesday afternoon. The commissioned...
President Abdul Hamid arrived in New Delhi on Thursday on a 6-day official visit to India. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President and his entourage landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport around 12:45pm (Indian Standard Time)....
A Dhaka court on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman in a case filed for calling Bangabandhu a ‘great Razakar’. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Yunus Khan issued the arrest warrant after M...
Some miscreants have stabbed a youth to death in Malibagh area in Dhaka city. The deceased was identified as Imran Hossain Chanchal, 23, student of a private college, local sources said. Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police Inspector Mozammel Haque said...
A case has been filed against 800 people in connection with Wednesday’s clash in Sylhet among transport which led to the death of the officer-in-charge of Osmaninagar Police Station. Sub-inspector Anwar Hossain of Osmaninagar Police Station filed the case against...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government has been working to establish a professional and well-trained armed forces and expressed the optimism that the Armed Forces will keep intact its role in future for fulfilling the hopes and...
The country’s foreign exchange reserve has hit a new height setting a record of over $22.38 billion riding on the positive remittance inflow and increased export earnings. The reserve stood at $ 21.38 billion at the end of the day...
In response to a government request, the UN system in Bangladesh has mobilised an international team of experts to support the government’s drive to clean up the oil spill in the Sundarbans. A United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC)...
Renewing her call for her party men to get ready to hit the streets anytime within a short notice, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday said this time there will be a strong movement in the capital city as well...
Outgoing US Ambassador Dan W Mozena on Thursday said he is proud of the current state of partnership between Bangladesh and the USA saying it has never been deeper, broader and stronger than today, he told reporters after his meeting...
Putting high hope on the future of the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector, leading global retailers said that Bangladesh would achieve the $50-billion export target by 2021. The retailers, who participated in the three-day mega event early this month, expressed...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken an initiative to check unauthorised investment in the 5-year Bangladesh Savings Certificate. The central bank last week asked all of its executive directors and general managers and managing directors and the chief executives of all...
Minister for Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday urged the recruiting agencies to take sending manpower abroad as a service, not a business to make money. "Some recruiting agencies and agents are trying to send workers...
Strobe Talbott in Washington | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
The year ahead could see the outbreak of the third Chechen war, which, in turn, could be the death knell of the Russian Federation in its current borders. If, as is imaginable, Russia dismembers itself later this century - the...
Alison Frankel of Reuters in London | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
Word broke this weekend that Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired celebrated lawyer David Boies of Boies Schiller & Flexner to warn news organisations away from publishing stories based on information hacked from the studio's servers. Boies' letter, sent to top...
Jamal Eric Watson of Reuters in Washington | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
The Rev. Al Sharpton didn't rocket to stardom. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was, at best, a regional activist who had successfully used outrageous tactics to call attention to the plight of dozens of unarmed black men who had...
Mohamad Bazzi of Reuters in Riyadh | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
In August 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat paid a secret visit to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to meet with King Faisal. Sadat was preparing for war with Israel, and he needed Saudi Arabia to use its most powerful weapon: oil....
Neil Maidment of Reuters in Kuala Lampur | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
Destined to form models of the Burj Khalifa and Tokyo Tower, 90 million toy bricks will be used in new Legoland Parks in Dubai, Japan and Korea by 2017, building blocks in British operator Merlin's expanding empire. The theme parks,...
RANGPUR, Dec 17 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting have stressed for more media effective reporting to sensitise the adolescents and school level students on their rights to safer reproductive health and challenges at the juncture of their physical changes. Non-governmental...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Dec 17: The 44th Victory Day-2014 was observed in a befitting manner in Gopalganj Tuesday. The day began with firing of 31 gun-salute, hoisting of national flag by Md. Khalilur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner. Gopalganj at just after sunrise. Different...
SATKHIRA, Dec 17 (UNB): A young housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her in-laws over a dowry-related feud at Dandpur village in Patkelghata upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Jesmin Khatun,26, wife of Abu Musa, a resident...
RU Correspondent | 2014-12-18 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Dec 17: The teachers, officials and students of the Rajshahi University (RU) paid homage to the martyred freedom fighters by whom this independent country figured in the world map, as part of the day-long programme on the Victory...
From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin's days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost about half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah....
SYLHET, Dec 17 (UNB): A truck driver was killed and another injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Goalbazar Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Pranoy Kumar, 32, a resident of...
Eminent Journalist and Poet Arunava Sarkar died at his Dhanmondi residence in the city on Thursday. He was 74. Sarkar left behind his wife, one daughter, one son, relatives, well-wishers and a host of admirers to mourn his death, according...
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