DBL Group, one of the largest knitwear groups in the country, hosted a delegation from the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) recently. The Group, as a signatory to the UNGC, hosted the delegation when the members were in Dhaka to...
Bangladesh German Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BGCCI) organised the 3rd Global Social Responsibility Conference 2014 in cooperation with GIZ and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the city recently, according to a statement. The conference had...
Prices of a few vegetable items, coriander seed and turmeric declined on Friday compared with the previous week. Meanwhile, the new price of bottled soybean oil has been made effective which helped ease the price by Tk 12-13 per litre,...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines' efforts to regain its lost domestic passenger market through resuming its local flights next month have suffered a setback as it could not yet sign the necessary deal with the Egyptian aircraft supplier company. "The plan to...
RANGAMATI, Dec 12 : Rangamati Municipality has launched a week-long cleaning campaign on Thursday in the hilly town aimed to attract more tourists during the current winter season. Mayor of Rangamati Municipality Saiful Islam Chowdhury and UNO of Rangamati Sadar...
BEIJING, Dec 12 (AFP): China's industrial output expanded at its slowest pace in three months in November, official data showed Friday, with other key indicators also pointing to weakness in the world's second-largest economy. The data came after a key...
MOSCOW, Dec 12 (AFP): The ruble fell Friday to record lows as oil prices also sank, despite Russia's central bank hiking its interest rate the day before in an attempt to halt the currency's plunge and the resulting price rises....
TOKYO, Dec 12 (Reuters) : Mazda Motor Corp said on Friday it would recall 52,000 cars in Japan to investigate potential defects in Takata Corp air bags. The automaker said its latest "investigative" recall would cover Atenza mid-sized cars and...
SHANGHAI, Dec 12 (AFP): Japanese gaming giant Sony is to offer its PlayStation consoles in China from January, the company said, following rival Microsoft into the potentially lucrative market after China ended a 14-year ban. The company will launch the...
TOKYO, Dec 12 (AFP) : The dollar rose against other currencies in Asia on Friday as a strong US retail sales report reinforced investor confidence in the world's largest economy. The dollar was at 118.81 yen in afternoon trade compared...
RANGPUR, Dec 12 (BSS) : Proper management in microcredit and savings activities of small-scale community based organisations (CBOs) could accelerate uplift to alleviate poverty bringing self- reliance to rural women for their empowerment. Speakers said this at the concluding ceremony...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Dec 10: Teachers of the Rajshahi University (RU) called a two- hour work abstention programme on campus under the banner of RU Teachers' Assocition (RUTA) on December 13 demanding arrest and exemplary punishment to the killers...
CHUADANGA, Dec 12 (UNB): A man was strangulated to death allegedly by his wife and children for land in Sadar Upazila. Police recovered the body of Rabiul Haque, 43, son of late Azhar Ali Mondal of Natidanga village in Alamdanga...
FE Report The three-day third CSE festival will end today (Saturday). Nazrul Islam Khan, secretary of Ministry of Education, will be present as chief guest on the occasion. The festival began Thursday on World University of Bangladesh (WUB) main campus...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 12 (BSS): Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) in cooperation with the district administration arrested 71 people, including 41 women, after raiding a residential hotel in the city's gate area under Pahartali thana in the city last night. On secret...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 12 (UNB): A teenage boy was killed and two persons were injured as a small boat capsized in the Shitalakkhya River in Siddhirganj after being hit by a bulkhead Friday noon. The deceased was identified as Shakil Miah,...
SATKHIRA, Dec 12 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive rescued 19 Bangladeshi people while they were being trafficked to India through Gazipur border here Friday morning. The rescued people hail from Gazipur, Sunamganj, Mymensingh and Thakungoan...
Shyama Prosad Adhikari has been made chief engineer of the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED), reports UNB. He replaced Md Wahidur Rahman as the one-year contractual tenure of the former ended Thursday, said a press release. Engineer Shayma Proshad...
Twenty injured in Sunamganj clash SUNAMGANJ, Dec 12: As many as 20 people, including several women, were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Chhatak this morning. The clash took place following an altercation between the villagers...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The government has drawn up an action plan to meet the required criteria for export of shrimp and other fishes, especially to the European market, officials have said. The government's latest move came ahead of the visit of a European...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
JESSORE, Dec 12: A student of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) and two others were killed on the spot as a truck hit a vehicle locally known as Nasiman at Churamankathi on the outskirts of Jessore town on...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Launching of coastal shipping service between Bangladesh and India has become uncertain due to the lack of fit vessels, sources said. Until now no Bangladeshi vessel is found fit for the service. Officials could not confirm when a trial-run of...
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court sealed off a poultry feed factory at Hazaribagh Beribadh in the city Friday on charge of producing the fodder using poisonous tannery waste, reports UNB. Two of the factory employees were also punished...
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (AFP): Facing intense pressure to avoid a government shutdown, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion federal spending bill Thursday, sending it to the Senate after it was ushered through barely two hours before...
FE Report | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The country will experience further chilling weather from the next week, and there will be one or two mild cold-waves at the end of the current month. But the density of fog will disappear within the next two to three...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Country' largest private independent power plant (IPP) situated at Meghnaghat has been laid shut for long while the government is forced to buy quick-rental electricity at much higher rates, officials said. The government exchequer has to pay a minimum 20...
FE Report | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The latest oil spill has started taking its toll on fisheries, aquatic mammals and also on the world's biggest mangrove forest Sundarbans although locals started mopping up spreading oil from the Shela River and other adjacent canals Friday, officials said....
FE Report | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Political settlement and strengthening pivotal institutions were underscored Friday by policy analysts from home and abroad to help Bangladesh achieve its cherished economic development. Speaking in a session on the second day of a three-day conference, they stressed the urgency...
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