Syful Islam | 2014-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Bhutan have decided to sign a separate deal on trade in service without incorporating it in the bilateral trade agreement, scheduled to be renewed next month, official sources said. Bangladesh wanted to incorporate trade-in-service in and bring some...
FE Report | 2014-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh's point-to-point inflation has fallen to a record low in October this year in last two years as it was registered at 6.60 per cent, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) said Thursday. BBS officials said two years ago in...
FE Report | 2014-11-14 00:00:00
Private sector credit growth increased slightly in September, following a rising trend in trade financing, bankers said. Purchasing raw hide of sacrificial animals during the Eid-ul-Azha festival has also contributed to raise the private sector credit growth during the period...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is suffering from cold and fever and doctors have advised her to take rest. According to a press release of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), PM's doctors advised her not to go on a long journey...
KUANTAN, (Malaysia) Nov 13: Malaysian police detained 80 illegal immigrants, believed to have been working at a construction site in Cameron Highlands here, during two separate raids on two houses in Tringkap and Blue Valley, Kampung Raja on Wednesday. Cameron...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 13: Customs officials seized 40 gold bars weighing 4.50 kg at Shah Amanat International Airport here on Thursday morning. The market value of the gold is worth around Tk 20 million. Assistant commissioner Tapon Chakrabarti of the airport...
Humayun Sultan, son of ex-Awami League MP Khan Tipu Sultan, was arrested early Friday for suspected murder of his wife. A murder case lodged around Thursday midnight also accuses the former Jessore lawmaker and his wife Dr Jesmin Ara Begum,...
BNP Chairperson and leader of the 20-party alliance Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with her party’s standing committee members on Thursday night. The meeting began at 9:30pm at the BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the city and...
Bangladesh-origin Tower Hamlets Mayor Luftur Rahman says he is proud to be embroiled in controversies. Accused of electoral fraud and financial embezzlement, Lutfur claimed the Price Waterhouse Coopers report has not come up with anything unbecoming of him and insisted...
US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin on Thursday expressed satisfaction over enhanced Dhaka-Washington relations. Ambassador Charles Rivkin arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday, a day later than scheduled, in his 1st visit after being sworn...
At least six makeshift structures, including 2 rickshaw garages, were gutted by a fire that broke out inside Korail slum at Mohakhali in Dhaka city on Friday morning. Fire Service control room sources said the fire originated from an electric...
A housewife was strangulated to death in Tarash Upazila in Sirajganj allegedly by her husband and his family members for dowry on Wednesday night. The victim was identified as Ripa Khatun, 25, daughter of Abdur Rahman of Jhaldhaka village of...
Some miscreants swooped on two students of Osmani Medical College in Sylhet city on Thursday night and beat them, leaving them injured. The criminals also mugged their valuables. Sources said a gang of three miscreants riding a motorbike intercepted a...
A tribunal in Rajshahi on Thursday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment and two others to 14 years in jail for violating a teenage girl in Matihar Upazila. The lifer was identified as Jasim, 34, hailing from Tangon Purba...
Condemned war crimes convict Zahid Hossain Khokon, known as Khokon Razakar, is currently in Sweden, an expatriate Bangladeshi has said. He said Khokon was living in Swedish capital Stockholm with his elder son and daughter. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel recovered 790 bottles of Phensidyl syrup in Kalaroa Upazila headquarters in Shatkhira district on Thursday. Being tipped off, a RAB-6 team conducted a drive in Kalaroa town and recovered 790 bottles of Phensidyl in an...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 1.016 kilograms (kg) of gold in Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Thursday afternoon. The paramilitary force also arrested a man – a Myanmar national – in this connection. The arrested is Mohammad...
An official Facebook page of Dhaka University (DU) titled www.facebook.com//univdhaka.ac.bd was launched on Thursday. DU Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the Facebook page at a simple ceremony at the Vice-Chancellor's office. DU Pro-Vice Chancellor (Administration) Prof Shahid Akhtar Hossain,...
A 2-member delegation of US nutrition scientists met Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office on Thursday afternoon. Dr Patrick Webb, Dean for Academic Affairs, Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman School of Nutrition Science and...
Detectives arrested 31 foreign nationals from different parts of Dhaka city on Thursday night for overstay in the country. Being tipped off, two teams of Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted simultaneous drives in Uttara and Gulshan areas of the...
US stock prices held firm on Thursday after the Dow and Standard & Poor's 500 reached record intraday highs, while crude fell below $80 a barrel for the first time in four years on further signs of a slowdown in...
Asian markets were trading lower after Japanese shares opened at a fresh seven-year high.The Nikkei was up 0.7% to 17,520 - its highest intraday level since July 2007, but has since fallen 0.2% to 17,353.77. Hong Kong shares opened lower...
The India-Bangladesh High Commissioners' Summit began at Dhaka University (DU) on Friday. The International Relations Department of DU have organised the 2-day (Nov 14-15) Summit in association with India-Bangladesh Foundation. The Summit, which is being held at the DU Senate...
'Shatirtha Unosattor', an organisation of former students of Dhaka University who had entered the university in 1969, will hold its general meeting on Saturday (Nov 15). The meeting will be held at 3:00pm at Dr. Mozaffar Ahmed Chowdhury auditorium of...
A young man was killed after being hit by a stray bullet fired accidentally from the gun of a local Awami League leader at Palerkhanda village in Morelganj Upazila of Bagerhat on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Masum Sardar,...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel rescued an abducted minor girl from Chaitanipara village in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila on Thursday. Baishakhi, 6, daughter of Abu Samar of Shahapur of the district town, was allegedly abducted by some miscreants from her residence...
India-Bangladesh relations have withstood ‘the test of time’, setting a ‘precedent’ for other regional countries ‘to emulate’, the foreign minister has said. ’The relationship is on the upswing,’ Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Friday, citing examples of engagements even...
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