Singer Mohammad Ali Siddiqui passed away at a city hospital on Tuesday following prolonged illness. Family sources said, Siddiqui, who was suffering from various old-age complexities, fell seriously ill in early October. He was admitted to Labaid Hospital and later...
A gang of pirates kidnapped 14 fishermen who were fishing in Bay near Chargangamati in Kuakata in Patuakhali district on Tuesday morning. Witnesses and local fishermen said the 14 fishermen were catching fish with two trawlers in the water off...
Americans are preparing to vote in mid-term elections which will decide who controls the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 race for the White House. Polling booths open on Tuesday beginning 07:00 US Eastern Standard Time (12:00 GMT)....
Traffic on Dhaka-Aricha highway was disrupted for several hours on Tuesday after a bus and truck crashed into each other in Dhamrai Upazila of Dhaka district. At least 15 bus passengers were injured after the collision at the Bathuli Bridge...
The Election Commission (EC) is preparing to hold election to reserved women seats in Upazila (UZ) Parishads by the end of December. The polls are likely to be held after secondary-level tests examinations for fifth and eighth grade. The schedules...
A nuggety Tamim Iqbal century was complemented by a stroke-filled one from Shakib Al Hasan as Bangladesh cashed in on the painstaking foundation they had laid in Khulna to make 433. Zimbabwe's bowlers struggled to reprise the discipline they had...
Four workers sustained burn injuries as hot water from a boiler pipe spilled on them at a ready-made garment factory in the city’s Tongi area on Tuesday noon. Police said water spilled out of the boiler pipe after it developed...
The probe panel on Saturday’s power outage across the country says submission of its report has been delayed due to the public holiday on Tuesday. The 8-strong committee visited the Ramkrishnapur Sub-Station in Kushtia’s Bheramara Upazila on Tuesday. Bangladesh suffered...
Some people are ‘trying to save’ the son of a top police officer who allegedly ran over a man while driving his father’s car without a licence in Dhaka city. Zafar Sadique, 23, son of CID’s Additional Deputy Inspector General...
Reaffirming that their movement will be a non-violent one, BNP Dhaka city unit convener Mirza Abbas on Tuesday warned the government of dire consequences if it tries to obstruct their programmes. “Our movement will be non-violent and peaceful. Don’t try...
The government deployed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in Dhaka and several other cities across the country on Tuesday evening to maintain law and order and ensure peace. Several platoons of BGB troops have been deployed in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Chittagong...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to enforce another spell of nationwide 48-hour hartal (shutdown) on Wednesday and Thursday protesting the death sentence awarded to its top two leaders for war crimes. The 2nd spell of 2-day shutdown will begin at 6:00am...
The Wednesday’s meeting of the BNP national standing committee has been rescheduled for November 13 due to hartal called by Jamaat. BNP chairperson's press wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed this to UNB on Tuesday. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to...
The holy Ashura was observed in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the Muslim world with due respect and religious solemnity. The Holy Ashura is observed on the 10th of Muharram, the 1st month in Arabic calendar, to commemorate the Karbala tragedy...
The dean election of Dhaka University (DU) will be held on Thursday. Voting to choose the deans of different faculties of the university will be held at Nawab Nabab Ali Choudhury Senate Bhaban on the campus from 10am to 2pm,...
Patrolling has been intensified at the Kolkata Port Trust following inputs of threat perception at the port and its installations, reports suggested on Tuesday. The terror alert was reportedly received on Monday night after a couple of intercepts suggested that...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Nov 2: Western Marine Shipyard ships a newly-constructed aluminium body catamaran type passenger ship to Tanzania tomorrow (November 3). The ship, named MV Dar Es Salam, was mounted on another heavy carrier mother vessel at the Chittagong port for...
No major incident of violence was reported on Sunday, the first day of the countrywide 48-hour hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami, reports UNB. The hartal was called protesting Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami's death sentence for his crimes during the Liberation...
FE Report | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
The fault lines in Saturday's countrywide blackout still remained clouded in the 'dark' as the Power Division declined to assign any specific reason while energy experts blamed insufficient 'protective measure' for the massive power-system breakdown. After the outage had occurred,...
FE News Desk | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
A special tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Mir Quasem Ali to death Sunday for his crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War while the fate of Mr Kamaruzzaman, already on death-row, will be decided by the apex court today (Monday)....
Zahid Hussain and Nadeem Rizwan | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
More than a year has passed since the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Dhaka, killing more than 1,100 Ready Made Garment (RMG) workers. Compliance with labour, health and safety standards in the Bangladeshi garment industry has since been under serious...
FE Report | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
The securities regulator has censured the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) for its failure to initiate the necessary process for winding up or conversion of its eight closed-end mutual funds (MFs) within the stipulated timeframe. At the same time the...
Monira Munni | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
No effective step has yet been taken to bring the subcontracted garment factories under a regulatory framework despite their poor working condition and safety. A large number of such factories are members of neither Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association...
FE Report | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the time for submission of individuals' tax returns by another month, until November 30 next following requests of taxpayers. The deadline was scheduled to expire Sunday (November 2). The board issued an...
FE Report | 2014-11-03 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has announced steps to facilitate ongoing tannery relocation process from the city's Hazaribagh to Savar, officials said. Under the supports, the banks have been allowed to transfer non-performing loans (NPL) of the tanneries, which have already...
The securities regulator has formed a two-member body to probe the alleged involvement of a rating agency in trafficking data to India, officials have said. The committee formed on Thursday has been asked to submit its report within 30 working...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs suggested on Sunday government cooperation with the subcommittee formed to recover illegally-occupied shops of the Gulistan Shopping Complex in the capital. It also recommended providing the lists of shop...
MYMENSINGH, Nov 2: One person was killed and 20 others injured when a train hit a sand-laden truck at the Bahadurpur level-crossing under Gouripur upazila of the district on Sunday morning. The identity of the deceased could not be known...
The Supreme Court will pronounce its judgment within a few hours on the appeal filed by condemned war crimes convict M Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e Islami, challenging the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentence. Closing the arguments on appeal,...
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