FE Report | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has recently promoted Director General of the Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) Md Abdur Razzaque and appellate tribunal member Mir Mustaq Ali as Member. Mr Razzak has been made chief of the Audit, Intelligence and...
FE Report | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
President Md. Abdul Hamid emphasised maintaining business-friendly environment for generating much-needed jobs for teeming millions through accelerating the country's socioeconomic advances. Also suggesting that the government create required infrastructure for economic expansion, he said that the rest of the development...
Monira Munni | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh's apparel exports to some potential nontraditional markets declined during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, thereby undermining the move to diversify the country's export base, sources said. Exports to Turkey and Mexico marked drastic drop by 37.54...
War crimes convict and ex-Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam was buried on Saturday after his namaz-e-janaza at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the city, reports UNB. The Jamaat guru was buried beside his father at his family graveyard at the...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
Nearly half a million motorised vehicles are running throughout the country without any fitness, according to BRTA statistics. Almost fifty per cent of these vehicles are running in and around the capital city. The data available with Bangladesh Road Transport...
Sammilito Islami Dal, a coalition of Islamic parties, is set to enforce a daylong nationwide hartal on Sunday demanding recently removed minister Abdul Latif Siddique's trial for his disparaging remarks about hajj and Tablig Jamaat, reports UNB. Maulana Zafrullah Khan,...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said on Saturday the government would shut down all tanneries in the city's Hazaribagh area, if those are not relocated within the stipulated time. He was speaking at a discussion organised by Tannery Workers' Union...
The nationwide hartal (shutdown), called for Sunday by some Islamist parties, got underway at 6:00am. No untoward incident is reported from anywhere in the country till 8:40am, when the report was filed. The daylong hartal, being enforced by Sammilito Islami...
Jamaat-e-Islami has lent its support to Sunday's nationwide hartal demanding arrest of recently-removed minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui for his anti-Hajj remarks. In a media statement on Saturday, Jamaat-e-Islami claimed the people of Bangladesh endorsed the general strike called by several...
Habibur Rashid Habib, general secretary of recently dissolved Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) committee, met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night. Habib went the BNP chief’s political office at Gulshan in the city at the night and greeted her with...
A case was filed on Saturday night with Mohammadpur Police Station against BNP leader Moazzem Hossain Alal and 62 other leaders and workers of the party for planning to carry out ‘subversive activities' in the city during Sunday’s nationwide hartal....
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim has said the parliamentary election will not be held even a day before 2019 no matter how hard the BNP-Jamaat alliance tries to hatch a conspiracy. He said this while speaking at the...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has said that fundamentalists and extremist militants were out to destroy democracy and stability in Bangladesh. ‘This group is conspiring to destabilise the whole subcontinent. Recently they exploded bombs in India. Therefore,...
A gang of truck lifters, equipped with sharp weapons, swooped on a truck in Sobhanighat in Sylhet city and tried to hijack the vehicle injuring its driver on Saturday night. Police and locals said as driver Jahangir Alam tried to...
An Indian national, journalist by profession, was found dead in a Dhaka hotel on Saturday evening. The deceased was identified as Biswajit Shil David, 40, an Indian citizen and journalist. Being informed, police recovered his body, which bore no injury...
The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) have taken up a project to bring its entire campus under Wi-Fi network, aiming to reach the internet facility to all of its students. Vice Chancellor of DU Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique has...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet in an abandoned condition in Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Sunday morning. Sources at BGB headquarters said a patrol team of the border force noticed a group...
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) stumbled in the early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening session of the week amid nationwide hartal. Despite the general strike, the trading started at 10:30am. DSEX, the prime index...
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have decided to expel 22 Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists and cancel the certificate of another in connection with a factional clash on the campus. Registrar Abu Bakar Siddique said the decision was taken at...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive recovered 57 powerful bombs and gunpowder used to make explosives weighing about 2 kilogram (kg) from a secluded place near Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) on Sunday. Assistant Superintendent of...
The Appellate Division has fixed November 6 for hearing the leave to appeal filed by BNP chief Khaleda Zia against a High Court verdict upholding the trial court order on charge-framing in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The five-member bench,...
Bibliophiles with an interest in neighbouring Bangladesh’s art, culture and history have a reason to cheer now. A six-day Bangladesh Book Fair was inaugurated in Kolkata on Saturday. Hosting 30 book stalls, the fair will run at the Rabindra Sadan...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has offered Asr prayers at Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. She visited the grave of UAE founder Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyen and offered special prayers at the mosque on Saturday afternoon. Her Press...
Altogether 22,759 candidates have cleared the combined medical and dental admission test. But only 10,227 of them will find a place in the public and private medical and dental colleges. DGHS Director General Deen Muhammad Nurul Haque handed over the...
Jahidul Islam, alias 'Boma Mizan', the fugitive Jamaa'tul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) activist, has perhaps fled to India, says Indian intelligence. His footprint has been last tracked in Rajarhat, on the outskirts of Kolkata, about a month ago. But it is...
Police have detained BNP's Gopalganj Joint General Secretary Basu Biswas ahead of Sunday's shutdown called by Islamist parties demanding Abdul Latif Siddiqui's arrest. He was picked up from the Sadar Upazila's Boultali on Saturday night. Gopalganj Sadar police OC Md...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
Stocks ended lower for the third running session on Sunday with turnover remained sluggish as the investors went for selling spree amid countrywide hartal. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 5,111.63 points, shedding 42.46...
A passenger bus has veered into a roadside ditch in Munshiganj killing two people. The accident on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Gazaria Upazila of Munshiganj district on early Sunday left at least 25 others injured. Passengers allege the driver was...
The US development agency’s Assistant Administrator for Asia Anne Aarnes arrives in Dhaka on Monday. USAID Bangladesh said Aarnes would visit development projects in Khulna, Baagerhaat, Munshiganj, Jessore during her 4-day stay. Aarnes is in charge of USAID's development programmes...
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