FE Report | 2014-10-22 00:00:00
The central bank has asked the board of directors of National Bank Limited (NBL) to comply with its inspection reports properly. The instruction was given at a board meeting held at Simanta Square in the capital Monday with NBL director...
In his blog last week, Alan Roberts, executive director international operations at the Accord on Fire and Building Safety, outlined the progress made by the Accord so far, reports theguardian Monday. More than 175 primarily European brands and retailers joined...
The government Tuesday directed all medical coaching centres to suspend their activities till the admission tests for medical and dental colleges are held. The order came through a circular issued by Health Ministry on Tuesday with a view to ensuring...
BAGERHAT, Oct 21: Members of Bangladesh Navy arrested 14 more Indian fishermen along with a trawler at the Fairway Buoy in the Bay of Bengal under Mongla upazila on Monday for trespassing into the Bangladesh waters. Earlier, a total of...
Former national footballer Dewan Shafiul Arefin Tutul and brilliant athlete of his time Sayeedur Rabb have been given Life Time Achievement awards by a Los Angeles-based sports and socio-cultural organisation. They received the awards in a glittering prize giving ceremony...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based global rights watchdog, has said the government of Bangladesh should prosecute the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel responsible for the 2011 attack on Limon Hossain that caused him to lose a leg. The...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the government is determined to ensure safe future of all children. She made the affirmation while distributing prizes among the winners of chess, drawing and cultural competitions organised by Sheikh Russell Jatiya Shishu...
Experts at a workshop in Rangpur have said there is no alternative to time-befitting quality education for building an enlightened society, ideal and dignified nation to make Independence meaningful for every citizen. The Trusty Board of the Prime Minster’s Education...
A senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the Thai government has granted consular access to the 38 Bangladesh nationals, rescued in Thailand after being victims of human trafficking. He said the officials of Bangladesh Embassy...
Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than 2 decades, died on Tuesday. He was 93. Bradlee died at his home of...
An unidentified assailant shot to death a Bangladeshi expatriate in Grimsby area of London on Tuesday. The victim is Maulana Zubayer Hamidi, a former Imam of East London Man Park mosque. London police and witnesses said an unknown assailant opened...
A court in Magura has sentenced a lawyer to two months’ imprisonment for misbehaving with a magistrate. The convict was identified as Advocate Syed Firozur Rahman. The court sources said Advocate Syed Firozur Rahman misbehaved with magistrate Selina Khatun during...
Police on Tuesday night arrested a young man from near Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) on the Dhaka University campus and recovered from him a pen drive containing some offensive pictures of and remarks about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The arrestee was...
The Appellate Division has fixed December 2 to start hearing the appeal filed by war crimes convict Prof Ghulam Azam. The five-member Appellate Division led-by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain fixed the date of hearing on Wednesday. On July 15...
The country's twin-bourse - Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) - witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, the 4th session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, dropped 28.27 points...
The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) suspended four students for assaulting an assistant proctor of the university on the campus on Tuesday. They are: Ariful Haque Sony, a 4th year student of Food Engineering and Tea...
A latest study on Bangladesh's social and economic development showed the poverty level would come down to near zero by 2030 even if the economic growth rate remains similar to those recorded since 2000. ‘Assuming no major shocks, continued economic...
An army man allegedly committed suicide in Rajshahi Cantonment area on Tuesday. The dead is Azizul Haque, 35, corporal of Bangladesh Army posted in Rajshahi Cantonment. He hailed from Bhalukapura village of Gouripur Upazila of Mymensingh district. Police said Azizul’s...
Tongi Police Station's officer-in-charge (OC) has reportedly blamed his colleagues of pocketing a part of seized Yaba tablets. According to Tongi police’s sub-inspector (SI) Aminur Rahman, being tipped off a raid was conducted at a slum in Natun Bazar area...
Sammilito Islami Dal, a coalition of Islamist parties, on Wednesday called a nationwide 24-hour hartal for October 26 demanding Latif Siddiqui's trial for his derogatory cpmments about Holy Hajj and Tabligh Jamaat. Mawlana Zafrullah Khan, secretary general of the coalition,...
Another court has issued a warrant for arrest of recently-sacked telecom minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui in a case filed over his rant on Holy Hajj that hurt the sentiments of Muslims. The Sirajganj Cognizance Court-6 issued the arrest warrant after...
At least four people were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Gazaria Upazila in Munshiganj district on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased – two women and two children – could not be identified. Witnesses said a cement-laden...
A young man drowned in the Jamuna River in Shashaghat area of Sirajganj district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahman, 27, a resident of Goyla of the municipality area. Witnesses said Habibur went to the river adjacent...
To make individual tax computation easier for customers and to promote a tax compliant culture, Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) has published a 32 page mini size Tax Pocket Guide. The handbook incorporates important provisions of the Income Tax Ordinance, 1984...
Stocks in Japan surged for a second time this week while Hong Kong emerged as one of the best-performing major Asian indexes so far this month, as bargain hunters returned despite a recent bout of volatility in global markets. The...
US equity investors bid up prices on Tuesday, delivering another day of gains for major indexes on the heels of upbeat quarterly results from tech giant Apple and talk of economic stimulus in Europe. By far the best performer, driven...
European shares inched higher in early trading on Wednesday, extending the previous session's sharp gains, with a raft of positive corporate results from companies including ABB and Husqvarna lifting sentiment. Shares in Swiss engineering group ABB were the top gainers...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-22 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the red on Wednesday, after previous session's sharp gain as investors went for selling spree to book quick profit. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 63.66 points or 1.21 per...
An activist of Rajshahi University (RU) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was injured in an attack by some miscreants in Old Folklore field on campus on Tuesday night. The injured was identified as Tariqul Islam, a 4th year student...
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