Air chief briefs Congo-bound BAF contingent members Bangladesh Air Force is going to replace its contingent of 358 members at the United Nations (UN) Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO). Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari briefed the...
FE Report | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh will sign an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to increase security cooperation between the two brotherly countries during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to the Gulf nation. With this end in view, the Cabinet approved...
Munima Sultana | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
A total of 39 projects, involving $10 billion, have been queued up for implementation in different sectors under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) regime following a breakthrough, officials said. They said some recent progress in project-selection and-approval process provided the stimulus....
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Oct 20: Owners and operators of prime movers and trailers engaged in carrying containers of export and import throughout the country have said the police are regularly extorting money and harassing them in the city. They said this at...
FE Report | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) has demanded exemplary punishment to the vested quarters that are involved in human trafficking in the name of giving lucrative jobs. The demand came following a recent BBC report about trafficking of...
A Bangladesh national has pleaded guilty to bribing an FBI special agent for access to confidential documents concerning a prominent Bangladeshi politician, reports bdnews24.com. Rizve Ahmed, aka 'Caesar' (35), and his acquaintance Johannes Thaler, (51), pleaded guilty to the charge...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
The withdrawal of special tax rate for apparel exporters is likely to hurt the sector and encourage further the tax dodging through cooked financial statements, experts said. And such tax dodging would help greater accumulation of black money in the...
NATORE, Oct 20 (UNB): At least 33 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a fatal road crash at Razzak intersection on Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway in Baraigram upazila on Monday afternoon. The deceased could not yet be identified. Fuad...
FE Report | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
The European Union (EU) Monday pressed for urgent formulation of necessary rules for implementation of the labour law, especially to safeguard labour rights and standards. The call came from a meeting on 'Bangladesh Sustainability Compact', held in Brussels, one year...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
The Titas-21 well, which was shut within four months of starting natural gas supply, requires to be 'worked over' to initiate production again, a senior official told the FE. He said state-run Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Ltd (BGFCL) has already...
The High Court (HC) has instructed the concerned authority to undertake necessary steps at all the ports including the International Airports to detect the deadly Ebola virus, reports BSS. As per the estimation by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
Three private commercial banks (PCBs) have sought more time from the central bank to reduce the number of directors from a single family to maximum two in line with the existing banking companies act. The PCBs having more than two...
FE Report | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to raise its investment significantly for developing the requisite infrastructure to attain a higher economic growth to become a middle-income country, according to World Bank opinion. "There is still investment gap to the infrastructure development in Bangladesh from...
A court in the city Monday issued arrest warrant against sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique for failing to respond to its summons in a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims with his derogatory remarks on Hajj. Dhaka Metropolitan...
The per capita income of the country reached $ 1190 in FY 14 compared to $ 1044 in FY 13 while the export earnings witnessed an 11.69 percent growth in FY 14. The overall revenue collection showed an 8.35 per...
Chairman of a faction of National Peoples' Party (NPP) Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Ganabhaban residence on Monday evening. Shawkat Hossain Nilu arrived at Ganabhaban at 8:00pm and invited the Prime Minister to...
Chairman of a faction of National Peoples' Party (NPP) Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Ganabhaban residence on Monday evening. Shawkat Hossain Nilu arrived at Ganabhaban at 8:00pm and invited the Prime Minister to...
The Natore district administration on Tuesday launched an investigation into a road accident in which two buses collided at Natore’s Baraigram Upazila leaving at least 38 dead. A 3-member committee, headed by Additional District Magistrate Mohammad Ali, was formed to...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday night said she will announce a decisive movement after their upcoming mass campaign to dislodge the government. Terming the Sheikh Hasina-led government illegal, Khaleda, also the leader of the 20-party alliance, alleged that the...
The government has decided to appoint 157 candidates of the 33rd special batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) in several sectors. The Ministry of Public Administration issued an order to this effect on Monday as per recommendations from Bangladesh Public...
A court in Narayanganj has placed RAB-11 member Lance Corporal Ruhul Amin, one of the accused in the multiple killings, on a five-day fresh remand. Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Chadni Rupom passed the order after the police produced him before...
The High Court on Monday again summoned five persons, including three lawyers concerned, to explain the bail of Nizamuddin Hazari, a ruling party MP from Feni-2, and his release from jail while serving jail terms in an arms case in...
Customs Intelligence officials seized 30 gold bars weighing 3 kilograms (kg) at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at Kurmitola in the city on Monday night. They also arrested a man – Liton Miah, 35, son of Shawkat Ali, of Tangail...
A court in Narayanganj has placed a woman on a 2-day remand in connection with the snatching of an auto-rickshaw after killing its driver in Fatullah. Senior Judicial Magistrate Monowara Begum passed the order when police produced Laili Begum, 40,...
Dhaka streets are currently crowded by around 225,000 rickshaws or tricycles, of which 137,189 lack valid legal documents. Most of the village agriculture workers who come to Dhaka city in search of jobs have increasingly gone into this informal sector...
The man who threatened to bomb the Chittagong court building, posing himself as a militant, is a shopkeeper by profession, police say. Nasir Mohammad, 45, arrested on Sunday night in the port city’s Badurtala area, reportedly claimed he had made...
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