NATORE, Oct 11 (UNB): Five policemen were injured as their pick-up overturned after being hit by a bus in Boraigram upazila on Saturday. The injured were constables Ahsan, Alamgir, Aminul, Obaidul and Razu of Boraigram Police Station. Police said the...
Mother, daughter found dead in Dinajpur DINAJPUR, Oct 11: Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her daughter from a pond at Sanka village in Birganj upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Sajena Begum, wife of...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-10-12 00:00:00
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) has signed an agreement recently with a South Korean company to implement a project at Savar for producing 150 million litres of water per day. The proposed project, to be implemented at...
India has agreed to share information with Bangladesh about the recent bomb blast at Bardhaman in West Bengal as Indian media pointed fingers at 'Bangladeshi militants' for the explosion, reports UNB. Indian official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin has confirmed that Bangladesh...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-10-12 00:00:00
Country's power transmission system is going to get a big boost as the government will install a 70-kilometre 400-kilovolt high-voltage Ashuganj-Bhulta line for ensuring quality electricity supply to Dhaka city, officials said Saturday. Power Division officials said the state-owned Power...
A director of Transcom contradicted in a statement received on Saturday a news item published in the Financial Express (FE) on October 9, 2014 under the heading "ACC Probing Hall-Mark money in Transcom". The statement termed the news motivated. The...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-10-12 00:00:00
A national database on household status is being built at a cost of Tk 3.28 billion to stop misuse of funds from social safety-net programmes that constitute around 14 per cent of the annual budget. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-10-12 00:00:00
Narrowing the trade imbalance with Beijing through higher export and creating a stable domestic environment to net the spin-offs from the fastest-growing economy may benefit Bangladesh as China overtook the United States to be world's largest economy. Economists and business...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-10-12 00:00:00
WASHINGTON, DC: Oct 10: The World Bank (WB) is expected to provide Bangladesh with $500 million in budgetary support for the next fiscal year (FY). Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed his hope here on Saturday that the WB would provide...
The Cabinet Division completed all preparations to issue gazette notification on removal of Minister Abdul Latif Siddique from the cabinet for his derogatory remarks about Hajj and Tablig Jamaat, said Cabinet Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Saturday, reports UNB....
The very severe cyclonic storm 'Hudhud' (with an estimated centre pressure of 982hPa) is likely to cross the North Andhra-South Odisha coast of India by Sunday forenoon, reports UNB. The cyclone over the West Central Bay and adjoining East Central...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 11 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced on Saturday that the Bangladesh Navy was going to have two submarines in its fleet by 2015. "Inshaallah, two submarines will be added to the naval fleet by next year," she...
A youth was beaten to death by some stalkers for protesting eve-teasing in the city's Bhashantek area early on Saturday. The victim was identified as M Nasir Hossain, 25, son of late Abdul Matin Sarker, a resident of 93/1 Bhashantek....
TANGAIL, Oct 11: Police announced on Saturday a bounty of Tk 100,000 (one lakh) for information leading to the arrest of the main accused in the arson attack on a house in Sohagpara village in Mirzapur upazila on Tuesday. The...
The government has taken all-out preparation to prevent any possible spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the country. Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR ) Prof Mahmudur Rahman said a total of 25 medical...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested one of the accused in Fulgazi Upazila chairman Ekramul Haque killing case, and his three accomplices in Feni on Saturday night. The arrestees are: Md Yusuf Bhuyan alias Top Shamim, 25, and his associates...
A young man and his daughter were killed and four other members of his family injured in a road accident in Narayanganj district on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Dalim Miah, 30, his daughter Nuf Nur, 3, of...
At least 7 people were killed and 29 others injured in a road accident in Chauddagram Upazila in Comilla district on Sunday morning. The deceased could not be identified yet. Police said a Dhaka-bound truck collided with a Chittagong-bound bus...
Tropical cyclone 'Hudhud', growing in force, was staying 870 kilometres from Mongla Port of Bagerhat district in Bangladesh at 6am on Sunday. It was slightly heading northwestwards, towards India's eastern coast. A Met Office weather bulletin said, 'Hudhud' was centred...
About 350 tourists are stranded on the Saint Martin’s Island in Bangladesh after the sea level rose by 4 feet with tropical cyclone ‘Hudhud’, moving across the Bay of Bengal. The picturesque coral island of sandy beaches is popular with...
Some miscreants killed a young man and a woman and dumped their bodies in separate places in Sirajganj districts at sometimes on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha. Police said they recovered the decomposed body of the slain young man from the...
Border Guard Bangladesh personnel in a drive seized 0.14 million (140,000) pieces of Yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday morning. BGB sources said they recovered 0.14m pieces of Yaba from a secluded place. The large consignment of the contraband...
Acme Laboratories will float an IPO to raise funds from the market to finance its three new projects. The company plans to offer shares worth Tk 50 million for potential investors, Managing Director Mizanur Rahman Sinha told a press briefing...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-12 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw sharp rise in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening session after 9-day-long Eid-ul-Azha vacations and weekly holidays. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up...
The New York City last week announced a special programme to provide free legal help to the US citizenship aspirants. The NYC Mayor Bill De Bellagio’s Immigrations affairs office said the services will be given on Oct 18 and Nov...
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent ruling party MP Abdur Rahman Bodi to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in connection with the allegation of unusual wealth accumulation. Metropolitan magistrate Maruf Hossain passed the order when...
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