The opposition BNP says the people bound for home to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha are suffering due to ‘mismanagement and misdeeds’ of the government. Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kair Rizvi made the allegation at a press briefing in Dhaka on Sunday,...
Holy Eid-ul-Azha, the 2nd biggest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on Monday with due solemnity and religious fervour. On the occasion, the Muslims will offer prayers in congregations and sacrifice animals in the name of...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 3 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested three people along with 0.140 million pieces of amphetamine Yaba pill from several parts of the port city on Thursday night and early Friday. Acting on...
COMILLA, Oct 3 (UNB): A schoolgirl has allegedly been kept confined and raped by her boyfriend for nine days in Chouddagram municipality area. Police arrested the accused, Zahir Hossain, 22, son of Nur Miah of Sripur village under the municipality...
FE Report The sixth death anniversary of former senior sub-editor of the daily Inqilab Muhammad Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan will be observed today (Saturday). He started his journalism career in the daily Azad and weekly Ittehad in Kolkata in 1946. He...
Lightning kills mother, daughter in Bandarban BANDARBAN, Oct 3: Mother and daughter were killed when lightning struck them during a heavy rain at Paghli Aga Pahar under Lama Upazila of the district Thursday. The victims were identified as Jaheda Begum...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Country's first ever deal on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project is expected to be signed between an Indian company and the directorate of health services of the government of Bangladesh in November next. The government included...
Yasir Wardad Thousands of home-goers got trapped in nagging traffic congestions on a number of routes from the capital and suffered Friday as a five-day vacation began, witnesses said. Large numbers of vehicles carrying homebound people on the occasion Eid-ul-Azha...
FE Report | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The maximum buying prices of per square foot rawhide of sacrificial animals have been fixed at Tk 70-75 in Dhaka and Tk 60-65 outside the capital during the Eid-ul-Azha. Last year, the maximum procurement prices of rawhide were set at...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
Sales at the capital's makeshift and permanent cattle markets picked up Friday with the indigenous species being the most-sought-after sacrificial animals, buyers and sellers said. Although traders brought the animals from various corners of the country and neighbouring India into...
Reaffirming that a process is underway to remove embattled minister Abdul Latif Siddique from the cabinet as well as her party, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday said it is not the government but Latif Siddique is in discomfort for his...
MOUNT ARAFAT, Oct 03(AFP): Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj by close to two million believers from around the world reached its zenith on a vast plain in western Saudi Arabia Friday. "I am...
Language Movement veteran Abdul Matin is breathing on a ventilator as his condition has worsened further, his family says. The 88-year-old has been put under intensive care at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). His wife Gulbadan Nesa Monica said...
Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests may have cost the city's retailers more than $2bn Hong Kong dollars (£175.7m), ANZ bank estimates. The demonstrations have coincided with mainland China's Golden week holiday, which usually prompts a huge influx of shoppers from the...
Different Islamic parties brought out a huge protest procession from Baitul Mukarram after Jum'a prayers on Friday demanding capital punishment for minister Abdul Latif Siddique for his recent anti-Islamic comments, reports UNB. Islamic parties like Hefajat-e-Islam, Islami Andolon, Dawat-e-Tablig and...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The government is going to set up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) based 850-megawatt power plant in Khulna, according to official sources. The LNG is to be imported from neighbouring India. Power Division officials said the state-owned North West Power...
At least 32 people, most of them women and children, were killed and several injured in a stampede that broke out this evening at the Gandhi Maidan here shortly after the Dussehra celebrations, The Indian Express reported Friday. The tragedy...
FE Report The government's continuous efforts to ensure payment of outstanding wages and allowances to the workers of closed Tuba Group factories made no major headway as the owner declined to pay the same. "We are yet to get any...
Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi is to face trial for alleged tax evasion, a Spanish judge has ruled. The judge rejected a prosecution recommendation to drop the charges on the grounds the player's father was responsible for his finances,...
BNP Friday claimed that the country's people not only got frustrated but also aggrieved with the Prime Minister's press conference as she did not give any clear message about action against her minister Abdul Latif Siddique for his disparaging remarks...
Senior leader of BNP Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman demanded on Friday a judicial investigation to find out whether minister Abdul Latif Siddique made the anti-Islamic comments at anybody's instigation, reports UNB. "Latif Siddique will be dropped from the cabinet....
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu said Friday the statement of Abdul Latif Siddique was his own and he alone would bear responsibility for it. The government has nothing to do with it, reports BSS. "What he had said in a...
Jessore, Oct 3 (UNB): A schoolboy died after he was beaten by his mother and brother-in-law (sister's husband) over his demand for buying a mobile phone set at Jahangirpur village in Chougachha upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as...
The Education Ministry on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Singaporean educational institution to get support from it to develop the country's technical Education, reports UNB. Director General of the Directorate of Technical Education Shajahan Mia and...
Food Minister Md Qamrul Islam has threatened more cases against BNP leaders and warned that their anti-government movement will face tough street resistance, reports bdnews24.com. "Don't threaten anymore with your movement, organise your party first. Prepare to face more cases...
Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member Advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun alleged Friday that staying in a foreign country BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman has been hatching multifarious conspiracies against the country, reports BSS. "Taking political asylum abroad, Tarique, a fugitive,...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions until 6pm...
BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman has demanded a judicial investigation to find out whether minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui made the anti-Islamic comments at anybody’s instigation. ‘Latif Siddiqui will be dropped from the cabinet. We’ve heard he’ll also...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have arrested a man and recovered 502 pieces of Yaba tablets and four bottles of phensidyl in Arambag Charkanda village under Bhanga Upazila of Faridpur district. RAB-8 sources said, on the basis of intelligence reports,...
© 2026 - All Rights with The Financial Express
