FE Report | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has achieved 15 per cent growth in revenue collection in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY). The upward trend of domestic collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) is largely responsible...
Munima Sultana | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
A technical evaluation committee has finally recommended awarding the construction supervision job of the Padma Bridge Project to a Korean joint-venture company. Officials said the evaluation committee has given its nod in favour of appointing the Korean Expressway Corporation (KEC)...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sacked Telecoms Minister Abdul Latif Siddique, under fire for his comments against Hajj, from the Cabinet, report agencies. Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif told a press conference Wednesday at the party president's...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
The pitiable state of many roads and highways ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha speaks of the vulnerability of the country's fragile communications system. Even directives of the flamboyant communication minister, who uses to visit the highways intermittently before any festival, are...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
Inter-bank call-money rates moved up further Wednesday following higher withdrawals of cash from banks on two religious festivals. The central bank has asked the commercial banks to make sure cash is available round-the-clock at all ATMs (Automated Teller Machine) during...
FE Report | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
The government will continue subsidising agriculture for food security come what may, Matia Chowdhury reaffirmed government stand Wednesday despite opposition from international donors. "Donors oppose government's subsidy programme. But we will continue to subsidise country's agriculture sector to make it...
Syful Islam | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has asked the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) to clarify several issues on its signing of a commercial contract with a Chinese company for procuring six vessels, sources said. The explanations have been...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in the UK, greeted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Azha through sending an Eid card. Reciprocating the gesture, Khaleda Zia hours later also sent an Eid card to Awami League President...
Dhaka University (DU) authorities have formed a 5-member probe committee to investigate the allegation of sexual harassment of a female student by suspended chairman of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies Prof Dr Saiful Islam. The DU syndicate at...
Branding Abdul Latif Siddiqui as an atheist and apostate, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has demand that the Posts and Telecommunications Minister be hung for his anti-Islamic rants. The person who insults the greatest Prophet (SM) can’t remain a Muslim....
Some miscreants chopped a man to death following a dispute over playing carrom in Jibannagar Upazila in Chuadanga district on Wednesday night. The dead is Arif Hossain, 24, son of Ajijor Box of Senerhuda village. Locals said Arif had an...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in Sylhet from London concluding her 10-day visit to the United States and the United Kingdom. A VVIP flight BG-006 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina landed at Osmani International Airport...
Chittagong's rail communications with Dhaka and Sylhet have remained suspended since Thursday morning following derailment of an inter-city passenger train in Mirsarai Upazila of Chittagong district. Five compartments of Dhaka-bound ‘Mohanogor Express’ train veered off the railway tracks near Chingki...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Tuesday named pacer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as skipper of One Day International (ODI) side of the Bangladesh National Cricket team, reports UNB. The decision was taken at a meeting of the BCB Board of Directors at...
Defending champions Bangladesh will start their campaign in the 17th Asian Games Cricket taking on Kuwait in the 4th quarter final at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in Incheon, South Korea today (Wednesday) amid threat of rain by weather forecast, reports...
INCHEON, Sept 30 (AFP): Arch-rivals India and Pakistan set themselves up for a rousing field hockey final at the Asian Games after recording hard-fought semi-final wins Tuesday. India, seeking their first Asiad title since 1998, played a spirited game to...
INCHEON, Sept 30 (BSS): It was another miserable day for Bangladesh as Bangladesh national hockey team suffered an embarrassing 2-3 defeat against Oman in the Asian games Hockey competition Tuesday at Seonhak Hockey Stadium. Despite Bangladesh led 1-0 at the...
Bangladesh A team leveled the three-match unofficial One Day Inter national (ODI) series 1-1 beating Zimbabwe A by 6 wickets in the curtailed over 2nd match at the Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah Tuesday, reports UNB. In the...
Inter-Base Hockey Competition-2014 concluded at the Bangladesh Air Force Base Bir Shreshtho Matiur Rahman play ground in Jessore Monday, reports BSS. In the final match, the Bangladesh Air Force Base Bir Shreshtho Matiur Rahman team clinched the title defeating the...
BEIJING, Sept 30 (AFP): World number one men's player Novak Djokovic powered through his opening game of the $5.4 million China Open Tuesday following a shaky start, while five-times Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova also won. The men's third seed...
MADRID, Sept 30 (AFP): Last season's Champions League finalists Atletico Madrid are in desperate need of three points to kick-start their European campaign when Italian champions Juventus visit the Spanish capital Wednesday. La Liga champions Atletico were surprisingly beaten 3-2...
Bangladesh Men's Kabaddi team will play Thailand in the last Group A match of the 17th Asian Games Kabaddi at the Songdo Global University Gymnasium in Incheon, South Korea Wednesday, reports UNB. Bangladesh Men's team eliminated from race after conceding...
INCHEON, Sept 30 (AFP): Teenager Yoshihito Nishioka humbled Taiwanese veteran Yen-Hsun Lu in straight sets Tuesday to become Japan's first Asian Games men's singles champion in 40 years. The 19-year-old left-hander, ranked 168th in the world, outclassed number 42 Lu...
Iraqi weightlifter caught doping at Asiad INCHEON, Sept 30: An Iraqi weightlifter has failed a dope test and been kicked out of the Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said Tuesday. Mohammed al Aifuri, who came seventh in...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-10-01 00:00:00
President Xi Jinping of China called for joint development of an "Economic Belt along the Silk Road" and a "Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century" during his separate visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013. These...
October 1st is the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. On this jubilant occasion, I would like, on behalf of Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, to extend my warmest greetings and best wishes to the Chinese...
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