FE Report | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
A hunt for the Bangladeshi citizens having 'second home' and siphoning undisclosed incomes to different countries began as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) formed a committee Wednesday for the chase. Officials said the panel will frame a work-plan for...
FE Report | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
New European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Mayaudon Pierre has called for taking immediate initiatives to ensure the country's access to GSP Plus regime as a middle-income country (MIC) after 2021. He said Bangladesh will lose the existing privileges of...
Alleging that the country is now under the cruel rule of one person, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said Wednesday that Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina is truly a 'smart player of bloodletting game,' reports UNB. "One minister...
Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu and freedom fighter Md Abdul Hai Mondol were elected chairman and secretary general respectively of the 151-member new executive committee (EC) of National People's Party (NPP) for the next three years. The election was held at...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
MAGURA, Nov 5: An Awami League (AL) leader was killed at village Kadirpara under Sreepur Upazilla of Magura Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Protap Saha (55) of village Kadirpara and president of Kadirpara union unit AL. Locals said,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
PABNA, Nov 5: At least 20 people were injured as two rival groups of Awami League (AL) clashed over capturing a piece of 'Khas' land in Chatmohar Upazila of the district Wednesday morning. Police opened five rounds of bullet to...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested a leader of banned Islamist militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) from the city's Syedabad area Tuesday night, report agencies. The arrestee was identified as M Ibrahim, 40, a leader of the operation...
KUSHTIA, Nov 5 (BSS): Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said here Wednesday that the Jamaat-e-Islami and its supporter BNP chief Khaleda Zia are 'disqualified for politics and democracy' in the country. "Jamaat-e-Islami had carried out genocide in 1971 and now...
FE Report | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
Planners, experts, and implementing agency officials of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects on Wednesday considered huge challenges in their implementation. They discussed ways to make the new kind of mass transport system acceptable to political leaders, transport owners and...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Nov 5: Despite countrywide shut down enforced by political forces the loading, unloading and delivery of containerised and bulk cargo at Chittagong Port was almost normal, port officials said. Works in the main jetties, special berths and outer anchorage...
The government of Bangladesh has sought information on 17 users from Facebook in the first six months of 2014, reports bdnews24.com. The social media website, however, has not responded to any of the requests, according to its report on such...
FE Report The parliamentary standing committee on the primary and mass education ministry recommended Wednesday not to give registration to any fresh primary school. It also suggested the ministry to take necessary steps to prevent drop out of primary school...
The second death anniversary of Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury, ex-MP, founding chairman of Janata Insurance Company Ltd (JICL) and United Commercial Bank Ltd and ex-president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was observed Tuesday, said a press release. Milad Mahfils will...
Abdul Matin Khandaker, a veteran freedom fighter who led the Company 6 of Sector 11 as Second in Command, died of cancer on Friday late night, said a press release. He was the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Tangail district and...
FE Report The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) gave approval Wednesday for filing a case against four people, including three officials of Pubali Bank, on charge of plundering more than Tk 1.0 million from the bank. The Commission gave the approval at...
Qulkhwani of Md Ekramul Haq, a former forest ranger of Botanical Garden in Dhaka, will be held tomorrow (Friday) after Asr prayers at his residence at 151/34 Mukti housing, South Pirerbag, Mirpur. Haq died of brain haemorrhage Sunday last. He...
Light rain or thundershowers is likely to occur at one or two places over Barisal and Chittagong divisions until 6:00 pm today (Thursday). Weather may remain mainly dry with partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country, Met Office said. Night...
Ainun Nishat gets nature conservation award Water Resource and Climate Change specialist Prof Dr Ainun Nishat has been awarded the prestigious Prokriti O Jibon Foundation - Channel i "Nature Conservation Award-2014" for his outstanding contribution to the conservation of biodiversity,...
A man was killed in a road accident in Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila on Wednesday afternoon. The dead is Jalal Uddin, 70, son of Jharu Mondol of Chunakhali Fakirpara village. Police said the accident occurred when a private car hit Jalal...
Some miscreants strangulated a woman to death and dumped the body into Brahmaputra River at Khagdahor in Mymensingh town on Wednesday afternoon. Being informed, a police team from Kotwali Police Station rushed to the spot and recovered the body with...
A madrasa teacher died and 7 other people were injured in a road accident in Ulipur Upazila in Kurigram district on Wednesday. The dead is Khairul Islam, 50, a teacher of Jummahat Darul Ulum Fazil Madrasa in the Upazila. Police...
Jamaat-e-Islami leader M Kamaruzzaman’s lawyer has said that they will file a petition seeking review against the Appellate Division’s judgment that upheld the capital punishment to the condemned war crimes convict. ‘We think there is a scope of filing a...
Suspected hartal supporters damaged a BRTC bus and some passing vehicles in the city’s Lalbagh Police Station area on Wednesday night. Local people said a group of young men, seemed to be pro-hartal activists, hurled crude bombs at a BRTC...
The members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested a leader of banned extremist group Ansarullah Bangla Team in the city on Wednesday night. Being informed, a team of detectives arrested the media wing chief of the outlawed militant...
The defence lawyers met condemned war crimes convict Muhammad Kamaruzzaman inside the Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday morning. Earlier, Kamaruzzaman, the senior assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was taken to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur district...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-06 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid the nationwide general strike. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 14.94 points or 0.29 per cent...
A Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official was beaten to death allegedly by a gang of smugglers in Lakshmidanri border point in Satkhira Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Subedar Nazrul Islam, in-charge of Bhomra BGB camp in...
Health Secretary Mohammad Neaz Uddin Miah, accused of obtaining freedom fighter (FF)’s certificate through forgery, voluntarily went on retirement on Thursday. However, a reliable source at the ministry said he resigned over allegations of holding fake FF’s certificate. On October...
Shakib Al Hasan is on a roll in his comeback series, bagging five wickets after scoring a century in a Test for the second time on Thursday. The allrounder walked away with a five-wicket haul after scoring a century in...
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