The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 324,891,450.86 on the basis of cost price and Tk 306,735,955.44 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on 04 September 2014. The face value per...
Strong explosions were heard early Sunday on the outskirts of the main rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine near the airport, raising new fears that a cease-fire signed two days ago is on the verge of collapse. Blasts powerful enough to...
India's health and family welfare minister Dr Harsh Vardhan arrives in Dhaka Monday afternoon on a 5-day visit to Bangladesh. The Indian minister will attend a health ministers’ meeting to be held here under the aegis of the World Health...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-07 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks closed flat in the red on Sunday after four-day gaining streak with thin trading activities as investors booked profit on large cap stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,641.45 points, shedding...
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed nearly 300 people in large swaths of northern India and Pakistan, officials said Sunday. Five days of incessant rain in Indian-controlled Kashmir has killed at least 120 people in...
Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said he would approach the Supreme Court to get Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disqualified because he had allegedly lied in parliament, media reported Sunday. Addressing protestors at Islamabad’s D-Chowk, Imran Khan said the government’s dialogue...
A student of a private university was shot dead and one of his friends received bullet injuries in an attack by some miscreants at Daulatdia at Goalunda Upazila of Rajbari on Sunday. The dead is Saiful Islam Ripon, 21, an...
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) Major (Retd.) Dr. Md. Rezaul Haque and Managing Director Mr. Md. Shafiqur Rahman met Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group Chairman Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali at IDB Head...
Nearly 20,000 Chinese couples have been granted a permit to have a second child since the Chinese capital city relaxed its family planning policy on February 21. According to statistics released on Sunday by Beijing Municipal Commission of Health and...
IMF and the World Bank, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said. ‘I don't think it was primarily meant to challenge the existing multilateral institutions but it certainly is saying look we have plenty of money ourselves, why don't we put...
Smartphone-makers are in a race to the bottom of India's economic pyramid as they battle for customers in the fast-growing low-end market segment where analysts say opportunities are vast. India is now the quickest-expanding smartphone market globally and the third-largest...
Chinese authorities killed almost 5,000 dogs in one city after blaming five human deaths on rabies, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. The city of Baoshan in southwestern Yunnan province killed 4,900 dogs and vaccinated another 100,000 in its...
Myanmar's Union Election Commission said Sunday that it was canceling by-elections planned for later this year to fill 35 empty parliamentary seats. Commission chairman Tin Aye made the surprise announcement at a media briefing in Yangon. Reasons he gave included...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man along with 115 gold bars weighing 13.5 kg from the Shah Amanat International Airport area on Sunday evening. The arrestee was identified as Belal Uddin, 28, son of Anwar Hossain...
Nurses and interns at Sir Salimullah Medical College and Hospital – better known as Mitford hospital – have returned to work ending a 30-hour strike that caused huge sufferings to the public. However, all the services are yet to resume....
The law minister has presented a bill in Parliament for a constitutional amendment to restore the legislative authority to impeach Supreme Court judges. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs will screen the bill...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed the 'profit craze' among vessel owners as responsible for most ferry disasters in Bangladesh. "Launches sink in moderate storms, this cannot go on. These should be designed in a manner that it can float...
The Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained 22 people while they were trying to embark on an illegal voyage to Malaysia to seek better fortunes. Nuniar Chharha Coast Guard station officer Shahidur Rahman said, "They have been detained from the Najirartek...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court continued hearing Sunday two leave-to-appeal petitions filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia against a High Court order rejecting her two petitions challenging the legality of the appointment of a special judge who framed...
President Abdul Hamid Sunday stressed on building illiteracy-free Bangladesh for overall development of the country. "There is no alternative to literacy for overall development of the country as it turns people into enlightened human resources," he said in a message...
There will be no justice in Bangladesh if Parliament's power to impeach Supreme Court judges is restored, claims the BNP. At a programme in Dhaka Sunday, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, "There is no representative of the people in Parliament....
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Finance on Sunday elaborately discussed about the progress of revising the "Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) Bill-2014", according to a news agency.
The High Court (HC) on Sunday directed the home secretary to form a two-member committee to look into the police assault on ETV journalist Akhil Poddar. Asking the home secretary to come up with a report on October 21 after...
Bangladesh’s withdrawal of candidature in the election for a non-permanent seat in UN Security Council (UNSC) in favour of Japan has not come in exchange of any financial package or any give-and-take policy, as the strong ties between the two...
BNP’s Dhaka city unit has convened an emergency meeting for Monday to discuss the country’s overall situation and work out its next course of action. The meeting will be held at the party’s Nayapaltan central office at 3pm, said a...
Michael Georgy of Reuters in Cairo | 2014-09-07 00:00:00
Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt's most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilize the biggest Arab nation. Confirmation that Islamic Sate, currently the most successful of the region's jihadi groups,...
Masum Billah | 2014-09-07 00:00:00
One of my colleagues at BRAC Education wonders why only eighty or ninety percent students will pass in the public examinations. There must be hundred percent pass rate. He is not ready to listen to the feedback or criticism regarding...
It is known to all that a library is a store house of knowledge. A library is a place in schools, colleges, and universities where students and teachers usually go for studying and borrowing books, journals, and also for making...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 6 (BSS): Nerica, a short duration and drought tolerant rice variety brought from Africa in 2009, has been found as tolerable for the drought-prone Barind area creating high hope among the farmers and others concerned. Before being revealed...
A Correspondent | 2014-09-07 00:00:00
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Sept 6: State Minister for Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Junayed Ahmed Polok in an opinion exchanging meeting on Saturday said, 62 per cent people of the country are now getting electricity and so those who are blessed with...
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