Siddique Islam | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The central bank has purchased the US dollar from the commercial banks with changed instruments in a bid to offset inflationary pressures on the economy amid a glut of money supply, officials said. Under the latest move, the Bangladesh Bank...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said on Sunday the challenge for the country in the post-2015 period is to find out a model for having a solution to unemployment problem, reports UNB. "The challenges before us in the coming days are...
Munima Sultana | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Legal experts have given the green signal for awarding the river-training work under the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project to a Chinese company which drew criticism for poor performance in an important highway expansion project, sources said. Bangladesh Bridges Authority (BBA),...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Taxmen have, for the first time, detected forgeries of pay orders by vested quarters, raising concern over the security of taxpayers' money, sources said. Some taxmen in connivance with bank officials have encashed some pay-orders that the taxpayers submitted with...
LAHORE, Aug 17: A Pakistani court on Saturday ordered framing of murder charges against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab chief minister Shahbaz and 19 others over the June violence near Canada-based cleric Tahirul Qadri's headquarters here that...
President Abdul Hamid left for London Sunday on a seven-day visit there for his eye treatment. A regular flight of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President took off from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2.00 pm. The President...
Miscreants hacked a man in Dhaka's Mirpur area Sunday. The man identified as Md Hasan (25) died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) early on the day after miscreants hacked him with sharp weapons in front of a restaurant...
A fire broke out at a five-storied commercial building in the city's Boro Moghbazar area Sunday. Fire service sources said the fire broke out on the 4th floor of 'SK Tower' around 12:52 pm and spread soon. On information, nine...
Bangladesh will send a medical team to Gaza to help the people cope with a rising number of casualties caused by Israeli attacks. Health minister Mohammed Nasim said Sunday they had started talking with the foreign ministry and "the Red...
FE Report | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) felt the need for political stability, good governance and reduction of corruption, energy security and infrastructure development to take Bangladesh on a higher scale of economic advances. With this call to...
FE Report | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Miscreants took away a money-loaded bag after shooting a land-broker in the capital's Mirpur area Sunday afternoon, police said. The victim, identified as Mojibur Rahman (43), was immediately taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). From there he was shifted...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Flash floods and tidal surge, which affected parts of six districts in the country, have raised concern over seasonal Aman crop of nearly 3,000 hectares of land, officials said. Agriculture and water development officials said if the floods in parts...
FE Report | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Hundreds of illegal immigrants, mostly from Bangladesh and Pakistan, have poured into Hong Kong over the past years, using border city of Shenzhen as transit camp, according to a report by a leading Hong Kong daily. The report, published in...
Bangladesh has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take Israeli atrocities in Gaza into cognizance and bring the offenders to justice, reports bdnews24.com. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali Sunday said the Hague-based international tribunal should uphold its mandates to...
Radical outfits like Jama’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), linked to the serial explosions across the country nine years ago, are tactfully recruiting again, security officials say. JMB activists on the run have either infiltrated other new groups to carry forward their...
Tokyo stocks were flat on Monday morning with few trading incentives after the Japanese market added more than three percent last week. The Nikkei 225 index gained 0.07 per cent, or 11.22 points, to 15,329.56 by the break, while the...
Chinese shares were higher in morning trade on Monday following gains in US stocks last week, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.23 per cent, or 5.16 points, to 2,231.89. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on...
Hong Kong shares opened 0.16 per cent lower on Monday, with fears of direct military clashes between Russia and Ukraine weighing on investors. The benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 40.33 points to 24,914.61 points in the first few minutes...
Investors in world’s major financial markets will focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen this week as the traders’ concerns about crises in Ukraine and Iraq start to ease. ‘As geopolitical concerns seem subdued for the...
Shamsur Rahman was the poet of independence in Bengali literature, speakers have said at a discussion, held in the city in memory of the renowned poet and litterateur. The 8th death anniversary of poet Shamsur Rahman was observed on Sunday...
The prices of most of the shares in South Korea’s capital markets were lower on Monday. Seoul’s Kospi was down 0.31 per cent at the close of today’s session, according to a news agency.
The BNP has again criticised the government for ‘gagging media by formulating the broadcast policy. Senior BNP leaders alleged that the government has formulated the National Broadcast Policy, 2014, in a bid to perpetuate its power by annihilating democracy. They...
FE Online Report | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed positive trend at the opening while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw the reverse trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the first trading day of this week. DSEX, the prime index of...
President Abdul Hamid arrived in London on Sunday night (UK local time) on an 8-day visit to the United Kingdom. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President landed at the runway of London’s Heathrow Airport at 8pm...
A man has been killed in a ‘shootout’ between some miscreants and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel at Mongla Upazila in Bagerhat. The incident took place at Harbaria on Monday. The RAB-8 members claimed that the victim was a ‘robber’....
A Supreme Court lawyer on Monday filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the newly-formulated broadcast policy. The HC bench of justices Sheikh Hasan Arif and Abu Taher Mohammad Saifur Rahman have fixed Tuesday...
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