NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (PTI) : Korean car major Hyundai is looking to tap new customers in rural areas and corporate segment to increase its market share in the Indian automobile market. The company's wholly-owned arm Hyundai Motor India Ltd...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Business leaders of BCIM countries will push for finalising the establishment of economic corridor as they meet in Dhaka in October to boost regional trade and investment, officials said. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) will...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 3 (BSS): Harvesting of summer bean, successfully produced in Sadullapur upazila here for the first time, has been continuing for a few weeks amid much enthusiasm to the growers. The harvest of the bean has also usher in...
Stressing the need for strengthening Bangladesh Bank's (BB) supervision to check financial irregularities, Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman Sunday said BB's special supervision had helped detect some financial scams in banking sector, reports BSS. "Such financial irregularities have been...
LONDON, Aug 3 (AFP) : A report commissioned by London Mayor Boris Johnson has concluded that a British exit from the European Union would be better for the city than remaining in an unreformed EU. Johnson is likely to give...
YANGON, Aug 3 (AFP) : Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo began selling low-cost SIM cards in Myanmar on Saturday, opening up access to mobile services in one of the world's last virtually untapped phone markets. Less than 10 per cent of...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan said Sunday that destructive activities in the name of movement by the BNP would not be tolerated, reports UNB. "There'll be zero tolerance when it comes to destructive activities in the name of...
Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, said BNP created confusion among the people by not spelling out its agitation programmes after threatening to begin a movement against the government after Eid, reports BSS. "They are confusing the...
Some 0.5 million people in Bangladesh enclaves have been deprived of being voters for the last 24 years - meaning they have missed out on the advent of democracy in the country that followed the overthrow of the Ershad regime...
KURIGRAM, Aug 3 (UNB): The jeep of Jakir Hossain, former Awami League (AL) lawmaker, was damaged as it caught fire after miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at it on the premises of Roumari thana Sunday. Shamim Hasan Sarker, officer-in-charge (OC)...
Chinese Ambassador in Bangladesh Li Jun met Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad at his Baridhara residence in the city Sunday, reports UNB. They discussed various issues relating to bilateral interest during the meeting.
FENI, Aug 3 (UNB): A court issued a warrant Sunday for the arrest of BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar, the prime accused in Fulgazi Upazila chairman Ekramul Haque murder case. Acting Judge of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Alamgir...
MAGURA, Aug 3 (BSS): Over 800 leaders and workers of Binodpur and Kuchiamora union BNP joined Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Saturday night. They joined AL presenting bouquet to State Minister for Youth and Sports Advocate Biren Sikder at the Magura...
The US Ambassador-at-large for the Office of Global Criminal Justice, Stephen J Rapp, is coming to Dhaka on his fifth visit since the beginning of the war crimes trials in Bangladesh, reports bdnews24.com. He will arrive today (Monday) morning on...
FE Report | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Twelve rights-based organisations at a press briefing at Jatiya Press Club Sunday urged the government to strongly support food security issues through price support to agriculture, holding food stocks and subsidised prices instead of becoming party to WTO's Trade Facilitation...
FE Report | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) expressed Sunday sympathy and solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza. A team of CPD led by its Executive Director Prof Mustafizur Rahman called on Palestinian Ambassador in Bangladesh Shaher Mohammad in the capital ...
MYMENSINGH, Aug 3 (UNB): Four people, including a man and his grandson, were killed and two others injured in two road accidents in Bhaluka and Nandail upazilas on Sunday. Two women-Saleha, 28, and Lota Begum, 45, of Shariatpur district-were killed...
The marriage of a murder convict at Lakhsmipur jail has not violated prison laws, the State Minister for Home has said, reports bdnews24.com. Aftab Uddin Biplob, son of Awami League leader and controversial local mayor Abu Taher, who is currently...
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu said the draft of the national broadcasting policy will be placed before the cabinet very soon, reports BSS. "There is nothing clandestine about it. The draft has been finalised after discussion with all stakeholders and...
The mobile court of RAB unearthed an illegal veterinary medicine factory and fined three persons, including its managing director, a total of Tk 0.4 million, reports UNB. The mobile court also sealed off the factory at Matuail in the city...
The academic activities of six new public medical colleges will start on January 10 next marking the Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports UNB. The newly approved medical colleges are Shaheed M Mansur Ali Medical College in Sirajganj,...
Prof Dr Muhammad Alamgir was appointed vice-chancellor of Khulna University Engineering and Technology (KUET) for a second term Sunday, reports BSS. President and KUET Chancellor M Abdul Hamid made the appointment as per KUET Act 2003. Prof Alamgir expressed gratitude...
The Primary and Ebtedayee Terminal Examinations-2014 will begin across the country on November 23, reports UNB. The examinations are scheduled to end on November 30 while the result is likely to be published on December 28. The decisions were taken...
The namaz-e-janaza of former Water Resources minister and deputy speaker LK Siddiqui was held at South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad Sunday morning, reports UNB. Chief Whip ASM Firoz, members of the parliament, senior secretary to Jatiya Sangsad Md Ashraful Makbul,...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Dhaka, Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions Monday. Moderately heavy...
Harunur Rashid Chowdhury, an ex-army officer and adviser to the UNICEF Bangladesh, passed away at Labaid Cardiac Centre in the city on July 27, 2014. He was 86, said a press release. He left behind his two sons, one daughter...
FE Report | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The World Bank has developed a pipeline of sub-projects in diverse sectors to provide its financial support at low interest rate through Investment Promotion and Financing Facility (IPFF) Project. The project is aimed at promoting private sector participation in infrastructure...
FE Report | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The government has decided to appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking its stay on the High Court (HC) Division's order that recently granted bail to detained Tuba Group managing director (MD) Delwar Hossain. The state law...
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