FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
A vested quarter is reportedly trying to manage the government to make international incoming call rate half from the existing US$ 3.0 cents in order to protect the interest of some companies, especially those allegedly involved with the illegal VoIP...
Ukraine has accused pro-Russian militiamen at the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash of trying to destroy evidence of an "international crime", reports BBC. For a second day, OSCE monitors at the scene have had their movements restricted by militiamen....
BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters): At least 38 people were killed in a collision between a bus and a van carrying flammable liquids in southern China, state media reported on Saturday, the latest in a string of accidents that have fuelled...
Fifteen Bangladeshi nationals, who got stranded at Erbil International Airport of trouble-torn Iraq, returned home Saturday, reports UNB. Deputy Secretary of the Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry Bodiar Rahman received the Bangladeshis when they arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia left the city for Saudi Arabia Saturday night to perform Umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government, reports UNB. The BNP chief flied from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a flight of Emirates Airlines around...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
The monetary policy for the second half (H2) of the current calendar year (2014) should focus on ways to stabilise inflation and nominal exchange rate, said some leading economists. They also said the next monetary policy should keep adequate space...
FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Biman Bangladesh Airlines planes which usually cross eastern Ukraine to fly to Europe have been instructed to avoid the volatile Ukrainian airspace wherefrom a Malaysian jet was shot down last Thursday in a grim tragedy. The national flag carrier operates...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
A pall of gloom has descended over the globe for a unbelievably shocking incident. The aircraft of the Malaysian passenger airlines on way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was shot down over the sky of Ukraine, killing all the passengers...
Monira Munni | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
About 32 per cent of the apparel factories, surveyed by a government organisation, have not issued appointment letters and identity cards with photographs to their workers. The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) under the ministry of labour...
Siddique Islam | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
The interest rate spread in the country's banking sector widened further in May as most of the banks cut deposit rates, keeping their lending rates almost unchanged. The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates offered by the commercial...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Many government agencies are now in a scramble for purchasing cars from the project funds. The Rural Electrification Board (REB) alone will purchase 74 vehicles under a project at a cost of Tk 122 million, officials said Friday. Of the...
FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Advance ticket sale of state-run Bangladesh Railway (BR) and BRTC ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr begins today (Sunday), while people started gathering at bus counters and railway stations from Saturday night, long before the beginning of official sale, sources said. Private...
JESSORE, July 19: A youth was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Jessore Saturday. Anisur Rahman, 30, hailing from Satkhira Sadar Upazila, was arrested on Friday from Dhaka. Police claimed he was a listed criminal. — bdnews24.com
Members of the Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested the imam of a mosque run by the Civil Aviation authorities with 18 gold bars, weighing 1.800 kg, and 18,240 US dollars at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Saturday. The...
NARAYANGANJ, July 19: The Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested one of the aides of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the case filed over the sensational seven murders in Narayanganj, from the bordering area of Akhaura upazila in Bramanbaria...
Bangladesh’s progress in reducing early marriage has been praised worldwide on the eve of the Girl Summit. Between 1990 and 2013, the number of women dying at childbirth in Bangladesh fell by 70 per cent with an opportunity to achieve...
Police have recovered fake notes worth Tk 66,000 from two men whom they arrested in Chittagong's Oxygen area on Friday night. The counterfeit notes were recovered ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the festival in which transactions are usually high. Three men including...
The government should make a sound national policy to use the country’s marine resources for national interest. The views were expressed in a views-exchange meeting in the city on Saturday. Speakers at the meeting said any effort to use the...
At least seven factories were gutted in a fire in Islambagh Namapara in the city's Lalbagh area on Sunday. Sources at the Fire Service and Civil Defence said the devastating fire which broke out at a plastic factory in Islambagh...
Western countries have demanded that Russia put pressure on Ukrainian rebels to allow unhindered access to the site of Thursday’s Malaysia Airlines jet crash. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that time was...
A man was arrested with six kilograms of contraband gold at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in Dhaka on Sunday. The arrestee has been identified as Md Iqbal, 32, hailing from Chittagong district. Iqbal returned from Dubai on...
Police held two ex-cops in Talgachhi Bazar under Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj district on Saturday while trying to collect illegal toll from traders. The arrested are: Abdul Hye Sarker, 68, former sub-inspector (SI) of the district Special Branch and its...
By creating their own multilateral financial institutions, the BRICS emerging-market powers are shaking up global economic governance but remain far from dismantling the post-war system dominated by the West. For the past 70 years, the International Monetary Fund and the...
Fresh Israeli bombardments killed at least 12 more people in Gaza on Sunday, medics said, as the army intensified a 13-day campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory. Sunday’s deaths brought the toll to 355 Palestinians, and seven Israelis, including two...
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah and other cities during his official visit starting on Sunday to broker peace in the Middle East, the spokesperson’s office has said. ‘The Secretary-General is travelling to the Middle East this...
FE Online Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 24.87 points...
Tokyo investors will be keeping an eye on simmering geopolitical tensions this week in the aftermath of a Malaysia Airlines jet crash in Ukraine. Fresh economic data, including Japanese trade figures for June, will also be on investors’ radar screens...
Russian capital markets took a further tumble at the weekend after the crash the Malaysian Airlines jet crash with 298 people aboard in Ukraine dramatically raised tensions between the Kremlin and the West. The disaster which claimed the lives of...
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