A local leader of Awami League (AL) was chopped to death by miscreants at Jahangirnagar village in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Altaf Hossain, 35, organising secretary of AL Mathainagar union unit....
Bangladesh Railways (BR) and Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) on Sunday morning started selling advance tickets of trains and buses ahead of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr to facilitate homebound Eid passengers to reach their destinations ahead of the greatest religious festival...
A pirate gang leader was killed in a ‘shootout’ between his cohorts and police in Sarankhola Upazila in Bagerhat district on Sunday. The dead is Namir Talukder, 38, chief of Namir Bahini and son of Suntal Talukder, a resident of...
A Dhaka court has ordered a judicial investigation into the alleged custodial killing of 'jhut' dealer Mahabubur Rahman Sujon at Mirpur Police Station. The victim's wife Mamtaj Sultana Lucy filed a case against 10 people, including Mirpur police OC Salauddin...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday stayed the bail granted by the High Court (HC) to BNP leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case. The Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice M...
The government will take ‘administrative steps’ against Bangladesh Ambassador to Lebanon AFM Gousal Azam Sarker, who has been called back, upon his return home. ‘There had been no other alternative than calling him back. Administrative steps will be taken upon...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has met her elder son Tarique Rahman in Dubai after 3 years. Both were on their way to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah. BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique, accused in a number of cases at home, has...
Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has made an appeal to Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to return to cricket. Shakib had been slapped with a 6-month ban by the BCB after he went to play in the Caribbean Premier League, which...
FE Online Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Stocks ended lower Sunday after previous session’s flat movement as cash-hungry investors sold shares ahead of Eid festival. Only four trading sessions are left ahead of Eid vacation. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSEX) went down...
Lauding Narendra Modi’s efforts to reach out to all of India’s neighbours, US Ambassador-designate to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has said the US shares India’s desire for a South Asia that is better and more interconnected. ‘It is refreshing...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a High Court verdict that had ordered a vehicle owner to compensate the victim of a road accident. A full bench headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain issued the...
The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun in the Philippines rose to 94 with six missing as another storm brought rains to the ravaged areas, authorities said Sunday. The typhoon has since blown to southern China but a new storm, named...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier, has failed to resume flights on the much-awaited Dhaka-New York route, as it could not fix its plane-hire problems. Earlier this year, then Biman managing director Kevin Steele had announced the flights would...
Police arrested an alleged terrorist along with an US-made pistol, five rounds of bullet, 30 bottles of Phensidyl syrup and 20 bottles of liquor at Purba Chandipur village at Ramganj upazila in Laxmipur on Saturday afternoon. The arrested is Ripuji...
Brazilian writer, philosopher and theologian Rubem Alves died aged 80 after a short illness, local media reported. Alves died in hospital in Campinas from multiple organ failure ten days after he was admitted for respiratory failure brought on by pneumonia....
In separate drives, customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport seized 42 kg of gold and arrested four passengers Sunday. Of them, two -- Sharif, 28, and Mohammad Ali, 30 –– were arrested along with 270 gold bars weighing about...
Stressing the need for popularising agriculture sector among educated youths, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the officials concerned to take initiatives to encourage the children of farmers so that they do not switch over to any other profession....
The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility Sunday for the deadliest spate of bombings to strike the Iraqi capital in weeks, saying a ‘Baghdad cell’ helped carry out the attacks. Seven different explosions in six mainly Shiite districts of Baghdad...
At least 40 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled toward a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. At the hospital, about...
Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad’s visit to India has been postponed because of ‘unavoidable circumstances’. There are chances that he will go after Eid-ul-Fitre, Ershad’s political and press secretary Sunil Subho Roy on Sunday said. The trip, however, was yet...
The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution to condemn the ‘shooting down’ of a Malaysian passenger plane in Ukraine, demand armed groups allow access to the crash site, and call on states in the region to cooperate with...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon journalists Friday to be watchful so that no obstacle was created to the government's work, reports BSS. "You must make criticism of the government. But remain alert so that no impediment is created to...
UNITED NATIONS, July 18 (Agencies): The UN Security Council Friday demanded a full, independent and international investigation into the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian jet over Ukraine that killed 298 people on board. Council members stood for a minute...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
The state-owned North-West Power Generation Company Ltd (NWPGCL) is actively considering import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from India to run an 800-megawatt combined-cycle power plant in Khulna. A top official said Thursday that NWPGCL has planned to import around...
Zaidi Sattar | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
The 2014-15 Budget is now an operational document. Taxation and revenue mobilization, public expenditure, fiscal deficit and its financing, and the import tariff regime visualized in the budget are now having their effect on a wide range of economic activities...
FE Report | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
The central bank has geared up purchase of the US dollar from the banks as a counterbalancing measure to keep the foreign exchange market stable in the wake of higher inflow of remittances ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival. "We're buying...
Syful Islam and Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
China has formally invited Bangladesh to join its initiative to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founder-member, sources said. The bank, with US$100 billion as its capital, is scheduled to make its debut by the end of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
The holders of old tax identification number (TIN) would not be able to avail various services using the same from the current fiscal year as the tax authority has decided to make the e-TIN only valid for the purpose. Twenty-five...
GAZA CITY, July 18 (AFP): : At least three Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli bombing in central and southern Gaza Friday afternoon, medics said. Two people were killed in Khan Yunis in the south and a third died in...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
Illegal occupation and barriers created intentionally by vested quarters have chocked up the three key exit and entry points of the capital, thus, disrupting the smooth movement of transports carrying the home-bound people on the eve of holy Eid-ul-Fitr. The...
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