BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in Saudi Arabia, has urged President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali to increase his bank's assistance for Bangladesh's socio-economic development, reports UNB. Khaleda made the request when Dr Ahmad met...
GAZA CITY, July 24 (Agencies): At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled, the Gaza health ministry says. Hundreds of Palestinians were in the...
As part of its global strategy, UK visa applications submitted in Bangladesh will be assessed by the visa section at the British High Commission in New Delhi from October 1, reports UNB. The visa section at the British High Commission...
The High Court (HC) Thursday upheld a lower court verdict sentencing two people to death, nine others to life term and another to 10 years in jail for killing seven people in Lalbagh area of the capital in 1994, reports...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Beggars and vendors are coming to the capital ahead of the Eid festival to earn some extra bucks, deteriorating the city's traffic management and occupying the footpaths. Most of these seasonal fortune-hunters are from relatively under-developed areas, like - Rangpur,...
FE Report | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh has done well in almost all the indicators of the Human Development Index (HDI) as it has improved one step ahead to 142 from 143 among 187 countries in 2014, compared to 2013. Bangladesh has improved significantly in the...
ALGIERS, July 24 (AFP): An Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed with 116 passengers on board, almost half of them French citizens, said an Algerian aviation official. "I can confirm that it...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
A large number of clients holding non-performing loans (NPL) from private commercial banks (PCBs) belong to the Chittagong trading zone. Ali Reza Iftekhar, Chairman of the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB), a grouping of 39 PCBs, disclosed it at a...
FE Report | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Terminals of all modes of transportation were full of thousands of passengers Thursday as home-goers started leaving the capital for celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones. Gabtoli, Kalyanpur, Kalabagan, Mohakhali, Fulbaria, Sayedabad and Sadarghat areas in the city...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
The securities regulator has approved the amendment to the Investors' Protection Fund Regulations, 2014, raising the volume of support to Tk 0.5 million for an individual claimant from previous amount of Tk 0.1 million, officials said. Official sources said the...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Electricity supply problem in the country's lone crude oil refinery - the Eastern Refinery Ltd (ERL) - has been rampant recently, affecting its regular production and delaying export of refined petroleum products, industry insiders said. The state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation...
A powerful Ukrainian rebel leader has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had anti-aircraft missiles of the type Washington says were used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. In an interview with Reuters, Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok Battalion, acknowledged...
CNG refueling stations would remain open for 24 hours every day from July 23 to August 1 to facilitate smooth travel of homebound people on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Fitr, said Petrobangla Thursday. Usually, CNG refueling pumps remain closed from...
MYMENSINGH, July 24: At least five people, including a minor girl, drowned and five others went missing as an overloaded boat sank in the Borobilar Beel (water body) in Fulbaria upazila of Mymensingh on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified...
Tokyo stocks rose 0.57 per cent on Friday morning after a sharp decline in US jobless claims sent the dollar higher against the yen, boosting exporters. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 87.17 points to 15,371.59 by the break, while...
Hong Kong stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Friday, adding 0.44 per cent in the first few minutes of trade, following another record close on Wall Street. The benchmark Hang Seng Index climbed 105.07 points to 24,247.2 points,...
Chinese stocks were higher in morning trade on Friday on improved sentiment after the release of strong manufacturing data for July, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.26 per cent, or 5.51 points, to 2,110.57 points. The Shenzhen...
British Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed UK’s disappointment over the January-5 national elections in Bangladesh and laid emphasis on an open society and political system in which democratic political participation and media freedoms are respected. ‘The PM noted our...
The wreckage of an Air Algerie plane missing since early Thursday with 116 people on board has been found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border, an army coordinator in Burkina Faso and the French presidency said. ‘We have found...
Israeli forces have killed at least two more Palestinians in West Bank, officials say. At least 10,000 protesters marched from Ramallah towards East Jerusalem, where they were met by Israeli forces, officials in West Bank said. Around 200 protestors were...
Wall Street stocks on Thursday finished little changed with the S&P 500 inching to a new record following mixed US economic data and a flood of corporate earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 2.83 points (0.02 per cent) to...
The prices of most of the shares in South Korea’s stock markets rose of Friday. Seoul’s benchmark Kospi were 0.22 per cent higher at close, according to AFP.
The prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets eased on Friday. Sydney eased 0.27 per cent during today’s session, according to AFP.
European stock markets rose on Thursday and the euro recovered from an 8-month low as figures pointed to an up tick in growth in Europe and China. Robust manufacturing data in China, the world’s second-largest economy, and a strong eurozone...
A motorbike rider was killed and another one injured in a road accident in Patiya upazila in Chittagong district on Thursday. The dead is Abdur Razzak, 55, of Khanmohona area of the upazila while the injured was Salauddin, 26. A...
Police arrested a fake detective person when he was snatching a truck at Naodara at Charghat Upazila in Rajshahi district early Thursday. The arrestee is Rabiul Islam alias Tutul, 32, son of Ajahar Ali of Mougachhi village of the Upazila....
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has said he himself will monitor the vehicular movement on highway across the country till the day of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr to smoothen traffic and ease the journey of homebound passengers. To maintaining traffic discipline during...
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