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...
International investigators have arrived at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, after rebels in eastern Ukraine allowed them access. Some 30 monitors went to the village of Grabovo where the plane, carrying 298 people, came down on Thursday....
GAZIPUR, July 18: Workers of a readymade garment (RMG) factory went on a rampage demanding wages and festival allowances at Pagar of Tongi in Gazipur of the city on Friday. Police said the workers of Zaber and Zobair Fabrics of...
SATKHIRA, July 18: A local leader of BNP was killed in police firing at Islamkati-Sujanshah in Tala upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as SM Biplab Kabir, general secretary of Jalalpur union unit BNP and son of late Seher...
FE Report | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
Authorities of the factories in the country's eight export processing zones (EPZs) have been directed to pay wages and allowances to their workers before the holy Eid-ul-Fitr. The Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) recently instructed the factory authorities to pay...
Shares in Malaysia Airlines closed down 11 per cent in Malaysia following the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine on route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, reports BBC. Some Asian stock markets also ended the day lower on fears the...
Md Shah Jahan | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
The fate of last two DC-10 passenger aircraft has become uncertain as the Biman Bangladesh Airlines is yet to get any suitable buyer for them even after floating of international tender on three occasions. The Biman board of directors would...
FE Report US Ambassador-designate to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat testified before a parliamentary panel that labour rights and workplace safety in Bangladesh remained a top priority of the United States, apart from unsettled political matters. "Labour rights and workplace...
Police rescued five others from the house where the victims claimed they had been kept 'locked for years', reports bdnews24.com. Self-ordained saint Sheikh Nur Mohammad, 70, set up his 'Khanqah Sharif' in a madrasa-cum-orphanage at Shatgambuz Union's Mehognitala. 'Khanqah' is...
FE Report | 2014-07-19 00:00:00
Most of the important malls and shopping centres witnessed large crowd Friday, as the city dwellers thronged those on the weekend while many of them will start leaving for their village homes by next week. Prominent markets and shopping zones,...
Boy killed in city wall collapse A teenage boy was killed when a wall fell upon him at Uttar Badda in the city. The deceased was identified as Pichon Chandra Das (14), son of Kartik Chandra Das, a furniture workshop...
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