HONG KONG, July 12 (AFP): Asian markets were mixed while the safe-haven yen edged up Friday following a sell-off on Wall Street and in Europe as fears over eurozone debt resurfaced with a payment crisis at Portugal's biggest listed bank....
Semi-annual Performance Review Conference-2014 of Bank Asia was held Saturday at a hotel in the city. A Rouf Chowdhury, Chairman of the Bank and chief guest of the programme inaugurated the conference. With the participation of the Heads of all...
BEIJING, July 12 (Reuters): China is making it easier for listed companies to buy, sell or swap their assets, its latest attempt to streamline bureaucracy and encourage mergers and acquisitions, the country's securities watchdog said on Friday. Under the new...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia reiterated Saturday the government will be forced to hold a fresh election under a non-party administration through a united movement after Eid, reports UNB. "The country's people are ready to take to the streets. We' together...
Though there is a growing trend of siphoning off money abroad, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is unable to take any concrete step to recover the laundered money deposited in the Swiss Bank by Bangladeshis due to lack of legal...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said Saturday that the government was not thwarting the opposition like BNP but warned that any sort of violence and militant activities in the country would be contained with strong hands, reports BSS. The minister...
CHITTAGONG, Jul 12 (BSS): District police arrested three activists of Jamaat-Shibir, including a murder case accused from different areas of Satkania Upazila of the district Friday night. The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Lokman, 38, Mizanur Rahman, 18 and Abul...
GAZIPUR, Jul 12: Locals have blocked roads to agitate in Gazipur over missing of a female councillor Parvin Akter, reports bdnews24.com. She has been missing since Friday. "She has been remain untraced so far," her brother Rafiq Mia said Saturday....
ISHWARDI, July 12 (BSS): Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif said the government is working relentlessly for improving the fate of sugarcane farmers as well as uplifting the sugar sector. He viewed if the owners, laborers and employees remain united in...
Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote (BSJ) held a rally and brought out procession hailing Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina for achieving recent victory over maritime dispute with India, reports BSS. The BSJ observed the programme in front of National Press Club in...
Protesting the killing of numerous Palestinian people in Israel's air-strikes on Gaza, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said Saturday Israel has adopted terrorism as its state policy obliterating all signs of humanity to meet their hunger of imperialism, reports UNB. In...
Golam Mostakim, former secretary and director general of Bangladesh Civil Service Administration Academy, died at Holy Family Hospital in the city Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. He was 61. He had been suffering from diabetes for a long time. He left behind...
NEW YORK, July 12 (bdnews24.com): US chapter Awami League (AL) vice president Nazmul Islam was strangled to death after being hit on the head and face, doctors said. New York police recovered the 55-year-old leader's body early on Thursday (local...
A memorial meeting on Gonoazadi League president and leader of 14-party alliance Abdus Samad will be held at the Jatiya Press Club at 3.00pm today (Sunday), reports BSS. Awami League (AL) presidium member, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim...
The Power Ministry is likely to revise its rooftop solar power provision to ease the process for obtaining new power connections, reports UNB. The existing provision, introduced in 2010, makes it mandatory that if a residential consumer wants to have...
RANGPUR, Jul 12 (UNB): Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury stressed Saturday expanding the IT use involving every student of the country in this age of globalisation and free flow of information. "We'll have to reach information technology services to the...
NARAYANGANJ, July 12 (BSS): Communications Minister Obaidul Quader asked the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) authority Saturday to make all the major roads and highways of the country fit for transportation by July 20. "No excuse will be tolerated and...
US-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) president said Saturday Bangladesh, among the top five countries in tobacco consumption, stands at a 'critical juncture' in controlling it, reports bdnews24.com. Matthew Myers told the news agency in an exclusive interview that tobacco...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon said Saturday not only enactment of law but also mass awareness and people resistance are needed to make the country's food free from adulteration, reports BSS. The minister was addressing a rally...
COMILLA, Jul 12 (UNB): Railway Minister M Mazibul Hoque said Saturday security measures will be tightened in trains and railway stations ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. "To prevent subversive acts and to serve the passengers properly RAB, BGB, police will be...
The Department of National Consumers Rights Protection (DNCRP) fined Tk 0.11 million eight shops and restaurants in the city Saturday for keeping unhygienic foodstuffs, reports UNB. The shops and restaurants are: New Café de Taz Hotel and Restaurant and Al...
FE Report | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
A five-day Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Borsha Mela 1421 will kick off today (Sunday) at the BSCIC Bhaban in Motijheel. BSCIC chairman Shyam Sunder Sikder will inaugurate the fair in the morning as the chief guest at...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, July 12: President of Chittagong city Awami League and former city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury accorded farewell to the retired judge SM Mojibur Rahman today. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, accompanied by former Chittagong Metropolitan public prosecutor (PP) Kamal Uddin Ahmed, visited...
A gang of armed hoodlums Saturday shot at a fish trader and looted Tk 25,000 and other valuables after injuring him in the East Rajabazar area in the city, police and hospital sources said, reports BSS. The victim was identified...
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