FE Online Report | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange has hailed the budgetary proposal to exempt the demutualised stock exchanges from paying taxes for the next five years "This is a positive message for the stock exchanges", said Swapan Kumar Bala, managing director of DSE. The...
French President Francois Hollande has led the D-Day 70th anniversary tributes by remembering those who died on a day that "changed the world". He attended a service near Bayeux with US President Barack Obama, who said the US commitment to...
A couple was killed as a bus hit a motorcycle carrying them on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Sadar upazila of Manikganj district on Friday noon. The deceased, identified as Doyal Chandra Sarkar and his wife Dr Dulali Rani Sarkar, hailed from...
Twin suicide bombings targeting Iraq's Shabak minority and fighting between security forces and militants killed 36 people in the northern province of Nineveh on Friday, officials said. Provincial capital Mosul is one of Iraq's most dangerous cities, with well-entrenched militant...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday reiterated that unauthorised vehicles like ‘Easybike’, ‘Nosimon’ and ‘Korimon’ will not be allowed to ply highways because of public life security concern. Talking to reporters while inspecting works on Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway project at...
Indian shares closed at a record high Friday on investor optimism about economic growth prospects under the country's new right-wing government led by Narendra Modi. The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark index, known as the Sensex, closed up 1.51 percent at...
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Friday criticised BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for calling ‘illegal and unethical’ the placing of the national budget for fiscal 2014-15 by the present government. “BNP was born...
The Historic Six-Point Day will be observed Saturday in a befitting manner, commemorating the placing of the demand for autonomy for the former East Pakistan. On this day in 1966, Awami League under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called...
Rejecting the Finance Minister’s ‘eco-tax’ proposal aiming to bring down water pollution, green activists on Friday said such tax will only legitimise pollution and destroy water resources. “If the eco-tax is introduced, the government in principle will acknowledge the pollution,...
Uzbekistan's president on Friday criticised a new economic union clinched last month between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, warning of a loss of political independence for the ex-Soviet countries. President Vladimir Putin and his Belarussian and Kazakh counterparts signed a deal...
BNP chairperson’s adviser Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said Friday the budget for fiscal year 2014-15 placed by an unrepresentative govt will not be acceptable to people. “This regime is illegitimate as it has assumed office snatching people’s voting right. The...
Bangladesh Under-19 team won the series 1-0 after beating Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) of India by 134 runs on the third day of their 2nd and last four-day match at BKSP ground-3 in Savar Friday, according to a news...
KUNMING: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought Chinese government’s’ cooperation in having easy access of Bangladeshi products to its market aimed at reducing the huge trade gap between the two countries. The Prime Minister sought the Chinese cooperation when she held...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith came down heavily on civil society think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) for its comment on GDP estimate and termed it totally unexpected, according to a news agency. “CPD’s complaint is very illogical. It’s totally...
At least 22 students of Northern University (NU) were injured in an attack by outsiders on its Karwan Bazar campus Friday. Witnesses said a group of 40-50 miscreants stormed into the university around 11am and tried to capture its 13th...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, June 5: The Korean EPZ authority has alleged that some vested quarters with the support of local leaders of the pro-government party are obstructing its development works. The Korean EPZ (export processing zone) authority said those quarters are creating...
Rahul Karunakar of Reuters from Bangalore | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
Activity in India's huge services industry expanded for the first time in nearly a year in May, driven by a surge in new business, a survey showed on Wednesday. The HSBC Services Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by Markit, rose to...
Christine Kim of Reuters from Seoul | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
South Korean exports last month suffered their worst decline in eight months as a drop in Chinese demand and the effect from fewer working days more than offset growing purchases by European and US customers. South Korea, the fourth-largest economy...
BANGKOK, June 5 (agencies): Thailand's anti-graft body Thursday launched an assets probe into deposed premier Yingluck Shinawatra in relation to a bungled rice subsidy scheme that sparked widespread anger. Yingluck was ousted in a controversial court ruling last month, two...
BRUSSELS, June 5 (AFP): World leaders urged Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to stop destabilising Ukraine or face further sanctions as they met without a Russian president for the first time since the 1990s. Putin reached out a hand despite being...
DAMASCUS, June 5 (agencies): Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected Syria's president with 88.7 percent of the vote in an election labelled a farce by rebels fighting to overthrow him, and whose outcome was never in doubt. The other candidates in...
NEW DELHI, June 5 (Reuters): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Washington to meet President Barack Obama in September, two Indian newspapers reported Thursday, signaling a new start in ties with a leader once denied a visa by the...
DHARAMSALA, June 5, (agencies): The prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile accused Chinese authorities Thursday of blanket repression in the Himalayan region as he launched a new campaign for autonomy in his homeland. "There is total repression and total discrimination" in...
Hundreds feared dead in 'massive' Boko Haram village raids MAIDUGURI, June 5: Hundreds of people may have been killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria, a local lawmaker and residents said on Thursday. Gunmen...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Jun 5: A section of swindlers were active in Rajshahi to misappropriate money from the clients by luring them of an windfall profit through investing their money in Multipurpose Co-operative Societies. Most of the managers and owners of such...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Jun 5: World Environmental Day-2014 was observed with a befitting manner in Gopalganj today. District administration, Christian Community Development of Bangladesh (CCDB) and Bandhu Chula Programme jointly organised the programme. Md Khalilur Rahman, DC, Gopalganj spoke as the chief...
RANGPUR, Jun 5 (BSS): Speakers at a fish fry release ceremony here have stressed for boosting fish production through proper utilisation of all existing water bodies to meet nutritional demand and attain self-reliance by cutting poverty. They were addressing the...
Almost 2,000 veterans and world leaders are attending the main commemoration event marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France. They are gathered at Sword Beach in Normandy, one of five landing points for the Allies, where scenes...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-06 00:00:00
JESSORE, Jun 5: Two schoolchildren were killed and four others wounded as the school van in which they were returning home was hit by a passengers train at Krittipur rail crossing under Jhikargachha Upazila in Jessore at around 1:10 pm...
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