Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will present before the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) a Tk. 2.5 trillion (250,000 crore) national budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2014-2015 on Thursday afternoon. The budget will have a Tk 674.98 billion deficit....
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has rewritten the country's history books when he started to propose the 43rd national annual budget in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) around 3pm today. Muhith has created history as he has been presenting his 6th budget...
Leaders of the G7 industrial nations meeting in Brussels say they are prepared to impose further sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. A joint statement condemned Moscow for its "continuing violation" of Ukraine's sovereignty. The G7 summit is...
Chittagong’s railway links with the rest of the country has snapped after four carriages of a freight train derailed at Feni. The Dhaka-bound train, carrying containers, was coming from the port city. The carriages veered off the tracks around 2:30am...
Unknown miscreants have shot dead a leader of the local BNP unit at Chatmohor Upazila in Pabna district. The victim, Faruk Hossain, 38, was the general secretary of the party’s Ward Number 2 unit at the Upazila’s Foiljana Union. He...
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The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in the opening sessions on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Asian shares dipped on Thursday as investors brushed off another record close on Wall Street ahead of the release of closely watched US jobs data. Tokyo and Hong Kong were flat, Sydney slipped 0.51 per cent, Shanghai eased 0.18 per...
The High Court on Wednesday ordered police, RAB and 7-member probe body to submit to it by July 9 their further progress reports on investigation into the Narayanganj 7-murder. Passing the order, the HC bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque...
The indefinite strike, called by Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College unit Jatiytabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) protesting killing of its activist Towhidul Islam, is underway in the college campus on Thursday. The striking students took position at important points on the...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police in separate drives in Jessore in the last two days arrested four suspected drug traders and recovered drugs and Indian clothes worth more than Tk 5 million. Tipped off, BGB personnel raided...
Unknown miscreants killed a woman following rape in a moving launch at sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Police recovered the body of the unidentified woman from the river craft in Sadarghat Launch Terminal in the city on Thursday....
Two people died after the inhalation of toxic sewer gas in a septic tank at Omkhali village at Ramu upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Rahima Begum, 60, and Salamat Ullah, 32. Locals rescued Rahima...
Three motorcycle riders were killed as a bus crashed into their bike on Dhaka-Bogra Highway in Shajahanpur Upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased, identified as Rashed, 20, Hasan, 19, and Saddam, 21, hailed from Jamalpur village of the upazila. Police...
The High Court (HC) has questioned the neutrality of a RAB investigation into the alleged involvement of three of its officers in the Narayanganj 7-murder. The bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobindra Chandra Tagore has questioned the...
A day after his colleague Arif Hossain confessed to the abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj, former RAB officer MM Rana has also reportedly admitted to his role in the crimes. Rana issued a confessional statement in the...
The bullet-hit body of a man was recovered from a dam at Hathatbazar in Faridpur Sadar upazila early Thursday. The victim was identified as Nayeb Ali, a resident of Boithakhali village in the upazila. Rajiur Rahman, a sub-inspector of Kotwali...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday reiterated her call to the developed world to fulfill their commitments to face the negative impact of climate change. The Prime Minister also urged the world people to be more vocal about realisation of...
Osmani Medical College in Sylhet city has been closed for 6 days after a student was stabbed to death in a dormitory. The decision was made at the academic council meeting on Thursday, Principal Morshed Ahmed Chowdhury said. The college...
A construction was electrocuted in Kalapra Upazila in Patuakhali district on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as M Dinna Miah, 50. Locals said Dinna came in touch with a live electrical wire while doing welding work on the Kalapara...
Police recovered the body of a local Awami League leader from a paddy field at Shahidnagar in Gafargaon Upazila of Mymensingh on Thursday. The dead is Abdul Majid, 60, president of Ward No. 4 of Shahidnagar union unit AL. Zahidul...
RAB officials are saying that the weapons recovered from bunkers deep in Satchharhi jungles of Habiganj district near Indian border are similar to the weapons in the 10-truck arms haul of 2004. RAB's second day of operation yielded even more...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Washington for his first meeting with President Barack Obama in September, media reports said Thursday, as the two leaders look to re-build strained ties. Modi, who assumed office last month after a...
The finance minister has proposed the new budget with Tk 67.552 billion deficit which is 5 per cent of GDP and over a fourth of the budgetary outlay. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith projects an economic growth of 7.3 pc as...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson on Thursday said all political parties in Bangladesh must work together to strengthen democratic accountability, and laid emphasis on taking ‘confidence-building measures’ before going for a future election. ‘The imperative now is for...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith is ready to place a national budget of Tk 2.5 trillion (2,50,506 crore) for fiscal year (FY) 2014-15 in parliament at 3pm on Thursday. The budget, the first of the current AL government in its 2nd...
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Stocks closed flat on Thursday with slight improvement in turnover as investors remained cautious on announcement of the national budget.The market started with a positive note, but the morning hype evaporated gradually as session progressed. At the end of the...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith started his budget speech in the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) at 3pm today (Thursday). The budget for the 2014-2015 fiscal year, the first of the current AL government in its 2nd successive term after the January 5...
The Cabinet has endorsed the national budget proposal for the 2014-2015 fiscal year. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting that cleared the proposal at the Cabinet Division on Thursday, hours before Finance Minister AMA Muhith entered the House...
A new generation of wearable technology is promising not only to log data about users' health but to predict and avert crises -- from drivers falling asleep at the wheel to runners wearing themselves out in a marathon. But there...
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