Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
The country's budget deficit is likely to be the widest at 5.0 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in seven years since 2007-08, in the budget for fiscal 2014-15. The budget is set to be placed in the...
Moazzem Hossain | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith presents tomorrow (Thursday) the national budget for the fiscal year (FY), 2014-15, to Jatiya Sangsad (JS). The usual updated statistics, data and figures will be the key features of the budget documents. These are undeniably important...
Siddique Islam | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
A CAMELS rating of the central bank has found one-step improvement of three state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs), while the status of another SoCB remains unchanged. The evaluation, which took into account capital adequacy, asset quality, management, earnings, liquidity and sensitivity...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
Two different vernacular contemporaries in their last Tuesday's issues carried news reports on the state-owned BASIC Bank which has, of late, earned infamy because of large-scale loan irregularities. The content of one report, headlined, 'BASIC Bank in the red for...
HABIGANJ, June 3 (Agencies): The RAB has come across a big haul of arms including 200 rocket launchers Tuesday in the Satchharhi jungles of Chunarughat Upazila in the district, a place that was once perhaps the headquarters of the now-weakened...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh's manufacturing sector's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) has plunged in the outgoing fiscal as industrial production suffered during the period due to political turmoil, officials said Tuesday. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data show that the growth...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
US oil giant ConocoPhillips is lobbying with the Energy Ministry to get state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) as a joint venture (JV) partner to carry out further exploration in its two deep-water blocks. The blocks are...
Speaker Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury adjourned the House at 6.35 pm Tuesday after beginning of the budget session earlier on the day. The session of the Jatiya Sangsad will resume at 5 pm today. The 10th parliament opened its first...
Bangladesh has been elected a deputy member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for the period of 2014-2017 after a gap of three years, said a Foreign Ministry media release Tuesday. — UNB
The seven-member enquiry committee Tuesday interrogated eight police officials in connection with sensational seven murders in Narayanganj. The committee, formed at the directives of the High Court, started quizzing them at 3:30pm at Narayanganj Circuit House. — UNB
Tokyo stocks were flat on Wednesday morning, with early gains wiped out on profit-taking after the previous day saw them post their best finish in two months. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 5.37 points to 15,028.88 by the...
Chinese stocks were lower in morning trade on Wednesday following a slight fall in US stocks overnight, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slipped 0.10 per cent, or 2.05 points, to 2,036.26. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks...
The prices of most of the shares in Hong Kong capital markets witnessed downward trend in the opening session on Wednesday. The stocks slipped 0.29 per cent in the first few minutes of trading following a retreat on Wall Street,...
US stocks on Tuesday retreated from Monday’s records as investors looked ahead to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting and Friday’s monthly US jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 21.29 (0.13 per cent) to 16,722.34, while the S&P 500...
The prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets saw a downtrend on Wednesday. Sydney stocks slipped 0.25 percent at the end of today’s session, according to AFP.
Bangladesh Embassy in Moscow has said the request for help by a student for repatriation was ‘unnecessary’ and intended to ‘create panic’. Earlier on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a request from a student studying in the Luhansk...
A fire broke out at the east-south plaza of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (parliament building) in the city on Wednesday morning. However, no casualty is reported as of filing this report at 9:58am, according to a private TV channel.
A fire that broke out in the south-east plaza of Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) Bhaban in the city on Wednesday morning has been doused within half an hour, Fire Brigade and Civil Defence officials said. No casualties have been reported. Police...
Bangladesh will send 84,909 pilgrims to perform Holy Hajj this year. Religious affairs ministry’s Deputy Secretary Md Zahangir Alam said on Tuesday after the deadline for receiving Hajj money ended on June 1. As per the deal with the Saudi...
FE Online Report | 2014-06-04 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in the early hours of the session on Wednesday, the 4rth trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index...
The government will introduce a recruitment policy for the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)’s investigations agency very soon. The recruitment rules may be finalised at t0e 15th meeting of the secretarial committee on administrative development today (Wednesday). The home ministry proposal...
Bangladesh needs more professional midwives to cut down maternal mortality rates and death of newborn children, says the United Nations Population Funds (UNFPA). This is the observation of the second global report on midwifery launched at Prague, Czech Republic during...
Saima Wazed Hossain, the prime minister's daughter, has said she does not use Facebook. The US-licensed school psychologist said she had noticed some Facebook pages after her name and fan pages that carried political statements. ‘But I want to tell...
A leader of Juba League, the youth affiliate of Awami League, was stabbed to death by unknown assailants at Sonagazi Upazila in Feni district on Wednesday. The dead is Jasim Uddin, 35, president of the Jubo League’s Ward No. 9...
Miscreants slaughtered a middle-aged man in Ullahpara upazila in Sirajganj district at sometime between Monday night and early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sahadat Hossain, 40, son of late Musa Pramanik of Manushmura village. Locals spotted the throat-slit body...
Police recovered the body of a youth from a ditch at Dangachhi village under Bagmara upazila in Rajshahi district on Tuesday night. The dead is Shaon Ahmed, 18, son of Abu Bakkar Sidiqqui of Deula village of the upazila. Victim’s...
A court in Netrakona has sentenced two pairs of siblings to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Kalmakanda upazila over 13 years ago. The convicts are Babul and his brother Shafiqul, sons of late Samed Ali, and Abdul...
Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been officially announced as the new president of the country by the presidential election commission. Al-Sisi achieved a landslide victory over leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy in the 3-day presidential polls held last month....
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