FE Report | 2014-05-29 00:00:00
A top official of the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) blamed the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Wednesday for intentionally spreading propaganda against the anti-graft body. He also said the Commission has enough documents on TIB and would make those public in time....
TOKYO, May 28 (Agencies): Voicing her high hope of keeping up good relations with India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said any problem with neighbouring countries, including India, could be resolved through bilateral talks. "You may have differences over...
MUNSHIGANJ, May 28 (UNB): BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has branded Rapid Action Battalion as a cancer and called for its immediate dissolution. "Rab has turned into a cancer going beyond any reform" Khaleda told a public rally in Musnshiganj town...
The central bank has relaxed regulations allowing students to go abroad with one way ticket to study under admissible courses and to use the annual travel quota in foreign exchange, officials said. Under the relaxations, the authorised dealer banks, officially...
TOKYO, May 28: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina became emotional after seeing the signature of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the visitors' book at the Japan National Press Club (JNPC). Bangabandhu visited the JNPC on October 29...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ordered Wednesday disposal of rules in two months issued by the High Court Division in the cases filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against former Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar. ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Thursday morning, wrapping her four-day official tour of Japan. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minster and her entourage, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 6:50 am....
Tokyo stocks ended the morning session flat on Thursday as the stronger yen hit exporters and investors booked profits following a five-day winning streak. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 7.23 points to 14,663.72 by the break, while the...
The prices of most of the shares in Chinese stock markets rose in morning trade on Thursday after an unexpected rise in the previous session improved investor expectations, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.10 per cent, or...
Hong Kong shares opened 0.22 per cent higher on Thursday, extending a recent uptrend, despite losses on Wall Street that were fuelled by profit-taking. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 51.87 points to 23,131.9 in the first few minutes, according...
US stocks on Wednesday moved lower in early trade following mixed earnings and as Valeant Pharmaceuticals International significantly raised its bid to acquire Allergan. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 33.30 points (0.20 per cent)...
European stocks mostly rose on Wednesday, but Frankfurt retreated from the key 10,000-points barrier following disappointing unemployment data. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index of top shares slipped 0.02 percent to 9,939.17 points from Tuesday’s record closing level, having risen as high...
The prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets witnessed a downward trend on Wednesday. Sydney stocks dipped 0.15 per cent at the break. Meanwhile, South Korean (Seoul) stocks were flat today, according to AFP.
A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old. Judge Zakir Hossain of the city’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Special Tribunal-2 also fined Md Chhagir Tk 50,000 on Wednesday. Five have testified in the...
FE Online Report | 2014-05-29 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid modest see-saw, the last trading day of the...
Police have arrested two suspected drug peddlers and recovered 30 kg hemp and a private car from their possessions at Moulvibazar Sadar upazila. The arrestees were identified as Basir Miah, 25, son of Hushiar Ali of Lamakazi village under Jalalabad...
Police have arrested a local Awami League (AL) leader on charges of his suspected involvement in the murder of Fulgazi Upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque in Feni town. Belal Hossain Patwari, 48, was arrested in Khagrachhari’s Matiranga around 2:30am on Thursday,...
The High Court has ordered a probe into suspected corruption by Patuakhali Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in auctioning obsolete equipment and materials. The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain have issued the order on...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 577 bottles of Indian wine worth over Tk 0.8 million from a bordering village at Companyganj upazila in Sylhet on Wednesday. Tipped off, the border guards conducted a drive at Siddipur frontier village and...
The body of a housewife was recovered from a septic tank at Jorgachha village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district on Wednesday night, three days after she had reportedly gone missing. The deceased was identified as Mariam Akhter, wife of...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive arrested a man with 96 fake notes of Tk 1,000 denomination from Jamtala area of Sunamganj town on Wednesday. The arrested is Humayun Kabir Sarker, 30, son of Abbas Ali of Keshabpur...
A 17-year-old schoolboy at Pirojpur's Bhandaria upazial has invented an automated firefighting device, which he claims, can control a big fire in any establishment at three stages. Sabbir Khan, a class XII student of Amanullah Higher Secondary School at Radhanagar...
At least three people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Goainghat and Zakiganj Upazilas of Sylhet district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Shahab Uddin, 18, son of Azir Uddin of Khalarchhari village, and Zarina Begum,...
The High Court has allowed Notre Dame College to hold admission tests overruling a government order. The bench of justices M Moazzem Hossain and Md Badruzzaman has stayed an education ministry circular that mandates college admission based on SSC results...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military. But a lower than expected turnout...
The capital development authority, Rajuk, will write to the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) to examine whether a high-rise building in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur is fit for use after a gas line explosion there. Rajdhani Unnayan Kortripokkho (Rajuk) has...
A gang of armed miscreants swooped on a contractor on Culvert road in the city's Arambagh area on Thursday morning and sprayed bullets on him, leaving him dead on the spot. The deceased was identified as Sultan Ahmed, 42, a...
Miscreants have snatched away at gunpoint Tk 200,000 from a foreign student in Chittagong city. The student was also injured while trying to stop the muggers in Prabartak Intersection around 8:30am on Thursday, said Panchlaish Police Station OC Abu Zafar...
In a surprise move, police have been deployed for the security of Narayanganj-5 by-polls contestant Rafiur Rabbi, father of slain A-level student Tanvir Mohammad Twaki. Rabbi, a leader of 'Nagarik Andolan', says he did not ask for police protection. Five...
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