LONDON, May 3 (AFP) : The price of crude oil and metals came under pressure this week as investors took their lead from mixed updates on the US economy and the escalating Ukraine-Russia crisis. OIL: Oil prices retreated on easing...
NEW DELHI, May 3 (AFP) : India on Friday threatened to drag the European Union to the World Trade Organization over its ban on mango imports. Commerce Minister Anand Sharma warned the EU's decision to slap the ban on import...
BNP alleged Saturday that the government has resorted to secret killing and abduction to make people averse to politics, reports UNB. "The ruling party cadres are involved in the abductions and killings in Narayanganj. The current regime getting isolated from...
Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam blamed BNP for the ongoing incidents of abduction and secret killing and said this is the new model of movement of Khaleda Zia's party, reports UNB. "Killing and abduction are the characteristics of their (BNP)...
SATKHIRA, May 3 (UNB): A local activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed reportedly in a lynch mob attack at Deltar crossing under Debhata Upazila Saturday. The deceased was identified as Aktar Hossain Aku (48), son of Faizul Islam of Kulia village...
Chittagong district police arrested 15 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from different areas of Satkania and Lohagarha upazilas Saturday, reports BSS. A team of Satkania thana police in a series of drives arrested 10 activists of Jamaat...
National Human Rights' Commission of Bangladesh Chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman urged the major political parties to stop blame game and take effective measures against murder and abduction, reports bdnews24.com. Dr Mizan made the appeal while speaking at an event in...
Five people, including two teenage boys, were killed and nine others injured in lightning strike in Satkhira, Tangail and Meherpur districts on Saturday, reports UNB. In Satkhira, a farmer was killed at Umrapara village in Sadar upazila at noon. The...
Although many high-rise commercial buildings have been occupied without fulfilling the fire safety standards, those are yet to be identified because 99 per cent of the owners are least bothered about having occupancy certificates following the approval of the building...
BENAPOLE, May 3 (UNB): A housewife was killed when a mud wall collapsed on her during storm at Bhoberber village here on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Rokeya Begum, 30, daughter of Kalu Mondal.
BARISAL, May 3: Police last night recovered the hanging body of GM Babar Ali, Barisal bureau chief of the Dainik Amar Desh from a house in Patuakhali. He was 56. Babar Ali, a former general secretary of Barisal Press Club,...
CHITTAGONG, May 3 (BSS): At least 15 persons were injured when a human hauler collided headed-on with a passenger bus at Moizartek area on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway under Patiya Upazila Saturday. Police said the accident occurred when a city bound...
Bangladesh Bioethics Society (BBS) is inviting students to join the art and photography competition on ethics, reports BSS. Undergraduate and postgraduate students, aged between 18 to 25 years, are invited to participate in the competition, BBS general secretary Prof Shamima...
President, PM wish maritime safety week a success President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages, on the occasion of 'Maritime Safety Week' said that they were happy to note that the week is being...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Rangpur divisions with moderately heavy falls at places until 6:00 pm today (Sunday), reports...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
It is good to know that the government has, at long last, signed a $250 million loan agreement with Asian Development Bank (ADP) to tap surface water for Dhaka city. The deal, signed last week for the implementation of sustainable...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina asked on Saturday the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) to form a team with local engineers and expert professionals for designing and constructing the country's big structures like bridges and tunnels, reports UNB. She also...
BNP will stage an eight-hour mass hunger strike programme across the country today (Sunday) to register its protest against the government's repressive acts and 'growing incidents' of extrajudicial killing and abduction, reports UNB. In the capital, the party would observe...
KABUL, May 3 (Reuters): Afghan officials gave up hope on Saturday of finding any survivors from a landslide in the remote northeast, putting the death toll at more than 2,100, as the aid effort focused on the more than 4,000...
FE Report | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
The 11th election to Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) was held Saturday at the association office in the city. The poll for 2014-16 was contested by two panels-one's Ganatantrik Oikya Front led by Shah Jalal Mojumder, the current...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
Most sectors barring the readymade garment (RMG) have been performing poorly in terms of export earnings since the beginning of the current fiscal year (2013-14). The shortfall in revenue earning of these sectors, stretching from agricultural products to ship-building, was...
Police arrested three people and seized a microbus Saturday afternoon from the house of city Awami League (AL) leader and Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the case filed in connection with the abduction and...
Zaidi Sattar | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
The theoretical argument for protection presupposes a timeline at the end of which protection to any economic activity is to be scaled down or completely eliminated. The most popular argument for protection used to be known as "infant industry" protection....
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
Russia has warned Ukraine of "catastrophic consequences" if the latter does not halt a military operation against the "pro-Moscow" gunmen in eastern Ukraine. This serves as an indication that Kremlin is moving closer to direct involvement in the months'-long crisis....
FE Report | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
Country's lone crude oil refinery, the Eastern Refinery Ltd (ERL), has cut refined petroleum products output by around 16 per cent over the past couple of weeks due to electricity supply problem, a top government official said. State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to add 0.166 million new taxpayers under its tax net by opening their income tax files within next month. The board recently instructed its field offices across the country to open tax...
NEW DELHI, May 3 (bdnews24.com): Narendra Modi has said 'illegal Bangladesh migrants in India should pack and leave', but he does not believe that can bedevil relations with Dhaka if he comes to power. "I will make every effort to...
PATUAKHALI, May 3 (UNB): Seven bodies, including four of women and two of children, were recovered from the Kolagachia river in Golachipa upazila after a launch capsized in it amid stormy weather on Saturday afternoon. The deceased could not be...
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