FE Report | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury welcomed power outages Tuesday as he said if there is no load-shedding, people will forget improvement achieved by this time. "Sometimes load-shedding is good to some extent. Otherwise, people will forget the progress...
FE Report | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Industries to be set up in Dhaka city and its adjoining areas might face tax rates higher than those located in other areas of the country, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman, Ghulam Hussain, said Tuesday. The government is...
Malaysia will construct a 13-km flyover and 22,000 apartments in the capital to help Bangladesh government eases Dhaka's notorious traffic jam as well as housing problems of city dwellers, report agencies. The government has signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) for...
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 29 (UNB): Supporters of abducted Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam blocked Dhaka-Chittagong highway for two and a half hours Tuesday, demanding the immediate rescue of Nazrul and his four associates. Lawyers, meanwhile, demonstrated and boycotted the...
The High Court (HC) Tuesday ordered the authorities concerned to ensure use of Bangla in signboards, advertisements in electronic media and number plates of vehicles by May 15. A bench with Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain...
Two labourers were killed and another was injured when a truck overturned near a Baily Bridge in Aftabnagar area in city Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Tobarak(55) and Nurul Alam(32). — UNB
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry Tuesday recommended appointing an adequate number of judges to reduce the backlog of cases. The committee made the recommendations at its second meeting held with its chairman Suranjit Sengupta...
Tokyo stocks rose 0.23 per cent on Wednesday morning after gains on Wall Street while a weaker yen lifted exporter shares. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 33.37 points to 14,321.60 by the break, while the Topix index of all...
At least three people, including a journalist’s wife, were killed and over a dozen others injured as a Dhaka-bound commuter train from Narayanganj hit a passenger bus at TT Para level-crossing near Kamalapur Railway Station on Tuesday night. One of...
Chinese stocks were flat in morning trade on Wednesday with investors cautious ahead of a long holiday weekend, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index edged down 0.08 per cent, or 1.70 points, to 2,018.64. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which...
Hong Kong stocks opened flat on Wednesday, with profit-taking from the previous session’s healthy gains offsetting a positive lead from Wall Street. The benchmark Hang Seng Index edged up 12.15 points to 22,466.04 in the first few minutes of trade,...
European stocks rallied on Tuesday on easing Ukraine tensions, upbeat earnings and takeover speculation, with London boosted also by solid British economic growth data, dealers said. Sentiment was buoyed further as Wall Street advanced in early deals on improving company...
US stocks on Tuesday finished higher after mixed economic data and corporate earnings as a two-day US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting got under way. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 86.63 (0.53 per cent) to 16,535.37. The broad-based S&P...
Jatiya Party MP from Narayanganj-5 constituency Nasim Osman died at a hospital in India on Wednesday. He was 65. Sources said Nasim Osman, elder brother of Narayanganj-4 MP Shamim Osman, had been admitted to a hospital in India’s Dehra Dun...
Three officials of two law-enforcing agencies have been removed after eight people including a city corporation councillor were abducted within two weeks in Narayanganj. They are Narayanganj district’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Syed Nurul Islam, Rab commanding officer (CO) Tarek...
A motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders were injured as a tractor crashed into their vehicle at Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Sinu Miah,35, son of Azahar Ali, a resident of...
Two suspected robbers were killed in a ‘shootout’ between the bandits and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel in Pashur Channel area in Sundarbans in Bagerhat on Tuesday afternoon. Rab sources said the encounter took place near the Bhadra forest station...
German ambassador in Dhaka Albrecht Conze’s concerns about Bangladesh-India joint Rampal power plant are not directed at a coal-fired project but the environmental risk it poses to Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. The German envoy said on Tuesday he...
The two-day global experts meeting on migration and the post-2015 development agenda has ended with a call for recognising migrants as ‘development agents’. The meeting closed with a set of recommendations that include ensuring migration as a cross-cutting enabler for...
A dearth of big-name share listings of overseas firms and a multi-billion-dollar penny-stock crash have hampered the growth ambitions of Singapore’s stock exchange as Asian rivals flourish, analysts say. Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), the sole stock market operator in the...
Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 1 million from a house at Balaganj upazila in Sylhet district on Tuesday. Locals said a gang of armed robbers, numbering 10-12, stormed the house of Shahjahan Miah at Mohammadpur village at about 2:00am by...
FE Online Report | 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Share prices on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed negative trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, the last trading day of this week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 14.19...
A man, suffered burns in a fire in Tejturi Bazar near Farm Gate in the city on April 10, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday. With this, the death toll hit six in the devastating fire that...
Asia's markets were mixed on Wednesday following a healthy lead from Wall Street, while investors turn their attention to US and Japanese central bank policy meetings and economic growth data from the United States. Tokyo’s Nikkei – which was closed...
Supporters of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) panel mayor Nazrul Islam flew into a rage on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway during a demonstration protesting his abduction. They also rampaged through the highway during the agitation, for the 3rd consecutive day, demanding immediate rescue...
Police arrested two young men in possession of 3,600 bottles of Phensidyl in Solonga Upazila in Sirajganjat district on Wednesday. The arrested are private car driver Fahim Ahmed, 30, a resident of Mirpur in Dhaka city and Shamim Ahmed, 25,...
At least two people were killed and several others injured as a covered van crashed into a pickup van carrying them in Sitakunda Upazila in Chittagong district on Wednesday. The dead are Anwar Hossain, 26, son of Abdur Rashid of...
Law enforcers have arrested eight more persons for suspected involvement in the snatching of JMB militants from a prison van in Mymensingh two months ago. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested them from different parts of the country on Wednesday,...
A training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) caught fire while landing on a runway of Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport at Potenga in Chittagong on Wednesday. Additional Deputy Commissioner (Immigration) at the airport Mizanur Rahman said the training...
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