FE Report | 2014-04-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh will press for duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) access to the US market and the restoration of GSP (generalised system of preferences) facility at the first TICFA (Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement) meeting to be held in the capital...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-04-28 00:00:00
Most of the steel mills are in dire straits due to low demand, energy shortage and non-availability of local billets, sources said. Slow progress of the government's annual development programme (ADP), dull business in the housing sector and weak flow...
FE Report | 2014-04-28 00:00:00
The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) awarded Sunday 38 financial institutions (FIs) and companies in different sectors, including pharmaceuticals, power and multinationals, for their efforts to establish corporate governance. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith distributed...
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 27 (UNB): Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) panel mayor Nazrul Islam along with his four associates was abducted by miscreants from Fatulla area of the city on Sunday. The other victims are Nazrul's aides Tajul, Swapan, Liton and his...
A Bangladeshi woman is among the latest five victims of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia. It quotes a Saudi government statement as saying that the latest five victims of the coronavirus in the kingdom were two Saudi...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport recovered fake Indian currency worth 60 million (6 crore) at its freight unit Sunday. Tipped off on Thursday that a large consignment of fake currency arriving by a cargo flight, customs intelligence kept...
An annular eclipse of the Sun will occur on April 29 (Tuesday), however, it will not be visible in Bangladesh. It will start at 9.52 am and end at 2.14 pm Bangladesh Standard Time (BST), an ISPR press release said...
A worker of a welding factory was stabbed to death allegedly by one of his colleagues over a trivial matter at Dirai upazila in Sunamganj district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Sayed Mia, 26, who worked at the...
Tokyo stocks fell 1.15 per cent on Monday morning, weighed by a poor performance on Wall Street and jitters over the Ukraine crisis. The Nikkei 225 index slipped 166.55 points to 14,262.71 by the break while the Topix index of...
Chinese shares were down in morning trade on Monday due to worries over a flood of upcoming initial public offerings and losses on Wall Street last week, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slipped 0.14 per cent, or 2.77...
Hong Kong stocks tumbled on Monday following losses on Wall Street and on concerns about Ukraine tensions. Share prices fell 0.46 per cent in opening exchanges in the morning session. The benchmark Hang Seng Index eased 101.15 points to 22,122.38...
Earnings will continue to play a central role in US stock markets this week with reports from several prominent companies, including ExxonMobil, Merck, Time Warner and Twitter. Analysts say investors will digest a much heavier week of economic data. Major...
Pro-Russian rebels paraded European monitors they are holding in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, freeing one but saying they had no plans to release another seven as the US and Europe prepared new sanctions against Moscow. US President Barack Obama called...
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has told his party men that there will be no unilateralism in his party from now on, as he wants to make it stronger. “The party activities will now be conducted in cooperation with all,...
The Railway Ministry has formed a 4-member inquiry committee on Monday, headed by ADGI Amjad Hossain, to ascertain the reason behind the Sunday night’s train accident on Jamuna Bridge, the country’s longest bridge. Locals said the commuter train, ‘Drutojan Express’...
Nine bogies of a Dinajpur-bound passenger train from Dhaka derailed on Bangabandhu Bridge over Jamuna River on Sunday night, snapping train communications between Dhaka and northern districts. Locals said the inter-city ‘Drutajan Express’ heading towards Dinajpur town from Kamalapur in...
BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas has asked his party men to get ready for breaking open the country’s jails to free their arrested leaders. “There’s no point of shouting slogans …we must prepare for unlocking the jails to free...
Rashed Khan Menon and Fazle Hossain Badsha have been respectively elected President and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Bangladesh for the 2014-15 term. A 75-member new committee was formally announced at the closing sessions of the 9th congress...
At least eight people died in four Upazilas of Netrokona district in a storm that swept across the northern region from Sunday night to early Monday. The storm also led to derailment of an inter-city train on Bangabandhu Bridge over...
FE Online Report | 2014-04-28 00:00:00
Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday amid modest see-saw. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 18.98 points or...
The hearing in the trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, accused in cases filed for wartime offences, will be held on May 6. The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT), headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, passed the order as one...
A Saudi Arabian princess has called on people across the kingdom to rise against the ruling regime. Sahar Al Saud, 42, the eldest daughter of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, made the call in video message from a house in...
Angry residents in Sirajganj attacked a police outpost on Sunday after a teenager died when police fired from their guns to disperse a clash. Al Kamal, 18, was killed when groups of youth belonging to two neighbourhoods clashed yesterday at...
Xpress Money, one of the leading money transfer companies, in association with NCC Bank Limited, organised a day-long road show and a cultural program to celebrate Pohela Boishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year, at Maijdee and Chowmohini areas...
Unidentified assailants chopped a local CPB leader to death and dumped the body in a field at Pashchim Charjabbar at Subarnachar upazila in Noakhali district at sometime between Saturday night and Sunday. The dead is Mofiz Ullah, 55, Communist Party...
At least 14 people have been killed by tornadoes as a huge storm system swept across the central and southern United States.Thirteen of the victims were in several suburbs of Little Rock in Arkansas, officials said. One other person was...
Defense lawyers say an Egyptian judge has sentenced to death more than 680 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in Egypt that included the...
A beautician woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband at her workplace near Darshana police camp in Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Marium Akhter, 26, wife of Sujan of Ajimpur village...
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