FE Report After 33 hours of captivity, businessman Abu Bakar Siddique finally returned unhurt to the safety of his family Thursday night amid a haze of mystery. The actual motive of the sensational abduction spawned a lot of guesswork among...
Monira Munni | 2014-04-19 00:00:00
The government has drafted a fresh law for the country's export processing zones (EPZs) in accordance with the US Action Plan, delegating some power to the authorities of the special industrial zones, officials close to the process say. The proposed...
Syful Islam | 2014-04-19 00:00:00
Unscrupulous businessmen are now cheating jobseekers promising them jobs with high salaries in Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, sources say. The aspirants are charged between Tk 0.5 million and Tk 0.7 million per head for work permit visas...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-04-19 00:00:00
The government will procure 150 passenger carriages for the Bangladesh Railway (BR) to upgrade the country's struggling railway fleet with the financial support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), officials said Friday. The Ministry of Railways (MoR) officials said they...
The government urgently needs to take an effective safety plan with modern warning system and launch awareness drive to avert human tragedies in the country's major tourist hotspots -- Cox's Bazar sea beach and St. Martin's Island -- as such...
KATHMANDU, Apr 18: At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers were killed Friday by an avalanche in the most deadly mountaineering accident ever on the world's highest peak, officials and rescuers say. The men...
SYDNEY, Apr 18: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to be the most expensive in aviation history, analysts say, as efforts to find the aircraft deep under the Indian Ocean show no signs of slowing. The...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said Friday the construction of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge will be completed by 2017. The work order of the main structure of Padma Bridge would be issued in June this year and both road and rail...
NEW DELHI, April 18: At least 28 persons were killed and more than 50 injured in a strong dust storm that lashed Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night. With the speed of around seventy-five miles per hour, the gusty winds also...
FE Report Four international firms from the United States, India, Korea and France have finally come forward to vie for the jobs of supervising the Padma Bridge construction and river training work. Louis Berger Group Inc of the USA, Korea...
FE Report The UK-Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry (UKBCCI) has called upon the government to create an investor-friendly environment and sought support for foreign businesses with appropriate policies in Bangladesh. "We have to allow people to bring investment here...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-04-19 00:00:00
The government has drafted a new policy to bar non-compliant sub-contracting readymade garment (RMG) factories from doing business with exporters, official sources said. The government, after consulting local and international stakeholders, is framing the new 'sub-contracting policy 2013' with a...
The country has received remittance amounting to about US$ 500 million in the first 11 days of the current month, reports UNB. According to a Bangladesh Bank statement, non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) living abroad sent a total of US$ 495.86 million...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-04-19 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Apr 18: A move to turn Chittagong Medical College into medical university is facing stiff opposition from different quarters including employees, nurses and doctors in Chittagong. The employees and nurses staged demonstration, formed human chain and observed work abstention...
FE Report Power import from Bhutan is expected to be finalised at the meeting of officials of Bangladesh, Bhutan and India next month (May) in New Delhi, sources say. Earlier, Dhaka had requested Thimphu to export electricity to Bangladesh at...
MEXICO CITY, Apr 18 (AFP): Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author whose "magical realism" told epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America, died Thursday at the age of 87. Known affectionately as "Gabo," the author of...
A student of Jessore Government City College was knifed to death by stalkers for protesting eve-teasing on the college compound in Jessore on Friday night. The victim was identified as Nurul Islam, 18, son of Afzal Hossain of Collegepara in...
The liberation war affairs minister has said a ‘hate pillar’ will be erected in every Upazila (UZ) to show hatred to the elements who opposed the nation’s War of Liberation. AKM Mozammel Haque said: "The Bengalis will show hatred to...
Gano Forum chief Dr Kamal Hossain has called those who created rift between Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Tajuddin Ahmed 'enemy of the country' and said it was the ‘most unfortunate incident’ in Bangladesh’s history. The member of Bangabandhu’s cabinet...
Positive overall quarterly earnings and some encouraging data on the economy protected US stocks last week from tensions over Ukraine and frail enthusiasm for tech stock. Markets fought off selling pressure on Thursday to end the holiday-shortened week with solid...
At least five people, including four BGB men, were injured in a gunfight between the border guards and a gang of smugglers at Moulvipara at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Friday night. The injured Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)...
Leaders of the alliance of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD), who are taking part in the three-day ‘Teesta March’, have observed that rivers would remain just a memory to the future generation if justified shares...
Tokyo investors will be watching the release of a string of data from Japan, China and the United States this week, after the benchmark Nikkei 225 index scratched back some of last week’s big losses. Among the figures in focus...
Armed miscreants stormed a hostel for female students of Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College in Bogra on Friday and made away with money, gold-made jewelry and electronic gadgets. Angry students, in protest, have announced a boycott of classes today (Saturday)....
Captors have set free singer Sourav Chakma aka Tintin and his friend Ricky Dewan five days after their abduction in Rangamati town. Police rescued them from near a Buddhist temple in Hengelchharhi area, between Naniarchar and Mohalchharhi Upazilas around 11.30pm...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested three people along with 1 kg gunpowder, two firearms and four rounds of bullet at Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Friday. The arrested are Abdur Razzak Kalu, 20, son of Harunur Rashid of...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel rescued 29 people, including women and children, while they were being trafficked to India through Benapole's Putkhali border on Friday night. Subedar Farid Uddin, commanding officer of Khulna BGB Battalion-23 Putkhali camp, said acting on...
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