FE Report | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
Law enforcement agencies are yet to unearth the whereabouts of abducted Abu Bakar Siddique amid strong demand from various quarters for his immediate and safe rescue. Mr Siddique, husband of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) chief executive Syeda Rizwana Hasan,...
Appreciating Bangladesh's achievements in various areas, the United States has said it has kept pressing Bangladesh for a greater political inclusion to ensure a more stable and prosperous future, reports UNB. "In Bangladesh, we continue to press for greater political...
Munima Sultana | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
Sufferings of commuters using the roads in and around the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover construction area are unlikely to ease in the next couple of years in absence of a traffic management plan and funds to manage the huge traffic during the...
Six top officials of the state-owned Bangladesh Small Industries and Commerce Bank (BASIC) Limited have been has suspended for alleged malpractices, reports bdnews24.com. The bank's Deputy Managing Director Monaem Khan is among them. The decision taken by the Board of...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh is expected to receive US$ 1.0 billion worth of financial support annually from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for facilitating its private sector growth, officials said Thursday. "We have requested the IFC for extending its support to a billion...
A total of 30 donor countries pledged US$4.43 billion Wednesday for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support developing countries over the next four years to prevent degradation of the global environment, said a press release issued Thursday. Promised in...
COMILLA, Apr 17: Train movement on the Dhaka-Chittagong and Chittagong-Sylhet routes which remained suspended following derailment of a goods train near Comilla railway station, resumed after four hours early Thursday. Train movement on the routes which was suspended after six...
The government will conduct the country's 3rd Slum Census 2014 and counting of floating people programme from April 25 next to record the number and households of the slums and overall slum population in the country. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics...
Award-winning environmental lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband has been found in Dhaka some 35 hours after his abduction in Narayanganj city. DMP spokesperson Maruf Hasan said Abu Bakar Siddique was found in Kalabagan around 1:30am on Friday. "A rider identified...
A dozen Bangladeshi migrants, who were held hostage in Iran by their fellow countrymen for ransom, were brought back home on Thursday. They arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka in the morning from Iran as Criminal Investigation...
A septuagenarian man died after falling from a human hauler at Boitpur Badamtala on Bagerhat-Pirojpur Highway in Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The dead is Idris Ali Khan, 70, resident of Bhandarkhola village in Kochua upazila. Sub-inspector Humayun Kabir...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, passed away on Thursday. He was 87. A prolific writer...
The US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour (DRL) has decided to allocate approximately US $ 0.6 million (600,000) for implementing projects that promote democracy and human rights in Bangladesh. The DRL has invited organisations to submit proposals outlining...
No immediate respite from the sweltering heat seems to be in sight. The moderate heat wave sweeping the country may not ease in the next week, says the Met office. It said the heat wave that Bangladesh has been experiencing...
The High Court has acquitted all the four death-row convicts over the sensational murder of eight people in Chittagong city 14 years ago. The bench of justices Md Abdul Hye and Krishna Debnath delivered the verdict on Thursday afternoon after...
Indian immigration police arrested a Bangladeshi man in possession of Tk 0.4 million (400,000) hundi money at Petrapole check post, opposite to Benpole border on Thursday afternoon. The arrested is Lokman Hossain, 40, a border man of a C&F agent...
“Dictators” have tried to rewrite the history of Bangladesh, but have not succeeded, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wajed Joy has said. He made the remark in a Facebook status on the occasion of Mujibnagar Day on April 17....
Tokyo stocks rose 0.60 per cent in quiet morning trade on Friday as a weak yen boosted exporter shares following a mixed session on Wall Street. The Nikkei 225 index, which closed flat on Thursday, added 86.94 points to 14,504.47...
Chinese shares fell at the open on Friday, following a mixed performance in US markets and continued worries over the weak domestic economy, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slid 0.63 per cent, or 13.17 points, to 2,085.72. The...
South Korea's Seoul stock exchange added 0.58 per cent and Taiwan's Taipei stock exchange gained 0.20 per cent as US dollar edged up in holiday-narrowed trade on Friday following a mixed lead from Wall Street and news of a deal...
A honey collector was killed in a tiger attack in Sundarbans area in Satkhira district on Thursday afternoon. The dead is Swapan Mandal, 38, son of Rabindranath Mandal of Kalinchi village of Shyamnagar upazila of the south-western district. Witnesses said...
At least two people were killed and five others injured in a road accident in Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur on Friday. The dead are Md Joynal Abedin, 55, and KMA Wahid, 40. Witnesses said a speedy truck his a Chandra-bound...
At least two people died when a pick-up van rammed a truck in Godagari upazila in Rajshahi distroct on Friday. Another people was critically injured in the accident. The dead are pick-up van driver Shahidul Islam, 35, and Farhad, 30....
Arguments in the war crimes trial of Mobarak Hossain, an expelled Awami League leader from Brahmanbaria district, begins on May 11. The International Crimes Tribunal-1, led by M Enayetur Rahim, fixed the date on Thursday afternoon. The 3rd and the...
Nearly 12 hours after his captors set him free, police took Abu Bakar Siddique, husband of award-winning environment lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan, to the office of Superintendent of Police (SP) of Narayanganj district on Friday. Siddique was taken to the...
A housewife got the wrist of her right hand blown off as a bomb exploded at Bhaturia village in Jessore Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The victim was identified as Renuka Begum, 50, wife of Fazer Ali of the village....
A team of eight divers had entered a capsized ferry of Republic of Korea (ROK) on Friday and was searching for survivors. South Korean news agencies and television channels said. YTN television said that divers had searched the dining hall...
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