Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
The government's borrowing from the banking sector may rise significantly this fiscal year following revision in the revised annual development programme (RADP) amid shortfall in revenue mobilisations. Sources at the Finance Division said the government might borrow between Tk 50...
FE Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
Irregularities and corrupt practices have gripped cooperative societies in the country in the absence of effective regulations and supervision of the government, the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has said. As a result, operators of many cooperative societies are taking away...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad joined office Tuesday after 43 days of stay in the United States. He returned home on Monday. Rakibuddin along with his wife went to the USA on March 3 amid the country-wide staggered...
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 14 (UNB): Four students of a private university in Dhaka went missing, and two others drowned in the Bay in Saint Martin's Island here Monday. The deceased were identified as Imran Habib (22) and Saddam Hossain (21). ...
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of Bangladesh Masud Ahmed submitted 17 audit reports to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office Tuesday morning. The PM's Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil said the CAG handed over to the Prime Minister one...
A woman has been strangulated to death allegedly by her son in Sadar upazila in Comilla district. The dead is Ohida Begum, 50, wife of late Abdus Sattar of Bajgodda area of the Upazila. Witnesses said auto-bike driver Ashik, 24,...
Health and Family Planning Minister Mohammad Nasim has underscored the need for more dynamism of mobile courts in the cities, including capital Dhaka. He has directed the country's mobile courts and sanitary inspectors to work more sincerely. He said people's...
At least four people were killed and seven others injured in road accident at Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday night. Three of the deceased were identified as Rhidoy, 26, of Lakherajpara of the district town, Arif, 35, of...
The body of one of the four missing students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) has been recovered in the Bay off the coasts of Saint Martin’s Island in Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar district, according to a...
The body of one of the four missing students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) has been recovered in the sea off the coasts of Saint Martin's Island. A joint rescue team of Fire Service, Coast Guard, Navy...
A South Korean passenger ship with 476 people, including many high school students, is sinking off the country’s southern coast on Wednesday after sending a distress call, officials said. There are no immediate reports of causalities. The ferry carrying more...
Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. He told parliament it was being conducted “stage by stage, in a responsible… manner”. Hours later, gunfire was heard at an airbase which officials...
A verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayadee;s death sentence is due any day now, after the Appellate Division turned down appeals of both prosecution and defence on Wednesday. The five-member Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain,...
A prosecution witness has accused Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Abdus Sobhan of stabbing his father to death after dragging him out of a mosque at Iswardi in Pabna 43 years ago. PW No-2 Tahurul Alam Mollah, a freedom fighter, told International...
FE Online Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, maintaining the previous session’s upward trend. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by...
Senior BNP leader Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has been shifted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital in Dhaka from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur. Khandker Mosharraf Hossain was admitted to coronary care unit (CCU) on Wednesday morning after he complained...
The BNP is going to organise a 'long-march' programme towards the Teesta River on April 22 (Tuesday), the party's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a media briefing in the city on Wednesday. He said they would...
Members of Bangladesh Army and Coast Guard with the help of local administration personnel and fishermen recovered the bodies of the four missing students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) in the Bay off Saint Martin’s Island on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday distributed cheques of financial assistance to the relatives of more Rana Plaza victims. Seventy-three family members of 53 victims of Rana Plaza received the cheques from the Prime Minister at her Tejgaon office. Identity...
At least two people died as a ferry with 477 tilted and slowly sank off the southwest coast of Republic of Korea (ROK) on Wednesday. It’s unclear exactly how many of the 477 people on board were rescued. Many jumped...
A robotic submarine has continued its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight on the seabed of the southern Indian Ocean. The mini-sub was deployed late on Tuesday, but was forced to resurface due to a technical issue, officials said....
At least two people were killed in separate attacks by their rivals over land-related disputes in Chapainawabganj and Laxmipur districts on Wednesday. In Chapainawabganj, a man was chopped to death allegedly by his uncle at Kornakhali Mirjapur under Shibganj upazila...
The shortest path to the Internet for some remote corners of the world may be through the skies. That is the message from US tech giants seeking to spread the online gospel to hard-to-reach regions. Google took a step in...
Ukraine's Western-backed prime minister on Wednesday accused Russia of erecting a new "Berlin Wall" that threatened European security. "Today's events... are starting to endanger Europe and the European Union. It is now clear that our Russian neighbours have decided to...
The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir brought out a motorcycle procession in the city on Wednesday morning, only to be foiled by the law enforcers a few minutes later. Witnesses said Jamaat-Shibir activists, riding on...
The New York Police Department has disbanded a secret programme designed to eavesdrop on Muslims to identify potential terrorism threats. The Demographics Unit had dispatched plainclothes detectives to listen to conversations and build files on places frequented by Muslims, US...
Birds can learn to choose the best building materials for their nests, according to scientists. It was previously thought that birds' choice of nest material was determined by their genes - with each type of bird having an "innate nest...
The High Court has accepted for hearing the petitions submitted by four death row convicts including Jamaat leader Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami challenging their conviction in the Chittagong arms haul cases. The three other convicts are former director of Directorate...
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