FE Online Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the red Wednesday after a single session break with slight decline of turnover as the investors booked marginal profit on large cap stocks in later part of the trading session. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka...
Agitating doctors of Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (Birdem) Hospital called off their strike Wednesday afternoon after withdrawal of the police official allegedly involved in the Sunday night’s Birdem incident, according to a...
Managing Director & CEO of Prime Bank Limited Md. Ehsan Khasru addressing a group of journalists at a press conference organized on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the Bank at a city hotel on Wednesday. Deputy Managing Directors...
A gang of unidentified miscreants, riding a car, have abducted Abu Bakar Siddique, an entrepreneur and husband of noted environment lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan, at Fatulla in Narayanganj city. According to a news agency, the miscreants intercepted the car of...
Global oil prices rallied on Wednesday on Ukraine tensions and the weak dollar, and before weekly crude inventories data in top consumer the United States. New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for May delivery, hit $104.82 a barrel...
The alliance of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) will jointly launch their 3-day march towards Teesta Barrage on Thursday afternoon. Earlier, on April 4, the two-party alliance, known as CPB-BSD Left Alliance, announced the programme...
Two suicide bombers blew up vehicles packed with explosives outside a government compound in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday killing five people, police and a doctor said. The twin attacks come as Iraq's security forces battle to win...
United Airways plans to start its operation on a new route, Dhaka-Madinah-Dhaka, from June next. This will be the first operation of flight on this route from Dhaka. The flight, to be operated two days each week, will leave Dhaka...
Social networking company Twitter on Wednesday rejected demands from the Turkish government to open an office there, following accusations of tax evasion and a two-week ban on the service. Speaking after two days of closed-door talks with Turkish officials, Colin...
Iran expects to get a fifth installment this week of previously blocked overseas funds, a senior official was quoted as saying, a payment that would confirm Iranian compliance with a landmark deal with world powers to curb its nuclear program....
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) on Wednesday urged the entrepreneurs of the Philippines to invest in Bangladesh taking the advantages of liberal and attractive investment opportunities. FBCCI president Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed made the request...
NATO said Wednesday it will deploy more air, sea and land forces in eastern Europe in response to the worsening crisis in Ukraine. "Today we have agreed a package of military measures," NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after a...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Wednesday sought enhanced cooperation from Turkey in expediting Bangladesh’s development. Terming bilateral ties with Turkey very excellent, she said there is a scope for Turkey to extend cooperation in the areas of trade, commerce,...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said he knows nothing about the arrest of an agent of Pakistan’s intelligence agency by Indian RAW members in Dhaka. “I know nothing yet about it. I read it in the newspapers,...
South Korean rescuers, including elite navy SEAL divers, worked frantically under floodlights Wednesday to find nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sank with 459 on board, mostly high school students bound for a holiday island. Lee Gyeong-Og, the vice...
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) chief Nasser al-Wuhayshi has pledged in a rare video appearance to pursue the war against the Western "crusaders" everywhere possible. The video posted online shows Wuhayshi addressing scores of jihadists in a rugged terrain...
A female member of Afghanistan's parliament was recovering in hospital Wednesday after being shot the previous night, officials and her sister said. The interior ministry said Mariam Koofi, a member of parliament from the northeastern province of Takhar, was shot...
Turnout in India's multi-phase election is so far almost eight percentage points higher than last time, data showed Wednesday, reflecting enthusiasm for polls expected to bring the opposition Hindu nationalists to power. Polling in five of the ten phases has...
Tens of thousands of workers were on strike Wednesday at a factory in southern China which makes shoes for Nike and Adidas, rights groups and a worker said. More than 30,000 employees at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in...
Bangladesh is expected to renew its memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with South Korea on sending workers on government-to-government basis in May this year. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain disclosed this while talking to reporters after...
Agitating doctors of Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (Birdem) Hospital called off their strike on Wednesday afternoon after withdrawal of the police official allegedly involved in the Sunday night’s Birdem incident. The doctors...
Election to 14 upazila (UZ) parishads in 10 districts will held on May 19, The Election Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad announced the schedule of the 6th-phase polls at a press conference at the...
Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. (MTB) organised a conference to create awareness against money laundering and financing of terrorism . The conference was held at the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Comilla Wednesday. An open discussion session was held...
BNP has sought an explanation from the government over the report of an Indian daily that India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has arrested a Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI agent from a Bangladesh airport. “A report of...
The High Court started hearing Wednesday on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. An HC bench...
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) sealed off a milk candy factory at Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday on charge of candies with adulterated ingredients and low quality milk. The mobile court also fined...
Even though BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali has been traceless for the last two years, his family members and party colleagues are still hopeful of his safe return. Two years back on April 17, 2012, former BNP MP Ilias...
Both Dhaka and Moscow have failed to complete negotiations to initial a deal which both sides termed the ‘third and final contract’ for the construction of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project. According to official sources, the deal was scheduled...
A High Court division bench Wednesday took up for hearing the appeals filed by four condemned convicts, including war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, in the sensational Chittagong 10-truck arms smuggling cases, according to a news agency. The...
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday issued a rule upon the government to explain as to why it should not be directed to set up a high-powered cell to monitor government and private hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and diagnostic centres....
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