FE Online Report | 2014-04-15 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green Tuesday after two session fall with turnover improved significantly as the investors went for buying spree mainly on large cap stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed 4,600 points mark...
The Appellate Division has ended the hearing on Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee's appeal against his death sentence meted out by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). A five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain, ended hearing of both the...
Sina Weibo, widely known as China's version of Twitter, is set to go public in the United States this week -- after three weeks of sell-offs took their toll on technology stocks. The microblogging subsidiary of Chinese Internet behemoth Sina...
An Italian court on Tuesday ordered former prime minister and billionaire tycoon Silvio Berlusconi to do a year of community service following his conviction for tax fraud, Italian media reported. Berlusconi will have to respect a curfew and will be...
Russia declared Ukraine on the brink of civil war on Tuesday as Kiev said an "anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Moscow separatists was underway, though the crackdown appeared to get off to a slow start, if at all. Twenty-four hours after an...
The Russian economy could be set back to zero growth this year, the finance minister warned on Tuesday amid growing spending on Crimea and capital flight. Finance minister Anton Siluanov said at a government meeting that Russia's economy faced "the...
The government has sent a report on progress in fulfilling conditions needed to get back the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) in the US market, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said. "Most of the 16 conditions set by them have...
Business jet maker Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. on Tuesday announced a deal to sell 60 aircraft to a Chinese leasing company, one of the largest orders in the US company's history. The agreement, signed with Minsheng Financial Leasing Co. in the...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said his ministry will conduct a coordinated drive on highways across the country from May to minimise traffic congestions and road accidents. The minister said this while visiting renovation works on Ghorashal-Tongi road in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said a natural historical museum and another most modern museum will be built in the country. The Prime Minister said this when a four-member delegation of Bangladesh National Museum, led by Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman...
A motorcycle rider was killed and another injured when the Magura-bound bike was knocked from rear by a Jessore-bound truck in Madhukhali upazilla in Faridpur district on Monday evening. Madhukhali police identified the decease as Rubel Sheikh, 25. The injured...
A delegation of UK-Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry Ltd (UKBCCI) on Tuesday met Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and discussed various issues, including trade promotion. UKBCCI Chairman Iqbal Ahmed led the 10-member delegation at the meeting held at the...
Iraq has closed Abu Ghraib prison, made infamous by Saddam Hussein's regime and US forces, due to security concerns following a mass breakout last year, the justice ministry said Tuesday. The country is suffering a protracted surge in violence that...
A powerful bomb exploded with a big bang, injuring four women at Tilpara under Khilgaon Police Station in the city on Tuesday morning. Police identified the injured as Ambia Khatun, 33, Ratna Rani, 30, Hiron Bashi, 45, and Selina Begum,...
The UN weather agency on Tuesday warned there was a good chance of an "El Nino" climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean this year, bringing droughts and heavy rainfall to the rest of the world. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)...
The UN weather agency Tuesday warned there was a good chance of an "El Nino" climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean this year, bringing droughts and heavy rainfall to the rest of the world. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Drug Administration (DA) building at Mohakhali in the city. “After completion of the building, the department would be more capable to serve people,” the minister hoped....
Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country's civil war. They would signal a further internationalization of the conflict, with new rockets suspected from...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the FHI360Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project on Tuesday signed an agreement with the WorldFish Centre and Dnet to utilise mobile money payments within their agriculture and health programmes...
Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say. Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel's teenage residents onto lorries. Sources said...
Mentioning that protecting the country and ensuring the welfare of its people is the main motto of her party, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has said they will restore democracy in the country at any cost. “We’ve liberated the country, but...
Students affairs adviser of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) Prof Sultan Uddin Bhuiyan and the provost of the university’s Ashraful Haq Hall Prof Rafiqul Islam have resigned. Their resignations came on Tuesday amidst allegations of negligence following the killing of Saad...
A daylong seminar titled, ‘Fast Track Future Leader’, was held at the Business Studies Faculty Conference Hall of Dhaka University Tuesday. ‘Leveraging ICT for growth, employment and governance’, a project of the Ministry of ICT, and Dhaka University (DU) IT...
Etihad Airways, national airline of the United Arab Emirates, saw its total revenue increased by 27 per cent to US$1.4 billion during the first quarter of 2014. The airline’s cargo revenue also increased by 26 per cent to US$243million, placing...
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad joined office Tuesday after 43 days of stay in the United States. He returned home Monday. Rakibuddin along with his wife went to the USA on March 3 amid the countrywide staggered upazila elections...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Tuesday asked all concerned to ensure overall security as well as improving the services at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Speaking at an inter-ministerial meeting at the Secretariat on the overall security...
Defending party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman’s recent remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, BNP Tuesday asked the Awami League to come up with evidence if there is any mistake in the BNP leader’s assertions. “Tarique Rahman’s recent statement in...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking 14 people, including the Industries Secretary and the director general of Department of Environment (DoE), to explain why contempt of court charges should not be drawn against them for flouting its...
Sabbir Hasan is one of the four students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) who went missing in the Bay of Bengal at St Martin’s Island Monday afternoon. Before leaving Dhaka for Cox’s Bazar Saturday, Hasan had posted...
Security has been beefed up in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila (UZ) so that people can vote peacefully in Wednesday’s polls. The vote in the upazila was postponed on March 30 following a stay order by the High Court. It was scheduled...
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