Munima Sultana | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) has recently expressed deep concern about lack of coordination in road intersection plans and projects for Dhaka city. The Bank said it was particularly worried about the fate of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line-3. It...
Sri Lanka's stand-in captain Lasith Malinga insisted his team will handle the pressure of their do-or-die match against New Zealand today (Monday) to reach the World Twenty20 semi-finals. The match will be played at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume its Dhaka-Frankfurt flight today (Monday) after a suspension of almost seven years. Biman will operate flights on the new route to the German business hub Frankfurt with its newly inducted Boeing 777-300ER. Frankfurt came under...
A fire that broke out on the third floor of the National Museum Sunday morning was put out within an hour. Duty officer of Fire Brigade headquarters Shahjadi Sultana said the fire had broken out around 9:06 am. On information,...
A local Jubo League leader was shot dead and another person injured by miscreants at Sadar upazila in Lakshmipur district on Monday. The dead is Kabir Hossain, 28, ward unit general secretary of Degholi union Jubo League, the ruling Awami...
Amid heightened security over concerns of possible violence and bloodshed, balloting began simultaneously in 5,534 polling stations in 73 upazilas (UZ) in 34 districts from 8:00am on Monday. Local administration officials and voters said no major untoward incident happened in...
Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak has dismissed BNP's allegations that it has failed to exercise its authority in the 4th Upazila (UZ) Parishad elections. Mobarak's remarks came at a press briefing at the Election Commission Secretariat on the eve of...
Former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday was sued for defaming Bangabandhu with her claim about the first President of Bangladesh and issuing a threat while addressing a programme in the city. AB Siddiqui, president of Jononetri...
A court in Pabna has sentenced two siblings to life and three others to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for killing a man about 20 years ago. The lifers are Mansur Ali Kaiser and his brother Majibar Rahman, sons of Mostab...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Monday amid fluctuation. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 2.46 points or 0.05 per cent to...
Mystery shrouded the death of a police officer on election duty at a polling centre in Shahjadpur Upazila (UZ) in Sirajganj on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Asaduzzaman, 37, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Raiganj Police Station. Police and...
Voting has been suspended in 12 polling centres in Amtali upazila in Barguna district barely half an hour after balloting began to the Upazila (UZ) Parishad, a polling official has said. Upazila Executive Officer Md Abdullah said the decision was...
A rebel chairman candidate contesting without the Awami League’s endorsement boycotted polls to the Sadar Upazila (UZ) Parishad in Lakshmipur district, alleging irregularities during voting on Monday. Mohiuddin Bakul announced his decision at a press conference in his house two...
Two pro-BNP candidates in Chuadanga pulled out of the Upazila (UZ) Parishad elections on Monday, alleging takeover of polling centres by supporters of pro-Awami League candidates. Mujibul Haq Malik Saju, contesting from Chuadanga Sadar upazila and backed by the BNP,...
Fifteen people were injured and 12 houses vandalised in a clash between two rival groups at Bhawal village at Saltha upazila in Faridpur district on Sunday evening. Locals said there had been a longstanding dispute between Moka Haji group and...
At least 10 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in a clash between two rival groups of the ruling Awami League's student organisation at Dhaka College on Monday. Campus sources said two rival BCL groups engaged in a...
The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal of the Industries Ministry to form ‘Small, Micro and Cottage Industries Foundation’ to operate four completed projects under the BSCIC for facilitating new employments and skill development. The approval was given at the...
North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other’s waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said. The...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a man while he was trying to cross into India through Maheshkhali border of Jhenidah district. Twenty-four gold bars, 100 grams each, were said to be found on him. He had hidden...
Police rescued a madrasa student from Mandrachar Kusria village under Hijla upazila of Barisal district on Sunday, two days after his abduction from Dhulkhola Launch Terminal in the upazila. The victim is Nurunnabi,11, a student of Baitus Sajud Hafezi Madrasa...
Two children were crushed to death by a train at Adamdighi upazila in Bogra district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Tahmina, daughter of Rabbani, and Habib, son of Wahed, both residents of Sudin village in the upazila....
A local Awami League activist was killed at Kaliganj in Natore on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Abu Khan, 52, of Ramananda-Khazura union under Singra upazila of Natore. Sub-Inspector Osman Gani, in charge of Kaliganj police camp, said Abu...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has recommended a ‘double shift’ or ‘evening shift’ in the higher and lower courts to tackle growing number of pending cases. The committee will work on a...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Stocks edged marginally higher on Monday amid see saw trading throughout the session with turnover remaining sluggish as ongoing volatile market sentiment kept investors cautious. The market opened with a choppy trading. At the end of the session, the prime...
A Dhaka court has scrapped a libel petition filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on charges of "distorting the history of Liberation War" by saying that her husband Ziaur Rahman was "Bangladesh’s first President". Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Arefin issued...
Voting in 73 Upazila (UZ) Parishads in 34 districts came to a close at 4:00pm on Monday amid reports of various irregularities and election boycott by a number of chairman and vice chairman candidates, particularly by that of BNP loyalists....
A policeman on election duty died of cardiac arrest in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Asaduzzaman, 37, assistant sub-inspector of Ramganj police station. Police and locals said Asaduzzaman was on duty at Gopinathpur...
A day after Russia's Dhaka envoy 'thanked' Bangladesh for abstaining from voting on the UN General Assembly resolution on Crimea, the US ambassador in Bangladesh was found fuming. “I regret that Bangladesh was not able to join the majority on...
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