Jasim Khan | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
Absence of regular pressure check, rise in the number of unauthorised conversion workshops and the use of substandard and faulty CNG cylinders are endangering the lives of both commuters and drivers. As per rules of the Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company...
Bangladesh's seed industry is set to explore the global market under an initiative of the world's leading agro-science company Syngenta, reports BSS. The Switzerland-based company, which has been operating in 90 countries including Bangladesh with more than 28,000 employees, is...
Liberation War Affairs Ministry will send a proposal to the Prime Minister for giving VIP status to all freedom fighters (FFs) of the country, reports UNB. Liberation War Affairs Minister A K M Mozammel Huq Sunday said this in Parliament,...
FE Report | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
Another brand new Boeing aircraft named 'Ranga Prabhat' has joined the Biman Bangladesh Airlines fleet. The Boeing 777-300ER, the fourth aircraft of this kind acquired by the national flag carrier, reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Sunday afternoon, sources said....
Chittagong Office | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Mar 23: A seminar here today identified several areas of money laundering and terror financing in Bangladesh. Major areas, according to findings revealed at the seminar, are Chittagong seaport, Dhaka and Chittagong airports, Custom Houses, government offices, management of...
FE Report | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
A total of 31 candidates were elected unofficially as per unofficial election results available from different districts till filing this report at 10:00 pm, as vote count was continuing after the fourth phase of upazila election held across the country...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
Recruitment in the country's readymade garment (RMG) industry, the largest job providing organised sector, has declined significantly in recent times mainly due to the fall in export orders and the hike in wages, sector insiders said. According data available with...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
An inordinate delay in awarding river training work (RTW) for the planned Padma Bridge has posed a fresh threat to protection of river banks along the country's longest bridge. Sources said the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA), the implementing agency of...
FE Report | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will hold pre-budget meetings with all business associations and trade bodies from April 1 to prepare the participatory budget proposals for the fiscal year 2014-15. A total of 18 meetings will be held until...
FE Report | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
The first-ever foreign managing director (MD) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines - Kevin Steele - has submitted his resignation letter, showing medical ground just a year after resuming the office. Mr Steele submitted his resignation letter to Biman board of directors...
PERTH, March 23 (AFP): The sighting of a wooden pallet and other debris that may be linked to a Malaysian passenger jet raised hopes Sunday of a breakthrough in the international search for the missing plane. The sense that the...
South Africa, who play New Zealand in the first match of the day today (Monday) at 3.30 pm at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, are not a team accustomed to taking the opposition lightly. For years now, South Africa...
The High Court (HC) granted Sunday bail for six months to Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana in a case filed by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) under the Building Construction Act. However, the Jubo League leader has to remain behind the...
Narayanganj, Mar 23: Three people were killed and five others injured as railing of an under-construction floor of a readymade garment (RMG) factory building collapsed in Kuturail area in Fatulla of the city Saturday. The deceased were identified as Waizuddin,...
Bullet-riddled bodies of an Awami League (AL) leader of Kushtia district and an activist were recovered at Pangsha Upazila in Rajbari district on Monday. The dead are KM Mohabbat Hossain Dulal, 52. Both hailed from Shamspur village of Khoksa of...
BNP has alleged that the ruling party men captured most polling stations and stuffed the ballot boxes with fake votes in 46 upazilas out 91 during the 4th phase of the local government elections. “As per the information we’ve gathered,...
The son of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee has been elected chairman in a Pirojpur Upazila. Backed by the Jamaat-e-Islami and the BNP-led 19-party alliance, Masud Sayedee won the polls at Zianagar Upazila (UZ) bagging 21,077 votes. His closest competitor...
The Awami League has got its nose ahead in the staggered Upazila Parishad elections after Sunday's fourth phase of voting. According to unofficial results from 87 out of 91 Upazilas (UZ), candidates backed by the ruling party won the chairman...
Barcelona blew the La Liga title race wide open when Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick in a 4-3 comeback win for the Spanish football league champions at 10-man Real Madrid in a thrilling El Clasico clash on Monday morning. The...
A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) arrived in Dhaka on Sunday night to discuss post-election scenario in Bangladesh and see the progress made in the readymade garment (RMG) industry after ‘Rana Plaza’ collapse at Savar in April last year....
Members of India's Border Security Force (BSF) shot to death a Bangladeshi national at a frontier village at Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Ahad Ali, 29, son of Ayub Ali Mandal of Kutubpur...
An open-house workshop on ‘India’s General Elections – 2014′ will be held in Dhaka city on Monday ahead of the 16th Lok Sabha (parliament) polls in India. Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre will host the workshop for media persons, specialists in...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-24 00:00:00
Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday amid choppy trading, the second trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the...
Japan and the US Navy have joined China in search for the missing Malaysian aero plane on Monday. The US Navy said on Monday it was sending a black box locator to an area of the southern Indian Ocean being...
A construction worker died as he reportedly fell off an under-construction building in Paribagh area in Shahbagh in the city on Sunday afternoon. The dead is Md Fayez, 20, a building construction worker and son of one Harun. Witnesses said...
The Election Commission (EC) was satisfied with the Sunday’s election to 91 upazila (UZ) parishads in 43 districts, though it said stray and unwarranted incidents of violence led to suspension of voting in 32 polling stations across the country. “Though...
Chandpur rail links were back on track after a 13-hour suspension following a derailment. The accident disrupted train services on several routes of the Chandpur-Chittagong, Chandpur-Comilla and Chandpur-Laksam sections. They resumed around 10am on Monday after the tracks were repaired,...
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