BOGRA, Mar 16 (UNB): The headmaster of a government primary school was killed as a bus hit him at Kagil on Bogra-Rangpur highway on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Azizar Rahman,45, the headmaster of Aman Mihar Government Primary School...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Mar 16 (BSS): Members of BGB recovered huge Indian fake currency notes of Rs. 17, 50, 000 from a house at House Nagar village under Shibganj upazila of the district this afternoon. According to concerned sources, a team of...
GOPALGANJ, Mar 16 (UNB): A man was killed and 19 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Tetulia village in Kashiani upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Bashar Shikdar, 50, a...
BENAPOLE, Mar 16 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three women along with smuggled Indian goods in Jamtala area in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Saturday night. The arrestees were identified as Shukjan Begum,50, wife of Anisur...
MAGURA, Mar 16, (UNB): Muggers snatched Tk 50,000 from a trader after stabbing him in Shalikha upazila on Saturday night. The victim was identified as Sumon, 22, son of Abdul Mazid of Harishpur village in the upazila. Police said a...
JOYPURHAT, Mar 16 (BSS): Farmers have completed transplantation of Boro seedlings on 97 percent targeted land in the district, officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said. "The cultivation target of Boro crop during this season is expected to...
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 16 (AFP): Malaysia said Sunday the number of countries searching for a missing airliner had nearly doubled to 25 as a full-scale criminal probe into its disappearance got under way, with particular scrutiny of the pilots. Transport...
BANGKOK, Mar 16 (AFP): A firebrand hardliner who was a core leader of Thailand's Red Shirts in the country's massive 2010 protests has been chosen to head the pro-government movement, saying Sunday that a "big fight" lay ahead. Former MP...
NEW DELHI, Mar 16 (AFP): India's opposition leader Narendra Modi, frontrunner to be the country's next prime minister after elections starting next month, will contest the polls from the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Modi's opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata...
N Korea fires 10 rockets into sea SEOUL, Mar 16: North Korea Sunday test-fired ten rockets into the sea, South Korea's defence ministry said, the latest in a series of launches that have provoked criticism from Seoul and Washington. The...
FE Report | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
Stocks ended lower for the third running session Sunday with turnover on the prime bourse dipped below Tk 3.0 billion-mark once again as investors remained reluctant to make fresh investments. Meanwhile, trading on both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) has issued a rule as to why two sections of the Exchanges Demutualisation Act, 2013 shall not be declared illegal, officials said. The court has issued the rule following a writ petition filed by a member...
Judge joins BSEC The judge appointed for the special tribunal formed for quick disposal of the capital market related cases joined the securities regulator Sunday, officials said. On the day Humayun Kabir Manik, who was the district judge of Mymensingh,...
HONG KONG, Mar 16 (Reuters): Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has decided to hold its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) in the United States and is in discussions with six banks to underwrite the deal, in what is...
FE Report | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
Cambodian farmers are expected to use farming software of Bangladesh to increase their productivity. Already, the department concerned of the Cambodian government has expressed their interest to import software from Bangladesh, sources said. As a result, the Bangladeshi software firm...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
Russia's recent intervention in Ukraine has been denounced by the United States Administration as a 'brazen act of aggression'. Both Washington and its allies have come forward to show their support for the embattled leadership in Kiev. Moscow has been...
Jahangir Bin Alam concluding his two-part article titled \'Need for promoting green business in Bangladesh\' | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
The challenges to creating decent work and increasing social inclusion in environmentally sustainable development can be grouped in three areas: (1) economic restructuring; (2) climate change and its threat to jobs and livelihoods and (3) adverse income distribution effects originating...
Protection of consumer rights is more a misnomer than any exercise of substance in a country where it is a predominantly sellers' market. This holds true, even if the case of potato farmers who as growers and sellers have been...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
It took a decade or more to get the law called the Consumers Rights Protection Act passed in the year 2009. Successive governments had spent time, deliberately or otherwise, in drafting and redrafting the act again and again. The government...
Neil Ray | 2014-03-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh is not particularly known for making breakthroughs in areas of science, technology and medicine. Satyendra Nath Bose, who developed way back in the 1920's with Einstein Bose-Einstein statistics, theorising the characteristics of elementary particles and after whom one of...
Violence marked the third phase of upazila election and it marred the whole atmosphere. Three valuable lives were lost in this mayhem, including a polling agent. The whole election was full of disorder and chaos and the Election Commission (EC)...
The Boeing 777-200ER flight of Malaysian Airlines, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is lost without leaving any clue. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members went missing for more than seven days. Ships from countries closest to its...
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