Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive in Bhaluka upzila on Thursday night arrested two people suspecting their link to snatching of three convicted JMB leaders attacking a prison van in Trishal upazila of the district last month. Detectives...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad arrives here on Saturday to attend the second convocation of the University of Information, Technology and Sciences (UITS) to be held here on the same day. Dr Mahathir is scheduled to arrive...
The BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad (JAOP) swept the Supreme Court Bar Association elections against the ruling Awami League-supported Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad (SASP). JAOP bagged 13 posts, out of 14, including the posts of the president and the general...
The International Monetary Fund has said it was ready to launch aid negotiations with Ukraine. “The IMF fact-finding mission working in Kiev since March 4 has made good progress in assessing the situation,” IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said in...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has submitted a charge-sheet against nine people, including former director of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH), on charge of misappropriating public money amounting to Tk 3.25 crore. Deputy director of ACC district office Nazrul Islam...
Police have rescued two HSC examinees from Khulna, three days after their abduction from Gournadi upazila of Barisal district. The victims were identified as Kazi Shahriar Anik and Sohag Khan, of Mahisha village in Gournadi upazila. Family sources said the...
Moscow stocks plunged 5 percent on Friday as jittery investors dumped their holdings ahead of a referendum in Crimea over its bid to break away from Ukraine, a central European country, and join Russia. The Russian capital’s two main indices...
A fire that broke out in a factory at Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) in the port city on Friday morning has been doused. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short circuit in the factory of...
The gap between commitment and disbursement of foreign aid to Bangladesh by development partners is gradually widening as it reached $21,737.517 million till last fiscal year (2012-13) since 1971-72 fiscal with the overall pipeline amount hitting $16.6 billion as of...
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq on Friday said the government will take steps to ban Jamaat-e-Islami by June this year for its involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. “The government is thinking of...
General Moeen U Ahmed, widely believed to be one of the architects of the January 1, 2007 emergency, has left the US for the first time after he was granted permanent citizenship there. He left for Saudi Arabia on Thursday...
Muggers shot the caretaker of a house to death and took away his motorcycle at Mirpur in the capital early Friday. The deceased, identified as Saidur Rahman, 34, son of late Mekabbar, hailed from Nurandi village in Sadar upazila of...
Bangladesh defeated Ireland by 44 runs in their second and last warm-up ahead of the World Twenty20. The hosts put up a decent effort in all aspects of the game after a while to beat Ireland comprehensively on Friday. Bangladesh,...
Despite serious efforts by the government to reclaim grabbed lands of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) from illegal occupants across the country, the progress in many cases is very slow as officials concerned cannot go against influential people reportedly...
President Abdul Hamid called upon people from all walks of life to actively cooperate with the government in a bid to ensure country’s overall development. “Development is an ongoing process. The government’s responsibility is to ensure a development-friendly environment, including...
Apprehending manipulation in the third phase of upazila polls set to be held Saturday, BNP Friday threatened to lay a siege to the Election Commission (EC) in case of any vote fraud. “We together with people will lay a siege...
Prices of vegetables, including those of onion, garlic and potato, have risen in retail markets in capital Dhaka. Vendors said a drop in their supply had led to the price rise at the end of the winter season, according to...
India's navy said Friday it has nearly doubled the number of ships and planes deployed to search the Andaman Sea for a missing Malaysian jet which disappeared with 239 people on board. Naval authorities also said Malaysia had asked India...
National Committee to Protect Oil and Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports will hold an demonstration on Mar 24 to protest the recent hike in power prices. The citizen's platform Member Secretary Anu Mohammad on Friday said a rally would...
The West and Russia do not share a common view of the situation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday. "We have no common vision of the situation....
The eight-team qualifying round of the Asian Games Hockey begins in the city Saturday at the Maulana Bhasani National Stadium with Oman taking on Chinese Taipei in the opening match at 2:pm. Meanwhile, Finance Minister AMA Muhith will inaugurate the...
Although the power tariffs were raised by 6.96 per cent at the retail level to offset revenue loss, yet the government may have to provide subsidy of about Tk 60 billion in the current fiscal. According to official sources, the...
India former deputy consul general in the USA, now back in India, has been re-accused of visa fraud and exploitation of her maid. Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat, on Friday was re-indicted on US visa fraud charges that touched off...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith still sounded optimistic Wednesday about attaining the target of 7.2 per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP). "If the industrial production picks up and Aman as well as Boro harvests are satisfactory, the growth target...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The UAE-based firm DP World presented its multi-billion-dollar investment plan before the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister on Wednesday for building a deep-sea port in Bangladesh. The firm, as the reports say, has proposed to invest nearly US$3.0 to...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
All the three Chinese companies, the activities of which had been on hold, have finally agreed to complete the remaining assigned works involving two important highway development projects. It follows the intervention of the Chinese embassy in Dhaka. Sinohydro Corporation,...
FE Report | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to scrutinise tax payment by private and foreign television channels to ensure proper revenue collection from the sector. Besides, payment procedures of advertisement bills and possibilities of money laundering through broadcasting local...
The central bank in a circular asked all scheduled banks Wednesday to make timely payment against letters of credit (LC) bills. There has been allegation that some banks are making unusual delay in making payment against the LC bills which...
A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least three people, injuring more than 60 and leaving nine missing. A tenant said residents had complained repeatedly in recent weeks about “unbearable”...
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