Syful Islam | 2014-03-10 00:00:00
Concerned about the security of public money following burglaries in bank branches, the ministry of finance (MoF) has summoned the chief executives of state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs). The chief executives would have to appear before the MoF high-ups Monday (today)...
The status of government primary school headmasters has been upgraded to grade II from grade III, announced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday, reports UNB. "We've upgraded the status of headmasters of government primary schools to grade II from grade III,"...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-03-10 00:00:00
The Ukraine crisis has worried local food importers as it has sent jitters to the world's grain markets, leading food traders told the FE Sunday. Bangladesh mainly imports wheat, oil seed and yellow peas from Ukraine. It imports around 30...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has demanded an early election and warned the government of consequences if it did not do so, reports bdnews24.com "I tell the government that the people are eagerly waiting for the polls. You will have to...
After introducing various types of banking services for farmers, sharecroppers and some other underprivileged people, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has now extended its initiatives to bring street urchins and child workers under institutional financial support. The central bank directed Sunday all...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has extended the suspension of its circular relating to payment of a 0.5 per cent freight brokerage charge to Shippers Council of Bangladesh (SCB) by shipping firms/agents for six more months, following a High Court stay order...
Aspirants to fill the 50 parliamentary reserved seats for women will be elected uncontested as they have no rivals. This picture emerged on Sunday, the last day of the submission of the nomination papers, Election Commission official Mihir Sarwar Morshed...
Asian markets tumbled on Monday following a surprisingly poor batch of economic data out of China, while revised Japanese figures showed 2013 growth was slower than expected. The losses came after healthy gains on most bourses last week and despite...
Vietnamese aircraft spotted what they suspected was one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777 on Sunday, while questions emerged about how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports. Interpol confirmed it knew about the...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has issued its fresh ranking in which Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan ceded his number-two position for ODI all-rounders to Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews. In the new ranking published after the Asia Cup, the Bangladesh...
Malaysian authorities are seeing a possibility of the involvement of militants from China’s Muslim minority in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 airplane as it occurred just one week after knife-wielding assailants killed at least 29 people at a train...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has set a Tk 1 billion donation target to partly fund arrangements for the Twenty20 World Cup beginning on March 16. “I have held four meetings (for the donation) this year,” the Finance Minister has said....
A total of thirteen people have so far been detained after Saturday’s heist at a Sonali Bank branch at Bogra’s Adamdighi Upazila. The manager of the Sonali Bank Adamdighi branch was among the 13 people picked by police over the...
A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist, injured in Saturday’s clashes between supporters of two chairman aspirants at Sreepur upazila in Gazipur, has died in a Dhaka hospital, his relatives say. Al Amin, 25, was a member of Sreepur municipal BCL...
At least 35 godowns (storage) of jute and cotton mills were gutted by a devastating fire that broke out in Tongi Mill Gate area in the outskirts of Dhaka city on Monday morning. Aktaruzzaman, deputy director of Gazipur Fire Service...
A worker was killed and four other people injured when a goods-laden truck overturned at Dhaka’s Mohakhali on Monday. Police identified the victim as Abdur Rahman, 42, hailing from Rajshahi’s Putia Upazila. Sub-Inspector Shafiul Azam of Banani police station said...
Germany has criticised Russia over a planned Moscow-backed referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia. Germany’s Angela Merkel on Sunday night delivered a rebuke to President Vladimir Putin, telling him that was illegal and violated Ukraine’s constitution. Merkel also regretted...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-10 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the second trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 12.10 points...
A fire gutted at least nine shops at Dublia Bazaar at Sadar upazila in Pabna district on Sunday. Local sources said the fire originated at a shop in the morning and soon engulfed the other adjoining shops. On information, two...
Unidentified miscreants slaughtered a man and dumped his body at Sadhuhati village in in Jhenaidah Sadar Upazila sometimes between Sunday night and early Monday. The body of Abdul Aziz, 38, was found next to a corn field at Sadhuhati early...
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Northern California early on Monday at a relatively shallow depth of 4.3 miles, the US Geological Survey said in the morning. However, there was no report of injury or damage of property. The quake,...
Malaysia on Monday morning announced that there was no trace of wreckage from the passenger jet, over two days after it vanished somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam, with 239 people on board. The Malaysian announcement deepened the anguish of relatives...
A Japan Airlines (JAL)-operated Boeing 787 made an emergency landing at Honolulu Airport in Hawaii, USA, after oil pressure in its right engine dropped, the Japanese carrier has said. The two-engined jetliner en route to San Francisco, USA, from Tokyo,...
Bangladesh national women’s cricket team will take on Indian cricket team in the second T20 international of the three-match T20i series schedule to be held tomorrow (Tuesday) at the newly-build Sheikh Kamal International Stadium in Cox’s Bazar town. The match...
A knitting factory and at least 26 godowns (warehouses) of garments waste were burnt to ashes in a devastating fire in Tongi Bazar area in Gazipur last night. Station officer of Tongi Fire Service Station Jakir Hossain said the fire...
The High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of three accused in the journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case. An HC division bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the order upon hearing the bail petitions filed...
A court in Sylhet has sent 32 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to jail in two separate cases over violence turning down their bail petition. Senior judicial magistrate Abdul Quader passed the order of sending them to jail as the...
Asian markets tumbled on Monday following a surprisingly poor batch of economic data out of China, while revised Japanese figures showed 2013 growth was slower than expected. The losses came after healthy gains on most bourses last week and despite...
Israeli troops on Monday shot dead a Palestinian who allegedly attacked a soldier at the Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, a military spokeswoman said. Israeli officials initially said the Palestinian was wounded but he died shortly...
Irish fruit firm Fyffes and US rival Chiquita are to merge to create the world's largest banana company, worth about $1bn. The new firm, named ChiquitaFyffes, is expected to sell about 160 million boxes of bananas annually, more than any...
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