Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
Connectivity with Myanmar by sea and road could help the country lessen its trade gap, stakeholders said. The important economic dimension of the two countries is to develop connectivity that will help the two nations reach their annual trade target....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
A web portal, launched by a young woman entrepreneur, to reduce unemployment has gained enormous responses among both local and foreign entrepreneurs across the country. The first-of-its-kind portal www.luckyideabd.com is providing technical and advocacy support to the people who are...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
The government's move to carry containers of export-import goods through waterways in and around the capital has not made any major headway over the last three years. Industry insiders and shipping experts have blamed issuance of operating licenses for container-carrying...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
The energy regulator is now weighing opinions of various stakeholders before announcing a hike in electricity tariff for consumers across the country, a top official said. "An upward adjustment of electricity tariff is necessary considering the increase in average electricity...
KUALA LUmPUR, Mar 8 (Reuters): A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and was presumed to have crashed. There were no...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
The political unrest in the south east Asian nation of Thailand appears to have receded in recent days, but concerns continue to rise over the duration of the government. The polling to the rest of the parliamentary constituencies, which were...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
The cargo handling at the Chittagong Port during the last couple of months ending February grew by more than 22 per cent over the corresponding period of 2013, port data have shown. Business circles said imports of raw materials for...
Monira Munni | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
The government's move to establish a garment palli (village) now hangs in the balance as manufacturers are not willing to bear the cost for acquisition of the required lands for the project, sources said. According to them, about Tk 8.0...
BOGRA, Mar 8 (UNB): Barely in one and a half months of similar incident in Kishoreganj, burglars in a filmy style have looted Tk 3.25 million from another branch of Sonali Bank in Bogra after digging a tunnel into its...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina alleged on Saturday that it was the male-dominated society that had tried to implement the much-talked-about 'minus-two' formula, excluding Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia from politics during the last caretaker government (2007-08), reports UNB. The...
Sri Lanka thumped Pakistan by five wickets in the final to lift the Asia Cup at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the city Saturday. Sri Lanka chased down a challenging 261-run target in 46.2 overs with opener Lahiru Thirimanne notching a...
The foreign ministry reconfirmed Saturday that no Bangladeshi was on board the missing Malaysian Airlines plane after the airlines authorities earlier gave a passengers' list containing no Bangladeshi. "Our high commissioner in Kuala Lumpur has informed us that there was...
Traffic movement at Mirpur (Section 10 to Section 12) in the city remained halted for one hour as the workers of a readymade garment (RMG) factory staged a demonstration over payment of their dues Saturday. Officer-in-Charge of Pallabi Police Station...
Amid sharp decline in Teesta water flow on Bangladesh side, Dhaka has urged Delhi to release adequate water for irrigation projects and maintain smooth river flow until the much-talked-about Teesta water sharing deal is signed. The request has been made...
Police on Saturday night recovered Tk 172,000 from the tunnel which the burglars dug to loot money from a Sonali Bank (SB) branch at Adamdighi upazila in Bogra district. Manager of the bank branch Shamsuddin Sharif said the burglars abandoned...
Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 35 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup in Raiganj upazila in Sirajganj district on Saturday afternoon. The arrestee was identified as Abbas Ali, son of late Jendar Ali and a resident of Rambari...
Women candidates will start filing nominations for the 50 parliament seats reserved for them on Sunday. A single contestant for each of the seats has already been nominated by parties based on their strength in Parliament. Earlier on Jan 5,...
Bangladesh Mahila Awami League leader Nasima Ferdousi, who was critically injured in the 21 August, 2004, grenade attack on an Awami League rally, is one of the 39 candidates nominated by the party for the reserved seats for women in...
The search is continuing for a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 30 hours. Marine rescue teams worked through the night to search the sea south of Vietnam, while the aerial mission resumed on Sunday morning....
A group of leaders of newly-elected Taxes Bar Association met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night. The meeting was held at the BNP chief’s Gulshan political office around 9pm. The lawyers, led by Jatiyatabadi Tax Lawyers’ Forum’s chief adviser...
The Election Commission (EC) has been apparently playing a silent role over a huge number of allegations and objections filed by the candidates of the ongoing local government polls. The EC receives 15-20 applications every day over alleged violations of...
A 'turf war' between residents of two villages at Madaripur’s Kalkini Upazila has left one dead, police say. At least 15 others were injured in the clashes on Saturday evening at ‘Dakshin Akalborish’ village under the Banshgarni Union. Police say...
Vietnamese air force planes have spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing on Saturday, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed. The Vietnamese air force planes were part...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-09 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw positive trend while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday amid marginal volatility. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 14.19 points or...
Unknown assailants sprayed bullets on two UPDF men leaving one of them dead on the spot and another injured by bullets in Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Sudristi Chakma, 36, an activist of...
Iyad Ameen Madani, the Secretary General of the 57-nation OIC, has arrived in Dhaka city. Foreign ministry spokesman Md Shameem Ahsan said that Madani arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport on an Etihad flight at 7.40am on Sunday. Foreign...
A police constable died of cardiac arrest in Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj district on Saturday. The dead is Julfikar Ali, 54, son of late Lokman Hossain, a resident of Andhar Kota village under Sujanagar upazila in neighbouring Pabna district. Hasan...
Two upazila polls candidates have been fined in Burichang upazila of Comilla district for violating the electoral code of conduct. A mobile court, led by Executive Magistrate Rabeya Basri, slapped a fine of Tk 15,000 on an upazila chairman candidate...
Gold bars weighing over 3 kilograms (kg) have been seized at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport. Customs sources said customs officials recovered the gold bars from a passenger of a Malaysian Airlines flight around 12:10pm on Sunday. They said the...
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