At least 24 people were killed on Friday as Yemeni troops and allied Islamists engaged in heavy fighting with Shiite rebels in the north, tribal sources said. The fighting, in which soldiers aided by fighters from the Islamist Al-Islah party,...
Although two years have elapsed since the bifurcation of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) into two administrative zones, north and south, it has failed to yield any tangible benefits for the city dwellers. According to experts and officials, the much-debated...
The BNP-Jamaat backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya (Blue Panel) swept the elections to the Dhaka Bar Association for the 2014-15 term by bagging 18 posts out of 25, including those of the President and General Secretary. The ruling Awami League-backed Sammilita...
Gunmen killed an Egyptian policeman on Friday as he rode his motorcycle across a bridge on the Nile in the city of Mansoura, north of Cairo, police said. Attacks on the security forces have surged since the army ousted Islamist...
China on Friday issued a report on human rights in the US, denouncing it for foreign drone strikes, state-sponsored spying and "rampant" gun crime after Washington criticised its rights record. Beijing said the US "concealed and avoided mentioning its own...
Thousands of people in the Philippines pledged Friday to donate kidneys and other body parts after death as part of a bid to set a world record for organ donations, the health ministry said. "If they meet an unfortunate accident...
Pakistan recorded five percent growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the central bank said Friday, beating its target and almost doubling the figure for the same period last year. The State Bank of Pakistan data for...
FE Report | 2014-02-28 00:00:00
Dhaka Journalist Housing Co-operative Society Ltd Joint Secretary Moazzem Hossain Chaudury died of cardiac arrest Friday morning at the National Heart Foundation in the city. He was 66. A valiant freedom fighter Mr Chaudury served the now-defunct The Bangladesh Observer...
India posted slightly lower-than-expected growth of 4.7 percent in the last quarter of 2013, data showed Friday, marking more bad news for the ruling Congress party ahead of looming elections. The 4.7 percent year-on-year expansion in the three months to...
Ukraine's ex-President Yanukovych has made his first public appearance since being ousted, telling a news conference in Russia he would fight for his country. Mr Yanukovych said he was "not overthrown", but was compelled to leave Ukraine after threats to...
Three Bangladeshis have been killed in a fire in the Bahraini capital Manama in the early hours of Friday, the foreign ministry has said. The fire broke out in a two-storey building around 2:38am, said the website of Bahrain’s Interior...
The US economy grew more slowly than previously thought in the 2013 fourth quarter, due to weaker consumer spending, official data released Friday showed. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product growth in the final quarter was at an annual...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Friday urged the members of Bangladesh Ain Samity (BAS) to play a more effective role to help implement the existing time-befitting laws so that people can be benefited through legal coverage. “Country’s development will...
At least 15 people, including 13 children, were killed when a bus carrying students on a trip to the seaside collided with a lorry in eastern Thailand Friday, police said. The smash is the latest in a series of deadly...
The World Bank Board has approved $ 600 million for Bangladesh to improve the country's “quality” of power supply in rural areas. The funds would be used in the Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution Project “to reduce system losses and...
At least nine people have been injured in a fire at the Jamuna oil depot in Chittagong. They have been admitted to the Chittagong Medical College and Hospital. The fire broke out at the depot of the state-owned oil refinery...
Hundreds of cigar aficionados from around the world have taken part in an unusual competition in Cuba - a contest to see who can create the longest unbroken cone of cigar ash. The event is part of the week long...
The BNP-Jamaat backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya (Blue Panel) swept the elections to the Dhaka Bar Association for the 2014-15 term by bagging 18 posts out of 25, including those of the President and General Secretary. The ruling Awami League-backed Sammilita...
COX’S BAZAR: As part of the second phase election, Maheskhali upazila is going to polls on Saturday. The voting will take place from 8am to 4pm without any break. A total of 25 candidates -– 10 chairman contenders, 11 vice-chairman...
JHALAKATI: Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said the present government will continue to work for the overall development of police. “The present government has given police the honour and increased their status. Work for the development of the force, including...
Israeli soldiers shot and wounded five Palestinians in clashes in the West Bank on Friday, medics said, after the funeral of a man killed during an army raid. Clashes broke out between stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli troops at the Atara...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the repressive acts against opposition leaders and activists by ‘Awami cadres’ during the staggered upazila elections came as part of the government’s deep-rooted conspiracy to annihilate its opponents. The BNP spokesperson...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the repressive acts against opposition leaders and activists by ‘Awami cadres’ during the staggered upazila elections came as part of the government’s deep-rooted conspiracy to annihilate its opponents. “The...
The BNP has maintained its lead over the Awami League in the Upazila Parishad (UZ) polls, finishing ahead in the second phase of the vote in a benchmark of its strong support base at the grassroots. After Thursday’s voting at...
Faruq Ahmad Siddiqi | 2014-02-28 00:00:00
Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges have successfully gone through major restructuring. Demutualisation of these exchanges was being talked about for quite some time. This is a global trend and Bangladesh could not have been out of it. The stock market...
Rajin Ahmed | 2014-02-28 00:00:00
Arbitration has become a requisite component supporting healthy international trade and commerce. The business community places trust in the arbitral process so that the whole trade system can be expanded in spite of the challenges across the borders. Arbitration is...
The current state of affairs about quality of both food and drug items reflects two sides of the same coin. The Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution (BSTI), according to reports published in last Friday's issue of this paper, fined two...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-02-28 00:00:00
The news should have hit headlines in most contemporaries but it did not quite do as much. Perhaps more interesting proved the crossing of $19 billion mark in the country's foreign exchange (forex) reserve, a good part of which came...
As another cycle of book publishers’ calendar completed with the fall of the curtain on the Ekushey Book Fair 2014 on Bangla Academy premises and at the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan Friday, bookworms thronged to the ‘capital of books’ not to...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-02-28 00:00:00
Information Technology is important in promoting faster and safer inter-connectivities among banks. The inherent challenges of IT along with its efficient role in banking services are also becoming vivid. All of us are well-informed of the government's vision of achieving...
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