FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Foreign aid commitments plunged 41 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal as development partners pledged funding US$ 1.29 billion less than that of the corresponding period of last fiscal, officials said Wednesday. Economic Relations Division...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
The securities regulator differs with the central bank's verbal instruction regarding submission of day-to-day stock purchasing information by subsidiary firms of all banks to the Bangladesh Bank (BB), officials said Wednesday. On the other hand, the central bank says that...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh will be deprived of foreign investment if economic zones (EZs) are not set up; and without investment, requisite job creation and income generation for Bangladesh will not be possible. This was, as reported in the media, was stated by...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her optimism on Wednesday that the GDP growth in the current fiscal year would hit 6.5 per cent and even more although the World Bank apprehended that it might come down to 5.7 per cent...
Monira Munni | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Doubts cropped up about recruitment of additional 200 inspectors for the local apparel sector by the March deadline as part of the government's efforts to meet one key requirement before getting the GSP facility restored in the US market, sources...
A week after the first phase polls in 97 upazilas, the residents of 115 upazilas parishads of the country's 52 districts are going to vote today (Thursday) to pick their long list of representatives to upazila parishads in the second...
Newly appointed minister AH Mahmud Ali was given the portfolio of Foreign Ministry while state minister Md Nazrul Islam got Water Resources Ministry on Wednesday, reports UNB. Meanwhile, deputy minister for Water Resources Abdullah Al Islam Jacob was given the...
FE Report | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
The Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division stayed Wednesday the High Court (HC) judgment that declared a day before on Tuesday the posts of eight directors of Pubali Bank Ltd (PBL) 'vacant'. In response to a petition of the eight...
There was no insurance coverage for the money looted from a branch of the Sonali Bank in Kishoreganj last month, Finance Minister AMA Muhith told the parliament Wednesday, replying to a question from AKM Mayeedul Islam (Kurigram-3). Mr Muhith informed...
Customs men and police seized gold weighing 250 kg and foreign currencies worth Tk 2 billion (200 crore) at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) during the last one year. Customs and law enforcement agencies also arrested 45 people, including...
A week after the first phase polls in 97 upazilas, the residents of 115 upazila parishads (UZ) in 52 districts started casting their votes at 8am on Thursday to pick their long list of representatives to the UZs in the...
India's main opposition party is leading ruling Congress in the run-up to this year's national elections in the world's biggest democracy, a poll released on Wednesday says. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Narendra Modi, trounced Congress in recent state...
A police rifle has gone missing from a polling station in Magura’s Shalikha Upazila (UZ) before the voting in the second phase of UZ polls started here on Thursday. Three constables have been suspended for the lapse at Shatakhali Union’s...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an alleged smuggler in possession of six gold bars weighing 60 tolas in Kolaroa upazila in Satkhira district on Wednesday. The arrestee was identified as Zakir Hossain, 27, son of Ramjan Ali, a...
A policeman, injured in a road accident in Jatrabari area in the city on February 19, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Wednesday afternoon. The dead is: Mokhlesur Rahman, a constable of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s traffic wing (Traffic-East)....
Syrian army troops on Wednesday killed 175 rebels, many of them al-Qaida-linked fighters, in an ambush described as one of the deadliest attacks by government forces against fighters near Damascus, Syria’s state media has claimed. An opposition group said the...
A policeman was among 10 people injured in polls-related violence in Jessore, Gopalganj and Meherpur districts on Wednesday. In Meherpur, at least five voters were bombed on their way to a polling centre in Gangni upazila in the morning. Locals...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
The prices of most shares on both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid modest volatility. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went...
At least three people were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Arang Ghata area in Khulna city Thursday. Identities of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately. Locals said the three unidentified people died in a...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)'s central committee has expelled three local leaders of Sunamganj for contesting the upazila election defying the party decision. The expelled leaders are Sunamganj district unit BNP vice-president Wakifur Rahman Gilman, Mollapara union unit BNP president...
Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in Jessore town on Wednesday evening. The arrestee was identified as Abdul Hannan, son of Abdul Aziz, a resident of Basundia village in Sadar upazila. He is the general...
NASA on Wednesday announced the discovery of 715 new planets, by far the biggest batch of planets ever unveiled at once. By way of comparison, about 1,000 planets total had been identified in our galaxy before Wednesday. Four of those...
Robbers looted gold ornaments, cash and valuable items worth Tk 1 million from a house at Patgati village in Tungipara upazila of Gopalganj district on Wednesday. Police said a gang of 7-8 armed robbers stormed the house of Rafiqul Alam...
A woman was slaughtered allegedly by her husband in Goainghat upazila in Sylhet district on Thursday. The victim was identified as Rasheda Begum, wife of Jamal Ahmad of Sultanpur village of the upazila. Rasheda was mother of three children. Police,...
A housemaid allegedly committed suicide at a house in Dhanmondi in the city on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Mina, daughter of Naryan of Jhaugachchha village under Motherganj police station in Jamalpur district. She was employed as a...
Supporters of two rival candidates backed by Awami League and BNP clashed in four polling stations in Munshiganj district during Thursday’s Upazila (UZ) elections. A local BNP leader and his son were injured in the series of clashes at Hossain...
Seven BNP-backed candidates boycotted their election in Sadar upazila of Barisal, Char Fasson and Burhanuddin upazilas of Bhola, and Faridganj upazila of Chandpur districts on Thursday on various allegations. In Barisal Sadar upazila, three candidates – BNP-supported chairman, vice-chairman and...
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