FE Report | 2014-02-25 00:00:00
US Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia Atul Keshap said Bangladesh still needs to fulfill few more steps to regain the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility in the US market, suspended last year. "We will continue to maintain a...
TANGAIL, Feb 24 (UNB): A condemned convict of banned Islamist militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was killed in a 'gunfight' with police in Beltoil area of Mirzapur Upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Rakib Hasan alias Hafez Mahmud...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-25 00:00:00
A large quantity of illegally imported infusion sets has entered the local market posing a serious threat to public health. A section of importers have brought the infusion sets from China without approval of the authorities concerned, sources said. Nearly...
The remittance inflow to the country during the first 21 days of the current month showed an encouraging sign, totalling US$ 927.60 million till February 21. The remittance inflow last month (January) totalled $ 1,260.66 million, according to the latest...
220 Metre Gauge (MG) flat wagons will be added to Bangladesh Railway (BR) by May under Indian Line of Credit (LoC), as the state-run service facing wagons crisis, officials said Monday. "Of them some MG flat wagons will join our...
The fire which broke out at Chandni Chawk Market in the city on Monday night was doused early Tuesday. Seven fire-fighting units from Palashi, Lalmatia and Fire Brigade headquarters in Phulbaria tamed the blazé with the help of police and...
Unidentified miscreants exploded several crude bombs at a folk music programme in Jessore on Monday night. They also chopped to death a Baul (folk singer). The attack which also left two other Bauls injured took place around 11pm at Dumdia...
Asian markets rose on Tuesday, following a strong lead from Wall Street as investors await the release of key US data later in the week. Tokyo jumped 1.48 percent, Hong Kong added 0.32 percent, Sydney was flat, Shanghai gained 0.10...
A union parishad (UP) chairman was among four people injured by bullets in a gun and bomb attack by miscreants at Benapole town in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Monday night. The injured were identified as Lakhkhanpur Union Parishad...
Muggers snatched Tk 5.9 million from two officials of Bkash in Barisal city on Monday afternoon. Local people managed to capture one of the gangsters after a long chase. Locals said Manir and Ibrahim, two officials of Bikash, mobile banking...
A Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) protester has immolated himself in Guwahati a day before Rahul Gandhi’s visit in India’s north-eastern state of Assam. Pranab Boro (45), a daily wage earner at Garchuk in Guwahati, died of his injuries at...
BNP-backed candidate Nur Mohammad Mandal has been elected chairman in Pirganj Upazila Parishad elections in Rangpur district, a parliamentary constituency from where Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was elected in the national polls. The vote, in the first phase of local...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a drive recovered single firearms along with two rounds of bullet from a house at Sarsa upazila in Jessore district on Tuesday. 26 BGB commanding officer Lt Col Matiur Rahman said a patrol team...
The force has been renamed after the mutiny five years ago, but it will not be easy to wipe out its bloody memories. Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) has been reorganised as Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) – a process of re-christening initiated...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-25 00:00:00
The prices of most stocks on both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – saw positive trend in early hours of trading Tuesday, maintaining the previous session’s uptrend. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE...
At least 50 people, mostly passengers, were injured as a gas cylinder of a bus exploded in Palashbari upazila in Gaibandha district on Monday night. Locals said many passengers managed to get down from the CNG-run bus as soon as...
Jama'atul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) leader Rakib Hasan, alias Hafez Mahmud Russel, shot dead in a shootout on Monday, was buried at his family graveyard at Bangshi Bailtail under Melandaha upazila in Tangail on Tuesday. Police recaptured Rakib on Sunday five...
Two people, including a sub-inspector (SI) of police, were injured in a 'shootout' between cops and a gang of muggers in the city on Tuesday. The injured were identified as Abdul Hakim, an SI of Sutrapur Police Station and suspected...
All roads will lead to Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah in Narayanganj as curtain on the Asia Cup carousal will be raised there on Tuesday afternoon. Defending champions Pakistan and Sri Lanka will face off each other in...
A ma was killed in a road accident in Jatrabari area in the city on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Ranjan, 45, who used to live in a rickshaw garage in Dhobal area in the city. Sub-inspector (SI)...
A High Court (HC) bench has dismissed a writ petition filed in March last year seeking the court’s directives to hold a dialogue between Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and her political opponent and BNP Chairperson Begum...
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov has congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her reelection as Bangladesh’s Prime Minister. In his message to Sheikh Hasina, Akhmetov expressed his confidence in “great future” of relationship between Kazakhstan and Bangladesh in the...
Pakistan's military have launched air strikes against suspected militant hideouts in the north-west, killing at least 30 people, officials say. Fighter jets bombed targets in the North Waziristan tribal area on Tuesday, officials said. Fighting was also reported in South...
Opener Lahiru Thirimanne hit 102 off 110 balls as Sri Lanka piled up 296-6 after electing to bat in the opening match of the Asia Cup one-day tournament against Pakistan in Fatullah on Tuesday. The left-hander's second one-day century led...
India's home minister has threatened to "stamp out" journalists who have been "trouble mongering" ahead of national polls due by May, underlining pressures on the media during a bitter election campaign. The comments by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, criticised by...
Eight persons have been sentenced to death for the murder of Awami League leader Hazi Md Alim. Alim, the commissioner for Dhaka’s Ward no. 62, was killed in 1996. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court...
An explosion and gunfire rang out near a sprawling anti-government protest site in the Thai capital early on Tuesday after the protesters' leader warned that government supporters were planning to bring armed militants to Bangkok. Weeks of unrest, in which...
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