FE Online Report | 2014-02-24 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green Monday after previous session’s correction with turnover on the prime bourse crossed Tk 5.0 billion-mark as investors took position amid optimism. The market opened with a positive note and the positive trend continued till the...
A Rajshashi court has ordered 36 BNP activists to prison -- among them the city's mayor Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul and the party’s Joint Secretary General Mizanur Rahman Minu. They were charged in two cases over the killing of a policeman...
The dollar stood at 102.35 yen in afternoon trade in Asia, down from 102.49 yen in New York Friday. The euro was at $1.3765 and 140.89 yen, compared with $1.3734 and 141.00 yen. Oil prices rebounded in Asia owing to...
The Cabinet on Monday approved the proposal for cutting down and removing 498 Sal trees from the Reserved Natural Forest from Joydebpur to Mawa area to help implement the Joydebpur-Mymensingh Road Development Project. The approval came at the 7th regular...
China says it has formally sacked the former vice-minister of its public security office, Li Dongsheng. State media say Mr Li was placed under investigation for "serious disciplinary violations", usually a reference to corruption, in December. It comes amid a...
The Cabinet on Monday approved the proposal for cutting down and removing 498 Sal trees from the Reserved Natural Forest from Joydebpur to Mawa area to help implement the Joydebpur-Mymensingh Road Development Project. The approval came at the 7th regular...
Egypt's military-backed interim government has resigned, Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi has announced. Mr Beblawi gave no reason for the decision in his televised statement. The state-run al-Ahram newspaper, citing unnamed sources, reported that outgoing Housing Minister Ibrahim Mihlib was expected...
Terming the snatching of three militants from a prison van as government’s massive failure, BNP on Monday alleged that the killing of one of the militants in ‘crossfire’ is an attempt to hush up the entire incident. “Convicted militant Rakib...
The remittance inflow to the country during the first 21 days of the current month showed an encouraging sign, totaling US$927.60 million till February 21. The remittance inflow last month (January) totaled $1,260.66 million, according to the latest data provided...
Campaigners are urging all 27 clothing brands linked to a collapsed Bangladeshi factory that killed more than 1,100 people to pay into a compensation fund by the anniversary of the disaster in April. The disaster has galvanized most of the...
Former Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque on Monday apologised to all Awami League leaders and activists and physicians for submitting his affidavit to the Election Commission with wrong wealth information before the 10th general election. “I carelessly and unexpectedly...
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran on Monday stressed diverting the trade between Bangladesh and India from roads to waterways, railways and coastal ports. “We know we should decongest the Petrapole-Benapole trading post by diverting the trade to other...
The nation will recall on Tuesday the horrendous carnage at Pilkhana BDR headquarters in the capital where 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in 2009. Relatives of the martyrs, government high-ups, and Border Guard Bangladesh and army officials...
Students of Government Titumir College went on a rampage at BRAC University in Dhaka’s Mohakhali on Monday, damaging at least two vehicles. BRAC University students took to the street protesting the attack, halting traffic on one of Dhaka's busiest streets...
Two illegal ship-breaking yards, causing considerable damage to coastal forests at Sitakunda Upazila in Chittagong, are finally being cleared. Assistant Commissioner (Land) Abdullah Al Mamun said they had begun evicting SK Steel and SK Ship Breaker Monday in keeping with...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Monday said that stern action would be taken against the private universities if these fail to fulfill the conditions within the stipulated time set by the Education Ministry. “Stern action will be taken against the...
Gonoforum president and eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain Monday said extrajudicial killing is a crime against humanity. “I would like to state it clearly that extrajudicial killing is a crime against humanity and a punishable offence,” he told a meeting...
The central bank has decided that shipping lines, airlines and multimodal transport operators licensed as freight forwarders by Customs authorities can open and maintain accounts in USD or other freely convertible currencies with Authorised Dealer banks in Bangladesh. In a...
Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz Monday said the second phase upazila election slated for February 27 will be more flawless. “We’re working to make the second phase elections more flawless using the first phase’s experiences,” he told reporters at his...
Jagannath University Teachers’ Association (JnUTA) has announced to continue their agitation programme on the university campus until the recovery of its Tibet Hall occupied by an Awami League leader. JnUTA President Sarkar Akkas Ali and university Proctor Ashok Kumar Saha...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Monday ordered the contracting firms to start the construction work of Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at Savar tannery industrial park within a week. “If there is any dilly-dally in implementing the order, the...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Monday ordered the contracting firms to start the construction work of Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at Savar tannery industrial park within a week. “If there is any dilly-dally in implementing the order, the responsible...
In a reshuffle in the judiciary, 10 District and Sessions’ Judges and equivalent officials and six Joint District Judges and equivalent officials have been transferred. The Law Ministry issued a notification on Monday in this regard. The notification said the...
The Education Minister wants Jagannath University (JnU) dormitories cleared of ‘illegal occupants’. Much of the buildings is currently held by MPs, police and influential Awami League leaders. In the backdrop of the movement of the university’s students for the recovery...
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Monday doubted that the government might have staged a ‘mysterious drama’ over the militant issue ahead of the upazila elections. “The incident of militant snatching seems very mysterious just before the upazila elections....
Authorities on Monday evicted two illegal shipyards, built by destroying coastal forests, at Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong district. Talking to UNB, deputy commissioner (land) Abdullah Al Mamun said they removed the illegal establishments as per a Supreme Court order that...
The five-nation Asia Cup Cricket begins in Dhaka Tuesday with defending champions Pakistan taking on Sri Lanka in the opening match at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah. The 50 over-a-side day-night will start at 2 pm. The other...
LONDON: European stock markets diverged Monday as investors reacted to a weekend meeting of the world's 20 major economies, eurozone data as well as the unrest in Ukraine. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 0.30 per cent to stand at...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government has launched a crackdown on opposition leaders and activists to manipulate the upazila polls. In a statement, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said...
Security has been beefed up across the country on Monday a day after gunmen ambushed a police van freeing three convicted militants on way to a court in Mymensingh and leaving one policeman killed. One of the militants was killed...
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