FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
Indian police charged the high-profile editor of an investigative magazine Monday with sexually assaulting a female colleague in the elevator of a five-star hotel in the resort state of Goa. Police also said Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal tried to evade...
Department of Environment on Monday fined 42 dyeing and washing factories in Dhaka district Tk 1.26 crore for polluting the water of the Buriganga River. After a hearing at DoE’s Dhaka headquarters, its director (monitoring and enforcement) Mohammad Alamgir fined...
Sri Lanka were bundled out for 180 runs in the first ODI of the three-match series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday. The visiting team were all-out in 40 overs of the match that was curtailed to...
In the wake of al-Qaeda’s reported threat to Bangladesh, the government plans to strengthen the security of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “We’re specially considering about further beefing up the security of the Prime Minister,” said her security adviser Maj Gen...
Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz warned that tough actions will be taken against election officials in case of any negligence during the upazila polls. He came up with the warning while talking to reporters at the EC Secretariat ahead of...
Robbers kidnapped 40 fishermen along with 10 trawlers at Katka in the Sundarbans under Sharankhola upazila of the district on Monday. Coast Guard of Mongla zone operation division staff officer Lt Commander M Mohiuddin Majumder said gang members belonging to...
State-owned Petrobangla has signed a deal with Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for the hydrocarbon exploration and extraction of oil and gas in shallow-water Blocks 4 and 9 of the Bay of Bengal. ONGC is the first...
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2014 will begin across the country from April 3 due to the ongoing Upazila Parishad elections. The examinations were deferred by two days at a request from the Election Commission because...
The government has a plan to increase the number of railway police, Railways Minister Md Mazibul Hoque told the Parliament on Monday. “A proposal has been sent in this regard to the home ministry, which is under active consideration of...
A Tk 11 billion compensation suit was filed Monday against seven people, including Jamuna Group chairman Nurul Islam Babul, on charge of publishing ‘false’ reports in his newspaper the Daily Jugantor against East-West Properties Development Ltd. Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, chairman...
Grameenphone (GP) has recently signed an agreement with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to provide them with complete communication solutions under its business solutions package. Commander BN M Shahed Karim, Director, Communication & MIS Wing, Rab HQ and Mahmud Hossain, chief...
A process is on to procure 100 more double-decker and 50 articulated buses for state-owned BRTC under the Indian Line of Dollar Credit to reduce the traffic congestion in Dhaka. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader Monday stated this in Parliament replying...
A process is on to procure 100 more double-decker and 50 articulated buses for state-owned BRTC under the Indian Line of Dollar Credit to reduce the traffic congestion in Dhaka. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday stated this in the...
The probes carried out by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) into the graft allegations against politicians and top officials of government are not eyewash, said ACC secretary M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury on Monday. “We’re probing the graft allegations. The ACC...
The High Court here on Monday granted six months bail to Swechchhasebak Dal general secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Sapu and Hefajat leader Mufti Abu Wakkas in separate cases. An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed...
NEW DELHI: India's embattled government said Monday it had lifted tens of millions out of poverty as it trumpeted its record in the last budget before elections it is widely tipped to lose. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram talked up his...
A court here on Monday sent six Jubo League men to jail in a case filed in connection with the killing of their fellowman Humayun Kabir Murad. Metropolitan Magistrate Ahmed Sayeed passed the order when they surrendered before his court...
Accusing the government of harassing its probable candidates, BNP on Monday threatened to boycott the upazila (UZ) polls in Khulna division. “The BNP-backed aspirants and key leaders are being harassed, repressed and arrested. Some senior party leaders are being put...
LONDON: European stocks markets advanced Monday, building on a recent recovery, while investors were increasingly warming to eurozone trouble spot Italy. In foreign exchange trading, the British pound struck the highest point against the dollar for more than four years....
After a long wait, the 35th sitting of the (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Saarc Foreign Ministers will be held in Male, the capital of the Maldives, on Thursday with a focus on regional connectivity and enhancing trade ties...
The first session of the 10th Parliament has been adjourned until 4:30 pm on February 25 (Tuesday). Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Mia made the adjournment announcement after Monday’s business, according to a news agency.
A new ‘American Corner’ will be inaugurated in Rajshahi on Tuesday linking a nationwide network of American Spaces in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Khulna and over 400 American Spaces around the world. The newest American Corner, established in partnership with...
Bangladesh lost their first ODI against Sri Lanka by 13 runs after suffering a middle-order collapse at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Monday. Sri Lanka, put in to bat first, folded up for 180 in the 43-over-per-side match. In reply,...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 16 (BSS): Gardening around homesteads in both summer and winter seasons in the region including its vast Barind tract has been gaining popularity with production of different fruits and vegetables. Marginal farmers and the poor people in the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Feb 16: Female labourers in Rangpur district are being deprived of equal rights as they get much less wage than their male counterparts for the same sort of work. A good number of women in the region work in...
Our Correspondent | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
PABNA, Feb 16: Over 3 hundred bigha cultivated land was washed away as the dyke of sugar mill waste pond collapsed in Dashuria of Ishwardi Upazila under the district Saturday. Agitated farmers besieged the Pabna Sugar Mill demanding compensation of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
CHUADANGA, Feb 16: Farmers of Chuadanga district are happy over a bumper production of turmeric and its price in the local market due to favourable weather condition this season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said, a total of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
JESSORE, Feb 16: Speakers at a roundtable said a number of people of the country going to India in search of better jobs are most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. They need to be conscious about the deadly disease AIDS. They also...
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