FE Report The government has selected 54 leading businessmen who will have the status of 'Commercially Important Person (CIP)' for their contribution to creating employment and the country's economic growth. The selected businessmen will be formally awarded CIP (Industry) 2013...
FE Report The China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPPB), a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, was seeking to install Bangladesh's first single point mooring (SPM) to carry petroleum from vessels at the outer anchorage to depots onshore, a...
FE Report Eminent economists of the country Friday suggested the industries to increase their investment in the research and development (R&D) activities and strive hard to reach the global technological standard. They also made a call to form an Endowment...
BNP's National Standing Committee has demanded that the government hand over power to a non-party dispensation to facilitate the prompt holding of a fresh national election, reports bdnews24.com. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a media release...
A child has been burnt to death in a fire that broke out at Mirerbagh in Dhaka's Moghbazar area on Saturday. The fire started around 8:15am at a rickshaw garage in Modhubagh, adjacent to Hatirjheel area, Fire Service official Mohammad...
Dhaka Power Distribution Company has suspended 10 of its staff as outage hit a function attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday.Four among them were executive engineers, Nazrul Hasan, Managing Director of the company, told bdnews24.com. A committee has...
Economic Editor of The Financial Express AZM Anas has won ERF-Robi Award along with three journalists in the annual competition of the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF). Finance Minister AMA Muhith handed over the prizes among the winners in a function...
An eight-hour-long hartal (shutdown), called for Saturday by the local unit BNP protesting the detention of its Sadar upazila (east) unit organising secretary M Omar Faruk, has been progressing in Lakshmipur district without major untoward incidents. The shutdown will remain...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Rajshahi on Saturday morning to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of a number of development projects and exchange views with the people injured in pre-and post-poll violence unleashed in different areas of the...
Bangladesh openers put on a good stand before falling in quick succession in their second innings of the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Saturday. The hosts were 89 for two wickets in the...
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel pushed back nine Bangladesh nationals into Bangladesh territory through Darshana border in Chuadanga district on Friday. They were identified as Khwaja Sheikh, 30, Dwin Islam, 40, Faruk Sheikh, 33, Nahid, 20, Mizan, 25, Salam,...
Two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Munshiganj district on Friday. A Dhaka-bound bus of 'Gangchil Paribahan' rammed into an auto-rickshaw at Chaltipara, in Sirajdikhan Upazila. The driver of the auto-rickshaw...
A septuagenarian man died from electrocution and four boys were injured at Begunbari in Gomostapur upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Emaz Uddin, 70, a resident of Karnakhali Mirzapur village in Shibganj upazila. Witnesses said...
A man was killed and 25 others were injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on the Bagerhat-Pirojpur Highway at Shibpur in Kachua upazila of Bagerhat on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Ilias Uddin Sheikh,35, son...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is determined to bring to book those who attacked the houses and temples of the members of minority communities during the national election. She expressed the resolve while delivering a speech on...
A burnt teen-ager has been fighting for life at a Joypurhat hospital after stalkers set her on fire at Chandipur village in Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur district on Friday. The victim is Jolly Akter, 18, daughter of Jahir Uddin of...
The ICC Board has approved the ‘controversial’ proposal of three powerful boards on cricket governance, competition and finances. The comprehensive resolution was approved at a meeting in Singapore on Saturday. An ICC press release said eight full Members including Bangladesh...
Mominul Haque made 71 as a defiant Bangladesh stymied Sri Lanka's push for victory on the final day of the second cricket Test at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Saturday. The Tigers were 204 for the loss of...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a drive seized Indian contraband items worth about Tk 30 million from Putkhali and Baro Achra borders at Benapole in Sharsha upazila of Jessore on Friday. The seized goods include 160 pieces of costly...
Police have found a decomposed headless corpse without arms and legs in a sack at Tangail municipality. Police have found a decomposed headless corpse without arms and legs in a sack at Tangail municipality. The body was found on Saturday...
Bangladesh-Sri Lanka second cricket Test match ended in a draw at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Saturday afternoon. Bangladesh, who scored 426 in their first innings, made 271 for three wickets in 84.4 overs in the second knock...
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations begin across the country on Sunday. This year, a total of 14,32,727 students under 10 educational boards, including one madrasa and one technical boards, will sit for the examinations from 27,489...
Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) AK Azad Chowdhury on Saturday said they are following a restrictive policy to approve subjects of arts and humanities in new universities. Observing that subjects like Philosophy, Sanskrit, Pali, Persian and Arabic don...
The government will sign a loan agreement with the World Bank on February 10 for the extension of the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) till 2018, said officials of the University Grant Commission of Bangladesh (UGC) here on Saturday....
Members of Border Security Force (BSF) of India picked up a Bangladeshi national from Jagdal border in Baliadangi upazila on Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Abdul Kader, 25, son of late Salimuddin of Ratandighi village of the upazila....
The Tokyo area was hit by a rare heavy snowfall Saturday, stalling trains, grounding flights, and blanketing roads and skyscrapers with snow. By mid-afternoon, around 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow had fallen. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first...
Sweden ranked number one among the world's 40 more largest economies in a new measure of economic growth and development complied by accountancy firm PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), local media reported Friday. Despite the global financial crisis, Sweden achieved a score of...
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