A high-level Bangladesh delegation is expected to visit Saudi Arabia soon to explore business opportunities between the two countries, reports UNB. Bangladesh Consulate in Jeddah has already started working to establish channels of communication between the trading communities in the...
Monira Munni | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
About 65 per cent of workers say they would prefer to work on lower floor, 30 per cent workers think their factories are highly risky in case of fire while 47 per cent opined they cannot leave the building quickly...
FE Report | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
Use of plastic bags as packaging material for iodized salts for human consumption causes higher loss of iodine by 82 per cent, a study revealed. It recommends a ban on the use of plastic bags for storage and transport of...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
The government has taken steps to promptly import key essential items from India under a government to government (G2G) arrangement to help ease their prices in the local market, official sources said. Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is going to...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has deferred its Monday's nationwide daylong hartal to Thursday due to the second phase of Biswa Ijtema and Saraswati Puja, reports UNB. The Islamist party, however, will stage 'peaceful' demonstrations across the country on Monday protesting what the...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is keen on stimulating the secondary bond market during the remaining months of the current fiscal year as a strategy to strengthen domestic debt market. It also wants to issue an Islamic bond of three months'...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Saturday the trial of the war criminals and butchers of 1971 is the beginning of a new historic process of cleansing the society of stigma of the documented atrocities on a nation, reports BSS. "There...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
The much-awaited peace talks on the complex Syrian tangle ended in Geneva without making any headway. But what has emerged as a positive development from the discussions is the need for continuing the parleys. Both the government and rebel sides...
FE Report | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
Political analysts at an international conference Saturday underscored the need for an immediate initiative for evolving a permanent system that would ensure fair and participatory national polls. They also made some proposals that might help achieve the goals of good...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has planned to set a borrowing limit on all types of Bangladesh's foreign loans, which, economists and government officials feared, would cost the country's independence in taking external aid. Government officials said the global financial...
GAZIPUR, Feb 1 (UNB): The second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the 2nd largest Muslim congregation after holy Hajj, ends Sunday with the Akheri Munajat (ending prayers) to be joined by millions of people. Noted policymaker of Tablig Jamaat Maulana Jubayer...
FE Report | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus emphasised the need for bringing the human identity back to business. "The business should be something that will not do harm to people, will not do harm to planet, will not exploit people,...
NAOGAON, Feb 1: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members picked up two Bangladeshi nationals from Kolmudanga border in Sapahar Upazila on Saturday morning. The victims were identified as Arif Hossain, 25, son of Daud Ali and Humayun Ahmed, 27, son...
Fire broke out in a soap factory at Kosaitoli under Bangshal police station in Old Dhaka on Saturday evening. Fire Brigade headquarters sources said the fire broke out in the factory at about 5:55 pm. Nine fire fighting units went...
MUMBAI, Feb 1: India's financial capital unveiled its first monorail system on Saturday, a much-delayed project that aims to boost the city's creaking transport infrastructure and ease traffic on its notoriously congested roads. The first phase of the transit system,...
The 2nd phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after holy Hajj, ends today (Sunday) with the Akheri Munajat (ending prayers) to be joined by millions of people. Noted policymaker of Tablig Jamaat Maulana Jubayer Al-Hasan from India...
Miscreants tortured a young man to death after feeding him drugs in Satmatha area in Rangpur divisional headquarters on Saturday. Local people found the body lying under Angur Mia’s bridge over Shyamsunduri canal and informed police. The body had multiple...
Unease over emerging markets dominated a busy week of economic and corporate news, pushing US stocks lower for a second week in a row and resulting in losses for January. The declines were not as deep as last week's, but...
Six Muslim devotees were killed and seven others injured in a fatal road accident on their way to Biswa Ijtema in Tongi town of Gazipur district from Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district on Saturday night. The accident took place in...
The United Nations has said it estimates 3.7 million people are in acute need of food in South Sudan as a result of the civil conflict there. The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan Toby Lanzer said $ 1.3 billion...
Four convicts, including Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami and former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar, of Chittagong arms haul cases were taken to Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur and Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday evening. A microbus carrying Nizami,...
Assailants have hacked to death a young man in Chittagong’s Khulshi, police say. The victim has been identified as Mohammad Selim, 35, a resident of Ambagan area in Chittagong city. Doctors at the Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) declared...
Polls opened on Sunday for tense elections in Thailand with opposition demonstrators preventing voting in parts of the country, a day after a gunfight between rival protesters in Bangkok raised fears of more violence. The snap poll was called by...
This year's Biswa Ijtema has ended with the Akheri Munajat (final prayers) seeking world peace. Hundreds of thousands of devotees reached Tongi town in Gazipur district to attend the Akheri Munajat. It is the second biggest Muslim congregation in the...
A US judge has approved an $ 8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America and a group of investors for losses on dodgy mortgage-backed securities whose collapse triggered the 2008 financial crisis. Justice Barbara Kapnick of the New York State...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
Share price at the country’s both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. The DSE benchmark index, DSEX...
A man was strangulated to death allegedly over his wife’s extra-marital affair at Chalisia village in Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Selim Sheikh, 40, a resident of the village. Molla Khabiruddin, officer-in-charge of...
The Appellate Division has upheld the bail to four top BNP leaders, including its Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed. Besides, the apex court disposed the state appeal against the High Court order that granted bail to them. A five-member...
A student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) was injured in a road accident at Palashi near the campus in the city on Sunday morning. The decased was identified as Anita Tasnim, 22, a third year student of...
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