Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jan 30: A good number of extreme poor people especially landless farmers living along river basin are getting financially benefited by cultivating various crops on dried-up river-beds. Char people, small and marginal farmers in greater Rangpur region are becoming...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 30 (BSS): More than 33,000 slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of installation of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis. Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2300 tubewells installed in the slum...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Jan 30: Annual report of fiscal year (FY) 2012-13 of Jhenidah Palli Biddyut Samity recently showed loss of nearly Tk. 20 million in the sectors of distribution cost, customers' service, maintenance cost, administration and general expenditure and long term...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
JESSORE, Jan 30: clothes worth about Tk 12 million were seized by the task force and intelligence wing of customs department in separate raids from Benapole land port warehouse and Monirampur in Jessore on Wednesday. The intelligence wing of customs...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
CHUADANGA, Jan 30: A brick kiln labourer was gunned down and six others injured by unidentified extortionists in a brick kiln at village Kumary under Alamdanga Upazila of the district Thursday night at about 3:00am. The deceased was identified as...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 30 (BSS): A mobile court in the city fined seven pharmacies Tk 38,000 last night. The mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Ashraf Ahmed Russel conducted drives in different areas of the metropolis and found seven pharmacies guilty...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Jan 30: Harvesting of ginger is going on in Nilphamari district. This year the growers of ginger are sustaining huge losses as 80 per cent of the crop was destroyed due to virus and excessive rain. Sources said although...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 30 (BSS): A college teacher was killed on the spot in a road accident in Soipara area on Rajshahi-Naogaon Highway under Mohanpur Upazila of the district this morning. The deceased was identified as Shamsher Ali, 40, a teacher...
FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has hailed a verdict of the High Court (HC), declaring illegal and unconstitutional the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) (amendment) Act 2013 that curtailed the power of the ACC to sue government officials. Local chapter...
Terming killings in crossfire militant acts, BNP Thursday called upon the government to uphold the constitution and the rule of law by stopping extrajudicial killing, reports UNB. "The government has to decide whether it'll keep the judiciary and the Supreme...
A leader of Jessore unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, was reportedly abducted from Topkhana Road area of the capital Wednesday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Foysal Khan, vice-president of the JCD district unit....
FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday sued Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu, mother-in-law of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for failing to submit her wealth statement. The ACC approved the case on Tuesday. Deputy Director of the Commission RK Majumder filed the...
Voicing deep concern over the recent spate of reported extrajudicial killings, President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury Thursday urged the government to take prompt action against it, reports UNB. In a statement, the former president said, "The...
FENI, Jan 30 (UNB): A local leader of Jubo Dal was killed in a gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Laskar Taluk in Sadar Upazila Thursday. The deceased was identified as Golam Sarwar (32), vice-president of...
FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The government is yet to take steps to enforce the law prohibiting smoking in public places exposing the people to health hazards. In a bid to protect children, women and non-smokers from the deadly impacts of passive smoking, the government...
Khairul Islam | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has said the National University largely failed to impart desired quality education, putting the total higher education sector into a serious question mark as the university covers majority of the country's tertiary education. The National...
FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader directed the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) Thursday to make its bus leaseholders accountable by punishing or awarding according to their deeds. "Punish those who are engaged in derogating the BRTC's image through corruption, illegal work,...
Munima Sultana | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The Singapore government has found minor involvement of only one Bangladeshi worker in the country's worse ever riot on December 8 last. Sources said no Bangladeshi worker was among the 25 persons, charged in the Singapore court for their direct...
Women rally at Shaheed Minar Feb 1 President of Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote Tarana Halim in a statement Thursday called on all irrespective of religion, caste and creed to be united to stop political violence on women and urged them to...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Friday), reports UNB. Moderate to thick fog may occur over Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and the river basins and light to moderate fog elsewhere...
FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) submitted a 15-point proposal Thursday to the securities regulator for development of the capital market. The newly-elected BMBA executive committee led by its president Tanjil Chowdhury submitted the proposal, when they met Bangladesh Securities and...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The Finance Ministry has issued a circular seeking a list of loan defaulting candidates for the upcoming fourth upazila parishad election, official sources said. The Bank and Financial Institutions Division (BFID) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) sent a circular...
Monira Munni | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Official inspection teams have filed cases against 1683 factories and establishments, including 392 garment units, across the country for doing business without valid approval and adequate safety measures, people involved with the inspection process said. From January to December 2013,...
FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed said Thursday Bangladesh will get rid of poverty within the next 20 years. "By this time, we will also become the citizens of a middle-income country." He said these at the monthly luncheon of the Foreign...
Syful Islam | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh has taken a move to procure two vessels from Russia under Government-to-Government (G-to-G) arrangement to enrich the fleet of the state shipping corporation, sources said. A similar move to buy six other vessels for Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) from...
There has been yet another debate in the British parliament on the January 5 national election in Bangladesh, reports bdnews24.com. In the debate at the House of Commons Wednesday, one of the ministers said Britain should help Bangladesh work towards...
The FE expresses its regret for some 'unprofessional' comments/ observations/references, made by Mamun Rashid in his column, 'thinking loud', that appeared on page 8 of this paper in its issue on January 30, 2014. Those comments/observations/references, by the aforementioned writer,...
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