FE Online Report | 2014-01-29 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)-- witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Wednesday after two session correction. After first 30 minutes of trading, the...
Police recovered the body of a farmer from Char Amlab village in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi district on Wednesday. The dead is Nazim Uddin Sarkar, 25, son of Islam Uddin, of the village. Quoting family members of the deceased, Belabo...
At least 50 shops were gutted by a devastating fire that broke out at a market in Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh district on Wednesday morning. Abul Hossain, assistant director of Muktagachha fire service station, said the fire originated from a...
Speaker Shirin Charmin Chaudhury has taken her oath as the MP from Rangpur-6 in the 10th Parliament. Being the Speaker of the House, Chaudhury administered the oath by herself on Wednesday in Parliament. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was present during...
BNP leader Brigadier General (Retd) ASM Hannan Shah was released from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Wednesday morning. Hannan Shah secured bail from the High Court in five cases filed last year with Motijheel Police Station for killing a cop,...
Suspected mugger Javed, who sustained bullet injuries in firing by police in the city’s Pallabi area on January 24, succumbed to his wounds at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), popularly known as Pangu Hospital, on Tuesday night....
A young man was chopped to death by unidentified miscreants at Daskandi village in Harirampur upazila of Manikganj on Wednesday. The dead is Dewan Rubel, 30, son of late Dewan Rawshan Ali of the village and a resident of Jurain...
Police have pressed charges against eight people, including the chief of a radical organisation in Ganajagaran Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider killing case. Detective Branch Inspector Nibaran Chandra Barman submitted the chargesheet at the court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...
Admission test of honours first year for the academic session 2013-2014 in Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University will be held on Friday. The exams will begin at 3:30pm, according to a release of the SAU. It said some 0.25 marks will be...
Sri Lanka gave little away in yet another session in which they easily dominated with the bat, stretching their total to 512 for the loss of five wickets in 49.0 overs at the end of the first session in the...
A local leader of BNP was hacked to death by miscreants in the Ice Factory Road area under Sadarghat Police Station in Chittagong city on Wednesday. The dead is Jane Alam, 34, vice-president of Majhir Ghat (ward) unit of BNP...
At least 25 people were injured – five of them hit by bullets – in a series of clashes in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila on Wednesday. Thirteen-year-old ‘Sabuj’ was rushed to Dhaka city in a critical condition while the rest of...
Mystery shrouded the death of a college girl in the city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Lamiya Noor, 18, a 2nd year student of Dhaka City College. Daughter of Nur Mohammad, Lamiya was residing at 1/D Green Corner...
Former communist chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadev Bhattacharjee is reportedly at odds with his successor Mamata Banerjee over the Teesta River water sharing treaty with Bangladesh. Speaking to journalists after a CPI (M) state executive meeting in Kolkata, the...
Mahela Jayawardene smashed his 33rd Test century to steer Sri Lanka to a daunting 602-6 at tea on Wednesday, the third day of the first match against Bangladesh. The Test is being played at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at Mirpur in...
An indefinite work abstention programme, called by Class IV Employees Union of Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH), protesting the attack on some of their fellows by microbus drivers and brokers, is going on Wednesday. Sources at the RMCH said no...
Drone made by the students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) has successfully made its maiden flight. The remote-controlled plane, widely known as drone, has been made by the SUST students with local equipment. According to a private...
Police have recovered the body of an unidentified man from a road in front of a dormitory of Dhaka University (DU). The body was recovered around 10.30am on Wednesday, acting Proctor Amzad Ali said. The body of a man, aged...
BNP Chairperson’s adviser Mir Nasiruddin Ahmed was released from Chittagong central jail on Wednesday as he secured bail in all the cases he had been shown arrested. When Mir Naisr walked out of the jail around 1:45 pm, local BNP...
At least three people were killed when a bus rammed a human hauler at Dakshin Srirampur under Bagharpara upazila in Jessore on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Gafur, 15, son of Sirajul Islam, Rubel, 16, son of Abdul Majed...
Arvind Kejriwal has demanded an investigation by the Special Investigation Team into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. "I discussed it with the Lieutenant Governor and he is...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated two bench clerks (peshkars) in connection with the alleged accumulation of illegal wealth by former judge Motahar Hossain. ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid started quizzing peshkars Abul Kalam Azad of Speedy Trial...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-29 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green Wednesday after two sessions’ correction with turnover improved slightly as investors went for buying stocks once again amid optimism. The market opened with a positive note in the morning and the positive trend continued till...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said that the government would give an outline of its objectives for the next five years in the coming national budget for fiscal 2014-15. Decentralization of power and devolution of government would be the...
A day after the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) gave approval to file a graft case against her, Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu, mother-in-law of BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, on Wednesday sent an application through her lawyer urging the ACC...
Mahela Jayawardene hit a double century and Kithuruwan Vithanage smashed a maiden century to help Sri Lanka declare their first innings at 730-6 on the third day of the first test against Bangladesh. This was the highest score by any...
Begum Fazilatunnesa, Bangladesh Mohila Awami League adviser and chairman of Gopalganj Jatiya Mohila Sangstha, died on Wednesday afternoon. She was 70. Fazilatunnesa, who had been suffering from old-age complications, breathed her last at Moksedpur in Gopalganj on her way to...
German Ambassador in Dhaka Albrecht Conze on Wednesday said disasters will always occur but their amplitude can often be reduced by quick reaction with sound preparedness. The German diplomat made the remark at a press conference here where the returnees...
Citizens in Bangladesh on Wednesday voiced concern over the government move to lift the ban on hilsa export, claiming it will shoot up the price in the local market. Addressing a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club,...
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