The BNP that boycotted the January 5 national election is all set to hold its scheduled mass rally in the city on Monday in an effort to stage a big showdown, reports UNB. As part of its countrywide programme and...
Terming the January 5 national election unique, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday the country for the first time saw an elected government handing over power to another elected one, reports UNB. "We've been able to continue the democratic...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, January 19: In a move to lessen importers' woes the NBR (National Board of Revenue) has halved the rate of physical examination of consignments at the Chittagong Customs House (CCH) to 20 per cent on an average from 40-50...
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra congratulated her Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina Sunday on her reappointment as the premier after the January 5 elections. "Prime Minister of the kingdom of Thailand H.E. Yingluck Shinawatra Congratulates newly elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed banks not to show interests kept in suspence accounts as earning of the banks during rescheduling of classified loans. The BB issued a circular Sunday in this connection asking banks to strictly follow the...
Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has decided to operate special bus services for the Bishwa Ijtema this year. BRTC will operate special bus services from January 21 to February 3 for carrying devotees of the Bishwa Ijtema. The BRTC would...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered 102 crude bombs from Chowdhury Crossing (intersection) in Chapainawabganj town on early Monday. One of Rab-5 senior officers, wishing anonymity, said a team of the elite force conducted a drive at an old...
Asian markets were mixed on Monday, following a broadly negative lead from Wall Street, while investors await the release of China's annual economic growth figures later in the day. Japanese game giant Nintendo lost almost a fifth of its value...
A devastating fire broke out at a market in Maijdee Court area of Noakhali town on Monday morning burning down its 50 shops. Two firefighters were injured in the fire which originated from an unknown source at Maijdee Hawkers’ Market...
Meherpur Jamaat-e-Islami leader Tarique Mohammad Saiful Islam was killed in a gunfight with police in Meherpur on Monday. Local sources said Tarique Mohammad, 35, assistant secretary general of the district unit Jamaat, was shot dead during in shootout a with...
The condition of Awami League presidium member Suranjit Sengupta, MP, is stable, sources at LabAid Hospital in the city said. Former Railways minister Suranjit Sengupta admitted to the hospital with cardiac problems on Sunday night. He was rushed to the...
Awami League MP from Tangail-8 constituency Shawkat Momen Shahjahan died at Sakhipur Upazila Health Complex early Monday. He was 64. Shawkat Momen, also an agronomist and former president of the parliamentary committee on agricultural affairs, was declared dead at the...
Piracy at sea has come down to its lowest level in six years, with 264 attacks recorded worldwide in 2013, a 40 percent drop since Somali piracy peaked in 2011 registering a ‘low level’ armed robbery attacks in Bangladesh, too,...
The dollar was mixed in Asia on Monday following broadly upbeat US economic data, while the yen was lifted by speculation the Bank of Japan’s policy board will hold off any new stimulus measures when it meets this week. The...
A businessman was gunned down by unidentified miscreants at Dakkhin Purangarh in Satkania upazila of Chittagong early Monday. The dead is Ziaur Rahman, 35, son of late Bhetta Mia of the area. He was a businessman. Officer-in-charge of Satkania Police...
Detectives arrested three Pakistani nationals along with laptop and a large quantity of bomb-making materials in Dhaka city on Monday. The identity of the arrestees, all male, could not be gathered immediately. Acting on secret information, a special team of...
A man was killed and at least a dozen other people were injured in a clash between two groups at Char Chapra village in Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Ainal Haque, 45,...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on both bourses - Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)-- witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading Monday, maintaining the previous session’s uptrend. The prime index of the DSE...
A court here on Monday granted a two-day police remand for Inqilab journalist Ahmed Atique in a case filed for running a “false” report in the vernacular daily. The court also rejected the bail petitions of two other journalists of...
A college student is among two people allegedly committed suicide in Dhaka city on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Sharmin Akhtar, 25, wife of Monir Hossain, and Rabeya Akhter, 17, a first year student of Tejgaon College, hailed...
A suicide bomber blew himself up near Pakistan’s military headquarters on Monday, killing nine people a day after a Taliban bombing inside an army compound in the northwest of the country killed at least 20 troops, officials and militants said....
Oil prices eased in Asia on Monday after China’s 2013 economic growth came in at its slowest rate in 14 years, fuelling concerns over demand in the world’s second largest economy. New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for...
BNP leader Mahbub Uddin Khokan has been granted six months’ bail by the High Court in three cases, including one for an arson attack that killed a policeman at Banglamotor in the city last year. The HC bench of Justice...
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal was in a stand-off with Delhi police on a busy road in India’s commercial city after he was prevented from staging a protest at the office of India’s home minister on Monday. A...
Two women from Chittagong in Bangladesh were allegedly gang-raped on a boat while crossing over to Gaighata in South 24-Parganas on Sunday. BSF personnel posted at the Angrail camp of the paramilitary force rescued the two and handed them over...
President Abdul Hamid on Monday expressed his deep shock at the death of Awami League MP Shawkat Momen Shahjahan. In a condolence message, the President said with his death, the nation has lost a dedicated politician and an efficient parliament...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep shock at the death of Showkat Momen Shahjahan, a valiant Freedom Fighter and Member of Parliament from Tangail-8 constituency. In a condolence message, the Prime Minister recalled his contribution to the War...
Farmers in the Jhalakati district are cultivating maize in larger areas of land this season as they made satisfactory profit from the cereal item last year despite the onslaught of cyclonic storm ‘Mahasen’ during its harvest. While visiting different areas...
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