FE ReportDhaka stocks plunged nearly five per cent to two months low on Sunday, sparking demonstrations by hundreds of investors as turmoil at the securities regulator continued to weigh on the market. The investors took to streets as the benchmark...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sunday vowed to bring stability in the stock market hours after the bourses suffered one of the worst slumps in recent months, officials said. The regulator made the pledge during a hurriedly-called...
Siddique Islam Country's overall import fell significantly in April over that of the previous month as importers slowed down opening letters of credit (LCs) ahead of the budget for fiscal 2011-12 beginning in July next, officials said. Opening of fresh...
Fazle RashidNEW YORK, May 08: President Barack Obama's intended sojourn to Pakistan is now in jeopardy. Washington suspects Pakistan's complicity in providing sanctuary to Osama bin Laden who was killed last Sunday in the garrison city of Abbottabad. Pakistan vehemently...
The special committee on charter review will present its report with recommendations on the opening day of the ninth session of Jatiya Sangsad on May 22. Committee co-chairman Suranjit Sengupta said this on Sunday after a meeting of the review...
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is likely to provide US$320 million assistance to Bangladesh for Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) project, construction of cyclone shelters-cum-schools, ensuring safe water and sanitation in the Sidr affected areas. Three agreements between the Economic Relations...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Monday). Day temperature may rise slightly...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...
BEIRUT, May 7 (AP): Syrian tanks rolled into a Mediterranean coastal town Saturday in an escalating crackdown by President Bashar Assad, just a day after clashes with anti-government protesters left at least 30 dead nationwide, activists said. Details of the...
KANDAHAR, May 7 (AFP): The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks including six suicide bombings on government targets in the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Militants with guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched...
ABBOTTABAD, May 7 (Reuters): Osama bin Laden may have lived in Pakistan for over seven years before being shot dead by U.S. forces, senior Pakistani security officials said Saturday, a disclosure that could further anger key ally Washington over the...
BAUCHI, (Nigeria), May 7 (Reuters): Attackers have killed at least 16 people and set fire to more than a dozen houses in a town in northern Nigeria that has been beset by years of sectarian violence, police said late on...
SINGAPORE, May 7 (AFP): Singaporeans went to the polls on Saturday with the opposition hoping to reduce the government's overwhelming majority amid voter disenchantment over the cost of living and immigration policies. The People's Action Party (PAP), which won 82...
JAKARTA, May 7 (AP): A passenger plane carrying 27 people crashed Saturday as it was about to land in Indonesia's eastern province of West Papua, killing at least 15, officials said. Transportation ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan said the Chinese-made Xian...
TRIPOLI, May 7 (AFP): Libya's tribal chiefs urged a general amnesty for all fighters engaged in the oil-rich nation's civil war, as Amnesty International said the regime's siege of Misrata could be a war crime. Rebels, meanwhile, braced for a...
KOLKATA, May 7 (PTI): Fifth phase of West Bengal Assembly polls held peacefully Saturday, no untoward incident was recorded. in 38 constituencies in Bankura, Purulia, West Midnapore and parts of Burdwan districts where the fifth phase of West Bengal Assembly...
'Qaeda' cleric Awlaqi escapes Yemen drone attack ADEN, (Yemen), May 7 : US-Yemeni cleric and terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaqi escaped unhurt from a US drone attack which killed two local Al-Qaeda members in restive southern Yemen, a tribal source told...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions in next 24...
FE ReportBangladesh has witnessed an 11 per cent increase in murder incidents in April 2011 compared to the number recorded in the previous month, Democracywatch said. The non-government human rights watchdog in a statement issued Thursday said a total of...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...
M Azizur RahmanThe government has offered a reduced area from two offshore gas blocks the US oil giant ConocoPhillips has won for exploration, as the neighbours have opposed awarding the entire blocks, officials said. "We are expecting to ink a...
FE ReportNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has expressed his fear for the survival of his pioneering microlender Grameen Bank Saturday, days after his dismissal as its chief was upheld by the supreme court. The 2006 Nobel winner said the future of...
Shah Alam NurMalaysia has planned to recruit workers from Bangladesh as its export-oriented economy gathers pace, but Dhaka won't press Kuala Lumpur hard to speed up the recruitment process, a minister said Saturday. Labour and manpower minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the city Saturday morning for Turkey on a four-day visit to attend the fourth UN Conference on LDCs to be held in Istanbul, report agencies. An Emirates flight carrying the Prime Minister and her delegation...
FE ReportPublic Administration Adviser to the Prime Minister HT Imam Saturday said mandatory submission of income tax returns should be introduced for all, whether people have taxable income or not, to ensure proper tax collection. He also stressed the need...
The nation observes the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate great poet Rabindranath Tagore today (Sunday) amid much enthusiasm and elaborate programmes across the country, reports BSS. The government has chalked out various programmes in the capital and other places...
Mohammad MufazzalFrustrated by the negative response of the market to the launch of the Bangladesh Fund (BF), the biggest ever open-ended mutual fund in the country, leaders of the bourses and experts Saturday suggested measures of varied nature to stabilise...
Minister for Education Nurul Islam Nahid Saturday said the government would formulate Education Act for implementing the National Education Policy properly as early as possible. "We are implementing the education policy to build the new generation as competent citizens by...
Nearly 4.6 million (46 lakh) people in the country use illegal drugs as Bangladesh is the most vulnerable for drug abuse and its illicit trafficking due to its geographic and strategic location, according to Department of Narcotics Control (DNC). DNC...
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