At least 50 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out at a slum at Pallabi in the city Monday night, fire fighters said. Fire Brigade sources said the fire originated from a lighted candle at about 10:15pm and...
Mahmudur RahmanThe ready-made garments industry is finding out to its chagrin that damage control can be expensive. For all the might and power at its disposal the industry has its back to the wall in trying to defend itself or,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the member-countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to assist Bangladesh in its grim fight against the perils of global climate change, as the country needed international cooperation in protecting the people, reports...
FE Report Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Tuesday cautioned the government about developing metro rail without any feasibility study as well as proper legal and organisational framework, saying it may cause loss of money and delay in implementation.JICA chief representative...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Nov 03: The countries that have been severely hurt by the global warming but do not have doughs to undertake the repair have recently taken resorts to measures that apparently appear ludicrous to draw international attention...
KUSHTIA, Nov 3 (UNB): Police seized an AK-47 assault rifle and one shotgun, along with a huge amount of ammunition, from a microbus at Barkhada Trimohoni check-post on the outskirts of the district town on Monday night.The law-enforcers said they...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) will continue collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) from patients as the judgment of the High Court is stayed by an interim order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC).VAT collection...
FE Report Speakers at a seminar Tuesday stressed the need for relocation of production bases, raising efficiency and exploring new knitwear markets for sustainable growth of the largest exporting earning sub-sector.The observations came at a seminar organised by Bangladesh Knitwear...
Iran has said it wants the UN's nuclear watchdog to establish a committee to review a deal aimed at easing Western fears over its nuclear programme, reports BBC.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the country had passed a request to...
Foreign minister Dipu Moni Monday urged oil exporting countries to give Bangladesh special concession in fuel prices, reports bdnews24.com. The minister, now in Malaysia, made the request while addressing a summit of the D8 council of ministers in Kuala Lumpur....
Mehdi Musharraf BhuiyanBangladesh made a giant stride towards introduction of e-commerce Monday after the central bank allowed online money transaction, payment of utility bills through Internet and transfer of funds from one bank to another.Bangladesh Bank gave the groundbreaking directives...
FE ReportThe government reduced Monday the prices of major non-urea fertilisers, which will cost the national exchequer Tk 5.0 billion for supplying the inputs to farmers at subsidised rates.Agriculture Minister Begum Motia Chowdhury announced the cut in sales prices of...
FE ReportDhaka stocks benchmark index crossed the 3400-point mark for the first time Monday as shares enjoyed third consecutive day of record-breaking rally, boosted by better-than-expected third quarter reports by some companies. Stock brokers said the investors have largely defied...
M Azizur RahmanGlobal energy companies responded spontaneously to tap potential reserves in the country's unexplored state-owned onshore gas fields and carry out seismic surveys to shore up the government move for raising natural gas output, officials said Monday.Forty four companies...
A Z M AnasBOESL, the state-owned recruiting agency, has managed to find employment for fewer than 15,000 Bangladeshis abroad since its inception in the mid-1980s, according to official statistics. Between 1984 and 2008, data available with the Bureau of Manpower...
Nazmul AhsanPolicymakers and ministers of the least developed countries (LDCs) of the Asia-Pacific region will gather in Dhaka next January to devise a common strategy for dealing with the effects of the ongoing global economic crisis, climate change and problems...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has hounoured nearly 65 Value Added Tax (VAT) officials with cash rewards totalling Tk 15 million for their outstanding performance in detecting tax evasion of different businesses and companies.First secretary of VAT (policy)...
KABUL, Nov 2 (AP): Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the war-ravaged nation's tumultuous ballot Monday, canceling a planned runoff two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round.Karzai's challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah,...
Four Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia, officials said Sunday. "Four pilgrims, including two women, died of heart failure while undergoing treatment in hospital," Hajj officer Bazlul Haque Biswas said. One died in Jeddah, one at Medina and two...
BENAPOLE, Nov 2: Export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole landport was suspended Monday following a clash between truck workers of the two countries. Customs Cargo Super Hamidur Rahman said Indian truck workers have been demonstrating since this morning...
Secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will arrive in Dhaka today (Tuesday) on a three-day visit, said a press release issued by the OIC office in Jeddah. Ihsanoglu will have talks with President Zillur Rahman, Prime...
FE ReportPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Monday no industry can sustain by exploiting workers or depriving them of due wages calling upon garment owners to pay properly to improve the livelihood of their employees."Labourers are the driving force of your...
FE ReportBangladesh is set to import more than 1.0 million tonnes of refined fuel oil worth US$ 580 million from Kuwait by older vessels as usual next year as the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) completed a negotiation to this...
FE ReportChittagong and Mongla ports have earned Tk 8.66 billion from January to September period of the current year, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan told the parliament (Jatiyo Sangsad) Monday.In reply to a question of Mohammad Fazlul Azim, the minister said...
Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Monday passed amended electoral laws stating political parties will lose registration if they fail to submit their permanent constitutions to the Election Commission (EC) by the January 25, 2010 deadline, reports bdnews24.com. The bill on second amendment...
FE ReportChairman of the Standing Committee on Planning Ministry Oli Ahmed submitted the report on Public Procurement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2009 before the House Monday.Planning Minister AK Khandaker put forward the bill Sunday and the committee was given two days'...
FE ReportA visiting Danish government team Monday said it would provide US$200 million aid to Bangladesh in the current fiscal for improving good governance and undertaking some other development schemes, officials said.The Danish delegation in a high-level consultation meeting with...
Three US military high officials will visit Bangladesh separately early this month as a step towards strengthening bilateral security cooperation between the two countries, reports UNB. The officials are Lt Gen Benjamin R Mixon, commanding general of US Army, Pacific,...
Two senior government figures Monday held the owner of the Tongi garment factory responsible for the three deaths in Saturday's incident of labour unrest, reports bdnews24.com. State minister for labour Mannujan Sufian said Monday the garment factory owner must pay...
Fawzi JumeanYahoo's recent acquisition of Maktoob, the leading Arabic online portal for the Middle East and North Africa region, for more than $150m, has left some people puzzled. Why is the largest regional internet company based in Jordan, a country...
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