FE ReportDhaka stocks made a smart move Wednesday as the benchmark index DGEN crossed the 2600-mark after one month with a significant increase in the turnover on a continued buying spree of the retailers.The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will remain...
The Christian community is celebrating the largest religious festival 'Christmas Day' today (Thursday) across the country in commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, reports UNB.According to Christian belief, God appeared on earth through his son, Jesus Christ, on the...
The Truth and Accountability Commission (TAC) will wind up its activities on December 31, leaving some issues unresolved. Disclosing this at a press briefing Wednesday afternoon, TAC Chairman Justice Habibur Rahman Khan said the Commission completed hearings of the clemency-seekers...
Chairman of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) Sunil Kanti Bose Monday admitted that half of the country's driving licenses are fake. "Fifty per cent of the driving licenses that are now in use are not issued by BRTA, issued...
The government has announced December 29 public holiday to enable all to cast their votes in the national election. "The day has been declared holiday, so all officials and employees of government, semi-government, autonomous and private offices, organisations and enterprises,...
Shakhawat Hossain The expense for holding the parliamentary election might overrun the projected cost of Tk 2.5 billion by nearly 20 per cent due to record spending on maintenance of law and order, ministry officials said Tuesday. About 35 per...
Robin Wigglesworth On the outskirts of Dubai, far away from the glass and stainless steel ziggurats of banks and hotels, Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers stumble out of their buses as they return home to Sonapur after a 12-hour shift...
FENI, Dec 24 (Agencies): Fearing manipulation of election results and having voiced concerns over attempts on her life, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia maintains that conspiracies are on to spoil the polls. Speaking at an election rally here Wednesday, she warned...
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's sudden allegation of assassination attempt is a "pretext" either to foil the next week's election or stay away from the election seeing the "mass tide for Boat," reports...
FE ReportTransparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said the pre-election expenditure of the candidates for the upcoming general election is much lower compared to that of the stalled January 2007 election.According to a TIB report, each candidate on an average spent Tk...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad said the threats against Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia "are not from any organised source", reports bdnews24.com. "Leaflets and CDs recovered from extremists do have threats aimed...
FE ReportUK-based Cairn and its joint venture partners have successfully completed its works at the country's lone offshore Sangu gas field raising gas output by 40 per cent to reach 52 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd).Cairn and its joint...
FE ReportState-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will be transformed into a public limited company to make it capable of playing a significant role in stabilising prices of essential commodities in the local market, commerce adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said...
A Z M Anas Thai Airways has suspended its Bangkok services to the port city of Chittagong and reduced flights between Dhaka and the capital of Thailand, in a major cutback in the airline's capacity in Bangladesh, officials said Sunday....
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Dec 24: R. Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a French money manager, who invested $1.4 billion with fraud-ridden enterprise of Bernard Madoff, was found dead in his office on Madison Avenue. The evidence pointed to suicide,...
BARISAL, Dec 23 (UNB): Six candidates of Bikalpadhara Bangladesh (BKD) in six parliamentary constituencies of Barisal division joined Awami League (AL) Tuesday afternoon and announced that they would work for the grand alliance candidates in their respective constituencies.Earlier, on December...
The Election Commission (EC) Tuesday sent a letter to the postal authority with a request to keep the post offices open on December 29, the election day, reports BSS.EC Senior Assistant Secretary Farhad Ahmed Khan said the commission has planned...
Ponchattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (PGDNC) formed a human chain at Muktangan Tuesday and pleaded not to vote for Jamaat-e-Islami, which was castigated for its role against the country's Liberation War in 1971, in the upcoming general polls, reports UNB.Protesting...
Kazi Tajul Islam Farook, chairman of Westmont Power (Bangladesh) Ltd, Tuesday petitioned with Tejgaon police station for withdrawing the extortion case he filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina during the caretaker government-launched anti-graft purge, reports UNB.Amid the latest change...
RANGPUR, Dec 23 (UNB): Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad Tuesday asked Awami League (AL) "not to put its hands in Rangpur" which he claimed belonged to his party's election symbol 'plough.'"Rangpur belongs to plough as long as I am...
FE Report The country's export performance, particularly growth in readymade garment (RMG) export, may suffer an adverse impact because of the global financial meltdown that has led to a bleak growth prospect for Bangladesh's major trade partners including the USA....
Awami League (AL) President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday private sector will be the main driving force of the economy if her party is voted to power at the forthcoming polls, report agencies.Addressing a meeting on her...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The decline in commodity prices in the global market has been sharper in the last quarter than the rise in the three previous quarters of 2008, thanks to the ongoing global financial meltdown. Notwithstanding the possible ill-effects...
Former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Tuesday said the nation need a government that will serve people in their desired way, and the BNP-led four-party alliance might take the opportunity again if people judiciously cast their vote for...
FE ReportDhaka stocks gained marginally Tuesday with an increase in the turnover as the uncertainty centring on the national polls is almost over.The power and energy issues continued to shine, because the political parties in their election manifestos pledged to...
FE ReportBangladesh may achieve six per cent economic growth in the current fiscal if the next elected government takes cautious steps to confront the prevailing global financial meltdown, a local research firm Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said."Present economic scenario...
SYLHET, Dec 23: Harkatul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) operation commander Mufti Hannan and two other militants were sentenced to death Tuesday for the 2004 grenade attack on former British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in Sylhet. The Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Shamim...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has allowed settlement of import payments in Euro alongside the US dollar among the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) member countries. The new payment system will come into effect from January 1 next year in...
FE ReportThe government has reduced the bus fare for long distance route by Tk 0.02 per kilometre following a cut in fuel prices, but it has not given any indication of such a measure for short distance transportation cost.According to...
FE ReportThe authorities have culled nearly 10,000 chickens and destroyed over 3,000 dozen eggs during the last 12 days following fresh outbreak of bird-flu in five districts of the country. "We have detected avian influenza, known as H5N1, in four...
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