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FSIBL holds Annual Business Conference

FSIBL holds Annual Business Conference

FE Online Desk 2018-01-07 03:17:59

First Security Islami Bank Limited (FSIBL) has organised a two-day long Annual Business Conference (ABC) in the city ended on Saturday.  Syed Waseque Md Ali, Managing Director of FSIBL, presided...

BSEC asks trustee of Grameen One to comply with 2008 directive

BSEC asks trustee of Grameen One to comply with 2008 directive

FE Report 2018-01-07 02:22:36

The securities regulator has asked the trustee of Grameen One : Scheme Two to comply with the directive issued in 2008 setting a tenure of 10 years for all closed-end MFs. As per the regulatory appro...

Huda fails to secure court permission for appeal

Huda fails to secure court permission for appeal

-- 2018-01-07 01:56:17

Former minister Nazmul Huda has failed to secure permission from the Appellate Division to challenge a verdict that jailed him for four years on bribery charges. Huda tried to open an appeal without...

Non-MPO teachers express gratitude to PM

Non-MPO teachers express gratitude to PM

-- 2018-01-07 01:37:54

Non-MPO teachers conveyed their gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her intervention to include them into the Monthly Payment Order (MPO) system. The teachers, after ending their five-day h...

Cold wave may persist till Jan 9

Cold wave may persist till Jan 9

-- 2018-01-07 01:05:23

The cold wave sweeping over the country may continue for the next two days while the chilling condition is likely to improve from January 10. "The severe cold wave is sweeping over Rajshahi, Pabna, D...

Pranab due on Jan 15

Pranab due on Jan 15

-- 2018-01-06 12:35:53

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is expected to pay his first a three-day private visit to Bangladesh on January 15. Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Chittagong Anindya Banerjee said the...

Govt to set up deep-sea port in Matarbari: Nasrul Hamid

Govt to set up deep-sea port in Matarbari: Nasrul Hamid

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said that the port under construction for the coal-based power plant in Cox’s Bazar’s Moheshkhali would be converted int...

Day-long blockade underway in Khagrachhari

Day-long blockade underway in Khagrachhari

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) and other members of the alliance of indigenous organizations has enforced a daylong road and waterway blockade in Khagrachhari district on Saturday prote...

Road crash kills BGB member in city.

Road crash kills BGB member in city.

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)died in an accident near Bijoy Sharani Urojahaj crossing under Tejgaon thana in the city on Saturday morning. The accident occurred around 7am when a bus hit...

Land uncertainty hangs over Dhaka North U-loop project

Land uncertainty hangs over Dhaka North U-loop project

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Dhaka North City Corporation has yet to get clearance to use land of other agencies. It has thrown the project to set up 11 U-loops at the key points of the street from Saatrasta to Uttara into doubt...

Mustard cultivation gains popularity in Magura

Mustard cultivation gains popularity in Magura

Our Correspondent 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Farmers are showing more interest in cultivating high yielding mustard in the district as it fetches them good profits. Less production cost is encouraging the farmers in cultivating mustard cultivat...

BMBA gets new chairman

BMBA gets new chairman

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Mohammad Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, Director of LankaBangla Investments Limited, has been elected as the chairman of Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA), recently. Newly elected members of the...

BCL rally halts Dhaka traffic

BCL rally halts Dhaka traffic

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Dhaka dwellers have been suffering in the gridlock created due to a rally brought out by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists marking its 70th founding anniversary on Saturday afternoon. “...

DMP imposes ban on flying paper lanterns

DMP imposes ban on flying paper lanterns

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on flying paper lanterns, popularly known as fanush, in the capital area to avoid any risk of accident. DMP Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Miah said...

Seven die in Feni road crash

Seven die in Feni road crash

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

At least seven people died and 30 others were injured in a road accident at Daganbhuiyan of Feni on Saturday evening. Jamuna Television confirmed the death toll over the accident that took place arou...

Farmers becoming self-reliant rearing  goat commercially in Bogra

Farmers becoming self-reliant rearing goat commercially in Bogra

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Our CorrespondentBOGRA, Jan 6: More than 200 families of Jamuna char area have become self-reliant rearing goat commercially under Dhunat upazila of Bogra district with assistance of local livestock o...

EC mulls completing smart NID distribution by December

EC mulls completing smart NID distribution by December

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

The Election Commission (EC) wants to complete distribution of smart national identity (NID) cards across the country by December this year. "We think we'll be able to complete the distribution of sm...

Hasina says January 5 election was not voterless

Hasina says January 5 election was not voterless

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the January 5 election of 2014 was not a voterless one like the ones held during Ershad and Khaleda Zia's regimes. "In any form, the January 5 election was...

48,000 births expected in makeshift-camps this year: UNICEF

48,000 births expected in makeshift-camps this year: UNICEF

-- 2018-01-06 11:39:39

More than 48,000 Rohingya babies are expected to be born in Bangladesh this year, warns Save the Children. Only few of these babies will be born in health facilities, and from day one will be at an i...

JU theatre festival begins today

JU theatre festival begins today

-- 2018-01-06 11:22:40

A five-day theatre festival begins Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Saturday. Jahangirnar theatre is organising the programme at Selim Al Deen Muktamancho, said a press release. ‘Janamanko&rsq...

New Year begins on positive note

New Year begins on positive note

Babul Barman 2018-01-06 10:02:22

The first week of the New Year ended marginally higher as some investors have kept their appetite for large-cap stocks, especially power-sector issues. Analysts said the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ma...

No initiative to import CNG-run auto-rickshaws

No initiative to import CNG-run auto-rickshaws

Kamrun Nahar 2018-01-06 09:59:57

The government is yet to take any initiative to import CNG-run auto-rickshaw for replacing three-wheelers whose lifespan has already expired, a rights group has said. Even the government has extended...

Demand for cheap smartphones lifts cellphone imports in 2017

Demand for cheap smartphones lifts cellphone imports in 2017

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-01-06 09:44:15

Cellphone imports climbed by 17.6 per cent last year, as the country's 'price sensitive' market continues to be driven by demands for feature phones and low-priced smartphones. Around 35 million mobi...

Road accidents due to fog kill four

Road accidents due to fog kill four

-- 2018-01-06 09:23:34

Four persons were killed in three separate road accidents at different places in Rangpur, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts on Saturday. Police officials cited fog as a prime reason for the acciden...

Telecom sector sinking, Jabbar says he is to salvage

Telecom sector sinking, Jabbar says he is to salvage

-- 2018-01-06 08:23:49

The newly-appointed minister for posts, telecommunication and information & communication technology has said that the prime minister has assigned him to salvage the 'sinking telecom sector'. Mus...

President visits Shilaidaha Kuthibari

President visits Shilaidaha Kuthibari

-- 2018-01-06 07:46:52

President Md Abdul Hamid visited Shilaidaha Kuthibari in Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia on Saturday afternoon. The visit of 'Rabindra Kuthibari' is a part of two-day Kushtia tour of the President Hami...

Interpol appoints two Bangladeshi police officers

Interpol appoints two Bangladeshi police officers

-- 2018-01-06 06:56:39

The Interpol has appointed two Bangladeshi police officers as specialists to train law enforcers around the world on counterterrorism. Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque revealed the info...

Titas’ prepaid metre project misses deadline due to ‘faulty lines’

Titas’ prepaid metre project misses deadline due to ‘faulty lines’

-- 2018-01-06 06:39:07

The target of the country’s largest natural gas distributor to install some 200,000 prepaid metres in Dhaka is unlikely to be achieved within the timeframe of December 2018.  The failure o...

Law alone not suffice to control drugs, militancy: IGP

Law alone not suffice to control drugs, militancy: IGP

-- 2018-01-06 05:30:41

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque said on Saturday it is not possible to control drugs and militancy only by applying law and filing cases. Speaking at a press conference on the oc...

10 BCL men sustain injuries as bus catches fire in city

10 BCL men sustain injuries as bus catches fire in city

-- 2018-01-06 04:58:57

At least 10 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were injured when a bus, hired by them from Uttara west intending to join BCL’s rally, caught fire near Farmgate area of Dhaka on Saturday morn...