Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-28 12:00:00
Around 85 per cent of the foreign companies operating in Bangladesh and executing international transactions hardly share their incomes with the host nation, thus allegedly contributing vastly to capi...
FE Report 2017-12-28 12:00:00
Bangladesh economy may grow at a slower pace of 6.9 per cent this fiscal year after a record growth of 7.28 per cent in the last fiscal, a global financial giant forecasts. The latest reckoning on th...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-28 12:00:00
The World Bank wants Bangladesh to receive an assistance it is offering for rehabilitation of Rohingyas, amid lukewarm response from the authorities concerned due to the mixed nature of the aid. WB P...
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A British medical team from the UK's Emergency Medical Team (EMT) are making their way to Cox's Bazar to save thousands of lives at risk from a rapid and deadly outbreak of diphtheria. The team, incl...
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A senior officer of BRAC Bank Limited remained missing since Tuesday morning. A report was filed with the Tejgaon Industrial Zone Police Station on Wednesday in this connection. The report said that...
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A court on Thursday fixed January 3 and 4 for placing further arguments in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Dhaka Special Co...
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Md Nojibur Rahman, currently NBR Chairman and Senior Secretary at the Internal Resources Division, will be the new Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, said highly-placed government sources. Ra...
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A woman and her two children sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Garibullah Shah residential area under Khulshi thana in Chittagong on Thursday. The victims are Tanjira Aktar, 35, her...
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The instigator of a rape incident of four women during a robbery at a house in Chittagong’s Karnaphuli was placed on three-day remand. Abdul Hannan alias Hannan Member, was remanded on Wednesda...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 12:00:00
Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) has launched a specialised government fisheries market for the first time at Jatrabari of Dhaka on Thursday. State Minister for Fisherie...
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Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism on Thursday expressed its concern over slow progress of constructing 3rd terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The committ...
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Locals blocked Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Kararchar area of Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi district on Thursday morning following a road crash that killed a woman and her minor son. Hafizur Rahman, office...
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A suspected robber leader was killed in a reported gunfight with detective branch (DB) of police at Kanchan bridge area in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday. The deceased was identified as S...
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Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the overall progress of the much expected Padma Bridge rose to more than 50 per cent, reports BSS. "The main construction work of the bridge ha...
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Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in a mobile court drive on Thursday evicted some 200 illegal establishments and removed over 1000 banners, festoons, signboards and billboards from Farmgate area of...
Siddique Islam 2017-12-28 10:19:56
The central bank issued a show-cause notice against a leading private commercial bank (PCB) on Wednesday for allegedly providing misleading information on foreign exchange rate, particularly for expor...
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Although BNP had a plan to stage a comeback in politics reorganising it at the grassroots level, the outgoing year - 2017 - apparently turned into another bad year for it as the party confined itself...
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Dhaka remained active in various global forums strengthening bilateral ties, particularly in terms of economic cooperation, in 2017 – but has not succeeded in using its geopolitical and geostrat...
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A man and his daughter died in a road accident on Thursday. The accident took place when a bus rammed their motorcycle at Bypass road in Kandivita area of Natore municipality in the afternoon. The d...
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Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that punitive action would be taken against any party man involved in nomination infighting centering the election to the Dhaka South City Corpor...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 06:19:42
Flight operations remained halted for more than five hours at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. The air service disruption continued from 5:00am to 10:15am in the morning...
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The US embassy in Dhaka, including the American Center, will remain closed on Monday on the occasion of New Year's Day, an American holiday. The embassy, including the Consular Section with the Arch...
BSS, UNB 2017-12-28 05:17:54
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticised the government physicians for their lack of willingness to stay at workplaces across the country’s remote areas. “When we appoint new doctors,...
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Agriculture experts are expecting bumper production of groundnut as farmers have exceeded the fixed farming target of the cash crop by 36.72 percent during the current Rabi season in Rangpur agricultu...
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Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network architecture for...
Our Correspondent 2017-12-28 02:23:42
A three-day regional Ijtema has begun in Jessore district. Mufti Abdul Bareq, Kakrail Mosque Imam, delivered the opening speech at the congregation, kicked off on Thursday morning. Thousands of Musl...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 02:15:24
NRB Bank Limited opened its 36th branch at Kazirhat area in Zajira upazila of Shariatpur on Tuesday. BM Muzammel Haque, MP, Shariatpur-1, was present in the programme as the chief guest, says a press...
FE Report 2017-12-28 02:02:10
The country's local garment factories those meet mainly domestic demand are running without rules and regulations, often violating workers' rights severely, according to a new study. More than half o...
Yasir Wardad 2017-12-28 01:48:12
Bangladesh is one of the bottom-ranked countries in Asia in terms of processing agricultural produces that makes a strong bite on the country's export earnings from farm sector, according to a latest...
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Border Security Force (BSF) of India picked up a Bangladesh national from Burimari border point in Lalmonirhat district on Thursday. The detainee was identified as Abdul Latif, 25, son of Rafiqul Isl...
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