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BNP chooses Tabith for Dhaka North mayoral run

BNP chooses Tabith for Dhaka North mayoral run

-- 2018-01-16 12:24:19

BNP-led coalition has once again chose Md Tabith Awal to vie for the mayoral position in the scheduled by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgi...

AL’s DNCC candidate to get 14-party support

AL’s DNCC candidate to get 14-party support

-- 2018-01-16 12:15:35

Ruling party Awami League (AL) said that the 14-party alliance would extend its support to its mayoral candidate in the by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). AL Presidium Member and Min...

Khaleda seeks acquittal in graft case

Khaleda seeks acquittal in graft case

FE Online Desk 2018-01-16 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday placed her closing arguments in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and sought acquittal claiming her involvement was not proved. A senior lawyer who placed the clos...

Farmers' free schools

Farmers' free schools

-- 2018-01-16 10:34:01

The country's agriculture sector continues to experience a series of remarkable changes. Many of them remain largely unnoticed. Beginning from invention of adversity-tolerant rice varieties to introdu...

Quader asks Ctg AL leaders to settle disputes soon

Quader asks Ctg AL leaders to settle disputes soon

-- 2018-01-14 09:16:58

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has asked Chittagong city leaders of his party and student wing to settle disputes soon. "Our leader (Sheikh Hasina) has told me that she doesn't want to...

Newly innovated jute bags   

Newly innovated jute bags  

-- 2018-01-14 09:02:24

It took much too long for the country's jute industry to come up with a viable substitute for plastic shopping bags. Though belated, the innovation of jute-made poly bag by the Bangladesh Jute Mills C...

Five collect BNP ticket for DNCC by-polls

Five collect BNP ticket for DNCC by-polls

-- 2018-01-14 06:37:47

Five aspirants collected BNP’s nomination forms on Sunday for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-polls. The five are the party’s central leaders Tabith Awal and Asaduzzaman Ri...

AL starts selling DNCC by-polls nomination forms

AL starts selling DNCC by-polls nomination forms

FE Online Desk 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Awami League has started selling nomination papers for the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) from Saturday. Rasel Asheki and Adom Tamiji Huq collected the nomination papers from...

AL rules out BNP's demand for dialogue

AL rules out BNP's demand for dialogue

-- 2018-01-13 11:31:09

Ruling party Awami League (AL) has virtually ruled out arch-rival BNP's demand for holding dialogue ahead of the next Jatiya Sangsad polls. AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader said, "The next general...

Problems of gas supply shortage      

Problems of gas supply shortage    

-- 2018-01-13 10:12:13

Shortage of gas supply has become a recurrent event in Dhaka and its adjoining areas. One usually cannot predict about its timing and frequency, but one can hardly be assured about its arrival during...

PM's speech will deepen country's political impasse: BNP

PM's speech will deepen country's political impasse: BNP

-- 2018-01-13 01:33:28

Giving his party's instant reaction to the PM’s speech on Friday,BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the Prime Minister's stance on the election-time government will only deep...

'Awami League is beneficiary of 1/11 changeover'

'Awami League is beneficiary of 1/11 changeover'

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

BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al Noman has described ruling Awami League as the beneficiary of the 1/11 political changeover. He also alleged that the party is now trying to restore one-party rule by es...

Reaping the benefits of ICT revolution   

Reaping the benefits of ICT revolution  

-- 2018-01-12 10:03:01

Riding the crest of continued successful adoption of digital technology, the country has passed yet another year of impressive milestones. If the bygone year of 2017 was any indication, Bangladesh can...

ACC failed to prove graft allegation: Khaleda’s lawyer

ACC failed to prove graft allegation: Khaleda’s lawyer

-- 2018-01-11 12:00:00

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyer on Thursday said that Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has failed to prove any allegation of graft against his client. Khaleda's lawyer Zamir Uddin Sarkar said th...

Reaping benefits from expanded MPO scheme   

Reaping benefits from expanded MPO scheme  

-- 2018-01-11 10:27:32

The non-government teachers' strike that ended last week was a clear enough sign to cash in on a delicate moment when the government was trying to appease as many quarters as possible in the run-up to...

Fakhrul sees patriotism behind Khaleda's comments about Padma Bridge

Fakhrul sees patriotism behind Khaleda's comments about Padma Bridge

-- 2018-01-11 08:39:05

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sees patriotism behind recent comments of party's Chairperson Khaleda Zia about construction of Padma Bridge. "Khaleda made the comments based on med...

Transfer of Khaleda’s cases is vicious step: BNP

Transfer of Khaleda’s cases is vicious step: BNP

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

BNP on Wednesday said the transfer of 14 cases filed against its Chairperson Khaleda Zia to a Bakshibazar special court is a brutal government step. "The transfer of 14 false cases filed against our...

Abuse of children   

Abuse of children  

-- 2018-01-10 10:33:01

This country grew, according to a survey conducted by the Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), more hostile to children in 2017 than it did in the year before. The survey finds that 339 children we...

Khaleda seeks penalty for prosecution witnesses

Khaleda seeks penalty for prosecution witnesses

-- 2018-01-10 07:08:07

BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s lawyers pleaded to court to punish prosecution witnesses in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, accusing them of forging documents and perjury. The defence continued its...

Ban on street rallies on Dhaka streets

Ban on street rallies on Dhaka streets

-- 2018-01-09 08:18:58

The decision, reportedly taken at the meeting of the executive committee of Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA), to disallow rallies on Dhaka streets on workdays, is a piece of welcome news....

Introduce provincial government system: Ershad

Introduce provincial government system: Ershad

-- 2018-01-08 11:27:41

Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad Monday called upon the government for introducing provincial system of government to ensure welfare of the common people. "Without provincial govern...

Inequality and environmental degradation   

Inequality and environmental degradation  

-- 2018-01-08 11:03:31

The twin predators of rising inequality and environmental degradation now stalking the entire length and breadth of the world pose, according to Pascal Lamy, a former chief of the World Trade Organisa...

Salvaging railways   

Salvaging railways  

-- 2018-01-07 10:17:39

At a time when the government is committed to bring entire Bangladesh including riverine Barisal under railway network, the Bangladesh Railways' (BR) utilization of only ten per cent of this year's AD...

A hiding Jamaat leader behind disappearances: Quader

A hiding Jamaat leader behind disappearances: Quader

FE Online Desk 2018-01-07 04:49:28

A BNP-Jamaat leader who had gone into hiding in Sweden after the January 5 general elections, is behind the cases of disappearances in Bangladesh, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has sai...

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...

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...

Honing anti-money laundering capabilities   

Honing anti-money laundering capabilities  

-- 2018-01-06 10:46:02

The growing menace of money laundering, apart from that of terror financing, is a worrying development. This is more so in a situation where the Finance Minister, who heads a body relevant to these ma...

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...

Obaidul Quader asks BCL to hold council in March

Obaidul Quader asks BCL to hold council in March

-- 2018-01-06 04:48:41

Awami League General Secretary Oabidul Quader has asked Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders to hold its next council within March this year. "I have discussed with our leader Prime Minister Sheik...

BNP won't join polls  under incumbent govt: Moudud

BNP won't join polls under incumbent govt: Moudud

-- 2018-01-05 12:00:00

BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Friday said BNP must not take part in the upcoming election  under the incumbent government. Moudud made the remarks while addressing a dis...