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AL to celebrate recognition of Bangabandhu speech

-- 2017-11-01 10:07:02

The Awami League plans to celebrate the recognition of the historic 7th March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a world documentary heritage. The ruling party has finalised a seven-day p...

Team Bonsai wins Digital Khichuri Challenge

FE Online Desk 2017-11-01 02:43:49

Being inspired by the success of the first ‘Digital Khichuri Challenge’ in 2016, the innovative competition returned this year with an aim to promote peace, tolerance and cultural diversit...

Traitors claim Zia announcer of independence: Tofail  

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday called the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka a traitor and said only traitors can make a claim that former president Ziaur Rahman as the announcer of independ...

Peculiar proposals

-- 2017-10-31 09:53:56

The fact that 80 per cent of the country's land custom stations (LCSs) have virtually no business to do is least surprising. What, however, sounds bizarre is that pressure is still coming from powerfu...

Quader terms attack on Khaleda's motorcade ‘staged’

-- 2017-10-30 12:07:58

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP staged attack with its Chhatradal and Jubadal men on the motorcade of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. "They staged the drama by the...

Tofail dismisses BNP’s claim of ‘diplomatic failure’  

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed dismissed BNP’s claims that the government has failed to resolve the Rohingya issue diplomatically. "If the government had not gained diplomatic success in dealin...

Khaleda says govt knows attackers, AL disagrees

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged that the government knows about those responsible for attack on her motorcade in Feni. "I would like to say the government knows it very well who perpetra...

Planned urbanisation  

-- 2017-10-30 11:14:20

The focus on urbanisation in the country at an international conference held in the city has, for reasons understandable, been pointed and intense. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is showing all the...

BNP-Jamaat aided Aug 21 genocide: prosecution

-- 2017-10-30 06:22:39

BNP-Jamaat alliance government had a hand in the August 21 genocide in 2004, said prosecutor on Monday. "The government and administration directly aided, conspired, planned and provided overall sup...

Why there is no positive impact of rice import  

-- 2017-10-29 11:36:55

At a time when the government attempts are proving futile in bringing down the soaring rice price to a desirable level, it has been compelled to look beyond its border for help. Its latest approval of...

Khaleda’s C’Bazar-bound convoy reaches Ctg defying attack

-- 2017-10-28 12:00:00

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia, on a four-day tour to visit the persecuted Rohingya people in Cox's Bazar, has reached Chittagong after facing attack near Feni town. The B...

Whither axle load policy enforcement?

-- 2017-10-28 12:00:00

The developments surrounding the enforcement of the axle load policy, designed to help contain the damage caused to roads and highways by overloaded trucks and trailers, have once again exposed the an...

Next election under present government: Tofail

-- 2017-10-28 07:23:53

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said the next general election will be held under the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Election Commission (EC) will get all cooperation to arrange a fre...

Fakhrul eyes PM’s special initiative for Rohingyas

-- 2017-10-28 07:01:32

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take special initiative to resolve the Rohingya crisis. “We have long been saying that the PM...

Murder accused killed in ‘gunfight’

-- 2017-10-27 11:42:58

An accused in a murder case was reportedly killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Joynabaz in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushita district on early Friday. The deceased, Anwar Hossain (27),...

A dismal view of women in Dhaka megacity  

-- 2017-10-27 10:39:22

Dhaka's ranking as the seventh worst megacity for women adds to the list of infamies already plaguing it. The Thomson Reuters Foundation's recent perception poll on women in megacities brings the Bang...

AL men brawl at flyover inauguration

-- 2017-10-27 08:40:42

Some leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League engaged in a scuffle over seats on stage at the inaugural ceremony of Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover, reports bdnews24.com Dhaka South Mayor Sayeed Kh...

Khaleda's speech to create confusion: Obaidul Quader

-- 2017-10-27 08:05:44

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader alleged that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia told lies about Awami League and Sheikh Hasina before the court. "Her speeches will create confusion in the coun...

Khaleda to visit Rohingyas Sunday

Agencies 2017-10-27 01:18:02

  BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to visit the Rohingyas who have taken shelter in Cox’s Bazar in the face of persecution in their own country, Myanmar. She is scheduled to start her...

Zia restored democracy, CEC reiterates

Agencies 2017-10-26 12:00:00

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Thursday defended his remarks that Ziaur Rahman, the founder of BNP, reestablished multiparty democracy in the country. "Yes, I still own it. I made...

Khaleda claims innocence, bursts into tears in courtroom

-- 2017-10-26 12:00:00

An emotional BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday claimed herself innocent in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. She also termed it a 'fake' one as, what she said, the case was filed against her...

Boosting tea production

-- 2017-10-26 11:00:27

The move by the government to increase tea production as well as improve the conditions of the tea gardens is quite timely and, thus, most welcome. Tea industry, apparently a trouble-free production s...

BCL leader gets expelled on rape charge

-- 2017-10-26 09:08:33

A district unit leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of ruling party Awami League, was expelled on Wednesday for violating party discipline. A UNB report said Riad Hossain,...

HC stays seven violence cases against Moudud

-- 2017-10-25 11:39:55

The High Court on Wednesday stayed seven cases filed against BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed for instigation violence during strikes and blockades sponsored by the BNP-led alliance, reports a local new...

Tragic accidents from gas connection

-- 2017-10-25 10:34:38

Tragic accidents from leaking gas pipe or faulty gas stove burner are on the rise in recent times. In the latest such incident eight members of a family sustained burn injuries -from mild to severe -...

Four BNP men held over attack on police

-- 2017-10-25 02:54:05

Comilla police arrested four leaders of district unit of BNP and its associate bodies on Tuesday night in a case filed for 'carrying out attack on the law enforcers'. The arrestees are -- Amiruzzaman...

BNP leader MK Anwar passes away

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

BNP standing committee member and former minister MK Anwar has died at his Elephant Road residence in the capital Dhaka. He was 85. Anwar, a bureaucrat-turned politician, breathed his last around 1:...

Khaleda 'to visit' Rohingya camps Sunday

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to visit the Rohingyas  in Cox's Bazar on Sunday, according to a member of its top policymaking body. The decision was taken at the standing committee meetin...

Registration of all inland ships and motor vessels

-- 2017-10-24 09:53:26

The reported move by the Department of Shipping (DoS) to bring in the country's oceangoing and inland ships and vessels on a single online platform through registration and make those a part of a form...

Warrants out for Tarique, two ETV journos

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

A Dhaka court on Monday issued warrants for the arrest of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and two senior journalists of Ekushey Television in a sedition case. Dhaka metropolitan sessions judg...