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Moudud tells EC to stop ‘wholesale’ arrest

Moudud tells EC to stop ‘wholesale’ arrest

-- 2018-12-01 18:52:13

BNP on Saturday demanded that the Election Commission (EC) immediately stop the 'wholesale' arrest of its leaders and activists, release its arrested men and reshuffle the local administration. "Poli...

Beautiful Dibir Haor needs protection

Beautiful Dibir Haor needs protection

-- 2018-12-01 18:43:33

SYLHET, Dec 01 (UNB): Dibir Haor, a beautiful tourist spot surrounded by hills at the foot of Meghalaya state of India, was off the radar even four years back, but it has turned out to be a great dest...

Tangail radish growers expect good production this season

Tangail radish growers expect good production this season

Our Correspondent 2018-12-01 18:42:16

TANGAIL, Dec 01: Radish growers in the district are expecting a good production this season amid favourable weather conditions.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail sources said some...

Bogura flower farmers eye Tk 100m profit

Bogura flower farmers eye Tk 100m profit

-- 2018-12-01 18:39:56

Our CorrespondentBOGURA, Dec 01: Flower farmers in the district are expecting to make profit over Tk 100 million ahead of the Victory Day.Sources said cultivators of varieties of flower had earned ove...

Minor girl ‘slapped dead’ in Sirajganj

Minor girl ‘slapped dead’ in Sirajganj

-- 2018-12-01 18:04:44

An 11-month-old baby girl, who was slapped allegedly by a neighbour at Khalishapur village under Sadar upazila in Sirajganj on Friday, died early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Amina Khatun...

202 BAF peacekeepers leave for Congo

202 BAF peacekeepers leave for Congo

-- 2018-12-01 17:38:28

Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is going to replace its three contingents consisting of 358 members including 10 female officers at United Nations Peacekeeping Mission deployed in Democratic Republic of Co...

EC prohibits voting in open spaces

EC prohibits voting in open spaces

-- 2018-12-01 17:25:13

The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday directed the authorities concerned not to give permission to anyone to cast vote openly as it is illegal. “Voting in open spaces will not be allowed. Th...

BD to open new consulate in Toronto on Dec 17

BD to open new consulate in Toronto on Dec 17

-- 2018-12-01 17:20:21

The consular services of the new Consulate General of Bangladesh in Toronto will begin on December 17, a day after the observance of the victory day. This is so far the 18th foreign mission opened un...

Govt launched ‘ugly cyber war’ against BNP, alleges Rizvi

Govt launched ‘ugly cyber war’ against BNP, alleges Rizvi

-- 2018-12-01 17:15:59

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that the government has initiated an 'ugly cyber war' against their party with public money ahead of the December-30 national e...

Police arrest youth for spreading rumour on Facebook

Police arrest youth for spreading rumour on Facebook

-- 2018-12-01 17:08:50

Police arrested a youth on charges of spreading rumor using facebook to create instability among different public organisations from the city’s Mirpur area on Friday. “We arrested one Md...

Tabligh’s factional clash on Ijtema field leaves one dead

Tabligh’s factional clash on Ijtema field leaves one dead

-- 2018-12-01 17:07:07

A 70-year-old man was killed and more than 200 people were injured after a series of clashes between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat on Saturday for establishing control over Ijtema Maidan on the bank...

Detectives arrest two over Turag double murder

Detectives arrest two over Turag double murder

-- 2018-12-01 17:04:08

Detective Branch (DB) of police unearthed the mystery of the double murder case at Turag with the capturing of two people allegedly involved in the killings from the city’s Adabar and Shanirakhr...

Kamal underscores guarding polling stations

Kamal underscores guarding polling stations

-- 2018-12-01 16:33:21

Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday renewed his call to the people of the country to guard the polling stations so that the parliamentary elections on December 30 are held in a free a...

Elderly man dies in Habiganj road mishap

Elderly man dies in Habiganj road mishap

-- 2018-12-01 16:26:50

An elderly man was killed as a passenger bus hit him at Madhobpur upazila in Habiganj district on Saturday. The man was identified as Harendro Das, 70, from Bula village of the upazila. Police said...

US to send 12 teams of election observers

US to send 12 teams of election observers

-- 2018-12-01 15:53:01

The United States will send 12 teams of observers and fund thousands of domestic observers to monitor an election in Bangladesh it hopes will be free and fair, a senior official at the US embassy in D...

RMP forms QRT for emergency situation

RMP forms QRT for emergency situation

-- 2018-12-01 15:30:26

The Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has launched the Quick Response Team (QRT) to manage any emergency situation like unruly and subversive activities, terrorism, extremism and drug-trafficking in...

Photographer Anwar Hossain found dead at a city hotel

Photographer Anwar Hossain found dead at a city hotel

-- 2018-12-01 15:16:32

Renowned Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer Anwar Hossain has been found dead at a hotel in Dhaka. Police recovered the body after breaking the door to a room at the Hotel Olio Dream Heaven...

Ershad shows Tk 2.8m cash, wife Tk 262m

Ershad shows Tk 2.8m cash, wife Tk 262m

-- 2018-12-01 14:37:20

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has declared to have over Tk 2.8 million in cash in his affidavit to the Election Commission and said his wife Raushon Ershad has more than Tk 262 million. The former...

Saida Muna joins Bangladesh High Commission in London

Saida Muna joins Bangladesh High Commission in London

-- 2018-12-01 13:52:01

Saida Muna Tasneem has joined the Bangladesh High Commission in London as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom. On Friday, she succeeded Md Nazmul Quaunine as the first woman...

DMP fines traffic rule violators Tk 1.739m

DMP fines traffic rule violators Tk 1.739m

FE Online Report 2018-12-01 13:26:59

Traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday charged automobile riders Tk 1.739 million as fine money over traffic rule violations. Therefore, it filed 3,046 cases against differ...

Gas fire injures three in Ashulia

Gas fire injures three in Ashulia

-- 2018-12-01 12:33:21

Three people have suffered burns in a gas fire at a home in West Bipile area in Dhaka’s Ashulia. The incident that took place in the area on Saturday morning also damaged an electronics shop an...

Assailant shoots minister’s son-in-law in Khulna

Assailant shoots minister’s son-in-law in Khulna

-- 2018-12-01 12:03:42

An unidentified assailant has shot and injured a Bangladesh Bank deputy general manager, who is also a son-in-law of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Narayon Chandra Chanda, at his home in Khulna. Th...

Cox’s Bazar ‘shootout’ leaves drug pedlar dead

Cox’s Bazar ‘shootout’ leaves drug pedlar dead

-- 2018-12-01 11:39:58

A listed drug pedlar was killed in a reported shootout with police at Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Saturday. The dead man was identified as Habib Ullah Habib, 35, son of Mohammad Hossain a...

Bir Protik Taramon Bibi passes away

Bir Protik Taramon Bibi passes away

-- 2018-12-01 10:39:07

Bir Protik Taramon Bibi passed away at her home at Shankar Madhobpur village in Rajibpur upazila of Kurigram district early Saturday. She was 62. The war heroine, who had been suffering from respirat...

Tabligh Jamaat’s factional clash halts traffic on Airport road

Tabligh Jamaat’s factional clash halts traffic on Airport road

-- 2018-12-01 10:36:09

The vehicular movement on the western side of the busy Airport Road remained halted from Airport Crossing to Abdullahpur since Saturday morning following a clash between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat...

Govt allocates Tk 500m for cash-strapped sugar mills

Govt allocates Tk 500m for cash-strapped sugar mills

FE Report 2018-12-01 10:29:22

The government has allocated Tk 500 million to provide wages and festival allowances for workers of state-owned sugar mills, officials said. The finance ministry recently approved the disbursement of...

It was not breach of electoral code: EC

It was not breach of electoral code: EC

FE Report 2018-12-01 10:12:46

A meeting between the Prime Minister (PM) and 150 retired armed forces officers at Ganobhaban was not a violation of the electoral code of conduct, said an election commissioner on Friday. "They (r...

BD sees biggest fall in global English proficiency index

BD sees biggest fall in global English proficiency index

FE Report 2018-12-01 10:03:21

Bangladesh has seen the largest fall among its Asian peers in a global English language proficiency ranking. The 'English Proficiency Index' is a global ranking of various nations by the average leve...

Govt selects Singaporean firm to do partial job

Govt selects Singaporean firm to do partial job

Syful Islam 2018-12-01 09:47:54

The government has primarily picked PSA Singapore from five global port giants to build and operate Bay Container Terminal in Chattogram, officials have said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently ap...

Major overhaul of airports underway

Major overhaul of airports underway

FE Report 2018-12-01 09:46:50

The country's aviation infrastructure is set to get a major impetus with the upgradation of most of the airports, a senior official said. The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) chief sai...