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Fire risk remains in half of Accord factories

Fire risk remains in half of Accord factories

Monira Munni 2018-11-25 10:21:40

More than half of the Accord-inspected 1,600 garment factories have not installed adequate fire detection and prevention system yet, according to latest findings. On the sixth Tazreen factory fire an...

Women's overseas jobs drop 18pc in 10 months

Women's overseas jobs drop 18pc in 10 months

Arafat Ara 2018-11-25 10:14:34

Women's overseas jobs have declined by more than 18 per cent in the past 10 months of this calendar year, according to official statistics. Some 81,000 women went abroad with jobs during the January-...

President, PM congratulate export trophy winners

President, PM congratulate export trophy winners

-- 2018-11-24 21:15:55

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on Saturday congratulating the exporters selected for the National Export Trophy 2015-16. According to BSS, the award w...

European parliamentary team calls on PM

European parliamentary team calls on PM

-- 2018-11-24 21:01:56

A European parliamentary delegation paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence in the capital on Saturday evening. Briefing reporters after the meeting...

Delhi police arrests three Bangladeshi ‘robbers’

Delhi police arrests three Bangladeshi ‘robbers’

-- 2018-11-24 20:30:10

Three suspected members of a Bangladeshi robber gang were arrested after a shootout with the police in Delhi, police said Saturday. The shootout happened between 12.15am and 12.30am on the intervenin...

Good bean yield brings smile on  Rangpur dist growers' faces

Good bean yield brings smile on Rangpur dist growers' faces

Our Correspondent 2018-11-24 20:29:36

RANGPUR, Nov 24: A good yield of bean has brought smile on the faces of growers across Rangpur district during the current season. According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Rangpur of...

Farmers happy over T-Aman  production in Jhenidah

Farmers happy over T-Aman production in Jhenidah

Our Correspondent 2018-11-24 20:27:44

JHENIDAH, Nov 24: Farmers of Jhenidah are now busy harvesting Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy they are happy over the yield. According the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, around...

Separate road crashes in Savar kill three

Separate road crashes in Savar kill three

-- 2018-11-24 19:22:39

Two motorcycle passengers and a pedestrian have been killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Savar upazila. The incidents occurred on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Ashulia’s Nayarhat a...

RAB detains one for running illegal news portals

RAB detains one for running illegal news portals

-- 2018-11-24 19:12:12

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have detained Enamul Haque Moni, a PhD student, from the Bimanbandar Railway Station in Dhaka on charges of running a number of online news portals illegally. Sup...

EC hopes foreign observers to monitor election

EC hopes foreign observers to monitor election

-- 2018-11-24 18:48:39

The Election Commission (EC) hopes that observers from different countries will arrive to oversee polls even though the European Union (EU) said they will refrain from sending its observers to monitor...

EVM voting in all centres of six constituencies

EVM voting in all centres of six constituencies

FE Online Report 2018-11-24 18:24:40

The election commission has decided to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in all polling centres of six constituencies during the forthcoming parliamentary elections, slated for December 30. EC Se...

CAD to destroy useless ammo, explosives at Rajendrapur cantonment Dec 13

CAD to destroy useless ammo, explosives at Rajendrapur cantonment Dec 13

-- 2018-11-24 18:16:09

The Central Ammunition Depot (CAD) of Rajendrapur cantonment will destroy useless ammunitions and explosives at its demolition ground in Bartupa village of Mawna in Gazipur on December 13. The CAD gr...

Three injured in cylinder blast at Kamrangichar

Three injured in cylinder blast at Kamrangichar

-- 2018-11-24 17:28:19

Three people, including a child, suffered burn injuries following blast of a gas cylinder in the city's Muslimbagh in Kamrangichar on Saturday. The injured are Ripa Akhtar, 20, her two-year old son R...

Two N’ganj mill accident victims die at DMCH

Two N’ganj mill accident victims die at DMCH

-- 2018-11-24 17:04:00

Two workers, who were burnt as melted iron fell on them in a factory at Sonargaon upazila in Narayangaj district, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday. The deceased were Naya...

Motorcyclist dies in Magura road accident

Motorcyclist dies in Magura road accident

-- 2018-11-24 16:38:05

A motorcyclist was killed and another one injured as a passenger bus collided head on with the motorcycle in Sadar upazila of Magura on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Rabbi, an inhabitant i...

AL to unveil list of candidates within two days

AL to unveil list of candidates within two days

-- 2018-11-24 16:36:24

The names of the candidates of Awami League and its alliance for the upcoming national election will be announced within two days. AL general secretary Obaidul Quader came up with the remarks after s...

Police, admin officials helping AL to win: BNP

Police, admin officials helping AL to win: BNP

-- 2018-11-24 16:28:23

BNP on Saturday alleged that 'partisan' and 'controversial' officials of the police and civil administrations are regularly holding 'clandestine' meetings to ensure Awami League candidates' win in the...

Satkhira road crash leaves farmer dead

Satkhira road crash leaves farmer dead

-- 2018-11-24 15:05:07

A farmer was killed as a human hauler overturned in Satkhira on Saturday morning. The dead man was Gour Chandra Ghosh, 55, son of Chandra Ghosh of Jethua village. Russel Mehedi, officer-in-charge of...

Law enforcers recover 46 firearms in Cumilla

Law enforcers recover 46 firearms in Cumilla

-- 2018-11-24 14:51:26

Members of law enforcement agencies in regular drives recovered a total of 46 firearms from different upazilas of Cumilla district in September and October. According to district law and order commit...

Police making no arrest unnecessarily: CEC

Police making no arrest unnecessarily: CEC

-- 2018-11-24 14:29:06

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Saturday said police are not arresting anyone without any reason going beyond the directives of the Election Commission as they are now under the Commissio...

Bus crash kills one in Habiganj

Bus crash kills one in Habiganj

-- 2018-11-24 12:13:54

A man was killed and 20 people were injured as a bus tumbled into a ditch on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Natun Bazar in Nabiganj upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Safi Kamal Cho...

Sugarcane crushing begins at Rajshahi Sugar Mills

Sugarcane crushing begins at Rajshahi Sugar Mills

-- 2018-11-24 11:40:13

Sugarcane crushing at Rajshahi Sugar Mills (RSM) began in Rajshahi on Friday with a target of producing 8,250 tonnes of sugar by crushing 1,10,000 tonnes of sugarcane within next 67 days of the curren...

Chandpur teacher jailed for ‘defaming’ prophet

Chandpur teacher jailed for ‘defaming’ prophet

-- 2018-11-24 10:52:59

A court has sent a teacher of Chandpur Institute of Marine Technology to jail for making disrespectful remarks on Prophet Mohammad (SM) in a Facebook post. Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Shafiul Azam...

Frozen fish trade crumbling fast

Frozen fish trade crumbling fast

Arafat Ara 2018-11-24 10:25:57

The once-promising export-oriented frozen fish sector is fast becoming moribund with 54 per cent of the total processing plants closed down over the years. Most of the remaining facilities are strugg...

Weekly kitchen market: Prices of fish keep soaring

Weekly kitchen market: Prices of fish keep soaring

FE Report 2018-11-24 09:54:27

Prices of riverine fish further increased last week despite glut in supply. Broiler chicken and some winter vegetables, however, showed a slight decline during the period. Prices of most varieties o...

Most pharma cos post higher EPS for Q1

Most pharma cos post higher EPS for Q1

Babul Barman 2018-11-24 09:45:22

Most of the listed pharmaceuticals companies saw a rise in the earnings for July-September period this year, thanks to higher expense on healthcare. Of the 15 pharmaceuticals companies listed with Dh...

IOM opens two healthcare units in Cox's Bazar refugee camp

IOM opens two healthcare units in Cox's Bazar refugee camp

FE Report 2018-11-24 09:42:34

The UN Migration Agency on Friday opened two healthcare units inside a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has set up the medical units in the wor...

Banks' surplus liquidity falls ahead of nat'l polls

Banks' surplus liquidity falls ahead of nat'l polls

Siddique Islam 2018-11-24 09:35:57

The excess liquidity in banks dropped by nearly 15 per cent or Tk 140 billion in September mainly due to higher growth of currency outside banking system before the national elections. Officials said...

Youth share dreams of future Bangladesh with PM

Youth share dreams of future Bangladesh with PM

-- 2018-11-23 22:21:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday interacted with a diverse group of youth and listened to their dreams, hopes and aspirations about future Bangladesh.   Demonstrating a strong sense of enth...

BNP, Oikyafront trying to make election questionable: 14-party

BNP, Oikyafront trying to make election questionable: 14-party

-- 2018-11-23 20:59:03

The 14-party alliance led by Awami League (AL) has alleged that BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront are trying to make next general election questionable. Leaders of the alliance also urged the Election Commis...