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34 Jhenaidah insolvent FFs get houses

34 Jhenaidah insolvent FFs get houses

Our Correspondent 2018-11-18 10:40:25

JHENAIDAH: A total of 34 landless and insolvent freedom fighters' (FFs) families from six upazilas in the district got houses named 'Bir Nibas'. The total cost of construction of the houses stood at...

NBR waives VAT on travel agents' commission

NBR waives VAT on travel agents' commission

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-11-18 10:36:59

The revenue board has exempted the travel agents from paying Value Added Tax (VAT) on their commission earnings from sales of air tickets, according to an order. There was 15 per cent VAT, imposed in...

On-duty police constable dies in Chattogram road crash

On-duty police constable dies in Chattogram road crash

-- 2018-11-18 10:27:18

A traffic constable died after being hit by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw while he was performing duty at Baroihat Pouro Bazar in Mirsharai upazia of Chattogram on Sarurday night. The deceased was identifi...

‘Drug trader’ dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

‘Drug trader’ dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-11-18 10:24:06

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups at Dakhshin Lengurbil adjacent to the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Sunday. T...

BNP demands non-screening of Hasina’s docudrama

BNP demands non-screening of Hasina’s docudrama

-- 2018-11-17 21:23:30

BNP on Saturday demanded that the screening of docudrama titled 'Hasina, A Daughter's Tale' be stopped to check the violation of the electoral code of conduct. "Sheikh Hasina took interviews of her p...

Vehicular movement to be restricted inside cantonment on Wednesday

Vehicular movement to be restricted inside cantonment on Wednesday

-- 2018-11-17 21:14:34

The authorities of Dhaka Cantonment have imposed restriction on vehicular movement inside the area for November 21 (Wednesday). Various programmes will be celebrated in Dhaka cantonment on the occasi...

Pumpkin farming gains popularity in Rangpur

Pumpkin farming gains popularity in Rangpur

-- 2018-11-17 21:01:53

RANGPUR, Nov 17 (BSS): Some 25,000 char families changed their fortune by farming pumpkin on a vast a tract of land in Rangpur agriculture region over the last nine years.Earlier, these have-not group...

Market price frustrates Magura Aman growers

Market price frustrates Magura Aman growers

Our Correspondent 2018-11-17 21:00:38

MAGURA, Nov 17: Aman growers in the district are frustrated over the present market price. Sources said newly-harvested T-Aman paddy has started appearing in the local markets. Though a bumper product...

PEC, Ebtedayee exams from Sunday

PEC, Ebtedayee exams from Sunday

-- 2018-11-17 20:50:25

This year's Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee Examinations for the fifth graders will begin on Sunday. A total of 27,77,270 students will sit for the exams among which 12,78,000 studen...

No more election boycott: Dr Kamal

No more election boycott: Dr Kamal

-- 2018-11-17 20:49:58

Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain has said the anti-government political alliance will not boycott the election. He also urged people to get ready to guard the polling stations while addressin...

Truck runs over minor girl

Truck runs over minor girl

-- 2018-11-17 20:32:46

A minor girl was killed as a speeding truck ran over her on Sherpur-Nalitabari road in Sonnashivita village of Nalitabari Upazila on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Elahi Zhumur, 5...

Man electrocuted in Gopalganj

Man electrocuted in Gopalganj

-- 2018-11-17 17:58:14

A man was electrocuted while working in his house at Chitkibari village in Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Kartik Dhali, 40, of the village. Off...

Oikyafront seeks inspiration in Bhashani to win election

Oikyafront seeks inspiration in Bhashani to win election

-- 2018-11-17 17:48:41

Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday said Moulana Bhasani will be their source of inspiration to win the forthcoming polls. "Moulana Bhasani had played the key role in all the major...

Reza Kibria to contest polls as Oikyafront candidate

Reza Kibria to contest polls as Oikyafront candidate

-- 2018-11-17 17:09:18

Reza Kibria, son of former finance minister and Awami League leader Shah AMS Kibria, is going to join the upcoming 11th parliamentary elections as a candidate of Jatiya Oikyafront, a BNP alliance led...

Creating level-playing field EC’s job: Quader

Creating level-playing field EC’s job: Quader

-- 2018-11-17 16:56:21

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said it is the responsibility of the Election Commission to ensure a level-playing field for all the parties participating in the forthcoming...

BSS Managing Editor Shahriar Shahid passes away

BSS Managing Editor Shahriar Shahid passes away

-- 2018-11-17 15:08:51

Managing Editor (ME) of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Shahriar Shahid passed away while undergoing treatment at a city hospital around 1:50 pm on Saturday. He was 55. Shahriar, son of now defun...

Will punish biased polling officials: EC

Will punish biased polling officials: EC

-- 2018-11-17 14:22:36

Election Commissioner Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has warned election officials that they will face stern disciplinary action if found guilty of bias during the upcoming national election. A training...

Gopalganj clinic owner lands in jail

Gopalganj clinic owner lands in jail

-- 2018-11-17 12:29:01

A mobile court in Gopalganj sentenced a clinic owner to three months' jail for conducting caesarean section without any doctor or nurse at his clinic in Kotalipara upazila. Deshbandhu Biswas, 50, own...

Cops recover unidentified body in Narsingdi

Cops recover unidentified body in Narsingdi

-- 2018-11-17 12:20:19

Police recovered the body of an unidentified rickshaw-puller from Sebhasangha intersection in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi on Saturday morning. Mizan, a sub-inspector (SI) of Sadar Police Station, said...

Convicted robber dies in Munshiganj ‘shootout’

Convicted robber dies in Munshiganj ‘shootout’

-- 2018-11-17 11:33:29

A convicted robber was killed in a reported shootout with police in Munshiganj in the early hours of Saturday. He was Mohammad Tajel, 36, son of Din Islam Khorshed, convicted to seven years' jail in...

Youth held for posting PM’s ‘distorted’ photo on Facebook

Youth held for posting PM’s ‘distorted’ photo on Facebook

-- 2018-11-17 11:25:18

Police arrested a young man over an allegation of posting a distorted photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on social media site Facebook. The detainee was identified as Swapan Mandal, 21, son of Mos...

Man dies saving child's life in Jashore road crash

Man dies saving child's life in Jashore road crash

-- 2018-11-17 11:21:29

A man was killed in a road accident while saving a child by pushing him out of path of an oncoming ambulance on Navaran-Satkhira highway at Satmail under Sharsha upazila in Jashore on Friday. The dec...

Three hurt in Jashore bomb attack

Three hurt in Jashore bomb attack

-- 2018-11-17 11:16:04

Three people, including a Jubo League leader, were injured in a bomb attack in front of a park of Sharsha upazila in Jashore on Friday night. The injured were identified as Shariful Islam Pipul, 42,...

Sylhet farmers await good Aman harvest

Sylhet farmers await good Aman harvest

-- 2018-11-17 11:10:20

With their croplands filled with high yields of seasonal paddy Aman, farmers of Biswanath upazila are passionately taking their last-moment preparations for harvesting the silver crops. Although the...

895m tonnes of lentil start rotting in TCB warehouse

895m tonnes of lentil start rotting in TCB warehouse

Rezaul Karim 2018-11-17 10:32:54

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is likely to count huge losses as 894.621 million tonnes of lentil have started rotting in its warehouse, according to a source familiar with the matter. T...

BD largest recycler of oil tankers: UNCTAD

BD largest recycler of oil tankers: UNCTAD

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-11-17 10:23:21

Bangladesh remains one of the largest recyclers of old ships in the world, despite a decrease in the total tonnage demolished last year, according to a UNCTAD report. The country has become the buryi...

CPA moves to buy 130 more pieces of equipment

CPA moves to buy 130 more pieces of equipment

Syful Islam 2018-11-17 10:12:11

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has moved to buy 130 more pieces of equipment by next year aiming to provide better services to port users, officials have said. The existing equipment can cover 8...

Man surrenders after killing father in Chandpur         

Man surrenders after killing father in Chandpur      

-- 2018-11-16 22:48:23

A drug addict man surrendered before police after stabbing dead his father for refusing to give him money for drug in Uttar Ichali village of Chandpur Sadar Upazila on Friday. The deceased was identi...

Newborn baby found alive inside a bag in city

Newborn baby found alive inside a bag in city

-- 2018-11-16 22:27:17

A new born baby boy was recovered from a bag left in front of a house at Shamibag in the capital's Gendaria area on Friday. A local woman Romana Akhter found that an infant was moving inside the ba...

Son surrenders after killing father in Chandpur

Son surrenders after killing father in Chandpur

-- 2018-11-16 22:24:20

An addicted man surrendered before police after stabbing dead his father for refusing to give him money for drug in Uttar Ichali village of Sadar Upazila in Chandpur on Friday. The deceased was ident...