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BGB detains hundi trader with Tk 1.3m

BGB detains hundi trader with Tk 1.3m

-- 2018-10-24 11:38:36

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a hundi trader along with Tk 1.3 million from Uttarpara in Putkhali bordering area of Benapole on Tuesday night. The arrestee has been identified as...

ADB to use UNDP strength for CHT community development

ADB to use UNDP strength for CHT community development

FE Report 2018-10-24 10:28:02

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday signed an administrative arrangement to promote sustainable management of community development for Chit...

ACC grills six AB Bank officials

ACC grills six AB Bank officials

FE Report 2018-10-24 10:25:55

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has interrogated six top officials of AB Bank Ltd including a former managing director in connection with loan disbursement against fake mortgage documents. The o...

Electrification helps boost business in rural areas

Electrification helps boost business in rural areas

Sajibur Rahman 2018-10-24 10:15:01

Subsidised tariff for electricity consumers has led to a positive impact on household income and expenditure, small-scale business and agriculture, a recent study has revealed. Besides, it helped pro...

Magura Aman farmers applying perching method to kill insects

Magura Aman farmers applying perching method to kill insects

Our Correspondent 2018-10-23 23:09:49

MAGURA, Oct 23: Most of the farmers in the district are applying the perching method to kill insects in their Aman paddy field.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Magura, sources said some...

Bumper yield, fair prices bring smile on  faces of Bogura banana growers

Bumper yield, fair prices bring smile on faces of Bogura banana growers

Our Correspondent 2018-10-23 23:09:09

BOGURA, Oct 23: Banana growers in the district are delighted over the bumper production and fair market prices this season.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources sai...

Dragon fruit cultivation gains  popularity in Rajshahi region

Dragon fruit cultivation gains popularity in Rajshahi region

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-23 23:08:45

NAOGAON, Oct 13: Experimental dragon fruit farming has brought smile on the faces of grassroots farmers in Raninagar upazila of the district this season.Sources said the fruit cultivation is expanding...

Razee Hasan becomes head of financial intelligence unit

Razee Hasan becomes head of financial intelligence unit

-- 2018-10-23 21:14:02

Former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan has become the head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) on a contractual basis. The Public Administration Ministry i...

Home minister dismisses allegation of Mainul arrest as political

Home minister dismisses allegation of Mainul arrest as political

-- 2018-10-23 21:10:52

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said Barrister Mainul Hosein was not arrested for any political reason but for using degretory words at journalist Masuda Bhatti. He came up with the remarks...

Angry mob catches ‘mugger’ in Jashore

Angry mob catches ‘mugger’ in Jashore

-- 2018-10-23 20:57:00

A suspected mugger was caught by angry mob while snatching money from a school teacher at DC Banglo area of the city on Tuesday. The locals handed the man to police after giving him a mass beating, w...

21 species of migratory birds may carry avian virus: Minister

21 species of migratory birds may carry avian virus: Minister

-- 2018-10-23 20:53:47

Environment Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said twenty-one species of migratory birds may carry avian influenza virus to Bangladesh during the winter season. "Some 244 species of migratory birds us...

‘BCL men’ attack quota reformists at DU

‘BCL men’ attack quota reformists at DU

-- 2018-10-23 20:28:08

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists allegedly attacked the quota reformists on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Tuesday, leaving three injured, reports UNB. The injured are Ratul Sarker, Fa...

Bill seeking int’l standard in maintaining weight, measurement passed

Bill seeking int’l standard in maintaining weight, measurement passed

-- 2018-10-23 19:56:30

The 'Standards of Weights and Measures Bill, 2018', was passed in Parliament on Tuesday, seeking to achieve the international standard in maintaining weight and measurement of products. Industries Mi...

Skilled BD workers can get employment in Japan: Envoy

Skilled BD workers can get employment in Japan: Envoy

-- 2018-10-23 19:25:40

Bangladesh has a tremendous prospect of sending skilled workers to Japan as both the population and workforce in Japan are gradually shrinking. Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan Rabab Fatima said this o...

UNDP delegation meets JS Speaker

UNDP delegation meets JS Speaker

-- 2018-10-23 19:11:09

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Democratic Governance Portfolio Manager Mahmuda Afroz paid a courtesy call on Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury at her office...

Three to die for killing Meherpur auto-rickshaw driver

Three to die for killing Meherpur auto-rickshaw driver

-- 2018-10-23 18:41:10

A Meherpur court on Tuesday sentenced three people to death and two others to three years' imprisonment for killing the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in 2016. The condemned convicts are Alamg...

ADB, UNDP to promote CHT community development

ADB, UNDP to promote CHT community development

-- 2018-10-23 17:34:10

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday signed an administrative arrangement to promote sustainable management of community development for the Chit...

BNP leaders Shamim, Bakkar put on remand

BNP leaders Shamim, Bakkar put on remand

-- 2018-10-23 17:27:48

A Chattogram court on Tuesday placed BNP organising secretary for Chattogram division Mahbubur Rahman Shamim and city unit general secretary Abul Hashem Bakkar on a one-day remand in a case filed for...

Prabarana Purnima on Wednesday

Prabarana Purnima on Wednesday

-- 2018-10-23 17:17:57

The Buddhist community will celebrate their second largest religious festival, Prabarana Purnima, in the city as elsewhere across the country tomorrow (Wednesday) with due solemnity. The festival is...

'Graduating LDCs need preferential treatment'

'Graduating LDCs need preferential treatment'

-- 2018-10-23 17:02:12

President Abdul Hamid has said graduating least developed countries (LDCs) should get preferential treatment for a reasonable period. Calling for making the international system equitable, the presid...

Boatman injured in ‘gunfight’ in Padma

Boatman injured in ‘gunfight’ in Padma

-- 2018-10-23 16:50:47

The boatman of a riverboat carrying a team of river police sustained bullet injuries in a reported gunfight between the law enforcers and fishermen in the Padma River in Louhajong upazila on Tuesday m...

DU to hold Gha Unit admission test again

DU to hold Gha Unit admission test again

-- 2018-10-23 16:25:42

Dhaka University (DU) authorities have decided to hold fresh admission test for its Gha Unit amid allegations of questions leak in the previous test. Only 18,464 or 26.21 per cent of candidates who h...

Mainul Hosein lands in jail

Mainul Hosein lands in jail

-- 2018-10-23 14:50:28

A Dhaka court has sent Barrister Mainul Hosein, a former adviser to the military-controlled caretaker government, to jail in a case filed over his remarks on TV defaming journalist Masuda Bhatti. Dha...

EU delivers addl €15m support for Rohingya refugees

EU delivers addl €15m support for Rohingya refugees

-- 2018-10-23 14:34:12

The European Union has said it is committed to help finding a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis and delivered additional 15 million in support to assist Rohingyas in Bangladesh. Neven Mimic...

Decision on election-time cabinet on Oct 26: Quader

Decision on election-time cabinet on Oct 26: Quader

-- 2018-10-23 14:32:18

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the decision on the size of the election-time cabinet will be taken at a meeting on October 26. A joint meeting of Awami League cen...

Two die in Chattogram truck accident

Two die in Chattogram truck accident

-- 2018-10-23 14:25:51

Two people were killed and another injured after a truck hit another one on Dhaka-Chottagram Highway in Barotakia area of Mirsarai upazila of the port city on early Tuesday. The deceased were identif...

Dhaka court discharges Salim Osman from teacher assault case

Dhaka court discharges Salim Osman from teacher assault case

-- 2018-10-23 14:05:38

A Dhaka court has discharged Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Salim Osman from a case filed over humiliating school teacher Shyamol Kanti Bhakta in public in Narayanganj in 2016. Chief Judicial Magistrat...

President reaches Geneva

President reaches Geneva

-- 2018-10-23 13:50:27

President Abdul Hamid has reached Geneva of Switzerland to attend Global Leaders Investment Summit and 20th Annual Session of the Homeland and Global Security Forum. An Emirates flight carrying the...

Pollution, grabbling put three Khulna rivers in peril

Pollution, grabbling put three Khulna rivers in peril

FE Report 2018-10-23 13:21:23

Three rivers - the Mayur, the Bhairab and the Rupsa - running beside the city are now under rampant human assaults due to encroachment and unchecked pollution. The dumping of untreated industrial was...

Gaibandha boiler blast kills college girl

Gaibandha boiler blast kills college girl

-- 2018-10-23 12:26:33

A female college student was killed in a boiler blast incident at Paschimpara in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha district on Tuesday morning. The deceased has been identified as Sharmin Akhter, accor...