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‘Govt ensures availability of safe food’

‘Govt ensures availability of safe food’

-- 2018-09-25 16:52:43

Food Minister Adv Qamrul Islam on Tuesday said the government has ensured availability of safe foods. “The government has developed 146 social safety nets. We are now self-reliant in food produ...

Sylhet BNP leader lands in jailed

Sylhet BNP leader lands in jailed

-- 2018-09-25 16:49:26

A Sylhet court on Tuesday sent a local BNP leader to jail after rejecting his bail plea in a case filed over creating hindrance to police. The leader is BNP city unit general secretary Ali Ahmed. J...

Police recover 11 bombs in Habiganj

Police recover 11 bombs in Habiganj

-- 2018-09-25 16:44:14

Police in a drive recovered six crude bombs and five petrol bombs from Rakhi village in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district early Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted a drive...

Three to die for housewife murder in Madaripur

Three to die for housewife murder in Madaripur

-- 2018-09-25 16:11:18

A court in Madaripur on Tuesday sentenced three people to death for killing a housewife in Rocketbiri area of the district town in 2013. District and Sessions Judge Sharif Uddin Ahmed announced the v...

BNP shifts rally to Saturday from Thursday

BNP shifts rally to Saturday from Thursday

-- 2018-09-25 14:32:39

The BNP has shifted its scheduled rally to September 29 from September 27 in Dhaka city. “I announced yesterday that the rally will be held on Thursday. It has been changed. Now the rally will...

Govt wants free, fair, participatory polls: PM

Govt wants free, fair, participatory polls: PM

-- 2018-09-25 14:20:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government wants the next general elections be held in a free and fair manner and all political parties to join it. She made the remarks when UK Secretary of...

Padma currents disrupt ferry service

Padma currents disrupt ferry service

-- 2018-09-25 12:33:03

Ferry service on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route has been disrupted since Tuesday morning due to strong current on the Padma River, inflicting miseries to passengers. More than 400 vehicles including goo...

PM urges global community to invest in education sector

PM urges global community to invest in education sector

-- 2018-09-25 11:58:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for more private sector investment in the development of education sector, saying that traditional aid will not be enough to fill the gaps in educati...

Five die as truck rams into crowd in Chattogram

Five die as truck rams into crowd in Chattogram

-- 2018-09-25 11:10:55

Four auto-rickshaw drivers and a passenger were killed while two others injured as a speeding truck rammed into a crowd at an auto-rickshaw stand in Thakurdighi area of Mirsharai upazila on Tuesday mo...

Govt to bring all unions under Internet facility by June 2019

Govt to bring all unions under Internet facility by June 2019

FE Report 2018-09-25 10:59:31

Posts, Telecommuni-cations and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar said on Monday that the government will bring all unions of the country under the Internet facility by June 2019. "The government is making...

PM calls for ensuring Rohingya children’s rights in Myanmar

PM calls for ensuring Rohingya children’s rights in Myanmar

-- 2018-09-25 10:53:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community to invest in Myanmar so that the Rohingya children can enjoy their rights including the right to education upon their return to Myanm...

Lack of open space hits metro rail projects

Lack of open space hits metro rail projects

Munima Sultana 2018-09-25 10:51:51

The scarcity of open space in the city is gradually limiting the scope of constructing metro rail, project officials and experts said. They said the ongoing metro rail projects have already hit a s...

Govt rushes to take up Rohingya rehab projects at higher cost

Govt rushes to take up Rohingya rehab projects at higher cost

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-09-25 09:41:01

The government is in a hurry to take up some Rohingya rehabilitation projects in Cox's Bazar even with higher-than-standard cost estimations, officials said on Monday. They said some government agenc...

PM places three recommendations at UN to end Rohingya crisis

PM places three recommendations at UN to end Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-09-25 00:17:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday placed three recommendations, including abolishing discriminatory laws, policies and practices by Myanmar against Rohingyas, to solve the protracted Rohingya cri...

Pottery industry in Badalgachhi on the  verge of extinction

Pottery industry in Badalgachhi on the verge of extinction

Our Correspondent 2018-09-24 21:40:37

NAOGAON, Sept 24: The traditional pottery industry in Badalgachhi upazila of the district is on the verge of extinction. Hundreds of potters in the area have been thrown into uncertainty. Many potter...

Bangabandhu-I ready for commercial operation

Bangabandhu-I ready for commercial operation

-- 2018-09-24 21:12:26

Country's first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I is now ready for commercial operation after getting satisfactory results from all technical tests. Bangladesh Communication Satelli...

BNP’s rally in city Thursday 

BNP’s rally in city Thursday 

-- 2018-09-24 20:53:46

BNP will hold a public rally in the capital on Thursday to press their various demands, including the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir...

Neighbour violates physically challenged girl in Sirajganj

Neighbour violates physically challenged girl in Sirajganj

-- 2018-09-24 20:42:00

A physically challenged young girl was reportedly violated by his neighbour at Mahishamura village in Sadar upazila on Sunday. Locals said Shahidul Islam stormed the house of their neighbour at after...

PM to inaugurate Bhasan Char project on October 4

PM to inaugurate Bhasan Char project on October 4

-- 2018-09-24 20:37:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the housing project for Rohingya refugees at the Bhasan Char island in Noakhali on October 4. Mohammad Habibul Kabir Chowdhury, an additional secretary at...

Two girls ‘gang-raped’ in Ctg

Two girls ‘gang-raped’ in Ctg

-- 2018-09-24 20:19:28

Two teenage girls were reportedly gang raped by eight people at Station Road in the port city Chattogram. Police said the girls went to a business establishment in the area on Sunday in search of job...

DSCC cleaning campaign sets Guinness World Record

DSCC cleaning campaign sets Guinness World Record

-- 2018-09-24 19:23:14

Dhaka Clean-up Campaign, organised by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the capital on April 13 last, has hit the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest clean-up campaign. DSCC Public Rel...

Workshop on handling aviation disaster in airports held

Workshop on handling aviation disaster in airports held

-- 2018-09-24 18:36:53

A daylong workshop on “Mutual co-operation in handling aviation disaster in Airports” was held at BAF Base Bangabandhu in the capital on Monday. Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) organised the e...

Biman Tourism Fest to begin Sept 27

Biman Tourism Fest to begin Sept 27

-- 2018-09-24 18:29:20

A three-day colourful festival and musical show will start at Rabindra Sarobor in Dhanmondi, one of the capital’s popular cultural hubs, on September 27 to celebrate the World Tourism Day with t...

Two accused in Zia Charitable case to file no-confidence motion

Two accused in Zia Charitable case to file no-confidence motion

-- 2018-09-24 17:59:02

Two accused of Zia Charitable Trust Graft case on Monday in a written application expressed their no-confidence on the judge of the special makeshift court in the old central jail in the city. Two ac...

Mentally-challenged son gets life term for killing parents

Mentally-challenged son gets life term for killing parents

-- 2018-09-24 17:48:43

A Panchagarh court on Monday sentenced a mentally-challenged son to life term imprisonment for killing his parents in 2015. According to the prosecution, Manjurul Hasan Shanta of Ramerdanga in the di...

President reaches Kishoreganj on five-day visit

President reaches Kishoreganj on five-day visit

-- 2018-09-24 17:21:59

President Md Abdul Hamid reached Kishoreganj on a five-day tour to attend several programmes in his home district. This is the second visit of Abdul Hamid to his village home in the remote area of Ki...

'Hotchpotch' unity is not sustainable: Quader

'Hotchpotch' unity is not sustainable: Quader

-- 2018-09-24 17:06:24

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the unity forged by Dr Kamal Hossain is not sustainable. "The unity forged by Dr Kamal is not a national unity. This is one type of 'hotchpotch'...

5.0m ultra poor families get 1.0m MT rice in two years

5.0m ultra poor families get 1.0m MT rice in two years

-- 2018-09-24 16:57:09

The government distributed nearly 1.0 million tonnes of rice at ‘lower price’ among 5.0 million ultra poor families across the country in two years under the food-friendly programme that b...

Corrupts plotting together to oust govt: PM

Corrupts plotting together to oust govt: PM

-- 2018-09-24 15:43:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain and Jukto Front chief AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury of plotting the government's ouster with the BNP and other ‘corrupt&...

CU teacher lands in jail over ‘derogatory remarks on PM’

CU teacher lands in jail over ‘derogatory remarks on PM’

-- 2018-09-24 15:35:37

Maidul Islam, an assistant professor of Chittagong University (CU), has been sent to jail on Monday in a case filed over making 'derogatory remarks' on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook. Distr...