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No bar to hold BFUJ election

No bar to hold BFUJ election

-- 2018-07-09 16:42:22

A Labour Court on Monday cleared the way for holding the election of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ). First Labour Court Chairman Dr Shahjahan withdrew the stay order on the election f...

Cabinet approves draft of agriculture policy

Cabinet approves draft of agriculture policy

-- 2018-07-09 16:09:01

The cabinet has approved the draft of 'The National Agriculture Policy 2018', aiming to ensure profitable agriculture and nutrition and food security in the country. The approval was given at the wee...

Gaibandha road mishap kills two

Gaibandha road mishap kills two

-- 2018-07-09 16:06:17

Two people were killed and 24 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Dhaka-Rangpur highway at Kalitala Bazar in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha on Monday. The deceased could not...

0.58m youths become self-employed in nine years

0.58m youths become self-employed in nine years

-- 2018-07-09 16:03:32

The Department of Youth Development said around 0.58 million youths had become self-employed after receiving training from the department in the last nine years, an official said.  “Around...

Mymensingh-Jamalpur rail link resumes after 17 hours

Mymensingh-Jamalpur rail link resumes after 17 hours

-- 2018-07-09 15:04:05

The train communication between Mymensingh and Jamalpur has been restored on Monday afternoon after 17 hours of disruption following derailment of a local train at Mintu College Road intersection in t...

Ctg private hospitals call off strike

Ctg private hospitals call off strike

-- 2018-07-09 13:39:08

Owners of private hospitals and medical centres in Chattogram have called off a 20-hour halt to services for new patients after receiving ‘assurances’. Private Hospital and Lab Owners Ass...

BNP's 7-hour hunger strike underway

BNP's 7-hour hunger strike underway

-- 2018-07-09 12:50:57

BNP has started a seven-hour token hunger strike at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in Dhaka city on Monday protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its stay on bail granted by the High Court to Khaleda Zi...

Drug suspect sustains injuries in Rajshahi ‘gunfight’

Drug suspect sustains injuries in Rajshahi ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-07-09 12:34:26

A suspected drug trader was injured in a reported gunfight with police at Baliadying under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi early Sunday. The injured was identified as Matiur Rahman Moti, 30, son of Amir...

Coast guard arrests two with deer, pistols in Satkhira

Coast guard arrests two with deer, pistols in Satkhira

-- 2018-07-09 12:33:25

Members of Coast Guard arrested two suspected poachers along with three deer and two pistols from Deboki in the Sundarbans under Satkhira on early Monday. The arrestees were identified as Abdul Aziz...

Easy-bike driver dies from electrocution

Easy-bike driver dies from electrocution

-- 2018-07-09 11:32:09

An easy-bike driver has died from electrocution at Kashinathpur village in Magura sadar upazila on Monday morning. Bike driver Ronny Ahmed, 25, son of Towhid Matabbar, received a powerful jolt while...

Board seeks RMG pay plans within week

Board seeks RMG pay plans within week

FE Report 2018-07-09 10:42:32

The minimum wage board for ready-made garment (RMG) sector has given a week's time to the representatives of owners and workers to submit their proposals. It asked both parties on Sunday to submit th...

SPCBL grapples with shortage of printing machines

SPCBL grapples with shortage of printing machines

Rezaul Karim 2018-07-09 10:39:05

The security printing press is facing difficulties in meeting the growing demand for bank cheques due to lack of required printing machines, official sources said. One out of two printing machines ha...

Bitter gourd cultivators making  profit in Bogura district

Bitter gourd cultivators making profit in Bogura district

Our Correspondent 2018-07-08 21:39:17

BOGURA, July 08: Bitter gourd cultivators of Bogura district are making profit due to its good market price this season. Rampant soaring market price of the crops delights hundreds of marginal peasan...

Good yield of Haribhanga mango fails to make growers smile

Good yield of Haribhanga mango fails to make growers smile

Our Correspondent 2018-07-08 21:38:18

RANGPUR, July 08: A good yield of Haribhanga mango has failed to bring smile to the growers of the district owing to its low price in markets. Sources said, the Haribhanga mango cultivators of the di...

Heavy rain damages sugarcane on 200 acres of land in Pabna

Heavy rain damages sugarcane on 200 acres of land in Pabna

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-08 21:37:27

PABNA, July 08: Over 200 acres of prospective sugarcane cropland have been damaged by early heavy rain at sugar mill zone area in Pabna district. Meanwhile around 300 sugarcane peasants are victimize...

An extraordinary school of an ordinary village

An extraordinary school of an ordinary village

Our Correspondent 2018-07-08 21:36:18

MAGURA, July 08: The story is about an extra-ordinary school of an ordinary village in Magura. The name of this school is Pashcim Bariala Government Primary School. Pashcim Bariala is a village und...

BD produces record 11,059MW electricity

BD produces record 11,059MW electricity

-- 2018-07-08 21:11:29

The country produced a record of 11,059 megawatts (MWs) electricity at 8:00pm on Saturday night. The power sector has crossed the earlier record of 10,958MWs electricity generated on May 28 this year...

'99pc people have toilet facilities in Bangladesh'

'99pc people have toilet facilities in Bangladesh'

-- 2018-07-08 20:46:04

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has said currently 99 per cent people of Bangladesh have toilet facilities. The minister came up with the remarks while responding to a starr...

Two workers die after inhaling toxic gas

Two workers die after inhaling toxic gas

-- 2018-07-08 20:17:18

Two workers have died after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank of a house at Maligas area in Tentulia upazila in Panchagarh on Sunday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Bablu Mia, 20, son of...

Quota reform leader Rashed on 10-day fresh remand

Quota reform leader Rashed on 10-day fresh remand

-- 2018-07-08 18:58:20

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Rashed Khan, joint convener of Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Council, on a 10-day fresh remand in two separate cases filed with Shahbagh Police Station....

Parliament extends women’s reserved seats by 25 years

Parliament extends women’s reserved seats by 25 years

-- 2018-07-08 18:37:58

The parliament has passed the seventeenth amendment to the constitution extending the tenure of the women reserve seat for more 25 years. The Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, 2018 was passe...

Two children drown in Sunamganj

Two children drown in Sunamganj

-- 2018-07-08 18:14:27

Two children drowned in a waterbody at Uttar Bir village under Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj on Sunday noon. The deceased were identified as Modakkir Mia, 3, son of Bappi Mia and his cousin Md Mon...

Create competent manpower to sustain in global race: PM

Create competent manpower to sustain in global race: PM

-- 2018-07-08 18:08:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday emphasised creating competent manpower to sustain in the tough global race. “The world is progressing fast and Bangladesh has to keep pace with the race....

ACC to quiz seven linked to Panama, Paradise Papers

ACC to quiz seven linked to Panama, Paradise Papers

-- 2018-07-08 17:55:24

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned seven individuals whose names have been appeared in the leaks of Panama Papers and Paradise Papers. A senior official of the commission confirmed the inf...

Miscreants abduct UPDF leader, 14 others in Rangamati

Miscreants abduct UPDF leader, 14 others in Rangamati

-- 2018-07-08 17:52:50

A leader of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) and 14 others were allegedly abducted at gunpoint by some miscreants from Kaukhali and Naniarchar upazilas in Rangamati on Sunday. In Naniarchar up...

'Quota review committee to collect global data'

'Quota review committee to collect global data'

-- 2018-07-08 17:22:35

The committee formed to review the quota system for government jobs will collect information on the quota system from various global sources. The decision was taken at its first meeting, chaired by C...

Private hospital owners start indefinite strike in Chattogram

Private hospital owners start indefinite strike in Chattogram

-- 2018-07-08 17:09:00

Private hospital owners in Chattogram have announced an indefinite halt to services for new patients protesting a raid by mobile court at Max Hospital, where a child died as a result of negligence. E...

Doctors refer injured RU quota reformist to Dhaka

Doctors refer injured RU quota reformist to Dhaka

-- 2018-07-08 16:58:03

Tariqul Islam Tareq, an injured quota reform movement leader of Rajshahi University, is being brought to Dhaka on Sunday. Tareq, the joint convener of Rajshahi University unit of Bangladesh General S...

Shajahan Khan sees conspiracy behind quota movement

Shajahan Khan sees conspiracy behind quota movement

-- 2018-07-08 16:50:34

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has claimed that the anti-liberation forces are hatching conspiracies in the name of quota reform movement. "Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamat-e-Islami,...

China wants visible outcome over Rohingya crisis

China wants visible outcome over Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-07-08 16:46:39

China has urged Myanmar to start repatriation of Rohingyas as soon as possible and to reach some visible outcome over the crisis as soon as possible. Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Zhang Zuo came up wit...