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Anti-narcotics crackdown: Nine more die in 'gunfights'

Anti-narcotics crackdown: Nine more die in 'gunfights'

-- 2018-05-23 12:13:09

Nine more people have been killed in what security forces described as gunfights as the government expanded its anti-drug crackdown across the country. Law-enforcement agencies said they engaged in g...

Another ‘drug trader’ dies in RAB 'shootout'

Another ‘drug trader’ dies in RAB 'shootout'

-- 2018-05-23 11:57:02

Another suspect has been killed in an alleged gunfight with the Rapid Action Battalion or RAB in Feni as the crackdown on drug traffickers continues.    Senior ASP Mimtanur Rahaman br...

Police detain 56 in Mymensingh

Police detain 56 in Mymensingh

-- 2018-05-23 10:55:37

Police in a special drive arrested 56 people from different parts of Mymensingh on Wednesday. Additional superintendent Joyeeta Shilpi of Mymensingh Police said, among the arrestees, 25 were accused...

Two die in Magura road crash

Two die in Magura road crash

-- 2018-05-23 10:45:04

Two people died and five others sustained injuries when a Magura-bound bus from Sreepur hit a motorcycle at Benipur in Magura Sadar upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Raju (40), son...

Govt plans commercial centres around two city railway stations

Govt plans commercial centres around two city railway stations

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-05-23 10:27:54

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has envisaged a project to establish commercial centres around the Kamalapur and Airport railway stations in the city at an estimated cost of Tk 50 billion (5,000 crore)....

Muktamoni loses battle with rare form of tumour

Muktamoni loses battle with rare form of tumour

-- 2018-05-23 10:25:35

Muktamoni, who was diagnosed with a tumour developed in her blood vessels on the right hand, has died at her residence in Dakkhin Kamar Baisha village in Satkhira sadar upazila on Wednesday morning....

New customs law unlikely to come into force from next FY

New customs law unlikely to come into force from next FY

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-05-23 10:12:37

The new customs law is unlikely to come into force from the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has yet to complete the process of placing the act before parliament. Off...

BB okays manual for issuing new treasury bond

BB okays manual for issuing new treasury bond

FE Report 2018-05-23 10:09:34

The central bank has approved a manual for the floating rate treasury bond (FRTB), paving the way for issuing such a debt instrument in the country. The government had earlier decided to issue such...

Global climate fund seeks legal immunity, tax waiver

Global climate fund seeks legal immunity, tax waiver

Syful Islam 2018-05-23 10:03:39

A global climate fund supporting the efforts of developing countries seeks enjoying immunity from legal process and other privileges from Bangladesh, officials said. The board of the Green Climate Fu...

Law enforcers use firearms in self-defence: Home minister

Law enforcers use firearms in self-defence: Home minister

-- 2018-05-22 21:59:09

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the law enforcers were forced to use firearms in self-defence. The minister came up with the statement on Tuesday amid the killings of alleged drug traders in...

Lightning panic grips  Barind farm labourers

Lightning panic grips Barind farm labourers

Our Correspondent 2018-05-22 21:53:45

RAJSHAHI, May 22: Farmers of Barind region are now busy in reaping Boro paddy. With the shortages of farm labourer, a new panic-death by being struck in thunderbolt has been added as a new panic among...

SC orders Citycell to pay BTRC Tk 1.28b

SC orders Citycell to pay BTRC Tk 1.28b

-- 2018-05-22 21:48:19

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ordered mobile phone operator Citycell to pay Tk 1.28 billion in dues to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). A four-member bench...

Coast guard ship ‘Tajuddin’ leaves for India

Coast guard ship ‘Tajuddin’ leaves for India

FE Online Report 2018-05-22 20:24:34

Bangladesh Coast Guard ship Tuesday ‘Tajuddin’ left Chattagram CG Berth Patenga for goodwill visit in India.   During its visit, the ship will stay in Chennai and Visakhapatam p...

PM to leave for Kolkata on Friday

PM to leave for Kolkata on Friday

-- 2018-05-22 20:24:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Kolkata on Friday to attend Visva Bharati Convocation Ceremony as the Guest of Honour and receive Degree of Doctor of Literature at Kazi Nazrul Univer...

Over 50 forest robbers to surrender on Wednesday

Over 50 forest robbers to surrender on Wednesday

-- 2018-05-22 20:06:26

Over 50 members of six forest robber gangs including their chiefs will surrender with their arms and ammunition on Wednesday. They will surrender at a ceremony at Rapid Action Battalion-6 office in L...

AK Azad faces ACC interrogation

AK Azad faces ACC interrogation

-- 2018-05-22 19:21:39

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday interrogated AK Azad, former president of apex trade body, over allegation of amassing wealth illegally. AK Azad is the owner of Ha-Meem group and ex-p...

Vigilance intensifies to check fake currency circulation

Vigilance intensifies to check fake currency circulation

-- 2018-05-22 17:55:38

Intelligence surveillance has been intensified across the country to check production, circulation and use of fake currencies during the holy month of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr. In a recent meeting at...

Bangabandhu-1 reaches orbital position

Bangabandhu-1 reaches orbital position

FE Online Report 2018-05-22 17:35:14

Bangladesh’s first commercial satellite Bangabandhu-1 has reached its orbital position on Tuesday, thus making a big step towards full scale operation. The satellite reached its allotted orbita...

Man attempts suicide after ‘strangling’ wife in Rajshahi

Man attempts suicide after ‘strangling’ wife in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-22 17:28:28

A man tried to commit suicide allegedly after killing his wife at Tanore upazila in Rajshahi on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Summatun Begum, 32, wife of Nisar Uddin of Juanpur village in t...

Bus plunge in city leaves one dead

Bus plunge in city leaves one dead

-- 2018-05-22 17:21:49

A man was killed and 25 others were injured as a passenger bus plunged into a ditch at Banasree on Rampura-Demra road in the capital on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred at about 9:30am when the...

Lightning kills two in Khulna, Sirajganj

Lightning kills two in Khulna, Sirajganj

-- 2018-05-22 17:03:37

Two people were killed in separate lightning strikes in Khulna and Sirajganj districts on Tuesday. In Khulna, a young man was killed and his friend injured as a thunderbolt struck them at Jugerati vi...

UN special envoy on Myanmar likely to visit BD in June

UN special envoy on Myanmar likely to visit BD in June

-- 2018-05-22 16:58:30

Newly appointed UN Secretary-General's special envoy on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has expressed willingness to visit the Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar camps. Burgener shared her willingne...

CNG stations to remain open for 24 hrs during Eid: Quader

CNG stations to remain open for 24 hrs during Eid: Quader

-- 2018-05-22 16:43:25

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said CNG filling stations across the country will remain open 24 hours for four days before and after the Eid-ul-Fitr. Quader, also the general...

Eid travellers will have ‘tolerable’ sufferings: Quader

Eid travellers will have ‘tolerable’ sufferings: Quader

-- 2018-05-22 16:40:06

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader Monday said people’s journey to their homes for Eid- Ul- Fitr will not be free of suffering. However, the suffering will be tolerable, said th...

DMP files 2,505 cases over traffic rule violations

DMP files 2,505 cases over traffic rule violations

-- 2018-05-22 14:46:24

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Monday filed 2,505 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also realised o...

Detectives nab two JMB suspects

Detectives nab two JMB suspects

-- 2018-05-22 14:43:52

Detectives in a drive arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Chandrapur under Gurudaspur upazila of Natore early Tuesday. The arrestees ha...

Khaleda files two more bail pleas with HC

Khaleda files two more bail pleas with HC

-- 2018-05-22 14:04:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed two more petitions with the High Court seeking bail in two separate cases. One of the cases was a defamation suit filed by Bangladesh Jananetri Parisad Pr...

Why not give Tk 10m in compensation to Nazim’s family, HC asks

Why not give Tk 10m in compensation to Nazim’s family, HC asks

-- 2018-05-22 14:02:57

The High Court has issued a rule asking the authorities concerned why Tk 10 million in compensation should not be given to the family of Nazim Uddin, who was killed in a city road crash on May 17. Se...

Ranga promises 100pc electricity in Gangachara soon

Ranga promises 100pc electricity in Gangachara soon

-- 2018-05-22 12:48:56

State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Mashiur Rahman Ranga has said there would be 100 per cent electricity coverage in Gangachara upazila by 2018. "As per pledge o...

Miscreants stab driver dead in Rajshahi

Miscreants stab driver dead in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-22 12:25:21

A human hauler driver was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Bheripara intersection in Rajshahi city on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Proshanta Kumar Ghosh, 22, son of Swap...