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House loses Tk 1.25b in quorum crisis: TIB

House loses Tk 1.25b in quorum crisis: TIB

FE Online Report 2018-05-17 15:21:54

The parliament has failed to play its basic role in the areas of governance, corruption and accountability, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has said. Only 9.0 per cent of the time was spe...

PM for Nuremberg trial system for war criminals

PM for Nuremberg trial system for war criminals

FE Online Desk 2018-05-17 14:09:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid emphasis on introducing Nuremberg trial system in the country where there will be no need for any witness against war criminals. "There’s no need for any w...

Three international flights miss arrival schedules at Shahjalal airport

Three international flights miss arrival schedules at Shahjalal airport

FE Online Report 2018-05-17 13:08:41

Three international flights have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. Saudi Airlines from Riyadh was scheduled to arrive at the airport...

Rohingya repatriation: BD-Myanmar meeting underway

Rohingya repatriation: BD-Myanmar meeting underway

-- 2018-05-17 12:51:14

The second meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG), dedicated to overseeing the repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar, has begun in Dhaka city, aiming to expedite the verification and...

Two die in Sherpur road mishap

Two die in Sherpur road mishap

-- 2018-05-17 12:39:29

Two people were killed and four others injured in a road accident at Kandapara in Sherpur district town on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Khoka Mia, 22, son of Riaz Uddin of Kandapara vill...

Rajshahi markets set to sell delicious mangoes

Rajshahi markets set to sell delicious mangoes

-- 2018-05-17 12:29:33

Some indigenous varieties of mango including tasty Gopalbhog are going to appear in Rajshahi markets as ban will be end on harvesting of the seasonal delicious fruit. Farmers, traders and others conc...

SC verdict on appeal over Rajib’s compensation Monday

SC verdict on appeal over Rajib’s compensation Monday

-- 2018-05-17 12:08:27

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Monday on a petition filed by Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) seeking a stay on a High Court order directing it to provide half of Tk 10 mill...

Customs seizes Tk 46.8m gold at Dhaka airport

Customs seizes Tk 46.8m gold at Dhaka airport

-- 2018-05-17 11:32:25

Customs officials have recovered 80 gold bars weighing 9.28 kilograms from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Thursday. Ataul Islam, inspector custo...

Hasina’s Homecoming Day today

Hasina’s Homecoming Day today

FE Online Desk 2018-05-17 11:05:07

On this day in 1981, Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home from India after nearly six years in exile. Her exile followed the assassination of Father of the Nation Ban...

60 babies born a day in Rohingya camps: UN

60 babies born a day in Rohingya camps: UN

Reuters 2018-05-17 10:59:31

Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh December 10, 2017. Reuters/Files Around 60 babies a day are being born in vast refugee cam...

BCL activist stabs RU student

BCL activist stabs RU student

-- 2018-05-17 10:37:54

An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the ruling Awami League, on Wednesday stabbed a student at Rajshahi University allegedly for protesting the harassment of his female friend....

'Drug trader' dies in 'gunfight' with RAB

'Drug trader' dies in 'gunfight' with RAB

-- 2018-05-17 10:31:08

A suspected drug trader was killed in a shooutout between their cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members at Paschim Naboganga Kashiadanga in Rajshahi city early Thursday. The deceased was ide...

Forex market: BB mulls uniform calculation of forward rates

Forex market: BB mulls uniform calculation of forward rates

FE Report 2018-05-17 09:41:22

The central bank plans to develop uniformity of calculation in case of forward rates among the banks aiming to ensure discipline in the country's foreign exchange market. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) h...

Over 75pc pasteurised milk not safe for direct consumption

Over 75pc pasteurised milk not safe for direct consumption

FE Report 2018-05-17 09:38:10

More than 75 per cent of all pasteurised milk available in the local market is unsafe for direct consumption, according to findings of a study revealed Wednesday. At every stage of the dairy value...

Hasina’s Homecoming Day Thursday

Hasina’s Homecoming Day Thursday

-- 2018-05-16 21:38:52

The 38th Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be observed on Thursday. On May 17, 1981, Sheikh Hasina returned home from India after nearly six years in exil...

Nursery business boosting solvency of farmers in Bogura

Nursery business boosting solvency of farmers in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2018-05-16 21:22:36

BOGURA, May 16: Nursery business is boosting solvency amid farmers in Bogura district from last few years. Mitigating the local demand, they are sending the sapling to the different adjacent district...

People to shun BNP in next general election, says Quader

People to shun BNP in next general election, says Quader

-- 2018-05-16 21:10:31

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said voters will reject the BNP in the upcoming national election as it has refused to accept the outcome of Khulna city polls in which people voted e...

Ramadan begins from Friday

Ramadan begins from Friday

-- 2018-05-16 20:10:47

The holy month of Ramadan, the month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence, will begin in Bangladesh from Friday. The National Moon-sighting Committee took the decision at a meeting on...

Betbunia station ready to control Bangabandhu-1

Betbunia station ready to control Bangabandhu-1

-- 2018-05-16 20:09:21

Satellite ground station at Betbunia in Rangamati is ready for controlling and operating Bangladesh's first satellite, Bangabandhu-1, from the earth. Confirming the information, Project manager at th...

DSCC mayor pledges liveable Dhaka city

DSCC mayor pledges liveable Dhaka city

-- 2018-05-16 18:41:58

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Wednesday reaffirmed his commitment to turn the Dhaka city a livable one within his tenure. "Please have faith on us. Stay with us and coope...

BD to join OIC special summit in Istanbul

BD to join OIC special summit in Istanbul

-- 2018-05-16 18:10:11

Bangladesh will attend a special summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who currently holds its rotating chairmanship. Turkey announced it...

BGB arrests man with Indian rupee in Benapole

BGB arrests man with Indian rupee in Benapole

-- 2018-05-16 17:40:17

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a man along with 10 lakh Indian rupee from Gatipara border area in Sadar Upazila in Jashore on Wednesday afternoon. The arrestee is Abdul Samad, 40,...

ACC to prepare list of top graft suspects

ACC to prepare list of top graft suspects

-- 2018-05-16 17:17:35

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will prepare a list of top graft suspects through its intelligence unit by the year end to launch probe against them for effectively fighting corruption in differe...

DWASA to raise water tariffs by 5.0pc from July

DWASA to raise water tariffs by 5.0pc from July

-- 2018-05-16 17:08:28

FE Report Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is set to increase its water tariffs by five per cent for both domestic and industrial consumers from July, officials said. "The proposa...

RAB arrests two with fake notes in Joypurhat

RAB arrests two with fake notes in Joypurhat

-- 2018-05-16 17:07:51

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people and recovered fake notes worth Tk 157,000 from Rail station area under Akkelpur upazila in Joypurhat on Tuesday night. The arrestees w...

Tobacco causes 0.16m death every year: Minister

Tobacco causes 0.16m death every year: Minister

-- 2018-05-16 16:53:51

Tobacco causes over 0.16 million death every year in the country, 25.54 per cent of adult men and 9.68 per cent women, State Minister for Healthand Family Welfare Zahid Malek said. "Each year at leas...

Met office asks to hoist signal no. 2

Met office asks to hoist signal no. 2

-- 2018-05-16 16:25:34

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) in Dhaka on Wednesday issued warning for river ports of 16 districts in the country wherein river ports should hoist riverine warning signal number two. The...

Focus most on basic rights: PM

Focus most on basic rights: PM

FE Online Desk 2018-05-16 16:00:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the police to give the highest importance to people’s basic and human rights and the rule of law while discharging their duties. Stressing on gaining...

Cops kill rape suspect in Feni ‘shootout’

Cops kill rape suspect in Feni ‘shootout’

-- 2018-05-16 13:42:53

Police have killed a man accused in six criminal cases in a gunfight in Feni. The shootout took place in Daganbhuiyan upazila’s Khushipur village early Wednesday, said local police station chief...

Ramadan in Bangladesh: Moon sighting panel sits tonight

Ramadan in Bangladesh: Moon sighting panel sits tonight

-- 2018-05-16 13:12:55

Members of the National Moon Sighting Committee will sit in a meeting today (Wednesday) to ascertain the commencement of holy Ramadan, the lunar month of self-purification through fasting and abstinen...