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660MW 1st unit of Payra coal-fired plant by June 2019

660MW 1st unit of Payra coal-fired plant by June 2019

-- 2018-04-02 18:17:30

The first unit of Payra Ultra Super-Critical Coal-fired Power Plant having a 660MW generation capacity is expected to go into operation by June 2019. "The plant will be an eco-friendly one with clean...

Mymensingh becomes city corporation

Mymensingh becomes city corporation

-- 2018-04-02 17:55:49

Mymensingh, one of the eight divisional headquarters, has become the 12 city corporation in the country. The National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation (NICAR) on Monday appr...

Two die in Gazipur road accident

Two die in Gazipur road accident

-- 2018-04-02 17:24:09

Two people were killed in a road accident at Chandra area on the Kaliakoir-Nabinagar Road in Gazipur on Monday. Witnesses said Bogra-bound bus rammed into a three-wheeler near a Walton factory at Cha...

Govt changes English spellings of five districts

Govt changes English spellings of five districts

-- 2018-04-02 17:24:04

The government has changed the English spellings of five districts to make them sound similar to the Bangla alphabet. The new spellings are Chattogram (for Chittagong), Barishal (for Barisal), Cumill...

PM making ‘mockery’ with people: Rizvi

PM making ‘mockery’ with people: Rizvi

-- 2018-04-02 16:59:33

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is making 'mockery' with people by seeking vote for her party after 'snatching' voting right. The BNP le...

Measures taken to prevent question paper leaks: Nahid

Measures taken to prevent question paper leaks: Nahid

FE Online Report 2018-04-02 14:27:08

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said all measures have been taken to prevent question paper leak in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations of Bangladesh. He said, “...

Fakhrul hospitalised with chest pain

Fakhrul hospitalised with chest pain

-- 2018-04-02 14:03:19

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been admitted to a Dhaka hospital as he complained of chest pain. Vice Chairman of the party Dr AJDM Zahid Hossain said Mirza Fakhrul has been pl...

Stand by people with autism: PM

Stand by people with autism: PM

-- 2018-04-02 13:52:46

Stressing the mentality change towards persons with disabilities, including those with autism, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said they should get the opportunity to flourish their talent. &l...

Minor boy slips into Joypurhat pond, dies

Minor boy slips into Joypurhat pond, dies

-- 2018-04-02 13:15:56

A five-year-old boy has died after falling into a pond of Komor village in Joypurhat sadar upazila. The deceased, Mohit, was the son of one Yusuf Ali of the village, reports a news agency. Officer-i...

Bullet-hit Pabna BCL leader dies at RMCH

Bullet-hit Pabna BCL leader dies at RMCH

-- 2018-04-02 11:51:15

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), who was shot and stabbed Sunday evening allegedly by his rivals at Pakshi Rooppur intersection in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila, has died at Rajshah...

BGMEA gets another year to demolish building

BGMEA gets another year to demolish building

-- 2018-04-02 11:26:17

The Supreme Court has granted garment owners association BGMEA an additional year and ten days to finish its demolition of its illegally constructed headquarters in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel. The cour...

Move to declare selected eateries 'safe food zone'

Move to declare selected eateries 'safe food zone'

Talha Bin Habib 2018-04-02 10:25:44

The government has taken a move to ensure food safety for the consumers by declaring selected hotels and restaurants 'safe food zone'. To this end, the ministry of food (MoF) has formulated some guid...

BSEC takes fresh move to ensure full compliance

BSEC takes fresh move to ensure full compliance

FE Report 2018-04-02 10:12:03

The securities regulator has moved to ensure proper compliance on holding minimum amount of shares of listed companies by the sponsor-directors individually and jointly. The regulatory move came foll...

No date for plane crash victims' compensation

No date for plane crash victims' compensation

FE Report 2018-04-02 09:49:40

The US Bangla Airlines is going to receive 7.0 million US dollars from the insurers likely by this week against its claim after the recent crash of its plane in Nepal. The 78-seater Bombardier aircra...

English book festival begins in city

English book festival begins in city

-- 2018-04-01 21:31:18

A month long book festival of English books began Sunday at Pathak Shamabesh Centre in the city's Shahbagh area with the aim to encourage Bangladeshi writers to write in English. Penguin Random House...

President, PM greet BD U-15 girls

President, PM greet BD U-15 girls

-- 2018-04-01 21:30:27

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have congratulated the Bangladesh U-15 women's football team for clinching the title of Jockey CGI Youth Football Tournament in Hong Kong. Ba...

Customs nabs man with 13 kg gold at Ctg airport

Customs nabs man with 13 kg gold at Ctg airport

-- 2018-04-01 20:57:11

Customs officials on Sunday arrested a man along with 13 kg gold at Shah Amanat International Airport, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Swapan Kumar Nath. Assistant Commissioner at the ai...

Khagrachhari tethers to nat’l power grid Tuesday

Khagrachhari tethers to nat’l power grid Tuesday

-- 2018-04-01 20:48:38

Khagrachhari district is being connected with national grid through a newly built high voltage transmission line of 132 kv capacity.  Officials said the 80-km new line, built from Chandraghona t...

Attack on BGMEA officials: Court sends seven to jail

Attack on BGMEA officials: Court sends seven to jail

-- 2018-04-01 20:42:42

A Dhaka court has sent seven people including six trade union leaders to jail in a case filed over attack on Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) officials. Dhaka Metrop...

27 Sundarbans robbers surrender

27 Sundarbans robbers surrender

-- 2018-04-01 20:10:37

Twenty-seven members of three forest robber gangs along with their arms and ammunition surrendered to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at Swadhinata Uddyan in Bagerhat on Sunday. The members of D...

BNP leaders distribute leaflets to pedestrians seeking Khaleda’s release

BNP leaders distribute leaflets to pedestrians seeking Khaleda’s release

-- 2018-04-01 19:09:11

Standing committee members and senior leaders of BNP on Sunday distributed leaflets among pedestrians across the capital demanding its chairperson's release from jail. The leaflet also carried massag...

'Tanvir killed himself after failing to get govt job'

'Tanvir killed himself after failing to get govt job'

-- 2018-04-01 18:43:46

Tanvir Rahman, who committed suicide on the Dhaka University campus, was frustrated as he could not secure a government job for some corrupt practices. Tanvir had shared his frustration with his rela...

JS body for scrapping MCQs in public exams

JS body for scrapping MCQs in public exams

-- 2018-04-01 18:26:31

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education on Sunday suggested the authorities concerned to discard the multiple choice question (MCQ) answering system in the e...

PM seeks support for taking BD to dignified position

PM seeks support for taking BD to dignified position

-- 2018-04-01 18:25:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought support from the countrymen to see Bangladesh in a dignified position by 2021. Seeking vote in favour of Awami League, she expressed her desire to see the coun...

HC wants Chuadanga eye victims to be compensated

HC wants Chuadanga eye victims to be compensated

-- 2018-04-01 18:25:20

The High Court (HC) on Sunday issued a rule asking officials concerned to explain in two weeks as to why 20 people, who recently lost eyesight after surgery at a health camp in Chuadanga, shall not be...

DSCC to repair damaged roads, drains soon

DSCC to repair damaged roads, drains soon

-- 2018-04-01 18:11:13

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will repair the damaged roads to make those suitable for vehicular movement before the rainy season. "The repair of the dilapidated roads will take time as those w...

US-Bangla gets Tk 57.0m as compensation

US-Bangla gets Tk 57.0m as compensation

-- 2018-04-01 18:05:53

Sadharan Bima Corporation handed over US$ 0.7 million, equivalent to Tk 57.0 million on Sunday as part of the insurance money claimed by US-Bangla Airlines. Chairman of Sadharan Bima Corporation Prof...

Artificial mangrove forest in the offing near Rampal power plant

Artificial mangrove forest in the offing near Rampal power plant

-- 2018-04-01 17:59:47

Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company (Pvt) Ltd (BIFPCL), which is carrying out the installation of a much-talked-about coal-powered power plant at Rampal near the Sundarbans, has taken a move to...

Mother, son found dead in Sylhet 

Mother, son found dead in Sylhet 

-- 2018-04-01 16:47:25

A mother and her son were found dead at a house in Mirabazar area of Sylhet on Sunday noon. The deceased were identified as Rokeya Begum, 40, and her son Rabiul Islam Rokon, 15, an SSC examinee. Loc...

Police find throat-slit body of man in Moulvibazar

Police find throat-slit body of man in Moulvibazar

-- 2018-04-01 15:41:23

Police have found a man with his throat slit in Moulvibazar’s Sadar Upazila. Twenty-year-old Ripon Mia, a local businessman, was found dead in his shop in the Akhailkura neighbourhood around 10...