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Businesses can use old BINs until June

Businesses can use old BINs until June

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-03-29 10:13:08

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the deadline for using the existing business identification numbers (BINs) by the business entities. The validity of old BINs was scheduled to be expi...

Arpara Model Primary School teaches students moral values

Arpara Model Primary School teaches students moral values

Our Correspondent 2018-03-29 00:40:54

MAGURA, Mar 28: The story is about an affluent school and its devoted headmistress. The name of the school is Arpara Model Primary School. The school stands in village Arpara under Shakha upazila of t...

RCC takes steps to renovate  several monasteries

RCC takes steps to renovate several monasteries

Our Correspondent 2018-03-29 00:40:04

RAJSHAHI, Mar 28: Aiming at bolstering the tourism industry, the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken up steps to repair and renovate several ancient Buddhist monasteries in Rajshahi.  Those...

Stamp out terrorism for regional peace: PM

Stamp out terrorism for regional peace: PM

-- 2018-03-28 23:18:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to work together for establishing a secure and prosperous region by uprooting all sorts of terrorism."We must root out terrorism in its all forms to build a...

Bangabandhu-1 leaves France today for launching from US

Bangabandhu-1 leaves France today for launching from US

-- 2018-03-28 22:57:23

The country’s first communication satellite ‘Bangabandhu-1’ will be launched to the orbit next month. The satellite will be shipped from France to Florida of the Unite States today...

Poll-time govt to be formed by House representatives: Quader

Poll-time govt to be formed by House representatives: Quader

-- 2018-03-28 21:41:22

Road Transport and Bridges Minister and general secretary of ruling Awami League Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said only those who are represented in the national parliament can be the part of the elect...

Thrust on preventing money laundering this year

Thrust on preventing money laundering this year

-- 2018-03-28 21:37:59

Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud has said the Commission will focus on preventing money laundering by corrupt individuals in 2018.  "A group of corrupt people loot people's...

Plane crash victim Kabir loses right leg

Plane crash victim Kabir loses right leg

-- 2018-03-28 21:20:42

US-Bangla plane crash victim Kabir Hossain has lost his right leg as doctors in Singapore amputated the leg. Surgeon Hossain Imam at Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burns and plastic surgery i...

Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam takes office as new BGB chief

Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam takes office as new BGB chief

-- 2018-03-28 20:58:47

Major General Md Shafeenul Islam, new Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), took charge on Wednesday. He took the charge from acting BGB DG Brigadier General Md Anisur Rahman at the...

Policeman dies in Mymensingh road crash

Policeman dies in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-03-28 20:48:50

A policeman was killed and 10 other people were injured as two buses collided head-on on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Chairmanbari area of Trishal Upazila in Mymensingh on Wednesday. The deceased was...

Govt ensuring sports facilities for children: PM

Govt ensuring sports facilities for children: PM

-- 2018-03-28 20:20:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is ensuring sports facilities for children to build them up as worthy citizens. The Prime Minister said the children attain mental strength and ph...

FBCCI seeks time-befitting Health Service Act

FBCCI seeks time-befitting Health Service Act

-- 2018-03-28 19:56:03

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) ON Wednesday urged the government to formulate the 'Health Service Act’ and ‘Private Medical College Establishment an...

Tangail District Jail prisoners get phone facility

Tangail District Jail prisoners get phone facility

-- 2018-03-28 19:55:13

The government has introduced a new service in Tangail District Jail facilitating prisoners to talk to their relatives over phone. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan formally inaugurated the program as a...

400 kV grid line for power supply to Mirsarai Economic Zone

400 kV grid line for power supply to Mirsarai Economic Zone

-- 2018-03-28 19:44:04

State-owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) will build a 17-km 400 kV grid transmission line for power supply to Mirsarai Economic Zone (MEZ). PGCB officials said the proposed transmission li...

BNP postpones Thursday’s rally

BNP postpones Thursday’s rally

-- 2018-03-28 19:39:50

The BNP has suspended a rally it planned at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Thursday as police have not responded to its three petitions for permission. The party organised an ‘emergency&rsquo...

Monsoon to worsen Rohingya health crisis: WHO

Monsoon to worsen Rohingya health crisis: WHO

-- 2018-03-28 19:32:47

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has appealed for more donor supports for Rohingyas ahead of monsoon, fearing the tropical season to expose the forcibly displaced Myanmar population in Bangladesh t...

Patients’ sufferings mount as RMCH interns stage sit-in locking main gate

Patients’ sufferings mount as RMCH interns stage sit-in locking main gate

-- 2018-03-28 19:27:19

The interns of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) on Wednesday morning locked the main entrance of the hospital and staged a sit-in demanding withdrawal of cases filed against their fellows....

Nahid terms coaching centres unlawful

Nahid terms coaching centres unlawful

-- 2018-03-28 19:07:04

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid labelled coaching centres as ‘unlawful’ and admitted his failure to shut them down. “All types of coaching centres are illegal,” the minis...

Move underway to stop question leak in HSC

Move underway to stop question leak in HSC

-- 2018-03-28 17:33:45

Necessary steps have been taken to stop question paper leakage during the upcoming HSC examination, said Shaikh Nazmul Alam, a Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday. ...

Why Khaleda’s jail term won’t be extended, asks HC

Why Khaleda’s jail term won’t be extended, asks HC

-- 2018-03-28 17:20:15

The High Court has issued a rule asking why the prison sentence for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case will not be extended. Khaleda, a three-time prime minister, is se...

ACC files case against 7 Sylhet RHD engineers, contractor

ACC files case against 7 Sylhet RHD engineers, contractor

-- 2018-03-28 16:53:06

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against seven current and former engineers of Sylhet Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and a contractor for embezzling TK 11.29 million (Tk 1.13 cro...

Teenager stabbed to death in Manikganj

Teenager stabbed to death in Manikganj

-- 2018-03-28 16:37:51

A teenage boy was stabbed to death allegedly by a young man at Pouli under Manikganj municipality area in Manikganj on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Rakib, 17, a student of Manikganj...

13, 11,457 to sit for HSC, equivalent exams this year

13, 11,457 to sit for HSC, equivalent exams this year

-- 2018-03-28 16:31:03

A total 13, 11,457 students are expected to participate in this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations which will begin across the country on April 2. Education Min...

US provides 1m health products for Rohingyas

US provides 1m health products for Rohingyas

-- 2018-03-28 15:48:34

The United States has provided 622,800 doses of injectable contraceptives to the government of Bangladesh for the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar. The States Agency for International Development (US...

PM to visit Thakurgaon Thursday

PM to visit Thakurgaon Thursday

-- 2018-03-28 14:54:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Thakurgaon district on Thursday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of some 68 development projects. The Prime Minister will arrive there at noon. A he...

Air Chief off to Malaysia

Air Chief off to Malaysia

FE Online Desk 2018-03-28 14:51:51

Air Chief Marshal Abu Esrar, chief of Bangladesh Air Force, left Dhaka on a four-day official visit to Malaysia at the invitation from Chief of Royal Malaysian Air Force on Wednesday. His spouse and...

Court extends Khaleda's bail in graft case

Court extends Khaleda's bail in graft case

-- 2018-03-28 14:12:26

The argument hearing in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case has been postponed as chief accused BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia could not be taken to court on Wednesday due to her physical ailments. Khal...

SC finds BGMEA undertaking ambiguous

SC finds BGMEA undertaking ambiguous

-- 2018-03-28 13:21:25

Finding BGMEA’s undertaking to be “ambiguous,” the Appellate Division has asked the garment exporters’ organisation to modify and re-submit it on Monday. A four-member bench l...

RAB arrests siblings with Yaba worth Tk 50m

RAB arrests siblings with Yaba worth Tk 50m

-- 2018-03-28 12:39:26

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two siblings along with 0.10 million Yaba tablets from Pahartali area of the port city early Wednesday. The arrestees have been identified as Md Mobar...

Jails to let inmates talk to families by mobile phone

Jails to let inmates talk to families by mobile phone

-- 2018-03-28 12:32:29

Inmates in jail will be allowed to use mobile phones twice a month to speak to their families. The service will be introduced initially at the Tangail District Jail as a pilot project. Home Minister...