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Why women graduates losing out on jobs

Why women graduates losing out on jobs

FE Online Desk 2018-03-17 13:15:06

Farzana Islam passed with flying colours from the highest academic seat of the country a few years back. Farzana completed graduation and postgraduation in mathematics from the University of Dhaka....

Man murdered in Sylhet over trivial matter

Man murdered in Sylhet over trivial matter

-- 2018-03-17 12:46:02

A man was killed in a clash over a trifling matter at Raghupur village in Bishwanath upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Azir Uddin, 50, of the village. Local people said Azi...

DUET student go missing in Gazipur

DUET student go missing in Gazipur

-- 2018-03-17 12:05:06

A student of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) has been missing for nine days from a mess (student dormitory) adjacent to the DUET campus in Gazipur. The missing student—...

Youth held for ‘sexually harassing’ SUST student

Youth held for ‘sexually harassing’ SUST student

-- 2018-03-17 11:09:32

A young man was held on charge of harassing a female student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) sexually on Saturday night. The victim, a third year student of the university, a...

Homage to Bangabandhu on his birthday

Homage to Bangabandhu on his birthday

-- 2018-03-17 10:02:51

PM pays tribute to Bangabandhu on his birthday Portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, Photo: Collected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday paid tributes to Father of...

Vegetable export resumes next week after 1.5-year gap

Vegetable export resumes next week after 1.5-year gap

Yasir Wardad 2018-03-17 10:01:33

After one and a half years, export of five vegetable items from Bangladesh is finally going to resume next week. The sector insiders see it as a big boost in diversifying the country's limited export...

Weekly analysis: DSEX erodes 330 points in four weeks

Weekly analysis: DSEX erodes 330 points in four weeks

Babul Barman 2018-03-17 09:55:32

Stocks extended the losing streak for the fourth straight week that ended Thursday as investors continued their selling binge amid persistent liquidity crisis. Brokers said the market saw yet another...

Consumers to start getting LNG from May

Consumers to start getting LNG from May

M Azizur Rahman 2018-03-17 09:36:26

The government expects to start supplying imported re-gasified LNG (liquefied natural gas) to consumers from early May.  The country's first FSRU (floating, storage, re-gasification unit) is exp...

Nation celebrates 99th birthday of Bangabandhu today

Nation celebrates 99th birthday of Bangabandhu today

-- 2018-03-17 09:21:11

The country is set to celebrate the 99th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today (Saturday) in a befitting manner, reports BSS. Since re-assumption of state power in...

Government rethinks tax rebate on savings tools

Government rethinks tax rebate on savings tools

Syful Islam 2018-03-17 09:11:54

The government rethinks the continuation of tax rebate facility against investment in savings tools as a section of people are allegedly misusing such opportunity, officials said. The National Board...

Unicef to provide $113m for Bangldeshi, Rohingya children

Unicef to provide $113m for Bangldeshi, Rohingya children

-- 2018-03-16 21:55:13

Unicef will provide $113 million to meet the needs of 720,000 Bangladeshi and Rohngya children through 2018.  The "extraordinary efforts" of the Bangladesh government, with support from the huma...

Withdraw case by Saturday: Anti-quota protesters

Withdraw case by Saturday: Anti-quota protesters

-- 2018-03-16 20:58:54

Anti-quota protesters on Friday demanded withdrawal of the case filed against 700 unidentified demonstrators by Saturday. They also threatened to initiate a stronger movement if their demand is not m...

BD jails had 385 mentally challenged prisoners until 2016

BD jails had 385 mentally challenged prisoners until 2016

FE Online Report 2018-03-16 20:44:02

Some 385 mentally challenged persons serving imprisonment for different period of time in different jails in the country until June 30 of 2016. The Prison Population Statistics, 2017; published by th...

Three plane crash survivors admitted to DMCH

Three plane crash survivors admitted to DMCH

-- 2018-03-16 19:22:59

Three survivors of US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash were admitted to burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital after their arrival from Kathmandu of Nepal. The survivors; Mehedi Hasan, his wife Sa...

President, PM to visit Tungipara Saturday

President, PM to visit Tungipara Saturday

-- 2018-03-16 18:55:52

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Tungipara of Gopalganj on Saturday. They will pay homage to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman through pla...

RMG workers clash with cops in Savar, 20 hurt

RMG workers clash with cops in Savar, 20 hurt

-- 2018-03-16 17:46:51

At least 20 people were injured in a clash between garment workers and police at Ashuliahere early Friday. Witnesses said a group of workers of United Trousers Garments at Gouripur were staging demon...

Lodging problem fading dreams of job-seeking women in Dhaka

Lodging problem fading dreams of job-seeking women in Dhaka

-- 2018-03-16 17:30:52

Farzana Islam passed with flying colours from the country’s highest academic seat a few years ago.  She completed her graduation and postgraduation in Mathematics from the University of Dh...

32 int'l flights miss departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport

32 int'l flights miss departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport

FE Online Report 2018-03-16 16:57:02

At least 32 international flights failed to meet their departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Friday. From 12:00am to 2:00pm, 32 international flights were...

Special prayers offered for plane crash victims

Special prayers offered for plane crash victims

-- 2018-03-16 16:55:59

Special prayers were offered at different religious institutions, including mosques, across the country on Friday for victims of recent plane crash in Nepal. A special munajat was held at the Baitul...

Three plane crash survivors return to Dhaka

Three plane crash survivors return to Dhaka

-- 2018-03-16 16:25:52

Three Bangladeshi survivors of the US-Bangla plane crash returned Dhaka on Friday afternoon from Kathmandu of Nepal. The survivors are: Mehedi Hasan, his wife Sayeeda Kamrunnahar Swarna and sister-in...

Student dies falling off rooftop in Sylhet

Student dies falling off rooftop in Sylhet

-- 2018-03-16 14:39:49

A college student died after falling off the rooftop of a building in the city's Ambarkhana area on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Russel, a student of Madan Mohan College and hailed...

Three more plane crash survivors on way back

Three more plane crash survivors on way back

-- 2018-03-16 14:34:37

Three more Bangladeshi survivors of the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal are returning to Dhaka on Friday, Bangladesh Embassy's First Secretary Asit Baran Sarker has said. Mehedi Hasan, his wife Sayeed...

BGB seizes 10 gold bars in Benapole

BGB seizes 10 gold bars in Benapole

-- 2018-03-16 14:10:06

Members of Border guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 10 gold bars, weighing 1.5 kg, from a mango orchard at Putkhali village in Benapole on Friday. On information, a team of BGB-21 raided the area and...

BGB nabs Rohingya man with 1.8m Yaba pills

BGB nabs Rohingya man with 1.8m Yaba pills

-- 2018-03-16 12:53:30

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel arrested a Rohingya man along with 1.8 million Yaba tablets from Damdamia area in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Friday. Lieutenant colonel Asaduzzaman, c...

Two die in accidents

Two die in accidents

FE Online Desk 2018-03-16 12:43:41

Two people, including an eight-year-old student, were killed in two accidents in Comilla and Brahmanbaria on Thursday. Of them, only the child has been identified thus far – Al-Amin, son of Anw...

Road crash kills two picnickers, injures 20

Road crash kills two picnickers, injures 20

-- 2018-03-16 12:40:27

At least two picnickers were killed and 20 others injured when a bus carrying picnickers hit a covered van on Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Friday. The identities of the deceased could not be known im...

Cops recover two bullet-hit bodies in Cox’s Bazar

Cops recover two bullet-hit bodies in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-03-16 11:58:29

Police have recovered bullet-hit bodies of two unidentified people at Himchhari Dhala on Eidgaon-Baishari road under Cox's Bazar sadar upazila on Friday. Farid Uddin Khandaker, officer-in-charge of s...

RAB kills ‘pirate’ in Noakhali ‘gunfight’

RAB kills ‘pirate’ in Noakhali ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-03-16 11:09:36

A suspected pirate was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Char Omed in Companyganj upazila early Friday. On a tip-off, a team of RAB-7 from Chittagong condu...

Rajshahi cultivators show interest in squash farming

Rajshahi cultivators show interest in squash farming

Our Correspondent 2018-03-16 00:20:10

RAJSHAHI, Mar 15:  Farmers of various villages under Kishmot Gonokour union under Durgapur upazila of the district are being increasingly interested in cultivation of 'squash' - a new variety of...

State observes mourning day for US-Bangla plane crash victims

State observes mourning day for US-Bangla plane crash victims

-- 2018-03-15 22:22:06

The nation observed a one-day state mourning on Thursday with due solemnity in memory of the victims of the US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, reports UNB. The national flag was hoisted half-mast at...