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UN HR official to arrive on Friday

UN HR official to arrive on Friday

-- 2018-03-01 18:31:32

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour is set to arrive in Bangladesh on Friday on a four-day official tour to see the current situation of the Rohingya refugees. Gilmour will...

Miscreants stab college student to death in city

Miscreants stab college student to death in city

-- 2018-03-01 17:31:06

Unidentified miscreants stabbed a college student to death at Laxmibazar in the capital on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Md Ranak, 18, a student of class XII of New Paltan Line School and...

Action against DIG Mizan after probe report: Home minister

Action against DIG Mizan after probe report: Home minister

-- 2018-03-01 16:52:16

The government will take action against deputy inspector general (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman after getting probe report. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan came up with the statement on Thursday at Mi...

Govt appoints Ahmed Jamal as BB deputy governor

Govt appoints Ahmed Jamal as BB deputy governor

-- 2018-03-01 16:42:54

The government has appointed Bangladesh Bank’s Executive Director Ahmed Jamal as Deputy Governor of the central bank on contractual basis. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notific...

BNP starts distributing leaflets demanding Khaleda’s release

BNP starts distributing leaflets demanding Khaleda’s release

-- 2018-03-01 15:33:51

BNP has started distributing leaflets across the country, including the capital, demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi l...

ADB President leaves Dhaka

ADB President leaves Dhaka

-- 2018-03-01 15:23:05

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao has left Dhaka after wrapping up his three-day official visit to Bangladesh. The ADB president left the city by a flight of Thai Airways arou...

Anti-drug information campaign starts countrywide

Anti-drug information campaign starts countrywide

FE Online Report 2018-03-01 15:03:01

The government has started an anti-drug information campaign across the country.  The Narcotics Control Department started this in Dhaka city through a press conference on Thursday. Similar pres...

Nizam Hazari's MP status legal: HC

Nizam Hazari's MP status legal: HC

-- 2018-03-01 14:55:45

The High Court (HC) has declared parliament membership of Awami League MP Nizam Uddin Hazari legal. The single bench of Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique passed the order on Thursday. The justice handed...

Three more die in Sylhet stone quarry landslide

Three more die in Sylhet stone quarry landslide

-- 2018-03-01 14:13:26

Three workers have died in a landslide when they were illegally extracting stones from a quarry in Sylhet on Wednesday, police have said. Death toll reached eight in a week from landslides in stone q...

Hajj flights start from July 14

Hajj flights start from July 14

-- 2018-03-01 14:07:45

This year's hajj flights carrying Bangladeshi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia will begin from July 14, Religious Affairs Minister Principal Motiur Rahman said on Thursday. A total of 1,27,198 pilgrims - 7,1...

Include agriculture in curricula: PM

Include agriculture in curricula: PM

-- 2018-03-01 13:33:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the agriculture ministry to include agriculture in curricula to encourage students to properly know about cultivation system. "I would like to tell the agric...

ACI Motors inks dealership agreement with Kobelco

ACI Motors inks dealership agreement with Kobelco

FE Online Desk 2018-03-01 13:06:38

ACI Motors Limited has signed a dealership agreement with Kobelco Construction Equipment India Private Limited (KCEI) for marketing and sales excavator in Bangladesh. Dr F H Ansarey, managing directo...

Police arrest bus driver with heroin worth Tk 10m

Police arrest bus driver with heroin worth Tk 10m

-- 2018-03-01 12:38:41

Police in a drive arrested a man along with heroin worth Tk 10 million from a bus at Hatikumrul Golchattar in Salonga upazila under Sirajganj district early Thursday. The arrestee has been identified...

Trade unionism in Ctg RMG paces up, slows in Dhaka

Trade unionism in Ctg RMG paces up, slows in Dhaka

Monira Munni 2018-03-01 11:43:32

The rejection rate of applications seeking registration to form trade unions in the country's readymade garment sector increased in Chittagong zone and decreased in Dhaka zone during last three years,...

Bank official among two held for bribery

Bank official among two held for bribery

-- 2018-03-01 11:39:02

Members of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday arrested two people, including an official of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB), for taking bribe from a loan customer at Begumganj upazila in N...

'Wonder Woman 2' might star Emma Stone as villain

'Wonder Woman 2' might star Emma Stone as villain

-- 2018-03-01 11:33:41

Actress Emma Stone is being considered to essay the character of Cheetah in 'Wonder Woman 2'. According to source, the sequel to 'Wonder Woman' will introduce the clawed supervillain as its central a...

Worker dies in Sirajganj road mishap

Worker dies in Sirajganj road mishap

-- 2018-03-01 11:10:53

A worker was killed and four others were injured when a truck hit a trolley in Sirajganj sadar upazila on Wednesday. Mohammad Daud, officer-in-charge of Bangabandhu Bridge West Police Station, said t...

NBR to focus on framing steady fiscal policies

NBR to focus on framing steady fiscal policies

FE Report 2018-03-01 10:33:37

From now on National Board of Revenue (NBR) will focus on framing consistent fiscal policies to attract more investment and collect more revenue, said its chief on Wednesday. "I hope from now on ther...

DSE board asks officials to reply 'professionally'

DSE board asks officials to reply 'professionally'

FE Report 2018-03-01 10:25:11

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) board of directors has asked its management to give reply 'professionally' to the regulator's queries on the Chinese consortium's proposal to be the bourse's strategic p...

Ctg industries to get LNG from May

Ctg industries to get LNG from May

Our Correspondent 2018-03-01 10:17:26

The businesses and industries in Chittagong will get supply of LNG from the first week of May this year. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) will start arriving from April 25. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi...

Launching of metro rail to miss target

Launching of metro rail to miss target

Munima Sultana 2018-03-01 09:51:26

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) is struggling with contract package-7 of the metro rail project due to having only one firm out of four short-listed ones for holding financial negotiations,...

Four Bangladeshi peacekeepers die in Mali explosion

Four Bangladeshi peacekeepers die in Mali explosion

Agencies 2018-03-01 09:41:23

Four Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers were killed and as many others injured in an explosion in central Mali on Wednesday. An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded at Douentza in the West African nat...

Sugarcane farming on the rise in Sylhet div

Sugarcane farming on the rise in Sylhet div

Our Correspondent 2018-03-01 01:18:33

Sugarcane farming is on the rise in Sylhet region although the crop was not popular in the division years ago. Some growers of Sunamganj and Habiganj districts have started farming the cash crop for p...

Gopalganj, Magura, Panchagarh growers eye bumper wheat output

Gopalganj, Magura, Panchagarh growers eye bumper wheat output

Our Correspondent 2018-03-01 01:17:41

Farmers of Mahespur union under Muksudpur upazila are excepting a bumper production of BARI wheat-28 variety this season. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Gopalganj, offici...

Hajj registration begins today

Hajj registration begins today

-- 2018-02-28 23:09:32

The final registration process of the Hajj pilgrims for 2018 under the government management is set to begin today (Thursday). The process will continue till March 11, said a press release issued by...

Bus services of 11 northern dists resume

Bus services of 11 northern dists resume

-- 2018-02-28 21:59:35

Bus services of 11 northern districts with the capital via Bogra resumed on Wednesday evening after a suspension of around 12 hours over a dispute between bus workers and owners. The decision was mad...

President hosts dinner in honour of PM, speaker, ministers

President hosts dinner in honour of PM, speaker, ministers

-- 2018-02-28 21:58:45

President Md Abdul Hamid hosted a dinner in honour of the Prime Minister, Speaker, Cabinet members and lawmakers at Bangabhaban on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Jatiya Sangsad Spea...

Govt playing ‘evil tricks’ to delay Khaleda’s bail

Govt playing ‘evil tricks’ to delay Khaleda’s bail

-- 2018-02-28 21:54:03

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the government has resorted to various 'evil tricks' to delay bail for Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. "T...

Raushon seeks proper govt steps to stop question leaks

Raushon seeks proper govt steps to stop question leaks

-- 2018-02-28 21:50:25

The practice of frequent question paper leaks can be stopped if the government wants to do. Opposition leader Raushon Ershad made the comment while delivering her speech in Parliament on Wednesday,...

Hasina blasts BNP for putting Tarique at helm

Hasina blasts BNP for putting Tarique at helm

-- 2018-02-28 21:39:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sharply criticise d BNP for dropping section 7 from its charter and making a convict its head. "What will the party that accepts corruption as policy or supp...