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Move to relocate factories in cities

Move to relocate factories in cities

-- 2018-02-25 17:36:43

All manufacturing factories currently running inside Dhaka and other divisional cities will be relocated to the 110 special economic zones. The decision was taken at the 37th meeting of a taskforce f...

Ekushey Boi Mela: Book releases readily best last year’s number

Ekushey Boi Mela: Book releases readily best last year’s number

-- 2018-02-25 17:31:24

With four days still to go, the number of books released in this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela (Ekushey Book Fair), the country's largest literature festival, has already surpassed the number of...

BNP says it’ll observe February 25 as ‘Army Martyrs Day’

BNP says it’ll observe February 25 as ‘Army Martyrs Day’

-- 2018-02-25 17:03:11

Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP has said that, if voted to power, it will observe February 25 as 'army martyrs day', commemorating the army officers killed in Pilkhana BDR carnage in 2009. Senior BN...

Former Rangpur city mayor Jhantu no more

Former Rangpur city mayor Jhantu no more

-- 2018-02-25 16:45:24

Former Rangpur City Mayor Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has died at the age of 66 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital in Dhaka. He died at 3:30pm on Sunday at the hospital 26 days after...

Metrocem Cement sponsors film club picnic

Metrocem Cement sponsors film club picnic

-- 2018-02-25 15:26:25

Metrocem Cement has recently sponsored the annual picnic of Bangladesh Film Club in Dhaka. The picnic was held at a recreation centre near the Turag River on Friday, according to a press release. A...

Fire engulfs 20 jhut godowns in Gazipur

Fire engulfs 20 jhut godowns in Gazipur

-- 2018-02-25 14:51:54

At least 20 jhut godowns and several wood shops were gutted in a devastating fire at Konabari in o Gazipur on Sunday morning. Akhtaruzzaman, Assistant Director of Gazipur Fire Station, said the fire...

Two die as truck falls into ditch

Two die as truck falls into ditch

-- 2018-02-25 14:33:30

Two people died and a third was injured after a truck fell into a ditch from a bridge that collapsed in Sunmanganj. The incident has been reported from Chhatak Upazila of the north-eastern district....

Job seekers demand quota system reform

Job seekers demand quota system reform

-- 2018-02-25 14:24:40

Hundreds of job seekers have staged demonstrations at Shahbagh intersection in the city on Sunday morning demanding reformation of the existing quota system in government jobs. The job seekers from d...

BIFFL arranges blood donation programme

BIFFL arranges blood donation programme

FE Online Desk 2018-02-25 14:21:25

Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL) recently arranged a voluntary blood donation programme on the occasion of ‘The International Mother Language Day’. S M Formanul Isla...

PM backs educated manpower to achieve economic emancipation

PM backs educated manpower to achieve economic emancipation

-- 2018-02-25 13:55:31

The prime minister has stressed the importance of building 'educated and skilled manpower' who’ll lead Bangladesh towards economic emancipation and help develop socially and culturally. Sheikh...

Satkhira road accident kills one

Satkhira road accident kills one

-- 2018-02-25 13:23:10

A helper of a truck was killed and three others got injured as two trucks collided head-on over Khulna-Satkhira highway in Tala upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Liton Hossain...

BKB holds view exchange meeting

BKB holds view exchange meeting

FE Online Desk 2018-02-25 13:15:54

Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has recently organised a review meeting of the branch managers of its Chandpur main region. The Managing Director of BKB Md Ali Hossain Prodhania attended the meeting as...

Myanmar, Bangladesh discuss Rohingya issue

Myanmar, Bangladesh discuss Rohingya issue

FE Online Desk 2018-02-25 13:14:11

Bangladesh and Myanmar have discussed various issues, including Rohingya crisis, in Dhaka city. The discussion took place as newly appointed Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka Lwin Oo met Foreign Minister...

DNCC polls: SC asks for quick disposal of HC rule

DNCC polls: SC asks for quick disposal of HC rule

-- 2018-02-25 12:28:04

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the High Court for expeditious disposal of its previous rule issued halting the by-election to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). A...

Miscreants stab Sylhet man to death

Miscreants stab Sylhet man to death

-- 2018-02-25 12:21:55

A man was stabbed to death by miscreants at Subidbazar in Sylhet on Saturday midnight. The deceased was identified as Shimul Deb (32), son of Samaresh Deb, a resident of Fazil Chist in Subidbazar, a...

9th anniversary of BDR carnage

9th anniversary of BDR carnage

-- 2018-02-25 11:48:36

The 9th anniversary of the atrocious carnage at Pilkhana BDR Headquarters in the capital is being observed on Sunday. A total of 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in the carnage begi...

RUET holds programmable logic controller workshop

RUET holds programmable logic controller workshop

-- 2018-02-25 11:15:00

Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) arranged a daylong workshop on ‘Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)’ on Saturday. RUET's Department of Mechatronics Engineering ho...

RAB arrests three JMB suspects

RAB arrests three JMB suspects

-- 2018-02-25 11:05:34

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested at least three suspected activists of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Jamira village in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi...

Study suggests pressing for living wage in RMG sector

Study suggests pressing for living wage in RMG sector

FE Report 2018-02-25 10:30:23

To ensure living wage for the country's garment sector, a new study report released on Saturday suggested pushing continuously to increase the minimum wage. "Bangladesh is currently at the minimum st...

BRT project cost doubles

BRT project cost doubles

Munima Sultana 2018-02-25 10:19:16

Cost of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project has more than doubled due to an increase in budgets for its all components, sources said. They said Roads and Highways Department (RHD), leading implementi...

Rohingya influx marks six months, IOM warns of new challenges

Rohingya influx marks six months, IOM warns of new challenges

-- 2018-02-24 23:56:46

Sunday turns out to be the six-month mark since almost 700,000 Rohingyas, mostly women and children, started fleeing violence in Myanmar and arriving in Bangladesh. Around half a million people cross...

Three die after ‘drinking’ toxic liquor

Three die after ‘drinking’ toxic liquor

-- 2018-02-24 23:46:07

A total of three men died allegedly after drinking toxic homemade liquor in a wedding ceremony at Habibnagar area in Keraniganj on Saturday. Two among the deceased were identified as Sajal Mandal, 28...

Calls grow louder to ensure net neutrality for digital biz growth

Calls grow louder to ensure net neutrality for digital biz growth

FE Online Report 2018-02-24 23:24:09

Country's digital entrepreneurs and industry experts have urged telecom regulator to ‘ensure’ net neutrality for smoother growth and long-term sustainability of the country’s thrivin...

Strawberry cultivation creates new hope among Gopalganj farmers

Strawberry cultivation creates new hope among Gopalganj farmers

-- 2018-02-24 21:49:39

Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, Feb 24: Farmer Dilip Bala has become self-reliant by cultivating strawberry on a large-scale.Dilip Bala of Raghunathpur village under Gopalganj Sadar has been farming the j...

Police detain BNP leader Alal, Babul from Nayapaltan

Police detain BNP leader Alal, Babul from Nayapaltan

-- 2018-02-24 21:43:58

Police have detained BNP central leaders Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and Mostafizur Rahman Babul from a protest in front of the BNP headquarter at Nayapaltan of Dhaka. The black flag protest was called...

Detectives detain 'JMB man' with gunpowder in C'nawabganj

Detectives detain 'JMB man' with gunpowder in C'nawabganj

-- 2018-02-24 20:53:21

The Detective Branch (DB) of police detained an alleged member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) along with 500g of gunpowder in Chapainawabganj on Saturday. Sub-inspect...

Government inaction results in worsening air pollution

Government inaction results in worsening air pollution

FE Online Desk 2018-02-24 20:49:13

As air pollution continues to take a worsening turn, environment experts have voiced concern following absence of monitoring and necessary steps need to be taken to control it. It is possible to cont...

Ershad can’t make head or tail of label ‘tyrant’

Ershad can’t make head or tail of label ‘tyrant’

-- 2018-02-24 20:05:49

Former President HM Ershad says he never wanted to cling to power. He also said he does not know why he was called a despot. “Many have called me an autocrat, but I have never found it to be so...

Apex court to use Bangla soon, PM hopes

Apex court to use Bangla soon, PM hopes

-- 2018-02-24 19:15:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her hope that the apex court will use Bangla in writing all verdicts in near future. She said everyone is not well enough in this language. So, they have to...

Govt never obstructs peaceful programme: Home minister

Govt never obstructs peaceful programme: Home minister

-- 2018-02-24 18:00:32

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the government never obstructs any peaceful programme. The minister also said law enforcers take necessary steps if anyone intensifies people's suffering...