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Architecture fest kicks off at MIST

Architecture fest kicks off at MIST

FE Online Desk 2018-02-04 00:00:00

The Department of Architecture of Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) inaugurated a two-day long `Architecture Festival-2018’ at its Mirpur Cantonment campus in the city on Satur...

Magistrate suspends five teachers for negligence of duty

Magistrate suspends five teachers for negligence of duty

-- 2018-02-04 00:00:00

Five assistant teachers of different schools in Matlab South upazila of Chandpur were suspended by executive magistrate for negligence of duty in the SSC examinations on Saturday. They were performin...

BGB detains one with 20 gold bars

BGB detains one with 20 gold bars

-- 2018-02-04 00:00:00

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh arrested a suspected gold smuggler along with 20 pieces of gold bars from Baro Achra border at Benapole international check post on Sunday morning. The arrestee was...

Cops detain 12 BNP leaders in Narayanganj, Narail

Cops detain 12 BNP leaders in Narayanganj, Narail

-- 2018-02-04 00:00:00

Police in separate drives arrested 12 leaders and activists of BNP  in two districts: 11 in Narayanganj and one in the south-western district of Narail. Zulfiqur Ali, senior vice-president of Na...

Govt offers Tk 0.5m bounty on question leakers

Govt offers Tk 0.5m bounty on question leakers

-- 2018-02-04 00:00:00

The government has declared a reward of Tk 500,000 each for identifying and handing over to the authorities the perpetrators who leaked the questions of SSC and equivalent exams on social media sites....

Cost, duration of Kuril-Purbachal Link Road canal project to increase

Cost, duration of Kuril-Purbachal Link Road canal project to increase

FE Online Report 2018-02-04 00:00:00

The total cost and duration of the project to build canals on sides of Kuril-Purbachal link road (From Kuril to Balu River) will increase, according to a Bangladesh Army spokesperson. Director Genera...

Khaleda goes to Sylhet before February 8 verdict

Khaleda goes to Sylhet before February 8 verdict

-- 2018-02-03 23:08:24

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia goes to Sylhet on Monday as a special court is set to pronounce its verdict in a graft case against her. "The BNP chief will go to Sylhet on Monday to offer fateha at the...

Quader says BNP to lose registration if boycotts polls

Quader says BNP to lose registration if boycotts polls

-- 2018-02-03 22:41:12

The Awami League general secretary has said that BNP will lose party registration if it does not take part in the next general election. While talking to reporters after visiting work on a rail overp...

Ershad says no trust in caretaker government

Ershad says no trust in caretaker government

-- 2018-02-03 22:33:01

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday said they do not trust any caretaker government. Mentioning that the next general election will be held as per the constitution, he noted, "The caretaker g...

New chief justice takes oath

New chief justice takes oath

-- 2018-02-03 20:05:52

Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has taken oath as the country’s 22nd chief justice (CJ). The new CJ was sworn-in by President Abdul Hamid around 7:00pm at Bangabhaban. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...

RAB arrests one with 5,200 Yaba in Cox’s Bazar

RAB arrests one with 5,200 Yaba in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-02-03 17:32:59

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a youth for possessing 5,000 Yaba tablets from the Link Road area in Sadar upazila on Friday night. The arrestee is identified as Shah Alam, 25, son of late Sona...

Road crashes kill two NGO workers

Road crashes kill two NGO workers

-- 2018-02-03 16:20:19

Two NGO workers, including a woman, died and another was injured in separate road crashes in Faridpur and Thakurgaon districts on Saturday morning. In Faridpur, field officer of FDA Rikta Aktar, 32,...

Khaleda urges party men to be united to face upcoming danger

Khaleda urges party men to be united to face upcoming danger

-- 2018-02-03 16:00:07

Pointing at the verdict in her graft case to be delivered on Thursday,BNP Chief Khaleda Zia on Saturday called upon her party leaders and activists to stay united and face together any upcoming danger...

IU 'F' unit waiting list candidates’ interview tomorrow

IU 'F' unit waiting list candidates’ interview tomorrow

-- 2018-02-03 14:06:50

The interview from 'F' unit waiting list for admission into the first year honours courses under the 2017- 18 academic session of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia will be held tomorrow. It will beg...

Premier Bank launches ‘Premier Fast Track’

Premier Bank launches ‘Premier Fast Track’

FE Online Desk 2018-02-03 13:42:41

Premier Bank Limited has introduced its digital banking service centre ‘Premier Fast Track’ with the tagline of ‘Tomorrow’s Banking Premiered Today’ at Jamuna Future Park...

Organic vegetables gains popularity in Gaibandha

Organic vegetables gains popularity in Gaibandha

-- 2018-02-03 12:33:48

Chemical-free way of farming brought smiles on the faces of vegetable growers in Fulchhari’s Bhasharpara village in the district. Take Belal Miah as one glaring example of how going green becom...

NSU inks MoU with National Cheng Kung University

NSU inks MoU with National Cheng Kung University

FE Online Desk 2018-02-03 12:02:53

Pharmaceutical Sciences department of North South University (NSU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Medical Device Innovative Center of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan....

Fog halts ferry services in Padma River

Fog halts ferry services in Padma River

-- 2018-02-03 11:10:39

Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia and Shimulia-Kaorakandi on the Padma River were halted due to heavy fog. On Daulatdia-Paturia route, the ferry services were suspended around 5 am to avoid acciden...

Govt keen on ITFC credits as ADB looks noncommittal

Govt keen on ITFC credits as ADB looks noncommittal

Syful Islam 2018-02-03 10:23:07

A government body eagerly looks to the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) as main source for financing huge investment needs in the emerging LNG sector, officials said. It found t...

MFS transactions surge in 2017

MFS transactions surge in 2017

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-02-03 09:46:11

Transactions through mobile financial service platforms posted more than 34 per cent increase in 2017 with continuing the momentum of mobile-based money transactions in the country in recent years. A...

Lower courts under govt control: Khaleda

Lower courts under govt control: Khaleda

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged the country’s lower courts are just following the government orders as they do not have the power to pronounce a proper judgment. BNP Chairperson Khaleda...

Mugging in Dhaka city up again

Mugging in Dhaka city up again

Jubair Hasan and Adnan Hossain Bhuiyan 2018-02-03 00:00:00

Incidents of mugging have gone up significantly in and around the capital in the recent times despite the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) claims that it is paying special attention to combat such crim...

Core index sees biggest single-week fall in 2 yrs

Core index sees biggest single-week fall in 2 yrs

FE Report 2018-02-03 00:00:00

The core index of the Dhaka bourse dipped 3.13 per cent last week as nervous investors sold shares in bulk. Merchant bankers and stockbrokers alleged that a 'political rumour' spread by a vested quar...

BNP’s executive committee meeting begins

BNP’s executive committee meeting begins

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

BNP’s National Executive Committee’s daylong meeting has begun at Hotel Le Meridien in Dhaka on Saturday with the party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair. The inaugural session of meet...

Receptionist found dead in Dhaka clinic

Receptionist found dead in Dhaka clinic

FE Online Report 2018-02-03 00:00:00

  Police on Friday night recovered the body of a 21-year-old female receptionist from a dental clinic in the capital’s Badda area. The deceased Liza Akhter had been serving at Haider Digi...

Veteran journalist Sheikh Rakib Uddin passes away

Veteran journalist Sheikh Rakib Uddin passes away

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

Veteran journalist SheikhRakib Uddin died at a city hospital on Saturday. He was 85. Rakib Uddin, diplomatic correspondent of The Independent and also founder vice-president of Diplomatic Corresponde...

Bangla SSC second question paper leaks

Bangla SSC second question paper leaks

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

The Bangla second paper examination of the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations has been held with leaked question paper. The questions went viral on the social...

RAB recovers 10 rocket launchers from Habiganj forest

RAB recovers 10 rocket launchers from Habiganj forest

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered ten anti-tank rockets from Satchhari National Park in Habiganj’s Chunarughat Upazila early Saturday. Members of Rab-9 recovered the deadly weapons con...

World failed to protect Rohingya women: UN

World failed to protect Rohingya women: UN

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

The world has failed to protect the Rohingya women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcukaon said on Saturday. “I think their [Myanmar] government to begin with. Their country has f...

Khaleda sets six conditions to join general election

Khaleda sets six conditions to join general election

-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00

Urging the government to shun its ‘repressive acts’ and create a peaceful atmosphere in the country for the next election, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has put forward six conditions to joi...