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July-Aug export receipts fall short of target

July-Aug export receipts fall short of target

FE Report 2019-09-09 10:34:41

The country's export receipts for the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY) fell short of target by 12.40 per cent. The total earnings from exports of merchandise products stood at US$6....

Behula Lakshindar’s Bride Chamber in Bogura still enchants visitors

Behula Lakshindar’s Bride Chamber in Bogura still enchants visitors

EMDADUL HAQUE 2019-09-09 00:00:00

BOGURA, Sept 08: Behula Lakshindar's Bride Chamber or Gokul Medh at the village Gokul, 11 kilometres off Bogura town, still appears to be an archeological site of great importance to the visitors, wit...

Parliament regains people’s trust: PM

Parliament regains people’s trust: PM

-- 2019-09-08 21:42:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the parliament of Bangladesh has regained the trust and confidence of the people in last 10 years. “I believe that the confidence and trust of the people o...

DNCC reclaims 30,000 sft around Gabtoli bus terminal

DNCC reclaims 30,000 sft around Gabtoli bus terminal

-- 2019-09-08 21:18:30

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) reclaimed a total of 30,000 square feet areas evicting around 200 illegal establishments, including some semi-concrete structures, sheds and shops in the city&rsquo...

BD investigating two foreign fishing boats over ‘false declaration’

BD investigating two foreign fishing boats over ‘false declaration’

-- 2019-09-08 21:12:16

The government is investigating two foreign fishing trawlers anchored to Chatoogram Port for providing “false declaration”, reports bdnews24.com. The government would announce a committee...

JaPa nominates Ershad’s son Shad for Rangpur-3 by-elections

JaPa nominates Ershad’s son Shad for Rangpur-3 by-elections

-- 2019-09-08 21:03:19

Rahgir Al Mahi Shad is standing in the parliamentary by-polls to Rangpur-3 with the ticket of the Jatiya Party his father HM Ershad founded. The seat fell vacant with the death of Ershad on July 14,...

Raushon Ershad becomes opposition leader in parliament

Raushon Ershad becomes opposition leader in parliament

-- 2019-09-08 20:14:34

Jatiya Party has selected Raushon Ershad as the Leader of the Opposition in parliament keeping the decision to pick its Deputy Leader of the Opposition pending. The decision over the opposition leade...

Stress on making economic corridor to achieve dev goals

Stress on making economic corridor to achieve dev goals

-- 2019-09-08 19:48:15

Experts at a workshop on Sunday underscored the need for developing economic corridor in the country as it is essential for achieving goals, including Vision-2021, Vision-2041 and the Sustainable Deve...

'No decision over dissolution of BCL committee'

'No decision over dissolution of BCL committee'

-- 2019-09-08 19:46:08

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the Awami League did not take any decision to dissolve the existing committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). "But, Prime Ministe...

Cox’s Bazar International University suspends ‘Rohingya student’

Cox’s Bazar International University suspends ‘Rohingya student’

-- 2019-09-08 18:48:47

Cox’s Bazar International University has suspended a girl student following media reports identifying her as a Rohingya national. Dr Abul Kashem, Vice Chancellor of the university, confirmed th...

22-day ban on catching, selling Hilsa from Oct 9

22-day ban on catching, selling Hilsa from Oct 9

-- 2019-09-08 18:22:16

The government will impose a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting Hilsa from Monday, October 9 to 31, to ensure the safe spawning of the popular fish during its peak breeding per...

JCI Bangladesh to recognise ten outstanding young persons

JCI Bangladesh to recognise ten outstanding young persons

-- 2019-09-08 18:08:16

Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bangladesh has announced a plan to recognise the outstanding achievements and contributions of ten young persons in the country. The voluntary organisation made the...

BNP nominates Rita Rahman for Rangpur-3 by-polls

BNP nominates Rita Rahman for Rangpur-3 by-polls

-- 2019-09-08 17:44:32

BNP has nominated Rita Rahman, chief of People’s Party of Bangladesh, one of the components of the 20-party alliance, as its candidate to contest the Rangpur-3 by-election. Party's senior joint...

BSMMU’s first liver transplant patient dies of dengue

BSMMU’s first liver transplant patient dies of dengue

-- 2019-09-08 17:36:36

The first-ever liver transplant patient at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has died of dengue, the authority says. Siratul Islam Shuvo, 20, was released from hospital after th...

246 killed in lightning strikes from February to August this year

246 killed in lightning strikes from February to August this year

FE Online Report 2019-09-08 16:53:27

At least 246 people were killed and 97 injured by lightning strikes across the country from February to August 2019, according to a report of a non-government organisations. The report, released by S...

Dengue claims two more lives in Dhaka, Khulna

Dengue claims two more lives in Dhaka, Khulna

-- 2019-09-08 14:01:46

A man and a woman died of dengue in the capital and Khulna on Sunday. In Dhaka, Nasima Akter, 48, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:30am, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH p...

Pry pupils to get Tk 2000 for uniform from next year

Pry pupils to get Tk 2000 for uniform from next year

FE Online Desk 2019-09-08 13:46:46

The government will give primary school pupils money for buying uniforms from the next year, the state minister for primary and mass education Md Zakir Hossain has said. "The pupils each will get Tk...

Jatiya Party splits leadership duties

Jatiya Party splits leadership duties

-- 2019-09-08 13:17:06

The Jatiya Party has reached a compromise on the leadership tussle between its founder HM Ershad’s brother GM Quader and widow Raushon Ershad that threatened to split the party. The party has a...

Housemaid ‘kills self’ in Magura

Housemaid ‘kills self’ in Magura

-- 2019-09-08 12:01:13

A female housemaid allegedly killed herself at Moghi village in Magura Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Sumaiya Khatun Rachana, 14, daughter of Billal Molla of Bashudev...

Gazipur hotel blast leaves 17 injured; probe body formed

Gazipur hotel blast leaves 17 injured; probe body formed

FE Online Desk 2019-09-08 12:00:21

Gazipur district administration has formed a five-member committee over an explosion that left at least 17 people injured on the ground floor of a hotel in the city's Boar Bazar area early Sunday. De...

Productivity of local species of fishes to be enhanced

Productivity of local species of fishes to be enhanced

Talha Bin Habib 2019-09-08 11:04:48

The government is set to take a project involving Tk 500 million for the development of Kaptai Lake, officials said. As part of the move, the Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) s...

Taxmen, auditors in spat over authority to audit pvt firms' docs

Taxmen, auditors in spat over authority to audit pvt firms' docs

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-09-08 10:18:42

The tax collector and the auditing watchdog are at loggerheads over the authority to audit taxpayers' documents filed in revenue offices. Tax officials said the Office of the Comptroller and Audito...

DSCC mayor calls for feasibility study to introduce electric buses

DSCC mayor calls for feasibility study to introduce electric buses

-- 2019-09-07 20:42:28

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has called on city planners to carry out a feasibility study to introduce electric buses in Dhaka. The DSCC mayor made the call at a discussion...

'End restrictions on movement, internet access of Rohingyas'

'End restrictions on movement, internet access of Rohingyas'

-- 2019-09-07 20:36:06

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday suggested that the Bangladesh government should end restrictions on Rohingyas’ freedom of movement and access to the internet and online communications. &ld...

Atia Mahal raid: Police press charges against three militants

Atia Mahal raid: Police press charges against three militants

-- 2019-09-07 18:38:23

Police have pressed charges against three suspected operatives of the banned militant outfit Neo-JMB (B) with ties to the deaths of four people during an anti-terror operation in Sylhet in 2017. Poli...

Police release 103 youth detained on Friday

Police release 103 youth detained on Friday

-- 2019-09-07 18:23:50

A total 103 of 110 youth and teenagers have been released a day after their arrest in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel for allegedly harassing people by making obscene remarks and gestures. “Seven of t...

DMP vows to annihilate gang culture

DMP vows to annihilate gang culture

-- 2019-09-07 17:56:31

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia has promised to wipe out all types of gangs in a bid to curb crimes in the capital, reports bdnews24.com.  "Whether it's a teen gang or...

150 AL rebels to get show-cause notice from Sunday

150 AL rebels to get show-cause notice from Sunday

-- 2019-09-07 17:01:24

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said more than 150 rebel candidates of Awami League in the last upazila election and their patrons will get show-cause notice from Sunday. Quader, al...

Five aspirants collect BNP form for Rangpur by-polls

Five aspirants collect BNP form for Rangpur by-polls

-- 2019-09-07 17:00:37

Five people, including two women, have collected the nomination forms of BNP to contest the upcoming by-election to Rangpur-3 seat with its ticket. They are BNP Rangpur city unit late president Mozaf...

Cautionary signal No. 3 for ports

Cautionary signal No. 3 for ports

-- 2019-09-07 16:16:01

The low over coastal Odisha and its adjoining areas now lies over the North Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coast and its adjoining areas. Under its influence steep pressure gradient persists over North...