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NBR wants BEZA to exclude essential goods from tax incentive package

NBR wants BEZA to exclude essential goods from tax incentive package

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-08-06 10:24:51

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to put forward a proposal to Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) for exclusion of essential consumer goods from its tax incentive package. The...

Sales of sacrificial animals gearing up in Rajshahi

Sales of sacrificial animals gearing up in Rajshahi

Our Correspondents 2019-08-06 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Aug 05: As the Eid-ul-Azha is approaching fast, sales in markets of sacrificial animals in the district are gearing up. A big number of sacrificial animals including bulls, goats and shee...

Dengue spreading its  tentacles across dists

Dengue spreading its tentacles across dists

Our Correspondents 2019-08-06 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Aug 05: The number of dengue patients is on the increase in the district.  Some 115 patients were hospitalised until Sunday, sources said. Most of the patients are undergoing treatment...

Don’t use pesticides, destroy mosquito breeding places: Kolkata to Dhaka 

Don’t use pesticides, destroy mosquito breeding places: Kolkata to Dhaka 

-- 2019-08-05 21:26:43

The authorities of Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Monday suggested Dhaka to destroy the breeding places of Aedes mosquito rather than using pesticides to resist the dengue outbreak. Kolkata Deputy...

Policemen gang-rape woman in Khulna

Policemen gang-rape woman in Khulna

-- 2019-08-05 20:13:00

A woman has allegedly been gang-raped by the OC of Khulna Railway Police Station and four other police personnel. The 21-year-old victim alleged that police had arrested her at Khulna Railway Station...

Miscreants stab policeman in Sherpur

Miscreants stab policeman in Sherpur

-- 2019-08-05 18:02:52

A policeman was stabbed by some unidentified miscreants near Mirganj police camp in Sherpur on Monday morning. The injured is Anwar Hossain, 35, an assistant traffic sub-inspector and in-charge of Mi...

Nusrat killing: Trial of madrasa principal begins

Nusrat killing: Trial of madrasa principal begins

-- 2019-08-05 17:49:43

A Feni court has opened the trial of suspended madrasa principal SM Siraj-ud-Daula, a key suspect in the killing of his student Nusrat Jahan Rafi in an arson attack. Women and Children’s Repres...

249,950 motorcycles get registration in seven months

249,950 motorcycles get registration in seven months

FE Online Report 2019-08-05 17:11:06

Some 249,950 motorcycles were registered in the first seven months of this calendar year across the country, according to an official data. Of the total, 61,132 motorcycles were registered in Dhaka d...

Fogging a ‘myth’ in dengue control: WHO expert

Fogging a ‘myth’ in dengue control: WHO expert

-- 2019-08-05 17:04:11

Source detection of Aedes mosquito breeding is the key to curb dengue fever, says a mosquito expert of the World Health Organisation, with 40 years of experience. Dr B N Nagpal, senior entomologist o...

Single-day dengue infections break 18-year record

Single-day dengue infections break 18-year record

FE Online Report 2019-08-05 16:40:04

As many as 2,065 new dengue patients have been hospitalised in the 24 hours to Monday morning in Bangladesh, breaking all previous records for a single day in the country’s history recorded in l...

Damaged roads to be repaired three days before Eid: Quader

Damaged roads to be repaired three days before Eid: Quader

FE Online Desk 2019-08-05 14:43:24

Repairs of all the damaged roads across the country will be done three days before the Eid-ul-Azha, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today. If needs be, the road repair work wi...

Minny seeks bail from High Court

Minny seeks bail from High Court

-- 2019-08-05 14:11:52

Lawyers for murder suspect Aysha Siddika Minny, the wife of slain Barguna youth Refat Shorif, have filed a petition with the High Court seeking bail. The petition was submitted to the respective High...

Two including pregnant woman die of dengue in Dhaka

Two including pregnant woman die of dengue in Dhaka

FE Online Desk 2019-08-05 13:37:48

A 13-year-old boy and a pregnant woman have died of dengue while undergoing treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka. They were Hasan, 13, from Bhola district and Sharmin Akhter, 24, wife of a meteo...

Four of a family burnt in city AC fire

Four of a family burnt in city AC fire

-- 2019-08-05 13:18:16

Four members of a family, including two children, sustained burn injuries as an air conditioner caught fire in a house at Kathalbagan area in Dhaka city early Monday. The injured are Moniruzzaman&nbs...

Three die in separate gunfights

Three die in separate gunfights

-- 2019-08-05 12:12:41

Three people, including an accused in a gang-rape case, were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ in Mymensingh and Habiganj districts on Monday. In Mymensingh, an alleged drug trader and an ac...

Bangladeshis slip to second largest expat group in Oman

Bangladeshis slip to second largest expat group in Oman

FE Online Desk 2019-08-05 12:03:24

For the second year, Bangladeshi nationals have been overtaken by Indians as the largest expat community in Oman. In 2018 there were 640,575 Bangladeshi nationals living and working in the Sultanate...

Police arrest woman with 1000 Yaba pills in Magura

Police arrest woman with 1000 Yaba pills in Magura

-- 2019-08-05 11:49:28

Police arrested a woman with 1000 Yaba tablets, four bottles of phensedyl at Kukna village in Magura sadar upazila on Sunday night. The arrestee is Mita Begum, 26, of the area, UNB reported. Tariqul...

Payra port rail link: Cost of feasibility study goes up by 37pc

Payra port rail link: Cost of feasibility study goes up by 37pc

Munima Sultana 2019-08-05 10:59:00

The cost of conducting a feasibility study for establishing rail corridor with Payra port through Barishal has been increased significantly due to delay in starting the study work. Sources said Bangl...

Eid journey: Private bus operators charging too high

Eid journey: Private bus operators charging too high

FE Report 2019-08-05 10:44:22

Despite guarantees of normal bus fares for different routes during Eid-ul-Azha festival, private bus operators were found charging much higher for advance tickets. Prices of tickets for normal coac...

Hasina to join Delhi economic summit

Hasina to join Delhi economic summit

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-08-05 10:28:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit New Delhi in the first week of next October to attend the India Economic Summit, slated for October 03-04. According to a primary schedule, she is expected to...

Dishonest traders cashing in on dengue menace

Dishonest traders cashing in on dengue menace

Adnan Hossain Bhuiyan 2019-08-05 10:05:25

Cashing in on the dengue outbreak, a section of dishonest traders are reportedly selling mosquito control products in the capital at abnormally high prices. Many city dwellers have alleged that some...

Doctors, staff shortage hampers medicare at 50-bed Nabiganj health complex

Doctors, staff shortage hampers medicare at 50-bed Nabiganj health complex

Our Correspondent 2019-08-05 00:00:00

SYLHET, Aug 04: Although the upazila heath complex at Nabiganj in Habiganj district was upgraded into a 50-bed one long ago, yet the government-run hospital lacks minimum number of physicians and othe...

PM clears 75 urgent files from UK

PM clears 75 urgent files from UK

-- 2019-08-04 21:50:33

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has so far cleared 75 urgent files digitally from London. The prime minister went to London on July 19 to attend Bangladeshi envoys’ conference and other programmes...

VGF programme covers 107,853 poor families in Manikganj

VGF programme covers 107,853 poor families in Manikganj

-- 2019-08-04 21:36:16

The government has allocated 1,617.795 metric tonnes of rice under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme for 1,07853 poor and distressed families in Manikganj. This programme was taken by gove...

Eden College student dies from dengue

Eden College student dies from dengue

-- 2019-08-04 21:10:24

A student of Eden Mohila College has died at a Dhaka hospital in the latest fatality from dengue amid an outbreak that has spread across Bangladesh. The 20-year-old woman, identified only as Shanta,...

Tangail road crashes kill five

Tangail road crashes kill five

-- 2019-08-04 20:23:57

Five people, including a couple, were killed in separate road crashes in Mirzapur, Ghatail and Delduar upazilas of Tangail on Sunday. In Mirzapur upazila, three people were killed when a Tangail-boun...

Water issues on agenda of PM's India visit in Oct

Water issues on agenda of PM's India visit in Oct

-- 2019-08-04 19:34:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India in October next to discuss bilateral issues, including the ones related to common rivers, to take the growing relations between Bangladesh and India forwa...

Indictment hearing in Niko graft case deferred until Aug 27

Indictment hearing in Niko graft case deferred until Aug 27

-- 2019-08-04 18:43:31

A Dhaka court on Sunday set August 27 to hold hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of Dhaka 9th special judge...

Cattle markets in city getting prepared ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

Cattle markets in city getting prepared ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

-- 2019-08-04 18:14:30

Cattle markets in the city are getting prepared ahead of Eid-ul-Azha in full swing as traders bring a huge number of sacrificial animals from across the country to the capital for sales. Visiting dif...

Home minister warns of stern action against extortion at Karwan Bazar

Home minister warns of stern action against extortion at Karwan Bazar

-- 2019-08-04 17:21:19

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday warned that the government will not tolerate any kind of extortion at the city’s Karwan Bazar. The minister came up with the warning while addressing a...