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Hasan Mahmud ‘feels pity’ for Oikyafront

Hasan Mahmud ‘feels pity’ for Oikyafront

-- 2019-06-10 16:51:12

Taking a swipe at Dr Kamal Hossain-led Jatiya Oikyafront, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday said those who are unable to keep themselves united want to forge a greater national unity agai...

1.32m students qualified for college admission

1.32m students qualified for college admission

-- 2019-06-10 16:27:51

The government on Monday published the first list of about 1.32 million students qualified for college admission in the academic session of 2019-2020. Prof Ziaul Haque, Chairman of Dhaka Education Bo...

UAE accumulates $18.0m fund for Rohingyas

UAE accumulates $18.0m fund for Rohingyas

-- 2019-06-10 16:17:35

Emirates Red Crescent Authority (ERC) has collected more than US$ 18.0 million fund in a weeklong campaign in the United Arab Emirates to support livelihood of the Rohingya people sheltered in Banglad...

Sherpur witnesses 55 rape incidents in five months

Sherpur witnesses 55 rape incidents in five months

-- 2019-06-10 16:06:12

At least 55 incidents of rape were recorded in Sherpur district over the last five months from January, showing sharp a rise in repression against women. According to information placed at the monthl...

Ex-OC Moazzem to be arrested soon: Quader

Ex-OC Moazzem to be arrested soon: Quader

-- 2019-06-10 14:04:33

Former Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain will be arrested soon, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said. "There is no lack of efforts on the part of the government to arrest him," he sa...

Man dies as wall collapses after building explosion in Dhaka

Man dies as wall collapses after building explosion in Dhaka

-- 2019-06-10 13:22:58

A person has died in a wall collapse triggered by an unexplained building explosion at Shonir Akhra in Dhaka. Four others were injured in the incident at the three-storey RS Tower around 9:30am on Mo...

Japanese footballer  visits Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

Japanese footballer visits Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

-- 2019-06-10 13:00:49

Makoto Hasebe, one of the prominent Japanese football players currently playing for Eintracht Frankfurt of Bundesliga, has visited Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar as the UNICEF ambassador for Japa...

Four of a family suffer burns in Narayanganj

Four of a family suffer burns in Narayanganj

-- 2019-06-10 11:04:27

Four members of a family, including two children, sustained burn injuries as a fire broke out at a house in Pagla Chitasha area of Narayanganj's Fatullah early Monday. The injured are Abdul Alim, 70,...

BGB recovers 53 crude bombs in Chapainawabganj

BGB recovers 53 crude bombs in Chapainawabganj

-- 2019-06-10 10:52:30

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 53 crude bombs from a house at Jhaunia village in Chapainawabganj sadar upazila on Sunday. Lt Col Sajjad Sarwar, commanding officer of BGB 53 battali...

China's BRI brings new opportunities for Bangladesh, others

China's BRI brings new opportunities for Bangladesh, others

-- 2019-06-09 20:53:32

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has brought new opportunities for Bangladesh and other countries in South and Southeast Asia, said an official. "We’re making every effort to speed up and...

‘Proper reservation of water will cut dependency on others’

‘Proper reservation of water will cut dependency on others’

-- 2019-06-09 19:45:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh will not have to seek water from others if water could be properly reserved. "Bangladesh is delta country. All rivers originated from the Himalayas flow t...

Tarique has no way to escape punishment: PM

Tarique has no way to escape punishment: PM

-- 2019-06-09 19:36:49

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reaffirmed that the punishment BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman was given by court in different cases will surely be executed. "We've been in talks with the B...

PM to visit China in July

PM to visit China in July

-- 2019-06-09 19:21:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she will travel to Beijing in July at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Hasina revealed the information at a media briefing on her tri-nation tour of J...

61 women killed by their husbands in Jan-Apr

61 women killed by their husbands in Jan-Apr

FE Online Report 2019-06-09 18:49:45

Domestic violence claimed the lives of 61 women in the four months of the calendar year across the country, according to a local rights body. Apart from this, 18 women committed suicide and 12 were t...

Foreign tourists to get dedicated spots in Cox’s Bazar: PM

Foreign tourists to get dedicated spots in Cox’s Bazar: PM

-- 2019-06-09 18:04:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the government has a plan to dedicate some tourist spots in Cox's Bazar exclusively to foreign tourists. "We've a plan to dedicate some tourist spots in Co...

Transport crisis hits Dhaka on first working day after Eid

Transport crisis hits Dhaka on first working day after Eid

-- 2019-06-09 17:55:28

Commuters in Dhaka have faced a shortage of public transport amid rains on Sunday, the first working day after the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. The number of buses plying the capital’s streets on Sund...

'All residential areas to get prepaid gas metres'

'All residential areas to get prepaid gas metres'

-- 2019-06-09 17:46:57

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said the government plans to install prepaid gas metres in all residential areas. “We are taking a project to remove old...

Fishermen demand withdrawal of fishing ban in Bay

Fishermen demand withdrawal of fishing ban in Bay

-- 2019-06-09 17:16:40

Fishermen in Chattogram on Sunday blocked Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Sitakunda area demanding withdrawal of the 65-day fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal. Locals said scores of people from the fisherm...

Govt plans to overhaul immigration system

Govt plans to overhaul immigration system

-- 2019-06-09 16:50:43

The government plans to overhaul the immigration system at all airports of the country, including Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan came up with the statement on...

Poverty forces parents 'to sell children' in Gaibandha

Poverty forces parents 'to sell children' in Gaibandha

-- 2019-06-09 16:29:14

Day-labourer Habil Mia from Rajbari village in Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district has been suffering from various ailments for a long time. But he had to work hard to support a seven-member fam...

Fire at Banglamotor building

Fire at Banglamotor building

-- 2019-06-09 13:27:26

A building in Dhaka's Banglamotor area caught fire on Sunday afternoon. "The fire broke out at a multi-story building located beside private channel Somoy TV around 12:30pm and spread rapidly," Fire...

Rumeen Farhana takes oath

Rumeen Farhana takes oath

-- 2019-06-09 13:22:03

BNP's reserved seat MP-elect Barrister Rumeen Farhana took oath as a member of the 11th Parliament on Sunday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the swearing-in at the Jatiya Sangsad Bh...

JS to open help desk to provide MPs with budget information

JS to open help desk to provide MPs with budget information

-- 2019-06-09 13:03:42

The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) secretariat will launch budget information help desk on Tuesday to assist the lawmakers for delivering their address at the first budget session of the 11th parliament. With t...

Offices resume after Eid vacation

Offices resume after Eid vacation

-- 2019-06-09 12:29:09

Eid holidaymakers have started returning to the city after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr in their village homes as the government and private offices resumed on Sunday after a long vacation on the occasio...

Van driver dies in Khulna road mishap

Van driver dies in Khulna road mishap

-- 2019-06-09 12:02:31

A pick-up van driver was killed and seven others were injured when a bus collided head-on with the pick-up van on Khulna-Satkhira Highway at Baniakhali in Dumuria upazila of Khulna on Sunday. The dec...

BD, UK agree MoU on sports development

BD, UK agree MoU on sports development

-- 2019-06-09 11:03:43

Bangladesh and the United Kingdom (UK) have agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for further development of Bangladesh's sports through wider cooperation. State Minister for Foreign Aff...

Feni ‘gunfight’ kills two suspected drug dealers

Feni ‘gunfight’ kills two suspected drug dealers

-- 2019-06-09 09:53:04

Two suspected drug dealers were killed in an alleged gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Fatehpur in Feni Sadar upazila on early Sunday. The identities of the deceased could not be known im...

Little progress in tapping blue economy potentials

Little progress in tapping blue economy potentials

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-06-09 09:10:39

Bangladesh appears to have made little progress in exploiting its "huge" blue economy potentials, according to a recent report. The contribution of the ocean economy to the total economy was 3.66 per...

Initial delay dogs ADP

Initial delay dogs ADP

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-06-09 09:06:39

Planning ministry has identified major impediments that slow down the execution of projects under the Annual Development Programme (ADP). The Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED)...

‘Steps soon to develop slums’

‘Steps soon to develop slums’

-- 2019-06-08 21:14:51

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Saturday said steps will be taken to develop slums as well as ensure physical and mental development of slum children. He came up with the re...