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Budget session to begin on Tuesday

Budget session to begin on Tuesday

-- 2019-06-08 20:51:54

The first budget session of the 11th parliament will begin on June 11 (Tuesday). Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will place the national budget for 2019-20 fiscal in the House on June 13, said a s...

Police arrests two with 8,000 yaba

Police arrests two with 8,000 yaba

-- 2019-06-08 20:37:28

Police's Detective Branch (DB) has foiled a bid to smuggle contraband yaba pills in ambulance in Chattogram. DB members detained two suspected drug dealers with 8,000 yaba pills on Friday night, repo...

Stone crushers vitiate  Sylhet environment

Stone crushers vitiate Sylhet environment

Our Correspondent 2019-06-08 20:31:08

SYLHET, June 08: About a thousnd unauthorised stone crushers in Sylhet district are doing brisk business at the cost of environmental degradation and others through managing local influential people,...

Ports asked to lower signal

Ports asked to lower signal

UNB 2019-06-08 20:14:46

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been asked to lower signal as squally weather is unlikely over the ports, North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh, said...

Immigration SI suspended for allowing pilot without passport

Immigration SI suspended for allowing pilot without passport

-- 2019-06-08 20:07:07

A sub-inspector of the Bangladesh Immigration Department has been suspended for neglect of duty as he let a Biman Bangladesh pilot travel abroad passportless to bring back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...

Awami League announces month-long anniversary programme

Awami League announces month-long anniversary programme

-- 2019-06-08 18:48:34

The ruling Awami League has announced a month-long programme to celebrate the party's 70th founding anniversary which falls on June 23. Party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced the schedule...

Sixth agricultural census begins Sunday

Sixth agricultural census begins Sunday

-- 2019-06-08 18:11:19

The sixth agricultural census will begin on Sunday to collect latest information on the country’s crops, fisheries and livestock resources. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has arranged th...

Holidaymakers throng Sundarbans

Holidaymakers throng Sundarbans

-- 2019-06-08 17:57:01

The Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, was a major draw for tourists during the long Eid-ul-Fitr vacation. Despite unfavourable weather, several thousand tourists visited the fore...

Govt offices, banks reopen Sunday after Eid

Govt offices, banks reopen Sunday after Eid

-- 2019-06-08 17:19:57

Government offices, banks and financial institutions will resume operations from Sunday after a five-day Eid-ul-Fitr vacation. This year, government officials enjoyed holidays from June 4 to 8, accor...

Unconsumed solar power sale to national grid growing fast

Unconsumed solar power sale to national grid growing fast

-- 2019-06-08 17:06:58

The sale of solar power from consumers’ end to the national grid under the Net Metering System (NMS) is growing fast as its volume has already reached 8.213 MW across the country. According to...

Mighty Titas River turns into a canal

Mighty Titas River turns into a canal

-- 2019-06-08 16:18:49

The literary sketch of Titas River in Adwaita Mallabarman’s ‘Titas Ekti Nadir Naam’ or ‘a river called Titas’ - later made into a film of the same name by Ritwik Ghatak -...

PM to brief media on tri-nation tour Sunday

PM to brief media on tri-nation tour Sunday

-- 2019-06-08 14:04:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press conference on Sunday about the outcome of her recent tri-nation visit to Japan, Saudi Arabia and Finland. It will be held at the Prime Minister's offici...

Police constable ‘stabs mother-in-law to death’ in Chuadanga

Police constable ‘stabs mother-in-law to death’ in Chuadanga

-- 2019-06-08 13:17:03

A police constable has been accused of stabbing his mother-in-law to death over a family feud at Madrasa Para in Alamdanga of Chuadanga on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Sefali Adhi...

PM returns home after tri-nation visit

PM returns home after tri-nation visit

-- 2019-06-08 11:39:15

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Saturday morning wrapping up her 12-day tri-nation tour to Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Finland. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the P...

Police recover youth’s body in Pabna

Police recover youth’s body in Pabna

-- 2019-06-08 11:15:37

Police recovered the body of a young man from the Boral River in Bhangura municipality on Saturday morning. Bhangura Police Station Officer-in-Charge Masud Rana said that the youth was about 25-26 ye...

Aging fleet makes Railway’s west zone operations risky

Aging fleet makes Railway’s west zone operations risky

FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-06-08 10:27:45

Two-fifths of passenger carriages of the Bangladesh Railway (BR)'s west zone are worn out, making its fleets vulnerable and risky, officials said. West zone officials said the older passenger coach...

People returning to Dhaka after Eid holidays

People returning to Dhaka after Eid holidays

-- 2019-06-07 20:20:31

People, especially private job holders, have started returning to the capital after celebrating the holy Eid-ul-Fitr with their dear and near ones in different parts of the country. They are arriving...

'Delhi wants to take BD-India partnership to desired goal'

'Delhi wants to take BD-India partnership to desired goal'

-- 2019-06-07 20:07:57

Newly appointed Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has said he is committed to take the partnership between Bangladesh and India to its desired goal as envisioned by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu...

Biman rejects media reports on pilot’s detention in Qatar

Biman rejects media reports on pilot’s detention in Qatar

-- 2019-06-07 19:13:00

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines has rejected media reports that said one of its pilots was detained by Qatar immigration authority in Doha for not carrying passport. “Actually, no pilot of Biman...

Conviction rate in graft cases drops in January-April

Conviction rate in graft cases drops in January-April

FE Online Report 2019-06-07 17:57:33

The conviction rate in graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) dropped in the first four months of the current calendar year compared to that of the same period of 2018. The convict...

40 injured in Brahmanbaria clash

40 injured in Brahmanbaria clash

-- 2019-06-07 17:45:12

At least 40 people, including children and policemen, have been injured after a verbal spat over the amount of bones in beef between a villager and a meat seller boiled over into physical a clash betw...

Rizvi expresses concern over bomb at BSMMU

Rizvi expresses concern over bomb at BSMMU

-- 2019-06-07 17:23:17

BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has expressed concerns over the petrol bomb found in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib University (BSMMU) on Thursday. The party's senior joint secretary general suspects the...

PM to return home Saturday morning

PM to return home Saturday morning

-- 2019-06-07 17:21:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return home on Saturday wrapping up her five-day official visit to Finland, the third and final destination of her tri-nation tour. A Qatar Airlines flight carrying...

Six-point demand was the charter of freedom: Obaidul Quader

Six-point demand was the charter of freedom: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-06-07 17:17:52

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday referred to six-point demand as charter of freedom of Bangalee, saying the people who disapprove June 7, the milestone of Independence, don&rsqu...

Four die in Dhamrai road crash

Four die in Dhamrai road crash

-- 2019-06-07 17:13:13

At least four people have been killed and five others injured when a bus collided head-on with a pickup van at Dhamrai Upazila in Dhaka. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in the Kal...

Bangladesh becomes UNWTO vice-president

Bangladesh becomes UNWTO vice-president

-- 2019-06-07 17:12:10

Bangladesh has been elected the vice-president of the General Assembly of United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). Bangladesh has also been elected a member of the UNWTO Credential Committe...

RUET student goes missing in Jamuna River

RUET student goes missing in Jamuna River

-- 2019-06-07 17:06:55

A student of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) has remained missing after he went to take a bath in the Jamuna River in Naogaon district on Thursday afternoon. The victim has b...

EC seeks Tk 3b budget allocation

EC seeks Tk 3b budget allocation

-- 2019-06-07 14:25:28

The Election Commission (EC) wants an allocation of Tk 3 billion in the next national budget in order to conduct local government polls, including elections to the three city corporations. Finance Mi...

Two workers die after inhaling septic tank gas

Two workers die after inhaling septic tank gas

-- 2019-06-07 12:53:40

Two construction workers died after inhaling toxic gas inside a septic tank at Tupipara in Sreepur upazila of Magura on Friday. The deceased have been identified as Palash Roy, 27, son of Kumaresh Ro...

Three Rohingya ‘kidnappers’ die in reported gunfight

Three Rohingya ‘kidnappers’ die in reported gunfight

-- 2019-06-07 11:57:56

Three Rohingya refugees with links to alleged crime have been killed in a so-called shootout with law enforcers during a police drive to rescue an abducted child in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf...