-- 2019-05-09 17:39:19
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken a decision to allow the International Gateway (IGW) operators to make their transactions for international calls by opening foreign currency accounts. Bangladesh Teleco...
-- 2019-05-09 17:33:48
It's all for love. A young couple of lovers reportedly committed suicide hanging themselves with a single rope at Kasipur village under Ranishankail upazila in Thakurgaon early Thursday as their famil...
-- 2019-05-09 17:30:24
A week-long Mass Dog Vaccination (MDV) in the two city corporations will begin from May 14 as part of the country's move to eliminate rabies by 2022. Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the pro...
-- 2019-05-09 17:24:06
Newly-appointed Thai Ambassador to Bangladesh Arunrung Phothong Humphreys sought more Bangladesh-Thai joint ventures to further strengthen trade and economic ties between the two countries. The envoy...
FE Online Report 2019-05-09 17:13:36
Teachers from different non-government teachers’ training (TT) colleges have placed a five-point demand including Monthly Pay Order (MPO) system. Private Teachers Training Colleges Teachers&rsq...
-- 2019-05-09 16:54:55
Abdul Kader Siddiqui, president of Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL), on Thursday threatened to quit the Dr Kamal Hossain-led Jatiya Oikyafront by a month if inconsistencies are not removed fr...
-- 2019-05-09 16:50:01
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Thursday seeking removal of 52 products that failed quality tests of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI). The petition also seeks an e...
-- 2019-05-09 16:46:38
President Abdul Hamid on Thursday assented to three bills passed in the second session of the 11th parliament. The bills are Plant Variety Protection Bill, 2019, Bangladesh National Social Welfare C...
-- 2019-05-09 16:38:48
Cyclone Fani has caused damage worth Tk 5.36 billion to housing, infrastructure and agriculture across Bangladesh, according to government estimates. Shah Kamal, senior secretary to the disaster mana...
FE Online Desk 2019-05-09 15:56:08
State-run jute mill workers in Dhaka and Khulna, most of whom have been unpaid for six to 13 weeks, continued their agitation for the fourth day demanding their pay and arrears. At Dema in the capita...
-- 2019-05-09 15:07:23
Road Transport and Highway Division Secretary Nazrul Islam on Thursday requested the power ministry to keep CNG refuelling stations open round the clock for seven days before and five days after the E...
FE Online Report 2019-05-09 14:32:54
The government has imposed a 65-day ban on fishing in the Bay of Bengal from May 20 to July 23. The ban has been put in place to preserve fish stock and ensure proper breeding of sea fishes, accordin...
FE Online Report 2019-05-09 14:16:24
Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity has demanded a separate allocation of Tk 100 billion (Tk 10,000 crore) in the upcoming budget to ensure safe roads for all. The passengers' welfare platform made the de...
FE Online Desk 2019-05-09 12:56:05
The national flag carrier has constituted a six-member investigation committee over the crash landing of its Dash-8 aircraft at the Yangon International Airport in Myanmar. Shoeb Chowdhury, chief of...
-- 2019-05-09 12:29:35
There will be no relief from the sweltering heat in the next two days as the temperature may rise further during the period, the Met Office said Thursday. "A mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping ov...
-- 2019-05-09 12:11:44
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has recovered the glass used to pour kerosene on the body of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi before she was set on fire. The glass was discovered insid...
-- 2019-05-09 11:56:52
Bangladesh's capital has been ranked fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday. Dhaka had a score of 165 at 10:44am, indicating that the air quality was unhealthy. A numerical value be...
-- 2019-05-09 11:19:25
The mortal remains of Additional Inspector General of Police Rowshan Ara Begum have been brought back to Dhaka from Congo. A Turkish Airways flight carrying the coffin arrived in Dhaka's Hazrat Shahj...
FE Online Desk 2019-05-09 10:52:30
The country's national flag carrier has brought home its 17 passengers on a special flight from Myanmar. The special flight BG061 landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4:30am, said Bima...
-- 2019-05-09 10:48:56
A suspected member of banned militant group Hizb-ut-Tahrir was arrested while sticking posters in front of the Government Women's College in Rajshahi city on Wednesday. The arrestee was identified as...
Kamrun Nahar 2019-05-09 10:40:10
Bangladesh, sooner or later, will also face the impact of change in core skills around the globe between 2015 and 2020, experts opined. Subsequently, the country's small and medium enterprises (SME...
FE Report 2019-05-09 10:33:32
Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal said the central bank will issue a revised guideline soon on default loan rescheduling. "What we've pledged so far (on rescheduling of default loans) will be st...
-- 2019-05-09 10:10:31
Two suspected drug dealers were killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Laboni Beach Point in Cox's Bazar district town on early Thursday. The identities of the deceased co...
Our Correspondent 2019-05-08 21:15:42
NAOGAON, May 08: Emissions from brick kilns is damaging banana plants and paddy fields on 20 hectares of land under Dhamoirhat upazila in the district. Some local farmers said similar damage to their...
Our Correspondent 2019-05-08 21:13:42
BOGURA, May 08: High production of water spinach has brought smile on the faces of grassroots farmers in the district this season. Harun-or-Rashid of Ashunja village under Dupchanchia upazila said pr...
-- 2019-05-08 20:48:33
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane with 33 people on board from Dhaka has skidded off the runway at Yangon International Airport in Myanmar and 19 of them have been hospitalised. The accident occurred...
-- 2019-05-08 20:13:49
Bangladesh is likely to experience slow internet speed for a week from Wednesday as the authorities have delayed maintenance work on the country’s first submarine cable due to a storm. Banglade...
-- 2019-05-08 19:44:21
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested a dismissed policeman reportedly along with 10,100 Yaba pills from Arambagh in the city on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as Mahfuzur Rahman,...
-- 2019-05-08 19:35:47
The body of Additional IGP Rowshan Ara, who was killed in a road crash at Kinshasha in Congo on Monday, will be brought home on Thursday morning. Sources at the Police Headquarters said the body of R...
-- 2019-05-08 19:33:26
A Kishoreganj court on Wednesday placed five people on an eight-day remand each in a case filed over killing a nurse after rape in a moving bus at Gazaria nearby Bajitpur upazila. Those remanded are...
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