-- 2019-03-21 17:44:57
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to strengthen collaboration with Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) for increasing rice productio...
-- 2019-03-21 17:40:50
A joint team of Airport Armed police and Narcotics Control Department on Thursday morning arrested two passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for carrying 3,000 Yaba tablets in their abd...
-- 2019-03-21 17:35:25
Awami League Presidium Member Tofail Ahmed on Thursday said the people of the country have turned away from the BNP for its wrong politics and this will lead to the party’s extinction. “B...
-- 2019-03-21 17:31:28
A feasibility study is being undertaken for setting up a land based Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal phase-I at Matarbari in Cox’s Bazar, having a capacity to process 1000 mmcfd (million cub...
-- 2019-03-21 17:24:13
The Agriculture Ministry on Thursday announced a TK 40.18 crore incentive for the farmers of 64 districts for cultivating 'Ufshi' variety of Aush crops. Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque made...
-- 2019-03-21 17:19:59
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to take such development projects that will make people suffer. "We'll definitely undertake development projects, but the dev...
-- 2019-03-21 16:29:45
An anti-terror special court on Thursday adjourned till March 27 the hearing of a case lodged under the anti-terror act over the grisly militant attack at the capital’s Holey Artisan Bakery in 2...
-- 2019-03-21 14:54:41
The RMG workers of Intramex Group have blocked three roads in Gazipur city to protest the factory locking its doors and issuing a notice of closure without paying them the wages they are owed. The de...
-- 2019-03-21 14:22:59
At least four people, including three students, were killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj, Khulna, Brahmanbaria and Narsingdi districts on Thursday. In Sirajganj, Hr...
-- 2019-03-21 13:20:36
Holi, a Hindu religious festival of colours, is being celebrated across the country with due religious fervor and much enthusiasm. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-21 13:08:26
A Bangladeshi has been named as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate change policy for 2019. Dr Saleemul Huq, the director of International Centre for Climate Change and De...
-- 2019-03-21 12:57:29
Two students were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Narsingdi districts on Thursday. In Sirajganj, Hridoy, 17, a student of Dhukuria Technical College and son...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-21 12:01:20
A madrasa teacher has died as he was run over by an oil lorry while crossing the road at Kalyanpur bus stand in Dhaka’s Mirpur in the early morning of Thursday, taking the deaths in the city roa...
-- 2019-03-21 11:53:51
The owners of Suprobhat Private Limited are trying to operate its buses under another company name, Samrat, in Gazipur by changing colour and appearance of the vehicles banned in Dhaka in the wake of...
-- 2019-03-21 11:35:29
A man reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house after killing his wife at Boro Boalia village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga over family feud on Wednesday night....
-- 2019-03-21 11:28:30
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has said investigations into allegations of grave human rights violations in Myanmar's Rakhine State remain absent. She said there are currentl...
-- 2019-03-21 10:54:59
Bangladesh has slipped 10 notches in the Happiness Index but it is still ahead of India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. According to World Happiness Report 2019 released on Wednesday coinciding with the Unit...
-- 2019-03-21 10:41:31
Chittagong University authorities have decided in principle to hold elections to its central students' union (CCCSU) and hall unions after around three decades. CU Vice-chancellor Prof Iftekhar Uddin...
FE Report 2019-03-21 10:34:51
Second-tier manufacturers of CKD (completely knocked down) motorcycles will enjoy full waiver from payment of Supplementary Duty (SD) from now on, says an order of the revenue board. With the duty...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-21 09:15:44
A man in his 40s has died in a road accident as a covered van hit him crossing the road at the Purana Paltan intersection in Dhaka city on Wednesday night. He could not be identified immediately, loc...
-- 2019-03-20 21:11:42
Plucking of tea-leaves has brought self-reliance to some 10,000 female farm-labourers in the fast-expanding tea sector on the 'Karotoa Valley' ecological zone in the northern region, reports BSS. Alo...
-- 2019-03-20 20:46:30
The Ministry of Public Administration on Wednesday issued a gazette on the 37th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations appointing a total of 1,221 candidates to different cadres. The recruited o...
-- 2019-03-20 19:43:51
Three bus passengers were killed and 19 others injured following head-on collision between two buses on Bangabandhu Bridge West Connecting road at Soydabad in Sirajganj on Wednesday afternoon. The id...
-- 2019-03-20 19:01:41
The students of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) have agreed to halt their movement for road safety until March 28 after receiving assurances from Dhaka North Mayor Atiqul Islam over their...
FE Report 2019-03-20 18:57:29
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has decided to launch a circular bus service in the capital's Dhanmondi area from March 26 on the occasion of Independence Day. The decision came at a meeti...
FE Online Report 2019-03-20 18:53:20
The Dhaka Road Transport Owners and Workers Unity Council has urged transport owners and companies not to ply their buses on contract basis. The organisation also threatened to seize the transports p...
-- 2019-03-20 17:57:36
The ruling Awami League has paid profound respect to the memory of former President M Zillur Rahman marking his sixth death anniversary. Leaders of the party paid homage by placing wreaths at his gra...
-- 2019-03-20 17:22:51
Holi, a Hindu religious festival of colours, will be celebrated on Thursday across the country with due religious fervour and much enthusiasm. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, th...
-- 2019-03-20 17:05:10
A Dhaka court put the driver of Suprobhat Paribahan that crushed Bangladesh University of Professionals student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury to death, on seven-day remand. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Debd...
-- 2019-03-20 16:59:52
The government is chalking out the country's biggest-ever nationwide programme to celebrate the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
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