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European markets now open for ACME Lab

European markets now open for ACME Lab

FE Report 2019-03-12 11:13:45

ACME Laboratories has received the certificate of GMP compliance from UK MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of UK). ACME Laboratories, the country's oldest pharmaceuticals comp...

ILO, IFC launch scheme to increase women supervisors in RMG sector

ILO, IFC launch scheme to increase women supervisors in RMG sector

FE Report 2019-03-12 11:03:46

A joint innovative training scheme has been launched aiming to create more women supervisors in the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector. The pilot progrmame of the Gender Equality and Returns...

No impediment to opening trial against Myanmar: ICC

No impediment to opening trial against Myanmar: ICC

FE Report 2019-03-12 09:48:54

There is no problem in starting trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against those who committed atrocities against the Rohingya, even though Myanmar is not a party to the Court, a senior o...

Quota protest leader Nur wins DUCSU VP

Quota protest leader Nur wins DUCSU VP

-- 2019-03-12 09:34:47

Rank outsider Nurul Haq Nur, one of the organisers of quota reform protests, has produced the biggest shock in DUCSU history by winning the vice-president (VP) post in Monday’s elections. Bangl...

CARE Bangladesh organises rickshaw rally to mark Women’s Day

CARE Bangladesh organises rickshaw rally to mark Women’s Day

-- 2019-03-11 22:59:42

To promote gender equality and raise collective voices against gender-based violence and harassment in workplaces, CARE Bangladesh organised a colourful rickshaw rally on Monday.  The rally, he...

Two college students arrested for ‘gang rape’

Two college students arrested for ‘gang rape’

-- 2019-03-11 21:26:28

Two college students were arrested on Monday for their alleged involvement in the 'gang rape' of a ninth grader madrasa girl at Gournadi Upazila in Barishal. The arrestees are Sadik Sarkar, 17, son o...

Chawkbazar Fire: Wahed Mansion owners get bail

Chawkbazar Fire: Wahed Mansion owners get bail

-- 2019-03-11 21:22:12

The High Court on Monday granted bail to two owners of Haji Wahed Mansion in Churihatta of Dhaka's Chawkbazar, in a case filed over the devastating fire that claimed 71 lives. A bench of Justice Md R...

Okra cultivation uplifts farmers’ lot in Magura

Okra cultivation uplifts farmers’ lot in Magura

Our Correspondent 2019-03-11 20:43:33

MAGURA, Mar 11: Okra cultivation has turned fortune wheel of a good number of farmers in the district. Low production cost and high market demand have encouraged the growers to cultivate the short-du...

Padma riverbank turns attractive after RCC’s beautification work

Padma riverbank turns attractive after RCC’s beautification work

-- 2019-03-11 20:42:21

RAJSHAHI, Mar 11 (BSS): Padma riverbank adjacent to the Sahed Bazar area of the divisional town has turned into an attractive tourist and recreational spot as the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has r...

Rain, thunder showers likely on Tuesday

Rain, thunder showers likely on Tuesday

-- 2019-03-11 20:17:41

Rain/thunder showers, accompanied by temporary gusty wind, is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Cumilla and Noakhali in the next...

DUCSU polls prove election system collapsed, Oikyafront alleges

DUCSU polls prove election system collapsed, Oikyafront alleges

-- 2019-03-11 20:13:57

Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Monday alleged that the incident of December 30 vote robbery reappeared in the DUCSU polls as the country's election system has collapsed. "There had be...

UN envoy fears 'new Rohingya crisis' at Bhashan Char

UN envoy fears 'new Rohingya crisis' at Bhashan Char

-- 2019-03-11 18:41:12

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has said relocation of 23,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char in April would create a new crisis, saying that the...

DUCSU election: Vote counting begins

DUCSU election: Vote counting begins

-- 2019-03-11 18:08:09

The counting of votes in the Dhaka University Central Student’s Union (DUCSU) election and the hall council election has begun. The ballots is being counted through optical mark recognition mac...

‘Voter turnout 43.32pc in 1st phase UZ polls’

‘Voter turnout 43.32pc in 1st phase UZ polls’

-- 2019-03-11 18:07:29

The voter turnout was 43.32 per cent in the first phase of the countrywide upazila elections, said Election Commission Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed on Monday. "A total of 78 Upazila Parishads went to p...

Nat’l Social Welfare Council Bill placed in JS

Nat’l Social Welfare Council Bill placed in JS

-- 2019-03-11 18:03:41

Bangladesh National Social Welfare Council Bill, 2019 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad in order to bring all the activities related to the social welfare programmes into a legal frame. Social Welfare...

US envoy visits icddr,b

US envoy visits icddr,b

-- 2019-03-11 17:58:49

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller on Monday visited icddr,b to learn about the world-renowned institution and its role in the Rohingya crisis. Ambassador Miller, accompanied by US Centers for...

JS body for ensuring transparency of public fund expenditure

JS body for ensuring transparency of public fund expenditure

-- 2019-03-11 17:40:52

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Account on Monday laid emphasis on ensuring transparency and accountability of public fund expenditure. The committee made the emphasis at a meeting at...

DUCSU polls voting was peaceful: DU VC

DUCSU polls voting was peaceful: DU VC

-- 2019-03-11 17:36:10

The Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU)  was peaceful despite some stray incidents, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman said Monday. “I’m happy and I express...

BCL gen secy threatens legal action against Nur, Nandi, Mustafizur

BCL gen secy threatens legal action against Nur, Nandi, Mustafizur

-- 2019-03-11 17:35:56

General Secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Golam Rabbani on Monday said a case will be filed against Nurul Huq Nur, Liton Nandi and Mustafizur Rahman for snatching ballot papers at Rokeya Ha...

Robert Dickson becomes new British High Commissioner to Bangladesh

Robert Dickson becomes new British High Commissioner to Bangladesh

-- 2019-03-11 16:42:23

Robert Chatterton Dickson has become new British High Commissioner to Bangladesh. He will take up his appointment by this month in succession to Alison Blake who left Dhaka last week ending her tour...

Quader now able to walk slowly: Physician

Quader now able to walk slowly: Physician

-- 2019-03-11 15:50:31

Ailing Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Qauder is now able to walk slowly as his health condition has improved further. The minister will be shifted to...

All panels but BCL's boycott Ducsu polls

All panels but BCL's boycott Ducsu polls

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 14:56:05

All panels but the one of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, have boycotted the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) election amid massive allega...

Hasina, Modi jointly open four projects in Bangladesh

Hasina, Modi jointly open four projects in Bangladesh

-- 2019-03-11 14:35:43

The prime ministers of Bangladesh and India have jointly inaugurated four projects in Bangladesh, including the supply of 1,100 buses and trucks to Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC). Prime...

Ducsu polls: Quota reformist panel leader Nuru 'assaulted by BCL'

Ducsu polls: Quota reformist panel leader Nuru 'assaulted by BCL'

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 14:19:34

Dhaka University Central Students Union vice-president candidate Nurul Huq Nur has allegedly been assaulted by some activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League at Ruqayyah Hall on Monday. He is the qu...

BNP alleges midnight ballot box stuffing in Ducsu polls

BNP alleges midnight ballot box stuffing in Ducsu polls

-- 2019-03-11 14:07:42

BNP has alleged that the much-delayed Ducsu polls were stigmatised with overnight stuffing of ballot boxes as happened on the night of December 29, right before the national election. Speaking at a p...

JCD, leftists and quota reformists boycott Ducsu elections

JCD, leftists and quota reformists boycott Ducsu elections

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 13:46:46

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dall (JCD), Progressive Students' Alliance and Anti-Imperialist Students' Union have boycotted the elections to Dhaka University Central Students Union and its hall chapters amid...

12kg gold recovered from Biman plane toilet

12kg gold recovered from Biman plane toilet

-- 2019-03-11 13:40:14

Customs authorities at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka have seized around 12 kilograms of gold bars from a toilet on a Biman Bangladesh aircraft. The gold bars were recovered...

Ducsu election being held fairly: BCL

Ducsu election being held fairly: BCL

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 13:33:32

Bangladesh Chhatra League President Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon, who is contesting the election to Dhaka University Central Students Union (Ducsu) as a vice-president (VP) candidate, says the elec...

‘BCL men’ chase Ducsu VP candidate Liton Nandi

‘BCL men’ chase Ducsu VP candidate Liton Nandi

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 13:04:28

Dhaka University Central Students Union vice-president (VP) candidate Liton Nandi says he has been chased by ‘some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL)', as he went to inspect the voting...

Suspected drug trader dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

Suspected drug trader dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-03-11 11:38:32

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Satghoria Para in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar in the early hours of Monday. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahman, 23,...