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'Ensure decent work for women migrants'

'Ensure decent work for women migrants'

FE Report 2019-03-11 11:25:05

Rights activists have demanded that the government ensure safe and decent work for women migrant workers. The authorities should not send women workers abroad without ensuring that they would be pr...

Global RTI rating: Bangladesh only ahead of Pakistan in S Asia

Global RTI rating: Bangladesh only ahead of Pakistan in S Asia

Kamrun Nahar 2019-03-11 11:19:23

The ranking of Bangladesh, in terms of implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act, slipped to the 29th position in 2018 with a score of 107. Bangladesh is only ahead of Pakistan among the Sou...

Switch over to mkt-based energy pricing: CPD

Switch over to mkt-based energy pricing: CPD

FE Report 2019-03-11 11:07:38

Experts have called for renewed exploration of potential onshore and offshore gas fields to meet the country's future energy demands. They also felt the need for tackling the prevalent corruption a...

Ducsu polls: Kuwait Maitree provost relieved after rigging

Ducsu polls: Kuwait Maitree provost relieved after rigging

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 10:56:17

The acting provost of Bangladesh-Kuwait Maitree Hall, Shabnam Jahan, has been relieved of her duty, as evidence of rigging was found there during the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Du...

Ducsu vote suspended at Kuwait Maitree Hall

Ducsu vote suspended at Kuwait Maitree Hall

FE Online Desk 2019-03-11 10:09:07

Authorities have suspended voting at Bangladesh-Kuwait Maitree Hall of Dhaka University after finding there irregularities, like sealed ballot papers, to be true. Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Administration)...

Detectives detain two with fake currency notes

Detectives detain two with fake currency notes

-- 2019-03-11 09:56:09

Detectives have arrested two persons and seized fake currency notes with a face value of Tk 38,000 from their possession in Jamira Bazar area of Khulna's Fultola upazila. The arrestees are Anisur Rah...

HC seeks Tk 10m compensation to each injured in lift collapse

HC seeks Tk 10m compensation to each injured in lift collapse

-- 2019-03-10 20:48:30

A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) on Sunday seeking directives on the government to compensate Tk 10 million to each of 12 people who sustained injuries in a lift collapse at Dhaka Di...

Output, fair price bring smile on Baukul farmers’ faces

Output, fair price bring smile on Baukul farmers’ faces

-- 2019-03-10 20:30:35

Roving Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Mar 10: Repeated bumper productions and fair market price have brought smile on the faces of Baukul (a kind of hybrid variety plum) growers in the district this season...

Farmers opting for maize cultivation in Sylhet

Farmers opting for maize cultivation in Sylhet

Our Correspondent 2019-03-10 20:29:51

SYLHET, Mar 10: Maize cultivation is gaining popularity among the farmers in four districts of Sylhet region for the substantial profit they have stated getting from it. According to a report of the...

DUCSU polls Monday, authorities send ballot boxes to halls

DUCSU polls Monday, authorities send ballot boxes to halls

-- 2019-03-10 20:26:24

The authorities have sent ballot boxes and papers to residential halls on the eve of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) polls discounting objections by many organisations over...

'BD may lose 2pc GDP by 2050 for climate change'

'BD may lose 2pc GDP by 2050 for climate change'

-- 2019-03-10 18:55:25

Bangladesh may incur a loss of its 2 per cent GDP by 2050 if the international community fails to take effective measures to cope with climate change impacts. Environment, Forest and Climate Change M...

‘Hell awaits for bribe takers, givers’

‘Hell awaits for bribe takers, givers’

FE Online Report 2019-03-10 18:22:25

Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal on Saturday said that people who take bribe are destined to hell. “We will never take bribe nor will offer it as well because those who take bribe will end...

Vote counting goes on as polls in 78 upazilas end

Vote counting goes on as polls in 78 upazilas end

-- 2019-03-10 18:06:54

Counting of votes started after balloting in 78 upazilas of the country’s 12 districts ended at 4 pm in the first phase of the fifth Upazila Parishad elections on Sunday. Earlier, the voting st...

Public hearing on gas price hike proposals from Monday

Public hearing on gas price hike proposals from Monday

-- 2019-03-10 17:59:37

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) will begin its four-day public hearing on Monday on the proposals placed by different entities for hiking gas prices as per instruction of the government...

Rajshahi Ethnic Minority Cultural Academy gets new look

Rajshahi Ethnic Minority Cultural Academy gets new look

-- 2019-03-10 17:54:48

With implementation of diversified innovation programmes, Rajshahi Divisional Ethnic Minority Cultural Academy (RDEMCA) has got a new look as well expanding opportunities for local ethnic people to pr...

Govt announces 13 names for Independence Award

Govt announces 13 names for Independence Award

-- 2019-03-10 17:47:07

The government has announced the names of 12 noted personalities and one institution for Independence Award-2019 for their glorious and remarkable contributions at the national level. Painter Murtaza...

Navy chief adorned with admiral rank

Navy chief adorned with admiral rank

-- 2019-03-10 17:42:45

Chief of Naval Staff AMMM Aurangzeb Chowdhury was adorned with the rank badge of Admiral in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in the city on Sunday morning. “Chief of A...

Bill placed at JS to save animals from cruelty

Bill placed at JS to save animals from cruelty

-- 2019-03-10 17:30:20

A bill titled Animal Welfare Bill 2019 was placed in Parliament on Sunday, aiming to stop cruelty towards animals and defining the duties of their owners. State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock M...

Bangladesh becoming a role model of women empowerment: FM

Bangladesh becoming a role model of women empowerment: FM

-- 2019-03-10 16:55:28

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh is becoming a role model of women empowerment in the world as women here are now in the leadership positions at every sphere of national an...

First phase upazila election ends

First phase upazila election ends

-- 2019-03-10 16:33:52

Voting in the election to 78 Upazila Parishads ended on Sunday afternoon. The voting started at 8:00am and continued until 4:00pm without any break, say several televisions. The size of the electora...

DUCSU election Monday amid tighter security

DUCSU election Monday amid tighter security

Abu Rakib 2019-03-10 15:04:17

After 28 years, the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) and Hall Union elections are going to be held tomorrow (Monday) amid tight security. The election campaign ended on Saturday midni...

BSMMU preparing cabin to receive Khaleda Zia

BSMMU preparing cabin to receive Khaleda Zia

-- 2019-03-10 14:39:22

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital is preparing to receive incarcerated BNP chief Khaleda Zia at the recommendation of the medical board overseeing her care. Cabins 621 and...

Upazila polls: Voting suspended at seven centres in Sirajganj, Kurigram

Upazila polls: Voting suspended at seven centres in Sirajganj, Kurigram

FE Online Desk 2019-03-10 14:06:32

Voting at seven centres – six in Kurigram and one in Sirajganj – has been suspended over allegations of rigging, ballot paper snatching and other irregularities during the first of five ph...

ICT probe body finalises report against five ‘war criminals’

ICT probe body finalises report against five ‘war criminals’

-- 2019-03-10 13:56:42

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has finalised its report on probe into the alleged crimes against humanity committed by five Mymensingh war crimes accused. The fiv...

Body of sixth Buriganga boat capsize victim recovered

Body of sixth Buriganga boat capsize victim recovered

-- 2019-03-10 13:37:19

Rescue workers have recovered the body of another victim of the boat capsize on the Buriganga River in Dhaka’s Sadarghat, raising the death toll from the accident to six. The body of the missin...

Khaleda 'refuses' to go to BSMMU

Khaleda 'refuses' to go to BSMMU

-- 2019-03-10 13:00:10

Prison authorities say that incarcerated BNP chief Khaleda Zia has refused to go to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital for treatment despite their preparations to receive her...

Police arrest five ‘drug traders’ in Savar

Police arrest five ‘drug traders’ in Savar

-- 2019-03-10 11:37:39

Police in a drive arrested five suspected drug traders along with drugs from Savar municipality in the early hours of Sunday. The arrestees are Harun, 28, Mehedi Hasan, 20, Sagor, 21, Jahurul and Rob...

Quader talking normally, likely to be shifted to cabin tomorrow

Quader talking normally, likely to be shifted to cabin tomorrow

-- 2019-03-10 11:19:12

Ailing Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is now talking normally to the family members and physicians as his condition has improved gradually. There is a possibility to shift the min...

Sirajganj voting centre closed, three held

Sirajganj voting centre closed, three held

-- 2019-03-10 10:56:48

Authorities have closed a polling centre in Sirajganj's Sadar Upazila over irregularities on the night before the first phase of voting in the upazila elections. A presiding officer and two assistant...

Industry leaders eye export of poultry products to ME by 2024

Industry leaders eye export of poultry products to ME by 2024

FE Report 2019-03-10 10:25:34

Poultry industry leaders on Saturday expressed the hope that the country would be able to export poultry products by 2024, especially to the Middle East, a big market for halal meat. Bangladesh is on...