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AL picks Atiqul for DNCC by-polls, Zakia for Kishoreganj-1

AL picks Atiqul for DNCC by-polls, Zakia for Kishoreganj-1

UNB 2019-01-26 22:32:56

Awami League on Saturday picked former BGMEA president Atiqul Islam to contest the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-election. The ruling party also nominated Syed Zakia Nur Lipi, sister...

'New VAT law to be effective from July'

'New VAT law to be effective from July'

-- 2019-01-26 21:32:33

Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal on Saturday said new VAT law would come into effect from next July but VAT rate would become different. “VAT rate for different products would be fixed clas...

Tofail confident about BCL's victory in DUCSU polls

Tofail confident about BCL's victory in DUCSU polls

-- 2019-01-26 21:03:42

Awami League Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed has said he is confident about the victory of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) electio...

PM tried to justify AL's victory, Fakhrul says

PM tried to justify AL's victory, Fakhrul says

-- 2019-01-26 21:00:47

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tried to justify Awami League's victory through her address to the nation The BNP leader made the allegation wh...

New Navy chief takes command

New Navy chief takes command

-- 2019-01-26 20:54:50

Vice Admiral Abu Mozaffar Mohiuddin Mohammad Aurangzeb Chowdhury took the charges of Bangladesh Navy as its chief on Saturday. Outgoing navy chief Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed handed over the co...

Flawless execution of crop protection schemes demanded in Sunamganj

Flawless execution of crop protection schemes demanded in Sunamganj

Our Correspondent 2019-01-26 20:20:25

SYLHET, Jan 26: Citizens forum 'Haor Banchao, Sunamganj banchao' has demanded immediate start of works on all the haor protection schemes in the haor districts, dropping the accused persons from the P...

Farmers become self-reliant rearing Turkey birds in Bogura

Farmers become self-reliant rearing Turkey birds in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-01-26 20:19:54

BOGURA, Jan 26: A good number of extreme poor farmers of Bogura district are becoming self-reliant rearing Turkey birds from last year.Sensing lucrative profit, over 300 new farmers in Dupchanchia, Ga...

PM invites Oikyafront leaders to exchange greetings

PM invites Oikyafront leaders to exchange greetings

-- 2019-01-26 20:05:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited Jatiya Oikyafront leaders at Ganabhaban on February 2 to exchange greetings. Separate invitation cards were sent on Saturday to all the steering committee mem...

Decision on new wage board for journalists soon: Quader

Decision on new wage board for journalists soon: Quader

-- 2019-01-26 19:28:59

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the decision on the Ninth Wage Board Award for journalists will be taken very soon. "We are giving great importance to the Ninth Wa...

Khirshapat mango to get GI recognition: Minister

Khirshapat mango to get GI recognition: Minister

-- 2019-01-26 19:25:07

Industries Minister Nurul Mazid Mahmud Humayun on Saturday said Khirshapat mango of Chapainawabganj, one of the most popular varieties of mango, will get Geographical Indication (GI) for its extraordi...

Police recover body of rape suspect

Police recover body of rape suspect

-- 2019-01-26 19:06:33

Police have recovered the bullet-ridden body of a suspect in a rape case with a note tied around his neck reading: “I am in this state because I raped a madrasa student”. Police recovered...

Bus registration in Dhaka witnessed significant decline in 2018

Bus registration in Dhaka witnessed significant decline in 2018

FE Online Report 2019-01-26 18:14:31

Bus registration in Dhaka witnessed a significant decline in 2018 compared to that of 2017. A total of 2,322 buses were registered in 2018 while the number was 3,294 in 2017, according to statistics...

BMP protests for increase in reserved seats for women

BMP protests for increase in reserved seats for women

FE Online Report 2019-01-26 17:50:08

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) on Saturday protested for the increase in reserved seats for women in the parliament by one third and for holding direct poll. The parliament, on July 8 last year, un...

JMB man Khalid on six-day remand

JMB man Khalid on six-day remand

-- 2019-01-26 17:37:06

A Dhaka court on Saturday granted a six-day remand to a suspected member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), also a charge-sheeted accused in the Holey Artisan Bakery atta...

Govt to create more opportunities for youth

Govt to create more opportunities for youth

-- 2019-01-26 16:45:30

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said the incumbent government will provide more opportunities for the youth in future. He said the government, led by Bangladesh Awami League, had made hug...

Police arrest youths for blackmailing on Facebook

Police arrest youths for blackmailing on Facebook

-- 2019-01-26 16:23:40

Police arrested two youths on charges of demanding money from the people after threatening them to make viral their fake nude pictures and videos on social networking sites. The youths, Md Sajidur Ra...

Hasina congratulates Pranab on winning ‘Bharat Ratna’

Hasina congratulates Pranab on winning ‘Bharat Ratna’

-- 2019-01-26 15:26:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday congratulated former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee as he was honoured with his country's highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna'. Sheikh Hasina greeted Pran...

Elephant tramples JaSoD leader to death

Elephant tramples JaSoD leader to death

-- 2019-01-26 15:24:23

A central leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSoD) was trampled to death by a wild elephant in India’s Darjeeling on Friday. The victim was Syed Saimun Kanak, media affairs secretary of JaSoD...

Cumilla accident: Victim’s family files case

Cumilla accident: Victim’s family files case

-- 2019-01-26 12:41:05

A case has been filed against the truck driver and his helper in connection with the death of 13 brick kiln workers who were killed when a coal-laden truck flipped on them in Chouddagram upazila in Cu...

Jubo league worker dies in Kishoreganj attack

Jubo league worker dies in Kishoreganj attack

-- 2019-01-26 12:32:38

A Jubo League activist has been killed and his brother injured in an attack in Kishoreganj. Yusuf Monir, 48, and his younger brother Yakub Sumon, 45, a councillor from ward no. 6 of the Kishoreganj m...

‘Silver Discoverer’ arrives tomorrow to visit Sundarbans

‘Silver Discoverer’ arrives tomorrow to visit Sundarbans

-- 2019-01-26 12:06:35

Silver Discoverer, a cruise ship operated by Silver Sea Cruise, will reach the Mongla port in Bagerhat district on Sunday with 53 tourists from five different countries to visit the Sundarbans. They...

Patricia Scotland praises Hasina’s dev innovation

Patricia Scotland praises Hasina’s dev innovation

-- 2019-01-26 12:03:45

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's development innovation- 'the SDG-Tracker' and championing women empowerment. She said, "The Commonwealth un...

Three of a family die in Buriganga boat capsize

Three of a family die in Buriganga boat capsize

-- 2019-01-26 11:34:50

Three members of a family died and a minor went missing after a boat capsized in the Buriganga River on Friday night. The dead were identified as Motiur Rahman Moti, 55, his wife Rozina Begum, 42, an...

Cumilla accident: Families to get Tk 0.1m each

Cumilla accident: Families to get Tk 0.1m each

-- 2019-01-26 11:21:27

The government will provide Tk 0.10 million to each families of the brick kiln workers who were killed when a coal-laden truck overturned at Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla district on Friday. Besides...

Kushtia ‘shootout’ leaves drug suspect dead

Kushtia ‘shootout’ leaves drug suspect dead

-- 2019-01-26 11:19:02

A suspected drug dealer has been killed in an alleged shootout with police in Kushtia’s Sadar upazila. The shootout took place at Ambagan in the Canalpara area of Molla Tegharia during the earl...

RAB nabs last Gulshan attack suspect

RAB nabs last Gulshan attack suspect

-- 2019-01-26 10:34:52

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested the last fugitive suspect in the deadly terror attack on the Holey Artisan cafe at Gulshan in Dhaka. RAB sources said they arrested the fugitive—Sh...

Stranded Pakistanis in Ctg owe PDB Tk 300m as bills

Stranded Pakistanis in Ctg owe PDB Tk 300m as bills

Pankaj Dastider 2019-01-26 10:17:46

Some 8,000 families of stranded Pakistanis in the city have not been paying their electricity bills to Power Development Board (PDB) for last two years. As a result, their outstanding bills have stoo...

BPC plans to put some units under PPP

BPC plans to put some units under PPP

Kamrun Nahar 2019-01-26 10:13:05

The Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) has decided to operate some of its commercial units under public-private partnership (PPP) for maximum utilisation of the resources and increased revenue. To...

Padma rail project: Plan to cut need of fund by 38pc on slow work

Padma rail project: Plan to cut need of fund by 38pc on slow work

FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-01-26 10:10:19

The progress in work on the government's 'fast-track' Padma railway link project is slow and the authorities want to surrender 38 per cent of its allocated funds this year. Officials said on Friday...

China offers J-10 fighter jets to BD

China offers J-10 fighter jets to BD

-- 2019-01-26 09:42:28

China has started hard-selling its J-10 fighter jets to Bangladesh and Laos to wean them off Russian aircraft such as the Yak-130 trainer/light fighter which both countries are considering, according...