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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
-- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
-- 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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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