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Outgoing naval chief pays farewell call on PM

Outgoing naval chief pays farewell call on PM

-- 2019-01-23 16:29:13

Outgoing Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nizamuddin Ahmed made a farewell call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban on Wednesday. PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim brief...

DMP files 5,902 cases for traffic rule violation

DMP files 5,902 cases for traffic rule violation

-- 2019-01-23 16:20:49

Traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Tuesday filed 5,902 cases against different modes of vehicles for traffic rule violation. T...

Ijtema in February: Minister

Ijtema in February: Minister

-- 2019-01-23 16:14:12

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday said that Bishwa Ijtema will be held in February as two factions of Tabligh Jamaat reached a consensus over holding this grand congregation. The mini...

Cotton harvesting begins in Jamalpur

Cotton harvesting begins in Jamalpur

-- 2019-01-23 15:32:54

Farmers in Jamalpur have started cotton harvesting with a production target of 750 metric tonnes (MTs) of seed cotton in the current season. Sources concerned said the farmers cultivated different va...

Man gets life in prison for raping child in Kushtia

Man gets life in prison for raping child in Kushtia

-- 2019-01-23 15:20:30

Kushtia court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a child. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Munshi Mohammad Moshiar Rahman passed the verdict on Wednesday. Man...

PM to inaugurate 4th RCG conference Thursday

PM to inaugurate 4th RCG conference Thursday

-- 2019-01-23 14:33:40

The three-day-long fourth Regional Consultative Group (RCG) conference will begin in the city on Thursday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the conference at Intercontinental H...

Musician Alauddin Ali in hospital

Musician Alauddin Ali in hospital

-- 2019-01-23 13:06:59

Music composer Alauddin Ali has been admitted to Universal Medical College and Hospital in Mohakhali area of the capital for respiratory problems. The 67-year-old is being treated in the intensive ca...

HC asks Cumilla court to dispose of Khaleda's bail plea by Feb 4

HC asks Cumilla court to dispose of Khaleda's bail plea by Feb 4

-- 2019-01-23 12:59:18

The High Court has asked the lower court concerned to dispose of the petition filed seeking bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia by February 4 in a case filed over the 2015 Cumilla arson attack that ki...

Fire hits Nat'l Jute Mills in Sirajganj

Fire hits Nat'l Jute Mills in Sirajganj

-- 2019-01-23 12:49:32

Around 400 bales of jute were gutted in a fire that broke out at the National Jute Mill at Raipur in Sirajganj sadar upazila on Wednesday. The fire was originated at the loom section of the mill at a...

Authorities close two constables for ‘drug trading’

Authorities close two constables for ‘drug trading’

-- 2019-01-23 12:37:26

Two police constables of Bhaberchar Highway Police camp in Munshiganj have been closed to the district police lines for their alleged involvement in drug trading. The accused are Constable Arif, 28,...

Inmate dies while undergoing treatment at RMCH

Inmate dies while undergoing treatment at RMCH

-- 2019-01-23 12:26:17

A prisoner died while undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Jabbar, 45, son of Javed Ali of Paba upazila, said Hafizur Rahm...

900 metres of Padma Bridge now visible

900 metres of Padma Bridge now visible

-- 2019-01-23 12:01:02

Around 900 metres of the much-hyped Padma Bridge is visible now following the installation of another span named F-6 on the pillars no 36 and 37 on Wednesday. The 150 metre span, weighing 3,140 tones...

Police recover abducted minor boy’s body in Cox’s Bazar

Police recover abducted minor boy’s body in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2019-01-23 11:44:37

Police recovered the body of a minor boy, who was abducted from his residence on Monday, from inside a sack at Matamuhuri Bridge in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria upazila on Tuesday. The two-and-...

Triple-cropping soars 83pc in 17 years

Triple-cropping soars 83pc in 17 years

Yasir Wardad 2019-01-23 11:09:42

Triple-cropped land areas have almost doubled in the country in the last 17 years, signifying a vibrant agricultural production scenario. Entry of the private sector in developing and selling vario...

Jul-Oct raw material imports rise 12pc

Jul-Oct raw material imports rise 12pc

FE Report 2019-01-23 11:04:55

Import of industrial raw materials increased by nearly 12 per cent during the July-October period in 2018 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The rise in import was because o...

Cox’s Bazar Airport: Runway project underway

Cox’s Bazar Airport: Runway project underway

Kamrun Nahar 2019-01-23 11:01:31

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has undertaken another project to expand the runway of Cox's Bazar Airport with an aim to operate international flights and fully-loaded wide-body aircr...

Six of a family among seven die in road crash

Six of a family among seven die in road crash

-- 2019-01-23 09:49:40

Seven people, including six members of a family, were killed when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at West Mandarin in Lakshmipur sadar upazila early Wednesday. The deceased have been identifie...

Behrouze Ispahani’s death anniv today

Behrouze Ispahani’s death anniv today

FE Report 2019-01-23 09:27:27

Today (Wednesday) is the second death anniversary of Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, the late Chairman of Ispahani Group. He passed away on January 23, 2017. The Ispahani family and different establish...

Landless char people change fortune by  cultivating BINA China-4 peanut

Landless char people change fortune by cultivating BINA China-4 peanut

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 22:02:09

MAGURA, Jan 22: BINA China-4 peanut is turning fortune wheel of landless char people. BINA (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture) Magura sources informed, cultivation of BINA China-4 peanut is...

Cultivation of reproduced local species  of fish gets popular in Bogura

Cultivation of reproduced local species of fish gets popular in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 22:01:25

BOGURA, Jan 22:  With the initiative of a fisheries research institute, indigenous Bheda species fish cultivation is getting popular across Bogura district. Shantaher Fisheries Research Institut...

Bee keepers become self-reliant  selling honey in Joypurhat

Bee keepers become self-reliant selling honey in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-22 22:00:22

JOYPURHAT, Jan 22: Over 250 bee farmers, trained by Bangladesh Small and Cottage industry (BSIC), have become self-reliant collecting honey in Joypurhat district. The areas from where honey was colle...

Rangpur peasants passing busy time transplanting Boro paddy

Rangpur peasants passing busy time transplanting Boro paddy

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 21:59:37

RANGPUR, Jan 22: The peasants of Rangpur agriculture region are passing busy time in transplanting Boro paddy seedlings across the region this season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) source...

Bagerhat road accident claims four lives

Bagerhat road accident claims four lives

-- 2019-01-22 20:58:50

Four people were killed and 32 others injured in a road accident at Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat district on Tuesday. The victims were identified as – truck driver Kamrul Islam, 35, Bipin Podd...

DMP files 6,165 cases over traffic rule violation

DMP files 6,165 cases over traffic rule violation

-- 2019-01-22 20:57:04

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) filed 6,165 cases and fined Tk 28,71000 on Tuesday for flouting traffic rules in the capital on Tuesday. Thirty vehicles were also sent for dumping during the drive....

ACC official suspended for liaison with graft suspect

ACC official suspended for liaison with graft suspect

-- 2019-01-22 20:48:06

The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday suspended its director Mohammad Fazlul Haq for maintaining liaison with corruption suspects and leaking out information of investigation. The commissio...

Fakhrul talking deliriously after ‘shameful’ election loss:  Obaidul

Fakhrul talking deliriously after ‘shameful’ election loss: Obaidul

-- 2019-01-22 20:47:32

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said his BNP counterpart Mirza Fakhrul has been talking deliriously since his party's shameful defeat in the December-30 national election. "B...

‘Parliamentary practice can prompt Dhaka-Tehran relations’

‘Parliamentary practice can prompt Dhaka-Tehran relations’

-- 2019-01-22 20:36:18

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Tuesday said the relations between Bangladesh and Iran can be boost up by parliamentary practice and experiences. “Iran is our friendly nation …the...

‘Zero tolerance against corruption at BRTC’

‘Zero tolerance against corruption at BRTC’

-- 2019-01-22 19:21:03

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said “Zero Tolerance Policy against Corruption” will be strictly followed at the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC)....

Four to die for killing woman in Sirajganj

Four to die for killing woman in Sirajganj

-- 2019-01-22 19:14:02

The husband of a woman is among four people sentenced to death over her murder in 2011. Sirajganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal handed down the maximum punishment on Tuesday. The...

ACC approves chargesheets against Falu, wife

ACC approves chargesheets against Falu, wife

-- 2019-01-22 19:05:54

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday approved chargesheets against former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu and his wife on charges of acquiring wealth beyond known sources of income and conce...