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Traffic back to normalcy on Rokeya Sarani after RMG protest

Traffic back to normalcy on Rokeya Sarani after RMG protest

FE Online Report 2019-01-10 14:36:31

Traffic movement at Dhaka city’s Rokeya Sarani has been brought back to normalcy just half an hour into a protest resumed by over 1000 ready-made garment workers, police say. Soon after the wor...

Speaker approves Ershad as opposition chief

Speaker approves Ershad as opposition chief

-- 2019-01-10 14:31:10

Jatiya Paty Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad has been approved as leader of the opposition in parliament. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury also ratified Jatiya Party co-chairman GM Quader as deputy l...

20-km tailback on Dhaka-Ctg highway

20-km tailback on Dhaka-Ctg highway

-- 2019-01-10 14:08:50

A 20-kilometer long tailback was created on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla district on Thursday morning, causing immense sufferings to hundreds of passengers. Abul Kalam, of...

Bangladesh improves in World Passport Index

Bangladesh improves in World Passport Index

-- 2019-01-10 14:05:39

Bangladesh has ranked 97th in the updated Henley Passport Index, gaining three notches up from its previous ranking. With visa-free access to 41 countries, Bangladesh is holding the 97th position joi...

Lentil farming becoming popular in Rajshahi

Lentil farming becoming popular in Rajshahi

-- 2019-01-10 13:04:15

Farming of lentil is increasing gradually across Rajshahi region including its vast Barind tract as it requires less cultivation and irrigation cost compared to many other crops especially paddy. Sou...

RMG workers stage demos again

RMG workers stage demos again

-- 2019-01-10 12:52:49

At least 35 people were injured in clashes between garment workers and police in different areas of Savar, Gazipur and the capital on Thursday morning while they were trying to stage demonstration aga...

Govt pledges quick steps on RMG worker wage

Govt pledges quick steps on RMG worker wage

-- 2019-01-10 12:40:33

The government is working for a swift resolution to the crisis surrounding the new wage structure for the readymade garment workers, the state minister for labour and employment has said. Monnuzan Su...

BD seeks to boost trade ties with Australia

BD seeks to boost trade ties with Australia

Talha Bin Habib 2019-01-10 11:57:30

Bangladesh will seek Australian cooperation in exploring natural gas, coal and other sectors during a trade conference in Sydney in April, officials said. The Bangladesh embassy in Canberra has infor...

BGB recovers firearms, drugs in C’nawabganj

BGB recovers firearms, drugs in C’nawabganj

-- 2019-01-10 11:56:59

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered a pistol, two magazines, seven rounds of bullet and 25 bottles of contraband phensedyl syrup from frontier Raghabbati area under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawab...

Cops recover missing man’s body in Rajshahi

Cops recover missing man’s body in Rajshahi

-- 2019-01-10 11:47:42

A man, who had been reported missing since Monday, was found dead at Sormongla in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila on Wednesday. He was Jashim Uddin Joy, 20, a human hauler driver and son of Arkan A...

Cox’s Bazar ‘shootout’ leaves two criminals dead

Cox’s Bazar ‘shootout’ leaves two criminals dead

-- 2019-01-10 11:38:29

Two suspected drug dealers have been killed in an alleged shootout following their arrest in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila. The shootout occurred in Shabran Union’s Khubermukh area d...

Homecoming Day being observed

Homecoming Day being observed

-- 2019-01-10 10:50:48

The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is being observed today (Thursday). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to the architect of the country's in...

BD emerges major market for textile, RMG machinery

BD emerges major market for textile, RMG machinery

FE Report 2019-01-10 10:26:42

Bangladesh has now emerged one of the potential markets for global textile and garment machinery manufacturers thanks to rising demands for locally made apparel items across the world. The local spin...

5.0pc Ctg WASA tariff hike in Feb

5.0pc Ctg WASA tariff hike in Feb

Pankaj Dastider 2019-01-10 10:19:48

The Chittagong WASA is going to increase water tariff by 5.0 per cent for all types of consumers -- domestic, industrial and commercial -- with effect from February this year. The Chittagong Water Su...

RMG workers demand justice for Sumon Miah

RMG workers demand justice for Sumon Miah

-- 2019-01-09 21:11:13

Different organisations of garment workers demanded trial of the killing of one of their co-workers by police firing at Savar through separate protest rallies in front of the National Press Club on We...

BNP candidate wins Brahmanbaria-2  constituency

BNP candidate wins Brahmanbaria-2 constituency

-- 2019-01-09 21:05:53

BNP leader Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, the Jatiya Oikya Front candidate for the Brahmanbaria-2, has won the parliamentary constituency after re-voting in three centres. Ukil Abdul Sattar bagged 83,997 vote...

Jatiya Party nominates four for JS women seats

Jatiya Party nominates four for JS women seats

-- 2019-01-09 20:30:30

Jatiya Party has finalised four nominees for electing them to reserved women seats in the 11th parliament. Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad approved the nominations on Wednesday, said a party press re...

Pabna peasants pass busy time growing onion

Pabna peasants pass busy time growing onion

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-09 20:24:46

PABNA, Jan 09: A good numbers of peasants are passing busy time growing onion on a commercial basis this season in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna district. The farmers of the upazila are expecting good y...

Maintain sound loan repayment capacity, finance minister asks ERD

Maintain sound loan repayment capacity, finance minister asks ERD

-- 2019-01-09 20:22:55

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has directed the Economic Relations Division (ERD) to project sound loan repayment capacity of Bangladesh before the world The minister also asked the ERD, which wo...

Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day Thursday

Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day Thursday

-- 2019-01-09 19:47:40

The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be observed tomorrow (Thursday) in a befitting manner. Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and...

Dhaka protests Myanmar's claim of ARSA bases in Bangladesh

Dhaka protests Myanmar's claim of ARSA bases in Bangladesh

-- 2019-01-09 19:38:17

Dhaka has protested Myanmar's allegation of existence of Arakan Army and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) bases in Bangladesh. Bangladesh also described the allegation as fake, baseless and prov...

BAPA conference on Delta Plan 2100 to start Friday

BAPA conference on Delta Plan 2100 to start Friday

-- 2019-01-09 18:20:19

A two-day special conference on Delta Plan 2100 is scheduled to start from Friday to inform the people about the long-term strategy and identify its strength and weaknesses. Experts from home and abr...

Law to be amended for Jamaat’s trial

Law to be amended for Jamaat’s trial

-- 2019-01-09 18:14:58

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday said the International Crimes Tribunal Act will be amended for holding the trial of Jamaat-e-Islami for its crimes against humanity during the Liberation War as a...

First session of 11th parliament to begin January 30

First session of 11th parliament to begin January 30

-- 2019-01-09 17:48:29

The first session of the 11th parliament is scheduled to begin on January 30. President Md Abdul Hamid decided that the assembly will convene at 3pm, said an official of the parliament secretariat on...

New ministers get private secretaries

New ministers get private secretaries

-- 2019-01-09 17:39:43

The government has appointed private secretaries to ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers of the new cabinet. Forty-five government officials holding the rank of deputy secretary and one of...

Bangladesh moves four notches up in Democracy Index

Bangladesh moves four notches up in Democracy Index

-- 2019-01-09 17:24:41

Bangladesh has moved four notches up to the 88th place among 167 countries in the Democracy Index 2018, compared to the previous year. Bangladesh ranks 88th with an overall score of 5.57 on the Democ...

Police arrest two for counterfeiting notes

Police arrest two for counterfeiting notes

FE Online Report 2019-01-09 17:02:48

Police arrested two men on charges of counterfeiting currency notes with a face value of Tk 1.2 million from the capital on Tuesday night. The Counter Terrorism and International Crime unit...

Those defeated have nothing to do: Quader

Those defeated have nothing to do: Quader

-- 2019-01-09 16:58:33

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said nobody believes that those who faced defeat both in their movement and in election have anything new to do. The minister came up...

Govt applying all ways to repress Khaleda: Rizvi

Govt applying all ways to repress Khaleda: Rizvi

-- 2019-01-09 16:51:41

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government is applying all ways to repress their chairperson Khaleda Zia. "Khaleda Zia is still sick. The government has snat...

Police arrest two over Demra children murder

Police arrest two over Demra children murder

-- 2019-01-09 16:36:30

Police have arrested two suspects over the murder of two children in Dhaka’s Demra. Golam Mostofa, 31, and his cousin Azizul Baowani, 32, allegedly strangled the two girls to death after attemp...