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Two ‘drug traders’ die in ‘shootouts’

Two ‘drug traders’ die in ‘shootouts’

-- 2019-01-03 10:50:24

Two suspected drug traders were killed in reported gunfights in Meherpur and Cumilla districts on Wednesday and early Thursday. In Meherpur, police recovered the bullet-hit body of a suspected drug p...

Ctg port posts record cargo handling in 2018

Ctg port posts record cargo handling in 2018

Pankaj Dastider 2019-01-03 10:12:38

A set of measures taken by the Chittagong Port Authority in association with its stakeholders helped it improve performance in the containerised cargo handling in the just-concluded calendar year. La...

Little progress in metro rail recruitment

Little progress in metro rail recruitment

Munima Sultana 2019-01-03 10:11:26

The state-owned metro rail company is going very slow on recruiting people for the metro rail system although three mass rapid transit (MRT) projects are progressing well. Sources said the Dhaka Mass...

Another polls violence victim succumbs to injuries

Another polls violence victim succumbs to injuries

-- 2019-01-02 21:43:38

An Awami League leader, who was injured during election-related violence in Kahalu upazila in the district, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday. The president of Paikar union A...

Sylhet cultivators busy  nurturing Rabi crops

Sylhet cultivators busy nurturing Rabi crops

Our Correspondent 2019-01-02 21:07:57

SYLHET, Jan 02: Some 85,924 hectares of land have been brought under the farming of varieties of Rabi crops in all the four districts of Sylhet division. Of the total area, highest 55,541 hectares ar...

Mango buds sprout early in Rajshahi village

Mango buds sprout early in Rajshahi village

Our Correspondent 2019-01-02 21:06:41

RAJSHAHI, Jan 02: An early sprouting of mango buds in some trees in Bamlail village under Godagari upazila has created commotion among the locals. It is learnt, Alam Sheikh owns some 60 mango trees...

Tentulia records season’s lowest temperature

Tentulia records season’s lowest temperature

-- 2019-01-02 20:34:55

The northernmost sub-Himalayan town of Tentulia in Panchagarh district today recorded the season’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius causing untold sufferings to the common people. The...

Four university students sent to jail

Four university students sent to jail

-- 2019-01-02 20:30:33

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent four university students, who remained missing since December 29, to jail after they were produced before the court in connection with a case filed under the Explosive...

Putin greets Sheikh Hasina on AL’s landslide victory

Putin greets Sheikh Hasina on AL’s landslide victory

-- 2019-01-02 19:36:51

Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended his heartiest congratulations to Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on securing her party’s absolute victory in the...

RMG worker crushed under bus in Gazipur

RMG worker crushed under bus in Gazipur

-- 2019-01-02 19:11:42

A garment worker was killed as a bus crushed him in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district on Wednesday. The labourer was identified as Russel, 24, an inhabitant in Islampur upazila of Jamalpur distric...

UK for credible resolution of election-related complaints

UK for credible resolution of election-related complaints

FE Report 2019-01-02 18:45:35

The United Kingdom has urged the Bangladesh authorities to take measures for a full, credible and transparent resolution of all complaints related to the conduct of the 11th parliamentary election. &...

Hasina expresses gratitude towards people for AL’s victory

Hasina expresses gratitude towards people for AL’s victory

-- 2019-01-02 17:43:51

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed gratitude to the countrymen for her party’s victory in the December 30 national elections, pledging that she will c...

US terms BD election as positive development

US terms BD election as positive development

-- 2019-01-02 17:38:11

The United States has termed the 11th parliamentary election of Bangladesh as a positive development and said it looks forward to continue working with the ruling government and opposition. “Ba...

Decision on Jatiya Party’s role in JS Thursday

Decision on Jatiya Party’s role in JS Thursday

-- 2019-01-02 17:25:34

Jatiya Party co-chairman GM Quader on Wednesday said its parliamentary party on Thursday will decide its role in the 11th parliament. "Our newly-elected MPs will join Jatiya Party Parliamentary Party...

UZ polls likely in March

UZ polls likely in March

-- 2019-01-02 17:18:00

The Election Commission (EC) has begun preparations to hold upazila council elections in March, soon after the end of the national parliamentary polls. The elections have to be held then because the...

Deaths of two RMG workers: Case filed against bus driver

Deaths of two RMG workers: Case filed against bus driver

-- 2019-01-02 17:04:47

A case was filed on Wednesday in the connection with the death of two female garment workers in a road accident in the city's Malibagh Chowdhurypara area on Tuesday. Jarina Begum, mother of victim Na...

Land dispute leaves man dead in Cumilla

Land dispute leaves man dead in Cumilla

-- 2019-01-02 16:58:31

A man, who sustained injuries during a clash over land dispute at Chandsar village at Chandina upazila in Cumilla on Tuesday, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday morning. The dece...

Khulna journalist put on three-day remand

Khulna journalist put on three-day remand

-- 2019-01-02 16:54:59

A court in Khulna has placed Hedait Hossain Mollah, Khulna correspondent of Dhaka Tribune and online portal Bangla Tribune, on three-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act. The cas...

MPs-elect to take oath today

MPs-elect to take oath today

Agencies 2019-01-02 16:49:55

The newly elected members of parliament will take their oath of office at 11:00am today (Thursday) at the oath-taking chamber in the Parliament. The secretariat of parliament announced that the time...

Man dies in Brahmanbaria fuel tank accident

Man dies in Brahmanbaria fuel tank accident

-- 2019-01-02 16:27:10

A man has died after inhaling poisonous gas from a fuel tank in Brahmanbaria. Sohel Mia, 24, inhaled the gas as he was cleaning the tank in the Medda area of the Brahmanbaria municipality at around 8...

BJMA wants duty on raw jute export

BJMA wants duty on raw jute export

FE Report 2019-01-02 15:12:08

The country's private jute millers have urged the government to impose duty on export of raw jute to help curb its export and survive local jute goods producers. The local jute goods producers were f...

Mayor Khokon orders removal of posters, banners within 48 hours

Mayor Khokon orders removal of posters, banners within 48 hours

-- 2019-01-02 15:03:32

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Wednesday asked the concerned authorities of the corporation to remove all posters, banners, and other campaign materials used during the 11t...

BGB arrests ‘drug pedlar’ with yaba pills in Jashore

BGB arrests ‘drug pedlar’ with yaba pills in Jashore

-- 2019-01-02 14:56:49

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested an alleged drug pedlar along with 600 pieces of contraband yaba pills from Shibnathpur village in Jashore’s Benapole on Wednesday mor...

Minister Mosharraf urges elected BNP MPs to take oath

Minister Mosharraf urges elected BNP MPs to take oath

-- 2019-01-02 14:34:03

Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday urged the elected BNP MPs to accept people's verdict and take oath. "It will not be wise to reject the people's verdict. Thou...

EC publishes gazette on 298 MPs-elect

EC publishes gazette on 298 MPs-elect

-- 2019-01-02 13:09:27

The Election Commission (EC) has published the gazette listing the newly elected MPs of the 11th parliament. A letter was sent to the Parliament Secretary for taking necessary measures to organise th...

Mob beat robber to death in Feni

Mob beat robber to death in Feni

-- 2019-01-02 12:38:29

A mob has beaten a suspected robber to death after they allegedly caught him as his gang was preparing to rob a house in Feni. The incident was reported from Bhalukia-Gohadua village in Sadar upazila...

Sonia Gandhi greets PM Hasina

Sonia Gandhi greets PM Hasina

-- 2019-01-02 12:28:22

Chairperson of Indian Congress Parliamentary Party Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday congratulated Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on securing her party's absolute victory i...

Cooperation with Bangladesh to continue, Sushma says

Cooperation with Bangladesh to continue, Sushma says

-- 2019-01-02 11:44:16

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said the government of India will continue to have cooperation with Bangladesh as a close neighbour. She called Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Has...

AL infighting leaves 20 injured in Shariatpur

AL infighting leaves 20 injured in Shariatpur

-- 2019-01-02 11:44:05

At least twenty people were injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League over dominance at Subochini Bazar in Shariatpur’s Sadar upazila on Tuesday evening. Quoting locals, police sa...

Miscreants stab man dead in Keraniganj

Miscreants stab man dead in Keraniganj

-- 2019-01-02 11:29:32

A man was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Patkajor in Keraniganj in the early hours of Wednesday. The dead man was identified as Jakir Hossain Rubel, 42, an employee of a cloth store a...