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AL assigns four leaders to ‘special duty’

AL assigns four leaders to ‘special duty’

-- 2018-12-08 15:41:17

The Awami League has assigned ‘special duties’ to four of its party leaders who have not been nominated to contest the election despite being members of parliament. The leaders are—...

China expects a fair and peaceful election

China expects a fair and peaceful election

FE Report 2018-12-08 14:58:06

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Mr Zhang Zuo on Saturday said China believes that the people of Bangladesh have the ability to hold the upcoming general elections in a fair and peaceful manner. He said t...

President asks army to defend sovereignty

President asks army to defend sovereignty

-- 2018-12-08 14:51:25

President M Abdul Hamid asked the newly-inducted military officers to remain alert for safeguarding the country’s hard-earned independence and sovereignty keeping in mind the cost the nation had...

Respect the will of voters: US  resolution

Respect the will of voters: US resolution

-- 2018-12-08 14:09:55

A US congressman resolution has called on Bangladesh political leaders and judicial authorities to respect the will of voters and ensure that all Bangladeshis participate freely in the upcoming electi...

EC keeps hearing on Khaleda, Kader Siddiqui’s petitions pending

EC keeps hearing on Khaleda, Kader Siddiqui’s petitions pending

-- 2018-12-08 13:59:30

The Election Commission on Saturday kept the decisions pending on the petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Krishak Sramik Janata League President Kader Siddiqui. After hearing on their...

Cops detain 84 in Satkhira, Cumilla

Cops detain 84 in Satkhira, Cumilla

Agencies 2018-12-08 13:11:13

Police, in their special drives arrested a total of 84 people from two districts of the country in the last 24 hours. Of them, 42 were held from eight upazilas of Satikhira district in the last 12-h...

Detectives detain seven over question paper leak

Detectives detain seven over question paper leak

-- 2018-12-08 11:53:14

Detectives in a drive arrested seven people from different parts of the capital city on Friday night in connection with the leak of recruitment test questions of Department of Narcotics Control. Masu...

EC resumes last day hearing on 233 petitions

EC resumes last day hearing on 233 petitions

-- 2018-12-08 11:05:09

The Election Commission has resumed its hearing for the last day on Saturday on the petitions filed against the decisions of the returning officers over the rejection of nomination papers in different...

Viqarunnisa appoints new acting principal

Viqarunnisa appoints new acting principal

-- 2018-12-08 10:57:22

The authorities of Dhaka city’s Viqarunnisa Noon School and College on Friday appointed a new acting principal and morning shift in-charge for its Bailey Road branch after the posts were vacated...

Most schools still lack access to improved sanitation

Most schools still lack access to improved sanitation

Kamrun Nahar 2018-12-08 10:35:48

Most of the educational institutions have yet to comply with the government's directives to improve sanitation due to lack of monitoring system, experts said. To this end, the education ministry issu...

Woman’s body recovered from Keraniganj market

Woman’s body recovered from Keraniganj market

-- 2018-12-08 10:18:30

Police recovered the body of a woman from the underground of a market in Aganagar area of Dhaka’s Keraniganj Sadar upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Noor Begum, 28, wife o...

Wheat output likely to drop this season

Wheat output likely to drop this season

Yasir Wardad 2018-12-08 10:15:32

Wheat production is likely to decline further this season as farmers are switching to other crops following the attack of a fungal disease on the fields. Persistent low prices of the cereal in the do...

Govt agencies lukewarm about IDB loans

Govt agencies lukewarm about IDB loans

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-08 10:13:04

Different government ministries and agencies are growingly becoming reluctant to take 'costly' loans from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). The Jeddah-based multilateral lender has been one of the...

No more than 450 votes in one EVM booth

No more than 450 votes in one EVM booth

-- 2018-12-07 21:12:24

The Election Commission (EC) has asked field-level officials to restrict the number of voters to 450 in a single booth of the polling stations in the six constituencies where electronic voting machine...

Altercation over cricket match leaves one teen dead

Altercation over cricket match leaves one teen dead

-- 2018-12-07 21:03:53

A teenage boy was stabbed to death allegedly by his friends centring a cricket match in Charghoshpur village in Pabna Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Hamim Hossain,...

Savar road crash leaves three dead

Savar road crash leaves three dead

-- 2018-12-07 20:59:39

At least students were killed in a collision between a bus and a motorcycle on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Joypura area in Dhamrai upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Hridoy, 20,...

RAB arrests five men of human trafficking gang

RAB arrests five men of human trafficking gang

-- 2018-12-07 20:33:09

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 last night arrested five members of a human trafficking gang from different parts of the capital. “The arrestees Md Asaduzzaman Asad, 39, Md Osman Gazi, 48, Md Si...

Mother, daughter die under 'mysterious circumstances'

Mother, daughter die under 'mysterious circumstances'

-- 2018-12-07 20:04:45

A woman and her daughter died under ‘mysterious circumstances’ in Kanchan Bazar area of Manda upazila in Naogaon on Friday. The deceased were identified as Farida Begum, 55, wife of Ebada...

78 more contestants get candidacy back

78 more contestants get candidacy back

-- 2018-12-07 19:08:08

Seventy-eight more aspirants, including 21 of BNP, on Friday got back their candidacy as the Election Commission (EC) declared their nomination papers valid after hearing the petitions on the consecut...

307 retired govt officials express solidarity with AL

307 retired govt officials express solidarity with AL

-- 2018-12-07 19:03:56

As many as 307 retired government officials have expressed solidarity with the Awami League and pledged to work for the victory of pro-liberation forces in the upcoming national election. The retired...

BNP announces list of 206 candidates  

BNP announces list of 206 candidates  

-- 2018-12-07 18:29:58

BNP on Friday announced the list of its candidates for 206 seats to contest in the forthcoming election with the party's election symbol 'Sheaf of Paddy'. Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam...

Shajahan Khan’s income increases 178-time in 10 years

Shajahan Khan’s income increases 178-time in 10 years

-- 2018-12-07 18:10:08

The income of Awami League (AL) leader and Minister of Shipping Shajahan Khan has increased 178-fold increase in the past ten years during his tenure as the shipping minister. Khan, who is a ‘p...

Reza Kibria gets back candidacy

Reza Kibria gets back candidacy

-- 2018-12-07 17:37:26

Gono Forum aspirant Dr Reza Kibria Friday got back his candidature for Habiganj-1 constituency as the Election Commission declared his nomination paper valid after hearing. Reza Kibira, also son of f...

Miscreants hack Chhatra League leader in Mohakhali

Miscreants hack Chhatra League leader in Mohakhali

-- 2018-12-07 17:32:11

Unidentified miscreants hacked a ward Chhatra League president to death and injured another one in capital’s Mohakhali TnT Colony area in the early hours of Firday. Rakib Hasan, president of B...

Viqarunnisa students demand release of teacher Hasna Hena

Viqarunnisa students demand release of teacher Hasna Hena

-- 2018-12-07 16:54:15

A group of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College students started demonstration in front of the school gate on Bailey Road on Friday afternoon to demand the release of teacher Hasna Hena. They claimed...

BD prisons heavily overstretched

BD prisons heavily overstretched

FE Online Report 2018-12-07 14:47:05

Country’s all 68 prisons are holding prisoners more than double to its capacity, according to official data. The Prisons Directorate data showed that there were 88,721 inmates, which is 142 per...

Four die in Narsingdi road crash

Four die in Narsingdi road crash

-- 2018-12-07 13:38:05

Four people have been killed and at least 20 others injured after two buses crashed into each other in Narsingdi’s Shibpur. The incident occurred on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in the Syednagar ar...

DMP realises over Tk 2.8 million from traffic offenders

DMP realises over Tk 2.8 million from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2018-12-07 13:09:17

The Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday collected over Tk 2.879 million in fines from traffic offenders. In a simultaneous drive on the city streets conducted on the...

EC rejects Hawladar, Samir Quader Chy’s petitions

EC rejects Hawladar, Samir Quader Chy’s petitions

-- 2018-12-07 12:45:01

The Election Commission on Friday rejected the petitions of 11 aspirants including Jatiya Party's former secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawladar and BNP candidate Samir Quader Chowdhury on the secon...

EC resumes hearing appeals of rejected nominees for second day

EC resumes hearing appeals of rejected nominees for second day

-- 2018-12-07 12:18:14

The Election Commission has started its hearing for the second consecutive day on Friday on the petitions filed against the decision of the returning officers over the rejections of nomination papers...