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CCCI urges Canada to invest in special economic zones

CCCI urges Canada to invest in special economic zones

Our Correspondent 2018-11-07 14:54:38

The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has urged Canada to invest in the special economic zones in Bangladesh. Both the countries have excellent bilateral relations, but Canada is yet...

Ershad-led alliance wants election schedule on Thursday

Ershad-led alliance wants election schedule on Thursday

-- 2018-11-07 14:21:50

Sammilito Jatiya Jote, led by Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad, has urged the Election Commission to announce the election schedule on Thursday (Nov 8). The 15-member delegation of the alliance came u...

Cops recover bullet-riddled body in Cox’s Bazar

Cops recover bullet-riddled body in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-11-07 13:52:18

Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of a suspected drug trader in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday morning. The trader was identified as Ali Hossian alias Shonamia, 38, from Kwai...

Miscreants torch AL office in Pirojpur

Miscreants torch AL office in Pirojpur

-- 2018-11-07 12:38:20

Miscreants set a ward unit Awami League office afire in Pirojpur municipality in the early hours of Wednesday. Miron Sheikh, president of no 1 ward unit Awami League, said a fire broke out at the off...

Oikyafront’s second phase of dialogue with PM ends

Oikyafront’s second phase of dialogue with PM ends

-- 2018-11-07 11:40:42

Leaders of Jatiya Oikyafront held a three-hour dialogue with 14-party alliance leaders, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday in an effort to reach an understanding over the forthcoming na...

Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route resume as fog clears

Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route resume as fog clears

-- 2018-11-07 11:30:43

Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route have resumed after three hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Wednesday morning. Mohiuddin Russel, Manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corpora...

Oikyafront team at Ganabhaban for dialogue

Oikyafront team at Ganabhaban for dialogue

-- 2018-11-07 10:54:35

A group of Jatiya Oikyafront leaders arrived at the Ganabhaban for a second round of dialogue with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday. The 11-member delegation led by Kamal Hossain will sit wi...

Miscreants stab college student to death in Pabna

Miscreants stab college student to death in Pabna

-- 2018-11-07 10:28:13

A student of Government Edward College in Pabna was stabbed to death by unknown miscreants near the college premises on Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Mishkat Mishu, 24, son of Golam Mos...

RHD lacks plan to upgrade road markings

RHD lacks plan to upgrade road markings

Munima Sultana 2018-11-07 10:13:14

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has no concrete project to ensure markings on the country's road network, which is necessary to avoid accidents. Sources said RHD also has no record of the roads t...

BPC set to borrow $1.0b from IDB to purchase oil

BPC set to borrow $1.0b from IDB to purchase oil

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-11-07 09:43:00

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is going to take out US$1.0 billion hard-loan from Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to purchase oil. The government is likely to approve the loan proposal today (...

12 Islamic parties assure PM  of support in polls: Quader

12 Islamic parties assure PM of support in polls: Quader

-- 2018-11-07 00:43:23

Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader has said twelve Islamic parties have assured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of their support so that she could return to power through the next parliam...

Farmers Service Centre to provide streamlined services at union level

Farmers Service Centre to provide streamlined services at union level

FE Online Report 2018-11-06 21:58:28

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is setting up ‘Farmers Service Centre’ across the country to provide necessary agricultural services for the farmers in the remote areas. Un...

Raghunathpur farmers grow early winter tomato on  vast tract of land

Raghunathpur farmers grow early winter tomato on vast tract of land

Our Correspondent 2018-11-06 21:51:34

GOPALGANJ, Nov 06: Farmers of Raghunathpur union under Gopalganj Sadar are growing early winter tomato on a vast tract of land. Dilip Biswas of Raghunathpur village said he is growing 'Beautiful' v...

Water spinach cultivation gains  popularity among peasants

Water spinach cultivation gains popularity among peasants

Roving Correspondent 2018-11-06 21:50:46

NATORE, Nov 06: Commercial cultivation of water spinach is gaining popularity among the grassroots peasants in the district. High market demand and fair prices of the leafy vegetable have also brough...

Youth of Rupgram village sets up integrated farm

Youth of Rupgram village sets up integrated farm

-- 2018-11-06 21:49:49

NAOGAON, Nov 06 (UNB): Sohel Rana of Rupgram village in Dibor union under Patnitola upazila in the district started an integrated farm in his village after completing his graduation. And now he has b...

Short-duration paddy cultivators happy with present rate

Short-duration paddy cultivators happy with present rate

Our Correspondent 2018-11-06 21:49:09

BOGURA, Nov 06: Growers of short-duration paddy variety in the district are delighted over the present market rate of their newly-harvested produce. BINA-7 paddy is selling at Tk 900 to Tk 1,100 pe...

Four technocrat ministers submit resignation letters

Four technocrat ministers submit resignation letters

-- 2018-11-06 20:38:38

Four technocrat ministers have submitted resignation letters following the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. According to UNB, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister N...

DMP commissioner calls on army chief

DMP commissioner calls on army chief

-- 2018-11-06 20:35:22

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed at the Army Headquarters in Dhaka Cantonment on Monday. During the meeting...

Kushtia court orders action against plaintiff, cop for filing false case

Kushtia court orders action against plaintiff, cop for filing false case

-- 2018-11-06 20:25:29

A Kushtia court on Tuesday directed for taking action against the plaintiff and a police official for filing a false case against a couple over instigating an elderly woman to commit suicide. After...

Akheri Chahar Shamba Wednesday

Akheri Chahar Shamba Wednesday

-- 2018-11-06 20:21:17

The holy Akheri Chahar Shamba, an important day for the Muslims, will be observed across the country tomorrow (Wednesday), marking the recovery of Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (SM) from his prolonged illne...

Criminals in guise of RAB, police on the prowl

Criminals in guise of RAB, police on the prowl

-- 2018-11-06 18:56:00

Criminals impersonating them as members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police have been committing crimes such as robbery and abduction. In the last two days on Saturday and Sunday, the law enfo...

Road march towards Rajshahi if dialogue with PM fails: Oikyafront

Road march towards Rajshahi if dialogue with PM fails: Oikyafront

-- 2018-11-06 18:51:58

The Jatiya Oikyafront has announced to arrange a road march towards Rajshahi on November 8 if Wednesday's dialogue with the Prime Minister does not bring 'positive results'. BNP Secretary General, al...

Body recovered in Kushtia

Body recovered in Kushtia

-- 2018-11-06 18:13:10

Police recovered body of a man from Charsonatola ground of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia on Tuesday. Identity of the deceased was not ascertained immediately. Siraj Mondol, chairman of Ramkrishnapur...

Export Policy 2018-21 gets cabinet nod

Export Policy 2018-21 gets cabinet nod

-- 2018-11-06 18:10:13

The cabinet on Tuesday approved the draft of the ‘Export Policy 2018-21’ with a view to infusing dynamism into export operations, enhancing competitiveness in trade and commerce and streng...

SC to review verdict on confiscated money

SC to review verdict on confiscated money

-- 2018-11-06 17:53:25

The Supreme Court has accepted a review petition filed by the Bangladesh Bank on a verdict on returning the money confiscated from several businesses during the period of last caretaker government. A...

Rab seizes 115,000 yaba pills from vehicle with NGO sticker

Rab seizes 115,000 yaba pills from vehicle with NGO sticker

-- 2018-11-06 17:47:39

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized some 150,000 yaba tablets from a car with the sticker of a foreign NGO and arrested a man at Collegepara of Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar on T...

Oikyafront’s rally begins at Suhrawardy Udyan

Oikyafront’s rally begins at Suhrawardy Udyan

-- 2018-11-06 17:06:54

The rally of Jatiya Oikyafront has started at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka with an aim to mobilise public support in favour of the alliance's various demands. The rally activities formally started aroun...

Customs seize 40 gold bars at Shahjalal airport

Customs seize 40 gold bars at Shahjalal airport

-- 2018-11-06 16:56:28

Customs intelligence officials on Monday night seized 40 gold bars worth about Tk 23.2 million from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the airport. “We seized 40 gold bars weighing 4.65...

Youth put on remand for threatening US ambassador

Youth put on remand for threatening US ambassador

-- 2018-11-06 16:50:21

A Dhaka court on Monday granted three days remand for interrogating a person in connection with a case filed for issuing threat of blowing off the car and office of the US ambassador in the capital....

PM asks technocrat ministers to resign

PM asks technocrat ministers to resign

-- 2018-11-06 16:22:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the four technocrat ministers to step down as part of a process to reconstitute the cabinet ahead of eleventh parliamentary election. The four technocrat minist...