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Khaleda Zia admitted to BSMMU

Khaleda Zia admitted to BSMMU

-- 2018-10-06 16:35:07

BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for treatment. Earlier, prison authorities shifted Khaleda Zia to BSMMU from old Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday...

Khaleda taken to BSMMU

Khaleda taken to BSMMU

-- 2018-10-06 15:58:11

The prison authorities of old Dhaka Central jail has shifted BNP chief Khaleda Zia to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for her treatment. The BNP chairperson was escorted out of the prison...

2.5m BNP activists implicated in ‘false’ cases: Fakhrul

2.5m BNP activists implicated in ‘false’ cases: Fakhrul

-- 2018-10-06 14:25:58

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the party's 25,70,547 leaders and activists have been implicated in 90,340 false cases over the last 10 years. Presenting the statistics...

RAB arrests two for ‘spreading rumours’ online

RAB arrests two for ‘spreading rumours’ online

-- 2018-10-06 13:44:00

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested two people over allegations of spreading anti-state rumours on their You Tube channel. The detainees, Khalid Bin Ahmed and Mohammed Hizbullah were sprea...

High Commissioner of India visits Chandpur

High Commissioner of India visits Chandpur

-- 2018-10-06 13:33:03

Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited Chandpur and attended a number of events on Friday. The High Commissioner joined a luncheon meeting hosted by Dr Dipu Moni, MP where h...

Khaleda to be taken to BSMMU today: IGP, Prison

Khaleda to be taken to BSMMU today: IGP, Prison

-- 2018-10-06 13:17:52

The prison authorities of old Dhaka Central jail are set to shift BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Saturday afternoon for her treatment. She will...

Cops recover hanging body of man in Khulna

Cops recover hanging body of man in Khulna

-- 2018-10-06 11:51:28

Police recovered the hanging body of an unidentified man from Khan Jahan thana in Khulna city on Saturday morning. Locals spotted the body hanging from a tree at Shiromoni bypass area and informed po...

12 missing as trawler capsizes in Turag

12 missing as trawler capsizes in Turag

-- 2018-10-06 11:44:11

At least 12 people are reportedly missing since Friday evening after a trawler capsized in Turag River of Ashulia. Fire-fighters from Tongi and Ashulia fire service stations have been engaged in resc...

Human hauler falls into ditch in Magura, killing one

Human hauler falls into ditch in Magura, killing one

-- 2018-10-06 10:59:16

A man was killed and five others were injured as a human hauler plunged into a roadside ditch on Magura-Jashore highway at Bhaina intersection in Magura Sadar upazila on Friday night. The deceased wa...

Number of bank branches crosses 10,000 mark

Number of bank branches crosses 10,000 mark

FE Report 2018-10-06 10:43:18

The banking sector has set a new milestone as the number of bank branches across the country crossed the 10,000 mark. The number of bank branches both in the private and public sectors stood at 10,14...

RHD plays new trick as PC rejects revision proposal

RHD plays new trick as PC rejects revision proposal

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-10-06 09:53:12

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken up the second project besides the existing one for Dhaka-Mawa road upgrade after the Planning Commission (PC) refused to revise the costlier origina...

India imposes import ban on edible oil

India imposes import ban on edible oil

Rezaul Karim 2018-10-06 09:47:22

India has suddenly slapped a ban on import of edible oil from Bangladesh, much to the concern of Bangladeshi exporters, officials and businessmen said. According to the officials, the Directorate of...

New traffic signal system in city likely next year

New traffic signal system in city likely next year

Kamrun Nahar 2018-10-06 09:43:05

Dhaka city corporations are ready to hand over the capital's traffic signal system to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) by June 2019 after completing a project for signal automation that started in 20...

Return of workers from KSA unstoppable

Return of workers from KSA unstoppable

Arafat Ara 2018-10-06 09:37:33

Thousands of Bangladeshi workers have returned home from Saudi Arabia after losing their jobs in recent months, sources said. Many others are in panic of being redundant. The Kingdom of Saudi Arab...

Quota seekers suspend protest temporarily for DU convocation

Quota seekers suspend protest temporarily for DU convocation

-- 2018-10-05 22:26:03

The children of freedom fighters (FF) on Friday suspended their blockade programme for twelve hours for the convocation ceremony of Dhaka University (DU) to be held on Saturday morning. The suspensio...

'BNP to get befitting reply, if it creates anarchy'

'BNP to get befitting reply, if it creates anarchy'

-- 2018-10-05 21:30:22

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the countrymen will give befitting reply to BNP, if they try to create anarchy centring the forthcoming parliamentary polls. “They (BNP) s...

Liton takes RCC mayoral charge

Liton takes RCC mayoral charge

-- 2018-10-05 20:20:38

AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, newly elected mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), took his mayoral charge for the second time on Friday. Liton, who got a victory in RCC mayoral election on July 30, too...

EVMs to be used if RPO is amended

EVMs to be used if RPO is amended

-- 2018-10-05 20:17:12

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Friday said electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used in the next general election on a small scale if the Representation of the People Order (R...

Narayanganj man surrenders after killing wife

Narayanganj man surrenders after killing wife

-- 2018-10-05 20:06:21

A man surrendered to police on Friday after killing his wife in Fatullah of Narayanganj. The deceased was identified as Arefin Rani Akhter, 23, wife of Mehedi Hasan, 30, of Chandni Housing Area of th...

President to join DU convocation Saturday

President to join DU convocation Saturday

-- 2018-10-05 18:38:41

President Abdul Hamid will join the largest-ever convocation of Dhaka University (DU) on Saturday. The convocation will begin at the DU central playground at 11:30am but the graduates have been asked...

Gopalganj UP member embezzles old age allowance

Gopalganj UP member embezzles old age allowance

-- 2018-10-05 18:08:29

A union parishad member of Gopalganj has alleged misappropriated old age allowance in Kotalipara upazila. A written complaint was lodged with the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) on Thursday in this reg...

Officials seize 332 kg Ethiopian cannabis at HSIA

Officials seize 332 kg Ethiopian cannabis at HSIA

-- 2018-10-05 16:35:06

Customs officials recovered 332 kilograms of Ethiopian cannabis from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. Preventive team of the Dhaka Customs House recovered 17 cartoons packed...

Miscreants stab truck driver dead

Miscreants stab truck driver dead

-- 2018-10-05 16:01:14

A truck driver was stabbed to death by miscreants in sadar upazila of Jhenaidah. The deceased was identified as Manirul Islam, 32, a truck driver and son of Najir Biswas. A group of miscreants swoop...

Court sentences two to life term in Jhenaidah

Court sentences two to life term in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-10-05 15:53:30

A court in Jhenaidah convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for possessing drugs. The convicts were identified as Harunur Rashid, son of Abdul Goni of Jashore district, and...

Govt erecting 139 buildings for climate migrants in Cox’s Bazar

Govt erecting 139 buildings for climate migrants in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-10-05 14:16:57

The government is constructing 139 multi-storied buildings in Cox’s Bazar to rehabilitate over 4,400 poor families who are victims of climate-induced disasters, such as cyclone, river erosion an...

One dies in truck-ambulance collision in Natore

One dies in truck-ambulance collision in Natore

-- 2018-10-05 11:49:07

A man was killed and four others were injured as they were in the ambulance that collided with a truck on Natore-Dhaka highway on Friday. The deceased was identified as Ayub Ali, according to a repor...

Faridpur clash leaves teenager dead

Faridpur clash leaves teenager dead

-- 2018-10-05 11:34:13

A teenage boy was shot dead and five other people were injured in a clash between two rival groups that took place at Faridpur’s Boalmari upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Syed...

Two die in RAB raid on Chattogram 'militant den'

Two die in RAB raid on Chattogram 'militant den'

-- 2018-10-05 09:35:14

Two militants were found dead during a RAB raid on a suspected militant hideout in Chattogram's Mirsharai Upazila on Friday. Gunfire and explosions rang out during the raid on the JMB hideout in the...

ACC finds ‘proof’ in graft probe against ex-chief justice Sinha

ACC finds ‘proof’ in graft probe against ex-chief justice Sinha

-- 2018-10-04 21:31:20

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) claimed to have evidence of forgery against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha of taking Tk 40 million as loans from the Farmers Bank. ACC Chairman Iqbal M...

Two sisters crushed under train in B’baria 

Two sisters crushed under train in B’baria 

-- 2018-10-04 21:12:52

Brahmanbaria, Oct 4 (UNB) -Two sisters were crushed under a train at Shimrailkandi under Bijaynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Pushpa Akhter, 13, a...