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'Achieving judicial equity impossible without legal aid'

'Achieving judicial equity impossible without legal aid'

-- 2018-09-26 17:36:50

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Wednesday said in the context of socio-economic situation in Bangladesh it is impossible to achieve judicial equity without providing legal assistance to poor peop...

ACC pleads for fixing verdict date in graft case against Khaleda

ACC pleads for fixing verdict date in graft case against Khaleda

-- 2018-09-26 17:30:51

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday pleaded for fixing the date of verdict in Zia Charitable Trust graft case implicating BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia as the prime accused. The ant...

Adivasi Parishad for continuation of indigenous quota in public services

Adivasi Parishad for continuation of indigenous quota in public services

-- 2018-09-26 17:24:21

Jatiya Adivasi Parishad on Wednesday demanded the government retain the existing quota system for indigenous community, ethnic minority, tea workers and backward people in government jobs. "The indig...

WEF chief invites PM to attend annual meeting

WEF chief invites PM to attend annual meeting

-- 2018-09-26 16:50:19

World Economic Forum (WEF) President Borge Brende has invited Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to participate in the next WEF annual meeting to be held in Switzerland in January 2019. Brende e...

BNP to unveil action plan in Saturday’s rally

BNP to unveil action plan in Saturday’s rally

-- 2018-09-26 16:42:30

BNP will unveil its future course of action and strategy at its planned Suhrawardy Udyan public rally in Dhaka on Saturday. "We'll deliver our statements on our party's future policy at the rally. Ou...

Kushtia man to die for killing wife

Kushtia man to die for killing wife

-- 2018-09-26 16:10:27

A Kushtia court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry in 2006. The court also fined condemned convict Atier Rahman, son of Shona Sheikh of Sadar upazila, Tk 50,000. Ac...

US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing in Chattogram

US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing in Chattogram

-- 2018-09-26 14:59:42

A Cox's Bazar-bound aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines with 164 passengers, including 11 children, on board made an emergency landing without nose gear at Shah Amanat International Airport of Chattogram o...

Fatal accident in Bogura kills two

Fatal accident in Bogura kills two

-- 2018-09-26 13:58:31

At least two people were killed when a truck plunged into a ditch after breaking the railing of a bridge in Bogura’s Shahjahanpur upazila on Wednesday. Police are working to trace the identitie...

Four get death for killing Satkhira college student

Four get death for killing Satkhira college student

-- 2018-09-26 13:56:29

A Satkhira court on Wednesday sentenced four people to death for killing a college student in 2016. The condemned convicts are Ali Ahmed Shaon, son of Abdul Alim, Shahadat Hossain, son of Abdul Karim...

Myanmar blocking return of Rohingyas, alleges Hasina

Myanmar blocking return of Rohingyas, alleges Hasina

Reuters 2018-09-26 13:20:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Myanmar of finding new excuses to delay the return of more than 0.7 million (700,000) Rohingya who were forced across the border over the past year, and said i...

Rising temperature to effect 134m Bangladeshis: WB

Rising temperature to effect 134m Bangladeshis: WB

-- 2018-09-26 13:01:34

More than three quarters of Bangladeshis are at risk of declining living standards due to rising temperature and erratic rainfall from climate change, the calamity is also threatening nearly half of S...

PM seeks UN peacekeeping reform

PM seeks UN peacekeeping reform

-- 2018-09-26 11:44:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the importance of UN peacekeeping reform with adequate authorisation of peacekeepers and making them better equipped. The Prime Minister gave importance on...

Drug suspect dies in Munshiganj ‘shootout’

Drug suspect dies in Munshiganj ‘shootout’

-- 2018-09-26 11:39:15

A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Mirkadim in sadar upazila of Munshiganj region early Wednesday. The deceased was identified a...

Make supply chain sustainability management, reporting in SMEs popular

Make supply chain sustainability management, reporting in SMEs popular

FE Report 2018-09-26 11:12:22

Supply chain sustainability management and reporting in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh should be popularised to properly achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), experts said a...

Fire guts 22 shops in Rangamati

Fire guts 22 shops in Rangamati

-- 2018-09-26 11:09:23

At least 22 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at a local market in Kaukhali area of Rangamati sadar upazila early Wednesday. The fire broke out around 3:00am at a shop of Azam Market and soon spr...

Indian IT firm to provide service to RMG industry

Indian IT firm to provide service to RMG industry

FE Report 2018-09-26 10:51:18

An Indian IT service provider has recently opened its office in Dhaka, aiming to expand its business mainly in the country's growing readymade garment (RMG) industry. "Bangladeshi garment exporters a...

Farm credit disbursement falls 25pc in July-August

Farm credit disbursement falls 25pc in July-August

Siddique Islam 2018-09-26 10:47:20

Farm credit disbursement dropped by over 25 per cent or Tk 7.04 billion in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, despite the central bank's close monitoring. Disbursement o...

Banks to offer single-digit rate soon: Muhith

Banks to offer single-digit rate soon: Muhith

FE Report 2018-09-26 10:45:03

Finance Minister A M A Muhith has expressed the hope that the private commercial banks (PCBs) will bring down their lending rate to single digit shortly. "I expect the banks will bring it down. So...

Veg farming on floating beds gains popularity  in Gopalganj

Veg farming on floating beds gains popularity in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-09-25 21:13:04

GOPALGANJ, Sept 25: Vegetable cultivation on floating beds is gaining popularity in the district. Some 3,500 farmers across the district are now growing varieties of vegetable on such land. Accordin...

Transplantation of T-Aman paddy seedlings nears completion

Transplantation of T-Aman paddy seedlings nears completion

Our Correspondent 2018-09-25 21:12:10

SYLHET, Sept 25: Farmers in Sylhet division are about to finish transplanting T-Aman paddy seedlings during the current season. Already the target is surpassed, but on some pocket areas the transplan...

Bottle gourd cultivation  expanding in Rangpur  for high yield

Bottle gourd cultivation expanding in Rangpur for high yield

Our Correspondent 2018-09-25 21:11:12

RANGPUR, Sept 25: Farmers of different upazilas in the district are becoming financially benefited by growing bottle gourd on their land in recent years. Due to congenial weather, low labour cost and...

Padma erosion turns serious in Harirampur

Padma erosion turns serious in Harirampur

-- 2018-09-25 20:54:41

Rising water in Padma river devoured a hundred houses over the last one week rendering more than 300 families homeless in Harirampur in Manikganj. Many others were under the threat of devastating riv...

President urges political parties to take part in polls

President urges political parties to take part in polls

-- 2018-09-25 20:47:49

President Md Abdul Hamid has urged all political parties to participate in the next national election for the betterment of the country and its people. "I think political parties should take part in...

AL, BNP to hold rallies Saturday

AL, BNP to hold rallies Saturday

-- 2018-09-25 20:45:23

The Awami League-led 14-party coalition has announced a rally for Saturday in Dhaka as its main rival the BNP is preparing for a similar demonstration in the capital the same day. The announcement by...

HRW criticises Digital Security Act

HRW criticises Digital Security Act

-- 2018-09-25 20:15:45

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Digital Security Act, passed by parliament in Bangladesh last week despite opposition from the country's journalists, 'strikes a blow to freedom of speech'. The...

Sinha's book tarnishes image of judiciary: AG

Sinha's book tarnishes image of judiciary: AG

-- 2018-09-25 18:19:54

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has alleged that the book written by former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha from abroad has tarnished the image of the judiciary.  “Why were other judges...

UK to help BD in tackling child labour

UK to help BD in tackling child labour

-- 2018-09-25 17:28:02

The United Kingdom (UK) has announced new protections for vulnerable children at risk of falling prey to child labour to support Bangladesh aimed at eliminating the worst forms of child labour in the...

HC defers hearing on Khaleda’s medical treatment plea to Oct 1

HC defers hearing on Khaleda’s medical treatment plea to Oct 1

-- 2018-09-25 17:27:10

The High Court (HC) has deferred a hearing on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s writ petition for treatment at United Hospital to Oct 1. The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Ahmed...

Transport workers call off strike, Mohakhali bus services resume

Transport workers call off strike, Mohakhali bus services resume

-- 2018-09-25 17:14:18

Bus service in Mohakhali resumed as transport workers withdrew their strike hours after being assured by the police of arresting local youths who allegedly beat up a bus driver. The workers called th...

15 rivers swell, 75 fall

15 rivers swell, 75 fall

-- 2018-09-25 16:55:53

Water levels in 15 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 75 stations recorded falls. Among the 94 monitored water level stations, three are ste...