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PM allots flats to three former nat’l players

PM allots flats to three former nat’l players

-- 2018-09-20 13:21:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given residential flats to two former national footballers and a hockey player. The footballers are Sheikh Ashraf Ali and late Monem Munna and hockey player is late...

Met office asks ports to hoist signal 3

Met office asks ports to hoist signal 3

-- 2018-09-20 13:14:20

Bangladesh Meteorological Department has asked the seaports to hoist cautionary signal three after a well-marked low pressure developed over the east-central Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas. The de...

Bangladesh Asia’s second most gender equal country: WEF

Bangladesh Asia’s second most gender equal country: WEF

-- 2018-09-20 12:54:45

Bangladesh is the second most gender equal country in Asia, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. The 2018 report published on its website says the country has climbe...

Long tailback on Dhaka-Chattogram highway

Long tailback on Dhaka-Chattogram highway

-- 2018-09-20 12:26:38

Hundreds of passengers have been suffering a lot as a 15-kilometre-long tailback was created on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Daudkandi upazila since Thursday morning. The tailback was seen stretching...

Govt promotes six secretaries to senior secretaries

Govt promotes six secretaries to senior secretaries

-- 2018-09-20 12:23:22

The government has elevated six secretaries to the rank of senior secretary in a promotion in the civil administration. The Public Administration Ministry has issued a gazette notification in this...

Road crashes claim lives of three

Road crashes claim lives of three

-- 2018-09-20 12:19:48

Three people, including an old man, were killed in separate road accidents in Cumilla and Khulna districts on Thursday. In Cumilla, the driver of a Chattogram-bound poultry-laden covered van died on...

Rivals beat youth to death in Dohar

Rivals beat youth to death in Dohar

-- 2018-09-20 12:08:55

A young man was beaten to death allegedly by his rivals over previous enmity in Dohar upazila of Dhaka on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Foysal Sheikh, 18, son of Majnu Sheikh of Muksudpur...

BHBFC set to bring down lending rate to 9.0pc

BHBFC set to bring down lending rate to 9.0pc

FE Report 2018-09-20 10:23:23

The Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) is set to lower its lending rate to 9.0 per cent with effect from July this year, sources said. The state-run corporation is going to issue a...

Experts list challenges to farming sustainability

Experts list challenges to farming sustainability

FE Report 2018-09-20 10:19:42

Despite making tremendous progress in agro production, lack of a modern marketing system and food processing facilities still remained impediments to fully attaining agricultural sustainability in B...

Labour leaders reiterate demand for review of RMG wage

Labour leaders reiterate demand for review of RMG wage

FE Report 2018-09-20 10:13:50

Labour leaders at a meeting have demanded of the government to review the proposed Tk 8000 minimum monthly wage for entry level garment workers. They also criticised the holding of the Tripartite C...

JS passes Digital Security Bill

JS passes Digital Security Bill

-- 2018-09-19 21:59:15

The much-talked-about 'The Digital Security Bill, 2018' was passed in Parliament on Wednesday to deal with cybercrimes, including hurting the religious sentiment, negative propaganda against the Liber...

Man sentenced to death for killing wife in Rajshahi

Man sentenced to death for killing wife in Rajshahi

-- 2018-09-19 20:42:34

A Rajshahi court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in Bagmara upazila in 2011. The condemned convict is Abdul Kuddus, son of Meher Ali, a resident of Saidhara village. Accor...

Man found hanging in Jashore

Man found hanging in Jashore

-- 2018-09-19 20:26:11

Police recovered the hanging body of a man from Pashapol village under Chowghaachha upazila in Jashore on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Madhu, 52, son of late Bashir Ullah and a r...

Parliamentary committee suggests reserving 1.0pc quota for disabled

Parliamentary committee suggests reserving 1.0pc quota for disabled

-- 2018-09-19 20:03:04

The parliamentary standing committee on the social welfare ministry has suggested the government to reserve 1 per cent quota in government jobs for the disabled people in line with the Disabilities Ac...

No scope for Rohingya people's long-term stay: PM

No scope for Rohingya people's long-term stay: PM

-- 2018-09-19 19:58:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reaffirmed government’s determination to send the Rohingyas back to their homeland in Myanmar. Sheikh Hasina said there is no scope for them to stay in Banglade...

PM enquires about Tamim’s health

PM enquires about Tamim’s health

-- 2018-09-19 19:54:06

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday enquired about the physical condition of injured opener of Bangladesh national cricket team Tamim Iqbal. She phoned Tamim at noon. The ace opener sustained a...

Eskaton double murder case verdict on October 4

Eskaton double murder case verdict on October 4

-- 2018-09-19 19:48:20

The judgment in double murder case filed against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of ruling Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan, will be announced on October 4. Judge Md Monjurul Imam of Dhaka Additional Metropol...

Social media to remain under surveillance during Puja

Social media to remain under surveillance during Puja

-- 2018-09-19 19:16:38

Social media will remain under surveillance to prevent provocation centring Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community. Public security division secretary Mostafa Kamal made th...

Court grants 5-day remand to interrogate BNP leader Sohel

Court grants 5-day remand to interrogate BNP leader Sohel

-- 2018-09-19 18:39:40

A court in Dhaka has granted a five-day remand to interrogate BNP joint secretary general Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate KHM Toha passed the order on Wednesday after DB sub-...

Government extends tenure of foreign secretary

Government extends tenure of foreign secretary

-- 2018-09-19 17:42:07

Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque will continue his job as senior secretary of the government for another year under a contractual appointment. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette...

HC hearing on Shahidul’s bail plea next week

HC hearing on Shahidul’s bail plea next week

-- 2018-09-19 17:35:04

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday fixed next week to hear the bail plea of renowned photographer and Drik Gallery managing director Shahidul Alam in a case filed under the Information and Communication...

BNP preparing to launch street agitations

BNP preparing to launch street agitations

-- 2018-09-19 17:26:18

BNP is taking necessary preparations to come up with street programmes to push for Khaleda Zia's release from jail and holding a credible election. BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed made the comment on...

Cumilla road crashes leave two dead

Cumilla road crashes leave two dead

-- 2018-09-19 17:15:31

Two people, including the driver of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, were killed in separate road accidents on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla on Wednesday. Auto-rickshaw driver Sa...

RMG workers to stage demo on Sept 21

RMG workers to stage demo on Sept 21

-- 2018-09-19 17:11:22

Garment workers will demonstrate in their factory areas across the country on September 21 protesting the fixation of minimum wage at Tk 8,000 by the government and demanding its re-fixation at Tk 16,...

Bicyclist dies in Lalmonirhat road crash

Bicyclist dies in Lalmonirhat road crash

-- 2018-09-19 16:46:48

A bicycle rider was killed as a passenger bus hit him in sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat today (Wednesday). The deceased was identified as Abdul Mozid, 42, resident at Shibganj of the upazila, said Offi...

RAB recovers 2530 litres of stolen fuel

RAB recovers 2530 litres of stolen fuel

-- 2018-09-19 16:26:21

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 2,530 litres of stolen fuel and arrested three people in this connection from Azimpur Railway Station area under Lalpur Upazila in Natore district ear...

Emphasis on better govt monitoring to address child labour

Emphasis on better govt monitoring to address child labour

FE Online Report 2018-09-19 15:11:07

Speakers at a programme on Wednesday laid emphasis on enhancing the government’s monitoring to address hazardous child labour across the country. They also stressed the need for adopting altern...

Youth gets crushed under train in Pabna

Youth gets crushed under train in Pabna

-- 2018-09-19 14:32:39

A young man was crushed to death under the wheels of a train at Bypass Railway Station in Ishwardi of Pabna district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Alamin, 23, a carpenter and s...

Elephant tramps man to death in Moulvibazar

Elephant tramps man to death in Moulvibazar

-- 2018-09-19 14:22:34

A man known as the local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was reportedly trampled to death by a wild elephant in Sagarnal area of Juri upazila in Moulvibazar on Tuesday night. The deceased wa...

Infant Akifa’s death: Bus driver put on two-day remand

Infant Akifa’s death: Bus driver put on two-day remand

-- 2018-09-19 14:12:46

A Kushtia court on Wednesday placed 'Ganj-e-raj Paribahan' bus driver Mahit Mia on a two-day remand in a case filed over the death of a baby girl in a road accident in the district town on August 28....