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Police data centre project likely to get ECNEC approval

Police data centre project likely to get ECNEC approval

-- 2018-08-13 20:51:46

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) is likely to approve police data centre capacity enhancement project on Tuesday. The Planning Commission has already sent the project...

Govt trying to bring Bangabandhu’s killers back: Law minister

Govt trying to bring Bangabandhu’s killers back: Law minister

-- 2018-08-13 20:43:55

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the government is trying to bring the fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman back from abroad. "We've information about them, but...

Garment workers need to be paid before Aug 16, demand rights organisations

Garment workers need to be paid before Aug 16, demand rights organisations

FE Online Report 2018-08-13 20:15:18

Garments Sromik Adhiker Andolon, a platform of 12 rights organisations, Monday insisted garment factory owners to pay their workers monthly wage for August and festival allowance by the 16th of this m...

Qawmi Madrasah’s Dawrae Hadith degree to get recognition

Qawmi Madrasah’s Dawrae Hadith degree to get recognition

-- 2018-08-13 18:11:46

The Cabinet has approved a draft of a law to recognise the highest qualifications offered by Qawmi madrasahs as equivalent to general education postgraduate degrees with an aim to bring some 1.5 milli...

HC grants Khaleda bail in Narail case

HC grants Khaleda bail in Narail case

-- 2018-08-13 18:06:08

The High Court has granted a six-month interim jail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia over a defamation case over allegations of disputing the death toll of the 1971 Liberation War. Justice Muhammad Abd...

Review committee suggests giving priorities to talent, scrapping quotas

Review committee suggests giving priorities to talent, scrapping quotas

-- 2018-08-13 17:13:25

The committee formed by the government to review the existing quota system proposed abolition of almost all the quotas in public services giving priority to talent. Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul...

UN experts urge immediate release of Shahidul Alam

UN experts urge immediate release of Shahidul Alam

-- 2018-08-13 16:54:57

UN human rights experts have urged Bangladeshi authorities to immediately release photographer Shahidul Alam, who was arrested and allegedly "tortured" after reporting abuses against student protester...

BD-India relationship now stronger than ever: PM

BD-India relationship now stronger than ever: PM

-- 2018-08-13 16:31:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the relation between Bangladesh and India now reached a newer height as both countries respect each other. Hasina said it when State Executive Member and A...

China evinces interest in BD FTA: Tofail

China evinces interest in BD FTA: Tofail

FE Report 2018-08-13 16:16:45

China showed its interest in signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said on Sunday. The minister was talking to reporters at a view-exchange meeting with...

Cyber unit to be strengthened to  prevent cyber-crimes: IGP

Cyber unit to be strengthened to prevent cyber-crimes: IGP

-- 2018-08-13 14:35:33

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary on Monday said the cyber unit of the police headquarters will be strengthened for patrolling cyber-crimes, including the spread of rumours t...

Biman cancels two more hajj flights due to lack of passengers

Biman cancels two more hajj flights due to lack of passengers

-- 2018-08-13 13:33:33

Two more hajj flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines scheduled to fly on Tuesday (tomorrow) have been cancelled due to shortage of passengers. The cancelled flights are BG1091 and BG6091. With these,...

Top court rejects plea against order on sending Shahidul to hospital

Top court rejects plea against order on sending Shahidul to hospital

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

The Appellate Division has rejected a petition seeking stay on the High Court order that asked the authorities concerned to send Drik Gallery Managing Director Shahidul Alam to Bangabandhu Sheikh Muji...

Five Patuakhali men to die for war crimes

Five Patuakhali men to die for war crimes

-- 2018-08-13 12:51:19

The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced five Patuakhali men to death for crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, during the 1971 Liberation War. A three-member panel of judges led...

Bus driver dies in Natore road mishap

Bus driver dies in Natore road mishap

-- 2018-08-13 12:04:55

A bus driver has been killed and at least 16 passengers suffered injuries following a head-on collision between a Meherpur-bound bus and a covered van on Bonpara- Hatikumrul road in Hansmara area of G...

Essentials’ open market sale starts today

Essentials’ open market sale starts today

FE Report 2018-08-13 11:07:51

The government is set to launch open-market sale (OMS) of key essential items today (Monday) to keep its prices within the buying capacity of the common people during Eid-ul-Azha. Trading Corporati...

China's active role a must to resolve Rohingya crisis

China's active role a must to resolve Rohingya crisis

FE Report 2018-08-13 11:03:59

Experts have suggested for adopting specific regional approach with active engagement of economic powerhouse like China in resolving Rohingya crisis. They, simultaneously, recommended for taking libe...

Dhaka-Ctg Expressway project: Cost soars to Tk 335b for huge land acquisition

Dhaka-Ctg Expressway project: Cost soars to Tk 335b for huge land acquisition

Munima Sultana 2018-08-13 10:59:41

The projected high spending for land acquisition has propelled the cost of Dhaka-Chittagong Expressway project to Tk 335 billion. The cost for land acquisition in the project is 68 per cent higher...

Drik Gallery MD Shahidul lands in jail after questioning

Drik Gallery MD Shahidul lands in jail after questioning

-- 2018-08-13 09:52:19

A court in Dhaka on Sunday sent Drik Gallery Managing Director and Chairman of media institute Pathshala Shahidul Alam to jail before completion of his 7-day remand, in a case filed under the ICT Act....

Schoolgirl dies falling off rooftop in Sirajganj

Schoolgirl dies falling off rooftop in Sirajganj

-- 2018-08-13 09:44:20

A schoolgirl died after falling off the rooftop of a building at Mujib Road in the district town on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Dola Karmakar, 15, daughter of Ripon Kumar Karmakar an...

Quader rules out dialogue with BNP

Quader rules out dialogue with BNP

-- 2018-08-12 21:28:23

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said his party has no scope to hold any dialogue with BNP as the latter observes fake birthday of its chief Begum Khaleda Zia on National Mourni...

Low market price worries Bogura guava growers

Low market price worries Bogura guava growers

Our Correspondent 2018-08-12 21:26:10

BOGURA, Aug 12: Hundreds of guava farmers of the district are worried due to low market price. Moreover, a good number of guava gardens have been attacked by fungal and bacterial diseases. Sources s...

Good bitter gourd yield brings smile on faces of Joypurhat farmers

Good bitter gourd yield brings smile on faces of Joypurhat farmers

Roving Correspondent 2018-08-12 21:25:06

JOYPURHAT, Aug 12: Bitter gourd cultivation has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of extreme poor farmers in district this season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office source sai...

Thrust on boosting commercial sheep rearing

Thrust on boosting commercial sheep rearing

-- 2018-08-12 21:23:27

RAJSHAHI, Aug 12 (BSS): Academics and experts have urged the village people to boost commercial sheep rearing. They said it would meet the nutritional demand besides providing valuable wool for exped...

Eid-ul-Azha on August 22

Eid-ul-Azha on August 22

-- 2018-08-12 19:39:56

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on August 22. The new moon of the Arabic month of Zilhaj was sighted in Bangladesh sky on...

10-km long tailback causing sufferings to commuters

10-km long tailback causing sufferings to commuters

-- 2018-08-12 18:22:12

A 10-km long tailback was created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Fatehpur Feni on Sunday, causing immense sufferings to the commuters. Police said the tailback was created due to the construction wor...

Two schoolboys drown in Ramna lake

Two schoolboys drown in Ramna lake

-- 2018-08-12 17:58:08

Two schoolboys from Willes Little Flower School and College have drowned after going to bathe in the capital’s Ramna lake. The two were retrieved from the lake around 3:00pm on Sunday and sent...

Govt nationalises 271 private colleges

Govt nationalises 271 private colleges

-- 2018-08-12 17:32:23

The government has nationalised 271 private colleges across the country, raising the number of public colleges and equivalent educational institutions to 598. The Education Ministry issued an order i...

Local cattle adequate to meet demand for sacrificial animal

Local cattle adequate to meet demand for sacrificial animal

-- 2018-08-12 17:17:53

The country is unlikely to face any shortage of cattle during the Eid-ul-Azha this year as the supply of locally-raised cattle is sufficient to meet the demand for sacrificial animals, said officials....

Govt intensification of repressive acts will be reason for their fall: BNP

Govt intensification of repressive acts will be reason for their fall: BNP

-- 2018-08-12 17:01:03

BNP senior leader Abdullah Al Noman on Sunday alleged that the government has intensified its repressive acts as its days are numbered. "This autocratic government has increased its repressive acts o...

Quota reform protestors demand steps within August 31

Quota reform protestors demand steps within August 31

-- 2018-08-12 16:53:13

The protestors seeking a reform on existing quota system in public service have threatened to go for tougher movement if their three-point demand is not met by August 31. Bangladesh General Students'...