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Bus tickets for Aug 19, 20 sold out!

Bus tickets for Aug 19, 20 sold out!

FE Report 2018-08-08 10:49:17

Irregularities marked the first day of advance bus ticket sale that started in the city on Tuesday ahead of Eid-ul-Azha festival, ticket aspirants claimed. They also alleged that officials of diffe...

Record Boro yield, rice import fail to rein in rising prices

Record Boro yield, rice import fail to rein in rising prices

Yasir Wardad 2018-08-08 10:43:35

Rice prices rose steeply in the city market again despite an all-time high Boro yield and record import of the staple grain. The price surge has left the consumers worried, who are already battered...

IPL arranges doa mahfil for FE editor

IPL arranges doa mahfil for FE editor

FE Report 2018-08-08 10:39:36

A doa mahfil seeking salvation of the departed soul of founding editor of The Financial Express AHM Moazzem Hossain was held at the newspaper office after Asr prayers on Tuesday. International Publ...

PM visits injured AL men at hospital

PM visits injured AL men at hospital

-- 2018-08-07 22:17:40

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited injured Awami League activists, who were injured in miscreants’ attacks during recent movement for safe road, at a city hospital on Tuesday. Sheikh Hasina w...

CEC can’t assure anomaly-free election

CEC can’t assure anomaly-free election

-- 2018-08-07 21:55:54

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday said he cannot assure that there will be no anomaly during the next general election. "I don't have the scope to assure that there'll be no anomal...

Mango trading in final stage in northern districts

Mango trading in final stage in northern districts

-- 2018-08-07 21:39:14

RAJSHAHI, Aug 07 (BSS): Mango trading in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts is now on the final stage amid last moment's exorbitant price of the tasty and delicious seasonal fruit after more than...

Bangladesh urges Japan to review travel alert

Bangladesh urges Japan to review travel alert

-- 2018-08-07 21:27:15

Bangladesh has urged Japan to review its travel alert, which was imposed after the Holey Artisan cafe attack in 2016. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali made the call during a bilateral meeting with his...

HC asks jail authorities to send Shahidul Alam to BSMMU

HC asks jail authorities to send Shahidul Alam to BSMMU

-- 2018-08-07 19:46:31

The High Court on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to send Drik Gallery Managing Director Shahidul Alam, now on a seven-day remand, to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) as soo...

Inu terms US, UN statements undesirable

Inu terms US, UN statements undesirable

-- 2018-08-07 19:05:25

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu has described the statements from the US Embassy and the United Nations overt attacks on student protesters demanding safe roads as “unwarranted” and...

Nahid to meet VCs of pvt varsities Wednesday

Nahid to meet VCs of pvt varsities Wednesday

-- 2018-08-07 18:46:39

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will hold a meeting with the vice-chancellors of all the private universities on Wednesday. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:00pm at the International Mothe...

Husband, father-in-law to die for killing woman in Satkhira

Husband, father-in-law to die for killing woman in Satkhira

-- 2018-08-07 18:35:22

A Satkhira court on Tuesday sentenced a man and his father to death for killing his wife over a family feud at Chanduria village of Kolaroa upazila in the district during 2017. The convicts were iden...

ASK expresses concern over ‘torture’ on Shahidul Alam

ASK expresses concern over ‘torture’ on Shahidul Alam

-- 2018-08-07 18:24:44

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) on Tuesday expressed its deep concern at the incident of alleged torture on renowned photographer and human rights activist, Shahidul Alam, during his time in custody. Menti...

India arrests ‘Boma Mizan’

India arrests ‘Boma Mizan’

-- 2018-08-07 18:21:46

India has arrested Mohammed Jahidul Islam, a leader of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), for his involvement in Bihar's Bodh Gaya explosion. The National Investigation Age...

New transport law is jugglery, says BNP’s Rizvi

New transport law is jugglery, says BNP’s Rizvi

-- 2018-08-07 16:43:25

The new transport law approved by the government is a jugglery of numbers, says a senior BNP leader. “This law is not adequate for safe roads. Under the proposed law, miscreants and godfathers...

Wheat-laden vessel capsizes near Ctg port

Wheat-laden vessel capsizes near Ctg port

-- 2018-08-07 15:47:57

A wheat-laden lighter vessel capsized in the Bay of Bengal Tuesday morning. MV Pathgati-2, carrying 1,100 kilograms of wheat was bound towards Narayanganj. It sinked in the Bay after it was hit by an...

DB to probe Bernicat’s car attack

DB to probe Bernicat’s car attack

-- 2018-08-07 15:05:27

The Detective Branch of police will investigate an attack on a car carrying US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat in Dhaka. Some unidentified men attacked Bernicat’s car in Mohammadpur on Saturday as s...

Journalists give government three-day ultimatum to arrest attackers

Journalists give government three-day ultimatum to arrest attackers

FE Online Desk 2018-08-07 14:42:44

Journalists have given the government a 72-hour ultimatum to arrest those who attacked some of their colleagues covering the ongoing popular movement demanding safe roads. Otherwise, they will go for...

38th BCS written tests begin Wednesday

38th BCS written tests begin Wednesday

-- 2018-08-07 14:36:32

Written tests for the 38th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) will begin from Wednesday. Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) issued a press release on Tuesday afternoon asking the examinees not t...

Police recover body of newlywed woman in Dohar

Police recover body of newlywed woman in Dohar

-- 2018-08-07 13:50:08

Police have recovered the body of a newlywed woman from a pond in Dohar, four days after her marriage. The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Shikha Akter, wife of Ruhul Amin. The body was fo...

Last rites for Moazzem Hossain in photos

Last rites for Moazzem Hossain in photos

FE Online Desk 2018-08-07 13:28:54

AHM Moazzem Hossain, editor and publisher of The Financial Express (FE), passed away at a Dhaka city hospital on Wednesday, August 01, 2018, leaving an irreparable loss for the media industry. His bei...

EU voices concern over violent clashes in Bangladesh

EU voices concern over violent clashes in Bangladesh

-- 2018-08-07 13:00:58

The European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the recent violent clashes in Dhaka that erupted after the deaths of two students in a road crash. The EU heads of missions in Dhaka called for calm...

Drug trader beats addict dead in Pabna

Drug trader beats addict dead in Pabna

-- 2018-08-07 11:45:32

A drug addict was beaten to death by a drug trader over trivial matter at Digha village in Ishwardi upazila in Pabna on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Eir Ali, 50, son of late Rabbe...

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Gaibandha ‘gunfight’

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Gaibandha ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-08-07 11:42:07

A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported shootout with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Bamandanga area of Gaibandha’s Sundarganj upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was ident...

Court extends Khaleda’s bail again in Zia Charitable case

Court extends Khaleda’s bail again in Zia Charitable case

-- 2018-08-07 11:27:11

A Dhaka court has extended the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia until September 5 in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. Acting Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam passed the order on Tuesday as Judge Md A...

Qulkhwani for FE editor held

Qulkhwani for FE editor held

FE Report 2018-08-07 10:41:02

A doa mahfil (Qulkhwani) for the salvation of the departed soul of the founder editor of The Financial Express, AHM Moazzem Hossain was held after Asr prayers at his residence at Boro Mogbazar in th...

Inward remittances may cross $17 billion this fiscal: BB

Inward remittances may cross $17 billion this fiscal: BB

Siddique Islam 2018-08-07 10:37:45

The central bank expects the overall inward remittance to cross the $17 billion mark by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. Multiple moves are already in place to spur inflows. "We've estimated c...

No headway in introducing company-based bus system

No headway in introducing company-based bus system

Munima Sultana 2018-08-07 10:28:18

The government is still reluctant to launch company-based bus service in the city although, transport experts think, it could solve traffic-related problems including reckless driving and overtaking...

Journos demand punishment of attackers

Journos demand punishment of attackers

-- 2018-08-06 21:33:52

Journalists from different media outlets on Monday formed a human chain at Karwan Bazar intersection in the city protesting attacks on some of their colleagues during the ongoing student movement seek...

Editors’ Council expresses concern over attack on journalists

Editors’ Council expresses concern over attack on journalists

-- 2018-08-06 21:28:35

The Editors' Council has expressed its grave concern and condemned the indiscriminate attack on journalists covering the students movement. The council expressed their concern through a statement iss...

Transport strike frustrates  growers, traders

Transport strike frustrates growers, traders

Our Correspondent 2018-08-06 21:03:26

Thousands of tonnes of vegetable and fish which were supposed to transport to Dhaka, Chattogram and other places of the country from the district are lying to damage due to crisis in recent transport...