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Magura cultivators achieve success in growing BINA Dhan-19 paddy

Magura cultivators achieve success in growing BINA Dhan-19 paddy

Our Correspondent 2018-08-06 21:02:18

Farmers of the district have achieved a remarkable success in growing BINA Dhan-19 paddy variety. Officials of the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) said BINA Dhan-19 was cultivated...

PM makes courtesy call on President

PM makes courtesy call on President

-- 2018-08-06 20:56:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a courtesy call on President Md Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Monday evening. President’s Press Secretary Mohammad Joynal Abedin said the Prime Minist...

Move to reduce 50pc road accidents by 2020

Move to reduce 50pc road accidents by 2020

-- 2018-08-06 20:41:38

The government plans to reduce road accidents by 50 per cent within 2020 through increasing the number of skilled drivers. The country will get 100,000 skilled drivers in next five years under the Sk...

IU suspends female student for ‘derogatory’ remarks about BCL

IU suspends female student for ‘derogatory’ remarks about BCL

-- 2018-08-06 20:19:18

Islamic University (IU) authorities has suspended a female student from the university allegedly for making 'derogatory' remarks about Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Facebook. The suspended stude...

Habiganj gas field starts test production

Habiganj gas field starts test production

-- 2018-08-06 20:03:25

Habiganj gas field has started gas production on experimental basis from its Well No-1 from Sunday night. According to a statement issued by the Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Ltd (BGFCL), the well wa...

Shahidul Alam on seven-day remand

Shahidul Alam on seven-day remand

FE Online Desk 2018-08-06 19:17:22

A Dhaka court on Monday placed Shahidul Alam, Managing Director of Drik Gallery and Chairman of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, on a seven-day remand for interrogation in a case filed under the...

DESCO to implement Tk 1.86b smart meter project

DESCO to implement Tk 1.86b smart meter project

-- 2018-08-06 18:29:57

The Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (DESCO) has initiated a move to implement a Tk 1.86 billion (Tk 186.50 crore) project to supply and install some 0.2 million smart pre-payment meters in DESCO...

Eminent citizens condemn attack on Badiul Alam’s residence

Eminent citizens condemn attack on Badiul Alam’s residence

-- 2018-08-06 18:04:16

Eminent citizens in a joint statement on Monday condemned the recent attack on the residence of Dr Badiul Alam Majumdar, Secretary of civil right organisation Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) and d...

Japanese FM arrives Tuesday to discuss bilateral, Rohingya issues

Japanese FM arrives Tuesday to discuss bilateral, Rohingya issues

-- 2018-08-06 18:00:10

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrives in the city on Tuesday on a brief visit to further promote the Bangladesh-Japan comprehensive partnership and discuss other issues of mutual interest includ...

Project on digital security being implemented: Jabbar

Project on digital security being implemented: Jabbar

-- 2018-08-06 17:53:55

The government is implementing a project for “digital security” which will also secure the social networking platforms. Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Musta...

Three die after inhaling septic tank gas

Three die after inhaling septic tank gas

-- 2018-08-06 17:18:17

Three people died and another person fell sick after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank of an under-construction building in Bank Colony area of Nasrsingdi on Monday. The deceased were identified as...

Fakhrul finds path of unity from students' movement

Fakhrul finds path of unity from students' movement

-- 2018-08-06 16:53:17

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the students showed politicians the path of unity. He urged political parties to forge a national unity to overcome the country's prevailing...

Students clash with cops at EWU, NSU

Students clash with cops at EWU, NSU

-- 2018-08-06 16:39:50

Students of East West University and North South University were locked into clashes with police in front of their campuses on Monday. The students were staging demonstrations on their campuses in th...

Draft Road Transport Act 2018 gets cabinet approval

Draft Road Transport Act 2018 gets cabinet approval

FE Online Report 2018-08-06 15:32:56

The Cabinet on Monday approved the final draft of the Road Transport Act 2018 with the provision of highest imprisonment of five years in a road accident, proven to be intentional. The act will also...

Bangladeshi worker dies in Saudi road accident

Bangladeshi worker dies in Saudi road accident

-- 2018-08-06 15:29:49

A Bangladeshi national has been killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah. He was identified as 55-year-old Mohammad Idris Bachchu, a resident of Feni’s Mohipal Chairman Bari are...

Teacher dies in Joypurhat road crash

Teacher dies in Joypurhat road crash

-- 2018-08-06 15:25:58

A retired headmaster of a primary school was killed after being hit by an auto-rickshaw in front of a bank in Kalai upazila headquarters of Joypurhat on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as...

Case filed against Fakhrul, Rizvi and Khasru

Case filed against Fakhrul, Rizvi and Khasru

-- 2018-08-06 14:50:52

A case has been filed against BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and its standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Mond...

Two drivers, two helpers of Jabal-e-Noor put on 7-day remand

Two drivers, two helpers of Jabal-e-Noor put on 7-day remand

-- 2018-08-06 14:09:04

A court in Dhaka on Monday placed two drivers and two helpers of a 'Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan' bus on a 7-day remand each in a case filed over the death of two college students in a road accident on Airp...

Cops fire teargas shells on EWU students

Cops fire teargas shells on EWU students

-- 2018-08-06 14:00:25

Students of East West University (EWU) clashed with police as the latter lobbed teargas shells on the former staging demonstrations in front of their campus in Dhaka city over Saturday’s attacks...

Rabindranath’s 77th death anniversary today

Rabindranath’s 77th death anniversary today

-- 2018-08-06 13:36:43

The 77th death anniversary of the Bard of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore is being observed on Monday. Different organisations are holding many programmes while television channels are airing special prod...

Khaleda secures six-month bail in Cumilla arson case

Khaleda secures six-month bail in Cumilla arson case

-- 2018-08-06 12:42:25

The High Court has granted a six-month bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia following a bail petition in an arson case filed under the Special Powers Act in Cumilla. The HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduz...

Law enforcers detain 30 in Dinajpur

Law enforcers detain 30 in Dinajpur

-- 2018-08-06 12:41:38

Law enforcers, in special drives arrested 30 suspects including 10 drug traders from different areas of Dinajpur district in last 12-hour ending at 8 am Monday morning. Law enforcers also seized 800...

Biman cancels two more hajj flights due to shortage of passengers

Biman cancels two more hajj flights due to shortage of passengers

-- 2018-08-06 12:25:18

Two hajj flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines scheduled to fly on Monday have been cancelled due to shortage of passengers. BG3071 was cancelled at 6:55 am and while BG-1075 at 9:35am, said General M...

Bus services resume across country 

Bus services resume across country 

-- 2018-08-06 11:13:00

Bus services resumed on Monday morning after several days of suspension amid student protests across the country, including Dhaka city. Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Samity on Sunday night decided to op...

DB detains Drik Gallery MD Shahidul Alam

DB detains Drik Gallery MD Shahidul Alam

-- 2018-08-06 10:53:41

Detectives detained Shahidul Alam, Managing Director of Drik Gallery and Chairman of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute from his residence in Dhaka's Dhanmandi on Sunday night. Additional Commissi...

Ministries allocate poor funds to address climate change impact

Ministries allocate poor funds to address climate change impact

FE Report 2018-08-06 10:46:22

Most of the line ministries are allocating poor funds of their total budget to climate change schemes, according to a climate budget report. Bangladesh is most vulnerable to the extremes of global...

High Boro price delights farmers, hoarders

High Boro price delights farmers, hoarders

Roving Correspondent 2018-08-06 10:37:22

Both hoarders and farmers of Natore district are happy over the high price of Boro paddy this season. The farmers of the district have achieved over 0.4 million tonnes of Boro yield this season. The...

Operators suspend sale of advance bus tickets

Operators suspend sale of advance bus tickets

FE Report 2018-08-06 10:36:39

Private bus operators have suspended sales of advance tickets for home-goers due to ongoing protests staged by the students demanding road safety. Earlier, they decided to start selling advance tic...

Sharp border vigilance reduces cattle influx

Sharp border vigilance reduces cattle influx

-- 2018-08-06 10:33:39

Unlike previous times, the influx of cattle across the border from India has drastically come down ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Now a handful of cattle can cross into Bangladesh, but only through few poin...

Sylhet cultivators start Aus harvest

Sylhet cultivators start Aus harvest

Our Correspondent 2018-08-06 10:32:34

Farmers of Sylhet division have started harvesting Aus paddy. Crops on some 3,557 hectares of land have already been harvested, a DAE official informed on Sunday afternoon. The farmers earlier culti...