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UN agencies, US express concern over attack on young protesters

UN agencies, US express concern over attack on young protesters

FE Report 2018-08-06 10:00:39

UN agencies and the US in separate statements on Sunday expressed their grave concern over the attack on children and young students while they were protesting over road safety. "We are deeply concer...

Snake gourd farming gaining popularity

Snake gourd farming gaining popularity

Our Correspondent 2018-08-05 21:16:58

GOPALGANJ, Aug 05: Farmers of Ragunathpur union under Gopalganj Sadar of the district have been benefiting from the cultivation of snake gourd. According to the officials at the Department of Agricul...

High Boro price delights  farmers, hoarders

High Boro price delights farmers, hoarders

Roving Correspondent 2018-08-05 21:15:22

NATORE, Aug 05: Both hoarders and farmers of the 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...

Mobile internet regains regular speed

Mobile internet regains regular speed

-- 2018-08-05 21:03:34

The 3G and 4G services of mobile internet are back to normal speed after 24 hours across the country. Several executives of mobile phone operators confirmed that regular speed was reactivated after...

Lack of transport causes different organisations to postpone programmes

Lack of transport causes different organisations to postpone programmes

FE Online Report 2018-08-05 20:34:07

Different scheduled programmes were postponed on Sunday due to acute scarcity of public transport amid ongoing student movement for safe roads in the capital. On July 29, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Ka...

Cabinet to approve ‘Road Safety Act’ Monday: Nasim

Cabinet to approve ‘Road Safety Act’ Monday: Nasim

-- 2018-08-05 19:15:31

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim on Sunday said the cabinet will approve draft ‘Road Transport Act (RTA)’ on Monday. “This is a pro-people government…It alwa...

Nahid asks teachers to take students back to classes

Nahid asks teachers to take students back to classes

-- 2018-08-05 18:46:28

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday directed the principals of government and private colleges of Dhaka to convince their students to vacate roads and return to their classes at any cost....

BTRC claims slow internet due to ‘technical issues’

BTRC claims slow internet due to ‘technical issues’

-- 2018-08-05 18:42:46

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) claims that the mobile internet has been interrupted because of ‘technical issues’ and not because of a government order. &ld...

Quader defends party on violence in Jigatala area

Quader defends party on violence in Jigatala area

-- 2018-08-05 18:29:43

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says that the party responded to attacks on its Dhanmondi office on Saturday amid the student protests calling for safer roads. Asked about the violence...

CPD proposes Tk 9,228 as minimum wage for entry-level RMG workers

CPD proposes Tk 9,228 as minimum wage for entry-level RMG workers

FE Online Report 2018-08-05 18:26:26

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has proposed Tk 9,228 or US$110 as the minimum monthly wage for an entry-level worker of the country’s readymade garment sector. The CPD also proposed abolishin...

Stakeholders place recommendations for safe road

Stakeholders place recommendations for safe road

-- 2018-08-05 18:25:29

A multi-stakeholder group, working for the cause of safe road, on Sunday made several recommendations to the draft Transport Bill 2018 in order to cover every possible aspect and eliminate legal looph...

Actress Nawshaba on four-day remand

Actress Nawshaba on four-day remand

-- 2018-08-05 17:50:35

A court in Dhaka has granted a four-day remand to interrogate detained actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Ma...

Ershad express unity with student protest

Ershad express unity with student protest

-- 2018-08-05 17:48:57

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday expressed his solidarity with the ongoing widespread movement of students demanding a nine-point demand, including ensuring road safety and justice for the tw...

‘Nothing can justify attacks on protesters’

‘Nothing can justify attacks on protesters’

-- 2018-08-05 17:20:25

The US Embassy in Dhaka has said nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence against the thousands of agitating young people. The embassy claimed the youths were peacefully exercising their d...

Six photojournalists come under 'Chhatra League' attacks

Six photojournalists come under 'Chhatra League' attacks

-- 2018-08-05 17:03:50

Six photojournalists were injured in an alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists in different parts of the city on Sunday. The injured were identified as AM Ahad of the Associated Press...

Suspected drug pedlar dies in Cumilla ‘shootout’

Suspected drug pedlar dies in Cumilla ‘shootout’

-- 2018-08-05 16:27:34

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported shootout with police at Olipur Bazar in Cumilla’s Nangalkot upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan, son of Ekram...

'Go home, patience has its limit'

'Go home, patience has its limit'

-- 2018-08-05 16:26:41

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has urged the students, protesting for safer roads, to return home. “Their demands are not going unfulfilled. Two of the nine demands, such as the law, will take...

69th birth anniversary of Sheikh Kamal today

69th birth anniversary of Sheikh Kamal today

-- 2018-08-05 16:03:09

The 69th birth anniversary of Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman, is being observed on Sunday. Awami League, its front organisations and different c...

Low price disappoints off-season radish farmers

Low price disappoints off-season radish farmers

Our Correspondent 2018-08-05 15:30:52

Off-season radish farmers of the district are disappointed over the low market price in Bogura district. Growers are incurring massive losses instead of profit, said farmer Salam Hossain of Mohasthan...

Tree fair gaining momentum

Tree fair gaining momentum

Sajibur Rahman 2018-08-05 15:29:29

The month-long 'National Tree Fair' is getting good response from target people. Organisers and participants have said the fair is witnessing an increased sale of saplings. During a visit to the fai...

Locals urge authority to construct western approach soon

Locals urge authority to construct western approach soon

Our Sylhet Correspondent 2018-08-05 15:28:07

The much desired bridge, built over the Noljur river under Jogonnathpur upazila of Sunamganj couldn't be made ready for use only due to unusual delay for construction of its western approach. Thousan...

Economic reporters shower encomium on FE editor

Economic reporters shower encomium on FE editor

FE Report 2018-08-05 14:19:37

Late editor of The Financial Express A.H.M. Moazzem Hossain was truly an honest professional, free from greed. He was an icon in the country's financial journalism. Senior journalists, colleagues re...

Awami League activists, transport workers occupy streets

Awami League activists, transport workers occupy streets

-- 2018-08-05 14:18:13

Activists from the ruling Awami League party and transport workers have taken to the streets a week after students launched protests in Dhaka to demand safer roads. Several hundred transport workers...

PM urges all not to pay heed to rumours

PM urges all not to pay heed to rumours

-- 2018-08-05 12:44:21

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the people of the country not to pay heed to rumours and get confused by false propaganda. "A vested quarter is trying to create an unstable situation in...

Ctg customs detains man with 135 gold bars

Ctg customs detains man with 135 gold bars

-- 2018-08-05 12:30:33

A man has been arrested in possession of 135 gold bars at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram. The suspect came to Bangladesh from Oman's Muscat aboard a US-Bangla Airlines fight and was...

Gaibandha female workers receive Tk 11.2m savings

Gaibandha female workers receive Tk 11.2m savings

-- 2018-08-05 12:15:37

A total of 150 female workers in Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district have got their savings over Tk 11.2 million earned from the Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Programme (RERMP) in the las...

Sufferings mount as bus services remain halted

Sufferings mount as bus services remain halted

-- 2018-08-05 12:15:20

Long-route bus service remained suspended for the 3rd consecutive day on Sunday as an apparent counter-programme against the ongoing student movement for safe road, causing immense sufferings to peopl...

US Ambassador’s car comes under attack at Mohammadpur

US Ambassador’s car comes under attack at Mohammadpur

-- 2018-08-05 12:09:39

The vehicle carrying outgoing US ambassador Marcia Bernicat came under attack by a group of unidentified miscreants as it left the residence of Badiul Alam Majumder, secretary of civil society advocac...

Pick-up van rams into truck in Gazipur, killing one

Pick-up van rams into truck in Gazipur, killing one

-- 2018-08-05 11:56:35

A pick-up van has rammed into a parked truck in Gazipur’s Sadar Upazila, killing a man instantly and injuring five others amid an ongoing student campaign for safe roads. The accident took plac...

Passengers opt for rail, airline services as buses off highways

Passengers opt for rail, airline services as buses off highways

FE Report 2018-08-05 11:39:01

Rail and airways have been attracting an increased number of passengers as long-haul bus operators enforce strike for the last few days. As passengers increasingly leaned on the railway network, the...