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Ride-sharing creates jobs for youths

Ride-sharing creates jobs for youths

Jubair Hasan 2018-08-04 09:56:24

Ride-sharing service has emerged as a welcome relief for hundreds of youths who now dream of living better with income opportunities. Students to part-time or even permanent employees are taking to...

Light to moderate rain may occur Saturday

Light to moderate rain may occur Saturday

-- 2018-08-03 22:02:21

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram & Sylhet divisi...

Quader cautions agitating students about 'provocation trap'

Quader cautions agitating students about 'provocation trap'

-- 2018-08-03 21:35:40

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged the agitating students not to fall into any 'provocation trap'. "Having failed to cash in on the quota reform movement, BNP and fundamental for...

Emphasis for protecting languages of ethnic minorities

Emphasis for protecting languages of ethnic minorities

-- 2018-08-03 21:33:36

Speakers at a discussion on Friday called for taking necessary steps and creating public awareness to preserve the languages and literatures of ethnic minority people. Adibashi Kolyan O Unnayan Sangs...

Police recovers burned body of unidentified woman

Police recovers burned body of unidentified woman

-- 2018-08-03 21:28:08

Police recovered the charred body of an unidentified woman from Swaruppur village in Singair upazila early Friday. Khandaker Imam Hossain, officer-in-charge of Singair Police Station, said locals spo...

Foreign minister visits Rakhine on August 9

Foreign minister visits Rakhine on August 9

-- 2018-08-03 20:54:08

Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali is going to Myanmar on August 9 to see the preparations for accommodation facilities. He will particularly observe the installation of pre-fabricated houses f...

Quota reform protestors call strike at all educational institutions Saturday

Quota reform protestors call strike at all educational institutions Saturday

-- 2018-08-03 19:59:30

Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Council will enforce a strikes at all educational institutions across the country on Saturday protesting the attacks on students by 'police and terrorist...

Vicious circles spreading fake news in PM’s name: PMO

Vicious circles spreading fake news in PM’s name: PMO

-- 2018-08-03 19:27:06

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Friday said some vicious circles were circulating false news in the name of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina against the backdrop of tender age students’ m...

BB expects to get back more $29m heist money soon

BB expects to get back more $29m heist money soon

-- 2018-08-03 19:21:50

Bangladesh Bank (BB) is expected to get back around US$29 million heisted reserve from the Philippines soon. “Several cases are going on in different Philippines courts for recovering the whole...

Woman, granddaughter found throat-silt in Rajbari

Woman, granddaughter found throat-silt in Rajbari

-- 2018-08-03 19:09:34

The throat-slit bodies of a woman and her minor granddaughter were recovered from their house at Paschim Mulghar village in Sadar upazila of Rajbari district on Friday.     &n...

Ershad seeks capital punishment for reckless drivers

Ershad seeks capital punishment for reckless drivers

-- 2018-08-03 17:56:07

The capital punishment is the only trial of killing people in reckless driving said Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Friday. "We had formulated a law keeping the provision of capital punishment for...

Tight vigilance curbs cattle influx from India

Tight vigilance curbs cattle influx from India

-- 2018-08-03 17:52:01

Unlike previous times, the influx of cattle across the border from India has drastically come down ahead of Eid-ul-Azha due to enforced vigilance by BGB and BSF. Now a handful of cattle can cross int...

Housewife ‘commits’ suicide in Sunamganj

Housewife ‘commits’ suicide in Sunamganj

-- 2018-08-03 17:37:50

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house at Jangalbari in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district on Friday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as...

Bus kills motorcyclist at Moghbazar

Bus kills motorcyclist at Moghbazar

-- 2018-08-03 16:57:18

A bus rammed a motorbike, leaving a motorcyclist dead and a pedestrian injured at Moghbazar in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam Rana, 30, son of Shahjahan of Gor...

500 runners unite, demand safer spaces for youth

500 runners unite, demand safer spaces for youth

-- 2018-08-03 16:36:45

Five hundred runners on Friday participated in the 5 km run at Hatirjheel to promote good health, fitness and positivity among the young generation putting forward the demand for safe spaces for them....

BGB, BSF collaborate to curb cattle influx ahead of Eid

BGB, BSF collaborate to curb cattle influx ahead of Eid

-- 2018-08-03 13:45:58

Unlike previous times, the influx of cattle across the border from India has drastically come down ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, thanks to enforced vigilance by BGB and BSF. Now a handful of cattle can cross...

Owners halt long-route bus service in six districts

Owners halt long-route bus service in six districts

-- 2018-08-03 12:48:18

Bus Owners stopped operating long route buses in Rajshahi, Bogura, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Sunamganj and Joypurhat districts protesting vandalism during the ongoing demonstrations of students demanding ju...

Commuters suffer as  public buses go off roads

Commuters suffer as public buses go off roads

-- 2018-08-03 12:11:47

Commuters continued to suffer for the sixth consecutive day in Dhaka city on Friday as transport workers refrained from operating buses fearing vandalism by students demanding safe road and punishment...

Rajshahi slum dwellers get community housing

Rajshahi slum dwellers get community housing

-- 2018-08-03 11:58:40

Many slum people have started living in brick-built house driving out their long-lasting living life in thatched or mud-house in Rajshahi city. “I had never thought, even in my dreams, that I w...

Separate incidents leave two dead in Gazipur, Thakurgaon

Separate incidents leave two dead in Gazipur, Thakurgaon

-- 2018-08-03 11:40:42

Two people including a woman were stabbed to death in two separate incidents in Gazipur and Thakurgaon district on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Champa Akhter, the worker of NAZ factory i...

RMCH female student commits 'suicide'

RMCH female student commits 'suicide'

-- 2018-08-03 11:30:40

A female student of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her house at Daspukur in Rajshahi city on Thursday night. The deceased wa...

Business leaders eulogise FE editor as guiding light

Business leaders eulogise FE editor as guiding light

FE Report 2018-08-03 10:01:30

Business leaders have expressed their gratitude to Financial Express Editor AHM Moazzem Hossain for his contribution to promoting the country's trade and commerce. Expressing their deep shock at the...

Editors’ Council condoles  FE editor's death

Editors’ Council condoles FE editor's death

FE Online Desk 2018-08-03 00:00:00

The Editors' Council has expressed its heartfelt sorrow and condolence at the untimely demise of AHM Moazzem Hossain, editor and publisher of The Financial Express. In a condolence message, it said M...

Home minister claims BNP prompted students to take streets    

Home minister claims BNP prompted students to take streets    

-- 2018-08-02 21:16:32

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday alleged that the activists of BNP's student body Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Jamaat's student wing Chhatra Shibir instigated the students to go on movement....

Blacksmiths expect  Tk 100m business  during upcoming Eid

Blacksmiths expect Tk 100m business during upcoming Eid

Roving Correspondent 2018-08-02 21:15:40

SIRAJGANJ, Aug 02:  More than 12,000 blacksmits in Bogura, Natore, Joypurhat and Sirajganj districts are actively involved in making iron tools. Sources said many unemployed youths have attained...

Farmers busy cultivating T-Aman in districts

Farmers busy cultivating T-Aman in districts

Our Correspondent 2018-08-02 21:14:18

SYLHET, Aug 02: Farmers in Sylhet division are busy cultivating Transplanted Aman (T- Aman) paddy. Some 21,378 hectares of seedbed have already been prepared, an official of DAE, Sylhet divisional of...

Experts focus on boosting fish production  to improve living standard of rural people

Experts focus on boosting fish production to improve living standard of rural people

-- 2018-08-02 21:12:17

RANGPUR, Aug 02 (BSS): Fisheries experts at a fingerling releasing function here today said fish production consistently increased in last 10 years improving livelihoods of rural people cutting povert...

Editors’ Council condoles Moazzem Hossain’s death

Editors’ Council condoles Moazzem Hossain’s death

-- 2018-08-02 21:08:36

The Editors' Council has expressed its heartfelt sorrow and condolence at the untimely demise of AHM Moazzem Hossian, editor of The Financial Express. The veteran journalist was one of the founding...

Shajahan Khan gets legal notice

Shajahan Khan gets legal notice

-- 2018-08-02 20:26:47

A legal notice has been served to Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan to explain within 24 hours under what authority he is holding the post of executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Fed...

War crimes convict gets six-month bail

War crimes convict gets six-month bail

-- 2018-08-02 20:00:21

The Appellate Division on Thursday granted bail to a war crimes convict in a case filed for crime against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Convict Abdul Kuddus, 87, of Sudharam in Noakhali...