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Student protests roaring in Dhaka, other districts

Student protests roaring in Dhaka, other districts

-- 2018-08-01 17:06:09

Students from different schools and colleges took to the streets for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday demanding punishment of the driver responsible for Sunday's accident that killed two colleg...

Fresh law with strict punishment for rash drivers on cards

Fresh law with strict punishment for rash drivers on cards

-- 2018-08-01 16:20:21

The government is readying a new law to discipline the transport sector and bring harsher punishment to errant drivers. The draft law was vetted by the law ministry following the cabinet’s appr...

Students vandalise ‘unlicesnced’ buses in city

Students vandalise ‘unlicesnced’ buses in city

FE Online Desk 2018-08-01 16:04:19

Agitated students have blocked different areas of the capital for the fourth day on Wednesday following the Sunday’s road crash that left two college students dead at the Airport Road. The aggr...

BRTA suspends registrations of two killer buses

BRTA suspends registrations of two killer buses

FE Online Desk 2018-08-01 15:07:06

The Bangladesh Road Transportation Authority (BRTA) on Wednesday has suspended the registrations of two buses responsible for the deaths of two college students in a Dhaka road crash on Jul 29. Mahbu...

Ctg city to take new shape in two years: Mayor

Ctg city to take new shape in two years: Mayor

Our Correspondent 2018-08-01 13:07:14

Chattogram mayor AJM Nasir Uddin on Monday conveyed his gratitude to the city residents for enduring sufferings resulting from road cutting in the port city by different service providers. Tolerance...

Commuters suffer as busses go off roads

Commuters suffer as busses go off roads

-- 2018-08-01 12:43:44

Commuters in different parts of Dhaka were facing serious troubles in reaching their destinations on Wednesday as public transports went off the roads apprehending agitations by students. School and...

‘Criminal’ dies in Rajshahi ‘shootout’

‘Criminal’ dies in Rajshahi ‘shootout’

-- 2018-08-01 12:34:53

An unidentified 'criminal' was killed in a reported shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members at Tarash Uttarpara in Rajshahi city on Tuesday night. AM Ashraful, deputy commanding officer of...

BCL gets new central committee

BCL gets new central committee

-- 2018-08-01 12:23:42

Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL), students' wing of ruling Awami League, has got its new president and secretary. Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and Golam Rabbani were respectively made president a...

Three-day fruit tree fair starts in Gobindaganj

Three-day fruit tree fair starts in Gobindaganj

-- 2018-08-01 11:38:22

A three-day long fruit bearing tree fair began on the premises of Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district on Tuesday afternoon. Local lawmaker Principal Abul Kalam Azad inaugurated the fair, organi...

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Natore ‘gunfight’

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Natore ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-08-01 11:13:32

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Natore’s Baraigram upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Kabil Hossain, 45, of...

PM’s directives go unheeded

PM’s directives go unheeded

Munima Sultana 2018-08-01 10:06:27

Three ministers concerned are yet to sit together even one month after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave directives to monitor the traffic management system and hold meetings from time to time, sour...

Overall trade deficit may cross $22b by the end of this fiscal

Overall trade deficit may cross $22b by the end of this fiscal

FE Report 2018-08-01 10:01:29

Country's overall trade deficit may cross US$22 billion by the end of the current fiscal year (FY) 2018-19, the central bank said. "Our trade deficit may create new record in this fiscal year mainly...

Govt servants to get upto Tk 7.5m as home loan

Govt servants to get upto Tk 7.5m as home loan

FE Report 2018-08-01 09:52:41

Government employees will get home loan as much as Tk 7.5 million at 5.0 per cent simple interest rate. The lowest amount of home loan for them is Tk 2.0 million. This was stated in the policy rul...

FE editor AHM Moazzem Hossain no more

FE editor AHM Moazzem Hossain no more

FE Online Desk 2018-08-01 00:00:00

Iconic business journalist and Editor of The Financial Express A.H.M. Moazzem Hossain is no more. He breathed his last on Wednesday evening at Square Hospital in Dhaka. He was 73. He was suffering...

Cattle rearers face acute fodder shortage in Joypurhat

Cattle rearers face acute fodder shortage in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-31 22:11:36

JOYPURHAT, July 31: Hundreds of cattle rearers across the district have been facing acute fodder shortage over the last couple of weeks. Many cattle rearers of the area said they have no way but to p...

Farmers expect good Aus yield in Sylhet div

Farmers expect good Aus yield in Sylhet div

Our Correspondent 2018-07-31 22:09:39

SYLHET, July 31: Aus farmers across the Sylhet division are expecting a good yield this season and they will start harvesting the produce after three or four weeks. Aus cultivation is gaining popular...

Customs seize luxury vehicles worth Tk 27.5m

Customs seize luxury vehicles worth Tk 27.5m

-- 2018-07-31 21:36:23

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials on Tuesday seized two luxury vehicles in Dhaka and Chittagong cities on charges of tax evasion. Sources at the CIID said based on...

MBBS admission test on October 5

MBBS admission test on October 5

-- 2018-07-31 21:18:44

The government has decided to take separate admission tests for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) for 2018-2019 session. The admission test...

PMO orders action against underage, unlicensed drivers

PMO orders action against underage, unlicensed drivers

-- 2018-07-31 19:10:49

The Prime Minister’s Office has asked law enforcers to arrest underage and unlicensed drivers in Dhaka. The directives were given at a meeting at PMO on Tuesday amid student protests over the d...

“I’m sorry", says Shajahan Khan

“I’m sorry", says Shajahan Khan

-- 2018-07-31 18:38:41

After widespread criticism for his conspicuous smirk reaction, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, on Tuesday, expressed his regret over the Sunday's road crash that had killed two students. The ministe...

HC orders to submit list of women workers tortured abroad

HC orders to submit list of women workers tortured abroad

-- 2018-07-31 18:09:57

The High Court has ordered the authorities concerned to submit a list of women workers who have worked abroad and encountered physical and sexual violence there. A High Court division bench comprisin...

Jubo League man hacked to death in Mymensingh

Jubo League man hacked to death in Mymensingh

-- 2018-07-31 18:00:47

A Jubo League activist was hacked to death by the opponents at Akua Nazirbari area in Mymensingh on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Sheikh Azad, a member of the city Jubo League Uni...

ADB regional event kicks off in city

ADB regional event kicks off in city

-- 2018-07-31 17:48:50

A three-day regional event, organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), kicked off in the city on Tuesday to further enhance project design and implementation capacity of ADB-funded projects’...

Owners take buses off roads in city amid protests

Owners take buses off roads in city amid protests

-- 2018-07-31 17:46:40

Owners of transport companies have stopped their buses services in Dhaka following street protests launched by students in the wake of the deaths of two college students in a road crash. As per a rep...

Governor sees no mismatch in vault gold

Governor sees no mismatch in vault gold

-- 2018-07-31 17:19:14

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir ruled out any possibility of change in quality or quantity of gold preserved with the central bank's vault. "It's quite impossible to adulterate the gold pre...

Bangladesh must halt industrialisation in Sundarbans: UN

Bangladesh must halt industrialisation in Sundarbans: UN

-- 2018-07-31 16:53:16

Bangladesh must halt the industrialisation of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest, the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world, says UN expert John H Knox on Tuesday. Stretching along the Bay of B...

'Bangabandhu-1 satellite to open up new opportunities'

'Bangabandhu-1 satellite to open up new opportunities'

-- 2018-07-31 16:48:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country's first communication satellite, Bangabandhu-1, will open up new opportunities for new generation. She also expressed her firm conviction that the sa...

Army chief off to India on 6-day visit

Army chief off to India on 6-day visit

-- 2018-07-31 15:27:47

Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh Army General Aziz Ahmed left Dhaka on Tuesday for India on a six-day visit, his first foreign tour after assuming office. The visit of General Aziz to India will hel...

Eight die from electrocution in Sirajganj

Eight die from electrocution in Sirajganj

-- 2018-07-31 14:40:40

At least eight people died and one was injured after being electrocuted at Kadai village of Sirajganj sadar upazila. The deceased have been identified as Abdullah, 13, a class VII student, Rafiqul Is...

Customs arrest US Bangla staff with 32 gold bars at HSIA

Customs arrest US Bangla staff with 32 gold bars at HSIA

-- 2018-07-31 13:54:18

A US Bangla Airlines employee and a passenger was held at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) along with 32 gold bars on Tuesday. Customs preventive team at the HSIA detained- Md Arifuzzama...