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Rajshahi Silk Mills resumes operation after 16 years

Rajshahi Silk Mills resumes operation after 16 years

Our Correspondent 2018-07-28 22:26:57

Rajshahi Silk Mills which remained closed for the last 16 years, resumed its experimental production from Friday. Fazley Hossain Badsha, MP of Rajshahi Sadar constituency and senior vice president o...

Good guava production brings smile on faces of growers

Good guava production brings smile on faces of growers

-- 2018-07-28 22:26:23

Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, July 28: A good yield of guava has brought smile on the growers across the district this year.Sources said encouraged by good profit and easy cultivation process farmers of t...

Aedes larvae found in 45pc houses, says survey

Aedes larvae found in 45pc houses, says survey

-- 2018-07-28 21:58:19

A survey has found larvae of Aedes mosquito in 45 per cent houses of Dhanmondi, Kalabagan, Segun Bagicha and ministers' residential area in Minto Road and Hair Road of Dhaka. Dhaka South City Corpora...

US-Bangla to operate extra domestic flights ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

US-Bangla to operate extra domestic flights ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

-- 2018-07-28 20:56:30

US-Bangla Airlines, one of the leading private airlines in Bangladesh, will operate additional flights in the domestic routes to meet the local demands ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha. From August 17-21, th...

PM unveils plans for better transport services in Dhaka

PM unveils plans for better transport services in Dhaka

-- 2018-07-28 20:41:34

The government plans to construct underground rail lines, elevated ring roads and waterways around the capital, aiming to ensure better transport services. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the p...

Shahriar Kabir claims Zia was ISI agent

Shahriar Kabir claims Zia was ISI agent

-- 2018-07-28 19:58:55

Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir has alleged that former president Ziaur Rahman was an agent of Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) prior to...

Road crashes claim seven lives

Road crashes claim seven lives

-- 2018-07-28 19:53:41

At least seven people have died in separate road accidents in Sylhet, Cumilla, Rajshahi and Joypurhat districts. Eight other people were also injured in the accidents that took place on Saturday, rep...

4,000 law enforcers to maintain peace in RCC polls

4,000 law enforcers to maintain peace in RCC polls

-- 2018-07-28 18:37:02

Around 4,000 law enforcers will work for maintaining law and order during the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) election scheduled for Monday. Of them, 950 members of police, 450 of Rapid Action Battal...

Campaign ends Saturday night in three cities

Campaign ends Saturday night in three cities

-- 2018-07-28 18:31:17

The electoral campaigns in the three city corporations – Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal – is ending formally at Saturday midnight. Joint Secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretari...

10 BD youths to attend One Young World Summit 2018

10 BD youths to attend One Young World Summit 2018

-- 2018-07-28 18:18:28

Ten Bangladeshi young change-makers are going to attend the One Young World Summit 2018 at the Hague in Netherlands from October 17 to 20. Like each year, the ten young people, who are contributing p...

PM inaugurates Badda U-loop

PM inaugurates Badda U-loop

-- 2018-07-28 18:11:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Badda U-loop (North U-loop) under Hatirjheel integrated development project on Saturday aiming to ease traffic movement. After the inauguration, the Prime...

BD envoy warns action against fraudulence in sending workers to KSA

BD envoy warns action against fraudulence in sending workers to KSA

-- 2018-07-28 17:59:45

Stern actions will be taken against the recruiting agencies sending workers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) through fraudulence. Bangladesh Ambassador in Riyadh Golam Moshi  came up with th...

Coal supply to Barapukuria power plant likely from Sept 10

Coal supply to Barapukuria power plant likely from Sept 10

-- 2018-07-28 17:18:20

The electricity consumers in the country's northern region may have to experience power cut and low voltage problem until September 10 as the Barapukuria coal mine will not be able to resume productio...

Two toddlers die after falling in Dinajpur gutter

Two toddlers die after falling in Dinajpur gutter

-- 2018-07-28 17:14:41

Two toddlers met tragic deaths after falling into a gutter near their house at Khansama upazila in Dinajpur on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as 19 month-old Juthi Rani Roy, daughter...

Two workers die after covered van hits roadside shop

Two workers die after covered van hits roadside shop

-- 2018-07-28 16:20:55

Two workers of a factory were killed and two others severely injured as a covered van hit a roadside shop at Nuritala in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila on Saturday. The identities of the deceased c...

Cox's Bazar DC shifts 50 families to safe place from hilly area

Cox's Bazar DC shifts 50 families to safe place from hilly area

-- 2018-07-28 16:00:20

More than 50 families have been evacuated from a hilly at Muhuripara area in Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar fearing landslides triggered by incessant rain. Police, Environment Department, Fire Se...

Jatiya Party backs AL’s Kamran in Sylhet

Jatiya Party backs AL’s Kamran in Sylhet

-- 2018-07-28 15:42:20

Just two days before the balloting, Jatiya Party on Saturday extended its support for Awami League mayoral candidate Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran in Sylhet city election. The party came up with the annou...

BFUJ faction gets Molla Jalal as president

BFUJ faction gets Molla Jalal as president

-- 2018-07-28 15:09:15

Journalist Molla Jalal has been elected the president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ). Chief Election Commissioner Alamgir Hossain came up with the announcement at th...

Experts expect an increase of tigers in Sundarbans

Experts expect an increase of tigers in Sundarbans

-- 2018-07-28 14:11:06

Experts and Forest Department officials expect an increase in the number of tigers in Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, as the activities of forest robbers and poachers have decreased....

80 BNP activists sued over crude bomb blast

80 BNP activists sued over crude bomb blast

-- 2018-07-28 13:59:41

A case has been filed in connection with crude bomb blast at electioneering office of Awami League candidate Badar Uddin Kamran in Sylhet. Jubo League leader Faruk Ahmed filed the case with the Airpo...

Govt enhancing, improving people’s living condition: Nasim

Govt enhancing, improving people’s living condition: Nasim

-- 2018-07-28 13:45:04

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim, MP, said the government is committed to improving living and livelihood conditions of the grassroots people as he addressed a reunion of Pabna and Si...

BGB deployed in three cities ahead of city elections

BGB deployed in three cities ahead of city elections

-- 2018-07-28 12:24:54

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed in Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet cities ahead of the city corporation elections. A total 19 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members...

Separate ‘gunfights’ leave three dead

Separate ‘gunfights’ leave three dead

-- 2018-07-28 11:38:46

Separate gunfights have left a suspected drug trader and two ‘criminals’ dead in Cumilla, Satkhira and Barguna districts. In Cumilla, A the drug trader, Shahidul Islam Sabu, son of Bads...

Cops rescue abducted Cumilla AL leader

Cops rescue abducted Cumilla AL leader

-- 2018-07-28 11:36:07

A Cumilla district Awami League leader, who was abducted by unidentified miscreants from the capital's Lalmatia area on Friday, was rescued from Kanchan bridge in Purbachal city of the capital early S...

Youth dies as bus plunges into ditch

Youth dies as bus plunges into ditch

-- 2018-07-28 11:35:50

A young man was killed and two other people were injured critically as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj road in Kadipur area of Godagari upazila on Saturday morning. Th...

Google Doodle celebrates Feroza Begum’s birthday

Google Doodle celebrates Feroza Begum’s birthday

-- 2018-07-28 10:48:21

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage, marking Bangladeshi iconic singer Feroza Begum's 88th birth anniversary. Feroza's voice and ability to convey deep emotion played...

Conviction for human trafficking declining

Conviction for human trafficking declining

Arafat Ara 2018-07-28 10:09:00

The conviction rate under the human trafficking act is gradually decreasing due to political influence, lack of victim protection and lengthy trial procedures, said legal experts and rights activist...

DWASA now sets Sept target for water supply

DWASA now sets Sept target for water supply

Kamrun Nahar 2018-07-28 10:03:44

The capital's water supplier has now set September as the new deadline for supplying groundwater from Tetuljhora-Bhakurta (phase 1) well field to Mirpur. The Dhaka WASA (DWASA) had earlier missed t...

Veg, chili, broiler prices on upswing in city

Veg, chili, broiler prices on upswing in city

FE Report 2018-07-28 09:59:31

The prices of some green vegetables, green chili and broiler showed an upward trend at different kitchen markets in the capital on Friday. Retailers attributed this hike to wholesalers and claimed th...

Problem of waterlogging in Dhaka city persists

Problem of waterlogging in Dhaka city persists

Jubair Hasan 2018-07-28 09:57:37

City dwellers are unlikely to get respite from waterlogging during this monsoon as the authorities blame each other for the situation without resolving the problem, officials said. The utility agen...