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UNSC urges more  efforts to repatriate Rohingyas

UNSC urges more efforts to repatriate Rohingyas

-- 2018-07-24 11:04:04

The members of the UN Security Council have stressed the need to step up efforts to create conditions conducive for safe, voluntary, and dignified return of Rohingyas to their homes in Myanmar’s...

Rushanara for practical actions to remove hurdles to business

Rushanara for practical actions to remove hurdles to business

FE Report 2018-07-24 10:52:36

Rushanara Ali MP, the British Prime Minister's trade envoy for Bangladesh, stressed the need for taking practical actions to remove various obstacles to business. Talking to a group of newsmen in the...

Exports of plastic products slump

Exports of plastic products slump

Arafat Ara 2018-07-24 10:45:51

Export earnings from plastic products dropped by about 16 per cent in the just-concluded fiscal year mainly due to high prices of raw materials, sector insiders said. The sector earned US$ 98.48 mill...

Introduce Dhaka-Jakarta direct flight to boost bilateral trade

Introduce Dhaka-Jakarta direct flight to boost bilateral trade

FE Report 2018-07-24 10:32:51

The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has urged Indonesia to take steps to reduce the bilateral trade gap with Bangladesh for the mutual benefits of the two countries. The trade body also...

Solar pumps cut costs of irrigation for farmers

Solar pumps cut costs of irrigation for farmers

Adnan Hossain Bhuiyan, back from Rangpur 2018-07-24 10:19:34

The use of solar energy for irrigation has been gaining ground among farmers, especially in off-grid areas, due to the system's low operation and maintenance cost. Irrigation pumps run by solar pow...

Double transplanting method helps boost yield

Double transplanting method helps boost yield

Our Correspondent 2018-07-23 21:42:43

Farmers in Sylhet division are now busy preparing the land for Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy cultivation. Some 16,616 hectares of land seedbed have already been prepared against the target of 20,4...

Bogura growers eyeing bumper sugarcane production

Bogura growers eyeing bumper sugarcane production

Our Correspondent 2018-07-23 21:41:32

BOGURA, July 23: Due to positive behave of climate condition, sugarcane growers of Shibganj, Dhunot, Sonatola and Sariakandi upazilas of the district are expecting a bumper production this season. Ac...

Bangladesh donates Bhutan medicines worth Tk 200m

Bangladesh donates Bhutan medicines worth Tk 200m

-- 2018-07-23 21:30:09

The government has provided Bhutan a total of 258 types of medicines worth Tk 200 million as donation. Health Minister Mohammed Nasim handed over some of the medicines to the Bhutanese Ambassador to...

TIB asks government to ensure transparency in LR fund management

TIB asks government to ensure transparency in LR fund management

FE Online Report 2018-07-23 20:45:01

The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) Monday urged the government to ensure transparency and accountability in local resource (LR) fund management under district administrations. In a stat...

PM orders probe into coal scam

PM orders probe into coal scam

-- 2018-07-23 20:22:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered a full investigation into the disappearance of around 142,000 tonnes of coal from the Barapukuria mine in Dinajpur. The Prime Minister gave the direction duri...

'Stop using abolished section of Special Powers Act'

'Stop using abolished section of Special Powers Act'

-- 2018-07-23 20:07:26

The High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police to instruct all police stations to stop filing cases under an abolished section of the Special Powers Act. Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Just...

Rain causes sufferings to city commuters

Rain causes sufferings to city commuters

-- 2018-07-23 19:36:49

Heavy rains triggered by active monsoon inundated many areas of the capital city of Dhaka on Monday, causing immense sufferings to the city dwellers. According to the Met office, rain may continue ac...

Razib Mir laid to rest in Bhola

Razib Mir laid to rest in Bhola

-- 2018-07-23 18:31:58

Former teacher of Chittagong University and Jagannath University Mir Mosharraf Hossain, who died of liver cirrhosis at an Indian hospital, was buried at his village home in Bhola on Monday morning. B...

'Japan should lift travel alert'

'Japan should lift travel alert'

-- 2018-07-23 17:48:54

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has urged the Japanese government to withdraw the alert imposed on its citizens travelling to Bangladesh. “No logical ground is prevailing now, so Bangladesh woul...

Missing NSU student found dead in Munshiganj

Missing NSU student found dead in Munshiganj

-- 2018-07-23 17:27:22

A student of North South University (NSU), who went missing since Saturday night, was found dead at a canal at Bhaterchar under Gazaria upazila in Munshiganj on Monday. The deceased was identified as...

ACC to probe Barapukuria coal ‘corruption’

ACC to probe Barapukuria coal ‘corruption’

-- 2018-07-23 17:07:49

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has formed a committee to probe the allegations of coal-related corruption at the power plant in Barapukuria of Dinajpur. ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam will le...

DC conference begins Tuesday  

DC conference begins Tuesday  

-- 2018-07-23 17:07:31

The three-day annual conference of the deputy commissioners (DCs) will begin on Tuesday (July 24) in the capital. The main programme of the DC conference will be held at Shapla Hall at Prime Minister...

One to die for killing student in Satkhira

One to die for killing student in Satkhira

-- 2018-07-23 17:00:28

A Satkhira court on Monday sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a college student in 2014. The condemned convict is Dr Saifullah while the lifers are Mamun an...

Abolish 'red tape' culture: PM

Abolish 'red tape' culture: PM

-- 2018-07-23 16:49:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government official should abolish so called 'red tape' culture for the welfare of the grassroots people. "Though ‘red tape’ is not used nowadays...

Two die in Brahmanbaria road crash

Two die in Brahmanbaria road crash

-- 2018-07-23 15:00:35

Two people were killed and as many injured as a pick-up van and a covered van collided head-on on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Boishamura under Sarail upazila in Brahmanbaria on Monday morning. The deceas...

Low target disappoints farmers

Low target disappoints farmers

Our Correspondent 2018-07-23 14:43:37

Paddy farmers in Sylhet region are in great trouble due to low market price of their hard-earn produce in the open market. Boro production was good in the region but late starting the rice procurem...

Police charge eight with Gulshan terror attack

Police charge eight with Gulshan terror attack

-- 2018-07-23 13:53:47

Police have filed a charge sheet against eight of 21 suspects believed to be involved in the 2016 militant attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery, which led to the deaths of 20 hostages. The...

Fire breaks out at Chattogram police headquarters

Fire breaks out at Chattogram police headquarters

-- 2018-07-23 13:42:24

A fire broke out at the Detective Branch (DB) office of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) headquarters in Laldighi Par area in the city on Monday morning. Sarwar Jahan, operator of Agrabad fire se...

Dispose of Khaleda’s bail plea by July 26: HC to Cumilla court

Dispose of Khaleda’s bail plea by July 26: HC to Cumilla court

-- 2018-07-23 13:20:24

The High Court (HC) has directed a Comilla Special Judge Court-1 to dispose of the bail petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case filed under the Special Powers Act over within Ju...

Customs seizes 870 cartons of cigarettes at Dhaka airport

Customs seizes 870 cartons of cigarettes at Dhaka airport

-- 2018-07-23 13:14:30

Customs intelligence officials seized 870 cartons of illegally imported cigarettes from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday morning. Acting on a tipoff, a team of customs intelligence of...

Biman moves to realise dues from non-scheduled freighters

Biman moves to realise dues from non-scheduled freighters

Kamrun Nahar 2018-07-23 10:37:25

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines has finally taken steps to realise outstanding cargo-handling charges from non-scheduled freighters, officials said. A two-member committee has already been formed to re...

Errant CNG drivers to lose licence

Errant CNG drivers to lose licence

Munima Sultana 2018-07-23 10:32:03

Errant drivers of CNG-run autos are going to lose their driving licences for overcharging passengers with a cynical disregard for using meters. The government will go heavy-handed with the wayward dr...

Charge sheet over stealing Tk 108m from BKB gets ACC nod

Charge sheet over stealing Tk 108m from BKB gets ACC nod

FE Report 2018-07-23 10:28:04

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday approved charge sheet in a case over the incident of embezzling Tk 108 million from Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB). The case had been filed by ACC deputy...

No plan to import salt ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

No plan to import salt ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

FE Report 2018-07-23 10:22:35

The government has no plan to import salt ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, as the country now has a stock of around 0.4 million tonnes of the essential item, officials said. The government imported 0.25 million...

RAB proposes suspension of mobile banking in Cox's Bazar

RAB proposes suspension of mobile banking in Cox's Bazar

-- 2018-07-22 21:50:14

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed has proposed to suspend all mobile banking transactions in Cox's Bazar for two months. The RAB DG made the proposal while addressing the...