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Shahriar Alam hopes for fair, neutral election

Shahriar Alam hopes for fair, neutral election

-- 2018-07-15 11:55:11

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has hoped that the Election Commission, with the support of all political parties, administration and other stakeholders, will be able to hold an "in...

Three more die in ‘gunfights’ during anti-drug raids

Three more die in ‘gunfights’ during anti-drug raids

-- 2018-07-15 11:37:07

Three more people - two in Satkhira and one in Mymensingh - have been killed in gunfights involving security forces amid the ongoing crackdown on drugs across the country. A Satkhira union-level Jubo...

Lingerie export hits billion-dollar mark

Lingerie export hits billion-dollar mark

Monira Munni 2018-07-15 11:33:25

Lingerie has now become one of the major export items of the readymade garment (RMG) basket, with the earnings from its export exceeding the billion-dollar mark, industry people said. Exporters have...

Labour courts in a fix over backlog of cases

Labour courts in a fix over backlog of cases

Sajibur Rahman 2018-07-15 11:16:33

The number of cases pending with the labour courts across the country has marked a significant rise over the years, causing psychological and financial woes to the workers and employees concerned. Al...

Secondary trading slips by 62pc in FY ‘18

Secondary trading slips by 62pc in FY ‘18

FE Report 2018-07-15 10:29:41

Secondary trading of treasury bills and treasury bonds has dropped sharply during the last fiscal year, reflecting the lower demand for the government securities. Latest statistics with the central b...

NHFIL registers steady growth in last five years

NHFIL registers steady growth in last five years

Mohammad Mufazzal 2018-07-15 10:25:42

National Housing Finance and Investments Limited (NHFIL) registered a steady growth in net profit during last five years, facilitating it to pay dividend at an incremental rate over the period. The o...

Relatives fail to meet Khaleda

Relatives fail to meet Khaleda

-- 2018-07-14 21:04:46

Relatives of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia failed to meet her on Saturday due to her illness. After getting permission from the jail authorities five relatives of Khaleda entered the jail around 4pm....

Three missing students found dead in Cox’s Bazar river

Three missing students found dead in Cox’s Bazar river

-- 2018-07-14 19:59:32

Three of the five students who went missing while bathing in Matamuhuri river in Cox’s Bazar were found dead. Rescuers are still searching for the remaining two students, reports bdnews24.com....

Bangladesh-India home minister-level talks begin Sunday

Bangladesh-India home minister-level talks begin Sunday

-- 2018-07-14 19:29:21

The sixth Bangladesh-India Home Minister-level talks will begin at Sunday morning at the home ministry conference room in Dhaka. Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and his Indian counterpart R...

ACC’s surprise drives become effective anti-graft tool

ACC’s surprise drives become effective anti-graft tool

-- 2018-07-14 18:46:15

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) programme of surprise drives in government offices since October 2017 has emerged as an effective tool to help people get hassle-free services. “ACC...

Quader urges FFs to work for AL’s win in polls

Quader urges FFs to work for AL’s win in polls

-- 2018-07-14 18:37:57

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged all freedom fighters (FFs) to work in unison to ensure his party’s win against anti-libera...

PM vows to ensure urban facilities for rural people

PM vows to ensure urban facilities for rural people

-- 2018-07-14 18:36:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Awami League will ensure urban facilities for the people of every villages if the party get support to form government again. "If you cast vote for Boat and Awam...

President to return home on July 19

President to return home on July 19

-- 2018-07-14 18:31:34

President M Abdul Hamid, who is undergoing health check-up and treatment of eyes in London, will return home on July 19 instead of July 15. “The President, who was scheduled to come back home o...

Don't worry about Rooppur nuke plant security: PM

Don't worry about Rooppur nuke plant security: PM

-- 2018-07-14 17:53:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen not to be worried about the security of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. She said the plant is being constructed with G3+ Russian reactor which c...

Medical students block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway over doctor’s death

Medical students block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway over doctor’s death

-- 2018-07-14 17:50:37

Students of Tairunnessa Memorial Medical College blocked Dhaka- Mymensingh highway on Saturday morning protesting the death of a physician in a road crash on Thursday. Salehuddin Ahmed, assistant sup...

Land dispute leaves two dead in Moulvibazar

Land dispute leaves two dead in Moulvibazar

-- 2018-07-14 17:22:12

Two people were killed and 40 others injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a disputed land at Pammadpur in Moulvibazar on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Shafiqur, 22, son...

'BD wants to resolve all problems through dialogue'

'BD wants to resolve all problems through dialogue'

-- 2018-07-14 17:07:05

Bangladesh wants to resolve all problems through dialogue with neighbouring countries including India. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the remarks when Indian Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh pa...

Truck crushes man in Savar

Truck crushes man in Savar

-- 2018-07-14 16:54:27

A man was killed as a truck crushed him at Nabinagar in Savar on Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Amulloh Sarker, an employee of Dhaka Palli Bidyut Samity-1. Police said the accident t...

Ports to continue hoisting Signal No. 3

Ports to continue hoisting Signal No. 3

-- 2018-07-14 14:11:30

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to continue hoisting local cautionary signal number three as a low has formed over North-West bay and adjoining area...

PM, Russian Dy PM inaugurate 2nd unit of RNPP

PM, Russian Dy PM inaugurate 2nd unit of RNPP

-- 2018-07-14 13:41:35

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Deputy Prime Minister of Russian Federation Yury Ivanovich Borisov have jointly inaugurated the construction of the second reactor unit of Rooppur nuclear power plant....

More and more females involving in RCC electioneering

More and more females involving in RCC electioneering

-- 2018-07-14 13:32:49

Working parallel with male workers, the presence of female workers in campaign for the upcoming Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is significant this time. More than 20,000 women are taking part in the...

Integrated Indian visa centre opens in city

Integrated Indian visa centre opens in city

-- 2018-07-14 13:26:35

A new integrated state-of-the-art Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC), the largest Indian visa centre in the world, has been inaugurated at Jamuna Future Park in the capital. Indian Home Minister R...

Detectives nab five AL leader murder suspects in city

Detectives nab five AL leader murder suspects in city

-- 2018-07-14 12:50:53

Detectives arrested five people from Gulshan and Mirpur areas on Friday night for their suspected link to the murder of Awami League leader Farhad Hossain. Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch of p...

RAB arrests 27 drug suspects in Rajshahi

RAB arrests 27 drug suspects in Rajshahi

-- 2018-07-14 12:22:02

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested 27 more people in Rajshahi while 21 of them were sentenced to different terms of jail each by mobile courts on charge of drugs abuse and trading....

Cops retrieve body of youth in Jhenaidah

Cops retrieve body of youth in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-07-14 11:36:32

Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from Agmundia village in Kaliganj upazila under Jhenaidah region on Saturday morning. Police said that locals spotted the body besides a rail tr...

Schoolboy drowns in Padma River

Schoolboy drowns in Padma River

-- 2018-07-14 11:29:38

The body of a schoolboy was recovered from the Padma River near Rajshahi city on Friday night, five hours after he drowned in the river. The deceased was identified as Nazmus Sakib, son of RTV camera...

Police detain five over gang-rape in Chattogram

Police detain five over gang-rape in Chattogram

-- 2018-07-14 11:25:31

Police arrested five young men from Chawkbazar Jangishah Majar gate area in the port city on Friday in connection with the gang-rape of a college girl. The arrestees were identified as Md Mohiuddin,...

Russian Deputy PM arrives in city

Russian Deputy PM arrives in city

-- 2018-07-14 11:21:29

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov arrived in the capital city on Friday night to visit Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Russian deputy prime ministe...

First Hajj flight takes off

First Hajj flight takes off

-- 2018-07-14 10:38:43

The first Hajj flight of this year has departed for Saudi Arabia with 419 on board. A total of 126,198 Bangladeshi nationals will be allowed to make the pilgrimage this year, according to the agreeme...

Regulatory unpredictability costs businesses dear

Regulatory unpredictability costs businesses dear

FE Report 2018-07-14 10:15:56

Regulatory predictability is the key to reducing the cost of doing business and spurring domestic and foreign investments in the country, experts have said at a programme. The government should ident...