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Rooppur power plant to get rail link

Rooppur power plant to get rail link

-- 2018-07-10 17:14:21

Country's first nuclear plant, Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, is going to get its own railway connection. Bangladesh Railway signed an agreement with an Indo-Bangla joint venture company on Tuesday to...

Candidates get symbols, campaign begins in SCC polls

Candidates get symbols, campaign begins in SCC polls

-- 2018-07-10 16:50:43

The mayoral and councillor candidates in Sylhet City Corporation elections, scheduled for July 30 officially launched campaigns after being allocated symbols by the returning officer on Tuesday. Ele...

Assailants stab AL leader dead in Naogaon

Assailants stab AL leader dead in Naogaon

-- 2018-07-10 16:12:38

A local leader of ruling Awami League, who was stabbed in Aranagar of Dhamoirhat upazila in Naogaon on Monday afternoon, died at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) on Tuesday morning. The...

Two minors drown in Faridpur

Two minors drown in Faridpur

-- 2018-07-10 16:07:00

Two minor children drowned in a pond in Kamlapur area of Faridpur district town on Tuesday noon. The victims were identified as Tabassum, 7, daughter of Lokman Sheikh and Safayet, 6, son of Zakir Mri...

Court extends bail for Khaleda in graft case

Court extends bail for Khaleda in graft case

-- 2018-07-10 15:04:47

A Dhaka court has deferred the hearing on the Zia Charitable Trust graft case as BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was not taken to court from jail. It also extended her bail on Tuesday until July 17 in re...

Cops detain 42 in Dinajpur

Cops detain 42 in Dinajpur

-- 2018-07-10 13:06:15

Law enforcers, in special drives arrested 42 suspects including 10 drug traders and two activists of Jamaat-E-Islami from different areas of Dinajpur district in last 12-hour ending at 8 am Tuesday mo...

Teesta erosion poses threat to Old Shankardaho Govt Pry School

Teesta erosion poses threat to Old Shankardaho Govt Pry School

Our Correspondent 2018-07-10 12:52:46

Erosion by the river Teesta has posed threat to Old Shankardaho Government Primary School at Lakkhitari union of Gangachara upazila in Rangpur district during last one week. Due to erosion the educati...

Dairy farming creates job opportunity for hundreds of marginal farmers in Bogura

Dairy farming creates job opportunity for hundreds of marginal farmers in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2018-07-10 12:22:29

Commercial dairy farming has created job opportunity for hundreds of marginal farmers this season across Bogura district. Due to more lucrative the profession, some new families of the area are leani...

Police recover body of missing N’ganj trader

Police recover body of missing N’ganj trader

-- 2018-07-10 12:12:40

Police recovered the decomposed body of a gold trader, who went missing on June 18, from a septic tank in Amalpara area of the city on Monday night. The deceased, Prabir Chandra Ghosh, owner of Bhol...

Five in race to win RCC mayoral post

Five in race to win RCC mayoral post

-- 2018-07-10 12:01:27

A total of 217 candidates have remained in race of the upcoming election to Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) scheduled to be held on July 30. Of them, five for mayor, 160 for general councillors and 5...

Two ‘drug pedlars’ die in Dhaka, N’ganj ‘shootouts’

Two ‘drug pedlars’ die in Dhaka, N’ganj ‘shootouts’

-- 2018-07-10 11:24:34

Two suspected drug traders were killed in separate gunfights with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Mirpur area of the capital and Narayanganj on early Tuesday.   In Dhaka, suspected dru...

Disclose MoU with Myanmar, TIB urges UN

Disclose MoU with Myanmar, TIB urges UN

FE Report 2018-07-10 10:28:39

Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has criticised the United Nations (UN) for not disclosing the text of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) it signed with the Myanmar government on repatria...

Second unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant gets licence

Second unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant gets licence

FE Report 2018-07-10 10:21:51

The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) received the design and licence for the construction of second unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP). Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority...

Govt issues counter-guarantees for BCIC

Govt issues counter-guarantees for BCIC

FE Report 2018-07-10 10:16:32

The government has issued five counter-guarantees worth Tk 48 billion for Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to facilitate uninterrupted import of fertiliser, officials said. Contacted...

NBR to collect 15pc VAT on port services

NBR to collect 15pc VAT on port services

FE Report 2018-07-10 10:12:05

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will collect Value Added Tax (VAT) at a rate of 15 per cent on port services for operating international flights, officials said. Although in the budget proposal...

Hajj flight begins on July 14

Hajj flight begins on July 14

FE Report 2018-07-10 09:49:04

Hajj flights carrying Bangladeshi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year will begin on July 14. The government has asked the authorities concerned to take necessary steps for maintaining...

Health ministry to introduce hotline to receive complaints

Health ministry to introduce hotline to receive complaints

-- 2018-07-09 21:54:55

Health and Family Welfare Ministry will be introducing a hotline number for people to lodge all sorts of treatment-related complaints. Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said, “A...

'BNP hatching conspiracy over quota movement'

'BNP hatching conspiracy over quota movement'

-- 2018-07-09 20:47:47

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that the BNP is hatching conspiracy centring the quota reform movement as they failed to wage any anti-government agitation. “BNP wants...

Bumper Aus paddy output likely in Joypurhat

Bumper Aus paddy output likely in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-09 20:44:28

JOYPURHAT, July 09:  Bumper Aus paddy output is likely in Joypurhat district due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agri-input. According to Department of Agriculture...

Met office asks maritime ports to keep hoisting signal 3

Met office asks maritime ports to keep hoisting signal 3

-- 2018-07-09 20:43:57

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal No 3 as a low over the Northwest Bay and adjoining coastal area now lies over...

'No election keeping Khaleda in jail'

'No election keeping Khaleda in jail'

-- 2018-07-09 20:40:15

BNP leaders have said that their party will not join the next general election keeping BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail. They made the remarks while addressing a hunger strike programme at Mohanag...

TIB demands details of UN, Myanmar's 'secret deal'

TIB demands details of UN, Myanmar's 'secret deal'

-- 2018-07-09 20:39:17

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Monday demanded disclosure of the details of, what it dubbed, secret agreement signed between Myanmar and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and...

Bangladesh to greet Erdogan with mangoes

Bangladesh to greet Erdogan with mangoes

FE Online Report 2018-07-09 19:05:51

Bangladesh is set to greet the newly re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with different varieties of local mangoes. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is set to hand over the gift to t...

Five missing as trawler capsizes in Shitalakshya

Five missing as trawler capsizes in Shitalakshya

-- 2018-07-09 18:20:15

Five people went missing as a trawler with at least 50 people on board capsized in Shitalakshya River in Narayanganj on Sunday night. The missing people were identified as Din Islam, 35, Osman Gani,...

SC order on Khaleda’s review petition Thursday

SC order on Khaleda’s review petition Thursday

-- 2018-07-09 17:29:35

The Supreme Court will deliver its decision on a review petition, filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, on Thursday. Khaleda Zia filed the petition against a previous order of SC asking the High Cour...

Freedom fighter Sekander Ali Khan dies

Freedom fighter Sekander Ali Khan dies

-- 2018-07-09 17:29:24

Engineer Md Sekander Ali Khan, a freedom fighter and retired General Manager of Bangladesh Cycle Industries Limited, died at the age of 71 at a city hospital on Saturday last. Sekander Ali Khan was g...

Four-day BGB-BGP conference begins in city

Four-day BGB-BGP conference begins in city

-- 2018-07-09 17:21:37

A four-day conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) began at BGB headquarters in Pilkhana on Monday morning. An 11-member Myanmar delegation, led...

Three workers die after inhaling toxic gas in septic tank

Three workers die after inhaling toxic gas in septic tank

-- 2018-07-09 17:12:11

Three workers died after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank at a house under Tongi upazila in Gazipur on Monday. The deceased were identified as Atique, 25 and Shaheen, 30, two sons of Shahidullah o...

DU not to allow ‘outsiders’ on campus

DU not to allow ‘outsiders’ on campus

-- 2018-07-09 17:01:25

The Dhaka University authorities have issued an order prohibiting the movement of outsiders on the campus without permission. The provost committee of the university took the decision on July 5 "in t...

Promoting women entrepreneurship to accelerate progress

Promoting women entrepreneurship to accelerate progress

-- 2018-07-09 16:59:33

Promoting women entrepreneurship can further accelerate the pace of national advancement to ensure participation of women in all sorts of economic activities, trade and business. Chamber leaders and...