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Cumilla court sentences man to life for rape

Cumilla court sentences man to life for rape

-- 2018-07-04 17:15:39

A court in Cumilla on Wednesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a widow in Daudkandi upazila in 2001. Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 Sheikh Hafizur...

AL central working committee joint meeting Sunday

AL central working committee joint meeting Sunday

-- 2018-07-04 17:08:17

The Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will hold a joint meeting with presidents and general secretaries of AL associate bodies, AL Dhaka city North and South units, Dhaka district and oth...

BRTC bus crushes man in city

BRTC bus crushes man in city

-- 2018-07-04 14:19:02

A man who was using a motorbike ridesharing service died when a state-run BRTC bus crushed him at Airport intersection in the city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Nazmul Hossain Fuad, 32...

Govt planning to build Mujib Kellas in Gaibandha

Govt planning to build Mujib Kellas in Gaibandha

-- 2018-07-04 13:44:37

The government has taken up an initiative to build multi-storeyed Mujib Kellas in the Brahmaputra river basin of four upazilas in Gainbandha district to reduce disaster risks caused by floods. This w...

Elderly man dies due to medical negligence in Ctg

Elderly man dies due to medical negligence in Ctg

-- 2018-07-04 13:30:48

Tension mounted at a private clinic in the port city early Wednesday following the death of an elderly patient allegedly due to medical negligence. The deceased Hazi Mohammad Lokman Chowdhury, 69, of...

One more ‘criminal’ dies in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

One more ‘criminal’ dies in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-07-04 12:29:07

A man has died in Mymensingh in an alleged shootout with police as part of the government’s nationwide ‘war on drugs’. The shootout took place in Khandakar Para area in Bhaluka upaz...

Miscreants shoot youth dead in Cox’s Bazar

Miscreants shoot youth dead in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-07-04 11:54:36

A young man was shot to death allegedly by some miscreants at Pahartoli Islampur in Cox’s Bazar district town on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Ismail, 27, son of Lalu Mia of the...

Man 'hacks' three  family members dead

Man 'hacks' three family members dead

-- 2018-07-04 11:49:31

A young man allegedly hacked three of his family members to death at Sonapadma village in Bera upazila of the district early Wednesday. The deceased have been identified as Buli Khatun, 48, younger b...

Dhaka-Ctg expressway project: RHD likely to invite tender in a month

Dhaka-Ctg expressway project: RHD likely to invite tender in a month

Munima Sultana 2018-07-04 11:38:27

A delay in taking the decision on the Dhaka-Chittagong expressway project by the finance ministry has compelled the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) to seek support from the PPP Authority to comple...

Fourth-round decision of APTA comes into effect

Fourth-round decision of APTA comes into effect

FE Report 2018-07-04 11:30:22

The APTA member countries' decision, taken in the fourth round of negotiations to widen the coverage of concession to 10,593 tariff lines, came into effect on Sunday last. Under the third round of ne...

About 40pc govt servants yet to get June’s salaries

About 40pc govt servants yet to get June’s salaries

Jubair Hasan 2018-07-04 11:21:54

A significant number of government officials and employees have not yet received their salaries for the month of June last because they made mistakes in submitting pay bills under a new classification...

Good snake bean output brings smile on faces  of growers

Good snake bean output brings smile on faces of growers

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-03 21:49:44

JOYPURHAT, July 03: Snake bean (Borboti) cultivation has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of marginal peasants in the district this season. Growers are happy over the good production and fair m...

Quota reform: Police foil rally of 'guardians, citizens'

Quota reform: Police foil rally of 'guardians, citizens'

-- 2018-07-03 20:17:10

Police dispersed a scheduled rally that was called in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Tuesday afternoon to protest recent attacks on the leaders and activists of quota reform movement The law enfor...

Bernicat expects ‘dramatically different’ Bangladesh, credible election

Bernicat expects ‘dramatically different’ Bangladesh, credible election

-- 2018-07-03 20:15:04

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat on Tuesday said she expects to see a dramatically different country -- more advanced and developed one -- when she will come to visit Bangladesh after her t...

ECNEC approves underground grid sub-station in Gulshan

ECNEC approves underground grid sub-station in Gulshan

-- 2018-07-03 18:14:18

The government plans to construct an underground grid sub-station in Gulshan project in a bid to ensure reliable power supply in the capital. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council...

Language movement veteran Halima Khatun no more

Language movement veteran Halima Khatun no more

-- 2018-07-03 17:57:36

Language movement veteran Dr Halima Khatun has passed away on Tuesday in a city hospital. The language veteran breathed her last around 2 pm at the United Hospital after suffering from heart, kidney...

Two minor siblings drown in B’baria

Two minor siblings drown in B’baria

-- 2018-07-03 17:07:11

Two minor siblings drowned in a pond of Golsar village under Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Tamim, 7, and her sister Nazmin, 5, children of Billal B...

Railway fails to execute HC order over Jihad's death

Railway fails to execute HC order over Jihad's death

-- 2018-07-03 16:47:37

Railway authority failed to execute a High Court order to provide Tk 2 million as compensation to the family of Jihad, who died after falling into a deep well in Shahjahanpur area of Dhaka in 2014. T...

Bandarban landslides leave four dead

Bandarban landslides leave four dead

-- 2018-07-03 16:47:29

At least four people, including three members of a family, were killed in two incidents of landslide triggered by incessant rain at Sadarand Lama upazilas in Bandarban on Tuesday. In Lama upazila, th...

Seven-member committee to review quota system

Seven-member committee to review quota system

-- 2018-07-03 16:26:00

The government has formed a seven-member committee to review/reform/revoke the existing quota system in public service. The cabinet secretary is the convener and the committee has been asked to submi...

Lawmen detain 36 in Dinajpur

Lawmen detain 36 in Dinajpur

-- 2018-07-03 16:02:14

Law enforcers, in special drives arrested 36 people including 10 drug traders from different areas of Dinajpur district in last 12-hour ending at 8 am Tuesday morning. Law enforcers also seized 200 b...

Bandarban landslide kills woman

Bandarban landslide kills woman

-- 2018-07-03 15:05:09

A woman was killed in a landslide amid heavy rains in Bandarban sadar upazila on Tuesday. Protima Rani Dey, 45, wife of Milan Kanti Dey was buried alive when a chunk of mud fell on her tin-shed house...

RU teachers, students protest attacks on quota reform activists

RU teachers, students protest attacks on quota reform activists

-- 2018-07-03 14:50:15

A group of teachers and students of Rajshahi University (RU) on Tuesday formed a barefoot human chain in the campus protesting the recent attacks on students and activists of quota reform movement acr...

HC adjourns Khaleda's bail hearing until Sunday

HC adjourns Khaleda's bail hearing until Sunday

-- 2018-07-03 14:08:36

The High Court has adjourned the hearing on the appeal petition filed by Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust case until July 8. A HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rah...

Bumper Aus rice production likely in Rangpur

Bumper Aus rice production likely in Rangpur

-- 2018-07-03 13:34:58

Rangpur region is likely to get bumper Aus rice production this season where farmers have exceeded their fixed farming target by over 55 per cent this season. Proper implementation of the government&...

Five mayoral candidate nominations get validity in RCC polls

Five mayoral candidate nominations get validity in RCC polls

-- 2018-07-03 12:52:46

A total of 223 nomination papers, including five for mayoral post, were declared valid in the two-day long scrutinizing of the papers for the upcoming election in Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC). In...

Two sustain burns in Gazipur factory fire

Two sustain burns in Gazipur factory fire

-- 2018-07-03 12:44:54

Two people sustained burn injuries while trying to douse a fire that broke out at a foam factory and its warehouse in Borobari area of Gazipur city early Tuesday. The identities of the injured are no...

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Mymensingh ‘shootout’

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Mymensingh ‘shootout’

-- 2018-07-03 11:56:51

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Detective Branch (DB) of police in Shambuganj area of Sadar upazila of Mymensingh early Tuesday. The deceased Bacchu alias Bh...

Apparel exports to Japan on rise

Apparel exports to Japan on rise

Monira Munni 2018-07-03 10:39:06

Bangladeshi apparel exports to Japan have been increasing over the years, thanks to entrepreneurs' relentless efforts to meet the buyers' quality requirements and the government's policy support, indu...

Compliant businesses can apply for AEO status

Compliant businesses can apply for AEO status

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-07-03 10:37:15

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) allows businesses with satisfactory compliance records to apply for the status of authorised economic operators (AEOs). According to a new rule issued on June 28,...