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Power substation in Dhaka’s Paribagh catches fire

Power substation in Dhaka’s Paribagh catches fire

-- 2018-05-30 22:15:32

An electricity substation in Dhaka’s Paribagh has caught fire. No casualties have been reported immediately, according to bdnews24.com. An official at the Fire Service control room said two uni...

Sales of advance bus tickets start Wednesday

Sales of advance bus tickets start Wednesday

FE Online Report 2018-05-30 21:53:48

Thousands flocked around Shyamoli, Kalyanpur and Gabtoli bus terminals to book advance tickets as private bus services started selling tickets on Wednesday.   According to the private bus o...

Rangpur farmers storing potato in natural cold storages

Rangpur farmers storing potato in natural cold storages

Our Correspondent 2018-05-30 21:41:26

RANGPUR, May 30: Natural cold storages have ushered in a new hope to the potato farmers of different areas under Rangpur district in recent years. The farmers are showing their interest in eco-frie...

Farmer Golam Ali prospers by doing hard work

Farmer Golam Ali prospers by doing hard work

Our Correspondent 2018-05-30 21:40:35

MAGURA, May 30: Farmer Golam Ali has proved that hard work can make anything possible in life. He has turned into a successful farmer from an unemployed poverty-stricken ordinary youth. In 2004, Al...

‘President pardons murder convict Joseph’

‘President pardons murder convict Joseph’

-- 2018-05-30 20:53:28

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said President Abdul Hamid has pardoned Tofayel Ahmed Joseph, a ‘top terror’ of the 90s, who had been serving life imprisonment in a murder case...

World No Tobacco Day Thursday

World No Tobacco Day Thursday

-- 2018-05-30 20:38:20

The World No Tobacco Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe on Thursday, highlighting the health and additional risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effectiv...

Biman offers Eid discount on domestic routes

Biman offers Eid discount on domestic routes

-- 2018-05-30 20:36:26

Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Wednesday announced discounted fare on domestic routes centring Eid-ul-Fitr to give people the opportunity of availing air travel during Eid holidays. The national flag c...

Hasina takes tough stance on drugs

Hasina takes tough stance on drugs

-- 2018-05-30 19:18:10

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she is determined to continue her campaign against illegal drugs despite growing criticism among human rights groups and rival political parties over the rising death...

Advance train ticket to be sold from June 1

Advance train ticket to be sold from June 1

-- 2018-05-30 18:34:37

The advance sales of railway train tickets for the holy Eid-ul-Fitr will begin in Dhaka and Chattogram from June 1. An individual can collect maximum four tickets at a time from the station. A total...

AL secretariat meeting Thursday

AL secretariat meeting Thursday

-- 2018-05-30 18:26:13

A meeting of Awami League (AL) secretariat will be held at 3:00pm on Thursday at the party president’s political office at Dhanmondi in the city. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bri...

Minimum Fitra fixed at Tk 70

Minimum Fitra fixed at Tk 70

-- 2018-05-30 18:14:02

This year’s Fitra has been fixed at the minimum amount of Tk 70 per person while the maximum Tk  2,310. Islamic Foundation today fixed the amounts at a meeting chaired by Maulana Mohammad...

PM warns of steps if innocent falls victim to anti-drug drive

PM warns of steps if innocent falls victim to anti-drug drive

-- 2018-05-30 18:02:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said steps will be taken if any innocent person falls victim to the ongoing dive against narcotics. "We'll surely take steps if any innocent person fall vict...

ACC initiates probes against over 100 listed drug traders

ACC initiates probes against over 100 listed drug traders

-- 2018-05-30 17:54:10

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) launched probes against over 100 drug traders in line with the lists sent to the commission by the Department of Narcotic Control (DNC). “We have already st...

President asks media to give priority to national interest

President asks media to give priority to national interest

-- 2018-05-30 17:17:36

President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday asked the media to give the highest priority to the national interest in presenting news and views being accountable to the country and its people. “Newspaper...

Burglars loot three shops in city

Burglars loot three shops in city

-- 2018-05-30 14:38:51

Burglars reportedly looted Tk 1.14 million cash from three shops in two shopping centres in the Dhaka's Islampur area early Wednesday. A group of burglars swooped on two shops - New Bishal Three Piec...

Minimum Fitra Tk 70, maximum Tk 2,310

Minimum Fitra Tk 70, maximum Tk 2,310

-- 2018-05-30 13:36:00

Fitra, a charity donation by well-off Muslims at the end of Ramadan, has been fixed at minimum Tk 70 per person this year. The Islamic Foundation decided on the donation rates at a meeting on Wednesd...

Dinajpur road crash kills one

Dinajpur road crash kills one

-- 2018-05-30 12:36:11

A man was killed and three others suffered injuries when a Biral-bound paddy-laden truck from Dinajpur hit a human hauler at Baluadanga in the Dinajpur district town on Wednesday. Redwanur Rahim, Off...

Voting in KCC re-election underway

Voting in KCC re-election underway

-- 2018-05-30 11:24:26

Voting in three centres of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election, in which voting was postponed for various irregularities, is underway peacefully again on Wednesday. The balloting started at 8 am a...

Death toll in anti-narcotics campaign climbs to 132

Death toll in anti-narcotics campaign climbs to 132

-- 2018-05-30 10:58:13

Nine more alleged drug traders were killed in reported gunfights with law-enforcers early Wednesday during the ongoing anti-narcotics crackdown across the country. Of them, three were killed in Dhaka...

Assailants shoot BCL leader dead in Kushtia

Assailants shoot BCL leader dead in Kushtia

-- 2018-05-30 10:40:39

A leader of local unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was shot to death by some unidentified miscreants at Faraji Para in Sadar upazila of Kushtia early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as...

Investment in six mega projects: PPPA meets in Japan next week

Investment in six mega projects: PPPA meets in Japan next week

Munima Sultana 2018-05-30 10:21:59

PPP Authority and Japan government will sit next week to craft the next action plan for proposed Japanese investment in Bangladesh, officials said. The officials will meet in Japan for the second tim...

Water shortage hits port city

Water shortage hits port city

Our Correspondent 2018-05-30 10:17:37

More than 100 thousand (one lakh) consumers in the port city's Bakolia area have been suffering from a severe water supply shortage for a week now. The residents blamed the Chattogram WASA (CWASA) fo...

Country’s NFA rises 3.51pc in March

Country’s NFA rises 3.51pc in March

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-05-30 10:15:33

The latest statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) shows that the country's Net Foreign Assets (NFA) registered a 3.51 per cent growth in March. The NFA used to expand at double-digit rates even two y...

College student dies in Ctg road crash

College student dies in Ctg road crash

-- 2018-05-30 09:55:26

A college student was killed while two others injured as a truck rammed into a motorcycle on Chattogram-Khagrachhari highway at Farhadabad in Hathazari upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased has be...

Benarashi weavers passing busy time

Benarashi weavers passing busy time

Our Correspondent 2018-05-29 21:38:06

RANGPUR, May 29: With the Eid-ul-Fitr drawing nearer, the weavers of Benarashi Palli at Gangachhara upazila in Rangpur district have geared up the manufacturing of Benarashi Sarees. Presently, the...

Mango cultivation expanding in Gopalganj

Mango cultivation expanding in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-05-29 21:37:13

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Govt setting up 20 fast-track power plants

Govt setting up 20 fast-track power plants

-- 2018-05-29 21:02:36

The government is implementing 20 fast-track Independent Power Producers’ (IPPs) projects having 2,935 megawatt (MW) electricity generation capacity. “With sincere and relentless efforts...

Wrong side driving is a disease: Obaidul Quader

Wrong side driving is a disease: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-05-29 20:33:58

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said driving on the wrong side of the roads is a disease. The Awami League general secretary admitted that most of the time influential people c...

Armed Forces host iftar in honour of PM

Armed Forces host iftar in honour of PM

-- 2018-05-29 20:21:39

Bangladesh Armed Forces jointly hosted an iftar mahfil in honour of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Sena Malancha of Dhaka Cantonment on Tuesday.  The Prime Minister went round different tables...

Mashrafe, Shakib could contest in upcoming election: Planning Minister

Mashrafe, Shakib could contest in upcoming election: Planning Minister

FE Online Report 2018-05-29 19:23:24

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Tuesday in Dhaka hinted that Bangladesh’s one-day national cricket team skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and the test and T20 captain Shakib Al Hasan could contes...