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RAB arrests drug trader with 2,952 Yaba pills

RAB arrests drug trader with 2,952 Yaba pills

-- 2018-05-06 11:48:41

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler with 2,952 pieces of yaba pills conducting a raid on Kharibona area under sadar upazila of the district on Saturday night. RAB officials...

Minor siblings drown in Chandpur pond

Minor siblings drown in Chandpur pond

-- 2018-05-06 11:39:17

Two minor siblings drowned in a pond at Tariaani village in Haziganj upazila on Saturday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Mahmuda Akhter, 8, and Kawsar Hossain, 9, daughter and son respecti...

Khulna city polls: Councillor aspirant comes under gun attack

Khulna city polls: Councillor aspirant comes under gun attack

-- 2018-05-06 10:59:58

A BNP backed councillor aspirant for Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election was attacked by some unidentified gunmen at Jamuna Road in Khulna’s Khalishpur area on Saturday night. Three miscrean...

Countdown to SSC results is on

Countdown to SSC results is on

-- 2018-05-06 10:20:04

A total of 2,031,889 students are awaiting the results of their SSC and equivalent exams, which will be published this afternoon. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid is scheduled to announce a summa...

DCCI seeks cut in corporate tax, surcharge on net wealth

DCCI seeks cut in corporate tax, surcharge on net wealth

FE Report 2018-05-06 10:12:01

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has urged the government to reduce corporate tax and surcharge on net wealth in the upcoming budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. It made the call fo...

No constitutional change before polls, says Quader

No constitutional change before polls, says Quader

-- 2018-05-05 21:52:05

CHATTOGRAM, May 5 (BSS): Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Saturday there will be no change in the constitution even if BNP stays away from the next parliament election. "BNP has l...

BPDB to sign 1,320MW power deal Sunday

BPDB to sign 1,320MW power deal Sunday

-- 2018-05-05 21:49:47

Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is set to sign a joint venture contract on Sunday to establish a coal-fired power plant having 1,320 megawatt (MW) generation capacity. "As part of the gover...

Khaleda asks lawyers to notify court about her illness

Khaleda asks lawyers to notify court about her illness

-- 2018-05-05 21:33:22

Lawyers for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia say she has asked them to convey the news of her illness to court during hearings on her bail. Five lawyers – Zainul Abedin, Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, AJ...

Tonu murder mystery to be unravelled soon: Kamal

Tonu murder mystery to be unravelled soon: Kamal

-- 2018-05-05 21:03:20

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the mystery behind Tonu murder case to be revealed soon as the investigation is being conducted by a high profile team. The minister came up with the inf...

Lightning strikes leave three dead in Sunamganj, Rajbari

Lightning strikes leave three dead in Sunamganj, Rajbari

-- 2018-05-05 20:37:08

At least three people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Sunamganj and Rajbari districts on Saturday. In Sunamganj, a farmer and a female student of Islamganj Degree College wer...

48-hour strike in CHT from Monday

48-hour strike in CHT from Monday

-- 2018-05-05 20:10:41

Two local organisations representing Bangalee settlers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have called a 48-hour strike starting Monday morning in Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban. The shutdown across...

BNP for reconstitution of EC

BNP for reconstitution of EC

-- 2018-05-05 19:58:16

BNP on Saturday demanded reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) with neutral persons before the announcement of the schedule for the next general election. The party also turned down the rece...

RMG workers for fixation of minimum wage at Tk 16,000

RMG workers for fixation of minimum wage at Tk 16,000

-- 2018-05-05 18:25:34

Garment workers demanded fixing of the minimum wage of the country's garment workers at Tk 16000. Garment Workers Coordination Parishad, a platform of 52 organisations for RMG workers, came up with t...

School boy gets run over by truck in Jashore

School boy gets run over by truck in Jashore

-- 2018-05-05 16:26:54

A twelve years old school boy was killed as a truck crushed him in Monirampur Upazila in Jashore district Saturday. The victim was identified as Raihan, 12, a resident at Bashontopur village of the...

Yaba market keeps swelling despite increased vigilance

Yaba market keeps swelling despite increased vigilance

Jubair Hasan 2018-05-05 16:03:06

The market of contraband drug Yaba could not be controlled even after taking measures by various quarters. Worries now have mounted over the rising addiction among youths, official data shows. There...

SSC examination results Sunday

SSC examination results Sunday

-- 2018-05-05 15:54:25

The results of this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on Sunday. The results will be handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the morni...

Electrician ‘commits suicide’ in a city bank

Electrician ‘commits suicide’ in a city bank

-- 2018-05-05 14:46:08

An electrician was found hanging in a room of the head office of NCC bank in Motijheel area of the capital on Saturday morning. Golam Rabbani, inspector (investigation) of Motijheel Police Station,...

Police arrest BSMMU doctor with Yaba

Police arrest BSMMU doctor with Yaba

-- 2018-05-05 14:32:03

Police have arrested a doctor of Banghabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and two other people from Bagur bus stand area in Chandina upazila of Cumilla district. The arrestees are- BSMM...

Stand by Rohingyas, PM to OIC

Stand by Rohingyas, PM to OIC

FE Online Desk 2018-05-05 14:22:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has appealed to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to firmly stand by the forcibly deported Rohingyas.  “The Holy Prophet's (SAW) message for us wa...

Case filed over killing of Narsingdi UP chairman

Case filed over killing of Narsingdi UP chairman

-- 2018-05-05 14:10:38

A case has been filed with Raipura Police Station over the murder of Bashgari union parishad chairman in Narsingdi’s Raipura upazila. The deceased, UP chairman Md Sirajul Haque (70) was gunned...

16 British-Bangladeshis bag councillor posts

16 British-Bangladeshis bag councillor posts

-- 2018-05-05 12:47:00

As many as 16 British-Bangladeshis have been elected councillors in the London boroughs of Camden, Croydon and Redbridge, as a huge number of Bangladesh-origin candidates ran in the local elections....

Police recover unidentified body of man in Sylhet

Police recover unidentified body of man in Sylhet

-- 2018-05-05 12:21:23

Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified man from a waterbody in Salutika area in Gowainghat upazila on Friday evening. Md Rajib Ullah, in-charge of Salutika police outpost, said locals...

14-yr-old dies being limb-lost in road mishap

14-yr-old dies being limb-lost in road mishap

-- 2018-05-05 12:07:53

A schoolboy, who lost his limb after a human hauler hit his motorcycle on Bypass Bridge in the district town on Friday afternoon, died on the way to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital at night. Police...

Cops detain three with 'firearm' in bus raid

Cops detain three with 'firearm' in bus raid

-- 2018-05-05 11:37:43

Police in a drive arrested three young men reportedly with possession of a pistol and seven bullets from a bus at Kanta in Gobindaganj upazila early Saturday. A team of police raided the Dhaka-bound...

Road mishap crushes housewife’s foot in city

Road mishap crushes housewife’s foot in city

-- 2018-05-05 11:28:35

The right foot of a housewife was crushed under the wheels of a bus while she was getting down from it at Malibagh intersection in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. The victim is identified as Nilufa Begum,...

Onion prices soar despite ample supply

Onion prices soar despite ample supply

FE report 2018-05-05 09:56:04

After remaining static for the last one and a half months, prices of onion increased notably in the market last week despite ample local supply and low import cost. Market experts said the onion pric...

Delay in approval affects third Indian LoC project execution

Delay in approval affects third Indian LoC project execution

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-05 09:49:34

Project implementation under the latest $4.5 billion Indian line of credit (LoC) is getting affected at the beginning stage, as New Delhi is not approving three development projects under the third...

Tourism takes yet another hit from Rohingya influx

Tourism takes yet another hit from Rohingya influx

Kamrun Nahar 2018-05-05 09:35:55

The influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar that started in August 2017 spelt disaster for the country's tourism industry. Major tour operators in recent times have been facing various Rohingya rela...

OIC foreign ministers’ meet begins in city today

OIC foreign ministers’ meet begins in city today

-- 2018-05-05 00:59:56

The 45th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (OIC-CFM) begins in the city today (Saturday) with a special focus on Rohingya issue and other challenges facing the Muslim Ummah, reports UNB....

Farmers eye bumper Haribhanga  mango output in Rangpur

Farmers eye bumper Haribhanga mango output in Rangpur

-- 2018-05-04 21:02:18

Local farmers and officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting a bumper output of the highly tasty and fibreless local variety Haribhanga mango in the district this season,...