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Drive against illegal establishments begins in Cox’s Bazar

Drive against illegal establishments begins in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-04-18 20:30:14

The Cox’s Bazar Development Authority started a drive to demolish buildings, constructed without following the building code, in the district town. Local executive magistrate Sheikh Sadek said...

UAE to recruit BD nationals in 19 categories

UAE to recruit BD nationals in 19 categories

FE Online Report 2018-04-18 20:24:35

Bangladesh and the UAE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for recruiting manpower from the former in 19 categories, paving the way for opening up the much awaiting job market very soon. N...

PM seeks collective efforts for stable Asian region

PM seeks collective efforts for stable Asian region

-- 2018-04-18 20:10:37

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought collective efforts to ensure proper connectivity and greater people-to-people exchanges for a more peaceful and stable Asian region. The Prime Minister made th...

BCL leader Isha gets DU studentship back

BCL leader Isha gets DU studentship back

-- 2018-04-18 19:21:40

The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) on Wednesday withdrew the expulsion order on Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall unit president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Iffat Jahan Isha. The decision was taken...

Detectives detain 7 ‘JMB militants’ in Rajshahi

Detectives detain 7 ‘JMB militants’ in Rajshahi

-- 2018-04-18 18:38:56

Detective Branch of police arrested seven suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Godagari of Rajshahi on Wednesday. The identities of the arreste...

14 get life term over murder during robbery

14 get life term over murder during robbery

-- 2018-04-18 18:09:00

A court in Lakshmipur has sentenced 14 people to life term imprisonment each in a case filed over killing a college student during robbery in a house in 2011. Laxmipur additional district and session...

Police arrest 45 in Satkhira

Police arrest 45 in Satkhira

-- 2018-04-18 18:04:07

Police in special drives arrested 45 people from the different parts of Satkhira from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning. The drives were conducted against terrorism, subversive activities and drug...

Govt now targets Tarique: BNP

Govt now targets Tarique: BNP

-- 2018-04-18 18:00:38

BNP on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now devising a new roadmap to take political revenge on its acting chairman Tarique Rahman. “She (Hasina) has now made Tarique Rahm...

Govt to take responsibilities of Rajib’s brothers 

Govt to take responsibilities of Rajib’s brothers 

-- 2018-04-18 17:50:51

The government will bear the educational expenses of the two younger brothers of Rajib Hasan who died following a tragic road accident in the capital. Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon made t...

Two to walk gallows for killing girl after rape

Two to walk gallows for killing girl after rape

-- 2018-04-18 16:24:26

A Natore court on Wednesday sentenced two young men to death for killing a schoolgirl after rape in Naldanga upazila in 2015. The condemned convicts are - Mobarak Hossain Kalu and Md Mithun. Accordi...

PMO approves fresh allocation for Bhasan Char development

PMO approves fresh allocation for Bhasan Char development

Syful Islam 2018-04-18 16:17:12

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) last week approved the release of Tk 13.11 billion to construct rehabilitation centres at Bhasan Char Island in Noakhali to accommodate 0.1 million Rohingyas, sources...

281 Manikganj houses get power connection

281 Manikganj houses get power connection

-- 2018-04-18 15:31:37

A total of 281 houses of Jamsha union under Singair upazila of the district have been brought under rural electrification network by Manikganj Palli Bidyut Samity (MPDS) on Tuesday. Popular Folk Sing...

Rice blast hits Boro corps in Sirajganj

Rice blast hits Boro corps in Sirajganj

-- 2018-04-18 14:49:47

Farmers of nine upazilas in the district are worried of getting poor yield of Boro crops due to fungal disease blast attack during the harvesting season. The fungal attack has spread all over the upa...

Three more allowances for freedom fighters

Three more allowances for freedom fighters

-- 2018-04-18 14:45:32

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq has said that the government planned to provide three more allowances to the freedom fighters from July next. The Minister came up with the announceme...

Father, daughter die as bus hits motorbike

Father, daughter die as bus hits motorbike

-- 2018-04-18 13:59:15

A man and his minor daughter were killed while his wife sustained serious injuries when a bus hit his motorbike on Bagerhat-Khulna highway at Kathaltala in Fakirhat upazila on Wednesday. The deceas...

Bangladesh wants Tarique back: Hasina

Bangladesh wants Tarique back: Hasina

-- 2018-04-18 12:42:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said they are trying to get the British government extradite BNP leader Tarique Rahman from London to face justice in Bangladesh. Now heading the BNP from exile, Tari...

SSC results on May 6

SSC results on May 6

-- 2018-04-18 12:14:48

The results of SSC and equivalent examinations will be published on May 6, a government official said on Wednesday. Secondary and Higher Education Division’s Additional Secretary Md Mohiuddin...

Lightning kills three in Cumilla

Lightning kills three in Cumilla

-- 2018-04-18 11:47:10

Three people including two women were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Debidwar and Daudkandi upazilas of Cumilla district on Tuesday. Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Daudkand...

Rajib laid to rest

Rajib laid to rest

Agencies 2018-04-18 11:43:49

Govt Titumir College student Rajib Hasan, who lost his battle for life on Wednesday, has been laid to eternal rest at Dashpara village in Bauphal upazila under Patuakhali. He was buried at a graveyar...

Police kill ‘robber’ in ‘shootout’

Police kill ‘robber’ in ‘shootout’

-- 2018-04-18 11:39:01

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and police at Raipur in Daudkandi upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rubayet Hossain Babul, son of Imam H...

RAB arrests three ‘JMB men’ in Narayanganj

RAB arrests three ‘JMB men’ in Narayanganj

-- 2018-04-18 10:58:20

Three alleged members of banned Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from Narayanganj’s Bandar area Tuesday nigh...

IU student ‘kills self’ over love affair

IU student ‘kills self’ over love affair

-- 2018-04-18 10:50:09

A first year student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department of Islamic University in Kushtia allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at a private hostel at...

‘50-70pc of labourers in bidi industry are children’

‘50-70pc of labourers in bidi industry are children’

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-04-18 10:39:06

Around 50 to 70 per cent of the labour force in the country's bidi industry is children, a research study found. Although signboards in the bidi factories display that children are not allowed insi...

DTCA, DMTC are at odds over  ownership of metro rail projects

DTCA, DMTC are at odds over ownership of metro rail projects

Munima Sultana 2018-04-18 00:59:25

Conflict has arisen over the ownership of all metro rail projects and future control over the mass transit system in the city as the metro rail company refused to work under Dhaka Transport Coordinati...

BRRI-Dhan-29 reignites hopes  of farmers in Gopalganj

BRRI-Dhan-29 reignites hopes of farmers in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-04-17 22:24:45

GOPALGANJ, Apr 17: Cultivation of BRRI-Dhan-29 has raised a new hope among the farmers of Gopalganj Sadar in the district. According to Gopalganj Sadar Upazila Agriculture Office sources said, about...

Youths become self-reliant rearing turkey hens

Youths become self-reliant rearing turkey hens

Roving Correspondent 2018-04-17 22:23:32

NAOGAON Apr 17: More than 300 both male and female youths of Naogaon district have become self-reliant through rearing turkey hens commercially from last few years. The enterprise has been implemente...

Weather favours marginal Papaya growers

Weather favours marginal Papaya growers

Our Correspondent 2018-04-17 22:22:14

BOGURA, Apr 17: Papaya cultivation has brought smile to the hundreds of marginal peasants in all twelve upazilas of Bogura district this season. Due to favourable weather and timely supply of necessa...

No efforts to salvage capsized cargo vessel in Mongla

No efforts to salvage capsized cargo vessel in Mongla

-- 2018-04-17 21:35:31

Owner of the cargo vessel, which capsized in the Pashur River near the Sundarbans three days ago, did not take any step to salvage it until Tuesday. The vessel, MV-Bilash, carrying 775 tonnes of coal...

Detectives deny blindfolding allegation

Detectives deny blindfolding allegation

-- 2018-04-17 21:29:34

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Tuesday refuted the allegation of blindfolding and picking up of three leaders of the quota reform movement on the previous day (Monday). T...

Chattogram road crashes kill two women

Chattogram road crashes kill two women

-- 2018-04-17 21:25:53

Two women were killed in two separate road accidents in Mirsharai Upazila in Chattogram on Tuesday. One of the deceased was identified as Sajeda Begum, 42, wife of Akhter Hossain of Madhya Wahedpur v...