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Tri-nation bus service starts soon

Tri-nation bus service starts soon

Munima Sultana 2018-04-05 10:19:50

Bangladesh, India and Nepal are set to start regular bus service with signing of a passenger protocol by June this year under BBIN Motor Vehicle Agreement. Sources said the date for signing the passe...

NOAB demands keeping print media out of tax net

NOAB demands keeping print media out of tax net

FE Report 2018-04-05 10:05:16

Newspaper owners on Wednesday proposed the government to keep the print media out of tax net considering it a "sick" industry, which would perish gradually with the expansion of digital media. The le...

Minister cautions against misuse of autism fund

Minister cautions against misuse of autism fund

-- 2018-04-04 22:10:00

The Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday cautioned against misuse of public fund in the name of establishing institutions for special children. The minister said Prime Minister She...

Three to die for killing Chattogram girl after rape

Three to die for killing Chattogram girl after rape

-- 2018-04-04 21:48:46

A Chattogram court on Wednesday sentenced three people to death for killing a girl after gang rape in Pahartoli area of the port city in 2011. The convicts are Sujan Kumar Das, 22, Sameer Dey, 24, Ja...

Myanmar minister to visit Rohingya camps next week

Myanmar minister to visit Rohingya camps next week

-- 2018-04-04 21:11:12

Myanmar Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Minister Win Myat Aye will visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar next week. This will be the first visit by any Myanmar minister to the largest-eve...

Onion harvest starts in Gopalganj, Manikganj

Onion harvest starts in Gopalganj, Manikganj

Our Correspondent 2018-04-04 21:09:03

GOPALGANJ, Apr 04: Onion farmers of Muksudpur upazila of the district are passing busy time as they have started harvesting the produce recently. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension...

Good wheat output delights Rangpur growers

Good wheat output delights Rangpur growers

Our Correspondent 2018-04-04 21:07:48

RANGPUR, Apr 04: A good yield of wheat has made the growers of Rangpur division delighted during the current season. Farmers and DAE officials have attributed the achievement to congenial weather con...

Police arrest four over Chattogram Jubo League man murder

Police arrest four over Chattogram Jubo League man murder

-- 2018-04-04 20:49:02

Police arrested four people from Khilkhet area in the capital early Wednesday in connection with a case filed for killing of a Jubo League activist on March 26. Mohammad Shahidullah, Chattogram Metro...

Abandoned mortar shell blast kills woman in Tangail

Abandoned mortar shell blast kills woman in Tangail

-- 2018-04-04 19:56:26

A woman was killed and three others injured as an abandoned mortar shell exploded in Maidherchala area of Ghatail upazila in Tangail on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Moyna Khatun, 25...

ACC seeks bank transaction history of eight BNP leaders

ACC seeks bank transaction history of eight BNP leaders

-- 2018-04-04 19:49:41

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sent letters to seven banks asking for account statements of eight top BNP leaders, ACC Secretary Shamsul Arefin told reporters on Wednesday. He said ACC sent the let...

President stresses use of IT in education 

President stresses use of IT in education 

-- 2018-04-04 19:33:12

President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday emphasised the use of information technology at every stage of education to face the challenge of globalisation. Addressing the 3rd convocation of Khulna University...

Two lawmakers to face ACC interrogation over wealth charge

Two lawmakers to face ACC interrogation over wealth charge

-- 2018-04-04 19:27:55

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate two lawmakers over allegation of acquiring illegal wealth. The ACC on Wednesday asked the two members of parliament, Kamrul Ashraf Khan (Narsingd...

Wife’s extramarital affair behind Rathis murder: RAB chief

Wife’s extramarital affair behind Rathis murder: RAB chief

-- 2018-04-04 19:16:06

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed has said Rathis Bhowmik, a 55-year-old lawyer, was killed over an extramarital affair of his wife. The RAB DG addressed a press conferen...

Mother, son murder: Police arrest prime accused

Mother, son murder: Police arrest prime accused

-- 2018-04-04 18:41:41

Law enforcers have arrested the prime accused on Tuesday night in a case over the killing of a woman and her son in Sylhet on Sunday noon. The arrestee was identified as Nazmul Hasan, 40, son of late...

Three get life term in Chapainawabganj rape case

Three get life term in Chapainawabganj rape case

-- 2018-04-04 18:37:16

A Chapainawabganj court has sentenced three people to life term imprisonment for raping a woman at Hossain Dying area in 2015. The lifers are Sohel Babu; 27, son of Kasimuddin, Dabir Ali; 28, son of...

PM asks Mohila Sramik League leaders to work together

PM asks Mohila Sramik League leaders to work together

-- 2018-04-04 18:33:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday directed the leaders of Mohila Sramik League to work together to further strengthen the organisation. The Prime Minister gave the directives while delivering...

Court acquits all accused from PM's flight glitch charges

Court acquits all accused from PM's flight glitch charges

-- 2018-04-04 18:12:01

A Dhaka court has acquitted all 11 accused in a case over the technical glitch in a VVIP flight of Biman carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2016. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Kamrul Hossai...

DSCC to set Guinness World Record through cleaning campaign

DSCC to set Guinness World Record through cleaning campaign

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

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has taken a move to set a Guinness World Record through a cleaning campaign with participation of highest number of people on April 13. DSCC Mayor Mohammad Sayeed...

Fire burns three cotton warehouses in Gazipur

Fire burns three cotton warehouses in Gazipur

-- 2018-04-04 16:01:47

Three warehouses were gutted in a fire which broke out at a cotton mill in Tongi of Gazipur city early Wednesday. Atiqur Rahman, senior station officer of Tongi Fire Service station, said the fire br...

BGB seizes 27 gold bars in Satkhira

BGB seizes 27 gold bars in Satkhira

-- 2018-04-04 15:46:06

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during a drive seized 27 gold bars from Taluigaccha border area in Satkhira Sadar upazila on Wednesday noon. After being tipped off that a consignment of smug...

RAB recovers missing Rangpur spl PP Ratish’s body

RAB recovers missing Rangpur spl PP Ratish’s body

-- 2018-04-04 13:07:55

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has found Rathis Chondro Bhowmik dead in Rangpur following the arrest of his schoolteacher wife Dipa Bhowmik and two of her colleagues. RAB-13 commander Major Armin R...

Husband, wife die in Mymensingh  road crash

Husband, wife die in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-04-04 12:48:02

A head-on collision between a car and a lorry on a bypass intersection in Mymensingh has left a married couple dead and two others injured. The accident took place around 2am on Wednesday, said Inspe...

India turns focus on Dhaka as Bangladesh gears up for elections

India turns focus on Dhaka as Bangladesh gears up for elections

-- 2018-04-04 12:35:38

NEW DELHI: With elections looming in Bangladesh, Dhaka has taken centre-stage in India's neighbourhood strategy. While national security adviser Ajit Doval travelled to Bangladesh last week to partic...

Cop attacker dies in M’singh ‘shootout’

Cop attacker dies in M’singh ‘shootout’

-- 2018-04-04 12:34:46

The prime accused in a case filed over an attack on a police officer was killed in a reported gunfight with detectives at Jailkhana intersection of Gauripur upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was...

BPC faces challenge from other big projects

BPC faces challenge from other big projects

Munima Sultana 2018-04-04 12:32:50

An ambitious project undertaken by Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) to ensure uninterrupted supply of jet fuel to the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) through an underground pipelin...

Police retrieve slaughtered body of college student

Police retrieve slaughtered body of college student

-- 2018-04-04 12:28:12

A college student was slaughtered and another suffered bullet wounds in a house at Racecourse Kathepool of the city on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Sagar Dutta, 19, a 1st year st...

Economy encountering money market, BoP imbalances

Economy encountering money market, BoP imbalances

Asjadul Kibria 2018-04-04 12:17:15

The ongoing chaos in the country's financial market is the manifestation of inefficiency in managing the macro-economy, economists said. They warned that measures taken lately to shore up liquidity i...

Mother, daughter die in Khulna road crash

Mother, daughter die in Khulna road crash

-- 2018-04-04 12:16:09

A woman and her minor daughter were killed when a bus hit a rickshaw at Khalishpur in Khulna city on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Shimul Akhter, 35, wife of Babul Hossain of Ala...

DSE backs corporate tax cut demand

DSE backs corporate tax cut demand

FE Report 2018-04-04 12:10:14

The government is willing to reduce the corporate tax rates in line with the proposals coming from various quarters. "The government wants to slash the corporate tax rates, but it's not certain when...

Speakers for enacting law to end sexual harassment at workplaces

Speakers for enacting law to end sexual harassment at workplaces

-- 2018-04-03 20:56:00

Speakers at a roundtable urged the government to enact a law in light of the High Court verdict to prevent sexual harassment as it has turned out to be a serious disease in recent days. They said sex...