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Man gets life in prison for college boy murder

Man gets life in prison for college boy murder

-- 2018-03-19 14:44:31

A Pirojpur court has sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for murdering a college boy in the district’s Mathbaria upazila in 2006. Additional District and Sessions Judge S M Zillur Rahman...

PM to attend janaza of plane crash victims at Army Stadium today

PM to attend janaza of plane crash victims at Army Stadium today

-- 2018-03-19 13:52:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the namaj-e-janaza of 23 US-Bangla plane crash victims at the Army Stadium in Dhaka city on Monday. The funeral prayer is scheduled for 4:00pm, said Rezaul Ka...

Three int’l flights miss arrival schedules at HSIA

Three int’l flights miss arrival schedules at HSIA

FE Online Report 2018-03-19 13:48:12

Three international flights failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Monday. BG 026 from Doha was scheduled to arrive at the airport at 8:30am, but i...

DB arrests four with 3m fake Indian rupees

DB arrests four with 3m fake Indian rupees

-- 2018-03-19 12:39:35

Detective branch of police during a drive arrested four people along with 3 million fake Indian rupees from the capital on Sunday night. They were nabbed for their alleged connection with producing f...

16 get jail for defying fishing ban

16 get jail for defying fishing ban

-- 2018-03-19 11:58:47

A mobile court in Bhola sentenced 16 fishermen to two months' imprisonment on Sunday night for defying a ban on catching all kinds of fishes. Police and river police, led by upazila administration an...

Repayment system impedes microcredit expansion: Study

Repayment system impedes microcredit expansion: Study

FE Report 2018-03-19 10:46:32

The growth of microcredit in developing countries like Bangladesh has been showing a slower pace in recent times as many borrowers find it difficult to expand their business due to the existing repaym...

BRTC starts process to procure 500 trucks, 100 non-AC buses

BRTC starts process to procure 500 trucks, 100 non-AC buses

Munima Sultana 2018-03-19 10:33:04

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) is set to start the process of procuring 500 trucks and 100 non-air conditioned (AC) buses from India under its second Line of Credit (LoC), sources said....

Top court stays Khaleda bail

Top court stays Khaleda bail

-- 2018-03-19 10:31:44

The Appellate Division has allowed the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission to start appeals against the bail granted to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia by the High Court. The latest order issue...

First janaza of 23 plane crash victims held

First janaza of 23 plane crash victims held

-- 2018-03-19 10:07:31

The first namaj-e-janaza of 23 US-Bangla plane crash victims was held at Bangladesh mission in Kathmandu on Monday morning. The identified bodies of 23 Bangladeshi victims were taken to embassy aroun...

Scanners at prisons to stop drug smuggling

Scanners at prisons to stop drug smuggling

-- 2018-03-18 21:53:39

Inspector General (IG) of Prison Brigadier General Syed Eftekhar Uddin on Sunday said that the jail authority has taken initiative to set up luggage and body scanners inside jails across the country t...

12pc BD adolescents addicted to smoking: Study

12pc BD adolescents addicted to smoking: Study

-- 2018-03-18 21:23:19

About 12 per cent adolescents are addicted to smoking in Bangladesh and nine per cent of them are boys while three per cent girls. The Guardian, an influential media of the United Kingdom, unveiled t...

Bangabandhu’s assassination delays LDC graduation: PM

Bangabandhu’s assassination delays LDC graduation: PM

-- 2018-03-18 21:06:40

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said assassination of Bangabandhu has delayed Bangladesh’s LDC graduation. Sheikh Hasina believes if the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...

Bangladesh to enjoy GSP facility until 2027: Tofail

Bangladesh to enjoy GSP facility until 2027: Tofail

-- 2018-03-18 20:37:22

Bangladesh will enjoy GSP facilities until 2017 although it has turned into a developing nation, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said at his ministry office on Sunday. The minister revealed it while e...

BNP to put up resistance against lopsided polls: Rizvi

BNP to put up resistance against lopsided polls: Rizvi

-- 2018-03-18 20:05:06

BNP will put up a strong resistance like the Great Wall of China if the government tries to play a game with the upcoming national election. Senior joint secretary general of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi ma...

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Faizul gives confessional statement

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Faizul gives confessional statement

-- 2018-03-18 19:33:33

The attacker of Prof Zafar Iqbal, Faizul Hasan, has given confessional statement before a magistrate court in Sylhet in a case over the attack. Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Haridas Kumar recorded h...

Miscreants abduct two female UPDF activists in Rangamati

Miscreants abduct two female UPDF activists in Rangamati

-- 2018-03-18 19:19:02

Miscreants allegedly abducted two female activists of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) from Kutukchhari area in Rangamati on Sunday. The victims are Monty Chakma and Doyashona Chakma, reports...

Job-seekers take to streets again

Job-seekers take to streets again

-- 2018-03-18 19:12:33

University students and job-seekers on Sunday staged demonstrations across the country, demanding reforms of the existing quota system in government recruitment tests including Bangladesh Civil Servic...

NOVOAIR announces fresh flights to Rajshahi

NOVOAIR announces fresh flights to Rajshahi

-- 2018-03-18 18:58:57

NOVOAIR, one of the popular airlines of the country, has recently launched its fresh flights to Rajshahi starting from April 1. One way starting fare to Rajshahi will be Tk 2,999, according to a pres...

BD expert leaves for Kathmandu to join investigation team

BD expert leaves for Kathmandu to join investigation team

-- 2018-03-18 18:51:18

Head of Aircraft Accident Investigation Group (AAIG) of Bangladesh Capt Salahuddin M Rahmatullah left for Kathmandu on Sunday. The expert will conduct joint investigation on the plane crash with Nepa...

E-agriculture services for farmers

E-agriculture services for farmers

-- 2018-03-18 18:09:14

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has launched digitalised e-agriculture service, aimed at providing necessary agriculture information and technology support to some 30 million (3 crore)...

Disability, disaster risk management conference in May

Disability, disaster risk management conference in May

-- 2018-03-18 18:07:24

The 2nd International Conference On Disability and Disaster Risk Management will be held in the capital on May 15 -17. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the three-day international confere...

Preparations underway to bring 17 bodies back to BD

Preparations underway to bring 17 bodies back to BD

-- 2018-03-18 17:47:17

Preparations are underway to bring the bodies of 17 Bangladesh nationals, who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal back, to Dhaka. Mohammad Al Alamul Emam, first secretary of Bangladeshi...

How government policy expedited women empowerment in Bangladesh

How government policy expedited women empowerment in Bangladesh

-- 2018-03-18 17:41:40

In nearly a decade, Bangladesh witnessed an appreciable rise in women empowerment in all fields including the government and private jobs, securing their dignified places in the armed forces and polic...

'Don't gather at DMCH to see plane crash victims'

'Don't gather at DMCH to see plane crash victims'

-- 2018-03-18 17:16:05

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim has requested the ministers and the political leaders not to gather at Dhaka Medical College Hospital to visit the US-Bangla plane crash survivors. The minister made th...

Bangladesh, India to hold river transit meeting in April

Bangladesh, India to hold river transit meeting in April

-- 2018-03-18 16:49:29

Bangladesh and India have agreed on the extension of Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) which was signed in 1972. The proposed high-level meeting on the Protocol on Inland Water Trans...

Pilot Abid’s wife suffers brain stroke

Pilot Abid’s wife suffers brain stroke

-- 2018-03-18 16:39:45

Afsana Khanom, wife of pilot Abid Sultan who died in the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu, suffered a brain stroke on Sunday morning. Afsana was admitted to the National Institute of Neuroscienc...

HC rejects writ on Section 70

HC rejects writ on Section 70

-- 2018-03-18 15:58:32

The High Court has rejected the writ petition that was filed challenging the legality of Section 70 of the Constitution that allows cancellation of parliament membership for crossing the floor. The s...

Rohingya crisis: IOM appeals for $182m

Rohingya crisis: IOM appeals for $182m

-- 2018-03-18 15:17:26

IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is appealing for US$182.1 million to assist 0.9 million Rohingya refugees and local community members in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. IOM's appeal is part of a broader US$ 9...

PM for maintaining standard of private medical colleges

PM for maintaining standard of private medical colleges

-- 2018-03-18 15:13:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to give special attention to the private medical colleges to make sure that they are following the standard of the medical education pr...

11,198 prisoners take skill dev training in 2016

11,198 prisoners take skill dev training in 2016

FE Online Report 2018-03-18 14:23:30

More than 11,000 convicted prisoners took part in the skill development programme in 2016. A total of 11,198 prisoners received training in the year before last, according to latest prison population...