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BRAC Bank inks deal with Bangla Trac

BRAC Bank inks deal with Bangla Trac

-- 2018-02-11 15:38:13

BRAC Bank Limited has recently signed an employee banking agreement with Bangla Trac Group at the latter’s head office in Dhaka. Under the agreement, it will provide salary disbursement and all...

Mobile internet goes off before SSC test

Mobile internet goes off before SSC test

-- 2018-02-11 14:16:11

Telecom operators stalled internet connections for over an hour before the SSC test on information and communication technology started on Sunday. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission t...

Rajshahi road crash kills bus driver

Rajshahi road crash kills bus driver

-- 2018-02-11 14:07:48

A bus driver was killed and his helper injured in a road accident near Sarangpur Boro mosque on Dhaka-Chapainawabganj highway in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi on Sunday morning. The deceased was...

Hajj pilgrims want cancellation of additional plane fare

Hajj pilgrims want cancellation of additional plane fare

FE Online Report 2018-02-11 13:54:29

A rights organisation has called for cancellation of additional plane fare for Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims during the ensuing hajj. The Bangladesh Pilgrim and Haji Welfare Council also demanded reducti...

Khaleda be given first class division, court orders

Khaleda be given first class division, court orders

-- 2018-02-11 13:48:28

A Dhaka court has directed the authorities to provide BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was jailed for five years in a graft case, with the facilities of the first class division as per the jail code.&...

Man punches, kicks bear for attacking his puppy

Man punches, kicks bear for attacking his puppy

-- 2018-02-11 13:15:06

A Maine man says he punched and kicked a 150-pound bear, scaring it away after it attacked his puppy in the woods. Twenty-nine-year-old Dustin Gray said the bear lunged at him and his 11-month-old pu...

PM en route to Rome for IFAD meeting

PM en route to Rome for IFAD meeting

-- 2018-02-11 10:40:33

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka for Rome on Sunday morning on a four-day official visit to attend the upcoming meeting of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). An Em...

DSE board endorses Chinese consortium as strategic partner

DSE board endorses Chinese consortium as strategic partner

FE Report 2018-02-11 10:27:40

The board of directors of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has approved the proposal coming from a consortium of two Chinese stock exchanges - Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange to be a...

Planned urbanisation of Dhaka city in a mess

Planned urbanisation of Dhaka city in a mess

FE Report 2018-02-11 10:13:33

Urban experts and civil society members Saturday expressed dismay over various attempts to destroy Dhaka city by spoiling different plans for planned urbanisation which is now in a mess. They noted t...

BNP accuses govt of keeping Khaleda in solitary confinement

BNP accuses govt of keeping Khaleda in solitary confinement

-- 2018-02-10 23:52:21

BNP on Saturday accused the government of keeping its chairperson Khaleda Zia in solitary confinement at the abandoned old Dhaka central jail. It also demanded that she be given division immediately,...

Intellectually challenged teenager fall victim of rape in Kalagachhia

Intellectually challenged teenager fall victim of rape in Kalagachhia

-- 2018-02-10 23:37:29

A 15-year-old intellectually impaired teenage girl was raped at Kalagachhia of Bandar upazila on Friday night, says UNB. Victim's mother filed a case with Bandar Police Station accusing Rubel, 25, so...

Int’l media keep covering Khaleda Zia’s conviction

Int’l media keep covering Khaleda Zia’s conviction

FE Online Report 2018-02-10 22:28:00

The international media have kept covering BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s conviction and its impact on the next general election in the country. Most of the international news outlets on Satu...

Dhaka board chief assures arrest of question leakers

Dhaka board chief assures arrest of question leakers

-- 2018-02-10 22:27:48

Those responsible for Secondary School Certificate (SSC) question paper leaks will be brought to justice within days. Acting Chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board Shahedul...

Government decides to augment police force

Government decides to augment police force

-- 2018-02-10 21:50:28

The government, in a view to augment more manpower into police force, decided to appoint 10,000 people as constables. To this end, a circular has been published seeking aspirants to apply for the pos...

Quader terms Khaleda verdict warning for corrupt politicians

Quader terms Khaleda verdict warning for corrupt politicians

-- 2018-02-10 21:05:54

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said the verdict against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is a warning message for the country’s corrupt politicians. "The judgment that the court...

Another mudslide, another death

Another mudslide, another death

-- 2018-02-10 20:34:09

A worker was killed in a Sylhet mudslide Saturday morning while he was extracting stones from a quarry in Bichhnakandi area of Gowainghat Upazila. The deceased was identified as Ruhel Mia, 25, son of...

Thrust on investment in rural people to build social stability

Thrust on investment in rural people to build social stability

-- 2018-02-10 20:24:31

International personalities and heads-of-state in IFAD meeting in Rome, Italy will discuss how investing in sustainable rural livelihoods is central to peace-building, state-building and social stabil...

Khaleda at old jail: Oli sees government-JP nexus

Khaleda at old jail: Oli sees government-JP nexus

-- 2018-02-10 20:12:56

The Awami League government along with its ally Jatiya Party has orchestrated the plan to keep BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at the abandoned Dhaka central jail.  Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Pr...

Bangladeshi woman faces terror charges in Australia

Bangladeshi woman faces terror charges in Australia

-- 2018-02-10 19:25:30

A 24-year-old Bangladeshi woman was charged with engaging in a terrorist act after an alleged stabbing incident in Melbourne of Australia. She is accused of stabbing a 56-year-old man in the neck w...

Khaleda Zia yet to get division in jail

Khaleda Zia yet to get division in jail

-- 2018-02-10 19:16:59

Chairperson of BNP Khaleda Zia has not yet been given division in jail although she is a former prime minister. Senior BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed came up with the allegation on Saturday. Acco...

BCL activists bash journalist for misspelling organisation’s name

BCL activists bash journalist for misspelling organisation’s name

-- 2018-02-10 19:10:35

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists allegedly bashed two journalists in Sylhet on Saturday over the spelling of the organisation's name in a Facebook post. The victims are Gopal Bardhan, distri...

BNP to mount pressure on government for releasing Khaleda

BNP to mount pressure on government for releasing Khaleda

-- 2018-02-10 19:00:26

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) decided to further mount pressure on the government to release the party’ chief Khaleda Zia from jail.   To this end, BNP on Saturday announced anoth...

UK to continue support to BD on Rohingya issue

UK to continue support to BD on Rohingya issue

-- 2018-02-10 18:57:47

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Saturday assured Bangladesh of continuing its support to the country on Rohingya issue saying the UK stands beside Bangladesh. He highly appreciated Banglad...

China, UN extends further support to flood victims

China, UN extends further support to flood victims

-- 2018-02-10 18:42:28

China, along with the United Nations decided to extend further rehabilitate the flood effected people of last year’s flood. To this end, the embassy of China in association with the United Nati...

PM leaves for Italy on Sunday

PM leaves for Italy on Sunday

-- 2018-02-10 18:42:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Rome on Sunday morning on a four-day official visit to Italy. The Prime Minister is going to Italy to attend the annual governing council meeting of...

Husband ‘slaughters’ wife, sister-in-law in Kishoreganj

Husband ‘slaughters’ wife, sister-in-law in Kishoreganj

-- 2018-02-10 18:27:08

A man allegedly slaughtered his wife and sister-in-law in sequel to a family feud at Borobangla under Nikli upazila in Kishoreganj on Saturday. The victims were identified as Aysha Khatun, 22, an exp...

Trader killed in Satkhira road crash

Trader killed in Satkhira road crash

-- 2018-02-10 18:20:10

A local trader of milk was killed on Saturday as a motorcycle collided head-on with his milk carrying three-wheeler on Satkhira-Kaliganj road in Debhata upazila of the district. The deceased was iden...

EU teams to visit Rohingya camp Monday

EU teams to visit Rohingya camp Monday

-- 2018-02-10 17:58:12

Four teams of European Parliament members will visit a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Monday to see their plight on the ground. One of the teams arrived in Dhaka on Saturday and three others are sch...

BNP throws fresh programmes amid police action against demo

BNP throws fresh programmes amid police action against demo

FE Online Report 2018-02-10 17:43:26

The BNP announced on Saturday new three-day programmes, including sit-in protests and a hunger strike, to protest the conviction of party chief Khaleda Zia. The new programmes were announced at the p...

Call for law to protect agricultural land

Call for law to protect agricultural land

FE Online Report 2018-02-10 15:32:31

Speakers at a discussion have called for the formulation of a law to protect agricultural land, ensuring food security for all. Farm land grabbing has put the food security at risk, they said at a ro...