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Transport-sector craves for internal resources

Transport-sector craves for internal resources

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-01-25 10:31:36

Transport sector that undertakes many mega-projects has a greater liking for easy-available internal resources and seeks an additional nearly Tk 10.64 billion in such funds in revised development budg...

Unicef views Rakhine situation ‘not conducive yet’ for Rohingya return

Unicef views Rakhine situation ‘not conducive yet’ for Rohingya return

-- 2018-01-25 09:55:30

A UN organisation has lauded bilateral Rohingya repatriation deal, but underscored that situation in Rakhine State is not conducive yet to start Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh to Myanmar. Unic...

Government to finalise solar rooftop guidelines within a month

Government to finalise solar rooftop guidelines within a month

-- 2018-01-25 09:11:43

The guidelines for net metering of solar rooftops will be finalised within a month, on Power Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus. The power secretary said this on Thursday while addressing a discussion at the...

Move to reclaim 1600sqm land in Jamuna, Padma

Move to reclaim 1600sqm land in Jamuna, Padma

-- 2018-01-25 09:04:10

The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) plans to reclaim 1600 square kilometres of land predominantly by narrowing down the width of Jamuna and Padma rivers in 25 years. The BWDB has prepared a...

USA announces $18.4m fresh fund  for Rohingya food assistance   

USA announces $18.4m fresh fund for Rohingya food assistance  

FE Online 2018-01-25 08:59:35

The United States on Thursday announced US$ 18.4 million emergency food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. According to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the la...

UN puts BD among priority countries to deal with leprosy

UN puts BD among priority countries to deal with leprosy

-- 2018-01-25 08:42:03

A UN body that deals with international public health has prioritised 22 countries, including Bangladesh, where action is needed to detect and treat leprosy early enough.  The World Health Organ...

Registered Rohingya number reaches 1.04m

Registered Rohingya number reaches 1.04m

-- 2018-01-25 08:10:32

Department of Immigration and Passports under Home Ministry have already completed registration of 1.038 million Rohingya people, who infiltrated into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar. The author...

Ecologically endangered Tanguar Haor fails to draw ‘guest birds’

Ecologically endangered Tanguar Haor fails to draw ‘guest birds’

-- 2018-01-25 07:48:25

An ecologically endangered area in Sunamganj, which is also a notable wetland in Asia, has been witnessing decrease in the number of migratory birds this winter. Experts and local people attributed s...

Death of Chittagong youth: Three cops withdrawn

Death of Chittagong youth: Three cops withdrawn

-- 2018-01-25 07:41:54

Three policemen were withdrawn in connection with the death of a youth in a clash between police and villagers at Bhatiari in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong on Wednesday night. The policemen are- su...

Verdicts against Khaleda will reflect PM’s desire: BNP

Verdicts against Khaleda will reflect PM’s desire: BNP

-- 2018-01-25 07:09:02

The BNP alleged that the verdicts in two graft cases filed against party's chairperson Khaleda Zia will reflect the Prime Minister's desire. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up...

ACC arrests former AB Bank chairman, two others

ACC arrests former AB Bank chairman, two others

-- 2018-01-25 06:31:53

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested former AB Bank chairman Wahidul Haque over his suspected involvement in laundering Taka 1.65 billion. ACC's spokesman Pranab Bhattacharya on Thursday...

Presidential election on Feb 18: CEC

Presidential election on Feb 18: CEC

FE Online Desk 2018-01-25 05:15:46

The presidential election will be held on February 18, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda said on Thursday. He said this while disclosing the presidential election schedule to the reporters in...

Indonesian, Swiss Presidents to visit Dhaka

Indonesian, Swiss Presidents to visit Dhaka

-- 2018-01-25 05:01:19

Presidents of Indonesia and Switzerland are scheduled to visit Dhaka in the last week of this month and the first week of February respectively. An official at foreign ministry said, Indonesian Presi...

President urges all to inform new generation of country’s real history

President urges all to inform new generation of country’s real history

-- 2018-01-25 04:59:19

Terming the freedom struggle a pride, President M Abdul Hamid on Thursday called upon all concerned to inform the new and future generation about the real history of country's struggle for freedom and...

Dhaka Bank sings MoU with Sanmar Properties

Dhaka Bank sings MoU with Sanmar Properties

FE Online Desk 2018-01-25 03:08:26

Dhaka Bank Limited and Sanmar Properties Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Sanmar Properties corporate office in Dhaka, recently. Md Shafquat Hossain, head of retail banking...

RAB detains seven ‘muggers ‘in city

RAB detains seven ‘muggers ‘in city

-- 2018-01-25 01:54:52

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested seven suspected muggers from Mohammadpur area in the city on Wednesday night. The arrestees were Md Shahidul Islam, hailing from Ramganj upazila of Laxmipur...

Govt achieves outstanding successes in education sector: Shahriar

Govt achieves outstanding successes in education sector: Shahriar

-- 2018-01-25 01:45:05

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said the incumbent government attained remarkable success in education sector. He mentioned the government attached highest priority to the education...

Two lovers use single rope to commit suicide

Two lovers use single rope to commit suicide

-- 2018-01-24 12:32:49

Two lovers committed suicide by hanging themselves from a tree using a single rope  beside Dighulia canal at Avoynagar upazila in Jessore on Tuesday as their love affair went awry. The deceased...

Decoprima pesticide saves veg fields from root rotting disease

Decoprima pesticide saves veg fields from root rotting disease

Our Correspondent 2018-01-24 12:00:00

Decoprima pesticide can be used in vegetable field for driving root and leaf rotten. It can be used when leaves turn yellowish, flowers fall and fungal attack. It makes plants strong and fresh. ...

NY court dismisses all charges against BD diplomat

NY court dismisses all charges against BD diplomat

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

A court in the United States dismissed all felony charges against Bangladesh's deputy consul general in New York, seven months after he was indicted in a case filed by the diplomat’s former dome...

PM inaugurates work on Mirsarai Economic Zone

PM inaugurates work on Mirsarai Economic Zone

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the works on BEPZA Economic Zone at Mirsarai in Chittagong by unveiling its foundation plague. The Premier launched the works on the economic zone on 1,150 ac...

TUs demand Tk 16,000 as minimum wage for RMG workers

TUs demand Tk 16,000 as minimum wage for RMG workers

FE Report 2018-01-24 12:00:00

A labour coalition demands Tk 16,000 as minimum monthly wage, with 10 per cent annual increment, for the workers of country's readymade garment sector. Garment Shramik Odhikar Andolan, a platform of...

UNICEF for better security before Rohingya repatriation in Myanmar

UNICEF for better security before Rohingya repatriation in Myanmar

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

UNICEF has called for ensuring improved security and unimpeded humanitarian access in Myanmar before sending back Rohingya children from Bangladesh. “Some 58 per cent of the refugees are childr...

HC upholds death for five over Zubair murder

HC upholds death for five over Zubair murder

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

The High Court has upheld the death sentences of the five people for the murder of Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed in the 2012. The final-year student was killed in an attack on Jan 8 t...

BD gets 5 UNESCO certificates over Bangabandhu's March 7 speech

BD gets 5 UNESCO certificates over Bangabandhu's March 7 speech

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has sent five certificates to Bangladesh endorsing the inscription of the historic 7th March Speech of Father of the Natio...

PM slams civil society again; terms them ‘dustbin of politics’

PM slams civil society again; terms them ‘dustbin of politics’

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

The prime minister has once again come down heavily on the civil society terming them the 'dustbin of politics and power'. On Wednesday, Sheikh Hasina in the parliament said, "There're some people wh...

Presidential election between February 18 and 20

Presidential election between February 18 and 20

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

The presidential election of Bangladesh will be held between February 18 and 20 in the parliament. The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the polls on Thursday. Chief Election Commis...

List of top loan defaulters revealed in parliament

List of top loan defaulters revealed in parliament

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

The scheduled banks and financial institutions have failed to realise some Tk 656.02 billion default loans over the last 10 years from the big borrowers. Each of these borrowers had taken loan amount...

HC stays DNCC mayoral by-polls for six months: EC

HC stays DNCC mayoral by-polls for six months: EC

-- 2018-01-24 11:57:23

The High Court has halted the Dhaka North mayoral by-polls and elections to 18 new wards in the city corporation by six months an Election Commission official said after getting copies of the orders o...

Three ‘robbers’ die in Barguna ‘gunfight’

Three ‘robbers’ die in Barguna ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-01-24 11:39:43

Three suspected forest robbers were killed in a shootout with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) near the Sundarbans in Barguna district on Wednesday morning. One of the deceased was identif...