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Taxmen find fake tax clearance certificates

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-22 09:53:17

Taxmen have detected a number of forged tax clearance certificates at field-level tax offices that were prepared with the support of vested quarters including tax practitioners and supporting tax offi...

Tarique's counsel presents arguments in Aug 21 case

-- 2018-01-22 09:15:53

State-appointed defence counsel of BNP's Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman has started presenting its arguments in the August 21 grenade attack case. The lawyer, Abul Kalam Akhtar Hossain, presente...

Traders protest New Market expansion move

-- 2018-01-22 07:58:37

Traders of capital's New Market have called off their protests against a second floor expansion at the market after getting the assurances of local lawmaker. Hundreds of traders, under the banner of...

Attempt to board moving train: DU student loses legs

-- 2018-01-22 05:36:03

A Dhaka University student has lost his both legs in an accident while trying to board a moving train in Sirajganj. The DU student, Shafiqul Islam Shanto (22), has been transferred to Dhaka for treat...

Detained edn ministry officials to face legal action: Nahid

-- 2018-01-22 04:55:09

The government will take legal steps against the two education ministry officials detained by law enforcers, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid. “Law enforcers have detained them so ther...

BDBL holds training course

FE Online Desk 2018-01-22 03:53:23

Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) has organised a training course at its Karwan Bazar Training Institute in Dhaka city, recently.   The BDBL arranged the five-day training course o...

Julphar BD holds annual conference

FE Online Desk 2018-01-22 03:00:03

Julphar Bangladesh Limited, a pharmaceutical company, has organised its annual conference at Hotel Sea Palace in Cox’s Bazar, recently. The sister concern of the Middle East’s largest pha...

Curbing tobacco conflicts with govt interest: MP

-- 2018-01-22 02:05:19

A ruling Awami League MP has pointed to the serious “conflict of interest” between the government of Bangladesh and the tobacco companies, saying that this is threatening the Prime Ministe...

DU TFP Dept to celebrate 6th anniv Tuesday

-- 2018-01-22 01:50:38

Television, Film and Photography Department (TFP) of Dhaka University will celebrate its 6th founding anniversary on Tuesday with colorful programmes. The department has arranged first film festival,...

Police detain 14 BCL men over Chittagong Polytechnic violence

-- 2018-01-21 12:42:46

Police arrested 14 leaders and activists of Chittagong Polytechnic Institute unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) from different student dormitories on Saturday evening. Police said they conducted a...

Ijtema ends with prayer for peace

-- 2018-01-21 12:27:40

Several lakhs of Muslims raised their hands seeking blessings for mankind as the second phase of Biswa Ijtema concluded with the final supplication Akheri Munajat on the banks of  Turag river on...

Police recover body of MP’s son in NAM flat

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Police have recovered the hanging body of Anik Aziz, the son of Satkhira-1 MP Mustafa Lutfullah ,in the NAM Bhaban on Dhaka’s Manik Miah Avenue. On information,Police went to Room 604 of Buildi...

Police recover bullet-hit body in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Police have recovered the body of an unknown man with a bullet wound from Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj. The body was found near the road to Mandartala village around 7am on Sunday, said Kaliganj Police...

NSE expresses interest to be strategic partner of DSE

Mohammad Mufazzal 2018-01-21 12:00:00

National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has expressed its interest to be strategic partner of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), according to officials of the securities regulator. A NSE delegation expre...

Two robbers die in B'baria 'gunfight'

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Two suspected robbers were killed in an alleged police shootout in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail. The incident took place late on Saturday night on the Shahbazpur-Dewra regional road, said Sarail Polic...

Apan owner to walk out on bail

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Apan Jewellers owner Dildar Ahmed can now walk out of prison as the High Court granted him bail in all three cases on money laundering on Thursday. Dildar stands accused in the cases filed with Dhanm...

HC defers hearing on CJ appointment to Jan 28

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

The High Court has deferred a hearing on a writ petition seeking the appointment of the chief justice from Supreme Court lawyers. Justice Zinat Ara and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo set Jan 28...

BNP making anti-govt statements : Quader

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP leaders are engaged in a competition of making anti-government statements to appease their high-ups. 80 percent conscious and honest...

Parliamentary committee contemplates naval museum in country

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Shipping Ministry has recommended establishing a naval museum in the country. The information was revealed at the 50th meeting of the parliamentary body Sunday...

Detectives detain Lakehead school owner, edn ministry duo  

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

The whereabouts of missing Lakehead Grammar School owner and two education ministry officials have been known at long last. The trio – school owner Khaled Hassan Matin, education ministry's upp...

Quader claims 80pc honest people despise BNP

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said 80 per cent conscious and honest people of the country hate Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Quader came up with the remarks in respons...

Rohingya repatriation to take more time

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Rohingya repatriation process will take more time, said convener of technical committee on repatriation and Cox's Bazar Rohingya Repatriation Commissioner M Abul Kalam on Sunday. "Rohingya repatriat...

BNP asks EC to stop PM from unilateral campaign

-- 2018-01-21 11:29:05

BNP has urged the Election Commission (EC) to stop Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from going for a unilateral electioneering before the announcement of the schedule for the next general election. BNP s...

Sound therapy ‘trains the brain to ignore tinnitus’

-- 2018-01-21 11:28:19

A sound-emitting device worn in the ear during sleep may train the brain to ignore an annoying chronic ringing in the ears, a new study suggests. People with the disorder, known as tinnitus, who slep...

1, 27,198 pilgrims to perform hajj this year from Bangladesh

-- 2018-01-21 10:33:26

Bangladesh has planned to send a total of 127,198 pilgrims to perform the holy hajj this year. Religious Affairs Minister Principal Matiur Rahman divulged the information at a press conference at his...

Move to launch two more metro rail projects by June

Munima Sultana 2018-01-21 09:44:16

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL) has planned to start the process of implementing two more metro rail projects in the city's two corridors by June this year. Sources said the state-owned comp...

Foreigners in three EPZs to get separate Commissionerates

-- 2018-01-21 09:13:10

The foreigners working at Mongla, Uttara and Ishwardi Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are going to get separate commissionerates. An official at the National Board of Revenue (NBR) revealed the inform...

Isn't it a clear contempt of court?

-- 2018-01-21 07:41:01

Pointing out state minister for LGRD Mashiur Rahman Ranga's comment on under-trial cases, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said Isn't it a clear case of contempt of court? The former Prime Minister ra...

Education Minister’s personal officer goes 'missing'

-- 2018-01-21 07:09:38

Personal officer (PO) of Education Minister Motaleb Hossain reportedly went missing from Basila area of the capital on Sunday. Motaleb's brother filed a general diary with Hazaribagh Police Station i...

Five-storey building tilts at Lalbagh

-- 2018-01-21 04:42:54

A five-storey building at Lalbagh of Dhaka may collapse any time as it tilted on Sunday. Lalbagh Police Station OC Subhash Kumar Pal said the building on Jagannath Saha Road tilted and is leaning tow...