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Five collect BNP ticket for DNCC by-polls

-- 2018-01-14 06:37:47

Five aspirants collected BNP’s nomination forms on Sunday for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-polls. The five are the party’s central leaders Tabith Awal and Asaduzzaman Ri...

Sailors to have better job scope on foreign ships

-- 2018-01-14 06:34:45

The government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the European Union (EU) for the acceptance of Bangladeshi certificates to increase job opportunities for the country's sailors on for...

Adolescents return home after languishing in Indian jail

-- 2018-01-14 06:33:38

Two Bangladeshi adolescent boys have returned home after languishing in an Indian jail for one and a half years. The juveniles, Surjo Protap and Anil Biswas, returned home through Darshana border of...

Muhith terms MPO system a bad policy

-- 2018-01-14 05:21:01

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has termed the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme for educational institutions a “bad policy”. "The system must be reformed," Muhith said while talking...

Pranab Mukherjee arrives in Dhaka

-- 2018-01-14 04:56:26

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a personal visit in Bangladesh. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla rec...

Late blight disease breaks out in Nilphamari

-- 2018-01-14 04:30:13

Late blight disease has broken out in the potato farmlands of Nilphamari district. Late blight is a potentially devastating disease of tomato and potato, infecting leaves, stems, and fruits of tomato...

Matia calls for using potato starch in RMG

-- 2018-01-14 03:53:47

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Sunday called upon the scientists of the country to innovate ways to use starch derived from potato in the readymade garments (RMG) industry. The minister made...

9 to die for AL leader’s murder

-- 2018-01-14 03:32:08

A Khulna court has sentenced nine people, including a former UP chairman, to death for killing Narail Awami League leader Probhash Roy. The Khulna Speedy Trial Tribunal handed down the verdict on Sun...

RCCI to boost regional trade

-- 2018-01-14 03:19:33

Leaders of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) have called for resolving some prevailing problems to boost trade, commerce to accelerate development in the region. They made the call at a...

Inner Wheel BD holds District conference

FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 02:57:20

Inner Wheel Bangladesh, a women's voluntary service organisation, arranged its 4th Annual District Conference at Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden recently. Over 200 members of 33 IW clubs from across...

Two stab each other to death in Kushtia

-- 2018-01-14 02:35:57

Two men have stabbed each other to death in Kushtia in an argument over a fire. The incident took place in front of the Sadar Upazila administration offices around 11:30am on Sunday, said bdnews24 ci...

Road crashes kill 4 in 2 dists

-- 2018-01-14 01:20:07

Four people died and 20 others were injured in two separate road accidents in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet district and Gopalganj Sadar upazila on Saturday. In Sylhet, Shri Shukla Rani, 23, wife of Ta...

IBBL holds business dev conference

FE Online Desk 2018-01-13 12:56:10

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has organised a two-day business development conference at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. Arastoo Khan, Chairman of the IBBL bank, addressed the concludin...

RAB nabs suspected arms trader

-- 2018-01-13 12:44:04

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a suspected arms trader along with firearms from Ekhlaspur area in  Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday night. The arrestee was identif...

Fish production gains popularity in Rajshahi

-- 2018-01-13 12:37:36

Fish production has increased appreciably in Rajshahi district after taking multidimensional development and extension programmes. "Fish production was 52,171 metric tonnes in 2009 while it increases...

Forex flies out as MNCs get insured abroad illicitly

Jasim Uddin Haroon and Syful Islam 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Many of the multinational companies (MNCs) in Bangladesh allegedly get underwritten the risk coverage of their assets from abroad on double deception: revenue evasion and foreign-exchange siphoning....

BD passport gives visa-free access to 38 countries

FE Online Report 2018-01-13 12:00:00

The passport holders of Bangladesh can avail visa-free access to 38 countries of the world, according to the latest report of Henley and Partner Passport Index. The index for 2018, unveiled today, ra...

Fog disrupts ferry services on 2 major routes

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Ferry services on the two major routes in Shimulia-Kathalbari and Paturia-Daulatdia in the Padma river were disrupted early Saturday due to dense fog. The ferry services were disrupted in Shimulia-Ka...

Malaysian devotee dies at Biswa Ijtema

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

A Malaysian devotee died at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Friday night. Giyas Uddian, another devotee, said Nurhan Bin Abdur Rahman, hailing from Malaysia, fell sick after completion of his ablutio...

City building catches fire

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

A fire broke out in a high-rise building at Moghbazar in the capital on Saturday. Fire Service and Civil Defence said the fire broke out at the basement of the 16-storey building in Moghbazar Chowras...

EC includes ‘Hijra’ in voter list

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

The Election Commission has added ‘Hijra’ to the voter list four years after the group received its official recognition. The EC made decision to amend the Voter List Act 2009 and the Vot...

Customs officials detain Japanese with 11kg gold

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Customs officials arrests a Japanese national along with 11 kilogrammes of gold worth about Taka 55 million from a flight of Regent Airways at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the earl...

AL starts selling DNCC by-polls nomination forms

FE Online Desk 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Awami League has started selling nomination papers for the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) from Saturday. Rasel Asheki and Adom Tamiji Huq collected the nomination papers from...

Dhaka-Ctg rail services resume

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Rail services on the Dhaka-Chittagong and Chittagong-Sylhet lines have resumed six hours after a collision between a DEMU train and a truck snapped the links. Train services resumed around 3:10 pm af...

Maulana Saad returns to Delhi

FE Online Desk 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Top scholar of Tabligh Jamaat Maulana Saad Kandhalvi of India left Dhaka for New Delhi on Saturday. Maulana Saad left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 12:00 pm in a flight of Jet A...

Tarana for women’s participation in films

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

State Minister for Information Tarana Halim on Saturday put the importance on ensuring women's equal participation in filmmaking in the country. She said this while speaking at the inaugural ceremony...

Collision halts Dhaka-Ctg train service

-- 2018-01-13 11:50:55

Dhaka-Chittagong railway communications have been halted as a DEMU train collided with a truck at Panusua in Comilla Sadar upazila. The accident took place around 9:30am on Saturday when the sand-lad...

Boy abducted in Chapainawabganj, rescued from Lalmonirhat

-- 2018-01-13 11:47:39

The law-enforcers rescued a nine-year-old boy from a house in Kanchshar village of Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat on Saturday, five days after being abducted from Chapainawabganj. UNB said the rescu...

Rohingya refugee stabs fellow to death in Cox's Bazar

-- 2018-01-13 11:42:21

A Rohingya man stabbed another displaced Myanmar national to death at the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday over an old feud. Ukhiya Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Ab...

AL rules out BNP's demand for dialogue

-- 2018-01-13 11:31:09

Ruling party Awami League (AL) has virtually ruled out arch-rival BNP's demand for holding dialogue ahead of the next Jatiya Sangsad polls. AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader said, "The next general...