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New judges for Supreme Court soon

New judges for Supreme Court soon

-- 2018-01-10 12:12:34

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Huq has said that the new judges will be appointed soon to both the Appellate Division and High Court Division of the Supreme Court. He came...

Secondary trading of T-bills, T-bonds drops by 45pc

Secondary trading of T-bills, T-bonds drops by 45pc

Asjadul Kibria 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Secondary trading of treasury bills and treasury bonds, two short-and long-term fixed income government securities, declined steeply last year. Latest statistics of the central bank showed that the t...

Dhaka hopeful of new beginning with Myanmar

Dhaka hopeful of new beginning with Myanmar

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Bangladesh is hoping for a new beginning with Myanmar through the repatriation of Rohingays, whose influx has remained as an irritant in the bilateral relations. "With the repatriation of the Rohingy...

PM pays tribute to Bangabandhu on Homecoming Day

PM pays tribute to Bangabandhu on Homecoming Day

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his historic Homecoming Day. She paid the homage by placing w...

Two to die for Moulvibazar genocide

Two to die for Moulvibazar genocide

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

A special court has sentenced two people – Yunus Ahmed and Ujer Ahmed Chowdhury – to death for their 1971 crimes, including genocide, in Moulvibazar.   The International Crime Tribun...

Eminent journalist Kazi Mamunul Haq dies

Eminent journalist Kazi Mamunul Haq dies

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Kazi Mamunul Haq, economic editor of the now defunct the Bangladesh Observer, has died at the age of 72. Haq breathed his last at his Shantinagar residence around 10:30pm on Tuesday after sufferings...

State of Rakhine children gravely worries UNICEF

State of Rakhine children gravely worries UNICEF

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Rohingya children need a political solution to the issue of legal identity and citizenship and in the interim they need to be recognised first and foremost as children, said the UNICEF on Tuesday. "T...

Woman hacked dead over land dispute

Woman hacked dead over land dispute

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

A woman was hacked to death over land dispute in Mohichile village of Chandina upazila of Comilla on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Shilpi Rani Das (38), wife of Ranjit Das of the...

Tabligh-Jamaat protests choke traffic on airport road

Tabligh-Jamaat protests choke traffic on airport road

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

The roads in and around the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka is completely gridlocked following protests over the arrival of a top religious scholar from India to attend the Biswa Ijtem...

Transfer of Khaleda’s cases is vicious step: BNP

Transfer of Khaleda’s cases is vicious step: BNP

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

BNP on Wednesday said the transfer of 14 cases filed against its Chairperson Khaleda Zia to a Bakshibazar special court is a brutal government step. "The transfer of 14 false cases filed against our...

Man throws newborn’s body from vehicle in Nilphamari

Man throws newborn’s body from vehicle in Nilphamari

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

The body of a newborn wrapped in a bag was thrown from a human-hauler at Bamnabamni village in Jaldhaka upazila on Wednesday. Witnesses said a man and a woman threw a bag from the running human-haule...

HC asks ACC to probe assets of BASIC bank ex-MD, DMD properties

HC asks ACC to probe assets of BASIC bank ex-MD, DMD properties

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

The High Court on Wednesday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to conduct inquiry into the properties of former managing director of BASIC Bank Kazi Fakhrul Islam and former deputy managing direc...

Expo on garment accessories begins Jan 24

Expo on garment accessories begins Jan 24

FE Report 2018-01-10 11:57:27

A four-day fair related to garment accessories and packaging products, known as 'GAPEXPO' will begin on January 24 in the city's International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB). The Bangladesh Garme...

Top 10 cos snare 33pc of total turnover on DSE

Top 10 cos snare 33pc of total turnover on DSE

FE Report 2018-01-10 11:50:38

Top 10 companies grabbed 33 per cent of the total turnover featured by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Tuesday. The premier bourse DSE featured a turnover of above Tk 4.48 billion which was 6.15 per ce...

BSEC approves prospectus of Credence Unit Fund

BSEC approves prospectus of Credence Unit Fund

FE Report 2018-01-10 11:38:20

The securities regulator Tuesday approved the draft prospectus of Credence First Shariah Unit Fund. The initial size of the fund will be Tk 100 million. The approval came at a meeting held at the of...

We made Bangladesh break away: Nawaz

We made Bangladesh break away: Nawaz

-- 2018-01-10 11:11:22

Comparing his situation with the revolt of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the recently ousted prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has said his country pushed Bangladesh to break away. Speakin...

NBR relaxing condition to have more VAT awardees

NBR relaxing condition to have more VAT awardees

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-10 10:08:08

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to relax that condition that makes10 per cent higher VAT payment on an annual basis mandatory to help the businesses to be eligible for the VAT payers'...

Take vow to build nation as dreamt by Bangabandhu: PM

Take vow to build nation as dreamt by Bangabandhu: PM

-- 2018-01-10 07:32:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called upon her party men to work together to gear up the pace of development and take a vow to build a Bangladesh as dreamt by Bangabandhu. "Bangabandhu is...

Khaleda seeks penalty for prosecution witnesses

Khaleda seeks penalty for prosecution witnesses

-- 2018-01-10 07:08:07

BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s lawyers pleaded to court to punish prosecution witnesses in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, accusing them of forging documents and perjury. The defence continued its...

55180 more people to get power connections at Matlab: Maya

55180 more people to get power connections at Matlab: Maya

-- 2018-01-10 05:51:14

Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, said on Wednesday 55180 more people have been brought under power connections at Motlab Uttar and Dakhhin upazilas...

ACC sues JP leader, wife for loan fraud

ACC sues JP leader, wife for loan fraud

-- 2018-01-10 05:33:33

The Anti-Corruption Commission filed cases against senior Jatiya Party leader Morshed Murad Ibrahim and his lawmaker wife Mahjabeen Morshed for loan swindle involving Tk 2.75 billion from BASIC Bank....

Police must work with more dedication: President

Police must work with more dedication: President

-- 2018-01-10 04:55:41

President Md Abdul Hamid has said that the police must serve people with more dedication and responsiveness because that is how they can win people’s trust. Addressing a programme at the Bangab...

Commuters suffer in absence of bridge  over Nagor River in Adamdighi UZ

Commuters suffer in absence of bridge over Nagor River in Adamdighi UZ

Our Correspondent 2018-01-09 12:21:31

BOGRA, Jan 8: Thousands commuters of 21 villages under Adamdighi upazila of Bogra district are mostly depend on bamboo made temporary bridge over Nagor River from two decades back. The commuters susp...

Growers making handsome profit from winter vegetable cultivation

Growers making handsome profit from winter vegetable cultivation

Roving Correspondent 2018-01-09 12:19:01

JOYPURHAT, Jan 8: A good number ultra-poor peasants of Joypurhat district are making handsome profit from cultivating winter vegetables commercially in this current season due to its good market price...

Temperature rises all over slowly

Temperature rises all over slowly

-- 2018-01-09 12:00:00

The country is witnessing a respite from the severe cold wave that has been continuing for the past few days and plunged mercury to a 50-year low on Monday. The temperature across the country rose by...

Mobile courts under executive magistrates get more time

Mobile courts under executive magistrates get more time

-- 2018-01-09 12:00:00

The executive magistrate can run mobile court until the settlement of three appeals filed by the government against the HC verdict over the mobile court act. A five-member Appellate Division bench le...

Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls Feb 26

Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls Feb 26

FE Online Desk 2018-01-09 12:00:00

By-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation will be held on February 26, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. By-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation fell vacant after death of former mayor An...

Padma rail project in slow lane

Padma rail project in slow lane

-- 2018-01-09 12:00:00

The Padma rail link project appears to be uncertain as the government has failed to sign a loan agreement with a China bank in time. Railway ministry sent a letter to the Prime Minister’s Offic...

Robber dies in Sundarbans ‘gunfight’

Robber dies in Sundarbans ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-01-09 12:00:00

A suspected forest robber was killed in a alleged gunfight with police in Katiarkhal area of Sarankhola upazila in Sundarbans East Zone early Tuesday. The deceased was, 30, a resident of Bouddhomari...

PM asks police to gain people's confidence

PM asks police to gain people's confidence

-- 2018-01-09 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the police to gain the trust and confidence of people as this is very important for them. "There's a proverb in Bengali, 'Baghe dhorle ek gha, police dho...