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BGB recovers Tk 3.46m ‘Hundi’ money  in Jessore

BGB recovers Tk 3.46m ‘Hundi’ money in Jessore

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

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 'hundi' money Tk 3.46 million from Sadhupur border area in Sharsha upazila on Tuesday morning. Lt Col Ariful Haque, Commanding Officer of BGB-49 bat...

Cops detain 40 in in Sherpur

Cops detain 40 in in Sherpur

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

Police in a special drive arrested 40 people, accused in different cases, from different areas in the district on Tuesday. The drive was conducted from Monday evening to Tuesday morning, additional p...

BD, China archaeologists unearth Buddhist heritage site

BD, China archaeologists unearth Buddhist heritage site

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

A joint team of archaeologists of Bangladesh and China have unearthed an archaeological site in Bangladesh with unique architectural features. The site contains the remains of a Buddhist town and tem...

Govt withdraws DIG Mizan from DMP

Govt withdraws DIG Mizan from DMP

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

The government has removed Deputy Inspector General of police Mizanur Rahman from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police over allegations of abducting a woman and later marrying her forcefully. Rahman, an Add...

Now madrasa teachers on hunger strike

Now madrasa teachers on hunger strike

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

Following into the footsteps of non-MPO teachers, ebtedai madrasa teachers have launched a hunger strike demanding nationalisation of all registered institutions. Hundreds of madrasa teachers, at the...

Bheramara power plant commissioned to open

Bheramara power plant commissioned to open

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

Engineering major Larsen & Toubro has commissioned and handed over the 360 MW Bheramara Power Plant to the respective authority. The Bheramara Combined Cycle Power Plant Development project was h...

Jessore to have country's first ever flower research centre

Jessore to have country's first ever flower research centre

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

The government has a plan to establish a regional flower research centre at Jessore. Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury came up with the statement while responding to a query placed by lawmak...

New law to stop illegal trade of human organs

New law to stop illegal trade of human organs

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

The Jatiya Sangsad on Tuesday introduced a bill to stop illegal trade of human organs.  The 'Transplantation of Human Organs Bill, 2018', was passed in Parliament with a provision of three years...

Customs seizes Indian goods worth Tk 2.5m

Customs seizes Indian goods worth Tk 2.5m

-- 2018-01-09 10:11:59

Customs officials seized Indian goods worth Tk 2.5 million (25 lakh) from a Dhaka-bound Indian bus in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura land port. Debasish Kundu, revenue officer of the port, said that a team o...

Publishers want reconsideration of Ekushey stall allocation by January 11

Publishers want reconsideration of Ekushey stall allocation by January 11

FE Online Report 2018-01-09 09:25:51

A section of the publishers have protested against, what they said, discriminatory stall allocation policy ahead of this year’s Ekushey Book Fair. A number of publishing houses, including Behul...

President seeks Myanmar's cooperation to start Rohingya repatriation soon

President seeks Myanmar's cooperation to start Rohingya repatriation soon

-- 2018-01-09 09:19:09

President Abdul Hamid has sought cooperation from newly appointed Myanmar Ambassador to Dhaka to start Rohingya repatriation process soon. The President made the call when the envoy, U Lwin Oo, prese...

HRD, green projects essential to ensure progress: Wahiduddin

HRD, green projects essential to ensure progress: Wahiduddin

-- 2018-01-09 05:31:07

Eminent economist Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud has stressed the importance of human resource development for the overall progress of any country, especially Bangladesh.  He also expressed cautions again...

Disparity in police organogram hinders public safety: DMP chief

Disparity in police organogram hinders public safety: DMP chief

-- 2018-01-09 05:14:10

The chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has said imbalances and inconsistencies persist in the organogram of Bangladesh police force.  "As a result, overall supervision including maintaining...

Jubair murder case: HC verdict Jan 23

Jubair murder case: HC verdict Jan 23

-- 2018-01-09 02:57:58

The High Court on Tuesday set January 23 for delivering its verdict on the death reference and appeals in sensational Zubair Ahmed murder case in 2012. The HC bench of Justice Bhabani Prasad Singha a...

Cops detain 11 in Habiganj

Cops detain 11 in Habiganj

-- 2018-01-09 01:02:49

Police arrested 11 persons including six wanted accused from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending. They were picked up from different areas of the district on different charges, sai...

Journalist Hasanuzzaman Khan dies

Journalist Hasanuzzaman Khan dies

-- 2018-01-08 12:38:29

Eminent journalist Hasanuzzaman Khan has died at the age of 69. The former associate editor of the New Nation breathed his last at his Mirpur residence around 9:00pm on Sunday. His namaz-e-janaza (f...

Cold wave may persist until tomorrow

Cold wave may persist until tomorrow

-- 2018-01-08 12:31:31

The cold wave sweeping over the country may continue until tomorrow (Tuesday) while the chilling condition is likely to improve from January 10, according to an official at the Met office, reports BSS...

Successful poultry farm owner Daud  now dreams of feed industry

Successful poultry farm owner Daud now dreams of feed industry

Our Correspondent 2018-01-08 12:23:27

MAGURA, Jan 7: The story is about an educated youth who is now dreaming to set up poultry feed industry after achieving outstanding success in poultry firming. Daud Hossen, son of Abul Hossen of vi...

Country records lowest ever temperature

Country records lowest ever temperature

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:00:00

Bangladesh has experienced the coldest ever temperature in the extreme northern district of Panchagarh. It recorded 2.6 degree Celsius at Tentulia upazila on Monday morning, local television channel...

HC rejects writ seeking mandatory observance of national days

HC rejects writ seeking mandatory observance of national days

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:00:00

The High Court has rejected a writ petition seeking its order making mandatory the observance of eight National Days for all political parties and citizens. A two-member bench of Justice Kazi Reza-ul...

Two Bangladeshis among 32 still missing after vessels collide off China

Two Bangladeshis among 32 still missing after vessels collide off China

Reuters 2018-01-08 12:00:00

Rescue crews scrambled to bring a blaze on an Iranian oil tanker off China’s east coast under control on Monday as fire raged for a second day following a collision with a grain ship, while the...

12 die as temperature dips record low

12 die as temperature dips record low

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:00:00

Bone-chilling cold and thick fog have engulfed the country as the temperature has hit a 50-year low. At least 12 people, including six children, died of cold-related diseases in Rajshahi, Kurigram an...

Introduce provincial government system: Ershad

Introduce provincial government system: Ershad

-- 2018-01-08 11:27:41

Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad Monday called upon the government for introducing provincial system of government to ensure welfare of the common people. "Without provincial govern...

Bus, truck collide head-on, killing two

Bus, truck collide head-on, killing two

-- 2018-01-08 11:25:11

A woman and a bus driver were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Gonapara area of Gopalganj sadar upazila early Monday. The decea...

Teachers torture guardian for query in Cox's Bazar

Teachers torture guardian for query in Cox's Bazar

-- 2018-01-08 11:14:16

The guardian of a boy student has been tortured by teachers of a school after asking to know about results of his son and alleged irregularities. The barbaric incident was reported in Cox's Bazar on...

Govt steps up to manage Bay of Bengal fisheries

Govt steps up to manage Bay of Bengal fisheries

-- 2018-01-08 10:38:57

The government has formulated a plan of action for sustainable management of fisheries resources in the Bay of Bengal. Newly-elected minister for fisheries and livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda came u...

Govt mulls product diversification to make sugar mills profitable

Govt mulls product diversification to make sugar mills profitable

Talha Bin Habib 2018-01-08 10:31:02

The government has initiated a move to diversify products in the state-owned sugar mills by tapping the existing potential in order to make them profitable, officials said. The ministry of industries...

DTCA to ban street rallies on weekdays to ease gridlock

DTCA to ban street rallies on weekdays to ease gridlock

FE Report 2018-01-08 10:24:56

Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has decided to ban holding of any kind of meeting or rally on the city streets during the weekdays for lessening public sufferings caused by severe traffi...

Take quick steps against Farmers Bank: TIB to government

Take quick steps against Farmers Bank: TIB to government

FE Online Report 2018-01-08 09:09:33

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to take quick and effective measures against Farmers Bank to return the deposit of Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCCTF)....

Father gets fined for son’s marriage with Rohingya fiancé

Father gets fined for son’s marriage with Rohingya fiancé

-- 2018-01-08 08:45:13

A top court in Bangladesh has fined a father Tk 100,000 following his son's marriage with a Rohingya girl in defiance of a government ban. The fine was slapped on Monday as a two-member High Court (H...