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Govt makes it must for coaching to close before SSC exams

Govt makes it must for coaching to close before SSC exams

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

Ministry of education in its frantic bid to check question leak has ordered coaching centres to close three days before start of the next SSC and equivalent examinations. It also asked the centres to...

ACC bemoans ‘government’s inertia’ to check large-scale graft

ACC bemoans ‘government’s inertia’ to check large-scale graft

-- 2018-01-08 07:18:40

The chief of national anti-graft watchdog has lamented that the government has not responded to the constitutional body’s efforts to check large-scale graft. On Monday, Anti-Corruption Commissi...

EC to announce DNCC by-polls schedule Tuesday

EC to announce DNCC by-polls schedule Tuesday

-- 2018-01-08 06:31:11

The Election Commission will announce on Tuesday the schedule for the by-election to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). "The schedule will be declared tomorrow (Tuesday) as the...

SC grants bail to Apan Jewellers owners

SC grants bail to Apan Jewellers owners

-- 2018-01-08 06:01:53

The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court decision granting bail to the three owners of Apan Jewellers in two money laundering cases. Among the three brothers, Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed are now f...

BCL observes strike in Sylhet

BCL observes strike in Sylhet

-- 2018-01-08 05:55:00

Academic activities at MC College and Sylhet Govt College in the district came to a halt as a faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) enforced an indefinite strike on Monday protesting the murder o...

Govt shifts Khaleda's more 14 cases to Bakshibazar court

Govt shifts Khaleda's more 14 cases to Bakshibazar court

-- 2018-01-08 05:03:32

The government has shifted more 14 cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to the makeshift court at Bakshibazar in Dhaka. The law ministry issued three gazette notifications in this regard o...

Arum brings solvency to Gopalganj farmers

Arum brings solvency to Gopalganj farmers

Our Correspondent 2018-01-08 04:10:26

Farmers of Latifpur union under Gopalganj Sadar upazila are becoming financially solvent by growing a variety of arum, locally known as Latiraj, as it brings them good profits for low production cost....

‘Rivals’ stab BCL man to death in Sylhet

‘Rivals’ stab BCL man to death in Sylhet

-- 2018-01-08 03:19:56

A local activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed to death allegedly by rivals at Tilagor in Sylhet on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Tanim Khan, an activist of Sylhet Gov...

Be pro-people: PM to police

Be pro-people: PM to police

-- 2018-01-08 01:38:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the police to build themselves as members of a pro-people force mentioning their duty towards people is huge. "You must always remember that you're the members...

Taxpayers suffer as NBR can't carefully verify return audit

Taxpayers suffer as NBR can't carefully verify return audit

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Government revenue authority lacks scope to centrally verify accuracy of the selected tax-returns coming from outfield offices for audit, resulting in alleged harassment of the taxpayers. Sources sai...

Six Bangladeshis among dead in Saudi road crash

Six Bangladeshis among dead in Saudi road crash

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Nine people, including at least six Bangladeshi nationals, have reportedly been killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan. The incident occurred on the road between the governorates of...

UPDF blockade underway in Khagrachhari

UPDF blockade underway in Khagrachhari

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

A dawn-to-dusk road blockade is underway in the district on Sunday protesting the murder of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) organiser Mithun Chakma and the obstruction to hold his funereal cer...

Narsingdi road crash kills 3 bikers

Narsingdi road crash kills 3 bikers

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Three passengers have died after a motorcycle crashed into a ditch in Narsingdi’s Sadar Upazila. The accident took place in the Meghna Bazar area around 8am on Sunday, said bdnews24 citing Madh...

Tarana takes new assignment at information ministry

Tarana takes new assignment at information ministry

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

State Minister Tarana Halim, who was transferred from the telecoms ministry to the information ministry in the cabinet re-shuffle, has begun to work at her new offices. She went to her new offices on...

President for utilising youth's potentials to build 'Sonar Bangla'

President for utilising youth's potentials to build 'Sonar Bangla'

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

President M Abdul Hamid put importance on utilising immense energies and potentials of youth forces to build a developed 'Sonar Bangla'. "Youth must be freed from the influence of bad culture with th...

Hindu Rohingyas want to return to Myanmar

Hindu Rohingyas want to return to Myanmar

FE Online Desk 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Hindus who lived alongside the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state and now are residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh want to return. "We want security and we want food. If the authorities can give...

3 assistant attorneys general resign

3 assistant attorneys general resign

FE Online Desk 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Three assistant attorneys general have resigned as they were not promoted. They submitted their resignation letters to the administrative officer of attorney general on Sunday noon. They are ARM Has...

Bangladesh loses 10 lives in Saudi crash

Bangladesh loses 10 lives in Saudi crash

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Ten Bangladeshi workers were killed in a fatal road accident in Western Jizan province of Saudi Arabia. The accident took place around 7:00pm on Saturday when a vehicle hit a truck carrying 20 Bangla...

HC postpones three banks' recruitment test

HC postpones three banks' recruitment test

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

The High Court has postponed the written test to recruit officers for state-owned Sonali, Rupali and Janata banks. The test was scheduled to be held on January 12 to recruit senior officers, officers...

Govt mulls banning rally in Dhaka on working days

Govt mulls banning rally in Dhaka on working days

FE Online Report 2018-01-07 12:00:00

The government has decided to impose a ban on holding meetings or rallies on streets of the capital on working days. The move has been initiated with an aim to lessen public sufferings from severe...

AB bank chairman, director to face ACC tomorrow

AB bank chairman, director to face ACC tomorrow

-- 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Country's anti-graft watchdog has now summoned AB Bank's newly-appointed chairman and one of the bank's directors for, what it said, laundering of money. The two, including chairman MA Awal, were als...

Criminal dies in ‘gunfight between them’

Criminal dies in ‘gunfight between them’

-- 2018-01-07 11:55:30

Police have recovered the body of a murder suspect who they say was ‘shot dead in a shootout between criminals’. The shootout occurred in Sharanpur village in Monirampur Upazila on Sunday...

Comilla ‘gunfight’ kills robber

Comilla ‘gunfight’ kills robber

-- 2018-01-07 11:38:52

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in Comilla Sadar upazila early Sunday. Deceased Abu Taher, 28, son of Abul Khayer Miah and a resident of Songraish area of Co...

Minister rules out separate secretariat idea for judiciary

Minister rules out separate secretariat idea for judiciary

-- 2018-01-07 10:40:03

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Huq has rejected outright the idea of a separate secretariat for judiciary. Terming it a unrealistic demand, he said, "There is no separate...

President calls for unity against terrorism, militancy

President calls for unity against terrorism, militancy

-- 2018-01-07 09:01:33

The 19th session of the 10th parliament began on Sunday afternoon with the session scheduled to conclude on February 28. President Md Abdul Hamid, while addressing the inaugural session of 2018 in th...

Speaker nominates five-member panel of chairman

Speaker nominates five-member panel of chairman

-- 2018-01-07 06:36:00

A five-member panel of chairman was nominated by the Speaker for the 19th session of the 10th parliament on Sunday. Members of the panel are - Faruk Khan, Panchanan Biswas, BM Mozammel Huq, Fakhrul I...

PM, Joy behind my success in telecom: Tarana

PM, Joy behind my success in telecom: Tarana

-- 2018-01-07 05:23:36

State Minister for Information Tarana Halim has attributed her successes in immediate past assignment to strong direction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and PM's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy. "I per...

35 cops injured as bus plunges into ditch

35 cops injured as bus plunges into ditch

-- 2018-01-07 05:02:19

Thirty five policemen were injured as a bus carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch in central bus terminal area of Kushtia on Saturday night. The bus carrying 40 policemen plunged into the ditch...

A hiding Jamaat leader behind disappearances: Quader

A hiding Jamaat leader behind disappearances: Quader

FE Online Desk 2018-01-07 04:49:28

A BNP-Jamaat leader who had gone into hiding in Sweden after the January 5 general elections, is behind the cases of disappearances in Bangladesh, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has sai...

Peasants expect bumper output of lentil in Natore

Peasants expect bumper output of lentil in Natore

Our Correspondent 2018-01-07 03:39:51

Hundreds of poor and marginal farmers in Natore district are expecting a bumper lentil output this season. They have cultivated it well on a wider scale this season considering its lucrative price la...