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EC wants to ease way for independent candidates

EC wants to ease way for independent candidates

-- 2018-01-04 12:22:36

The Election Commission has made a draft of 31 recommendations from the over 500 proposals put forward by political parties during discussions on the upcoming elections, including plans to ease the wa...

Detective police arrest eight in mobile banking scam probe

Detective police arrest eight in mobile banking scam probe

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested eight bKash agents for illegal transactions through mobile banking and money laundering. The eight were arrested from various places around th...

Ctg industries to get LNG connections

Ctg industries to get LNG connections

Pankaj Dastider 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Chittagong industries are set finally to get gas connections in the second half of this calendar year after remaining suspended for over nine years. In the first phase, 101 industrial units and five...

Potato growers take a hit from late blight disease in Rangpur

Potato growers take a hit from late blight disease in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2018-01-04 12:00:00

The potato growers of Rangpur district are worried as the farming of the popular vegetable is facing serious setback across the district this season due to severe attack of late blight disease. Expre...

Working class of people in Rajshahi  feel bite of chilly winter wind

Working class of people in Rajshahi feel bite of chilly winter wind

Our Correspondent 2018-01-04 12:00:00

 The condition of poor and working class people became more vulnerable as the chilly winter clamped in the city from the advent of January.  Due to mild wind throughout the day and night, th...

DNCC mayoral by-polls February 26

DNCC mayoral by-polls February 26

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

The by-polls to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will be held on February 26 after the announcement of its schedule on January 9. The decision came on Thursday at the Election...

Pvt millers call for tax on raw jute exports

Pvt millers call for tax on raw jute exports

Arafat Ara 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Private jute millers have requested the government to impose duty on exports of raw jute so that India is forced to review its anti-dumping duty on import of jute goods from Bangladesh. In a letter t...

Cold wave sweeps over northern districts

Cold wave sweeps over northern districts

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

The shivering cold wave has been sweeping over the northern districts for a few days hampering normalcy in life and causing immense sufferings to the common people., the Meteorological Department said...

Police recover bodies of grandmother, grandson in N’ganj

Police recover bodies of grandmother, grandson in N’ganj

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

The bodies of a missing grandmother and her grandson were found dead in a house of an Italy-expatriate at Mijmiji Kandapara in Siddirganj upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased were Parvin Begum,...

Teachers’ agitation on, 14 more fall sick

Teachers’ agitation on, 14 more fall sick

FE Online Desk 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Fourteen more fell sick as the hunger strike for enlistment of teachers into Monthly Payment Order (MPO) entered fifth day on Thursday. By this, the sick tally due to this protest reached to 85. Fro...

Mashiur terms BBS a "midget" organisation

Mashiur terms BBS a "midget" organisation

FE Online Report 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Dr. Mashiur Rahman on Thursday said the BBS is a "midget" organisation as it is not upgrading. Criticizing BBS, Mr Rahman said it is not possible to h...

High-yielding BINA Mustard-10 gains popularity in Gopalganj

High-yielding BINA Mustard-10 gains popularity in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-01-04 12:00:00

A large number of farmers in Gopalganj have been cultivating Bangladesh Institute of nuclear Agriculture (BINA) Mustard-10 for a few years as it fetches them good profits. Some of them have taken up...

DIU inks MoU with two Indian institutions

DIU inks MoU with two Indian institutions

FE Online Desk 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Daffodil International University (DIU) has signed agreements with two top-ranked institutions of India, recently. Md Sabur Khan, Chairman of the DIU, inked the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on b...

Govt trying to push politics towards conflict: BNP

Govt trying to push politics towards conflict: BNP

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

BNP alleged the government is trying to push politics towards confrontation by buying time in giving permission to their party to hold its scheduled rally in the city on Friday. “Awami League le...

PM launches smartcard for easy payment of bus fare

PM launches smartcard for easy payment of bus fare

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated Rapid Pass Card activities to enable commuters to pay fares while travelling by BRTC bus through a smartcard.  The premier inaugurated the Rapid Pass...

Govt guarantees $200m ITFC loans to finance fuel oil import

Govt guarantees $200m ITFC loans to finance fuel oil import

FE Report 2018-01-04 10:31:05

The government has issued counter-guarantees worth US$ 200 million against ITFC loans to finance fuel oil import, officials said. The Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide state-owned...

Rangpur zoo losing charm due to lack of adequate animals

Rangpur zoo losing charm due to lack of adequate animals

Our Correspondent 2018-01-04 10:30:18

RANGPUR, Jan 4: Rangpur zoo is gradually losing its charm and has become a boring place for the visitors, owing to lack of adequate animals. A number of cages of animals in the zoo have been lying em...

Road in bad shape hits Bogra BSCIC work

Road in bad shape hits Bogra BSCIC work

Our Correspondent 2018-01-04 10:29:17

BOGRA, Jan 4: Rapid progress of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) suffers a setback due to bad shape of connector road and adequate drainage facilities for a long time due to...

Farmers lose interest in cultivation of potato for low market price in Rajshahi

Farmers lose interest in cultivation of potato for low market price in Rajshahi

Our Correspondent 2018-01-04 10:27:19

RAJSHAHI, Jan  4: Due to a huge loss in potato for a very low price and the cold storages of the district still filled with hundreds of bags of potato of last season, many farmers of the district...

Photo exhibition on Rohingyas' plight Friday

Photo exhibition on Rohingyas' plight Friday

-- 2018-01-04 10:06:09

A day long photo exhibition themed on 'Rohingya: the stateless refugees in Bangladesh' will be held at the lobby of Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka on Friday. The national museum is organising th...

Robust internet highway must to better serve people: Jabbar

Robust internet highway must to better serve people: Jabbar

-- 2018-01-04 09:54:40

Newly appointed Posts, Telecommunications and Information and Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said a robust internet is what all the ministries need to cater services to the people. Jabbar mad...

Dhaka floodplains shrink by 46pc in 18 years

Dhaka floodplains shrink by 46pc in 18 years

Kamrun Nahar 2018-01-04 09:46:29

The floodplains in Dhaka city reduced by 46 per cent in a period of 18 years between 2000 and 2017, an official at Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) said, analysing satellite images. The capital...

HC writ to make eight national days’ observance mandatory

HC writ to make eight national days’ observance mandatory

-- 2018-01-04 09:01:10

A writ petition has been filed seeking a High Court (HC) order for making mandatory the observance of eight National Days, including Independence Day and Martyrs Intellectuals Day, for all political p...

BNP favours avoiding conflict, may not mark ‘Democracy Killing Day’

BNP favours avoiding conflict, may not mark ‘Democracy Killing Day’

-- 2018-01-04 08:57:06

BNP is unlikely to arrange any programme in the capital on Friday to mark what the party calls 'Democracy Killing Day' to avoid confrontations.  Earlier, the party was denied permission to hold...

Two DU teachers relieved of duties over ‘improper behaviour’

Two DU teachers relieved of duties over ‘improper behaviour’

-- 2018-01-04 08:11:06

Dr Akib Ul Huque, an assistant professor of Psychology Department, and Umme Kawser, a lecturer of Educational and Counselling Psychology Department of Dhaka University (DU) have been relieved of all a...

Hasina criticises Khaleda’s Padma Bridge comments

Hasina criticises Khaleda’s Padma Bridge comments

-- 2018-01-04 08:10:01

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Thursday for the latter’s comments on Padma Bridge saying that she would not have uttered those words had she been i...

Data collection for Rohingya repatriation begins Sunday

Data collection for Rohingya repatriation begins Sunday

FE Online Desk 2018-01-04 08:04:05

Bangladesh is set to take necessary steps for Rohingya repatriating from next week, said an official familiar with the process on Thursday. Commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam said he had received forms...

BCL men injured in factional clash at CU

BCL men injured in factional clash at CU

-- 2018-01-04 07:38:40

At least two students were injured in a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Chittagong University unit.  The clash broke out at a programme marking the politica...

The reason behind non-seasonal rains in Bangladesh

The reason behind non-seasonal rains in Bangladesh

FE Online Desk 2018-01-04 06:25:48

Bangladesh and Myanmar, the two enjoy a fair-weather condition and generally rains during this time of the year do not occur much in both the countries. The weather generally remains pleasant with on...

DMP urges BNP to hold indoor programme

DMP urges BNP to hold indoor programme

-- 2018-01-04 05:06:14

Dhaka Metropolitan (DMP) police on Thursday called upon BNP to arrange an indoor programme instead of going for outdoor one on Friday. BNP publicity affairs secretary Shaheed Uddin Chowdhury Anee mad...