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Mustafa Jabbar vows to support BTRC

Mustafa Jabbar vows to support BTRC

-- 2018-01-04 04:32:37

New Telecom and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said he wants to approach telecommunication regulator BTRC with a supportive mentality and not a restrictive one. Jabbar came up with the remarks on Thu...

PM opens six-lane flyover in Mohipal

PM opens six-lane flyover in Mohipal

-- 2018-01-04 04:15:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday launched the country's first-ever six-lane flyover at Mohipal in Feni. She inaugurated the flyover from her official residence Ganobhaban through a videoconfe...

HSTU foreign students meet UGC chief

HSTU foreign students meet UGC chief

FE Online Desk 2018-01-04 03:29:33

A group of foreign students of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) have met the UGC Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan, recently. The students expressed their satisfaction abo...

New canal project to end Noakhali waterlogging: PM

New canal project to end Noakhali waterlogging: PM

-- 2018-01-04 01:20:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated a new canal renovation and re-digging project in an effort to resolve the longstanding waterlogging crisis in the southeastern district of Noakhali. The p...

Rajshahi farmers busy harvesting  tomato in three upazilas

Rajshahi farmers busy harvesting tomato in three upazilas

Our Correspondent 2018-01-03 12:35:04

RAJSHAHI, Jan 2: Hundreds of farmers of Godagari, Tanore and Paba upazilas are spending a busy time in harvesting of tomato from their fields. The advanced variety is tomato is fetching a good market...

Cultivators eye good wheat  yield in Joypurhat

Cultivators eye good wheat yield in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-01-03 12:34:20

JOYPURHAT, Jan 2: Farmers of Joypurhat district desire an eye catching wheat production in his season due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary-agri-inpute. According to Depa...

Construction of Trauma Centre  progressing fast in Gopalganj

Construction of Trauma Centre progressing fast in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-01-03 12:33:27

GOPALGANJ, Jan 2: Construction work of Trauma Centre, Golpalganj at a cost of Tk 11,71,53,000 has been progressing fast. At least 91 per cent of work has been completed. According to public works Dep...

Cabinet sees major reshuffle

Cabinet sees major reshuffle

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has brought a major change in cabinet in the final year of her government ahead of parliamentary election. A gazette notification, signed by Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Sh...

BSEC extends timeframe

BSEC extends timeframe

FE Report 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The securities regulator has extended the timeframe till December 31, 2018 for keeping provision against unrealised losses in portfolios of merchant banks, stock dealers and their clients. The existi...

Media outlets making needless comments on gazette notification: Supreme Court

Media outlets making needless comments on gazette notification: Supreme Court

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The apex court of the country accepted the gazette notification on disciplinary rules for the lower court judges Wednesday. Led by acting Chief Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah, a five-member Appellate Divi...

Advent Pharma to raise Tk 200m

Advent Pharma to raise Tk 200m

FE Report 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The securities regulator has approved Advent Pharma's IPO proposal to raise Tk 200 million from public. The approval came at a meeting held at the office of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commiss...

BAF chopper makes emergency landing, four hurt

BAF chopper makes emergency landing, four hurt

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

A helicopter of Bangladesh Air Force made an emergency landing inside the camp of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Sreemangal on Wednesday morning. Four people, including the pilot and foreign passen...

Sylhet mudslide death toll rises to five

Sylhet mudslide death toll rises to five

FE Online Desk 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Another worker has died from critical injuries sustained on Tuesday in a mudslide while extracting stones from a quarry in Sylhet, taking the death toll to five. Sadek Miah, 40, son of Taj Ullah, a r...

Fire guts 25 houses in Gazipur

Fire guts 25 houses in Gazipur

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

At least 25 houses were gutted in a fire at a workers' colony in the city's Bhogra area on Wednesday morning. Jakir Hossain, senior station officer of Gazipur Fire Service and Civil Defense Station,...

Miscreants  gun down UPDF leader in Khagrachhari

Miscreants gun down UPDF leader in Khagrachhari

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Unidentified miscreants gunned down UPDF central leader Mithun Chakma in Khagracchari’s Sadar Upazila. He was shot in the sluice gate area around 12pm on Wednesday, said Sadar Police Station OC...

'IO  made fake document to harass Khaleda'

'IO made fake document to harass Khaleda'

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Khaleda Zia's defence lawyer Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali has said Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Harun-Ur- Rashid made fake document to fabricate the case and plaintiffs delivered ‘white li...

Jessore AL man dies in ‘bomb attack’

Jessore AL man dies in ‘bomb attack’

FE Online Desk 2018-01-03 12:00:00

An activist of ruling Awami League was killed in a “bomb attack” by his rivals over enmity in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Abbas Molla...

Former secretary Mosharraf becomes NBR chairman

Former secretary Mosharraf becomes NBR chairman

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The government has appointed former senior secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan as the chairman of the National Board of Revenue. The retired bureaucrat has been brought back on a two-year contract, a...

Govt. to reopen 13 textiles mills under PPP

Govt. to reopen 13 textiles mills under PPP

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The government has decided to revive 13 textiles mills that were shutdown 25 years ago due to huge losses and run them under a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative. The Ministry of Textiles an...

ACC detains DNC deputy director while taking bribe

ACC detains DNC deputy director while taking bribe

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission arrested an official of Directorate of Narcotics Control (DNC) for allegedly taking bribe of Tk two lakh in Jessore on Wednesday afternoon. Tipped off, a nine-member sp...

Next parliamentary polls under EC : Quader

Next parliamentary polls under EC : Quader

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the next general election would be held under the Election Commission (EC), not under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "Next polls will be he...

PM gives donation to 2 army officers

PM gives donation to 2 army officers

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave financial assistance for the treatment of two officers of Bangladesh Army. "The prime minister gave donation of Tk 5 million for the treatment of Major Jadid from he...

Country’s first ever 6-lane flyover opens today

Country’s first ever 6-lane flyover opens today

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

First six-lane flyover of the country will be opened to traffic at Feni's Mohipal today (Thursday) with an aim to ease traffic congestion and ensure better communications through Dhaka-Chittagong High...

Judicial service body accuses six lawyers of politicising Masdar Hossain case

Judicial service body accuses six lawyers of politicising Masdar Hossain case

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Bangladesh Judicial Service Association (BJSA), a platform of lower court judges, has alleged that the country's six renowned lawyers are engaged in an evil attempt to politicise the Masdar Hossain ca...

Millennium-old Nateshwar likely to emerge as world heritage site

Millennium-old Nateshwar likely to emerge as world heritage site

-- 2018-01-03 10:49:27

Nateshwar excavation area of Vikrampura Buddhist archaeological location has all the potentials to emerge as another world heritage site in Bangladesh. It has got a unique combination of religious an...

Banking sector tops the list

Banking sector tops the list

Mohammad Mufazzal 2018-01-03 10:04:18

The banking sector topped the annual turnover chart on the premier bourse in 2017 replacing engineering, power and textile sectors riding on increased participation by general investors and sponsor-di...

SSC examinees must enter halls 30 min before

SSC examinees must enter halls 30 min before

-- 2018-01-03 09:31:11

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinees will have to enter their respective centres half an hour before the tests begin. Otherwise they will not be allowed to sit for the examinations, the e...

PM to accord reception to girls' football team

PM to accord reception to girls' football team

-- 2018-01-03 07:58:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will accord a reception to Bangladesh girls' football team tomorrow (Thursday) for clinching the title of the inaugural edition of the SAFF Under-15 Women's Championship....

Cabinet clears draft of mental health act

Cabinet clears draft of mental health act

-- 2018-01-03 06:02:03

Anybody would face Taka 0.5 million fine or two years imprisonment or both for provoking any mental patient to commit crime. The punishment was proposed in the draft of National Mental Health Act-201...

Amar Ekushey book fair further expands this year

Amar Ekushey book fair further expands this year

-- 2018-01-03 05:03:14

People can expect a better managed and more expanded fair venue this time as they step in the annual Amar Ekushey Boi Mela billed for February 1. In run up to the month-long book fair, the organisers...