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Embargo on mobile in IU convocation, viva-voce Jan 10

Embargo on mobile in IU convocation, viva-voce Jan 10

-- 2018-01-03 04:32:53

Islamic University (IU) imposed restrictions on carrying electronic devices during ensuing convocation and announced to hold viva-voce for first-year honours admission seekers from waiting lists on Ja...

50 SSC examinees fall sick after having tehari

50 SSC examinees fall sick after having tehari

-- 2018-01-03 04:18:33

At least 50 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinees fell sick after taking 'tehari' from a hotel in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday. Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Noman Hossain said...

Cops detain 11 fake DB men in Ctg

Cops detain 11 fake DB men in Ctg

-- 2018-01-03 04:15:28

Detectives arrested 11 fake members of Detective Branch from different places of the city on Tuesday. A gang of miscreants was committing robbery at different places of the city identifying themselve...

Govt starts Aman procurement in Magura

Govt starts Aman procurement in Magura

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

The government has started the procurement of Aman rice across the Magura district.  Sources from the office of the district controller of food (DC) said a total of 210 metric tonnes of rice wou...

Narayon Chandra attends cabinet meeting

Narayon Chandra attends cabinet meeting

-- 2018-01-03 03:41:47

Narayan Chandra Chanda attended his first cabinet meeting as minister a day. Chanda had attended several cabinet meetings alongside former minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque, whose post fell vacant foll...

Southeast Bank inks deal with DIU

Southeast Bank inks deal with DIU

FE Online Desk 2018-01-03 03:37:49

Southeast Bank Limited and Daffodil International University (DIU) signed an agreement at DIU campus on Monday. Syed Faisal Omar, senior executive vice president and head of international division of...

Miscreants' bomb attack kills AL leader

Miscreants' bomb attack kills AL leader

FE Online Report 2018-01-03 02:45:09

An activist of Awami League was killed in a bomb blast in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore on Wednesday noon.  The deceased has been identified as Abbas Mollah. A number of unidentified miscrean...

Yamaha distributes winter clothes in city

Yamaha distributes winter clothes in city

FE Online Desk 2018-01-03 01:46:22

Yamaha, in association with ACI Motors, distributed winter clothes and blankets to homeless people in Dhaka city on 1st January midnight. More than 50 Yamaha bikers participated in the programme, ac...

One-kilometre road to cost Tk 1.46b!

One-kilometre road to cost Tk 1.46b!

FE Report 2018-01-03 01:22:19

The government has approved a one-kilometre road-widening project to be developed in the capital at an estimated cost of Tk 1.46 billion. The cost is much higher than the average expenditure of sim...

Adamdighi main post office   turns into death trap

Adamdighi main post office turns into death trap

Our Correspondent 2018-01-02 12:43:00

BOGRA, Jan 1: Main post office of Adamdighi upazila sadar is turning as death trap due to negligence of authority concern from last decade in Bogra district. The officials of the post office are se...

Miscreants slaughter Bogra woman

Miscreants slaughter Bogra woman

-- 2018-01-02 12:23:01

A woman was found slaughtered to death at Malgram village in Sadar upazila of Bogra on Monday evening.The deceased was identified as Pinky Khatun (22), daughter of Satku of the village. Pinky had a di...

Pranab Mukherjee due mid-Jan, willing to visit Rohingya

Pranab Mukherjee due mid-Jan, willing to visit Rohingya

-- 2018-01-02 12:02:18

Ex Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is likely to arrive in Dhaka on a three-day private visit this month. A diplomatic source disclosed this indicating that Pranab might arrive on January 14. "Yes, t...

Cops detain 2 ‘Neo-JMB’ men with 10 grenades in Ctg

Cops detain 2 ‘Neo-JMB’ men with 10 grenades in Ctg

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) arrested two suspected militants along with 10 grenades from East Madarbari area under Sadarghat thana of the port city on Monday night...

SC extends stay on Apan Jewellers owners’ bail order

SC extends stay on Apan Jewellers owners’ bail order

FE Online Desk 2018-01-02 12:00:00

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended till January 8 its earlier order that stayed a High Court verdict granting bail to three owners of Apan Jewellers in three money laundering cases. The owners are...

Non-MPO teachers reject Nahid's assurance

Non-MPO teachers reject Nahid's assurance

FE Online Desk 2018-01-02 12:00:00

Hunger-striking teachers have rejected the assuring words of Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, demanding a specific time frame for inclusion into the Monthly Pay Order system. Nahid on Tuesday we...

Hunters busy collecting honey in Manikganj

Hunters busy collecting honey in Manikganj

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

Around one hundred honey hunters in Manikganj are passing a very busy time in collecting honey from the blooming flowers of mustard. Commercial honey collectors from all seven upazilas of the distric...

ICMAB holds CPD programme

ICMAB holds CPD programme

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) has organised a Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) programme on ‘Accounting for Sustainability-an update’ at Agrabad ar...

2015 arson attack: Warrant out for Khaleda

2015 arson attack: Warrant out for Khaleda

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

A Comilla court has ordered the arrest of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 48 other leaders and activistsin the Zia Or of her party in a murder case filed over the 2015 arson attack on a bus in Choudda...

DU authority shuts TSC tea-stalls

DU authority shuts TSC tea-stalls

FE Online Desk 2018-01-02 12:00:00

Dhaka University has closed down the makeshift tea stalls at Teacher-Student Centre (TSC), citing “security issues”. Some tea-vendors of TSC said the proctorial body asked them to close t...

DB nab four ‘robbers’ in city

DB nab four ‘robbers’ in city

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

Members of Detective Branch of police arrested four suspected robbers from different areas of the Old Dhaka on Monday night. The arrestees were identified as Masud, Gazi, Md Idris, Md Asad and Faruk...

Rupali Bank returns to old logo

Rupali Bank returns to old logo

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

State-owned Rupali Bank Limited has changed its logo to the original one from 1972 as the bank recovers from significant losses. Managing Director Md Ataur Rahman Prodhan said we made profit of Tk5.3...

Cabinet sees expansion with three new ministers, one state minister

Cabinet sees expansion with three new ministers, one state minister

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

State Minister Narayan Chandra Chanda, lawmaker AKM Shahjahan Kamal, and noted IT professional Mustafa Jabbar have taken oath as new members of the cabinet. Meanwhile, lawmaker from Rajbari-1 constit...

Khaleda's presence prompts authority to open door for JCD discussion

Khaleda's presence prompts authority to open door for JCD discussion

Rezaul Hannan with SM Najmus Sakib 2018-01-02 12:00:00

The authority of a venue for holding a prescheduled discussion organised by BNP’s student wing in Dhaka opened gate on Tuesday after intervention by party chairperson Khaleda Zia. The BNP chief...

Mudslide crushes four stone quarry workers

Mudslide crushes four stone quarry workers

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

Four workers were killed and several others injured in a mudslide in Jaflong area of Goainghat upazila on Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred when the workers were extracting stones from a quarr...

Remittance stays in negative territory

Remittance stays in negative territory

FE Report 2018-01-02 11:39:21

The inward remittance flow remained pegged into a negative territory despite a significant rise in overseas jobs of Bangladeshi nationals by official count in the just-concluded year. The remittance...

PM to formally launch ‘Rapid Pass’

PM to formally launch ‘Rapid Pass’

Munima Sultana 2018-01-02 11:21:09

The authorities have taken a move to make 'Rapid Pass' popular for facilitating its planned introduction for all modes of public transports in the city. As part of the effort, Prime Minister Sheikh H...

President calls for unison among three state organs

President calls for unison among three state organs

-- 2018-01-02 10:39:18

President M Abdul Hamid has asked the three state organs to work in unison laying priority to the welfare of the country and its people. Addressing a function Tuesday to mark the Supreme Court Day ho...

Govt’ cannot prevent BNP from participating in election: Khaleda

Govt’ cannot prevent BNP from participating in election: Khaleda

-- 2018-01-02 10:30:46

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) cannot be prevented from participating in the upcoming parliamentary election irrespective of what the government wants. The party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia s...

Tax receipts from DSE up 61pc in July-Dec

Tax receipts from DSE up 61pc in July-Dec

Babul Barman 2018-01-02 10:14:35

The government's revenue earnings from the Dhaka bourse marked a 61 per cent rise year-on-year in the first six months of the current fiscal year (FY) on the back of rising trade volumes. Market insi...

EC adds new voters, deletes dead voters from list

EC adds new voters, deletes dead voters from list

-- 2018-01-02 08:54:32

The total number of voters in the country at present is over 104 million. The Election Commission (EC) revealed this information on Tuesday at a press briefing at Nirbachan Bhaban.   The t...