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AB Bank provides financial aid to 'Dipto Shimanto'

AB Bank provides financial aid to 'Dipto Shimanto'

-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00

AB Bank Limited has recently provided financial assistance to 'Dipto Shimanto' - a school for autistic children, run by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). Moshiur Rahman Chowdhury, President & Ma...

73pc Rohingyas living in new settlements: IOM

73pc Rohingyas living in new settlements: IOM

-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said 73 per cent of Rohingyas are now living in new spontaneous settlements. IOM's newly-released Needs and Population Monitoring (NPM) Round 7...

Expat BNP leader scheming enforced disappearances: Quader

Expat BNP leader scheming enforced disappearances: Quader

-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00

A BNP leader living in Sweden is responsible for the recent incidents of enforced disappearances and murders, claimed Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader. The minister also said that...

Magura road mishap kills pharmacy shop owner

Magura road mishap kills pharmacy shop owner

-- 2017-12-24 11:47:43

Javed Ali (55), a pharmacy shop owner has been killed as a pickup van collided head-on with an easy-bike in Hajamtola area of Shalikha upazila on Magura-Jessore road early Sunday. The accident occu...

Train schedules go haywire amid rush of passengers

Train schedules go haywire amid rush of passengers

Yasir Wardad 2017-12-24 11:10:51

Train services across the country suffered massive schedule mismatch on Saturday, amid ongoing foggy weather and extra pressure of passengers. The trains of different routes were 3.0 to 8.0 hours beh...

N’ganj bus crash injures 21 RMG workers

N’ganj bus crash injures 21 RMG workers

-- 2017-12-24 10:42:08

At least 21 garment workers were injured as a bus overturned at Shimrail intersection on Chittagong Road in Narayanganj city early Sunday. Quoting witnesses, police said a bus, carrying mostly garmen...

Lawmen nab College principal with Yaba

Lawmen nab College principal with Yaba

-- 2017-12-24 10:30:03

Members of Department of Narcotics Control arrested a college principal with ten pieces of Yaba tablets from Kharail village in Mohanpur upazila of Rajshahi on Saturday. The detainee was identified a...

Construction of Dohazari-Cox's Bazar railway line starts in Jan

Construction of Dohazari-Cox's Bazar railway line starts in Jan

Our Correspondent 2017-12-24 10:06:25

Construction of a 128-kilometre Dohazari-Ghundum railway line via Cox's Bazar is set to start next month with completion of the land acquisition process in two or three weeks. The land acquisition in...

DMP beef up security ahead of Christmas

DMP beef up security ahead of Christmas

-- 2017-12-24 09:51:32

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has intensified security measures in the capital on the Christmas eve. DMP has increased the number of check posts in different city streets besides ensuring strict vi...

Al-Qaeda urges Bangladeshis to start jihad against Myanmar!

Al-Qaeda urges Bangladeshis to start jihad against Myanmar!

FE Online Desk 2017-12-24 09:24:13

Al-Qaeda has now urged Bangladeshi Muslims to start 'jihad' against Myanmar army to liberate the Arakan (Rakhine state) for Rohingya population. A 'fighter' of the banned outfit's subcontinent branch...

Khaleda says Awami League fears freedom fighters

Khaleda says Awami League fears freedom fighters

-- 2017-12-24 06:55:38

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has mentioned that the ruling party Awami League is fearful of the freedom fighters (FFs). She also thinks that the AL and its allies are out to reap alone the benefits fr...

BNP have to accept election results: Nasim

BNP have to accept election results: Nasim

-- 2017-12-24 06:25:03

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday said BNP will have to accept results of the next national election. "BNP tried to resist the January 5 election which was held in 2014, but...

PM announces compensation for Ctg stampede victims' families

PM announces compensation for Ctg stampede victims' families

-- 2017-12-24 06:22:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced compensation for the families of 10 victims died during a stampede at qulkhwani of former Chittagong Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. The Prime Minister made...

Cops arrest one over infant’s death during Dhaka mugging

Cops arrest one over infant’s death during Dhaka mugging

-- 2017-12-24 04:46:20

Police have arrested over the death of an infant during a mugging in Dhaka last week. Early on the morning of Dec 18, a couple travelling on a rickshaw with their 2-year-old son and 5-month-old baby...

Govt for tougher action against drug smuggling: Kamal

Govt for tougher action against drug smuggling: Kamal

-- 2017-12-24 03:45:34

The government will be very tough to put an end to drug smuggling through differen points of the country, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. "Steps are being taken against those who are engaged in...

US drops charges that UN economist underpaid BD worker

US drops charges that UN economist underpaid BD worker

-- 2017-12-24 03:11:03

Hamidur Rashid, a Bangladeshi national and economist at the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, was charged with visa fraud in foreign labor contracting in June. However,...

RAB detains 2 JMB men in city

RAB detains 2 JMB men in city

-- 2017-12-24 02:52:55

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in the city on Saturday night. Acting on tip-off, a team of Rab-11 condu...

Pry teachers’ hunger strike continues

Pry teachers’ hunger strike continues

-- 2017-12-24 02:42:19

The indefinite hunger strike enforced by the assistant teachers of the primary schools demanding their salary hike, entered second day on Sunday. Over 1,000 assistant teachers of several primary scho...

Natore T-Aman growers happy over fair price

Natore T-Aman growers happy over fair price

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-24 02:37:23

Thousands of growers in Natore are delighted over the good market price of newly harvested T-Aman paddy. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office said farmers failed to get satisfactory p...

IU Science Faculty appoints new dean

IU Science Faculty appoints new dean

-- 2017-12-24 01:41:29

Dr M Momtazul Islam, professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering department has been appointed as the dean of Applied Sciences and Technology Faculty of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia. Mom...

Saima Wazed stresses on regulatory body for autism

Saima Wazed stresses on regulatory body for autism

-- 2017-12-23 12:49:36

Saima Wazed Hossain, Chairperson of Bangladesh National Advisory Committee for Autism and Neuro developmental Disorders, stressed on the need for constituting a regulatory organisation comprising phys...

Stairs being added to Moghbazar flyover for traffic police

Stairs being added to Moghbazar flyover for traffic police

FE Report 2017-12-23 12:48:57

The government has taken a move to add stairs to the Moghbazar-Mouchak-Malibagh flyover to help traffic police monitor vehicular movement, officials said.    The Local Government Eng...

Bangladesh ranks lowest in food security index

Bangladesh ranks lowest in food security index

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

Bangladesh stands on the 89th position in the recently published Global Food Security Index-2017, which is the lowest among the South-Asian countries.  The general secretary of Bangladesh Food S...

'Get tough dealing with bad banks'

'Get tough dealing with bad banks'

FE Report 2017-12-23 12:00:00

The central bank should take stricter stance while dealing with ongoing controversies over some "non-performing" commercial banks, a former Bangladesh Bank governor suggests. In the wake of such deve...

Kamal credits law enforcing agencies over missing people retur

Kamal credits law enforcing agencies over missing people retur

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

The home minister has credited the law enforcers for the some of the missing people resurfacing recently despite no visible police action to find them. Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said to the reporters &l...

Cops sue 22 in Sylhet over death of accused in police firing

Cops sue 22 in Sylhet over death of accused in police firing

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

Police filed a case against 22 people for preventing police from performing their duty after death of an accused in police firing during their bid to arrest at Choripara Majdodi village in Kanaighat u...

Cops find, arrest ‘missing’ Kalyan Party leader

Cops find, arrest ‘missing’ Kalyan Party leader

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

Police have found and arrested missing Kalyan Party Secretary General MM Aminur Rahman, nearly four months after his missing. The leader of the BNP-allied party went missing on the night of Aug 27 wh...

Tannery relocation marginally revives Buriganga river

Tannery relocation marginally revives Buriganga river

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

The quality of Buriganga water has improved slightly following the relocation of tanneries to Savar from the capital's Hazaribagh area.  The improvement of water quality of this vital river is a...

Observer praises EC on Rangpur city polls

Observer praises EC on Rangpur city polls

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

The Election Working Group has praised the Election Commission for holding a peaceful and fair Rangpur City Corporation election. “The election was held without violence or irregularities,&rdqu...

Promotion of 193 deputy secys ‘obscure’: BNP

Promotion of 193 deputy secys ‘obscure’: BNP

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

BNP on Saturday has said the recent promotion of 193 deputy secretaries and its equivalent officials to joint secretaries is confusing. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said this...