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Acute malnutrition ails Rohingya children

Acute malnutrition ails Rohingya children

-- 2017-12-23 11:29:56

Rohingya children who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition and anaemia, UNICEF said. According to three health and nutrition surveys conducted between October 22 and...

Freedom Fighters’ graves to have identical design: Minister

Freedom Fighters’ graves to have identical design: Minister

-- 2017-12-23 10:29:57

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq has said the killing fields and graves of freedom fighters will get an identical design. He said this while addressing the centennial anniversary cele...

Commerce ministry for Tk 48b fund for jute sector

Commerce ministry for Tk 48b fund for jute sector

FE Report 2017-12-23 10:28:11

The commerce ministry has suggested creating a low-cost fund of Tk 48 billion for the jute sector instead of the proposed Tk 100 billion fund. The ministry put forward the suggestion in a letter sent...

Bangladesh eyes trade boost in emerging economic hubs

Bangladesh eyes trade boost in emerging economic hubs

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-12-23 10:03:07

The government plans to establish three new commercial wings in China, Turkey and South Africa amid the lure of trade bonanza in the world's emerging economic hubs. Commerce Ministry officials inform...

Comilla ‘gunfight’ leaves two robbers dead

Comilla ‘gunfight’ leaves two robbers dead

-- 2017-12-23 09:36:25

Two suspected robbers have been killed in an alleged gunfight with police at Zafarganj union in Comilla’s Debidwar upazila early Saturday. Mohammad Shah Abid Hossain, Superintendent of Comilla...

Missing transport trader found dead at DMCH

Missing transport trader found dead at DMCH

-- 2017-12-23 09:30:07

The body of a transport trader, who went missing three days ago, was found at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue on Saturday. Family members identified the victim, Foyez Uddin, son of S...

People want change in power: Ershad

People want change in power: Ershad

-- 2017-12-23 07:24:13

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said the Rangpur city polls result showed that people want a change in power. "The Rangpur election has demonstrated that people, and the time has come for the cha...

Kalyan Party's Aminur on 4-day remand

Kalyan Party's Aminur on 4-day remand

-- 2017-12-23 06:53:11

A Dhaka court has granted a four-day remand to interrogate Bangladesh Kalyan Party secretary general MM Aminur Rahman in a violence case. Aminur went missing from Nayapaltan area of Dhaka on August 2...

Gang rape in Gaibandha: Police arrest three

Gang rape in Gaibandha: Police arrest three

-- 2017-12-23 06:10:23

Gaibandha police have arrested three people in a case over the alleged gang rape of a girl in Sadullahpur upazila of the district. The victim has completed her JSC examination recently. Five people...

Muhith hopeful to prove allegations of Khaleda's foreign assets

Muhith hopeful to prove allegations of Khaleda's foreign assets

-- 2017-12-23 05:29:28

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said that there must be sufficient information behind the allegations about foreign assets of Khaleda Zia's family. "It can be proved that Khaleda Zia's fa...

Quader speaks against BCL school committee

Quader speaks against BCL school committee

FE Online Desk 2017-12-23 04:33:40

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that there is no need to form the school committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). He said this while speaking at a function of the BCL held...

CNG auto-rickshaws await  six months’ interim lease of life

CNG auto-rickshaws await six months’ interim lease of life

SM Najmus Sakib 2017-12-23 03:58:26

The ball starts rolling for extending the validity period of CNG-run auto-rickshaws by another six months with their lifespan expiring by the end of the current month. Bangladesh Road Transport Autho...

Ten JU students get stipend

Ten JU students get stipend

-- 2017-12-23 03:38:30

Ten students of Biological Science Faculty of Jahangirnagar University received stipend from Nagao Natural Environmental Foundation (NEF), a non-governmental organisation of Japan. Professor Abdul Ja...

National Vitamin-A Plus campaign Saturday

National Vitamin-A Plus campaign Saturday

-- 2017-12-23 01:30:57

The National Vitamin-A Plus campaign is set to be observed across Bangladesh on Saturday in a bid to feed vitamin-A Plus capsule to children aged between six months to 59 months to prevent childhood b...

RAB detains ‘drug trader’ in C’nawabganj

RAB detains ‘drug trader’ in C’nawabganj

-- 2017-12-23 01:30:36

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug trader along with 1.1kg heroin from Sujonpara area of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila on early Saturday.  The detainee was identifi...

DAE expects to produce 52,683 tonnes of mustard in Rangpur region

DAE expects to produce 52,683 tonnes of mustard in Rangpur region

Our Correspondent 2017-12-22 12:41:41

RANGPUR, Dec 21: Sweet aroma of mustard flowers fills the air as the cropland in different areas under Rangpur agriculture region has taken an impressive eye catching look. The Department of Agricu...

NSU teacher missing for nearly two months returns

NSU teacher missing for nearly two months returns

Agencies 2017-12-22 12:00:00

North South University (NSU) teacher Mubashar Hasan, nicknamed Caesar, returned his Banasree home in the capital early Friday, one and a half months after he had gone missing from Agargaon area. &ldq...

No proof of sabotage in Ctg stampede: Report

No proof of sabotage in Ctg stampede: Report

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

The probe body, formed to investigate the incident of stampede at the qulkhwani of former Chittagong mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury, found no act of sabotage. The body blamed its organisers for mismanagem...

Govt promotes 193 officials to joint secretaries

Govt promotes 193 officials to joint secretaries

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

The government has promoted 193 deputy secretaries and officials of equivalent ranks to joint secretaries despite having no permanent posts for them. They were attached to the public administration m...

Captors locked me up in a dark room: Mubashar

Captors locked me up in a dark room: Mubashar

FE Online Desk 2017-12-22 12:00:00

North South University (NSU) teacher Mubashar Hasan has said that he had been kept in a dark room for around one and a half month. "There was small room, which was always kept shut," Mubashar said....

Rangpur polls is victory of democracy: Hanif

Rangpur polls is victory of democracy: Hanif

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif said the Rangpur City Corporation election is a victory of democracy in spite of failure of Awami League. Hanif said this while inaugurating...

Cops detain 5 over attacking 2 college girls in Tangail

Cops detain 5 over attacking 2 college girls in Tangail

-- 2017-12-22 11:36:12

Police arrested five people from different areas of Sakhipur upazila of the district on Wednesday night on charge of attacking two college girls. The arrestees are Monwar Hossain Antar, Sakib Al Hasa...

Robbery suspect dies in 'gunfight' with police

Robbery suspect dies in 'gunfight' with police

-- 2017-12-22 10:14:37

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Choripara village in Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahman Habi, 45...

BTV to celebrate 53th founding anniversary Monday

BTV to celebrate 53th founding anniversary Monday

-- 2017-12-22 09:11:33

The 53th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Television (BTV) is going to be celebrated on Monday. A get-together and cultural programme, participated by prominent and promising artistes, and technici...

Shilpakala Academy to open branches at UP level

Shilpakala Academy to open branches at UP level

-- 2017-12-22 08:47:12

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the state-run national cultural centre, is set to set up its branch offices at union parishad level across the country. As part of the initiative, Shilpakala Academy wi...

Fakhrul, Rizvi differ over Rangpur city election

Fakhrul, Rizvi differ over Rangpur city election

-- 2017-12-22 08:21:21

Two top BNP leaders have made different remarks about the Rangpur City Corporation mayoral election. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says the police had barred their candidate from...

RAB arrests three with Phensedyl in Ctg

RAB arrests three with Phensedyl in Ctg

-- 2017-12-22 07:58:38

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three alleged drug peddlers along with 987 bottles of Phensedyl at Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong on Thursday. Law enforcers also a covered van from the spo...

Four die in Rajshahi road crashes

Four die in Rajshahi road crashes

-- 2017-12-22 07:12:19

Four people have died in three separate road accidents in Charghat, Puthia and Godagari upazilas of Rajshahi district on Friday. Two of the deceased were identified as Nazrul Islam, 50, of Chauddapai...

Rangpur polls not to affect parliament election: Muhith

Rangpur polls not to affect parliament election: Muhith

-- 2017-12-22 06:01:23

The result of Rangpur City Corporation mayoral election will not have any effect on the next parliamentary polls, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said. “City corporation election is...

Rangpur election more or less acceptable: Fakhrul

Rangpur election more or less acceptable: Fakhrul

-- 2017-12-22 04:47:13

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that Rangpur City Corporation election was more or less acceptable but it was not a major election. "The Rangpur election was not a major on...