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Patuaria-Daulatdia ferry services resume

Patuaria-Daulatdia ferry services resume

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed early Wednesday after four and a half hours of disruption caused by thick fog. Salauddin, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (B...

Govt revenue receipts far off lofty target

Govt revenue receipts far off lofty target

Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Government revenue receipts remain far off an 'ambitious' target set for the current financial year (FY) as the collection in July-November period missed the mark by Tk 95 billion. By official count,...

AL says legal notice to invite legal action against BNP chief

AL says legal notice to invite legal action against BNP chief

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Ruling party Awami League has threatened to go for legal action if the legal notice sent by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to prime minister Sheikh Hasina is not withdrawn. The ruling party's presidium...

Missing journo in police custody after safe return

Missing journo in police custody after safe return

Agencies 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Journalist Utpal Das has been found safe more than two months after he went missing. Utpal, a senior reporter with online news outlet Purboposhchimbd, is now in police custody. Police in Narayanganj...

Foreign aid inflow jumps by 91pc in five months

Foreign aid inflow jumps by 91pc in five months

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Bangladesh received US$1.72 billion worth of foreign aid in July-November period this fiscal year (FY2017-18). The disbursements of the concessional medium- and long-term (MLT) assistance were 91 per...

Khaleda serves legal notice on Hasina

Khaleda serves legal notice on Hasina

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Khaleda Zia has sent a legal notice to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demanding an apology for her remarks on the BNP chairperson’s alleged assets in foreign countries. The legal notice was sent...

BD gets affordable automation with 'Cobots'

BD gets affordable automation with 'Cobots'

FE Desk 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Universal Robots, the leading manufacturers of advanced, light weight collaborative robotic arms (headquartered in Odense, Denmark), will be expanding their operations in Bangladesh, after successfull...

Air commuters at Shahjalal suffer travel disruption

Air commuters at Shahjalal suffer travel disruption

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) were disrupted since early Wednesday due to dense fog, affecting the schedules of over 33 domestic and international flights. &ldquo...

Bangladesh condemns Houthi attacks

Bangladesh condemns Houthi attacks

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Bangladesh is concerned at the recent ballistic missile attacks by the Houthi rebels targeting the residential area of Riyadh.Saudi air-defence forces intercepted the attacks. Bangladesh renounces su...

Turkey PM en route to Rohingya camps

Turkey PM en route to Rohingya camps

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is visiting Cox's Bazar to meet displaced Rohingyas and see the situation on the ground. A special flight, carrying the Turkish PM, reached Cox's Bazar Airport...

Standard Bank opens new branch in Narayanganj

Standard Bank opens new branch in Narayanganj

FE Online Desk 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Standard Bank Limited (SBL) inaugurated 120th branch at Bhulta area of Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district on Wednesday. S A M Hossain, the Vice Chairman of the Bank, was present in the programme...

Govt begins Aman procurement in Nilphamari

Govt begins Aman procurement in Nilphamari

Our Correspondent 2017-12-20 12:00:00

The government has started the procurement of Aman rice across the Nilphamari district. Sources from the office of the district controller of food (DC) said a total of 6941 tonnes of rice would be pr...

CEC not sure of using new EVM in Rangpur city polls

CEC not sure of using new EVM in Rangpur city polls

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

The Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda said that they cannot confirm the use of new EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) in the polls until Thursday. Talking to the reporters at a press conference...

Turkish PM flies back seeking global support for Rohingya

Turkish PM flies back seeking global support for Rohingya

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Prime Minister of Turkey Binali Yildirim has called upon the international community to work jointly to send back Rohingya people to their homeland safely with all their facilities in place. He terme...

39 on-street parking lots in capital soon

39 on-street parking lots in capital soon

-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00

People in Dhaka will soon be able to legally park their vehicles on designated streets and get relieved from daily parking woes.  Traffic Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesd...

Low price disheartens Bogra veg growers

Low price disheartens Bogra veg growers

Our Correspondent 2017-12-20 12:00:00

BOGRA, Dec 20: More than 20,000 marginal vegetable growers of all the 12 upazilas in the district are dissatisfied over the low market price this season. According to the Department of Agriculture Ex...

Postal Dept's income from money order service slumps

Postal Dept's income from money order service slumps

Rezaul Karim 2017-12-20 11:34:48

Government's resource mobilisation from money order, the once-popular public money transfer machinery which now turns into electronic money transfer service, dropped by more than 95 per cent in last s...

BGB day being observed

BGB day being observed

-- 2017-12-20 11:28:38

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) day is being observed on Wednesday. Several programs have been organized at its Pilkhana headquarters. BGB director general Maj Gen Abul Hossain hoisted regimental...

BSEC approves new corporate governance guideline codes

BSEC approves new corporate governance guideline codes

FE Report 2017-12-20 11:10:31

The securities regulator has approved the proposal of rights shares to be issued by Alif Manufacturing Company which was known as CMC Kamal Textile Mills. The approval came at a meeting held at the o...

Country’s internet users now stand at 80.17m

Country’s internet users now stand at 80.17m

-- 2017-12-20 08:52:03

The latest data revealed by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) shows that the country’s number of total internet users at present stands at 80,166,000. BTRC on Wednesday...

19th JS session to begin Jan 7

19th JS session to begin Jan 7

-- 2017-12-20 06:44:50

The 19th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin at 4 pm on January 7, 2018. President Abdul Hamid summoned the session on Wednesday exercising the power bestowed upon him as per clause (1...

Pabna-4 nomination seekers woo party stalwarts for tickets

Pabna-4 nomination seekers woo party stalwarts for tickets

-- 2017-12-20 06:37:23

The nomination seekers in Pabna-4 constituency have stepped up campaigns in a bid to convince their party high-ups for party tickets, even though the general election is still over a year away. ...

Heavy fog disrupts Dhaka airport service for 10 hours

Heavy fog disrupts Dhaka airport service for 10 hours

-- 2017-12-20 04:51:55

Heavy fog disrupted services at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for 10 hours, delaying a number of domestic and international flights. The fog was too heavy for planes to land or...

Eight IU students receive dean awards

Eight IU students receive dean awards

-- 2017-12-20 03:36:11

Eight students of Applied Science and Technology Faculty of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia have received the university’s dean award for their outstanding academic results in the honour...

Abductors demanded money, says Utpal

Abductors demanded money, says Utpal

-- 2017-12-20 02:39:01

Journalist Utpal Das, who had been missing for more than two months, says his captors demanded money. But he could not say who the kidnappers were or where they had kept him detained. Utpal, 29, is a...

Needlework turns fortune wheel of Nurjahan

Needlework turns fortune wheel of Nurjahan

Our Correspondent 2017-12-20 01:18:17

MAGURA, Dec19: Needlework has turned fortune wheel of Nurjahan. In 1980, Nurjahan Begum of village Raigram under Magura Sadar was married with Alamgir Hossein of Islampur village in Kushtia. Just a...

Landless cultivators happy over bumper yield of sesame

Landless cultivators happy over bumper yield of sesame

Our Correspondent 2017-12-20 01:17:31

BOGRA, Dec 19: Hundreds of landless sesame peasants of Jamuna basin under Sonatola upazila of Bogra district are seen happy over bumper yield of the crops in this current season with assistance of a...

Beekeepers in Pabna, Sirajganj eye massive profit this season

Beekeepers in Pabna, Sirajganj eye massive profit this season

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-20 01:16:31

PABNA, Dec 19: More than 700 beekeepers in different area of Pabna and Sirajganj districts are expecting to make a huge profit this season. Sub-assistance agriculture of DAE, Chatmohor upazila, Has...

Turkish PM pays tributes to Bangabandhu, martyrs

Turkish PM pays tributes to Bangabandhu, martyrs

-- 2017-12-19 12:00:00

Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday paid tribute to the martyrs of 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh in Dhaka on Tuesday. The Turkish Prime Minister arrived here on Monday nigh...

Investigation launched  over  mass grave in Rakhine

Investigation launched over mass grave in Rakhine

-- 2017-12-19 12:00:00

Security forces have discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State, and have launched an investigation. Myanmar’s army said it on Monday. violent crackdown by the security...