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Detective police arrest two with Phensedyl

Detective police arrest two with Phensedyl

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Detectives arrested two suspected drug pedlars along with 550 bottles of Phensedyl syrup at Palashpole in Satkhira district town on Saturday night.  The detainees were identified as Babar Ali, s...

Qulkhwani of Mohiuddin Chowdhury Monday

Qulkhwani of Mohiuddin Chowdhury Monday

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The qulkhwani of late former mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor and President of the City Awami League ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury will be held in the port city on Monday. On the occasion o...

Fisheries Minister Sayedul Hoque’s 1st janaza held

Fisheries Minister Sayedul Hoque’s 1st janaza held

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The first namaz-e-janaza of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque was held at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad. The first namaz-e-janaza was held at 10:20am on Sunday. Before jana...

Ansar men steal from DESCO!

Ansar men steal from DESCO!

Agencies 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Police have arrested some 10 members of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP over a recent act of theft from an office of DESCO—Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited. Officer-in-Charge Firoz Talukder said...

Quasem Drycells decides to change company name

Quasem Drycells decides to change company name

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The Board of Directors of Quasem Drycells Limited has decided to change the company name from Quasem Drycells Limited to Quasem Industries Limited. The decision came at its 36th annual general m...

PM seeks  UAE investment in BD’s Economic Zones

PM seeks UAE investment in BD’s Economic Zones

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the entrepreneurs of the United Arab Emirates (UEA) to invest in Bangladesh’s Economic Zones. The Prime Minister called upon the entrepreneurs when the...

Next general polls in December 2018

Next general polls in December 2018

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that the next general polls would be held in December 2018. The people of the country wil reject anti-liberation forces in the next general ele...

Nahid blames some teachers for question paper leak

Nahid blames some teachers for question paper leak

FE Online Desk 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said some teachers are involved in question paper leakage. Nahid said this while talking to the reporters at the conference room of his ministry in the secret...

Malaysia transfers immigration officers for smuggling Bangladeshi workers

Malaysia transfers immigration officers for smuggling Bangladeshi workers

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Some 600 officers from Malaysia's immigration department have been transferred out of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). The transfer has been made as some are suspected of working with crimi...

No insurgent camps in Bangladesh : BSF

No insurgent camps in Bangladesh : BSF

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

India’s border guarding force BSF has said that camps and hideouts of Indian Insurgent Groups (IIGs) across the country's frontier on the Bangladeshi soil have been reduced to "almost zero". T...

HC summons govt official over sentencing of lawyer

HC summons govt official over sentencing of lawyer

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The High Court has summoned Biroda Rani Roy, Assistant Commissioner (land) of Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram, to appear before it on December 27 in connection with the sentencing of a lawyer. ...

It needs two more weeks to start the project: Officials

It needs two more weeks to start the project: Officials

Our Correspondent 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Through the authority concerned wanted to start the repair work on the crop protection embankments on December 15, it would be delayed further as water is yet to be receded from Sunamganj and other di...

Myanmar team arrives Monday for talks on working group

Myanmar team arrives Monday for talks on working group

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Myanmar is expected to send a six-member delegation to Dhaka on Monday evening to take forward the process of forming a joint working group. The team is scheduled to arrive in a bid to start the repa...

Rangpur electioneering ends Tuesday midnight, BNP blames AL for obstruction

Rangpur electioneering ends Tuesday midnight, BNP blames AL for obstruction

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The BNP has alleged that their party mayoral candidate in Rangpur City Corporation polls is being obstructed by the ruling party men from carrying out electioneering. Party vice-chairman Iqbal Hasan...

Quader accuses BNP of ‘complaining too much’

Quader accuses BNP of ‘complaining too much’

-- 2017-12-17 11:17:07

Road Transport & Bridges Minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that bringing various allegations over any election is BNP's old habit. According to him, "BNP used to...

Commissioner Kabita says EC won’t hold any questionable poll

Commissioner Kabita says EC won’t hold any questionable poll

-- 2017-12-17 10:06:02

The present Election Commission (EC) does not want to hold any questionable election, said Election Commissioner Kabita Khanam on Sunday. She said, "No anomaly will be allowed in Boda municipal elect...

Govt to preserve rainwater in ponds to supply pure water

Govt to preserve rainwater in ponds to supply pure water

-- 2017-12-17 08:45:03

A government project has been undertaken to supply pure water through preserving rainwater after recovering 2,300 ponds from illegal occupants of the country's 61 district councils. Local Government...

Miscreants violate disabled girl in Savar

Miscreants violate disabled girl in Savar

-- 2017-12-17 07:55:41

Police have arrested a tea shop owner for allegedly violating a physically challenged minor girl at Nagar Konda Jamaddarpara in Savar. The arrestee is Majibar Rahman, 35, hail from Jamaddarpara. &nbs...

Move to archive Liberation War on digital map

Move to archive Liberation War on digital map

-- 2017-12-17 07:06:05

Priyo Limited has taken an initiative to chronicle every minute incident of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in a single digital map. The map, termed ‘PriyoPins’, will have a digital...

Anti-liberation forces will never get mandate: PM

Anti-liberation forces will never get mandate: PM

-- 2017-12-17 06:58:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that anti-liberation forces, patrons of war criminals, corrupts and killers like BNP will never get mandate. "People will never support them as they will drive t...

Prayer for Bangabandhu's killers: Madrasa principal in jail

Prayer for Bangabandhu's killers: Madrasa principal in jail

-- 2017-12-17 06:21:47

A Tangail court sent a madrasa principal to jail on Sunday over seeking heaven for killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The madrasa principal sought heaven for the killers of Bangabandhu She...

DoE fines 7 factories in Dhaka

DoE fines 7 factories in Dhaka

-- 2017-12-17 06:11:31

The Department of Environment (DoE) on Sunday fined seven factories Tk 4.3 million for polluting the environment in Savar and Gazipur. Following hearing at the DoE headquarters in Dhaka, its Director...

Fisheries Minister Sayedul Hoque laid to rest

Fisheries Minister Sayedul Hoque laid to rest

-- 2017-12-17 05:57:55

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque was laid to eternal rest at his village at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria on Sunday evening. He was buried at their family graveyard in Purbobhagh...

Drive carefully in thick fog, Quader cautions drivers

Drive carefully in thick fog, Quader cautions drivers

-- 2017-12-17 04:53:00

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged the drivers to run vehicles carefully in thick fog keeping the speed under control. The minister made the call while inaugurating a Bangla...

BD Ambassador urges community to join development journey

BD Ambassador urges community to join development journey

-- 2017-12-17 03:55:51

Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal has urged the members of Bangladesh community to join the development journey of Bangladesh. He also put the importance on inculcating t...

Magura road crash kills Indian national

Magura road crash kills Indian national

-- 2017-12-17 03:21:56

An Indian national was killed and four others injured as a microbus overturned on Magura-Jessore Road on Sunday. The Indian national was identified as Mohammad Islam (33), an inhabitant in Darbhanga...

Fisheries Minister Sayedul Hoque’s 2nd namaz-e-janaza held

Fisheries Minister Sayedul Hoque’s 2nd namaz-e-janaza held

-- 2017-12-17 02:04:12

The second namaz-e-janaza of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque was held at Ashutosh Pilot High School ground in Nasirnagar upazila at 1:00 pm. Law Minister Anisul Huq, Awami Lea...

Export earnings from shipbuilding soar

Export earnings from shipbuilding soar

Saif Uddin 2017-12-16 12:00:00

Export earnings from the country's shipbuilding sector has surged in recent months due to handing over of several high-value ships to foreign companies after a sluggish growth witnessed during the las...

President pays tributes to Liberation War heroes

President pays tributes to Liberation War heroes

-- 2017-12-16 12:00:00

President M Abdul Hamid has paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial here this morning, marking the 47th Victory Day. The President placed t...

BD spends one-third of what WHO recommends

BD spends one-third of what WHO recommends

Kamrun Nahar 2017-12-16 12:00:00

Bangladesh still has a per-capita health expenditure of US$ 37 which is one-third of the World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommended $ 85-112, experts said. Earlier, the recommended expenditure was $...