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Rajshahi police seize 176 sacks of OMS rice

Rajshahi police seize 176 sacks of OMS rice

-- 2017-12-10 04:51:06

Police seized 176 sacks of rice meant for open market sale (OMS) programme from a truck in Rajshahi city on Sunday. The law enforcers also arrested driver of the truck. Officer-in-charge of Boalia P...

ACC arrests 3 CDA engineers

ACC arrests 3 CDA engineers

-- 2017-12-10 04:24:28

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three engineers of the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) over graft charges. ACC arrested them while conducting a special drive on Sunday The arres...

Bangladesh clinch gold in Int'l Karate Championship

Bangladesh clinch gold in Int'l Karate Championship

FE Online Desk 2017-12-10 04:03:50

Team Bangladesh clinched several medals, including one gold, in the first International Goju Ryu Karate Championship held recently in India’s Jaipur. All India Goju Ryu Karate Federation organi...

Man to die for murdering sister-in-law

Man to die for murdering sister-in-law

-- 2017-12-10 04:03:08

A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death over murdering his sister-in-law. The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal – 4 handed down the verdict against Rabbi Hossain Mona over the 2013 murder of Sayer...

Electricity to go to every house: PM

Electricity to go to every house: PM

-- 2017-12-10 03:50:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinaon on Sunday said that each and every house will be illuminated of the country by producing electricity from different sources. The Preimer said this while inaugurating th...

ECMSS holds free eye camp

ECMSS holds free eye camp

-- 2017-12-10 03:29:28

Eye Care Project of Manabik Shahajya Sansgtha (ECMSS) has organised an eye camp at Taraganj upazila of Rangpur district, recently. The eye camp provided free eye care, cataract identification, specta...

Bumper production delights Magura brinjal farmers

Bumper production delights Magura brinjal farmers

Our Correspondent 2017-12-10 02:30:25

Magura farmers are overjoyed as they have got a bumper production of brinjal. They are also happy over the present market price of the vegetable. Market sources said brinjal is being sold at Tk 50 pe...

BD draws world’s attention to Rohingya issue

BD draws world’s attention to Rohingya issue

-- 2017-12-09 12:54:58

Drawing global attention to the devastating consequences of a prevalent culture of impunity in Myanmar's Rakhine State, Ambassador Belal updated the Bangladesh's effort to work with the Myanmar govern...

Insurance scheme must for outbound workers by Jan

Insurance scheme must for outbound workers by Jan

Arafat Ara 2017-12-09 12:27:11

The government is set to make insurance scheme mandatory for all the outbound workers by January with life and non-life facilities, sources said. Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employme...

Khaleda’s meeting with BNP policymakers Sunday night

Khaleda’s meeting with BNP policymakers Sunday night

-- 2017-12-09 12:24:45

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit in a meeting with the party's senior leaders on Sunday night to discuss the country's latest political situation. The meeting will be held at the BNP chief...

Feasibility study begins on new seaport, floating bay harbour

Feasibility study begins on new seaport, floating bay harbour

Syful Islam 2017-12-09 12:00:00

The government began a techno-economic feasibility study to build a new seaport and a floating harbour in the Bay of Bengal for tackling growing trade through the busy maritime corridor. Officials sa...

Google Doodle celebrates Rokeya Day

Google Doodle celebrates Rokeya Day

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage to celebrate Begum Rokeya Day, marking the 137th birth and 85th death anniversary of the pioneer of women rights in the subcontinent...

Long tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway

Long tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Slow vehicular movement caused by potholes created a 15-kilometre long tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Elenga area since Friday midnight. Police said potholes were created as construction works...

Five get Rokeya Padak

Five get Rokeya Padak

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Five persons have been awarded with Rokeya Padak, 2017 for their outstanding contributions to the society and the empowerment of womenfolk. They are Freedom Fighter and organiser Mazeda Shawkat Ali,...

BD tourists in India cross 1.6 million in 10 months

BD tourists in India cross 1.6 million in 10 months

FE Online Report 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Total number of Bangladeshi tourists visiting India crossed the 1.6-million mark in the first 10 months of the current calendar year. Statistics available with the India tourism ministry showed that...

Stand on your own feet, PM urges women

Stand on your own feet, PM urges women

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the country's women to discover their own potentiality defying all the obstacles to stand on their own feet. "Women always think how can they flourish their m...

EU for fair, credible polls in BD

EU for fair, credible polls in BD

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Free, fair and credible elections in the period ahead, in accordance with international standards, will contribute to creating a more prosperous Bangladesh, said the European Union. The EU, a politic...

646,000 Rohingya refugees currently in BD since August:UN

646,000 Rohingya refugees currently in BD since August:UN

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since August 25 has now reached 646,000,says the United Nations. A big jump took place from the estimated number of 626,000 last week, “Although thi...

Sundarbans forest employees getting risk allowance

Sundarbans forest employees getting risk allowance

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

The forest department employees who safeguard the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, will get risk allowance. The financial benefit will be equivalent of the 30 per cent of their basic sala...

Over 500 trout fish cultivators become jobless at Adamdighi

Over 500 trout fish cultivators become jobless at Adamdighi

Our Correspondent 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Due to acute adverse weather condition, more than 500 trout fish workers under Adamdighi upazila of Bogra district have become jobless in this peak season. According to Miniature Fisheries Organisati...

Govt starts bad politics to spread confusion: BNP

Govt starts bad politics to spread confusion: BNP

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the government has initiated bad politics to spread confusion among people ahead of the next general election. "What do you (govt) want to g...

Female artisans busy making Kumro Bori in Natore

Female artisans busy making Kumro Bori in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-09 12:00:00

A good number of people are earning good profit by making popular lentil dumpling (Kumro Bori) this winter. Female members of a good number of families are generally engaged in making the item and ea...

BD IT cos making their mark in int'l arena

BD IT cos making their mark in int'l arena

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Information Technology companies from Bangladesh have huge untapped scopes for investment in the burgeoning IT sector of Bhutan, Maldives and various Sub Saharan African nations, a group of high level...

No repair of most RHD bridges since inception

No repair of most RHD bridges since inception

Munima Sultana 2017-12-09 11:15:34

Most of the bridges on national and regional highways in the country are in a poor state in the absence of any repair work by the authority concerned since their construction, sources said. The bridg...

Bailey bridge collapses in Thakurgaon

Bailey bridge collapses in Thakurgaon

-- 2017-12-09 11:00:32

Road communications of Thakurgaon district town with 10 Union Parishads remained snapped as a bailey bridge at Barunagaon in Sadar upazila collapsed on Friday evening. Mafidar Islam, station officer...

Deep depression weakens

Deep depression weakens

-- 2017-12-09 10:35:02

The deep depression has moved further north-northwestwards and weakened into a depression over the North West Bay and the adjoining West Central Bay. It centred at 3am on Saturday about 760 kms south...

Zia family's corruption already proved: Obaidul Quader

Zia family's corruption already proved: Obaidul Quader

-- 2017-12-09 09:21:57

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has claimed that corruption allegations against Zia family were already proved and there is no need to prove it again. "The corruption of Zia family were...

Farhad Mazhar says he faced pressure to hide abduction

Farhad Mazhar says he faced pressure to hide abduction

-- 2017-12-09 08:40:28

Columnist Farhad Mazhar has claimed that he was abducted and he faced pressure to ‘conceal this truth’. Denying the police claim that he was not abducted, Mr Mazhar said he was forced to...

PM to inaugurate four power plants Sunday   

PM to inaugurate four power plants Sunday  

-- 2017-12-09 07:09:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate four power plants through video conference at Gonobhaban on Sunday (tomorrow) at 10 am. The power plants to be inaugurated on Sunday are Shikal...

Rohingya crisis shows susceptibility of human rights: EU

Rohingya crisis shows susceptibility of human rights: EU

-- 2017-12-09 06:51:04

The European Union (EU) said the Rohingya crisis shows how susceptible human rights are even after 70 years of signing of a Universal Declaration for its protection. "The recent situation of the Rohi...