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AGM held; Square Textiles approves 25pc dividend

AGM held; Square Textiles approves 25pc dividend

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 04:04:07

Square Textiles Limited has orginised its 22nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Dhaka Club in Ramna area of the capital city, recently. The company declared 20 per cent cash dividend and 5.0 per cent...

Pusti Consumer Division holds sales conference

Pusti Consumer Division holds sales conference

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 03:55:59

Pusti Consumer Division, a sister concern of TK Group of Industries, has arranged the National Sales Conference 2017 at PSC Convention Center in city, recently. Mohammed Mustafa Haider, Group Directo...

HC asks ex-home Minister Altaf to surrender

HC asks ex-home Minister Altaf to surrender

-- 2017-12-06 03:23:49

The High Court (HC) on Wednesaday directed former BNP home minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury to surrender before the trial court in Barapukuria coal mine corruption case. The HC bench of Justice M Ena...

Detectives nab two over Habiganj female MP assault

Detectives nab two over Habiganj female MP assault

-- 2017-12-06 02:57:41

Detectives detained two people, including Bahubal upazila vice chairman Tara Miah and also the prime accused in the case for assaulting female MP Amatul Kibria Keya, from the capital on Tuesday night...

Police arrest ‘mastermind’ over Banani businessman murder

Police arrest ‘mastermind’ over Banani businessman murder

-- 2017-12-06 02:46:39

Detectives have arrested the 'mastermind' over the killing of a businessman from Gulshan in the city. The arrestee was M Helaluddin, 38, a mid-level Jatiyabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader. Law enforcer...

Bus, trucks fall off ferry after barge hit

Bus, trucks fall off ferry after barge hit

-- 2017-12-06 02:20:21

Two people have been injured as a lighter barge hit a ferry causing a bus and two freight trucks and a bus to sink into the Korch River in Pirojpur’s Bekutia. The bus passengers were able to d...

Dhaka seeks UNHRC's role for solving Rohingya crisis

Dhaka seeks UNHRC's role for solving Rohingya crisis

-- 2017-12-06 01:51:00

Dhaka has urged the UN Human Rights Council to play its due role for resolving the Rohingya crisis. Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said despite having had no part in the crisis at all, Ba...

Daylong hartal underway in Jurachhari upazila

Daylong hartal underway in Jurachhari upazila

-- 2017-12-06 01:27:18

A dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Jurachhari upazila unit of Chhatra League protesting the killing of a Jubo League leader is underway in the upazila on Wednesday. All business establishments remained...

'Sophia' surprises PM

'Sophia' surprises PM

Md. Ziaur Rahman 2017-12-06 00:00:00

The world’s first-ever Robot citizen Sophia has surprised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saying how much she knows about Bangladesh. The humanoid robot met her on Wednesday at the Digital World 2...

Dishonest traders deceiving Rangpur farmers with spurious paddy seeds

Dishonest traders deceiving Rangpur farmers with spurious paddy seeds

Our Correspondent 2017-12-05 12:44:58

Farmers of eight districts under Rangpur division are apprehensive as sale of low quality and spurious Boro paddy seed is going on unabated at the beginning of seed sowing season. According to source...

Khaleda gets bail in graft cases

Khaleda gets bail in graft cases

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has got bail after surrendering to court over the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Welfare Trust graft cases. The BNP chief has also been allowed to continue her defence statem...

PM stresses Asian connectivity boost, returns home

PM stresses Asian connectivity boost, returns home

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the importance of increasing connectivity and cooperation among Asian nations in the interest of the people of this region. The Prime Minister came up...

Mobile court jails ex-civil surgeon for 3 months

Mobile court jails ex-civil surgeon for 3 months

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A mobile court sentenced former Lakshmipur acting Civil Surgeon Salah Uddin Sharif to three months in jail for ‘mistreating’ Lakshmipur Additional Deputy Commissioner Shaikh Murshidul Isla...

Miscreants gun down  Ex-UP member  in Rangamati

Miscreants gun down Ex-UP member in Rangamati

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Miscreants gunned down a former union parishad member  in Boghachhari union of Naniarchar upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Anadi Ranjan Chakma, former UP member of Nani...

PM ends Cambodia visit, heading back to Dhaka

PM ends Cambodia visit, heading back to Dhaka

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Wrapping up her three-day official visit to Cambodia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh for home on Tuesday afternoon. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carr...

Brawl with ADC: Ex-surgeon gets bail

Brawl with ADC: Ex-surgeon gets bail

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A court granted bail to ex- civil surgeon of Laxmipur, who was sentenced to three months jail following a brawl between him and the district's additional deputy commissioner (general) The court grant...

Zonta Club raises awareness among female workers in Gazipur

Zonta Club raises awareness among female workers in Gazipur

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Zonta Club of greater Dhaka on Monday has taken an initiative at an RMG factory in Rajendrapur to raise awareness on personal safety and employee rights of female workers. Led by the Club's president...

BTRC to stop excess SIMs by Dec 31

BTRC to stop excess SIMs by Dec 31

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

All mobile users must contact operators and disable any SIMs or RIMs registered to them above the maximum limit of 15 by Dec 31, said The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. In instru...

Police arrest BNP leader Aminul, 14 others

Police arrest BNP leader Aminul, 14 others

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Police arrested BNP's Sports Affairs Secretary, former national footballer, Aminul Islam and 14 others after a clash at Secretariat area on Tuesday afternoon. BNP leaders and activists engaged in a c...

HC summons Lakshmipur ADC, UNO over doctor's detention

HC summons Lakshmipur ADC, UNO over doctor's detention

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

The High Court on Tuesday summoned an Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) and Upazila Nirbahi Officer working in Lakshmipur over sentencing former civil surgeon through mobile court. A two-member HC...

100 days of Rohingya crisis: Cox’s Bazar in dire straits

100 days of Rohingya crisis: Cox’s Bazar in dire straits

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Conditions of the congested makeshift refugee settlements in Cox's Bazar are extremely dire. Although it’s already over 100 days since the Rohingyas started to arrive fleeing violence in Myanm...

BGB seizes Phensidyl, hemp

BGB seizes Phensidyl, hemp

-- 2017-12-05 10:38:26

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,140 bottles of phensidyl and 28 kg of hemp worth Tk 6 lakh from Roghunathpur border village of Benapole on Monday night. On secret information, a...

Six factors obstructing Bangladesh to achieve SDGs: Study

Six factors obstructing Bangladesh to achieve SDGs: Study

-- 2017-12-05 08:36:13

Six factors are deepening vulnerabilities in Bangladesh, which in turn are proving to be the main obstacles for the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, said a new stud...

DNCC fines two firms over illegal graffiti

DNCC fines two firms over illegal graffiti

-- 2017-12-05 07:43:04

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has fined two organisations Tk 50,000 each in a drive against illegal graffiti, wall writings and posters. A DNCC mobile court conducted the drive at Tejgaon, Nike...

'AL to nominate efficient DNCC mayor candidate'

'AL to nominate efficient DNCC mayor candidate'

-- 2017-12-05 07:15:34

Ruling Awami League will nominate a suitable and efficient candidate in upcoming by-election to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral post. AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader came up with...

Court dismisses defamation case against Justice Manik

Court dismisses defamation case against Justice Manik

-- 2017-12-05 06:41:23

A Dhaka court has dismissed a case filed against former justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik for defaming former Chief Justice SK Sinha. The allegation was brought against him for defaming SK Sinha...

Prime Minister returns home

Prime Minister returns home

-- 2017-12-05 05:03:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday afternoon wrapping up her three-day official visit to Cambodia. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her en...

Pregnant woman dies over 'wrong treatment'

Pregnant woman dies over 'wrong treatment'

-- 2017-12-05 04:54:15

A pregnant young woman died at a private clinic in Kachua upazila of Chandpur on Monday evening due to alleged wrong treatment. The deceased was identified as Salma Begum, 28, wife of Md Jakir Hossai...

Mobile court fines 19 fishermen over jatka fishing

Mobile court fines 19 fishermen over jatka fishing

-- 2017-12-05 04:48:47

A mobile court fined 19 fishermen Tk 5,000 each for catching jatka in Meghna river at Naria upazila of Shariatpur on Monday. A joint team of police and officials of Department of Fisheries (DoF) led...

Police detain JMB man in city

Police detain JMB man in city

-- 2017-12-05 04:07:00

Police detained an operative of the banned militant outfit Jma'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from the city's Sabujbagh area. "Counter terrorism unit of the police arrested Md Nur Azam Siddique ali...