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Zia restored democracy, CEC reiterates

Zia restored democracy, CEC reiterates

Agencies 2017-10-26 12:00:00

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Thursday defended his remarks that Ziaur Rahman, the founder of BNP, reestablished multiparty democracy in the country. "Yes, I still own it. I made...

SC to hear Khaleda’s plea on Oct 30

SC to hear Khaleda’s plea on Oct 30

-- 2017-10-26 12:00:00

The Supreme Court on Thursday set October 30 to deliver its order on a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking stay on the trial proceedings and recording testimonies of the witnesses in...

WB’s loan offer to deal with Rohingya problem unethical: TIB

WB’s loan offer to deal with Rohingya problem unethical: TIB

-- 2017-10-26 12:00:00

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has voiced concern over the World Bank's (WB) loan offer to Bangladesh to deal with the challenges emerged after Rohingyas took shelter here amid persecutio...

Khaleda claims innocence, bursts into tears in courtroom

Khaleda claims innocence, bursts into tears in courtroom

-- 2017-10-26 12:00:00

An emotional BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday claimed herself innocent in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. She also termed it a 'fake' one as, what she said, the case was filed against her...

BGB, BSF favour joint exercise to curb crimes

BGB, BSF favour joint exercise to curb crimes

-- 2017-10-26 12:00:00

High officials of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) today has said the joint exercise of the two neighbouring forces would reduce cross border crimes. They came up...

HC bans construction on Dhaka canals

HC bans construction on Dhaka canals

-- 2017-10-26 09:36:34

The High Court (HC) on Thursday imposed a ban on building infrastructures in Dhaka metropolitan city’s 58 canals and water bodies. A HC division bench comprising Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and...

BCL leader gets expelled on rape charge

BCL leader gets expelled on rape charge

-- 2017-10-26 09:08:33

A district unit leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of ruling party Awami League, was expelled on Wednesday for violating party discipline. A UNB report said Riad Hossain,...

Man stabbed dead by ‘wife’

Man stabbed dead by ‘wife’

-- 2017-10-26 03:24:47

A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wife and children over family feud at Charbaria in the suburb area of Barisal district town on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moktar Bepari (45),...

Imran H Sarker faces another arrest warrant

Imran H Sarker faces another arrest warrant

-- 2017-10-26 03:22:05

A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant for Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker in a case relating to allegedly defaming the prime minister during a protest in Dhaka city. The warrant f...

‘Rivals’ stab Narail man to death

‘Rivals’ stab Narail man to death

-- 2017-10-26 01:00:48

A man was stabbed dead allegedly by his rivals at Kalabaria village in Narail’s Naragati upazila on Thursday. Tariqul Sheikh, son of Israfil Sheikh, hailing from the same village was brutally s...

Political parties have role to make polls fair too: Ex-CEC

Political parties have role to make polls fair too: Ex-CEC

-- 2017-10-25 12:48:53

Election experts, including former chief election commissioners and former election commissioners, are seen at a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda in the chair at Nirbachan Bhaban...

Around 3,000 village women make exportable fancy caps in Rangpur

Around 3,000 village women make exportable fancy caps in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2017-10-25 12:44:48

RANGPUR, Oct 24: Tupi (cap) making has brought a significant change in the financial condition of thousands of village women in different areas under Gangachara upazila of the district. Tariqul Islam...

Bogra DAE takes steps to produce 2,040 tonnes of turmeric this season

Bogra DAE takes steps to produce 2,040 tonnes of turmeric this season

Our Correspondent 2017-10-25 12:43:36

BOGRA, Oct 24: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Bogra, has taken an initiative to produce some 2,040 tonnes of turmeric this season across the district. The DAE office source said the f...

Lack of international action on Rohingya crisis -- a "disgrace"

Lack of international action on Rohingya crisis -- a "disgrace"

Inter Press Service (IPS) 2017-10-25 12:15:24

As the crisis in Myanmar reaches unprecedented levels, frustration is at its peak as the international community remains slow to respond and act cohesively. Over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have crosse...

Nine get death over college student murder

Nine get death over college student murder

FE Online Desk 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Nine people in Gazipur have got death penalty on Wednesday in a case filed over a murder of college student seven years ago. Gazipur Additional District and Sessions Judge MD Fazle Elahi Bhuiya convi...

Teenage girl hacked to pieces in Barguna

Teenage girl hacked to pieces in Barguna

Agencies 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Police recovered the body of a teenage girl, cut into seven pieces, from a house at Amtali municipality under Barguna on Tuesday. 17-year-old Mala Akhtar, a student of class XI, was identified as dau...

BD financial market needs credible benchmark

BD financial market needs credible benchmark

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Bangladesh's financial market runs sans effective benchmark called 'Dhaka Interbank Offered Rate (DIBOR)', leaving parties to quote rates in contracts and other financial instruments impromptu. Such...

Veteran singer Girija Devi lifeless at 88

Veteran singer Girija Devi lifeless at 88

FE Online Desk 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Eminent classical singer and Padma Vibhushan awardee Girija Devi passed away at a hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday following a cardiac arrest, hospital sources said. She was 88 and survived by a daught...

Myanmar working to take back Rohingyas: Suu Kyi

Myanmar working to take back Rohingyas: Suu Kyi

Agencies 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Myanmar government is working to take back those who crossed over to Bangladesh from its Rakhine state, says, the country’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. She made the statement during a mee...

Biman flight makes emergency landing at HSIA

Biman flight makes emergency landing at HSIA

-- 2017-10-25 12:00:00

A domestic flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Wednesday with 66 passengers on board. Just after...

21 BD nationals held in Satkhira

21 BD nationals held in Satkhira

-- 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 21 Bangladeshi nationals, including five children and six women, while they were entering the country through Taluigaccha bordering area in Sadar upaz...

37th BCS written exam results out

37th BCS written exam results out

-- 2017-10-25 12:00:00

The Bangladesh Public Service Commission has published the results of 37th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) written examinations. BPSC Chairman Mohammad Sadiq told a local media on Wednesday that a tot...

'Decision on sitting bus service in a week'

'Decision on sitting bus service in a week'

-- 2017-10-25 12:00:00

The government will take decision on operation of the ‘sitting bus service’ within a week, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader. The minister made the remarks after eme...

Atrocities on Rohingyas ‘genocide’: US senator

Atrocities on Rohingyas ‘genocide’: US senator

-- 2017-10-25 12:00:00

US senator Ben Cardin has said that the act of violence that Rohingya people are facing is identical to genocide. He also called for an answer from the Trump administration in this regard. Mr Cardin...

Human-elephant conflicts leave 227 dead in 13yrs

Human-elephant conflicts leave 227 dead in 13yrs

-- 2017-10-25 12:00:00

At least 227 people with 63 elephants died in human-elephant conflicts over the period of last 13 years in the country, revealed a Forest Department source. The Forest Department data also showed tha...

HC stays seven violence cases against Moudud

HC stays seven violence cases against Moudud

-- 2017-10-25 11:39:55

The High Court on Wednesday stayed seven cases filed against BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed for instigation violence during strikes and blockades sponsored by the BNP-led alliance, reports a local new...

Noakhali road mishap leaves two dead

Noakhali road mishap leaves two dead

-- 2017-10-25 11:01:15

Two people were killed and two others sustained injuries in a road crash on Subarnachar-Sonapur road in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali district on Tuesday midnight. The deceased were Abul Kalam (45)...

China backs bilateral solution to Rohingya crisis

China backs bilateral solution to Rohingya crisis

-- 2017-10-25 10:45:32

A top official in Dhaka has said that China wants to see a peaceful and bilateral solution to Rohingya crisis and send the Muslim-minority people back to Myanmar. After a meeting in the capital with...

Man beaten to death by mob

Man beaten to death by mob

-- 2017-10-25 10:37:48

A man was beaten to death allegedly by an angry mob at Sahapur High School playground in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali district on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Yeasin Miah (35), son...

Dhaka Medical College to add 12 more ICU beds

Dhaka Medical College to add 12 more ICU beds

-- 2017-10-25 09:06:23

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) will add 12 more beds at the Incentive Care Unit (ICU) next week to provide critical treatment to a larger number of patients. At present, a total of 20 beds exi...