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PM for inclusion of disabled persons in dev process

PM for inclusion of disabled persons in dev process

-- 2018-05-15 15:15:10

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community for inclusion of the persons with disabilities in the development and disaster risk management process. "Bangladesh did it...we wa...

ADB considering grant support to help tackle Rohingya crisis

ADB considering grant support to help tackle Rohingya crisis

FE Online Report 2018-05-15 15:06:55

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is considering providing grant support to help Bangladesh tackle Rohingya crisis, a senior ADB official told the FE Tuesday. “Based on the request from the Bang...

Verdict on Khaleda's bail pleas now Wednesday

Verdict on Khaleda's bail pleas now Wednesday

-- 2018-05-15 14:39:49

The Supreme Court has set Wednesday to deliver its verdict on the two appeals against the High Court bail order for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case. Though the verdict was expected to com...

Police recover youth’s bullet-riddled body

Police recover youth’s bullet-riddled body

-- 2018-05-15 14:35:01

Police on Tuesday morning recovered a bullet riddled body of a young man from Belgaichi area in Chuadanga city. The deceased was identified as Sun Ahmed, 25, son of Helal Uddin of Mazerpara area of t...

Railways minister blessed with twin boys

Railways minister blessed with twin boys

-- 2018-05-15 14:08:59

Railways Minister Mujibul Haque and his wife Honufa Akhter Rikta were blessed with twin boys early Tuesday. The minister's wife gave birth to the babies around 12:15 am at the Department of Gynaecolo...

KCC polls: Ballot snatching halts voting at a centre

KCC polls: Ballot snatching halts voting at a centre

-- 2018-05-15 13:43:03

The voting of Khulna City Corporation elections has been suspended at a polling centre in ward no 24 following the snatching of ballot papers by miscreants on Tuesday. Presiding officer Khalilur Rahm...

Two Bangladeshi women die in Lebanon fire

Two Bangladeshi women die in Lebanon fire

-- 2018-05-15 13:17:49

Two expatriate Bangladeshi women died in a fire that broke out in Matn town of Dora, Lebanon on Monday. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, reports Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star quot...

Cops recover 11 hand bombs in Benapole

Cops recover 11 hand bombs in Benapole

-- 2018-05-15 12:16:45

Police in a drive recovered 11 hand bombs from Benapole land port on Tuesday morning in an abandoned condition. On information, a team of police conducted a drive behind shade no 11 of the port and r...

Agents are being forced out from polling centres, BNP alleges

Agents are being forced out from polling centres, BNP alleges

-- 2018-05-15 11:48:05

BNP mayoral candidate Nazrul Islam Manju has alleged that the ruling party men have driven out his polling agents from at least 20 centres of the ongoing Khulna City Corporation elections. The conten...

Another vessel capsizes in Meghna

Another vessel capsizes in Meghna

-- 2018-05-15 10:52:36

A ship after getting hit by another vessel capsized in the Meghna River on Monday. The broken vessel reported to be carrying 570 tonnes of fly ash at Loggimarar shawl area of Sadar upazila. No casua...

Bus, truck collide head-on killing three

Bus, truck collide head-on killing three

-- 2018-05-15 10:34:36

Three people were killed and four others injured following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Harotola area of Habiganj Tuesday morning. The identity of the dece...

Gunfights leave two ‘drug traders’ dead

Gunfights leave two ‘drug traders’ dead

-- 2018-05-15 10:30:21

Two suspected drug traders were killed in separate 'gunfights' with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Narayanganj and Kushtia districts on Tuesday. In Narayanganj, Mohammad Rekon, 36, hail...

Three-fourths of BD workers employed in vulnerable jobs

Three-fourths of BD workers employed in vulnerable jobs

FE Report 2018-05-15 10:17:28

About 75.2 per cent workers of Bangladesh's total labour force are employed in vulnerable jobs and the majority of them have own-account status, according to the latest International Labour Organiza...

Voting underway for Khulna City Corporation elections

Voting underway for Khulna City Corporation elections

-- 2018-05-15 10:02:03

Voting in the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) elections began on Tuesday morning to elect its new mayor and councillors. The balloting that began at 8:00am will continue till 4:00pm without any break....

Unipec, ENOC may supply up to 1.52 mt of petro products

Unipec, ENOC may supply up to 1.52 mt of petro products

FE Report 2018-05-15 10:01:50

Unipec Singapore and Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) may supply up to 1.52 million tonne (mt) of diesel, jet fuel, furnace oil and octane combined during July to December of this calendar year...

95th birth anniv  of Mirza Mehdy  Ispahani observed

95th birth anniv of Mirza Mehdy Ispahani observed

-- 2018-05-15 00:34:55

The 95th birth anniversary of late Mirza Mehdy Ispahani was observed through a programme at Mirza Ahmed Ispahani High School on Monday, says a statement. The programme includes recitation from the...

Quota reform protesters call off blockade

Quota reform protesters call off blockade

-- 2018-05-14 21:05:43

Quota reform protesters have called off their protest and blockade at Shahbagh intersection after receiving an assurance from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina regarding their demand. The protesters dem...

RAB will do anything to uproot drug abuse: Benzir

RAB will do anything to uproot drug abuse: Benzir

-- 2018-05-14 21:03:02

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General (DG) Benzir Ahmed on Monday warned drug dealers, addicts and drug pedlar saying that the force will employ everything at its disposal to prevent drug abus...

Khulna city polls Tuesday after high-voltage campaign

Khulna city polls Tuesday after high-voltage campaign

-- 2018-05-14 20:43:18

Khulna City Corporation (KCC) goes to polls on Tuesday to elect its new mayor and councillors with the contenders of both the ruling Awami League and BNP claiming to come out successful in the electio...

SC decision on Khaleda’s bail Tuesday

SC decision on Khaleda’s bail Tuesday

-- 2018-05-14 19:19:31

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its order on Tuesday on two leave-to-appeal petitions filed challenging BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's bail granted by the High Court in the Zi...

Cumilla firing leaves robber dead

Cumilla firing leaves robber dead

-- 2018-05-14 19:12:28

An alleged robber was killed in a firing over a failed bid by his fellow gang members to rescue him from a mob in Gumkot village of Nangalkot upazila in Cumilla early Monday. The deceased was identif...

PKSF launches platform for elderly people

PKSF launches platform for elderly people

-- 2018-05-14 19:04:48

Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) on Monday officially launched a platform called 'Bangladesh Jatiya Prabin Manch' in the city to ensure a better and respectable life for senior citizens in the so...

Two minor siblings die of electrocution in Bhola

Two minor siblings die of electrocution in Bhola

-- 2018-05-14 18:40:45

Two minor siblings died of electrocution at Pangashia under Lalmohan upazila in Bhola on Monday. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin, 6, and Siam, 4, sons of Mizan Khandaker of the village. Mir...

Four to die for killing youth in Madaripur

Four to die for killing youth in Madaripur

-- 2018-05-14 18:35:28

A Madaripur court on Monday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a young man in 2013. The convicts are - Alamin Kha, 17, Shahin Hawladar, 28, Mizanur Rahman Hawladar, 32, and...

ACC to grill ex-BASIC Bank chairman Bacchu Tuesday

ACC to grill ex-BASIC Bank chairman Bacchu Tuesday

-- 2018-05-14 18:28:15

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will again interrogate former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu on Tuesday as he skipped the last quizzing on May 9 in connection with a case over embezz...

Lawmaker Rana sent to jail after remand in double murder case

Lawmaker Rana sent to jail after remand in double murder case

-- 2018-05-14 18:21:37

A Tangail court on Monday sent Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-3 constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana to jail after completion of his two-day remand in a case filed over the killing of two Jubo lea...

Charge sheet against three public servants gets ACC nod

Charge sheet against three public servants gets ACC nod

-- 2018-05-14 18:09:41

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) approved two charge sheets on Monday against three government officials in connection with taking bribe and embezzlement of money of the government project. ACC D...

'Decision over quota reform coming soon'

'Decision over quota reform coming soon'

-- 2018-05-14 18:08:55

Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the decision over quota reform will be announced soon. “No decision was taken at the meeting over quota system, but it is in progress. It might happ...

‘Govt conspiring to rig KCC polls’

‘Govt conspiring to rig KCC polls’

-- 2018-05-14 17:53:45

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday alleged that the government is conspiring to resist their party's victory in Tuesday's Khulna City Corporation polls by rigging votes. "A tense...

Govt renames environment ministry with climate change perspective

Govt renames environment ministry with climate change perspective

-- 2018-05-14 16:58:15

The government has renamed the Ministry of Environment and Forest as the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for changing the name of the min...