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Mob lynches ‘thief’ in Joypurhat

Mob lynches ‘thief’ in Joypurhat

-- 2018-05-12 10:45:10

An elderly man was reportedly beaten to death by a mob in suspicion of theft attempt at Ghashuria village in the district headquarter on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Yasin Mia, 61,...

Unapproved projects rule chart

Unapproved projects rule chart

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-12 09:43:24

The government has included a record number of 1,664 unapproved fresh projects in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year, mostly on political considerations, insiders said F...

Land disputes threaten Sreehatta zone

Land disputes threaten Sreehatta zone

Jasim Uddin Haroon and Jubair Hasan 2018-05-12 09:39:01

The fate of Sreehatta economic zone is hanging in the balance because of the legal complexities over land acquisition. Such uncertainty has resulted in an unofficial halt in the development work of t...

Six get punishment for unfair means in recruitment test

Six get punishment for unfair means in recruitment test

-- 2018-05-11 20:32:06

A mobile court fined five candidates and sentenced another one for adopting unfair means in the primary assistant teacher recruitment test in Gopalganj on Friday. The candidates are: Sankar Das, Sheu...

PM asks students to refrain from vandalism

PM asks students to refrain from vandalism

-- 2018-05-11 19:43:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked students to refrain from resorting to vandalism in their educational institutions. "The government will no longer tolerate such acts," she said, reports UNB. T...

City road crash leaves three dead

City road crash leaves three dead

-- 2018-05-11 19:20:43

Three people, including a minor girl, were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a human-hauler at Goran Chatbari under Shah Ali Police Station in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Two of the dece...

President seeks support to work for people's welfare

President seeks support to work for people's welfare

-- 2018-05-11 18:30:48

President Abdul Hamid on Friday sought people's blessings so that he can perform his duty properly for the welfare of the country and its people. "I want to work for the welfare and development of th...

Tailback on Dhaka-Chattogram highway stretches 26 kilometres

Tailback on Dhaka-Chattogram highway stretches 26 kilometres

-- 2018-05-11 18:21:57

A 26-km tailback was created on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway from Feni on Friday, causing immense sufferings to the commuters. Several hundred vehicles were stuck on both sides on the busy highway st...

Clamour for bringing all master plans under legal framework

Clamour for bringing all master plans under legal framework

FE Report 2018-05-11 17:08:00

Lawmakers and planners called Thursday for bringing all the relevant master plans under a legal framework for the sake of their successful and effective implementation for achieving sustainable develo...

Six die in M’singh road mishap

Six die in M’singh road mishap

-- 2018-05-11 16:57:08

Six people were killed as a bus crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Kashni of Tarakanda upazila in Mymensingh on Friday afternoon. Mazharul Haque, officer-in-charge of Tarakanda Police Station, s...

Foreign minister to visit Japan Sunday

Foreign minister to visit Japan Sunday

-- 2018-05-11 16:53:20

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will pay an official visit to Japan from May 13 to 16 at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono. A diplomatic source said the foreign minister is expecte...

BNP to publish autobiography of Khaleda

BNP to publish autobiography of Khaleda

-- 2018-05-11 16:38:00

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said an autobiography of their chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in jail, is being written. "An autobiography of our honourable leader is being...

Road accidents claim 40,000 lives in five yrs: Study

Road accidents claim 40,000 lives in five yrs: Study

-- 2018-05-11 16:23:19

At least 40,000 people were killed and 60,0000 others got crippled in road accidents across the country over the last five years, according to Accident Research Institute (ARI) of Buet. In an intervi...

PM mourns death of Maidul Islam

PM mourns death of Maidul Islam

-- 2018-05-11 16:20:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of parliament member and former minister AKM Maidul Islam. In a condolence message, the prime minister prayed for...

War crimes convict dies in Dhaka

War crimes convict dies in Dhaka

-- 2018-05-11 14:59:17

A 78-year-old war crimes convict has died under treatment in a Dhaka city hospital. Md Billal Hossain Biswas, who was jailed for life in 2016, has been suffering from old-age complications. Biswas w...

Seven die as nor’wester lashes Nilphamari

Seven die as nor’wester lashes Nilphamari

-- 2018-05-11 13:39:07

Seven people were killed as nor'wester lashed Jaldhaka and Domar upazilas of Nilphamari district on Thursday night. In Domar upazila, Abdul Gani, 40 of Golnati Chourangibazar, was killed when a porti...

Two kids drown in Tangail river

Two kids drown in Tangail river

-- 2018-05-11 13:20:00

Two children drowned in a river at Kashil Paschimpara village in Basail upazila of Tangail on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Rumi, 7, daughter of Bhulu Jamadar and Shonali, 6, daughter of...

Truck crushes hawker in Narsingdi

Truck crushes hawker in Narsingdi

-- 2018-05-11 12:30:23

A newspaper hawker was crushed under wheels of a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Velanagar Bazar area in Narsingdi at about 6 am Friday. The deceased was identified as Kamal Mia, aged 58, a hawker...

Rajshahi farmers taking up pre-paid irrigation system

Rajshahi farmers taking up pre-paid irrigation system

-- 2018-05-11 12:19:18

Farmers across Rajshahi region are adapting themselves in using pre-paid cards for irrigation and the system is being popularised among them in the vast Baring tract since the last couple of years....

Kurigram-3 MP AKM Maidul Islam dies

Kurigram-3 MP AKM Maidul Islam dies

-- 2018-05-11 12:07:17

AKM Maidul Islam, a Jatiya Party MP from Kurigram-3 constituency and also a former minister, died at a city hospital on Thursday night. He was 76. The Kurigram MP, who had been suffering from lung co...

BGB seizes $100,000 at Benapole

BGB seizes $100,000 at Benapole

-- 2018-05-11 11:50:06

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested two people along with one lakh US dollars from Raghunathpur border point in Benapole port area on Thursday night. The arrestees were ident...

BGB recovers 24 gold bars at Benapole

BGB recovers 24 gold bars at Benapole

-- 2018-05-11 10:57:38

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 24 gold bars, weighing 2.7 kgs, from Ghiba in Benapole port area on Thursday night. Acting on information, a team of BGB-49 conducted a d...

KCC aspirants passing busy time in electioneering

KCC aspirants passing busy time in electioneering

-- 2018-05-10 21:19:54

Election fever has gripped Khulna metropolis as both the mayoral and councillor contenders are passing time in campaign to win the race. Centring the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) polls, electioneeri...

Rangpur, Bogura Boro growers suffer for shortage of labour

Rangpur, Bogura Boro growers suffer for shortage of labour

Our Correspondent 2018-05-10 21:17:40

RANGPUR, May 10: Severe dearth of day-labourers has been affecting the harvesting of Boro paddy in eight upazilas of the district this year. According to sources a good number of farm labourers of th...

Proposal sent to PM to form committee over quota system

Proposal sent to PM to form committee over quota system

-- 2018-05-10 21:01:08

A proposal has been sent to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to form a committee to take a decision on the quota system in public services. Senior Secretary to the Public Administration Ministry M Mozamm...

Prime suspect, who ‘murdered’ cable-TV business owner, killed in crossfire

Prime suspect, who ‘murdered’ cable-TV business owner, killed in crossfire

-- 2018-05-10 20:51:31

Prime suspect in Wednesday's killing of a cable operator in Badda was killed in crossfire between his cohorts and detectives in the city's Aftabnagar early Thursday, claimed police, according to UNB.&...

FFs to get collateral-free home loan

FFs to get collateral-free home loan

-- 2018-05-10 20:37:09

The government has planned to formulate a policy to provide collateral-free home loan for freedom fighters and their heirs. The loan will be given under the 'Freedom Fighters House Construction Loan...

Zakat fair kicks off on Friday

Zakat fair kicks off on Friday

-- 2018-05-10 19:49:38

A two-day ‘zakat’ fair will begin in the city on Friday, aiming to create awareness among people about zakat distribution and poverty alleviation. Centre for Zakat Management (CZM) is goi...

Thrust on adaptive measures to tackle climate change

Thrust on adaptive measures to tackle climate change

-- 2018-05-10 19:46:05

Bangladesh needs to focus on adaptive measures to cope with the adverse impact of climate change. Developing countries like Bangladesh are bearing the burden of excessive carbon emissions caused by i...

Lighting kills 22 in 24 hours, 144 since January

Lighting kills 22 in 24 hours, 144 since January

SM Najmus Sakib 2018-05-10 18:41:55

Lightning has claimed 22 lives in the country in the last 24 hours alone and 144 since January 18. Information officer to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Omor Faruk Dewan revealed this...