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Magura BNP leader dies

Magura BNP leader dies

-- 2018-03-04 18:12:05

BNP Magura district Joint Convener Syed Mokaddes Ali died at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in the capital on Saturday night. He was 74. Mokaddes, who had long been suffering from asthma, breathed his la...

Home minister sees no lapse in Zafar Iqbal's security

Home minister sees no lapse in Zafar Iqbal's security

-- 2018-03-04 18:07:40

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said there was no lapse in the security measures when Dr Zafar Iqbal came under a knife attack. The minister made the remarks on Sunday, a day after Zafar Iqbal cam...

RAB arrests one with 21,500 Yaba tablets in Ctg

RAB arrests one with 21,500 Yaba tablets in Ctg

-- 2018-03-04 17:36:43

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged smuggler and seized 21,500 pieces of Yaba tablets from Moijjertek in the port city Chittagong on Saturday night. The arrestee was identifie...

Vietnam President Quang arrives in city 

Vietnam President Quang arrives in city 

-- 2018-03-04 17:28:48

President of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a three-day state visit amid a rousing reception. The Vietnamese President came to Dhaka at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterp...

Quader suspects BNP's involvement behind attack on Zafar Iqbal

Quader suspects BNP's involvement behind attack on Zafar Iqbal

-- 2018-03-04 17:12:08

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader suspects BNP's involvement behind the attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal in Sylhet. Describing the attack as a communal plot, the road transport and bri...

Students demand reform of quota system in government jobs

Students demand reform of quota system in government jobs

-- 2018-03-04 17:10:31

Students on Sunday staged demonstration at Shahbagh intersection of Dhaka in demand of reforming quota system in government recruitment examinations.   Several hundreds of students mostly of Dha...

US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing

US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing

-- 2018-03-04 16:44:12

A US-Bangla Airline's plane made a safe emergency landing in Dhaka due to signal imbalance after takeoff on Sunday morning. US-Bangla Airline's GM (Marketing Support and PR) Kamrul Islam confirmed th...

Zafar Iqbal’s attackers are fanatics: PM

Zafar Iqbal’s attackers are fanatics: PM

-- 2018-03-04 15:25:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday labelled the attackers of Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal as fanatics and urged all to keep their children away from militancy, terrorism and drug abuse. "Those who a...

Do not hurt him: Zafar Iqbal on his attacker

Do not hurt him: Zafar Iqbal on his attacker

-- 2018-03-04 15:15:16

Prof Mohammed Zafar Iqbal told his students not to hurt his attacker after he was stabbed at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. The popular author was injured in the attack, which occurr...

Nilphamari road mishap leaves one dead

Nilphamari road mishap leaves one dead

-- 2018-03-04 15:04:07

A 32-year-old day labourer has been killed after a trolley truck hit him from the rear side at Daroani area in Nilphamari Sadar upazila on Sunday. The accident occurring around 12 pm left Milon Islam...

Bogra road accident kills one

Bogra road accident kills one

-- 2018-03-04 14:54:30

A motorbike rider was killed as a bus hit his bike in Phultala area under Shajahanpur upazila of Bogra on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Yasir Arafat Mukul (33), son of Yasin Ali, hai...

Zafar Iqbal feeling well: CMH

Zafar Iqbal feeling well: CMH

-- 2018-03-04 14:12:28

Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal is now feeling well and out of danger, the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka says. His mental health is also good, said Major General Munshi Md Mujibur Rahman, director...

Shahjalal university files complaint over attack on Zafar Iqbal

Shahjalal university files complaint over attack on Zafar Iqbal

-- 2018-03-04 13:03:15

The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology have filed a complaint with police over an attack on Prof Zafar Iqbal on the campus. A case has not been filed over the incident bec...

BNP announces fresh protests to demand Khaleda's release

BNP announces fresh protests to demand Khaleda's release

-- 2018-03-04 12:54:56

BNP has announced a two-day fresh programme across the country, including formation of human chain in the capital Dhaka, demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. As part of its...

RU pharmacy dept celebrates first alumni reunion

RU pharmacy dept celebrates first alumni reunion

-- 2018-03-04 12:49:13

The pharmacy department of Rajshahi University organised its first alumni reunion amid enthusiasm and festivity on Saturday. Former and current students, teachers and staffs of the department brough...

Prof Muhammad Yunus  condemns attack on Zafar Iqbal

Prof Muhammad Yunus condemns attack on Zafar Iqbal

FE Online Desk 2018-03-04 11:41:16

Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus condemned the shocking and heinous attack on Prof Zafar Iqbal. “I pray for his early and full recovery and express my earnest hope that the assailants will be...

Vibrant private sector behind dev success, says Muhith

Vibrant private sector behind dev success, says Muhith

FE Report 2018-03-04 11:16:12

A vibrant private sector bears the real secrets of Bangladesh's development success in recent years, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith, sounding upbeat about the country's capability of graduating. "T...

Prof Zafar Iqbal out of danger: ISPR

Prof Zafar Iqbal out of danger: ISPR

-- 2018-03-04 10:59:06

Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, who has been undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka since Saturday midnight after he came under a knife attack on the campus of Shahjalal Unive...

Television drama fest kicks off Monday

Television drama fest kicks off Monday

-- 2018-03-04 10:49:49

A five-day long television drama festival ‘Annada Alo- Charunirom short-length drama festival 2018’ will begin on Monday in the city. The inaugural ceremony of the event will be held arou...

FBCCI stresses improved airport services to attract foreign tourists

FBCCI stresses improved airport services to attract foreign tourists

FE Report 2018-03-04 10:23:20

Business leaders on Saturday underscored the need for improving service quality in the country's international airports to help attract more foreign tourists. They also suggested forming a research c...

Prof Zafar Iqbal comes under knife attack

Prof Zafar Iqbal comes under knife attack

-- 2018-03-04 09:24:02

Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is being taken to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital after he was stabbed during a programme on Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus on Saturday. C...

Law enforcers rescue 14 abducted fishermen in Sundarbans

Law enforcers rescue 14 abducted fishermen in Sundarbans

-- 2018-03-03 21:40:03

Members of Forest Guard rescued 14 abducted fishermen and seized seven fishing boats following a gunfight with forest robbers in Gatar Khal area of Katka sanctuary in the Sundarbans on Saturday. A Fo...

Zafar Iqbal to be taken to CMH in Dhaka

Zafar Iqbal to be taken to CMH in Dhaka

FE Online Desk 2018-03-03 21:12:29

Eminent writer Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal will be taken to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka following the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Several television channels said, prepara...

Over 158,000 new jobs under Islamic Foundation

Over 158,000 new jobs under Islamic Foundation

-- 2018-03-03 20:36:32

Two projects of Islamic Foundation have created employment facilities for 1,58,702 people. The projects are titled mosque-based child and mass education programme and education and resource centre pr...

PM condemns attack on Zafar Iqbal

PM condemns attack on Zafar Iqbal

-- 2018-03-03 19:59:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condemned the attack on popular author Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science & Technology in Sylhet on Saturday afternoon. PM's Press Secre...

Quader warns BNP of violence in name of movement

Quader warns BNP of violence in name of movement

-- 2018-03-03 19:19:21

Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday warned BNP that the law enforcement agencies will take necessary steps if the party carries out any...

AL not behind Khaleda’s imprisonment: Hasina

AL not behind Khaleda’s imprisonment: Hasina

-- 2018-03-03 18:54:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasins has said BNP chief Khaleda Zia is now in jail for her corruption and Awami League has nothing to do with it. "Khaleda Zia committed corruption...the court has announced it...

Zafar Iqbal stabbed at SUST, taken to hospital

Zafar Iqbal stabbed at SUST, taken to hospital

-- 2018-03-03 18:23:28

Popular author Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal was stabbed on Saturday afternoon at Shahjalal University of Science & Technology in Sylhet. Zafar Iqbal, a teacher of SUST's Computer Science and Engineer...

PM’s electioneering ‘illegal’: Moudud

PM’s electioneering ‘illegal’: Moudud

-- 2018-03-03 18:14:26

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed has alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is 'deceiving' the nation by 'illegally' carrying out electioneering for her party spending public money. "The Prime Minis...

PM reiterates firm stance against corruption

PM reiterates firm stance against corruption

-- 2018-03-03 18:10:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her firm stance against corruption alongside terrorism and militancy. "We have achieved independence through the liberation war and we have tried war crimi...