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Celebrations all around as Pahela Falgun rings in

Celebrations all around as Pahela Falgun rings in

FE Online Desk 2018-02-13 19:32:10

After the dryness of winter, thousands of people welcomed Pahela Falgun, the first day of Spring, in the capital city on Tuesday with poetry, music, dance and colours. Nature turns into fresh and col...

Home boss says Khaleda not shown arrested in any other case

Home boss says Khaleda not shown arrested in any other case

-- 2018-02-13 19:25:39

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been sentenced in Zia Orphanage Trust case and "she has not been shown arrested" in any other cases. The minister sa...

Couple out of wedlock to die for killing

Couple out of wedlock to die for killing

-- 2018-02-13 19:06:21

A Gazipur court on Tuesday sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her husband in 2012 over an extramarital affair in Sataish area of Tongi. The convicts are Nazma Begum, wife of victi...

Invest in rural economies: PM to development partners

Invest in rural economies: PM to development partners

-- 2018-02-13 17:32:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the development partners to invest in sustainable rural economies to ensure resilience to agricultural crisis as the inclusive and sustainable rural tra...

BNP ponders intensified movement to free Khaleda

BNP ponders intensified movement to free Khaleda

-- 2018-02-13 17:09:54

The BNP secretary general has said that they will intensify their current movement to force the government to release their chairperson from jail. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said, "Our cu...

RMP to get eight new police stations

RMP to get eight new police stations

-- 2018-02-13 16:53:01

The government has set up eight more police stations in Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) to make the city better and safer place to live. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to inaugurate the po...

Fish farming in cages brings smile to Narsingdi youths

Fish farming in cages brings smile to Narsingdi youths

-- 2018-02-13 15:34:45

Fish farming in cages, a new form of fish farming, has turned a boon for a good number of youths in Narsingdi. District fisheries officials said the youths are getting more involved in farming Mono-...

Indo-BD art camp begins Feb 17

Indo-BD art camp begins Feb 17

-- 2018-02-13 14:44:04

Indian High Commission in Dhaka in collaboration with Department of Fine Art, Jahangirnagar University (JU), will host an art camp titled ‘India@Bangladesh 2.0 Art Camp’ on February 17-19....

No bar on Sonali Bank recruitment test

No bar on Sonali Bank recruitment test

-- 2018-02-13 14:22:12

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared way for holding recruitment procedure for different 2,201 posts of state-run Sonali Bank as per the circular issued in 2016. The four-member bench of the Appellat...

Lawmen nab 18 in Dinajpur

Lawmen nab 18 in Dinajpur

-- 2018-02-13 13:11:08

Police in separate drives arrested 15 persons including two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and three activists of BNP from different areas of Dinajpur in last 12-hour ending at 8 am on Tuesday morning....

BNP stages sit-in protesting Khaleda's jail

BNP stages sit-in protesting Khaleda's jail

-- 2018-02-13 12:33:13

BNP leaders and activists are staging a sit-in programme in front of its Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka on Tuesday protesting the jailing of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case. As...

WFP says 'donors losing interest' in providing food for Rohingyas

WFP says 'donors losing interest' in providing food for Rohingyas

-- 2018-02-13 12:22:48

Executive Director of World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley has said donor agencies are gradually losing their interest in providing food assistance for the displaced Rohingyas who have taken shelt...

Six-month-old baby dies in Chandpur road mishap

Six-month-old baby dies in Chandpur road mishap

-- 2018-02-13 12:01:32

A six-month-old baby boy was killed and his parent injured as a battery-run easy-bike overturned after being hit by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Uttar Algee area of Haimchar upazila. The deceased was i...

BCL hartal in Rangamati protesting ‘assualt’ on leader

BCL hartal in Rangamati protesting ‘assualt’ on leader

-- 2018-02-13 11:47:15

The dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Rangamati district unit protesting attack on Supayan Chakma, general secretary of Sadar upazila unit of BCL, is underway. Due to th...

29pc of refinancing fund goes undisbursed

29pc of refinancing fund goes undisbursed

Rezaul Karim 2018-02-13 11:19:40

Nearly 29 per cent or Tk 2.58 billion of the Tk 9.0-billion capital market refinancing fund remains undisbursed due to poor response from the investors, who were the victims of the 2010-11 stock marke...

Traffic congestion: DTCA eyes improving lane management

Traffic congestion: DTCA eyes improving lane management

Munima Sultana 2018-02-13 11:05:12

Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has taken an initiative to focus on properly managing the lanes of the city roads for easing the traffic situation that often remains unbearably congested...

Armed robbery on passenger bus kills one

Armed robbery on passenger bus kills one

-- 2018-02-13 10:56:40

A bus driver was killed and its helper and supervisor were injured in a robbery attack on Nabinagar-Chandra highway in Sripur area under Ashulia thana on Tuesday morning. The deceased has been identi...

Three Z-category cos share price soaring sans price sensitive info

Three Z-category cos share price soaring sans price sensitive info

FE Report 2018-02-13 10:50:28

Share price of three Z-category companies -- Beximco Synthetics, Sonargaon Textile and Information Services Networks - are soaring without any price sensitive information (PSI). In the last three mon...

Ctg REHAB fair gets Tk 3.63b spot orders

Ctg REHAB fair gets Tk 3.63b spot orders

Pankaj Dastider 2018-02-13 10:33:56

The four-day housing fair in the port city, organised by REHAB Chittagong region, saw a record Tk 3.63 billion worth of spot orders for flats. A huge number of visitors, the middle-income group in pa...

Nation embarks to welcome Falgun

Nation embarks to welcome Falgun

-- 2018-02-12 23:31:47

Pahela Falgun, the first day of spring of Bengali month Falgun (spring), will be celebrated on Tuesday with flowers, poems, songs and dances. Nature took a colourful turn to welcome the season that s...

Internet speed slow, call-drop rate ‘alarming’

Internet speed slow, call-drop rate ‘alarming’

-- 2018-02-12 22:32:55

Government data reveal that mobile phone operators are facing various allegations, including frequent call drops, network unavailability and slow internet speed, which deprive some 145.111 million use...

Jail authorities receive 2 production warrants against Khaleda

Jail authorities receive 2 production warrants against Khaleda

-- 2018-02-12 21:57:20

Jail authorities on Monday received two production warrants in two cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Contacted, Inspector General (IG) (Prisons) Syed Iftekhar Uddin confirmed the prod...

3.5m people receive old-age allowance

3.5m people receive old-age allowance

-- 2018-02-12 21:41:17

Government has brought 3.5 million people under the scheme of old-age allowance across the country as part of its safety net campaign during the current financial year. Social Welfare Minister Rashed...

Bogra flower growers expect Tk 45m profit

Bogra flower growers expect Tk 45m profit

Our Correspondent 2018-02-12 21:16:32

BOGRA, Feb 12: Flower growers of the district are expecting to make a profit of Tk 45 million this season. Sources said more than 400 people are directly and indirectly engaged with the profession. C...

PM meets Pope Francis

PM meets Pope Francis

-- 2018-02-12 20:43:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a meeting with Pope Francis on Monday in Vatican City. PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said the Prime Minister visited Vatican City in the morning (Local time) at...

Missing girl allegedly elopes from excursion in Chapainawabganj

Missing girl allegedly elopes from excursion in Chapainawabganj

-- 2018-02-12 20:28:35

A female student is suspected to have eloped from a study tour as she went missing at Sonamasjid area in the Chapainawabganj District Sadar on Sunday afternoon. The missing girl is identified as Stel...

Ex-Farmers Bank chairman rules out allegations of irregularities

Ex-Farmers Bank chairman rules out allegations of irregularities

-- 2018-02-12 20:20:39

Former chairman of Farmers Bank Ltd Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir has dismissed all allegations brought against him by three newspapers of  irregularities in the bank. The lawmaker described reports...

Quader blames Tarique for London embassy attack

Quader blames Tarique for London embassy attack

-- 2018-02-12 19:53:27

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader put the blame of February 7’s attack on Bangladesh High Commission in London on BNP senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman.   "Staying in London,...

Govt bans cellphones within 200 metres of SSC centres

Govt bans cellphones within 200 metres of SSC centres

-- 2018-02-12 17:12:05

Government has slapped an embargo on carrying mobile phones near the exam centres in a desperate bid to plug question leaks of the school-leaving SSC and equivalent exams. Education ministry on Sunda...

Capital market to remain ‘moderately bullish’ in 2018

Capital market to remain ‘moderately bullish’ in 2018

FE Report 2018-02-12 15:42:54

The capital market will remain moderately bullish in 2018, but local political instability will be the risk factor for the capital market this year, according to a recent survey of a leading stockbrok...