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Hundreds of vulnerable women weave  Benarasi sarees to support families

Hundreds of vulnerable women weave Benarasi sarees to support families

Sayed Mofidul Babu 2018-02-08 23:57:17

RANGPUR, Feb 8: Hundreds of extreme poor people in different villages of Gangachara upazila under the district have attained financial solvency by making Benarasi sarees in recent years. Several hu...

Mustard harvest starts in Joypurhat district

Mustard harvest starts in Joypurhat district

Roving Correspondent 2018-02-08 23:56:10

JOYPURHAT, Feb 08: Thousands of optimistic peasants across the district have started harvesting mustard. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources, the farmers have...

Tarique to run BNP as acting chief from London

Tarique to run BNP as acting chief from London

-- 2018-02-08 23:52:53

Senior vice-chairman of BNP Tarique Rahman will run the party as its acting chairman in absence of Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Party leaders said this on Thursday after the BNP chief was sent to jail fo...

Khaleda gets fruits, juice as first meal in jail

Khaleda gets fruits, juice as first meal in jail

-- 2018-02-08 23:38:16

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was served papaya juice and assorted fruits after she was taken to old central jail on Nazimuddin Road in Bakshi Bazar on Thursday. As per UNB, the BNP chief was taken to...

Three Rohingya children die in boat capsize

Three Rohingya children die in boat capsize

-- 2018-02-08 21:20:59

Three Rohingya children died when a boat carrying from Myanmar capsized in the Bay of Bengal in Sabrang area of Tekhnaf on Thursday. The boat with around 54 Rohingyas who were fleeing Myanmar to Bang...

Govt names 21 for Ekushey Padak

Govt names 21 for Ekushey Padak

-- 2018-02-08 19:38:06

The government announced names of 21 eminent citizens for awarding prestigious Ekushey Padak for 2018 for their contribution in respective fields. The cultural ministry disclosed the names of the rec...

Natural justice has taken its course for burning people: PM

Natural justice has taken its course for burning people: PM

-- 2018-02-08 19:05:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has pondered Khaleda Zia’s current situation while accusing her of unleashing arson attacks and violence over a period of three years from 2013 to 2015. "Where is s...

President asks NHRC to gain public confidence

President asks NHRC to gain public confidence

-- 2018-02-08 18:57:18

President Abdul Hamid has asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to gain public confidence through their works. The President made the directive while a five-member NHRC delegation led by...

Customs officials detain two with foreign currencies

Customs officials detain two with foreign currencies

FE Report 2018-02-08 18:42:21

Customs intelligence officials arrested two persons with foreign currencies on Wednesday midnight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The arrested persons, Raihan Kaiser and Md Hasan Pinku, we...

Lawyers plan appeal against Khaleda’s verdict Sunday

Lawyers plan appeal against Khaleda’s verdict Sunday

-- 2018-02-08 18:40:57

Bangladesh National Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia will file an appeal against Thursday’s verdict on Sunday if her lawyers can manage a certified copy of the judgment. BNP standing committee mem...

BGB recovers 42 cocktails in C'nawabganj

BGB recovers 42 cocktails in C'nawabganj

-- 2018-02-08 17:29:20

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered 42 cocktail bombs from Saorapara and Lakkhir char areas of the river Padma under Shibganj upazila of the district on Thursday morning. Acting on a tip-off...

Gopalganj road crash kills three

Gopalganj road crash kills three

-- 2018-02-08 17:11:55

At least three people died and seven others were injured when a bus hit three human-haulers after running over two pedestrians at Kathi on Gopalganj-Kotalipara road in Sadar upazila on Thursday noon....

SSC examinees suffer hassle on roads for Khaleda verdict

SSC examinees suffer hassle on roads for Khaleda verdict

-- 2018-02-08 17:05:20

SSC examinees faced hassles to reach centres on time on Thursday amid heightened security in the city because of verdict in BNP chief Khaleda Zia graft case. Rickshaws and CNG-run autorickshaws deman...

BNP calls protest on Friday, Saturday

BNP calls protest on Friday, Saturday

-- 2018-02-08 16:50:43

BNP has announced a two-day countrywide demonstration programme for Friday and Saturday in protest of jailing their Chairperson Khaleda Zia in connection to a graft case BNP secretary general Mirza F...

SC will decide Khaleda’s eligibility to contest polls: Anisul

SC will decide Khaleda’s eligibility to contest polls: Anisul

-- 2018-02-08 16:33:32

After BNP chief Khaleda Zia was jailed for five years, Law Minister Anisul Huq said it depends on the Supreme Court decision whether she can contest the next election. The Minister on Thursday said t...

Political revenge behind verdict: Rizvi

Political revenge behind verdict: Rizvi

FE online Desk 2018-02-08 16:14:28

Expressing reaction over the verdict in BNP Chief Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case, the BNP said the judgment was nothing but a political vengeance of one certain leader. BNP Senior...

N’ganj AL factional clash over thwarting BNP kills one

N’ganj AL factional clash over thwarting BNP kills one

-- 2018-02-08 15:58:17

An activist of ruling Awami League was shot dead and at least five other activists received injuries in a clash between its two factions in Kanchan Bridge area of Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj distri...

Jamuna Bank organises free medical treatment

Jamuna Bank organises free medical treatment

-- 2018-02-08 15:38:36

Jamuna Bank Foundation has organised free eye camp, diabetes, gynee, and general treatment services at Chatak barat govt Primary School premises at Shathea in Pabna recently. The foundation also dist...

BNP men clash with police in city

BNP men clash with police in city

-- 2018-02-08 15:11:45

Agitated BNP men clashed with police at Chankharpul when the latter were heading towards Bakshibazar special court accompanying the motorcade of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia ahead of the verdict set to...

Khaleda gets five years in jail

Khaleda gets five years in jail

-- 2018-02-08 14:56:44

A special court in Dhaka city has sentenced BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to five years in jail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of Special Court-5 pronounced the verdict o...

BNP men attack BD High Commission in London

BNP men attack BD High Commission in London

-- 2018-02-08 14:29:09

Leaders and activists of BNP attacked the High Commission on Wednesday afternoon over the verdict in the graft case against Khaleda Zia after staging a protest programme on the premises of Bangladesh...

BNP activists clash with cops in Kakrail

BNP activists clash with cops in Kakrail

FE Online Report 2018-02-08 14:01:03

Police have got locked into a clash with BNP activists at the Kakrail intersection in Dhaka city on Thursday.   The clash took place as a motorcade carrying the party’s Chairperson Khaleda...

Khaleda reaches court

Khaleda reaches court

FE online Desk 2018-02-08 13:56:06

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has entered the Bakshibazar special court in the city as the verdict of Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against her and her son Tarique Rahman is set to be delivered on Thur...

PM opens Sheikh Hasina Cantonment

PM opens Sheikh Hasina Cantonment

-- 2018-02-08 13:37:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday inaugurated the newly-set up 'Sheikh Hasina Cantonment', aiming to strengthen the defence system in the country's southern region. She opened the cantonment o...

Al-Arafah Islami Bank arranges business review meeting

Al-Arafah Islami Bank arranges business review meeting

FE Online Desk 2018-02-08 13:27:38

Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited organised monthly business review meeting at its head office on Tuesday. Md Habibur Rahman, managing director of the bank, inaugurated the programme as chief guest, acco...

Bakshibazar goes under security blanket

Bakshibazar goes under security blanket

-- 2018-02-08 13:13:07

Bakshibazar goes under security blanket: Law enforcers have taken unprecedented security measures in Bakshibazar and its surrounding areas in Old Dhaka on Thursday as a makeshift court is set to deliv...

Pro-BNP lawyers scuffle with police

Pro-BNP lawyers scuffle with police

-- 2018-02-08 12:51:04

A female lawyer was injured during a scuffle with law enforcers while pro-BNP lawyers were staging demonstration in front of the High Court over the verdict of a graft case against BNP chairperson Kha...

IBBL holds board of directors meeting

IBBL holds board of directors meeting

FE Online Desk 2018-02-08 12:43:10

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) arranged a meeting of the board of directors on Wednesday at Islami Bank Tower in Dhaka. Arastoo Khan, chairman of the bank, presided over the meeting, according...

Khaleda on way to court

Khaleda on way to court

FE Report 2018-02-08 12:23:46

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has started for the court to hear the verdict in a graft case against her today. She left her Gulshan residence about 11:42am. Tension mounts Tension has gripped Dhaka...

Customs seize Tk 2m Indian products at Benapole

Customs seize Tk 2m Indian products at Benapole

-- 2018-02-08 12:06:53

Customs intelligence seized Indian Jardaa, Skin cream, jewelry and fire crackers worth Tk 2.0 million from Benapole-Khulna commuter train on Thursday. On secret information, a team of customs intelli...