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Proposed digital security act violates constitutional rights: TIB

Proposed digital security act violates constitutional rights: TIB

-- 2018-02-01 18:39:42

The proposed 'Digital Security Act of 2018' comes in contradiction to the constitutional rights of free speech and opinion, said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). TIB said it in a statemen...

Dearth of organic compounds threatens soil health

Dearth of organic compounds threatens soil health

-- 2018-02-01 18:13:04

Over two-third of the country’s agricultural lands do not have organic elements essential for maintaining their fertility, a report has revealed.  The study shows that chemical overdoses a...

Muggers stab ‘bKash’ agent to death in city

Muggers stab ‘bKash’ agent to death in city

-- 2018-02-01 16:48:56

A gang of muggers stabbed a 'bKash' agent to death in the city's Uttara area on Thursday. The victim is identified as Alamin, 25. When Alamin was collecting money from bKash agent shops in Uttara se...

Law enforcers seize nine maunds of jatka

Law enforcers seize nine maunds of jatka

-- 2018-02-01 15:35:07

Members of Coast Guard Bangladesh in a drive have seized nine maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches in length) from Meghna river in Chandpur early Thursday. Lt Sinchan Ahmed, commander of Ch...

Bed planting wheat farming gains popularity in Rajshahi

Bed planting wheat farming gains popularity in Rajshahi

-- 2018-02-01 13:22:12

By dint of much interest among the farmers and others concerned, acreage of wheat farming in bed-planting method has started gaining momentum in the region including its vast barind tract for the last...

Cops detain driver, helper with 7 pistols in Comilla

Cops detain driver, helper with 7 pistols in Comilla

-- 2018-02-01 12:12:31

A truck driver and a helper were arrested along with seven kata pistols from Debpur Police Outpost area in Burichong upazila early Thursday. The arrestees were driver Rubel, 25, and helper Al Amin Sa...

Collision disrupts Dhaka, northern district train service

Collision disrupts Dhaka, northern district train service

-- 2018-02-01 12:01:35

The train communication of the country's northern part with Dhaka halted due to a collision between two freight trains in Bhangura railway station on Thursday morning. Oshim Kumar Talukder, Paksi div...

‘Robber’ dies  in Kushtia ‘gunfight’

‘Robber’ dies in Kushtia ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-02-01 11:48:10

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police on Kushtia-Jhenidah highway in Mahishdanga area under Islamic University Police Station on Thursday. The deceased could not be identif...

Bhutan shows interest to expand business ties

Bhutan shows interest to expand business ties

FE Report 2018-02-01 10:08:57

The visiting delegation of Bhutan expressed deep interest on Wednesday to develop business relationships with Bangladesh. The expression of interest came at a meeting between the 36-member Bhutanese...

Dhaka airport sees delay of two flights

Dhaka airport sees delay of two flights

FE Online Report 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Two international flights have missed the schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. Of those, Kathmandu-bound BG-071 left the airport at 11:00 am, which is around 45 minutes be...

Sylhet workshop focuses on need to modernise fisheries sector

Sylhet workshop focuses on need to modernise fisheries sector

Our Correspondent 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Speakers at a day-long workshop in the on Wednesday focused on the need to modernise the country fishery sector to increase production. Addressing as the chief guest, Sylhet Agricultural University (...

Bogra potato growers eye bumper yield

Bogra potato growers eye bumper yield

Our Correspondent 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Potato growers of the district are expecting to get a bumper production this season. The plants are growing well. Growers may start harvesting from February. The Department of Agriculture Extension (...

PM to open Ekushey Book Fair today

PM to open Ekushey Book Fair today

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair will begin today (Thursday) on the Bangla Academy premises and adjoining Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital, reports UNB. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugura...

Pensioners to receive payments automatically through EFT

Pensioners to receive payments automatically through EFT

FE Report 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Pensioners won't have to line up for payments anymore as the annuity will reach their bank accounts automatically through electronic fund-transfer (ETF) system, officials said. The government will in...

Customs levy duty on materials used to package imported goods

Customs levy duty on materials used to package imported goods

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Importers have been facing difficulties in releasing their imported goods from customs houses due to a different type of duty levied through an order issued by the customs wing recently. In its order...

Fire at city’s Baunia slum under control

Fire at city’s Baunia slum under control

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Five units of fire-fighters brought the blaze under control that broke out in Baunia Bandh slum under Turag Police Station of the city on Thursday morning. The fire that originated around 10:05am was...

Govt will cancel exams if questions leaked: Nahid

Govt will cancel exams if questions leaked: Nahid

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Thursday said examinations will be cancelled as soon as it is proved that the question papers were leaked. The minister made the warning while talking to repor...

Train services between Dhaka, northern region resume

Train services between Dhaka, northern region resume

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

The train communications of Dhaka with the country's northern part restored three hours after disruption following a collision between two freight trains in Bhangura railway station on Thursday mornin...

New IGP talks tough against militancy, drug abuse

New IGP talks tough against militancy, drug abuse

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Bangladesh’s new police chief Dr Jabed Patwary on Thursday said that the law enforcement agencies would take "Zero Tolerance" policy against drugs and militancy. The IGP came up with the warnin...

Trains miss schedule, passengers suffer

Trains miss schedule, passengers suffer

FE Online Report 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Passengers suffered hugely as two trains failed to maintain their schedule on Thursday. Of the trains, Nilsagar Express left Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station for Nilphamari's Syedpur Railway St...

Swiss President due Sunday

Swiss President due Sunday

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

The President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset is scheduled to pay an official visit to Bangladesh on February 4-7, the first official visit by any Swiss president to Bangladesh. There will...

Petrol bomb hits Suu Kyi's house; no injuries

Petrol bomb hits Suu Kyi's house; no injuries

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

A Myanmar government spokesman said a petrol bomb was thrown at the residential compound of the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but she was not at home and damage was minor. Spokesman Zaw Htay sai...

Pension scheme for all to be outlined in next budget

Pension scheme for all to be outlined in next budget

-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00

Initiatives have been taken to bring all citizens under the national pension scheme (NPS). Finance Minister AMA Muhith made the disclosure on Thursday, adding that the government would give an outlin...

Dhaka urges EU to maintain pressure on Myanmar

Dhaka urges EU to maintain pressure on Myanmar

-- 2018-01-31 23:42:28

European Union (EU) is sending a high-powered parliamentary delegation to Bangladesh in the second week of February to assess Rohingya situation on the ground and discuss other important issues. EU&r...

Attackers are infiltrators, BNP says

Attackers are infiltrators, BNP says

-- 2018-01-31 23:33:12

The BNP does not recognise those who attacked on police outside the High Court on Tuesday, saying they were infiltrators not its activists. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up w...

BNP says cops deployed in front of Khaleda’s residence

BNP says cops deployed in front of Khaleda’s residence

-- 2018-01-31 23:26:03

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has alleged that a huge number of police, including plainclothes ones, have been deployed in front of its chairperson's Gulshan residence. Senior joint secretary ge...

Soil, not cement, for plastering!

Soil, not cement, for plastering!

FE Online Report 2018-01-31 20:43:33

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has temporarily suspended two of its engineers over their alleged irregularities in the ‘Newly Connected Four Union Development Project’. One contracto...

BNP chooses violence, starts ‘militant-style’ attack: Quader

BNP chooses violence, starts ‘militant-style’ attack: Quader

-- 2018-01-31 19:32:11

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that the BNP has given a clear sign of choosing violent path through launching an attack on police in a militant style. “They have atta...

Election-time cabinet to be smaller: PM

Election-time cabinet to be smaller: PM

-- 2018-01-31 19:19:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the size of the cabinet will get smaller during the next general election. Sheikh Hasina also reiterated her government's stance that there will be no unconstitu...

No plan to extend age limit for govt job

No plan to extend age limit for govt job

-- 2018-01-31 18:52:34

The government has no plan right now to raise further the age limit for entering into government service. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came up with the statement at the parliament  during her sc...