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Mastercard offers EMI facility to travellers

Mastercard offers EMI facility to travellers

FE Online Desk 2018-01-01 02:51:58

Mastercard, in association with Discovery Tours & Logistics, has launched a campaign to provide an opportunity to have trips on 0% interest EMI facility for its cardholders. According to the camp...

Natore sweet potato growers expect bumper yield

Natore sweet potato growers expect bumper yield

Roving Correspondent 2018-01-01 02:23:10

Hundreds of sweet potato growers in Natore are optimistic of getting a bumper yield this season. They had a good output of the vegetable last year too, which spurred them into farming it on a larger...

Firefighters put out Tejturi Bazar slum fire

Firefighters put out Tejturi Bazar slum fire

-- 2018-01-01 02:13:10

After more than one hour of frantic efforts, firefighters doused the fire that broke out at a slum in capital's East Tejturi Bazar area on Monday noon. Russel, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil...

Feni ‘shootout’ leaves ‘drug pedlar’ dead

Feni ‘shootout’ leaves ‘drug pedlar’ dead

-- 2018-01-01 01:58:26

A suspected drug peddler has been killed in a 'gunfight' that erupted between his associates and members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Dharmapur village in Feni Sadar upazila early Monday. Decea...

Fire hits Tejturi Bazar slum

Fire hits Tejturi Bazar slum

Agencies 2018-01-01 01:41:41

A fire broke out at a slum in the capital's East Tejturi Bazar area on Monday noon. Abdur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Tejgaon Industrial Police Station, said the fire erupted in the slum behind the...

Cops nab three ‘drug pedlars’ in Magura

Cops nab three ‘drug pedlars’ in Magura

-- 2017-12-31 12:18:23

Detectives arrested three suspected drug pedlars along with Yaba tablets and Phensedyl syrup from Mathpara in Magura district town on Saturday night.  The arrestees were identified as Jahir Moll...

TCB cancels licences of 23 inactive dealers

TCB cancels licences of 23 inactive dealers

FE Report 2017-12-31 12:04:17

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has cancelled licences of 23 of its dealers for breaching the terms and conditions of the contract agreements. The state-run trading agency issued an order in...

Ready to serve with dedication as principal secretary : Nojibur

Ready to serve with dedication as principal secretary : Nojibur

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

Md Nojibur Rahman, the new principal secretary to the prime minister, has said that he will perform his duties with devotion and looks forward to working with every ministry and department of governme...

2017 sees blots and blips on financial front

2017 sees blots and blips on financial front

FE Report 2017-12-31 12:00:00

The Gregorian calendar sheds 2017 today (Sunday) into the archives of time, leaving socioeconomic, political and cultural landscapes of Bangladesh, as also of the world, marked by some important event...

PM announces 2 new air bases to strengthen air force

PM announces 2 new air bases to strengthen air force

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said a process is on to establish two new air bases of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) in Barisal and Sylhet with a view to improving its strength. The Prime Ministe...

Comilla ‘gunfight’ kills ‘robber’

Comilla ‘gunfight’ kills ‘robber’

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

A suspected robber died in a gunfight with detectives at Choyghoria in Chandina upazila on early Sunday. A gang of bandits was taking preparation to commit robbery in Choyghoria Bridge area, a DB tea...

BNP  is scary  for people: Hanif

BNP is scary for people: Hanif

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

Joint general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League Mahbubul Alam Hanif said that BNP is a nightmare for the mass people of the country. "Awami League doesn’t fear BNP; the common people of the...

Govt appoints acting secretaries at three ministries

Govt appoints acting secretaries at three ministries

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

The government has appointed acting secretaries for Ministries of Information, Food, and Environment and Forests. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification announcing the ap...

Rangpur city polls an example of peaceful elections: Shujan

Rangpur city polls an example of peaceful elections: Shujan

FE Online Desk 2017-12-31 12:00:00

Shushashoner Jannoy Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform, on Sunday said the Rangpur City Corporation polls have set an example of peaceful election. Elections in future can be held peacefully...

Man gets life in prison for rape, murder

Man gets life in prison for rape, murder

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

A Dhaka court has sentenced Asia Pacific University student Mezbaul Alam to life term imprisonment for killing Daffodil University student Setu Sarkar. Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Judge Shahed Noor...

AL wants no bloodshed in Bangladesh: PM

AL wants no bloodshed in Bangladesh: PM

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her party does not want to see any bloodshed in the country. "Bangladesh will be a developed and prosperous country...it'll will march forward," she said. The P...

Rezaul Karim gets elected as DCAB president, Mahfuz Mishu GS

Rezaul Karim gets elected as DCAB president, Mahfuz Mishu GS

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

Rezaul Karim Lotus (The Daily Star) and Mahfuz Mishu(Jamuna TV) on Sunday were elected president and general secretary of the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) for the year 2018...

'Missing' BNP leader Sadat on 3-day remand

'Missing' BNP leader Sadat on 3-day remand

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

A Dhaka court granted on Sunday a three-day remand to interrogate BNP leader Syed Sadat Ahmed, who was arrested on Saturday night after four months of 'disappearance'. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate P...

2017 sees addition of 1337 MW power to national grid

2017 sees addition of 1337 MW power to national grid

-- 2017-12-31 12:00:00

1337 Mega Watts (MW) of power was added to the national grid from December 30 of 2016 to December 30 of 2017. State-owned Power Development Board (PDB) revealed the information of Sunday. UNB, in ac...

RAB detains 3 ‘JMB men’ in C’nawabganj

RAB detains 3 ‘JMB men’ in C’nawabganj

-- 2017-12-31 11:40:49

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Kamardaho in Sadar upazila early Sunday. The arrestees we...

Nation welcomes 2018

Nation welcomes 2018

FE Online Desk 2017-12-31 11:20:52

The national, along with the global community, bids farewell to the outgoing year 2017 welcoming 2018 with new hopes. Jubilant people will join different New Year programmes when the clock strikes 12...

NRB Conclave: Thrust on enabling policy to attract investment

NRB Conclave: Thrust on enabling policy to attract investment

-- 2017-12-31 10:50:19

Referring to the non-resident Bangladeshis' (NRBs) contribution to the country's economy, speakers at a programme on Saturday said NRBs will return to the country with knowledge and investment if cong...

Regrettable people disappearing in independent country: B Chowdhury

Regrettable people disappearing in independent country: B Chowdhury

-- 2017-12-31 10:42:22

President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday said it is regrettable that people are getting disappeared in an independent country. "We fought the Liberation War for...

Port services become costlier as NBR wakes up to an SRO late

Port services become costlier as NBR wakes up to an SRO late

Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-31 09:41:24

Port usage is poised to become costlier with the NBR asking the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to realise 15 per cent value-added tax (VAT) on all services: storage of products, scanning and other re...

Elimination of child labour by 2025!

Elimination of child labour by 2025!

-- 2017-12-31 08:12:10

The government aims to formulate new work plans to eliminate child labour from the country within the year 2025. State Minister for Labour and Employment Affairs Mujibul Haque came up with the disclo...

Khaleda urges countrymen to 'restore democracy' in 2018

Khaleda urges countrymen to 'restore democracy' in 2018

-- 2017-12-31 05:56:06

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged the people of Bangladesh to work together for restoring the 'lost democracy and voting rights' in 2018. The former Prime Minister made the call in a message on t...

Court summons Farhad Mazhar

Court summons Farhad Mazhar

-- 2017-12-31 04:41:46

A court has summoned poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar and his wife Farida Akhter to appear before it in a case filed on charge of lodging a case with 'false information' over the poet's alleged abduct...

Forest department files case over Ctg landslide

Forest department files case over Ctg landslide

-- 2017-12-31 04:39:52

Forest department official has filed a case in connection with the death of two day labourers and a minor boy in a landslide at Rangunia upazila of Chittagong. Golam Mostafa, beat officer of Departme...

Canal bringing smiles on people’s face in Sirajganj

Canal bringing smiles on people’s face in Sirajganj

Our Correspondent 2017-12-31 03:24:45

The much waited digging project of Katakhali khal is progressing fast for the sewerage system in Sirajganj district from the first week of the month. According to Local Government Engineering Departm...

BRAC University conducts fire drill

BRAC University conducts fire drill

FE Online Desk 2017-12-31 03:20:51

BRAC University, with the assistance of Fire Service & Civil Defense, organised a fire drill recently to raise awareness about the fire activities at its Mohakhali campus. Students, officers, emp...