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Comilla road crash kills 2 motorcyclists

Comilla road crash kills 2 motorcyclists

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

Two motorcyclists were killed and another was injured in a road accident at Chiora on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chouddogram Upazila early Friday. The identity of the deceased could not be known y...

Minister rebuts liberation war stereotype

Minister rebuts liberation war stereotype

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque has strongly rebutted a stereotype that the war in 1971 took place between India and Pakistan. Calling it Bangladesh War of Liberation with Pakistan...

Migrants’ role to society needs reform: UN

Migrants’ role to society needs reform: UN

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

UN human rights experts has said migrants' contribution to society needs to be fully recognized. States should encourage discussions about them to be positive, comprehensive and facts-based, experts...

BNP’s countrywide demo on Dec 18

BNP’s countrywide demo on Dec 18

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) across the country will stage demonstration on Dec 18 protesting what the party said pressing false criminal charges against its workers and leaders. The government...

Dhaka fears ‘severe consequences’ of US shift

Dhaka fears ‘severe consequences’ of US shift

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

Bangladesh has expressed its concern at the UN over the US President Donald Trump’s Jerusalem move saying it may trigger “grave consequences”. Trump pronounced to recognize Jerusale...

Survey underway to asses dev impact in Sundarbans

Survey underway to asses dev impact in Sundarbans

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

The government has planned to conduct the Unesco-prescribed Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in the Sundarbans and adjoining areas to assess the cumulative impacts of development in the world'...

Police recover beheaded body in capital

Police recover beheaded body in capital

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

Police have recovered the beheaded body of a man stuffed in a suitcase from the main road of South Kallyanpur under Darussalam police station in the capital, Sub-Inspector Siddique of Darussalam polic...

Mohiuddin Chowdhury laid to rest

Mohiuddin Chowdhury laid to rest

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

Former Chittagong city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury was buried with full state honours beside his father's grave at Chasma Hill family graveyard in the city on Friday. His namaz-e-janaza was held af...

Nation celebrating Victory Day   

Nation celebrating Victory Day  

-- 2017-12-15 12:00:00

The nation is celebrating the 47th Victory Day today (Saturday) marking its liberation from the Pakistani occupation forces after a nine-month-long bloodstained war in 1971. President Abdul Hamid and...

Sunamganj road crash leaves four dead

Sunamganj road crash leaves four dead

-- 2017-12-15 08:39:28

Four young men died in a road crash at Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj on Friday evening. Sources said a private car carrying the four was heading to Sylhet from Chhatak skidded off the road and fell in...

President congratulates countrymen ahead of victory day

President congratulates countrymen ahead of victory day

-- 2017-12-15 08:20:24

President Md Abdul Hamid has extended warm congratulations to countrymen living at home and abroad on the eve of victory day. Abdul Hamid paid his deep homage, through a message on Friday, to the val...

UNHCR expresses concern over Rohingya protection

UNHCR expresses concern over Rohingya protection

-- 2017-12-15 07:20:51

UNHCR has said it is increasingly worried about the deterioration of the environment in which Rohingyas are living. "In this environment, refugees face a multitude of protection risks, UNHCR spokespe...

Thousands pay last tributes to Mohiuddin Chowdhury

Thousands pay last tributes to Mohiuddin Chowdhury

-- 2017-12-15 07:04:26

Thousands of people joined the Namaz-e-Janaza of former Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury on Friday afternoon. The Namaz-e-Janaza was held at Laldighi Maidan in the city...

Rangpur city polls: Councillor candidate injured in attack

Rangpur city polls: Councillor candidate injured in attack

-- 2017-12-15 06:42:59

A councillor candidate of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) was injured in an attack by his rivals in the city area on Thursday night. The injured was Moniruzzaman Masud, a councillor candidate from war...

Dhaka fears US Jerusalem recognition may trigger mayhem

Dhaka fears US Jerusalem recognition may trigger mayhem

-- 2017-12-15 06:36:30

Bangladesh expressed concern that the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transferring of US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv may trigger grave consequences an...

Illicit affair: Police arrest edn officer, pry school teacher

Illicit affair: Police arrest edn officer, pry school teacher

-- 2017-12-15 06:35:36

Police arrested a primary education officer and a female assistant teacher of a primary school from Khulna city area over 'illicit affair'. The arrestees are Ashit Kumar Barman, assistant primary edu...

BCL internal strife at Comilla Univ leaves 10 injured

BCL internal strife at Comilla Univ leaves 10 injured

-- 2017-12-15 01:00:12

At least 10 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Comilla University unit were injured in fractional clash over Victory Day cricket tournament on the campus on Thursday afternoon. Rezaul I...

Nation observing Martyred Intellectuals Day

Nation observing Martyred Intellectuals Day

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

The nation is observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day today (Thursday) to commemorate those intellectuals who were killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation army and their local collaborators...

Primary securities market seems sterile, IPO flow lowest since 2009

Primary securities market seems sterile, IPO flow lowest since 2009

Mohammad Mufazzal 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Country's primary securities market seems to be drying up as it witnessed the lowest IPOs (initial public offerings) and also smallest amount of funds raised in 2017 since 2009. According to informat...

A forgotten warrior

A forgotten warrior

Iqbal Siddiquee, Sylhet 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Oliur Rahman was a man of distinct quality, and had modern knowledge and interest in science (despite) having a madrasah background. Along with many other enlightened people, he was picked up by the...

Construction cost to double due to additional components

Construction cost to double due to additional components

Munima Sultana 2017-12-14 12:00:00

The construction cost of four-lane Joydevpur-Tangail-Elenga road project is going to be doubled as the authorities revised it to a highway project with additional service road and other facilities, so...

PM on way back home from Paris

PM on way back home from Paris

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Paris for home on Wednesday night completing her three-day official visit to the French capital to attend the 'One Planet Summit'. An Emirates flight carrying the Pr...

Sylhet gets fredom on Dec 15

Sylhet gets fredom on Dec 15

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Sylhet town was freed on 15 December, just a day before the fall of the capital Dhaka after the 9-month long liberation war in 1971. The situation took a different turn after the Indian government&rs...

Khaleda pays homage to martyred intellectuals

Khaleda pays homage to martyred intellectuals

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday paid tributes to martyred intellectuals by placing a wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in the city, marking the Martyred Intellectuals&rs...

Cops recover bodies of Rajshahi couple

Cops recover bodies of Rajshahi couple

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Police recovered the bodies of a couple from Bagha Upazila of Rajshahi. The housewife was found dead on the verandah of their home, while the husband’s body was found hanging from a nearby tree...

Govt to oppose any attack on minority: Quader

Govt to oppose any attack on minority: Quader

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the present government is determined to resist any attack on the minority community. The incumbent government under the dynamic leadership of Pr...

Gopalganj peasants busy preparing Boro seedbeds

Gopalganj peasants busy preparing Boro seedbeds

Our Correspondent 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Farmers are passing a busy time in preparing Boro seedbeds, particularly in the low-lying areas of Gopalganj this season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) expects 90 tonnes of High Yield...

Apan Jewellers’ owners get bail

Apan Jewellers’ owners get bail

FE Online Desk 2017-12-14 12:00:00

The High Court on Thursday granted bail to the three owners of the Apan Jewellers-- Dildar Ahmed Selim, Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed-- in three cases out of five filed against them. The HC bench of Ju...

HC imposes restriction on hydraulic horn use, vehicle speed

HC imposes restriction on hydraulic horn use, vehicle speed

FE Online Desk 2017-12-14 12:00:00

The High Court on Thursday directed the government to stop the production and also use of hydraulic horns of vehicles around school, college and hospital areas. The HC bench of Justices Kazi Rezaul H...

ACC's eight-point recommendation to stop coaching

ACC's eight-point recommendation to stop coaching

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended eight steps, including investigation into illegal wealth of teachers, cancellation of the MCQ question pattern and formation of monitoring teams to...