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BNP forms steering committee to monitor Rangpur polls

BNP forms steering committee to monitor Rangpur polls

-- 2017-12-11 09:32:44

Vice-Chairman of BNP Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku has been made chief of his party’s central election steering committee formed to monitor Rangpur City Corporation polls. The Election Commission has...

B'baria attack: Police submit charge sheet against 228

B'baria attack: Police submit charge sheet against 228

-- 2017-12-11 06:39:38

Brahmanbaria police have submitted the charge sheet before a court against 228 people over attacks on Hindus at Nasirnagar upazila in the district. The chargesheet was submitted to a judicial magistr...

PM reaches Dubai

PM reaches Dubai

-- 2017-12-11 06:06:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Dubai on Monday afternoon en route to Paris on a three-day official visit to France. An Emirates flight carrying the prime minister and members of her entourage l...

Fire at Fenchuganj power station

Fire at Fenchuganj power station

-- 2017-12-11 05:08:25

Some areas of northeastern districts experienced power supply disruptions due to a fire incident at the Fenchuganj power station in Sylhet on Monday. The Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) opera...

NUB, GP arrange project management seminar

NUB, GP arrange project management seminar

FE Online Desk 2017-12-11 03:47:33

Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) and Grameenphone (GP) have jointly organised a seminar titled “Building Career on Project Management” for the students of NUB at Bangladesh Institutes...

ADN Telecom holds AGM

ADN Telecom holds AGM

FE Online Desk 2017-12-11 03:37:10

ADN Telecom Limited has arranged its 14 th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the capital recently.  Asif Mahmood, Chairman of ADN Telecom Limited, headed the meeting of the IT and Telecommunicatio...

Price hike: BNP's countrywide demo Wednesday

Price hike: BNP's countrywide demo Wednesday

-- 2017-12-11 02:34:57

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage rallies and processions across the country, including all thanas in the capital, on Wednesday in protest against the growing price hike of rice, pulse, on...

Tribunal probe team visits Lalmonirhat

Tribunal probe team visits Lalmonirhat

Our Correspondent 2017-12-11 02:01:22

A three-member investigation team led by Mohammad Nazmul Haque, an additional director of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), has visited Lalmonirhat district. They talked to victims of the cri...

Gopalganj farmers take interest to  grow mung bean

Gopalganj farmers take interest to grow mung bean

Our Correspondent 2017-12-11 01:36:24

GOPALGANJ, Dec 10: Cultivation of mung bean, locally known as 'Sona Mung' is gaining popularity among the farmers of Jalalabad union under Sadar upazila in the district. A good number of farmers hav...

ACC team to visit Sunamganj to see WDB's embankment repair work

ACC team to visit Sunamganj to see WDB's embankment repair work

Iqbal Siddiquee 2017-12-10 12:26:54

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) would visit different haor areas in Sunamganj soon to see the incomplete work of the Water Development Board (WDB) on the crop protection embankments. A team of the...

Govt in haste to get road dev project approved

Govt in haste to get road dev project approved

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-10 12:00:00

The government is set to approve yet another road development project without conducting a proper feasibility study and determining its priority, officials said Saturday. Roads and Highways Departmen...

BD’s industrial IP rights filing rises

BD’s industrial IP rights filing rises

Asjadul Kibria 2017-12-10 12:00:00

The number of applications to establish industrial Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Bangladesh increased marginally last year, while Hilsha and Jamdani came lately for GI status. The country's g...

Ceiling for income tax payers rises fivefold

Ceiling for income tax payers rises fivefold

Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-10 12:00:00

The government raised the ceiling of income tax payment by treasury chalan five times for the convenience of taxpayers and easing collection complexities. Now taxpayers are allowed to pay up to Tk 50...

Fresh deadline for gazette on judges’ conduct rules

Fresh deadline for gazette on judges’ conduct rules

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

The Supreme Court on Sunday extended time for the government up to December 13 to issue a gazette notification on lower court judges’ conduct rules. A five-member Appellate Division bench, led...

Stand up for ensuring human rights: UN

Stand up for ensuring human rights: UN

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called upon people to stand up for all human rights - civil, political, economic, social and for the values that underpin hopes for safer and better world for...

Fire guts UCB branch in N’ganj

Fire guts UCB branch in N’ganj

Agencies 2017-12-10 12:00:00

A security guard was burnt to death in a fire that broke out at a branch of United Commercial Bank (UCB) at a city corporation market in Taanbazar area of Narayanganj city early Sunday. The fire orig...

BAPEX starts drilling new gas well in Bhola

BAPEX starts drilling new gas well in Bhola

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) started the drilling of new gas well in Bhola on Saturday. The new gas well named Bhola North 1 is in the district's Sadar upaz...

Sheikh Hasina Software Park  opens

Sheikh Hasina Software Park opens

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday formally inaugurated the newly-built 'Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park' in Jessore opening a new horizon of potentiality in the country's ICT sector. Hasi...

President to attend OIC summit on Jerusalem issue

President to attend OIC summit on Jerusalem issue

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

President Md Abdul Hamid will join a special summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on the Jerusalem issue, the foreign minister said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo...

Khaleda raises concern over Trump’s decision on Jerusalem

Khaleda raises concern over Trump’s decision on Jerusalem

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday expressed deep concern over US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Khaleda said that it would seriously affect peace an...

Decision on DNCC mayoral by-polls in two days:EC

Decision on DNCC mayoral by-polls in two days:EC

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

The decision on the by-polls to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will be taken within the next couple of days, said Election Commission acting Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed on Sund...

BSF guns down two Bangladeshis in Rajshahi

BSF guns down two Bangladeshis in Rajshahi

-- 2017-12-10 11:46:57

Two Bangladeshi young men were shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Bhubanpara bordering area under Godagari upazila of Rajshahi district early Sunday. Locals said BSF m...

Tangail crash kills 3

Tangail crash kills 3

-- 2017-12-10 11:32:17

Three people were killed and 15 others injured when a bus and a truck crashed head-on in Tangail’s Kalihati. Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station OC Asabur Rahman said the incident took place...

Truck, microbus collide head-on, killing three

Truck, microbus collide head-on, killing three

-- 2017-12-10 09:56:30

Three people were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Puthia upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Mira Be...

Uninterrupted electricity matter of time: Nasrul Hamid

Uninterrupted electricity matter of time: Nasrul Hamid

-- 2017-12-10 09:45:46

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said uninterrupted electricity supply is now a matter of time. "460 upazilas will get 100 per cent by December 2018 and uninter...

HC rule against DSCC additional holding tax

HC rule against DSCC additional holding tax

-- 2017-12-10 09:08:28

The High Court has issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why collection of additional holding tax from Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) residents should not be declared il...

Mass vaccinations for Rohingyas to check diphtheria outbreak

Mass vaccinations for Rohingyas to check diphtheria outbreak

-- 2017-12-10 08:57:49

A mass vaccination campaign has started to keep diphtheria outbreak at bay among Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar. Diphtheria, a disease that was eliminated from Bangladesh decades ago, is rapid...

Party bigger to me than relatives: Ershad

Party bigger to me than relatives: Ershad

-- 2017-12-10 08:37:03

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said his party is bigger to him than his brothers and other relatives. The former president made the remarks on Sunday referring to recent decision to expel his ne...

Police arrest five over Rangamati JL man murder

Police arrest five over Rangamati JL man murder

-- 2017-12-10 08:19:39

Police have arrested five people in connection with the murder of local Jubo League leader Arbinda Chakma in Rangamati. Addition police superintendent of Rangamati Shafiul Sarwar said the suspects we...

PM to leave for Paris Monday

PM to leave for Paris Monday

-- 2017-12-10 05:13:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel to France on Monday on a three-day official visit to attend One Planet Summit. During her visit, the Prime Minister will hold a meeting with French President...