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Fair price delights Sirajganj catkin growers

Fair price delights Sirajganj catkin growers

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-07 01:16:19

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 06:  Catkin (Kashful) growers of the vast char area of the mighty Jamuna river under the district are delighted over the fair price this current season. Everyday, a good number...

Patients suffer as Derai UZ health complex in poor state

Patients suffer as Derai UZ health complex in poor state

Our Correspondent 2017-12-07 01:15:30

SYLHET, Dec 06: The Derai Upazila Health Complex in Sunamganj couldn't yet start functioning as 50-bed one even a year after it was upgraded by the health minister. Over 250,000 people of the remot...

Economists' forum: A platform for budding talent

Economists' forum: A platform for budding talent

-- 2017-12-07 01:15:03

When it comes to matters of the state, the students of Bangladesh are regarded as one of the most concerned and actively involved demographics of people. They have dynamic opinions and from them origi...

Chief of Army Staff visits BUP

Chief of Army Staff visits BUP

-- 2017-12-06 12:58:40

Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, SBP, ndc, psc, visited Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) at Mirpur Cantonment in the city on Tuesday, according to an ISPR pres...

I never misused power as PM, says Khaleda

I never misused power as PM, says Khaleda

-- 2017-12-06 12:57:39

Pleading innocent in two graft cases, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday told a court that she had never misused the power as the Prime Minister during her tenure, reports UNB. "The false and f...

Commuters suffer for bad shape  of Sirajganj-Enayetpur link road

Commuters suffer for bad shape of Sirajganj-Enayetpur link road

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-06 12:55:39

SIRAJGANJ, Nov 05: Thousands of commuters have been suffering due to the bad shape of the Sirajganj-Enayetpur link road in the district. According to the official sources at the Roads and Highways...

New wards must be part of DNCC mayoral polls: Mobarak

New wards must be part of DNCC mayoral polls: Mobarak

-- 2017-12-06 12:45:02

The eighteen wards newly added to the Dhaka North City Corporation will be included in the upcoming mayoral bypolls, said Former Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak . As a gazette regarding...

Radish price drops across Bogra

Radish price drops across Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Radish price has fallen sharply across the district. Sources said rate of the winter delicacy has dropped due to massive supply. Market sources said radish is being sold at Tk 10 to Tk 12 per kg in t...

PM inaugurates 'Digital World' exhibition

PM inaugurates 'Digital World' exhibition

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the four-day Digital World, at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here with the slogan ‘Ready for Thursday’. ICT Division in...

Two donors may finance another metro rail line

Two donors may finance another metro rail line

Munima Sultana 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The government is expecting to get necessary fund from two development partners for implementing another metro rail line (Hemayetpur-Gabtoli-Notun Bazar route) in the city. A mission from Asian Devel...

Lawmen nab three suspected drug pedlars

Lawmen nab three suspected drug pedlars

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Police and the officials of Narcotics Control Department in several drives have arrested three suspected drug pedlars along with hemp, Yaba tablets and Phensidyl syrup from Jessore district. The arre...

UN adopts resolution condemning Rohingya persecution

UN adopts resolution condemning Rohingya persecution

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The UN Refugee Agency, in a resolution, has condemned the alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses committed against Rohingya Muslim community and other minorities in Myanmar...

PKB becomes scheduled bank by January

PKB becomes scheduled bank by January

Arafat Ara 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) is set to go into operation as a scheduled bank by January as the Wage Earners' Welfare Fund (WEWF) has resolved fund-related complexities, sources said. The specialised b...

Jogonnathpur Boro growers face shortage of water

Jogonnathpur Boro growers face shortage of water

Our Correspondent 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Over 1500 farmers are in much trouble in cultivating Boro paddy this season due to water crisis. Many of them from the five villages of unions under Jogonnathpur upazila in Sunamganj district were now...

BB launches special inspection of troubled Farmers Bank

BB launches special inspection of troubled Farmers Bank

Siddique Islam 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The central bank has launched a special inspection of the problem-ridden Farmers Bank Limited (FBL) to assess its real financial health, after heads rolled over a crisis of the trouble-hit fourth-gene...

ACC resumes questioning ex-BASIC Bank chief

ACC resumes questioning ex-BASIC Bank chief

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has resumed the interrogation of former BASIC Bank Chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu over a Tk 35 billion loan fraud accusation. The second day of Bachchu’s...

Quader rules out possibility of snap poll

Quader rules out possibility of snap poll

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the next parliamentary election will be held in the scheduled time. He also ruled out the possibility of snap poll. Quader came up wit...

Farming of spicy crops on the rise in Rangpur

Farming of spicy crops on the rise in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2017-12-06 11:46:09

The cultivators of the district are passing busy time in farming varieties of spicy crops this current season as a congenial weather condition has been prevailing in the region. Sources said due to h...

NBR finds two cos compliant as drive continues

NBR finds two cos compliant as drive continues

Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-06 11:44:27

The tax authority Tuesday inspected another company as part of its ongoing drive to find out incidences of non-compliance in payment of pay-roll tax by the foreign employees working in the country. T...

Case against 7 war crimes suspects in Jessore

Case against 7 war crimes suspects in Jessore

-- 2017-12-06 11:33:24

Seven war crimes suspects of Bagharpara upazila were sued for their alleged involvement in war crimes during the liberation war in 1971. Lawyer Barrister Kazi Rafat Rezwan Setu said accepting the cas...

Ershad regime wasn't even so bad: Fakhrul

Ershad regime wasn't even so bad: Fakhrul

-- 2017-12-06 10:26:49

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said, considering the current government, 'autocrat Ershad' was not even so bad. The BNP leader also alleged that the 'repression and cruelty' of...

Three Basic Bank officials get conditional bail

Three Basic Bank officials get conditional bail

-- 2017-12-06 09:32:36

Three Basic Bank officials, including its deputy managing director Fazlus Sobhan, have got conditional bail in a number of cases filed over loan scam. The High Court of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Jus...

Retired Lakshmipur civil surgeon gets acquittal

Retired Lakshmipur civil surgeon gets acquittal

-- 2017-12-06 08:33:47

Retired acting civil surgeon of Lakshmipur Salah Uddin Sharif has got acquittal from the charges over 'misconduct' with a additional deputy commissioner. An additional magistrate's court ruled in his...

‘BCL attack’ forces health institute to close sine die

‘BCL attack’ forces health institute to close sine die

-- 2017-12-06 07:02:31

The Institute of Health Technology (IHT) in Rajshahi has been closed for an indefinite period. The authorities took the decision on Wednesday following an attack on the students allegedly by some act...

HC orders reinvestigation into Shammi murder

HC orders reinvestigation into Shammi murder

-- 2017-12-06 07:02:19

The High Court on Wednesday ordered reinvestigation into the murder of Shamima Laila Arjumanna Khan Shammi by Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI). The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justic...

UNESCO recognises ‘Shital Pati’ as cultural heritage

UNESCO recognises ‘Shital Pati’ as cultural heritage

-- 2017-12-06 04:50:10

UNESCO has inscribed Sylhet's traditional art of 'Shital Pati' weaving on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity. The recognition was given on Wednesday at UNES...

Govt to establish high-tech park in every district: PM

Govt to establish high-tech park in every district: PM

-- 2017-12-06 04:33:43

The government will set up one high-tech park in every district to flourish the ICT sector, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina "Necessary incentives will also be given if the investors come up to inve...

Esquire Electronics hosts dinner

Esquire Electronics hosts dinner

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 04:29:10

Esquire Electronics Limited has organised a dinner for the team members of BPL outfit Rangpur Riders and the raffle draw winners. As the distributor of GENERAL and SHARP electronics brands, the compa...

Square Pharmaceuticals holds AGM

Square Pharmaceuticals holds AGM

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 04:16:28

Square Pharmaceuticals Limited has organised its 51st Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Dhaka Club in Ramna area of the capital. The pharmaceutical company declared 35 per cent cash dividend and 7.5 pe...

Assailants slaughter housewife in Naogaon

Assailants slaughter housewife in Naogaon

-- 2017-12-06 04:08:11

Some assailants slaughtered a housewife at her house in Post Office Para of the district town on Wednesday noon. The deceased was Jibonnesa Mini Chawdhury, 55, wife of former chairman of Raninagar up...