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Law enforcers should raid in Rohingya camps regularly: Inu

Law enforcers should raid in Rohingya camps regularly: Inu

-- 2017-12-05 04:00:31

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Tuesday said the law enforcers should l conduct  raid in Rohingya camps of Cox's Bazar regularly   to solve the country's internal drug addicti...

ACME Laboratories holds AGM

ACME Laboratories holds AGM

FE Online Desk 2017-12-05 03:43:27

The ACME Laboratories Limited (ACME) organised its 41stAnnual General Meeting (AGM) at the PSC Convention Hall in Dhaka on Monday. The shareholders of the ACME Laboratories has approved cash dividend...

Kushtia MP meets FBCCI acting president

Kushtia MP meets FBCCI acting president

FE Online Desk 2017-12-05 02:38:43

Abdur Rouf, Member of Parliament of Kushtia-4, called on FBCCI Acting President Alhaj Mohammed Bazlur Rahman on Monday. They discussed on private sector engagement in the current economic development...

Cement-laden trawler sinks in Meghna

Cement-laden trawler sinks in Meghna

-- 2017-12-05 02:30:49

A cement-laden trawler sank in the Meghna, Padma and Dakatia rivers near at Chandpur launch terminal. The trawler sank when Dhaka-bound launch MV Green Line-3 hit it on Monday evening. Jalaluddin Sa...

RAB detains two drug pedlars

RAB detains two drug pedlars

-- 2017-12-05 02:05:37

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug pedlars along with 1,400 bottles of Phensedyl from Boro Darogarhat area in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong on Monday night. The arres...

Crop protection embankments work in Sunamganj set to begin December 15

Crop protection embankments work in Sunamganj set to begin December 15

Our Correspondent 2017-12-05 01:48:26

Although the first deadline ended on November 30, the formation of Project Implementation Committees (PIC) couldn't be completed as yet. However, it would be completed before the start of their field...

Pregnant woman dies over wrong treatment

Pregnant woman dies over wrong treatment

-- 2017-12-05 01:31:25

An expectant young woman died at a private clinic in Kachua upazila headquarters on Monday evening as the on-duty doctor treated her wrongly. The deceased was Salma Begum, 28, wife of Md Jakir Hossai...

PM pays tributes to  Cambodian martyrs

PM pays tributes to Cambodian martyrs

-- 2017-12-04 12:45:11

PHNOM PENH (Cambodia), Dec 3 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday paid tributes and deep homage to Cambodian martyrs by placing a wreath at the Independence Monument here. After placing th...

Thousands in Nilphamari making Bhapa pitha to earn living

Thousands in Nilphamari making Bhapa pitha to earn living

Our Correspondent 2017-12-04 12:40:51

NILPHAMARI, Dec 3:  Around 10,000 ultra poor people, both male and female, are now engaged in making steam cake (Bhapa pitha) in 60 Union Parishad of six Upazilas across the district. Each of the...

Gopalganj peasants expect bumper production of 'Lalzira' rice

Gopalganj peasants expect bumper production of 'Lalzira' rice

Our Correspondent 2017-12-04 12:40:07

GOPALGANJ, Dec 3: Farmers of Gopalganj Sadar of the district are excepting a bumper production of Lalzira rice this year. According to Gopalganj Sadar Upazila Agriculture office sources, a total of 1...

Broccoli farmers eye good  yield in Rangpur district

Broccoli farmers eye good yield in Rangpur district

Our Correspondent 2017-12-04 12:39:15

RANGPUR, Dec 3: The cultivation of broccoli, a kind of winter vegetable has proved lucrative in the district, as growers have been earning handsome profit from its farming in recent years. The grow...

Comilla road mishap leaves truck helper dead

Comilla road mishap leaves truck helper dead

-- 2017-12-04 12:39:14

A truck driver’s helper has been killed after a covered van hit his truck on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Hatatoli area in Comilla's Sadar Dakhshin upazila on early Monday. The victim, identifie...

Miscreants slaughter Meherpur man

Miscreants slaughter Meherpur man

-- 2017-12-04 12:19:22

A man was slaughtered by miscreants in Shishubagan para of Meherpur district town on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Abdur Razzak, son of freedom fighter Omar Ali, a news agency reported...

Pirojpur microbus plunge kills father, daughter

Pirojpur microbus plunge kills father, daughter

-- 2017-12-04 12:08:59

A man and his daughter were killed and three other family members sustained injuries when the microbus in which they were travelling, overturned and plunged into a ditch at Morelganj end of the Balesh...

EC distributes mayoral symbols for Rangpur polls

EC distributes mayoral symbols for Rangpur polls

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Seven candidates, three from the major political parties, will vie for mayoral post in Rangpur City Corporation polls to take place in December 1. The three political affiliated candidates are Awami...

UN has raised only one-third Rohingya fund: Report

UN has raised only one-third Rohingya fund: Report

Agencies 2017-12-04 12:00:00

The United Nations has raised only 34 per cent of the $434 million needed to aid 1.2 million people, including those overstretched while hosting many of them in Cox's Bazar, said a report on Monday....

Move to raise senior citizens’ age bar to 65

Move to raise senior citizens’ age bar to 65

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

A senior minister has said that the government is mulling to acknowledge people as senior citizens when they attain 65 years of age. At present, people aged 60 years or above are acknowledged as the...

Entrepreneur selection for UDCs lacks transparency: TIB study

Entrepreneur selection for UDCs lacks transparency: TIB study

FE Report 2017-12-04 12:00:00

The process of selection of entrepreneurs for Union Digital Centres (UDCs) lacks transparency due to absence of necessary guidelines, according to a study conducted by the Transparency International B...

BD, Cambodia ink 10 instruments

BD, Cambodia ink 10 instruments

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Bangladesh and Cambodia have signed nine memoranda of understanding (MoU) and an agreement to enhance tourism, agriculture, civil aviation, ICT and technical education between the two countries. The...

Repay Tk 50m loan:  Top court to JP MP

Repay Tk 50m loan: Top court to JP MP

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday directed Jatiya Party lawmaker Shawkat Chowdhury to pay Tk 5 crore to Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd (BCBL) within 60 days in connection with two lo...

Weather likely to remain dry with cloudy sky

Weather likely to remain dry with cloudy sky

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Country’s weather may remain dry on Monday with temporary partly cloudy sky as the well marked low over South Andaman Sea and adjoining area now lies over Southeast Bay and adjoining area. Ligh...

Hasina calls on Cambodia to support Rohingyas

Hasina calls on Cambodia to support Rohingyas

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday sought support from Cambodia for a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis as it threatens the peace and stability of this region. "As we continue our bilateral...

Winter cake business, a blessing to 200 families in Bogra

Winter cake business, a blessing to 200 families in Bogra

Our correspondent 2017-12-04 12:00:00

With the winter setting in, more than 400 people of 200 families have found solvency in piping hot cake business in Bogra. “I earn more than Tk 600 at the cost of some Tk 200 every day,”...

‘Muggers loot’ Tk 1m from bkash agents

‘Muggers loot’ Tk 1m from bkash agents

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

A gang of muggers snatched away around Tk one million stabbing a ‘bKash’ agent in Khitibaria rail crossing area of Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Sunday. Quoting the victims, A K M...

Ex-BASIC Bank chief says 'not guilty' of  Tk 35b loan scam

Ex-BASIC Bank chief says 'not guilty' of Tk 35b loan scam

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Former BASIC Bank Chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu has said he does not consider himself guilty of a Tk 35 billion loan fraud. He made the remark as the Anti-Corruption Commission questioned him at...

Hun Sen addresses Hasina as sister

Hun Sen addresses Hasina as sister

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has addressed his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina as a sister. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque came up with the statement after bilateral talks between the tw...

Groom 'local talent for mid-management positions in RMG industry'

Groom 'local talent for mid-management positions in RMG industry'

FE Report 2017-12-04 11:38:54

Grooming local talent for mid-management positions in the readymade garment industry can help save $6 billion a year, as these positions are mostly held by foreign workers, BGMEA president Siddiqur Ra...

OTC trading system to go live soon

OTC trading system to go live soon

Mohammad Mufazzal 2017-12-04 10:14:06

The automated trading system of the OTC (over-the-counter) market of the country's premier bourse is set to go live by February next under new regulation. The draft of regulation will also facilitate...

Govt devising ‘law’ for own benefit: BNP

Govt devising ‘law’ for own benefit: BNP

-- 2017-12-04 09:44:00

Bangladesh is now being run by whatever the ruling party formulates as law for their personal gain, regardless of what the actual law is, said BNP’s Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury. "Now, there's...

Over 0.18m FF to get allowance        

Over 0.18m FF to get allowance       

-- 2017-12-04 08:03:59

1,84,394 freedom fighters are set to get an honorary allowance or around TK 5.53 billion. "A total of Taka 5,531,820,000 have been released to provide honorary allowance among the 1,84,394 freedom fi...