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Tulip receives UK ‘Labour Newcomer MP of the year’ award

Tulip receives UK ‘Labour Newcomer MP of the year’ award

-- 2017-11-25 10:56:21

Labour Party MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq has received an award for 'Labour Newcomer MP of the year' at the annual Patchwork Foundation Awards in Westminster. She recently received the award from the Spea...

Internet penetration to reach 100pc by 2021: Palak

Internet penetration to reach 100pc by 2021: Palak

-- 2017-11-25 10:30:17

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the government would ensure 100 percent internet penetration and 50 percent broadband connectivity for all by 2021, reports BSS. "We have alrea...

BNP sceptical about proper implementation of repatriation deal

BNP sceptical about proper implementation of repatriation deal

-- 2017-11-25 10:28:42

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday voiced concern whether the Rohingya repatriation instrument signed with Myanmar will be implemented effectively or not, reports UNB. Talki...

Ctg road mishap kills ex-Cuet student

Ctg road mishap kills ex-Cuet student

FE Online Desk 2017-11-25 10:01:32

A former student of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) died after a bus hit him while crossing New Monsurabad road under Pahartoli station in the port city on Friday night. Th...

Q1 sees Tk 42.64b budget surplus for spending slowdown

Q1 sees Tk 42.64b budget surplus for spending slowdown

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-11-25 09:54:51

The current fiscal year's first quarter saw a budget surplus worth Tk 42.64 billion mainly as the government couldn't go by its spending plans, sources said. As of September last, government mobilise...

BD doesn’t need mitigation measures for environment

BD doesn’t need mitigation measures for environment

-- 2017-11-25 08:40:53

Bangladesh has no obligation for adopting mitigation measures while dealing with climate change issues, said Prime Minister's Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Saturday. "We're just produ...

Khulna's rail link resumes after 9 hours

Khulna's rail link resumes after 9 hours

-- 2017-11-25 07:16:15

Train communications between Khulna and rest of the country resumed on Saturday afternoon after a suspension of over nine hours. The rail link was snapped following a collision between two freight tr...

Saudi eases immigration process for BD pilgrims

Saudi eases immigration process for BD pilgrims

-- 2017-11-25 06:15:06

Saudi Arabia has decided to ease the immigration process for Bangladeshi pilgrims, said a high official at the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The new immigration process will be effective for the hol...

PM cautions countrymen against history manipulators

PM cautions countrymen against history manipulators

-- 2017-11-25 05:58:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to remain alert so that history manipulators can never return to power. Sheikh Hasina said the anti-liberation forces not only killed the Father of...

Avijit murder: Police arrest another 'militant'

Avijit murder: Police arrest another 'militant'

-- 2017-11-25 04:57:52

Law enforcers arrested a youth on Friday night in connection with blogger and writer Avijit Roy murder case. A team of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and Detective Branch members ar...

Decision on appeal against BDR verdict Sunday

Decision on appeal against BDR verdict Sunday

-- 2017-11-25 04:45:42

A three-member High Court (HC) division bench will pronounce its judgement tomorrow on death reference and jail appeals in BDR carnage case, keeping the matter on its cause list as the first item. Th...

ONE Bank opens new branch in Ctg

ONE Bank opens new branch in Ctg

FE Online Desk 2017-11-25 03:45:36

ONE Bank Limited has opened its 90st branch at Muradpur area in Chittagong recently. Sayeed H Chowdhury, Chairman of ONE Bank Limited, formally inaugurated the branch, according to a press release....

Govt failed to implement election pledges: B Chy

Govt failed to implement election pledges: B Chy

-- 2017-11-25 02:39:27

President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Friday said the government has failed to deliver on all fronts and implement its election pledges. He said while speaking at a...

Lakshmipur road crash kills schoolboy

Lakshmipur road crash kills schoolboy

-- 2017-11-25 01:57:54

A third grader student died after a CNG-run auto rickshaw knocked him down while he was crossing a road at Charmohona area in Raipur upazila of Lakhmipur district on Saturday morning. The accident le...

Indian Khasias shoot dead Bangladeshi

Indian Khasias shoot dead Bangladeshi

-- 2017-11-25 01:44:32

Indian Khasias gunned down a Bangladeshi national along Sonarhat border in Gowainghat upazila on Friday afternoon.The deceased wa Faruk Miah, 35, son of Jalfu Miah of Laxmanchhara in the upazila.Gowa...

Bari Siddiqui is no more

Bari Siddiqui is no more

FE Online Desk 2017-11-24 12:00:00

Eminent folk singer, composer, and flute player Bari Siddiqui died at a city hospital early Friday. He was 63. He breathed his last at Square Hospitals around 2:30am, Shabbir Siddiqui, son of Bari Si...

Train, truck collide in Gazipur killing one

Train, truck collide in Gazipur killing one

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

An assistant train driver was killed and 50 passengers were injured as a train hit a truck at Bokterpur level-crossing on Dhaka-Rajshahi route in Kaliakoir upazila early Friday. The deceased has been...

Train commuters likely to double in two years

Train commuters likely to double in two years

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

The number of daily train passengers will increase to 500,000 from 250,000 in two years if the ongoing projects are completed within the stipulated time, according to sources at the railway ministry....

Robber suspect dies in Khilgaon 'shootout'

Robber suspect dies in Khilgaon 'shootout'

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

A suspected member of a robber gang was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Dhaka city's Khilgaon area early Friday. He could not be identified immediately. After the gunfight, Nagendra Kum...

PM mourns death of Bari Siddiqui

PM mourns death of Bari Siddiqui

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the death of eminent folksinger, lyricist and flautist Bari Siddiqui. In a condolence message, the prime minister on Friday recalled the outst...

Rohingya repatriation: Rights groups want int’l monitoring

Rohingya repatriation: Rights groups want int’l monitoring

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

Human rights groups called on Friday for international agencies to be allowed to monitor the planned repatriation of hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslim from Bangladesh to the homes they fled in Mya...

Will oversee Rohingya repatriation process: EU

Will oversee Rohingya repatriation process: EU

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

The European Union has said it will monitor the implementation of the instrument signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar on return of Rohingyas to Myanmar with attention in full compliance with internat...

PM to inaugurate envoys' conf Saturday

PM to inaugurate envoys' conf Saturday

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday will inaugurate a conference where all Bangladesh envoys, posted in 58 countries, are expected to participate.  The three-day conference, titled ‘D...

1.9m may submit returns this yr

1.9m may submit returns this yr

FE Report 2017-11-24 12:00:00

The Income Tax Week-2017 began across the country on Friday to provide tax-related services and help the taxpayers to have their returns filed without any hassle. Aiming to collect more taxes, the Na...

PC finds substandard  work, irregularities

PC finds substandard work, irregularities

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-11-24 12:00:00

Country’s central planning body has found shoddy work and irregularities in Dhaka's Keraniganj jail construction as the project came in for a fresh revision with both cost and time overruns, off...

Miscreants slit Jessore journo’s throat

Miscreants slit Jessore journo’s throat

-- 2017-11-24 11:19:40

Miscreants slashed a journalist’s throat at Chanchra Harinar Beel in Sadar upazila on Thursday evening. The victim was Ananda Das, 55, the assignment editor of local daily ‘The Dainik Pro...

‘People will vote AL for PM’s honesty’

‘People will vote AL for PM’s honesty’

-- 2017-11-24 09:04:36

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said Awami League will win in the next general election due to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's honesty and proficiency in politics, which is...

Tawfiq claims power tariff hike negligible, won’t affect life

Tawfiq claims power tariff hike negligible, won’t affect life

-- 2017-11-24 07:11:18

Prime Minister's Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi-Chowdhury said that the new tariff would not affect public life as the hike is negligible. The Prime Minister's adviser made the remarks on Friday wh...

BNP to face critical juncture if boycotts poll: Tofail

BNP to face critical juncture if boycotts poll: Tofail

-- 2017-11-24 04:27:20

BNP has no alternative way other than joining the next general elections under the present government, said Awami League Advisory Council Member and Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed. BNP will face th...

Locals find Schoolboy’s body hanging in C’nawabganj

Locals find Schoolboy’s body hanging in C’nawabganj

-- 2017-11-24 03:37:59

Local people found a body of a school boy hanging at Khesba village in Nachole upazila on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Robiul Islam, 14, son of Jamal Uddin Khesba village and a cla...