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BNP's stance on next election contradictory: Obaidul

BNP's stance on next election contradictory: Obaidul

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the BNP's stance over participating the upcoming national election is contradictory. The Road Transport and Bridges Minister alleged that BNP's...

Kamal sees conspiracy behind Rangpur Hindu attack

Kamal sees conspiracy behind Rangpur Hindu attack

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Home Minster Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said there might be conspiracy behind recent arson attacks on the Hindu community in Rangpur. "The Rangpur incident is the recurrence of Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar...

BGMEA requests govt to form wage board for RMG workers

BGMEA requests govt to form wage board for RMG workers

Monira Munni 2017-11-15 12:00:00

A move has been initiated to raise the minimum monthly wages of the workers of the country's ready-made garment sector in line with a provision of the labour law. This, industry insiders say, would...

EC not ready for EVMs use: CEC

EC not ready for EVMs use: CEC

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Wednesday said the Commission is not ready to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the 11 parliamentary elections.“The Commission has no p...

Dainik Purbokone editor no more

Dainik Purbokone editor no more

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Dainik Purbokone editor Taslim Uddin Chowdhury has passed away. He was 63. Mohammad Ali, a senor journalist of the daily published from Chittagong, said the editor breathed his last at a hospital in...

The FE enters into its 25th year of publication

The FE enters into its 25th year of publication

Moazzem Hossain 2017-11-15 12:00:00

The publication of the special anniversary issue today is a happy occasion for us, in The Financial Express (FE). It is a commemorative event, not a drum-beating one. That this daily, with its prime f...

85pc safety flaws fixed in factories: Alliance

85pc safety flaws fixed in factories: Alliance

FE Online Report 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Some 85 per cent of the required safety flaws has been fixed in factories inspected by the engineers of Alliance. Out of the percentage, 80 per cent are high priority safety issues and a total of 234...

DU celebrates 20th Nabanna Utsab

DU celebrates 20th Nabanna Utsab

FE Online Desk 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Jatiya Nabanna Utsab Udjapan Parshad inaugurated the 20th ‘Nabanna Utsab’ at Bakultala, Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University on Wednesday. Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof Dr Ak...

No slide in law and order situation : Minister

No slide in law and order situation : Minister

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

The recent incidents of murders and disappearances don’t demonstrate any slide in the law and order situation of the country, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. “I don’t thi...

Khaleda to appear before court in graft case Thursday

Khaleda to appear before court in graft case Thursday

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a special court here on Thursday and deliver her self-defence statement further in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. According to a UNB report Khaleda...

Rangpur mayhem: One remanded for Facebook post

Rangpur mayhem: One remanded for Facebook post

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

A court in Rangpur has remanded a Hindu man for his social media post allegedly hurting religious sentiments and sparking attacks on Hindu homes in a village near the district town. Police on Wednesd...

BD in crisis over Rohingya aid: PM

BD in crisis over Rohingya aid: PM

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Bangladesh is now in unprecedented crisis over providing humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of Rohingyas and repatriating them to their own country. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the re...

HC denies Rana Plaza owner's bail

HC denies Rana Plaza owner's bail

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

The High Court (HC) has rejected the bail prayer of the owner of Rana Plaza Sohel Rana, but accepted the appeal against a verdict that had awarded him three-year imprisonment in a graft case. Justice...

Autorickshaw drivers to strike protesting app-based transport

Autorickshaw drivers to strike protesting app-based transport

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Autorickshaw drivers have announced a 48-hour strike from November 27 for an eight-point charter of demands, including cancellation of app-based transport services. Dhaka and Chittagong chapters of C...

No new household gas connection, says Nasrul

No new household gas connection, says Nasrul

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that the government has no plan to resume providing connections of natural gas to households in the future. "We've kept su...

Manikganj gas cylinder explosion burns couple

Manikganj gas cylinder explosion burns couple

FE Online Desk 2017-11-15 11:38:33

A couple has been shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) with severe burn wounds sustained in a cooking gas cylinder blast at their house in Gangadhar Patti area of Manikganj on early We...

Youth dies in BSF firing

Youth dies in BSF firing

-- 2017-11-15 10:31:05

A Bangladeshi national was reportedly shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Burimari border in Patgram upazila early Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Fari...

BT brinjal farming gaining popularity in Bogra

BT brinjal farming gaining popularity in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-15 08:59:57

BOGRA, Nov 15: Cultivation of BT brinjal is gaining popularity among the marginal farmers of the district. A good number of growers have shown interest to more land under the farming of the vegetable...

ACC arrests bank official over money swindling

ACC arrests bank official over money swindling

-- 2017-11-15 06:58:14

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested a senior official of Sonali Bank Ltd in Dhaka in a case filed over swindling money. ACC Assistant Director Ram Prasad Mondol arrested Assistant General M...

SC stays reopening order of Lakehead School

SC stays reopening order of Lakehead School

-- 2017-11-15 05:12:23

The Supreme court on Wednesday stayed the High Court order until November 19 that had directed to reopen Lakehead Grammar School branches in Dhaka Chamber Judge Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order h...

Ctg cops nab two for ‘attacking journos’

Ctg cops nab two for ‘attacking journos’

FE Online Desk 2017-11-15 03:05:21

Police arrested two people on charge of carrying out attack on two journalists in Jamalkhan area of Chittagong city early Wednesday. Chittagong Union of Journalists (CUJ) President also Bureau Chief...

Patuakhali bus plunge kills elderly woman

Patuakhali bus plunge kills elderly woman

FE Online Desk 2017-11-15 01:48:03

An elderly woman was killed and at least 13 other people sustained injuries as the bus in which they were travelling, plunged into a ditch on Patuakhali-Kuakata highway in Kalapara upazila of Patuakha...

EC now against EVMs, favours army deployment!

EC now against EVMs, favours army deployment!

-- 2017-11-14 12:18:17

The Election Commission (EC) says they will not use the EVMs in the next general election, a day after Khaleda Zia voiced her opposition to the use of the machines at a public rally. Apparently enjoy...

Economy underperforms for some shortcomings

Economy underperforms for some shortcomings

FE Report 2017-11-14 12:13:28

Bangladesh economy goes on underperforming for some limiting factors like infrastructure deficits, and gas and power problems, notwithstanding some progressive growth, says a premier trade body. The...

Expat, family members sued over Facebook post

Expat, family members sued over Facebook post

-- 2017-11-14 12:04:55

A case has been filed against an expatriate youth living in Italy and four members of his family under section 57 of the ICT Act for allegedly making disparaging posts against a female US expatriate a...

President accepts Chief Justice Sinha’s resignation

President accepts Chief Justice Sinha’s resignation

-- 2017-11-14 12:00:00

President Md Abdul Hamid has accepted the resignation of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.“It has been accepted,” the president’s Press Secretary Joynul Abedin told on Tuesday. &ld...

Myanmar says Rohingya repatriation within three weeks

Myanmar says Rohingya repatriation within three weeks

-- 2017-11-14 12:00:00

The persecuted Muslim-majority Rohingya people will return to Myanmar in three weeks’ time following Myanmar’s agreement with Bangladesh, Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi h...

Jessore ‘gunfight’ leaves one dead

Jessore ‘gunfight’ leaves one dead

FE Online Desk 2017-11-14 12:00:00

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man along with a gun, two rounds of bullets, five cutlasses and one Chinese axe from Nongorpur Mazar area on Magura road in Jessore district on early Tuesd...

HC orders reopening of Lakehead Grammar School

HC orders reopening of Lakehead Grammar School

FE Online Desk 2017-11-14 12:00:00

The High Court on Tuesday ordered that all the branches of Lakehead Grammar School in Dhaka city to be reopened within 24 hours after authorities shut it down over allegations of patronising religious...

Govt forced  Sinha to resign, alleges BNP

Govt forced Sinha to resign, alleges BNP

-- 2017-11-14 12:00:00

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday alleged that the government forced Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha to resign.“The Chief Justice was forced to relinquish throug...