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New regulation entitles female prisoners to special privileges

New regulation entitles female prisoners to special privileges

Doulot Akter Mala 2020-02-03 10:52:42

The government has issued a regulation allowing female prisoners to enjoy special privileges after 13 years of passage of the relevant law by parliament. Female convicts would be able to enjoy specia...

SSC, equivalent exams begin

SSC, equivalent exams begin

-- 2020-02-03 10:28:04

This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations under 10 education boards began across the country today (Monday). A total 20,47, 779 students are expected to tak...

Hundreds cross Chitra river every day thru bamboo bridge risking their lives

Hundreds cross Chitra river every day thru bamboo bridge risking their lives

Our Correspondent 2020-02-03 00:19:06

BENAPOLE, Feb 02: Several hundred people, including schoolchildren, cross the Chitra river through a bamboo- made bridge daily risking their lives.  The bamboo bridge on the Chitra river adjacen...

BD missions to be raised to 100

BD missions to be raised to 100

-- 2020-02-02 21:02:44

The number of Bangladesh’s foreign missions will be raised to 100 from 77 within 2021, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday. The minister said this while replying to a tabled starred...

PM for more translations of Bangla literature

PM for more translations of Bangla literature

-- 2020-02-02 20:52:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for more translations of Bangla literature as her government wants to spread it across the world. “We want to spread our art, literature...

BNP to stage protests Tuesday

BNP to stage protests Tuesday

-- 2020-02-02 19:31:29

BNP is set to stage protests against the alleged irregularities in the Dhaka city elections after observing a daylong general strike. Flanked by its defeated mayoral candidates Tabith Awal and Ishraq...

Returnees from China doing well: Health minister

Returnees from China doing well: Health minister

-- 2020-02-02 18:59:27

All the Bangladeshi citizens, brought back from China’s Wuhan on Saturday, are doing well, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday. “Seven of the returnees, now at Kurmitola General...

SSC, equivalent exams from Monday

SSC, equivalent exams from Monday

-- 2020-02-02 18:58:16

This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations under 10 education boards will begin across the country on Monday. A total 2,047, 779 students are expected to t...

Dhaka 10th worst city in air quality index

Dhaka 10th worst city in air quality index

-- 2020-02-02 17:48:43

Dhaka ranked the 10th worst city in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Sunday morning. It had an AQI score of 163 at 10:49am. The air was classified as ‘unhealthy’. When the AQI score is bet...

PM opens Ekushey Book Fair

PM opens Ekushey Book Fair

-- 2020-02-02 17:47:01

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2020, a yearly event of booklovers and publishers, reports UNB.  The fair began on the Bangla Academy pre...

Temperature to rise from Tuesday: Met Office

Temperature to rise from Tuesday: Met Office

-- 2020-02-02 15:25:41

The temperature in the country will start rising from Tuesday night, the Met Office said Sunday. “Bangladesh’s northern region will continue to experience cold for a few more days,”...

PM opens int’l conference on achieving SDGs and adopting IR 4.0

PM opens int’l conference on achieving SDGs and adopting IR 4.0

-- 2020-02-02 14:35:09

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 23rd national convention of the IDEB and the international conference of the “Skills Readiness for Achieving SDGs and Adopting IR 4.0” this mor...

Coronavirus: BD suspends on-arrival visas for Chinese

Coronavirus: BD suspends on-arrival visas for Chinese

-- 2020-02-02 13:31:07

Bangladesh has suspended on-arrival visas for Chinese nationals for one month as part of the government’s temporary policy following the outbreak of coronavirus, foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Mom...

Savar road crash kills three

Savar road crash kills three

-- 2020-02-02 13:10:03

Three people have died after a bus ploughed into a battery-powered rickshaw in Savar's Ashulia. The incident took place on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Ashulia's Nabinagar around 9:15 am on Sunday, ac...

BD wants amicable solution to border killings: Momen

BD wants amicable solution to border killings: Momen

-- 2020-02-02 12:56:10

Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said the government wants to see an amicable solution to the killings along the border that are taking place despite promises. "We don't want to see a sin...

Atiqul, Taposh call on PM

Atiqul, Taposh call on PM

-- 2020-02-02 11:29:55

Awami League (AL) mayoral candidates in Dhaka city corporation polls called on prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence in the city on Saturday night. “The two mayoral...

Weekly Review: MNCs see mixed performance

Weekly Review: MNCs see mixed performance

FE Report 2020-02-02 11:14:21

Listed multinational companies (MNCs) performed mixed in last week amid price corrections witnessed by many local companies. The local companies witnessed price corrections as their earnings declined...

Dhaka city polls: BNP’s hartal evokes lukewarm response

Dhaka city polls: BNP’s hartal evokes lukewarm response

-- 2020-02-02 10:47:35

BNP activists and supporters were largely absent from the streets as the party was trying to enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) in the capital city on Sunday protesting against ‘massive vo...

Customs seek more inspection tools

Customs seek more inspection tools

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-02-02 10:28:19

The Dhaka Custom House (DCH) has put forward a proposal to install non-intrusive inspection tools worth Tk 2.14 billion at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) to ensure security and speed up...

AL mayoral candidates win both DSCC, DNCC polls

AL mayoral candidates win both DSCC, DNCC polls

-- 2020-02-02 10:22:30

Awami League mayoral candidates were unofficially declared elected in the elections to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Saturday. Ruling party contestant...

One-sixth of factories fix flaws, finds Accord

One-sixth of factories fix flaws, finds Accord

MONIRA MUNNI 2020-02-02 10:18:35

Only 273 garment factories out of 1,600 inspected by the western retailers' platform, Accord, have managed to fix the safety hazards found in initial inspection. The Accord on Fire and Building Safet...

Voter turnout below 25pc: EC

Voter turnout below 25pc: EC

-- 2020-02-01 22:14:59

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar has said less than 25 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations on Saturday. “The biggest achievement o...

BNP calls dawn to dusk hartal Sunday

BNP calls dawn to dusk hartal Sunday

-- 2020-02-01 20:35:53

Rejecting the results of the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations, BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Dhaka for Sunday. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announc...

Kamal expresses dissatisfaction over EVM

Kamal expresses dissatisfaction over EVM

-- 2020-02-01 20:16:27

Gono Forum President Kamal Hossain arrived at Baily Road’s Viqarunnisa Noon School & College to cast his vote in the city elections on Saturday. However, the experience was not a pleasant o...

AL widens lead in DNCC, DSCC polls

AL widens lead in DNCC, DSCC polls

-- 2020-02-01 20:10:32

The Awami League mayoral candidates extended their lead in both Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the counting of votes in the elections to the two city ci...

BNP-AL clash at Nayapaltan

BNP-AL clash at Nayapaltan

-- 2020-02-01 19:46:26

Awami League and BNP activists were locked into a clash in front of BNP central office at Nayapaltan in the capital on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses said when some AL activists were crossing the BNP...

AL takes lead in both DNCC, DSCC polls

AL takes lead in both DNCC, DSCC polls

-- 2020-02-01 18:35:51

The Awami League mayoral candidates took lead in both Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the counting of votes in the elections to the two city cities on Sa...

PM to leave for Italy on Feb 4

PM to leave for Italy on Feb 4

-- 2020-02-01 17:46:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for Rome on February 4 on a four-day bilateral official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte. During the visit...

Amar Ekushey Book Fair to begin Sunday

Amar Ekushey Book Fair to begin Sunday

-- 2020-02-01 17:32:58

The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2020 will begin on Bangla Academy premises and at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Sunday. This year Bangla Academy has set the theme of the fair as “Bir...

Cold-related diseases affect 3,792 people in 24 hrs

Cold-related diseases affect 3,792 people in 24 hrs

-- 2020-02-01 17:22:34

Various cold-related diseases affected 3,792 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Saturday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room...