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Returning officers get 103 complaints of misconduct

Returning officers get 103 complaints of misconduct

-- 2020-01-25 16:46:00

As the clock winds down to the Dhaka city polls, returning officers have been inundated with complaints of electoral misconduct, mostly against candidates  vying for councillors' posts in the cap...

Police arrest two KU students for ‘links with Neo JMB’

Police arrest two KU students for ‘links with Neo JMB’

-- 2020-01-25 14:56:02

Police arrested two students of Khulna University (KU) for their alleged ties to banned militant group ‘Neo JMB’ from Gollamari Khurshednagar in Khulna city early Saturday. The arrestees...

Arrange free, neutral Dhaka City polls: Sujon to EC

Arrange free, neutral Dhaka City polls: Sujon to EC

-- 2020-01-25 14:50:29

Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujon), a civil rights body, on Saturday urged the Election Commission (EC) to arrange “free, neutral and peaceful” Dhaka city polls. The election of Dhaka south...

Three of a family die in Barguna road crash

Three of a family die in Barguna road crash

-- 2020-01-25 14:23:51

Three members of a family have been killed after a head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw in Barguna’s Amtoli Upazila. Four others were injured in the accident which took place on...

Mirpur slum fire victim dies at DMCH

Mirpur slum fire victim dies at DMCH

-- 2020-01-25 13:22:09

A woman who suffered severe burns in a fire that broke out at a slum in Mirpur’s Chalantika on Friday died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday morning. The deceased was identif...

Diplomatic offensive crucial to reaping benefits: Analysts

Diplomatic offensive crucial to reaping benefits: Analysts

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-01-25 13:12:49

Bangladesh should step up its diplomatic efforts to reap the dividend from the verdict of top UN court, foreign relations analysts say. While the order by the International Court of Justice, or ICJ,...

RAB nabs teen with 1.8kg heroin in C’awabganj

RAB nabs teen with 1.8kg heroin in C’awabganj

-- 2020-01-25 12:52:31

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive arrested a suspected drug dealer with 1.8kg heroin from Thakur Joubon area in Godagari upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday night. The 16-year-old su...

AQI: Dhaka ranks 4th worst city

AQI: Dhaka ranks 4th worst city

-- 2020-01-25 12:47:03

Dhaka ranked fourth worst city in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. The capital of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 247 at 08:19am. The air was classified as ‘very unhealthy’...

Child dies as north shivers in cold wave

Child dies as north shivers in cold wave

-- 2020-01-25 11:47:18

The death of a minor boy suffering from cold-related diarrhoea came in from Kurigram as a cold wave, sweeping over Bangladesh’s northern region, intensified. Nine-month-old Atikul, son of Hasan...

BCIC detects major financial scam

BCIC detects major financial scam

JUBAIR HASAN 2020-01-25 10:20:33

State-run Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation, or BCIC, has unearthed major irregularities involving Tk 1.30 billion in a fertiliser project completed in recent years. The Shahjalal fertiliser...

State telco in death throes

State telco in death throes

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2020-01-25 10:16:54

The state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has been losing around 50,000 clients of its landline phone every year since the fiscal year 2011-12. The number of landphone conn...

‘Follow Bangabandhu’s ideology to build hunger-free Bangladesh’  

‘Follow Bangabandhu’s ideology to build hunger-free Bangladesh’  

UNB 2020-01-24 19:49:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked Awami League (AL) leaders and activists to follow Bangabandhu's ideology properly to build a developed and prosperous Bangladesh free of hunger and poverty...

AL candidate ‘attacks’ independent aspirant’s office in Keraniganj

AL candidate ‘attacks’ independent aspirant’s office in Keraniganj

UNB 2020-01-24 19:35:18

The office of ward number 56 independent councillor aspirant was vandalised and torched, allegedly by Awami League-backed candidate in Borogram area in Kamrangirchar on Friday afternoon. Saidur Rahma...

Taposh promises to eradicate waterlogging if elected

Taposh promises to eradicate waterlogging if elected

-- 2020-01-24 18:23:20

Awami League mayor candidate for the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Friday said there will be no waterlogging in the capital if he is elected mayor in the Fe...

RAB destroys poppy fields in Bandarban

RAB destroys poppy fields in Bandarban

-- 2020-01-24 17:12:00

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has destroyed four poppy fields in Bandarban's Ruma Upazila.RAB recovered around 60kg of poppy nectar from the four fields, said Moshiur. Later, the elite police unit...

Mirpur slum fire doused

Mirpur slum fire doused

-- 2020-01-24 14:09:52

The fire that broke out at a slum at Chalantika in the city’s Mirpur area was doused on Friday. Anwar Hossain, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, Mirpur zone, said the...

Fire at ‘Parabat Express’ train doused

Fire at ‘Parabat Express’ train doused

-- 2020-01-24 12:51:23

A fire that broke out at ‘Parabat Express’ train in Brahmanbaria district was doused within half an hour on Friday, officials said. Brahmanbaria Railways Station sources said they found f...

Mob kills another suspected thief in Jashore

Mob kills another suspected thief in Jashore

-- 2020-01-24 12:13:07

A man has been beaten to death by an angry mob on suspicion of theft in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore district. The incident took place in the upazila's Shubharara Mathparha early Friday, said the di...

Three die as bus overturns in Habiganj

Three die as bus overturns in Habiganj

-- 2020-01-24 12:05:37

Three people were killed and five others injured as a bus swerved out of control and overturned in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district on Friday. The accident occurred in the upazila's Kamaichhara a...

Many high-rises built in Cumilla violating building code

Many high-rises built in Cumilla violating building code

Our Correspondent 2020-01-24 00:46:23

CUMILLA, Jan 23: Nearly 700 high-rise buildings have been constructed in Cumilla city in an unplanned way and without following the building code. Cumilla City Mayor Monirul Haque Sakku said action...

Saudi deports 217 more Bangladeshi workers

Saudi deports 217 more Bangladeshi workers

-- 2020-01-23 19:47:59

Another 217 Bangladeshi workers were deported by Saudi Arabia on Thursday. A Saudi Airlines flight carrying 103 workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:20 pm on Wednesday while...

Bangla Academy names 10 winners of 2019 literature awards

Bangla Academy names 10 winners of 2019 literature awards

-- 2020-01-23 19:18:07

Bangla Academy has announced the names of the winners of its 2019 literature awards. They include writer Wasi Ahmed and poet Makid Haider. Director General Habibullah Sirajee announced the names at...

It’s victory for humanity: FM about ICJ order

It’s victory for humanity: FM about ICJ order

-- 2020-01-23 18:43:16

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday termed the order that came from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) a victory for humanity and a milestone for human rights activists across the wor...

Combined entrance test at public universities from next session: UGC

Combined entrance test at public universities from next session: UGC

-- 2020-01-23 18:23:36

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to introduce a uniform entrance test for admission to all public universities in the country from the next academic session, reports bdnews24.com. S...

High Court issues contempt rule against WASA MD

High Court issues contempt rule against WASA MD

-- 2020-01-23 17:47:59

The High Court (HC) on Thursday issued a contempt of court rule against Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Managing Director (MD) Taqsem A Khan for not complying with court’s order...

Report on BB reserve heist case on Feb 24

Report on BB reserve heist case on Feb 24

-- 2020-01-23 17:40:29

A Dhaka court on Thursday set February 24 for submitting the probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist that took place in 2016. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasi...

Three more Bangladeshis shot dead by ‘BSF’

Three more Bangladeshis shot dead by ‘BSF’

-- 2020-01-23 15:27:10

Three Bangladeshis were shot dead reportedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Nitapur border in Porsha upazila of Naogaon on early Thursday. The victims were identified as cattl...

Third death anniversary of Behrouze Ispahani today

Third death anniversary of Behrouze Ispahani today

FE Online Desk 2020-01-23 15:00:40

Today (Thursday) is the third death anniversary of Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, the late Chairman of Ispahani Group. He passed away on January 23, 2017. Well-wishers and friends of the deceased have...

Bangladesh moves three notches up in global corruption index

Bangladesh moves three notches up in global corruption index

-- 2020-01-23 14:43:08

Bangladesh has moved three notches up in the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) said Thursday. But the country was ranked as the second most cor...

‘BCL Assault’: DU students demand punishment of attackers

‘BCL Assault’: DU students demand punishment of attackers

-- 2020-01-23 13:35:41

Students of Dhaka University’s tourism and hospitality management department brought out a procession on the campus on Thursday protesting against the torture of four students by Bangladesh Chha...