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Freedom fighter Tanzel Hossain Khan dies

Freedom fighter Tanzel Hossain Khan dies

-- 2020-01-20 11:57:04

Freedom fighter Tanzel Hossain Khan, the president of Awami League’s district unit, passed away at a hospital in Magura on Monday. He was 73. The ruling party leader was suffering from old age...

10 get death sentence in CPB bomb blast case

10 get death sentence in CPB bomb blast case

-- 2020-01-20 11:56:05

A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced 10 people to death in a case filed over the bomb blast at a CPB rally in Paltan area in 2001. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Court Judge Rabiul Alam delivered th...

AQI: Dhaka ranks 3rd worst city

AQI: Dhaka ranks 3rd worst city

-- 2020-01-20 11:46:52

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, ranked third worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning. It had an AQI score of 213 around 8:10am. The air was classified as ‘very unhealthy&r...

Shaheed Asad Day being observed

Shaheed Asad Day being observed

-- 2020-01-20 11:41:33

Shaheed Asad Day, commemorating the supreme sacrifice of student leader Asaduzzaman Asad during the mass upsurge of 1969 that led to the country's independence, is being observed across Bangladesh. T...

Digital application for land mutation starts Mar 17

Digital application for land mutation starts Mar 17

FE REPORT 2020-01-20 11:04:52

Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury said mandatory digital application for land mutation will start on March 17. "We are committed to fully digitalise the process of applying for land mutation. No ma...

Dhaka's temp stays 2.0 degrees higher

Dhaka's temp stays 2.0 degrees higher

FE REPORT 2020-01-20 10:59:36

The average temperature of Dhaka city remains 2.0 degrees Celsius higher than that of rural areas in summer and monsoon, a new study has found. Its temperature has been increasing over time with the...

Accord-victim RMG factory now battles local foe

Accord-victim RMG factory now battles local foe

FE REPORT 2020-01-20 10:47:29

Liberty Fashion Wears Limited, a closed apparel manufacturing company, on Sunday alleged that its tenant company Sinha Knit and Denim Ltd is trying to capture its property forcefully. The Sinha Kni...

Cold-wave likely from tomorrow

Cold-wave likely from tomorrow

FE REPORT 2020-01-20 10:43:57

A fresh spell of mild cold-wave, also likely to be the last of this winter season, may sweep over some parts of the country from tomorrow (Tuesday). Besides, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department...

Over 3.6m cases pending in courts: Law minister

Over 3.6m cases pending in courts: Law minister

-- 2020-01-19 19:30:16

More than 3.64 million cases are now pending with the higher and lower courts across the country, according to statistics placed by Law Minister Anisul Huq in the parliament on Sunday, reports BSS. &...

PM for Fast Track Monitoring Committee to oversee more projects

PM for Fast Track Monitoring Committee to oversee more projects

-- 2020-01-19 17:52:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for bringing more important projects under the watch of the Fast Track Monitoring Committee alongside the exiting 10 fast-track projects. &ldq...

Mother, daughter killed in Faridpur fire

Mother, daughter killed in Faridpur fire

-- 2020-01-19 17:46:37

A woman and her three-year-old daughter were killed in a fire that broke out at their home in Sadar upazila’s Charmamudpur of Faridpur on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Aleya...

Govt publishes revised routine of SSC examinations

Govt publishes revised routine of SSC examinations

-- 2020-01-19 17:38:40

The government has published a revised routine for SSC and equivalent examinations, with the written tests running from February 3 to February 27. The inter-education board coordination subcommittee...

Ekushey Book Fair from Feb 2

Ekushey Book Fair from Feb 2

-- 2020-01-19 17:37:06

Bangla Academy has deferred the launch of Ekushey Book Fair to Feb 2 from Feb 1, due to the rescheduled mayoral polls in Dhaka. The decision came on Sunday, a day after the Election Commission resche...

HC rules over establishing e-judiciary

HC rules over establishing e-judiciary

-- 2020-01-19 17:31:42

The High Court (HC) on Sunday issued a rule asking as to why it shall not passed order to bring all the courts in the country under e-judiciary project and to establish e-courts. A High Court divisio...

Another cold wave likely from Wednesday

Another cold wave likely from Wednesday

-- 2020-01-19 17:24:59

The season’s last cold wave is likely to start sweeping across Bangladesh from Wednesday after rain in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Mymensingh and some parts of Dhaka division, the Met Office said...

172 Bangladeshis receive Indian citizenship in six years

172 Bangladeshis receive Indian citizenship in six years

-- 2020-01-19 17:06:59

Amid ongoing protests against the new citizenship law in India, the country's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said as many as 172 Bangladeshis received Indian citizenship in six years. Sithar...

ACC press charges against suspended DIG Mizan, director Basir

ACC press charges against suspended DIG Mizan, director Basir

-- 2020-01-19 16:52:04

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday submitted chargesheet against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman and suspended ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case over Tk...

Distribution of e-passports to begin from Wednesday

Distribution of e-passports to begin from Wednesday

-- 2020-01-19 16:33:21

The government is set to begin distribution of electronic passports (e-passports) in the country from Wednesday. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal gave the information at a media briefing at the S...

SC upholds Jamuna Bank ex-chairman’s jail term

SC upholds Jamuna Bank ex-chairman’s jail term

FE Online Report 2020-01-19 14:15:32

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the sentence given to former chairman of the Jamuna Bank, Arifur Rahman, by a trial court in a case filed by Borak Real Estate on charge of...

BCL leader Sudipta murder suspect arrested in Chattogram

BCL leader Sudipta murder suspect arrested in Chattogram

-- 2020-01-19 13:22:04

Police on Saturday night arrested the main suspect in connection with the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Chattogram city unit leader Sudipta Biswas from Ispahani intersection in Khu...

Citizenship Amendment Act is India’s internal matter: Hasina

Citizenship Amendment Act is India’s internal matter: Hasina

-- 2020-01-19 13:07:16

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she did not understand the purpose of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed in India that aims to offer citizenship to non-Muslim minorities that have...

Second-phase of Biswa Ijtema ends with Akheri Munajat

Second-phase of Biswa Ijtema ends with Akheri Munajat

-- 2020-01-19 12:25:23

The second phase of the three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, ended on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on Sunday through the ‘Akheri Munajat’...

Chattogram students to enjoy bus service for Tk 5

Chattogram students to enjoy bus service for Tk 5

-- 2020-01-19 12:11:13

Students in Chattogram will soon be able to travel to any destination within the city for only Tk 5. The young students will have to pay the fare in the bus’ ‘honesty box’, which me...

Man commits suicide after killing four in Moulvibazar

Man commits suicide after killing four in Moulvibazar

-- 2020-01-19 11:42:38

Police say a man has committed suicide after killing his wife, mother-in-law and two neighbours in a tea garden in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha Upazila. The incident took place in the Pallartal tea g...

Navy detains 26 Indian fishermen from Bay

Navy detains 26 Indian fishermen from Bay

-- 2020-01-19 10:59:45

Members of Bangladesh Navy have detained 26 Indian fishermen along with two fishing boats from the Fairway Buoy area of the Bay of Bengal for illegally fishing inside the Bangladesh water territory.&n...

DMTCL in catch-22 with Thai builder

DMTCL in catch-22 with Thai builder

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-01-19 10:38:21

The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) is in a dilemma with a Thai contractor for not carrying its scheduled work on the mass rapid transit (MRT) line-06 in time. Sources said the Italian-T...

H1 import duty: Receipts from top 20 items dip

H1 import duty: Receipts from top 20 items dip

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-01-19 10:32:57

Tax collection from top 20 imported items has plummeted by 39 per cent during the first half of the current fiscal year, in a major blow to the revenue target. The National Board of Revenue, or NBR,...

City polls rescheduled to Feb 1, SSC exams from Feb 3

City polls rescheduled to Feb 1, SSC exams from Feb 3

-- 2020-01-18 20:38:53

Elections to both the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will now be held on February 1 instead of January 30. The Election Commission took the decision at an...

City polls: Minority bodies announce weeklong demo

City polls: Minority bodies announce weeklong demo

-- 2020-01-18 18:23:12

Thirty-one organisations of minority communities on Saturday declared that they will go on a weeklong countrywide protest from Monday demanding deferment of polls to two Dhaka city corporations slated...

BSCIC generates 10,000 jobs in Rajshahi

BSCIC generates 10,000 jobs in Rajshahi

-- 2020-01-18 18:05:19

The industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi generated employment scopes of more than 10,000 people so far in various trades till last October. The...