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Govt working to ensure quality education

Govt working to ensure quality education

-- 2020-01-18 16:57:24

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Saturday said the present government is working relentlessly to ensure standard education in the country as it put utmost emphasis on this...

EC calls emergency meeting

EC calls emergency meeting

-- 2020-01-18 16:15:41

The election commission has called an emergency meeting amid a growing demand for changing the schedule of the Dhaka city elections on the occasion of Saraswati Puja. The meeting is scheduled to be h...

22 shops gutted in Bhola fire

22 shops gutted in Bhola fire

-- 2020-01-18 14:02:58

Twenty-two shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Prodhan bazar in Charfesson upazila of Bhola on early Saturday. Quoting locals, Shamsul Arefin, officer-in-charge of Charfesson Police Stat...

City polls: Five more protesting DU students fall sick

City polls: Five more protesting DU students fall sick

-- 2020-01-18 13:01:17

Five more students of Dhaka University fell sick on the third day of their fast unto death demanding deferment of polls to the two Dhaka city corporations slated for January 30. The students are &n...

Physically-challenged's participation in edn, employment still challenging

Physically-challenged's participation in edn, employment still challenging

SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2020-01-18 11:52:19

Participation of physically-challenged people in education and employment is still challenging in Bangladesh as they are facing ordeals and noncooperation in every step of availing their basic citizen...

PM mourns death of Bogura-1 MP Mannan

PM mourns death of Bogura-1 MP Mannan

-- 2020-01-18 11:32:40

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Awami League leader and Member of the Parliament Abdul Mannan. In a condolence message, the Prime Minister on Saturday...

AQI: Dhaka ranks 5th worst city

AQI: Dhaka ranks 5th worst city

-- 2020-01-18 11:22:27

Dhaka was ranked fifth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. The capital of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 228 around 8:20am. The air was classified as ‘very unhealthy&rsquo...

Two more devotees die in second phase Ijtema

Two more devotees die in second phase Ijtema

-- 2020-01-18 11:18:10

Two more devotees died due to old age complications at the Ijtema venue in Tongi area of Gazipur district on Friday night. So far, five devotees have died at the Ijtema venue during the second phase...

Three of a family die in Jashore road crash

Three of a family die in Jashore road crash

-- 2020-01-18 11:11:42

Three members of a family were killed and three others injured in a private car accident in Jashore district town on early Saturday. The deceased were identified as sisters Tonima Yeasmin Piyasha, 25...

Bogura MP Abdul Mannan dies at 66

Bogura MP Abdul Mannan dies at 66

-- 2020-01-18 10:51:54

Abdul Mannan, an Awami League lawmaker from Bogura-1, has died during treatment for a heart ailment at the age of 66. He passed away at the capital’s Labaid Hospital at 8:15 am on Saturday, sai...

DITF abuzz with weekend visitors

DITF abuzz with weekend visitors

FE REPORT 2020-01-18 10:31:41

The Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2020 attracted a huge crowd on Friday, a public holiday, creating scopes for the city dwellers to visit the event and for the traders to make brisk business...

Veg exports grow by 117pc in H1

Veg exports grow by 117pc in H1

FE REPORT 2020-01-18 10:26:42

Country's vegetables exports showed strong performance in the first half of the current fiscal year 2019-2020. Insiders said improvement in compliance issues and opening markets by the European Union...

City polls campaign goes at full throttle

City polls campaign goes at full throttle

FE REPORT 2020-01-18 10:24:38

Campaign in both Dhaka north and south city corporation elections is going on in full swing as potential local-body representatives have continued to seek vote. The aspirants, mainly those from the r...

BGMEA pleads for incentivising jv apparel makers

BGMEA pleads for incentivising jv apparel makers

FE REPORT 2020-01-18 10:18:35

The garment-sector apex trade body has urged finance ministry to provide a 1.0-per cent cash incentive for joint-venture apparel manufacturers, officials said. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers an...

City Polls: 10 DU students fall sick during hunger strike

City Polls: 10 DU students fall sick during hunger strike

UNB 2020-01-17 21:52:28

At least 10 students of Dhaka University (DU) fell sick on the second day of their fast unto death on Friday afternoon demanding deferment of the polls to the two Dhaka city corporations slated for Ja...

Hindu Mohajote threatens to boycott city polls on Puja day

Hindu Mohajote threatens to boycott city polls on Puja day

-- 2020-01-17 20:43:38

The Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote, a platform of Hindu community in Bangladesh, has threatened to boycott the Dhaka city elections if the election commission go ahead with the polls as scheduled on...

Cold-related diseases affect 5,760 in 24 hours

Cold-related diseases affect 5,760 in 24 hours

BSS 2020-01-17 19:32:21

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,760 people across the country in the last 24 hours, a press release said on Friday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control r...

City polls date EC’s concern: Asaduzzaman

City polls date EC’s concern: Asaduzzaman

-- 2020-01-17 18:20:03

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday said the government has nothing to do with the Dhaka city polls date though it coincides with Saraswati Puja. “Arranging polls to two Dhaka city c...

Newly married couple die at DMCH

Newly married couple die at DMCH

-- 2020-01-17 17:51:06

After receiving severe burn injuries from a newly-installed high voltage electric wire on Monday in Fatullah, a recently-married garment workers couple’s struggle to survive ended tragically on...

'China to celebrate Mujib Year with highest honour'

'China to celebrate Mujib Year with highest honour'

BSS 2020-01-17 17:49:30

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jiming has said China will show highest respect to the greatest Bengali of all times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his birth centenary this y...

EC would reach acceptable solution over city election date: Quader

EC would reach acceptable solution over city election date: Quader

BSS 2020-01-17 17:14:04

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday hoped that the election commission (EC) would reach an acceptable solution over Dhaka city polls showing respect to a religion. “The...

Hunger strike at DU: Four students fall sick

Hunger strike at DU: Four students fall sick

-- 2020-01-17 15:05:38

Four students of Dhaka University fell sick on the second day of their fast unto death on Friday demanding deferment of the polls to the two Dhaka city corporations slated for January 30. Apurba Chak...

S Arabia deports 109 more Bangladeshi workers

S Arabia deports 109 more Bangladeshi workers

-- 2020-01-17 13:48:56

Some 109 more Bangladeshi workers have been sent back to the country from Saudi Arabia. A flight of Saudi Airlines- SV-804 carrying 109 Bangladeshi workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Ai...

Head-on collision kills two in Ctg

Head-on collision kills two in Ctg

-- 2020-01-17 13:45:06

Two people were killed and 10 others injured as two buses collided head-on in Shantirhat area of Patiya upazila of Chattogram district on Friday. The identities of the deceased could not be known imm...

Eight hurt as two launches collide on Meghna

Eight hurt as two launches collide on Meghna

-- 2020-01-17 13:19:11

Eight people, including four children, were injured in a collision between two launches on the Meghna River in Chandpur district. The incident, involving a Dhaka-bound MV Aulad-4 and a Pirojpur-bound...

Man, nephew die in city road crash

Man, nephew die in city road crash

-- 2020-01-17 12:33:43

A man and his nephew were killed in a road accident  in front of Saddam Market in the capital’s Jatrabari area late on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Anwar Hossain, 40 and his n...

ACC signs MoU with Oxfam to strengthen anti-graft activities

ACC signs MoU with Oxfam to strengthen anti-graft activities

-- 2020-01-17 12:25:49

International agency Oxfam and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aiming to strengthen anti-corruption activities in the country. The new partnershi...

Second phase of Biswa Ijtema begins

Second phase of Biswa Ijtema begins

-- 2020-01-17 10:32:18

The second phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, begins on the banks of the Turag River at Tongi on Friday. The 55th edition of the Biswa Ijtema...

Govt bans crab collection in Sundarbans, adjacent areas

Govt bans crab collection in Sundarbans, adjacent areas

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-01-17 00:00:33

KHULNA, Jan 16: Crab collection in the Sundarbans and its adjacent areas is officially banned from January 01 to February 29, as is the crab breeding season. At the same time, restrictions will be pl...

Broccoli cultivation popular  among Tungipara farmers

Broccoli cultivation popular among Tungipara farmers

Our Correspondent 2020-01-16 23:59:47

GOPALGANJ, Jan 16: Broccoli cultivation is gaining popularity among the farmers of Sadar and Tungipara upazilas in the district. Sources said, a good number of growers in the district said broccoli p...