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Govt likely to ban meat import

Govt likely to ban meat import

REZAUL KARIM 2020-01-09 10:17:35

The government is working on a proposal to ban frozen meat import for promoting local production and saving foreign currency, sources said. "A meeting is scheduled to be held on January 15 to take a...

Sylhet Central Truck Terminal yet to be made operative

Sylhet Central Truck Terminal yet to be made operative

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-01-08 21:30:24

SYLHET, Jan 08: The Sylhet Central Truck Terminal, set up by the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), is yet to be made operative and it remained free of trucks as the drivers are not at all interested in k...

Illegal top soil removal threatens crop production

Illegal top soil removal threatens crop production

-- 2020-01-08 21:29:24

BOGURA, Jan 08 (UNB): Dozens of illegal brick kilns, set up on arable land near schools and colleges, have formed a powerful clique who are removing the fertile topsoil for making bricks, rendering th...

DU teachers, students demand capital punishment for rapist

DU teachers, students demand capital punishment for rapist

-- 2020-01-08 21:16:02

Teachers and students of Dhaka University (DU) on Wednesday demanded that capital punishment be given to the rapist of a student of the university as demonstrations on the campus continued for the 3rd...

HC bars keeping public servants as OSDs for more than 150 days

HC bars keeping public servants as OSDs for more than 150 days

-- 2020-01-08 18:46:32

The High Court has imposed a bar on keeping any public servant as officer on special duty (OSD) for more than 150 days. The bench of Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury and Justice Shashanka Shekhar Sar...

‘Made in Bangladesh’ Strategy on card

‘Made in Bangladesh’ Strategy on card

-- 2020-01-08 18:13:40

The government is devising a `Made in Bangladesh Strategy’ for the ICT sector for creating large-scale jobs and opening up a window of opportunities to enter the job market by nearly half a mill...

32 to get Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-1424

32 to get Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-1424

-- 2020-01-08 17:38:23

A total of individuals or organisations will be honoured with Bangabandhu Jatiya Krishi Puroshkar-1424, (Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-1424), the highest state recognition in the agriculture...

BD-Myanmar agree to stop terrorist activities in border areas

BD-Myanmar agree to stop terrorist activities in border areas

-- 2020-01-08 17:28:28

Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to stop terrorist activities and preventing illicit human and drug trafficking, especially Yaba in the border areas. Director General of Border Guards of Bangladesh...

President offers ziarat at two shrines in Sylhet

President offers ziarat at two shrines in Sylhet

BSS 2020-01-08 17:15:54

President M Abdul Hamid on Wednesday offered ‘ziarat’ at the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) and Hazrat Shah Paran (RA) in Sylhet. The President, who earlier arrived in Sylhet on daylong...

Oikyafront extends support to BNP mayoral candidates

Oikyafront extends support to BNP mayoral candidates

UNB 2020-01-08 16:26:22

Jatiya Oikyafront on Wednesday extended its support to BNP’s two mayoral candidates in the upcoming elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations billed for January 30. The senior leader...

Cold-related diseases affect 5,852 in 24 hours

Cold-related diseases affect 5,852 in 24 hours

UNB 2020-01-08 16:07:59

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,852 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Wednesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...

S Arabia deports 132 more Bangladeshi workers

S Arabia deports 132 more Bangladeshi workers

-- 2020-01-08 14:49:45

Saudi Arabia has deported another 132 Bangladeshi workers, including five women, on Tuesday night. Two flights of Saudi Airlines - SV 804 and SV 802 - landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport...

Dhaka ranks 4th worst city in Air Quality Index

Dhaka ranks 4th worst city in Air Quality Index

-- 2020-01-08 13:40:35

Dhaka ranked fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday morning. The overpopulated megacity’s air quality was classified as unhealthy as it had an AQI score of 185 at 11:31am. Pa...

BDR mutiny: HC releases full text of verdict

BDR mutiny: HC releases full text of verdict

-- 2020-01-08 13:37:08

The full text of the High Court verdict in the sensational Pilkhana BDR mutiny murder case was released on Wednesday. The 29,059-page text of the verdict, the longest in Bangladesh’s legal hist...

Crosscheck before sharing info on social media: PM

Crosscheck before sharing info on social media: PM

-- 2020-01-08 13:13:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put utmost importance to ensuring cybersecurity and urged all to crosscheck any information before sharing on social media in the interest of the country and society....

Man who raped DU student is a serial rapist: RAB

Man who raped DU student is a serial rapist: RAB

-- 2020-01-08 10:43:25

The man who raped a Dhaka University (DU) student in Kurmitola is a serial rapist and a mugger, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said. “Majnu (the arrestee) choked the victim (DU student) and d...

Farmers worried as cold  affects Boro seedbeds

Farmers worried as cold affects Boro seedbeds

Our Correspondents 2020-01-07 21:29:58

JOYPURHAT, Jan 07:  Farmers in the northern districts are worried as bone chilling cold is affecting Boro seedbeds this season. Meanwhile, seedbeds have been infected with various plant diseases...

BRTA files 750 cases against vehicles in Dec’19

BRTA files 750 cases against vehicles in Dec’19

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-07 21:20:53

Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) filed 750 cases against vehicles and realised over Tk 1.13 million in fines for violating traffic rules during drives in December 2019. Apa...

Violence against women, children rises in 2019

Violence against women, children rises in 2019

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-07 21:10:57

Violence against women and children increases alarmingly in 2019 compared to 2018. 902 children became victims of rape in 2019, seemingly three times higher than that of 2018. Of the total 902 rape...

Drive against corruption will go on, PM warns again

Drive against corruption will go on, PM warns again

-- 2020-01-07 20:08:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has renewed her determination to continue the drive against corruption for welfare of the countrymen. Sheikh Hasina came up with the statement in her televised address to...

Rezaul succeeds in cardamom cultivation in Roumari

Rezaul succeeds in cardamom cultivation in Roumari

-- 2020-01-07 18:25:07

Nursery owner Rezaul Islam has succeeded in cultivating costly spicy crop of cardamom in his native Natun Chuliyar Char village of Sadar union in Roumari upazila of Kurigram. In addition to expanding...

Rajshahi schoolgirl gang raped at councillor’s house; three held

Rajshahi schoolgirl gang raped at councillor’s house; three held

-- 2020-01-07 18:08:08

Police on Tuesday arrested three people for their alleged involvement in the rape of a schoolgirl at the residence of a municipality councillor in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi on Monday. The arrestee...

Scrutinising CCTV footage over DU student rape incident: Police

Scrutinising CCTV footage over DU student rape incident: Police

-- 2020-01-07 17:51:52

Police have collected a CCTV footage of Kurmitola Golf Club gate and it is being scrutinised, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Gulshan Division). DC Sudeep Kumar Chakraborty said it on Tuesday wh...

Bangabandhu's birth centenary celebration:  Mahathir, Modi confirm attendance

Bangabandhu's birth centenary celebration: Mahathir, Modi confirm attendance

FE Online Report 2020-01-07 17:03:13

A host of world leaders, including Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have given their consent to attend the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman’s...

Lynching witnesses drastic rise

Lynching witnesses drastic rise

Fe Online Report 2020-01-07 16:35:46

Incidents of lynching witnessed a drastic rise across the country in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to a report by an independent rights body. A total of 65 were killed by mob beating...

ECNEC approves Tk 88.51b project to ensure safe water

ECNEC approves Tk 88.51b project to ensure safe water

BSS 2020-01-07 16:14:39

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project involving Tk 88.51 billion to ensure safe water across the country. The approval came at a meeting of the ECNEC...

5,947 affected in cold-related diseases in 24hrs

5,947 affected in cold-related diseases in 24hrs

-- 2020-01-07 14:52:35

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,947people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Tuesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control ro...

Rape of DU student: Students demand capital punishment of rapist

Rape of DU student: Students demand capital punishment of rapist

-- 2020-01-07 13:15:57

Dhaka University (DU) students staged demonstrations on the campus again on Tuesday morning demanding capital punishment of the rapist of one of their fellows. Accoridng to witnesses, the protesters...

Dhaka ranks second worst city in AQI

Dhaka ranks second worst city in AQI

-- 2020-01-07 11:35:13

Dhaka ranked second worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Tuesday morning. The air quality of the capital was classified as very unhealthy as it had an AQI score of 2211 at 7:52am. Mongolia’s Ul...

Cold wave to continue and spread further

Cold wave to continue and spread further

-- 2020-01-07 11:30:41

A mild cold wave is sweeping over various districts in the northern and central regions of Bangladesh following two days of drizzle. The country’s lowest temperature was recorded at 6 degrees C...