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Cox’s Bazar head-on collision leaves three dead

Cox’s Bazar head-on collision leaves three dead

-- 2020-01-02 10:23:44

Three people were killed when a bus hit a private car on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway at Joarianala in Ramu upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Jan-e Alam, 35, of Atur...

Rahmatul Muneem becomes NBR chief

Rahmatul Muneem becomes NBR chief

-- 2020-01-01 19:53:28

The government has appointed Energy and Mineral Resources Secretary Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem as Chairman of the National Board of Revenue or NBR. The public administration ministry announced the d...

Worker dies falling off high rise in city

Worker dies falling off high rise in city

-- 2020-01-01 19:25:09

A construction worker died after falling from the 10th floor of an under-construction building in Kawran Bazar area of the city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sumon Mia, 22, hailing fro...

Minni, nine others indicted in Rifat murder case

Minni, nine others indicted in Rifat murder case

-- 2020-01-01 19:04:57

A Barguna court on Wednesday indicted Aysha Siddika Minni and nine others in a case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif. Rifat Sharif was hacked to death in broad daylight on June 26....

Sub-registry offices to come under NBR survey

Sub-registry offices to come under NBR survey

BSS 2020-01-01 18:42:10

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has initiated a move to scrutinise the proper use of Electronic Tax Identification Number (e-TIN) while buying or selling of flats and land as well as to ascertain...

BTRC restores mobile networks along borders with India

BTRC restores mobile networks along borders with India

UNB 2020-01-01 18:19:30

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has restored the mobile networks, which were blocked along border areas with India for security reasons. Zakir Hossain Khan, a senior ass...

1,039 aspirants submit nomination papers for Dhaka city polls

1,039 aspirants submit nomination papers for Dhaka city polls

-- 2020-01-01 18:00:08

A total of 1,039 aspirants submitted nomination papers for contesting the posts of mayor, councillor and reserved councillor in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation...

Move to dispose 500,000 to 600,000 pending cases by 2020

Move to dispose 500,000 to 600,000 pending cases by 2020

BSS 2020-01-01 17:41:17

Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has set up a target to dispose at least 500,000 to 600,000 pending cases by 2020. Law Minister Anisul Huq came up with the statement on Wednesday wh...

PM keeps no file pending for 2020

PM keeps no file pending for 2020

BSS 2020-01-01 17:22:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has not kept a single file pending for the New Year 2020 as she cleared all files of 2019 within the year. “The honourable prime minister started the New Year with...

High prospects in interim BARI Sarisa-14 cultivation

High prospects in interim BARI Sarisa-14 cultivation

-- 2020-01-01 16:47:12

Agriculturists at a farmers’ field day event have said cultivation of short duration and high yielding variety of BARI Sarisa-14 between the time of Transplanted Aman rice and Boro rice farming...

Cold-related diseases affect 5,998 people in 24 hours

Cold-related diseases affect 5,998 people in 24 hours

UNB 2020-01-01 16:33:37

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,998 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Wednesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...

Refat murder trial begins

Refat murder trial begins

-- 2020-01-01 16:22:39

A Barguna court has begun trials of 10 people in the daylight murder of Refat Shorif, setting January 8 for witnesses to testify in one of the most closely-watched cases in recent times. Refat’...

Two crude bombs explode near Chhatra Dal’s event

Two crude bombs explode near Chhatra Dal’s event

-- 2020-01-01 15:10:52

Two crude bombs have exploded near an anniversary event of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal in Dhaka’s Shahbagh. The blasts occurred in front of the Institution of Engineers at 12:30pm on Wednesday, Sh...

Modi phones Hasina to extend new year greetings

Modi phones Hasina to extend new year greetings

-- 2020-01-01 13:59:58

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina to extend the greetings of the new year 2020. Modi phoned the Bangladesh Prime Minister at 12:20pm an...

Gas outage to hit Narayanganj Thursday

Gas outage to hit Narayanganj Thursday

-- 2020-01-01 13:54:57

Gas supply across Narayanganj will be turned off for 10 hours on Thursday for connecting an existing gas pipeline with a newly constructed one under the Padma bridge rail link project. Customers of i...

Three die, 32 hurt in road crashes

Three die, 32 hurt in road crashes

-- 2020-01-01 13:20:27

At least three people, including a couple, were killed and thirty two others injured in two separate road accidents in Cumilla and Natore districts on Wednesday. In Cumilla, a couple was killed and t...

Quader inaugurates installation of metro rail tracks

Quader inaugurates installation of metro rail tracks

-- 2020-01-01 13:05:52

Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader has expressed hope that the traffic scenario in Dhaka will change by 2030 after the completion of six lines of metro rails under the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit p...

Girl rewrites fate with foot; gets A+ in PEC

Girl rewrites fate with foot; gets A+ in PEC

-- 2020-01-01 12:47:23

Muktamoni was a normal girl with a dream of becoming a teacher. But an accident two years ago that cost her hands had threatened to derail her life. The girl fought back with her leg, demonstrating...

PM announces ‘Light Engineering’ as product of the year

PM announces ‘Light Engineering’ as product of the year

-- 2020-01-01 12:34:37

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the month-long 25th Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2020 and announced 'Light Engineering' as the product of the year. Sheikh Hasina announ...

Natore road crash kills one, injures 30

Natore road crash kills one, injures 30

-- 2020-01-01 12:21:11

A man was killed and 30 others were injured in a collision between two buses at Kashiabari Bridge area in Natore Sadar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Likhon, the assistant of a...

Police arrest two foreigners for ‘drug dealing’

Police arrest two foreigners for ‘drug dealing’

-- 2020-01-01 12:13:02

Police in a drive arrested two foreigners and six other people from Panchaboti area in Rajshahi city on Tuesday night on charges of buying and selling drugs. Of the arrestees, three were identified a...

Dhaka ranks 4th worst city in AQI

Dhaka ranks 4th worst city in AQI

-- 2020-01-01 11:52:40

Dhaka ranked fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday morning. The capital of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 269 at 10:53am and the air quality was classified as ‘very unhealthy...

Jute mills workers’ strike enters fourth day

Jute mills workers’ strike enters fourth day

-- 2020-01-01 11:44:04

Workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore continued their fast-unto-death for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday. They are trying to force the government to accept their 11-po...

Rohingya issue dominates 2019

Rohingya issue dominates 2019

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-01-01 11:00:03

The Rohingya issue dominated the just-passed year 2019, transcending all other odds in the domestic affairs. Amid this dismal picture were the inception of Myanmar's trial in the International Court...

Flashback 2019 Economy: RMG sector faces ups and downs

Flashback 2019 Economy: RMG sector faces ups and downs

MONIRA MUNNI 2020-01-01 10:38:51

The country's readymade garment (RMG) sector went through ups and downs last year, prompting industry insiders to seek immediate policy support to tackle the challenges still ahead of them. Althoug...

Month-long DITF 2020 starts today

Month-long DITF 2020 starts today

FE Report 2020-01-01 10:34:44

Light engineering goods will be declared as 'the product of the year' for 2020 aiming to help the sector grow further, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Tuesday. "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wil...

Nation welcomes 2020 with new hope

Nation welcomes 2020 with new hope

BSS 2019-12-31 22:34:31

The nation is bidding farewell to the outgoing year 2019 forgetting all odds and sorrows of the past and welcoming 2020 with new hopes through different programmes. Jubilant people, particularly the...

Misuse of public funds detected  in Sunamganj

Misuse of public funds detected in Sunamganj

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2019-12-31 21:15:41

SYLHET, Dec 31: Misuse of public funds by some officials at the Project Implementation Office at Shulla upazila in Sunamganj in the name of construction of bridges at remote villages has been detect...

Country saw 388 extrajudicial killings in 2019: ASK

Country saw 388 extrajudicial killings in 2019: ASK

UNB 2019-12-31 20:40:21

Alongside an increase in incidents of rape, the country saw 388 cases of extrajudicial killings in the year of 2019, said a new report on Tuesday. The annual report prepared by Ain O Salish Kendra (A...

Reported rape incidents doubled in 2019: ASK

Reported rape incidents doubled in 2019: ASK

-- 2019-12-31 19:28:56

The number of reported rape incidents has nearly doubled to 1,413 in 2019, according to the Ain O Salish Kendro (ASK). A total of 388 people have been subjected to “extrajudicial killings&rdquo...