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2019 in review: Overseas jobseekers face rough time

2019 in review: Overseas jobseekers face rough time

ARAFAT ARA 2019-12-29 10:00:02

The 2019 has been rather a bumpy year for people seeking overseas employment when deportation from destination countries picked up speed. The outgoing year has not witnessed the opening of closed mar...

MPs under 30 in Bangladesh lowest in South Asia

MPs under 30 in Bangladesh lowest in South Asia

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-12-28 20:39:43

Representation of Member of Parliaments (MPs) under 30 years of age at national elections is at a meagre 0.29 per cent, the lowest among the South Asian countries, according to a statistics. The Inte...

Boy burned to death in Khulna bakery fire

Boy burned to death in Khulna bakery fire

-- 2019-12-28 20:27:14

A teenage boy was killed as fire broke out at a bakery in Khulna city’s Dalmil intersection area early Saturday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Mynul Haque, 15, son of Tara Mia of...

Govt won’t interfere in Dhaka city polls

Govt won’t interfere in Dhaka city polls

-- 2019-12-28 20:00:51

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the upcoming elections to the two city corporations of Dhaka will be free, fair and acceptable. “The elections will be accept...

No musical events under open sky on 31st night: Home minister

No musical events under open sky on 31st night: Home minister

BSS 2019-12-28 19:35:11

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has sounded a note of warning that no musical events will be allowed under the open sky on the occasion of the 31st night celebration. “All bars will remain...

Khaleda’s release possible through judicial process only: Hasan

Khaleda’s release possible through judicial process only: Hasan

BSS 2019-12-28 19:26:19

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the release of detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is possible only through the judicial process. “Actually, they (BNP) are showing disrespect tow...

BNP picks Ishraque, Tabith as mayoral candidates in city polls

BNP picks Ishraque, Tabith as mayoral candidates in city polls

-- 2019-12-28 19:22:08

The BNP has nominated Ishraque Hossain and Tabith Awal to run for mayor in the elections to the Dhaka city corporations. Ishraque will gun for DSCC mayor’s post and Tabith for DNCC, as per a bd...

Badiul not right person to comment on EVMs: CEC

Badiul not right person to comment on EVMs: CEC

UNB 2019-12-28 17:59:43

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujon) General Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar is not the right person to comment on electronic voting machines (EVMs)...

Sheep farming brings smile for Rajshahi villagers

Sheep farming brings smile for Rajshahi villagers

-- 2019-12-28 17:17:23

Among many others, Abdul Mannan, 48, of Mollapara village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi has become self-reliant through sheep farming. With his curiosity Mannan had procured two sheep from one o...

Another case filed against DUCSU VP Nur

Another case filed against DUCSU VP Nur

-- 2019-12-28 17:07:21

Another case was filed against Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) vice president (VP) Nurul Haque Nur under the Digital Security Act. Arnab Hore, publication secretary of Dhaka Un...

134 journalists face harassment in Jan-Nov

134 journalists face harassment in Jan-Nov

FE Online Report 2019-12-28 16:57:56

At least 134 journalists fell victim to harassment across the country in the first eleven of current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them, thirteen received dea...

Repatriation talks to get focus in new year as Rohingya issue globalised

Repatriation talks to get focus in new year as Rohingya issue globalised

-- 2019-12-28 16:46:07

Bangladesh has been able to “successfully internationalise” the Rohingya issue in the outgoing year and will keep focusing on having a sustainable solution to the problem capitalising on t...

Housewife slaughtered allegedly by husband in Fardipur

Housewife slaughtered allegedly by husband in Fardipur

UNB 2019-12-28 16:28:53

A housewife was slaughtered allegedly by her husband at Dorja Purura village in Saltha upazila of Faridpur district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Shilpi Begum, 22, wife of Rana Shei...

Vegetable farming creates employment opportunity for B'baria youths

Vegetable farming creates employment opportunity for B'baria youths

UNB 2019-12-28 16:26:01

Vegetable farming is creating employment opportunity for previously unemployed youths in Brahmanbaria, changing the scenario in rural areas. Mohiuddin Miah of Mohammadpur village at Ramrail union in...

AL wants to fulfill election pledges: Obaidul Quader

AL wants to fulfill election pledges: Obaidul Quader

BSS 2019-12-28 16:20:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the main challenge of the party is to institutionalise democracy and fulfill the pledges made during the polls. “Now the main challenge of...

Bangladesh declared OIC Youth Capital for 2020

Bangladesh declared OIC Youth Capital for 2020

UNB 2019-12-28 16:13:22

Bangladesh was declared as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Youth Capital for 2020. The decision was taken by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) Executive Board in its capacity a...

Raushon made JaPa's chief patron, chairman GM Quader

Raushon made JaPa's chief patron, chairman GM Quader

-- 2019-12-28 15:15:22

Raushon Ershad and GM Quader have been elected respectively chief patron and chairman of the Jatiya Party (JaPa), the main opposition in parliament, at the party's ninth council for the next three yea...

Flouters of airport rules to face travel restrictions, PM warns

Flouters of airport rules to face travel restrictions, PM warns

-- 2019-12-28 13:28:14

Urging the travellers, especially the very important persons (VIPs), of the country to follow the security measures at the airports, prime minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that anyone flouting the ai...

One dies in city ‘shootout'

One dies in city ‘shootout'

-- 2019-12-28 13:20:28

A man has been killed in an alleged shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Badda’s Satarkul area of Dhaka. The incident took place in the area early on Saturday, reports bdnews24.co...

BB joint director, daughters die in road crash

BB joint director, daughters die in road crash

-- 2019-12-28 12:50:55

Three people -- Bangladesh Bank Joint Director Saifuzzaman Mintu and his two daughters -- have died after a lorry crushed their car on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway. Mintu, 50, was travelling with his...

Families accuse DB of detaining five youths in Jashore

Families accuse DB of detaining five youths in Jashore

-- 2019-12-28 12:31:01

The Detective Branch (DB) of police has rejected claims that they picked up five youths on early Thursday from Jashore. The young men are – Sohan Hossain, son of Saheb Ali; Shukur, son of Aziz...

Dinajpur records country’s lowest temperature

Dinajpur records country’s lowest temperature

-- 2019-12-28 12:26:55

The lowest temperature of the day was recorded at 7.2 degree Celsius in Dinajpur district on Saturday. Tofazzal Hossain, an official of Dinajpur’s regional weather office, said that the tempera...

PM opens construction of HSIA ‘Third Terminal’

PM opens construction of HSIA ‘Third Terminal’

-- 2019-12-28 11:46:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the construction work of Tk 213.0 billion ‘Third Terminal’ of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) to significantly increase passenger...

Govt approves Tk 5.80t road sector projects in 10 years

Govt approves Tk 5.80t road sector projects in 10 years

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-12-28 10:17:55

The incumbent government has approved a staggering 450 road development projects at Tk 5.80 trillion in the past 10 and a half years, officials said. But experts say this massive financing has failed...

BNP finalises Ishraque to contest for DSCC mayor post

BNP finalises Ishraque to contest for DSCC mayor post

-- 2019-12-27 21:35:13

BNP on Friday finalised Engineer Ishraque Hossain as its mayoral candidate for the upcoming election to Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) while the party will pick its candidate for the Dhaka North...

Attack on Nur: Students body place 4-point demand

Attack on Nur: Students body place 4-point demand

UNB 2019-12-27 21:15:06

Newly-formed Anti-Terrorism Students Unity on Friday demanded resignation of the Dhaka University (DU) proctor following the attack on DUSU Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur. Twelve student organisation...

Govt going digital for procuring food grain from farmers

Govt going digital for procuring food grain from farmers

UNB 2019-12-27 20:08:53

The government will use a mobile application – billed as ‘Krishoker App’ – to collect food grain directly from farmers across the country, said Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Maj...

One dead, 10 missing as fishing trawler sinks in Bay of Bengal

One dead, 10 missing as fishing trawler sinks in Bay of Bengal

-- 2019-12-27 19:22:11

The body of a man was recovered on Friday morning, five hours after a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal. At least 10 people are believed to be missing after the incident. 12 others were r...

Raushon Ershad to become 'chief patron' of Jatiya Party

Raushon Ershad to become 'chief patron' of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-27 19:02:17

The Jatiya Party is set to appoint Raushon Ershad to a newly-created post, chief patron, in the party's first council after the death of its founder HM Ershad. Raushon, currently the senior co-chairm...

Construction works of HSIA’s third terminal to begin Saturday

Construction works of HSIA’s third terminal to begin Saturday

-- 2019-12-27 18:47:01

The construction works of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) will begin on Saturday on Saturday, said State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali. Ali...