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No EVM in Dhaka city polls if everyone objects: CEC

No EVM in Dhaka city polls if everyone objects: CEC

UNB 2019-12-25 17:11:12

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Wednesday said the commission will not use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in polls to the two city corporations of Dhaka if everybody objects. The CEC...

50pc construction work of Bangabandhu Tunnel completed

50pc construction work of Bangabandhu Tunnel completed

BSS 2019-12-25 17:04:28

At least fifty per cent construction work of much-awaited Bangabandhu Tunnel under Karnaphuli river in Chattogram has so far been completed, an official said. Two tubes, stretching 2,450 metres each,...

Banana farming makes 100 char families self-reliant

Banana farming makes 100 char families self-reliant

-- 2019-12-25 17:03:55

More than 100 families have achieved economic self-reliance through banana farming on char lands on the river Dudhkumar in seven unions of Nageshwari upazila in Kurigram district in last three years....

Cold-related diseases affect 5,945 people in 24 hours

Cold-related diseases affect 5,945 people in 24 hours

UNB 2019-12-25 16:43:48

At least 5,945 people were affected by various cold-related diseases in the last 24 hours across the country. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room showed that 967...

Stay alert against misuse of religion: President

Stay alert against misuse of religion: President

-- 2019-12-25 15:06:15

President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday called upon the people irrespective of religion, caste and creed to remain alert so that no-one can create anarchy using religion or through misinterpretation. Hami...

New train to run between Dhaka, Tarakandi

New train to run between Dhaka, Tarakandi

MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-12-25 13:20:43

Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to introduce a new train service between Dhaka and Tarakandi in Jamalpur and inaugurate newly installed tracks in Pabna and Faridpur next month. Prime Minister Sheikh H...

JS goes into sixth session on Jan 9

JS goes into sixth session on Jan 9

-- 2019-12-25 13:11:37

The sixth session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin at 4:00pm on January 9, 2020, BSS reported citing a Jatiya Sangsad press release. President Abdul Hamid summoned the session on Tuesday ex...

Daulatdia- Paturia ferry services resumes after 12hrs

Daulatdia- Paturia ferry services resumes after 12hrs

-- 2019-12-25 12:09:26

Ferry services on the key Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma River resumed on Wednesday morning after a 12-hour suspension due to poor visibility. Zillur Rahman, deputy general manager of Banglades...

Christmas Day being celebrated with due fervour

Christmas Day being celebrated with due fervour

-- 2019-12-25 11:27:01

The Christian community is celebrating the Christmas Day in the country, as elsewhere across the world, on Wednesday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas, the biggest religious festival...

Fog disrupts Paturia-Daulatdia ferry service

Fog disrupts Paturia-Daulatdia ferry service

-- 2019-12-25 11:13:48

Ferry services on the key Paturia-Daulatdia route were disrupted due to dense fog on early Wednesday. Zillur Rahman, deputy general manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation's (BIWTC)...

Tentulia records season's lowest temperature

Tentulia records season's lowest temperature

-- 2019-12-25 11:06:33

Tentulia, the last border town in Bangladesh’s north, on Wednesday morning recorded this year’s lowest temperature of 6.2 degrees Celsius causing untold sufferings to the common people. T...

Rain likely in next two days

Rain likely in next two days

FE Report 2019-12-25 10:38:51

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast light rain in some parts of the country are likely in the next two days commencing from Wednesday. Moderate to light rainfall may happen between De...

Shops set to get e-devices from next month

Shops set to get e-devices from next month

FE Report 2019-12-25 10:33:26

National Board of Revenue (NBR) has planned to start installation of electronic fiscal devices (EFDs) at shops from early next month, its chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said on Tuesday. Such...

New inland container terminal in Narayanganj

New inland container terminal in Narayanganj

FE REPORT 2019-12-25 10:30:22

The government will build an inland container and bulk terminal at Khanpur in Narayanganj at a cost of Tk 3.92 billion as the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved a pr...

T-Aman paddy harvest  going on in Khulna

T-Aman paddy harvest going on in Khulna

Our CORRESPONDENT 2019-12-25 00:21:21

KHULNA, Dec 24: Harvest of T-Aman paddy is going on in full swing in the nine upazilas of the district. Farmers are expecting a bumper output with a fair price market price this season. Sources at t...

Customs, VAT officials get uniform

Customs, VAT officials get uniform

-- 2019-12-24 21:08:36

Customs and VAT Officials of National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Tuesday started wearing olive-coloured service uniform. NBR Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan unveiled the uniform formally at a ce...

3.8m palm trees planted to minimise impacts of lightning strikes

3.8m palm trees planted to minimise impacts of lightning strikes

UNB 2019-12-24 21:05:03

Some 3.8 million palm trees were planted across the country to minimise the impacts of lightning strikes and casualties as the government declared it as a natural disaster in 2015. State Minister for...

Five, including three of a family, die in Kushtia road crash

Five, including three of a family, die in Kushtia road crash

-- 2019-12-24 20:54:32

Five people, including three members of a family, were killed after a head-on collision between a truck and an autorickshaw in Kushtia’s Bheramara Upazila on Tuesday. The accident took place in...

National blockchain strategy on cards to reduce cost, corruption

National blockchain strategy on cards to reduce cost, corruption

BSS 2019-12-24 20:40:58

The government is going to make a national strategy to use blockchain technology in different domains including governance, banking and finance, agriculture, health and cyber security for reducing cos...

President seeks Turkey’s support for Rohingya repatriation

President seeks Turkey’s support for Rohingya repatriation

BSS 2019-12-24 19:52:14

President M Abdul Hamid has sought Turkey’s continued support for the repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland in Rakhine of Myanmar. The head of the state sought the support when the ou...

Fifth session of 11th parliament to begin on January 9

Fifth session of 11th parliament to begin on January 9

UNB 2019-12-24 18:36:11

The fifth session of the 11th parliament will begin on January 9 next as President Abdul Hamid has summoned the session on the day. The information was given through a Parliament Secretariat media re...

HC questions Quader's leadership of Jatiya Party

HC questions Quader's leadership of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-24 18:07:53

The High Court (HC) has questioned the validity of GM Quader's position as chairman of Jatiya Party. The vacation bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam on Tuesday issued a rule aski...

PEC, JSC results on December 31

PEC, JSC results on December 31

-- 2019-12-24 17:29:30

The results of the Primary Education Completion (PEC), Ebtedayee, Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JSC) examinations of this year will be published on December 31. Addit...

BSTI files cases against eight organisations over weight manipulation

BSTI files cases against eight organisations over weight manipulation

FE Online Report 2019-12-24 17:22:08

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) filed cases against eight organisations, including six petrol pumps, for their alleged manipulation of weighing different types of fuel. Different...

Biman's sixth Dreamliner ‘Achin Pakhi’ starts for Dhaka

Biman's sixth Dreamliner ‘Achin Pakhi’ starts for Dhaka

UNB 2019-12-24 17:14:53

Brand new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner ‘Achin Pakhi’ of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has started its journey for Dhaka from Seattle of USA. The aircraft left Boeing Everett Delivery Centre at 2.3...

ECNEC approves project to improve primary school infrastructures

ECNEC approves project to improve primary school infrastructures

BSS 2019-12-24 17:03:50

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project involving Taka 11.59 billion to improve the infrastructures of government primary schools at Dhaka metropolitan...

Three Muktijuddho Mancha leaders remanded over attacks on DUCSU VP Nur

Three Muktijuddho Mancha leaders remanded over attacks on DUCSU VP Nur

-- 2019-12-24 16:36:28

Police were granted three days to grill three Muktijuddho Mancha leaders arrested in a case involving attempted murder charges stemming from the attacks on DUCSU Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and his...

10 to die for killing pharmacy owner in M’singh

10 to die for killing pharmacy owner in M’singh

-- 2019-12-24 15:09:38

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced 10 people to death for the murder of a pharmacy owner in Nandail upazila of Mymensingh district 12 years ago. Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Judge Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman...

Seven promoted to senior secretary

Seven promoted to senior secretary

-- 2019-12-24 15:05:35

The government has promoted seven secretaries to the rank of senior secretary. The Public Administration Ministry issued separate notifications in this regard on Tuesday. Those promoted are Science...

Cause of repeated attacks on Nur to be probed: Home minister

Cause of repeated attacks on Nur to be probed: Home minister

-- 2019-12-24 14:44:34

Mentioning that those who assaulted DUCSU vice-president (VP) Nurul Haque Nur and his followers are being arrested, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday said the government will investigate...