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Bangladesh has to play leading role in int’l negotiations: Debapriya

Bangladesh has to play leading role in int’l negotiations: Debapriya

-- 2019-11-20 14:24:58

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, the distinguished fellow of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), on Wednesday said Bangladesh has to play a leading role in international negotiations for sustainable developme...

Reconciliation critical for resolving Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh tells Myanmar

Reconciliation critical for resolving Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh tells Myanmar

-- 2019-11-20 13:59:26

Bangladesh has said it believes reconciliation can be a critical enabler for resolving the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, the brunt of which they are bearing. Referring to various successful models of...

Female patient ‘kills self’ at Rajshahi hospital

Female patient ‘kills self’ at Rajshahi hospital

-- 2019-11-20 13:06:03

A female patient undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) reportedly took her own life by jumping off the hospital building early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Jes...

Rohingya crisis: Turkey will stay beside Bangladesh

Rohingya crisis: Turkey will stay beside Bangladesh

-- 2019-11-20 12:59:36

Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Mustafa Sentop said Turkey would remain beside Bangladesh in resolving this problem. He said this while Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal made a courtesy...

Commuters’ woes worsen in absence of public transport

Commuters’ woes worsen in absence of public transport

FE Online Desk 2019-11-20 12:30:30

Commuters in different parts of Dhaka are facing extreme difficulties in reaching their destinations today (Wednesday) as majority of the transport owners suspended bus services protesting the enforce...

Train engine catches fire in Chattogram

Train engine catches fire in Chattogram

-- 2019-11-20 12:19:36

Train movement on Chattogram-Dohazari route remained suspended for five hours after the engine of a train caught fire at Kanchanagar Saiadabad in Chandanaish upazila on Wednesday night. Iqbal Hossain...

Egyptian onion cargo plane due tonight

Egyptian onion cargo plane due tonight

FE Report 2019-11-20 12:12:46

The first consignment of onion by air is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) from Egypt in Dhaka at midnight. Commerce minister Tipu Munshi informed this to the reporte...

Most outbound workers go to KSA in Oct despite regular deportation

Most outbound workers go to KSA in Oct despite regular deportation

Arafat Ara 2019-11-20 11:30:32

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) hired more than 58 per cent of the total outbound workers from Bangladesh in October this year despite continuous deportation of workers from the Middle Eastern count...

Fraudsters hit Pubali Bank ATMs, steal Tk 0.9m

Fraudsters hit Pubali Bank ATMs, steal Tk 0.9m

-- 2019-11-20 10:57:49

Fraudsters have stolen Tk 0.9 million (900,000) from three ATMs of Pubali Bank in Chattogram and Cumilla. The stolen money was not slashed from any customer’s account as the fraudsters disconne...

‘Drug trader’ dies in city gunfight

‘Drug trader’ dies in city gunfight

-- 2019-11-20 10:57:44

A drug suspect has died in a so-called shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka city. The incident occurred at a RAB checkpost in front of Sikder Medical College in Ha...

Cop dies in Cumilla road accident

Cop dies in Cumilla road accident

-- 2019-11-20 10:53:11

A police constable was killed and three others injured in a road crash on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Suaganj in Cumilla Sadar Dakshin upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Nur Hossain...

PM returns home after attending Dubai Airshow

PM returns home after attending Dubai Airshow

-- 2019-11-20 10:48:47

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday night completing her four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the Dubai Airshow 2019. An Emirates flight carrying t...

Truckers call indefinite strike

Truckers call indefinite strike

FE REPORT 2019-11-20 10:22:42

The imbroglio over enforcement of the newly-enacted transport law continued on Tuesday as passenger vehicles stayed off roads in many parts of the country. Added to the imbroglio was the truckers' ca...

Onion prices to be stable in a week, says minister

Onion prices to be stable in a week, says minister

FE Report 2019-11-20 10:19:17

Prices of onion will go down significantly soon and will be stable within a week, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Tuesday. At present, newly harvested local onion has started entering the marke...

Salt soars for ‘no reason’

Salt soars for ‘no reason’

SAJIBUR RAHMAN and ABDUL MONAYEM KHAN 2019-11-20 10:17:08

Salt prices suddenly soared both in wholesale and retail markets across the country on Tuesday, according to traders and consumers. Prices of different brands of packaged salt were selling at Tk 50-6...

Gopalganj cultivators start  T-Aman paddy harvest

Gopalganj cultivators start T-Aman paddy harvest

Our Correspondent 2019-11-20 00:06:20

GOPALGANJ, Nov 19: Farmers of Gopalganj Sadar upazila have started harvesting T-Aman paddy this season. Farmer Amirul Sheikh of Nilokhi village of Durgapur union said he cultivated Aman paddy on two...

HC upholds 13-year jail sentence for Mir Nasir

HC upholds 13-year jail sentence for Mir Nasir

-- 2019-11-19 20:28:10

The High Court has confirmed a trial court verdict sentencing BNP leader Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin to 13 years in jail in a case over his having illegal assets. Nasir’s son Mir Mohammad Helal Ud...

Expired medicines worth Tk 340m destroyed: Report

Expired medicines worth Tk 340m destroyed: Report

-- 2019-11-19 20:20:34

Expired medicines, worth over Tk 340 million, were destroyed in the last two months while over Tk 10 million was realised as fine by mobile courts for storing expired and adulterated medicines. A rep...

Stern legal actions against salt price hike rumours: Govt

Stern legal actions against salt price hike rumours: Govt

-- 2019-11-19 20:12:37

The government has vowed to take tough legal action against any person who spreads rumours about salt amid panic buying. A quarter is out to spread rumours in Bangladesh and there are “evil att...

Price hike rumour: People  scrambling to buy salt

Price hike rumour: People scrambling to buy salt

FE Online Report 2019-11-19 18:24:53

Rumours have surfaced at different parts of the country including Dhaka that the price of salt may leap over Tk 100 per kg. People were seen thronging Segunbagicha kitchen market, Karwan Bazar, Kapta...

Now rice prices go up in Faridpur

Now rice prices go up in Faridpur

-- 2019-11-19 17:44:20

The prices of different verities of rice went up by Tk 3 to Tk 6 in the last two days in the district while that of onion came down slightly. Visiting Hazi Shariatullah Bazar in the town, the UNB cor...

BSCIC dispels rumours of salt shortage

BSCIC dispels rumours of salt shortage

-- 2019-11-19 15:31:07

The government on Tuesday urged all not to get confused with misleading information over salt stock and price being spread by an unscrupulous group saying the current salt reserve is much more than th...

Commuters suffer as fewer vehicles on Dhaka roads

Commuters suffer as fewer vehicles on Dhaka roads

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-19 15:16:25

A 'hefty-fine rumour among drivers' has led to public transports thinning out in Dhaka city causing immense sufferings to commuters today (Wednesday). This happened on the second day of mobile courts...

2.5 km of Padma Bridge visible as 16th span installed

2.5 km of Padma Bridge visible as 16th span installed

-- 2019-11-19 14:05:34

About 2.5 km out of 6.15-km of the much-hyped Padma Bridge has become visible after installation of the 16th span on Tuesday.  The 16th span of the Padma Bridge was installed on Tuesday afternoo...

32 Bangladeshis killed along border in Jan-Oct: ASK

32 Bangladeshis killed along border in Jan-Oct: ASK

FE Online Report 2019-11-19 13:52:52

A total of 32 Bangladeshis were killed in violence-related incidents along the country's border from January to October of 2019, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish Kendra...

Covered van owners, workers call indefinite strike from tomorrow

Covered van owners, workers call indefinite strike from tomorrow

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-19 12:38:23

Bangladesh Truck Covered-van Goods Transport Owners Workers Unity Council have called a strike across the country for an indefinite period from tomorrow (Wednesday) over the new road transport law. T...

Dhaka ranks worst in Air Quality Index for third consecutive day

Dhaka ranks worst in Air Quality Index for third consecutive day

-- 2019-11-19 12:35:19

Bangladesh’s capital city was ranked the worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) for the third consecutive day on Tuesday. Dhaka had a score of 252at 8:00am on Tuesday, indicating that the air qua...

Wildcat transport strike spreads to Gazipur

Wildcat transport strike spreads to Gazipur

-- 2019-11-19 11:48:02

Transport workers in Gazipur district on Tuesday joined their fellows in 11 other districts who have started an indefinite wildcat strike since Sunday protesting against the new road transport act tha...

Former UN chief Ban Ki-moon due Friday

Former UN chief Ban Ki-moon due Friday

-- 2019-11-19 11:34:30

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Friday on a brief visit which will be his second visit to Bangladesh this year after leaving the United Nations. This time,...

Bus strike hits commuters in Gazipur

Bus strike hits commuters in Gazipur

-- 2019-11-19 11:25:51

Bus workers went on strike and blocked Dhaka-Mymenisngh highway on Monday morning protesting against implementation of the Road Transport Act. Hundreds of bus workers took to the streets and put up...