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Online NID reg for BD expats in UAE opens

Online NID reg for BD expats in UAE opens

FE Report 2019-11-19 10:53:25

The government launched on Monday online registration of National Identity Card (NID) for expatriate Bangladeshis in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The move has finally established their voting righ...

Size of ceramic industry may double by 2023

Size of ceramic industry may double by 2023

Monira Munni 2019-11-19 10:31:18

The country's ceramic industry is estimated to be doubled in size by 2023, aided by the growing domestic real estate industry, rising demand for products in the EU markets and the trade tension betwee...

No end in sight to transport worker strike

No end in sight to transport worker strike

-- 2019-11-19 10:27:49

Transport workers' leaders insist they did not call a strike as buses remained off the roads in parts of the country, including Khulna and Rajshahi, much to the dismay of long-distance passengers. Bu...

Non-life insurers must invest 7.5pc of assets in govt securities

Non-life insurers must invest 7.5pc of assets in govt securities

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-11-19 10:21:01

The government has made it mandatory for non-life insurance companies to invest at least 7.5 per cent of their assets in government securities. The government securities include short-term and long-t...

Lax enforcement of new transport act

Lax enforcement of new transport act

FE Report 2019-11-19 09:57:54

Transport workers of some more south western (SW) districts kept buses and other passenger vehicles off the roads Monday protesting the new transport act that came into effect on the previous day. Th...

Five Bangladeshis among seven killed in Libya airstrike

Five Bangladeshis among seven killed in Libya airstrike

-- 2019-11-18 22:50:34

An airstrike slammed into a biscuit factory in Libya’s capital Tripoli on Monday killing at least seven workers, including five Bangladeshis, health authorities said. Tripoli has been the scene...

Water resource management, governance major challenges for Dhaka city

Water resource management, governance major challenges for Dhaka city

FE Online Report 2019-11-18 21:46:31

Water resource management and governance are major challenges for a megacity like capital Dhaka with a huge population, observed experts. And, the issues need to be addressed in a planned way to have...

Three gunned down in JSS factional clash in Rangamati

Three gunned down in JSS factional clash in Rangamati

-- 2019-11-18 21:39:37

At least three people were shot dead during a gunfight between two factions of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (JSS) over establishing supremacy in Rajasthali upazila on Monday evening. The...

DNCC evicts 300 illegal establishments in Uttara

DNCC evicts 300 illegal establishments in Uttara

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-11-18 20:28:23

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) conducted separate drives on Monday and evicted around 300 illegal establishments in the city. A mobile court led by Md. Zulkar Nayen, the DNCC’s executive m...

Oikyafront seeks permission to meet Khaleda

Oikyafront seeks permission to meet Khaleda

UNB 2019-11-18 19:46:29

Jatiya Oikyafront has sent a letter to prison authorities seeking permission for its five leaders to meet ailing BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Oik...

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP's letter as hollow

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP's letter as hollow

BSS 2019-11-18 19:44:07

Information minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has described a BNP letter, which was sent to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over her recent India tour, as hollow. The Awami League leader said the letter reflecte...

Work for strengthening communal harmony: President

Work for strengthening communal harmony: President

UNB 2019-11-18 19:40:42

President Abdul Hamid on Monday called upon the trustees of Buddhist Religious Welfare Trust to focus on strengthening the communal harmony in the country from their respective positions. President H...

PM to return home from UAE on Tuesday

PM to return home from UAE on Tuesday

BSS 2019-11-18 19:32:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return home on Tuesday night after wrapping up her four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Airshow-2019 and other programmes. The p...

US proposes joint patrols with BD in Bay of Bengal

US proposes joint patrols with BD in Bay of Bengal

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2019-11-18 15:47:36

The US has proposed conducting joint patrols with Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, seemingly to ensure security in the country’s maritime area. The offer was tabled during the visit of the US a...

Quader calls for refraining as transport workers go on strike in 10 districts

Quader calls for refraining as transport workers go on strike in 10 districts

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-18 14:57:15

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has called on the transport owners and workers to refrain from calling any strike over the Road Transport Act, 2018 that took effect on Sunday. "As...

120 more hospitalised for dengue in 24hr

120 more hospitalised for dengue in 24hr

-- 2019-11-18 14:55:52

A total of 120 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday. Forty-eight of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate...

BD to see “big trouble” if Rohingya crisis remains unresolved: Speakers

BD to see “big trouble” if Rohingya crisis remains unresolved: Speakers

-- 2019-11-18 14:22:20

Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka have laid emphasis on serious efforts from China, India and other friends of Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis otherwise they see Bangladesh in a "big trouble" w...

Abrar murder: Court orders arrest of four accused

Abrar murder: Court orders arrest of four accused

-- 2019-11-18 13:22:33

A Dhaka court has accepted the charge-sheet against 25 accused and issued arrest warrant against four fugitive ones in Bangladesh University of Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad killing case. Add...

BSF shoots dead Bangladeshi youth in Sherpur

BSF shoots dead Bangladeshi youth in Sherpur

-- 2019-11-18 12:20:12

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Panbari bordering area of Sreebardi upazila of Sherpur on early Monday. The deceased was identified as Ukil Mia,...

BRAC arranges youth convention on climate change

BRAC arranges youth convention on climate change

FE Online Desk 2019-11-18 12:05:31

BRAC Climate Change Programme organised a youth convention titled ‘Youth convention on climate change’ at the BRAC Centre in the capital on Sunday. Dr Ainun Nishat, eminent environment ex...

Top court defers Grameenphone audit verdict to Sunday

Top court defers Grameenphone audit verdict to Sunday

-- 2019-11-18 11:39:57

Bangladesh’s top court has deferred its verdict on an audit dispute between the telecom regulator and Grameenphone to Sunday. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court also ruled that the dis...

Three motorcyclists die in Noakhali road accident

Three motorcyclists die in Noakhali road accident

-- 2019-11-18 11:08:20

Three people were killed following a collision between a  motorbike and a bus on Dhaka-Noakhali regional road in front of Intermax Factory in Afania area of Sonaimuri upazila of the district on S...

‘PBCP leader’ dies in Jhenidah gunfight

‘PBCP leader’ dies in Jhenidah gunfight

-- 2019-11-18 10:58:36

A suspected leader of an outlawed party was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Battola area in Harinakundu upazila of Jhenidah district early Monday. The deceased was identified as Badsha S...

Ralph Lauren resumes sourcing from BD

Ralph Lauren resumes sourcing from BD

MONIRA MUNNI 2019-11-18 10:51:17

Ralph Lauren, one of the world's largest fashion brands, has resumed sourcing from Bangladesh with reopening its office here in Dhaka, sources said. The American company stopped sourcing garment item...

Tax fair fetches Tk 2.8 billion on fourth day

Tax fair fetches Tk 2.8 billion on fourth day

FE REPORT 2019-11-18 10:39:14

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) received Tk 2.8 billion in income tax against 92,916 returns submitted at the nationwide income tax fair on Sunday. With this, the total tax collected so far has c...

Dhaka ranks worst again in Air Quality Index

Dhaka ranks worst again in Air Quality Index

-- 2019-11-18 10:36:58

Bangladesh’s capital city has again ranked worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) for the second consecutive day on Monday. Dhaka had a score of 246 at 08:45am on Monday, indicating that the air...

Veg grow along with paddy in Cumilla

Veg grow along with paddy in Cumilla

Our Correspondent 2019-11-18 00:00:00

CUMILLA, Nov 18: Cultivation of different types of vegetables is gaining popularity among the growers across the district. Some growers said bean, snake gourd, bottle gourd and sweet pumpkin cultiv...

Bamboo bridge becomes a death trap in Lalmonirhat

Bamboo bridge becomes a death trap in Lalmonirhat

-- 2019-11-18 00:00:00

LALMONIRHAT, Nov 18 (UNB): A risky bamboo bridge at Mohishamuri Dharapar village in Kaliganj upazila has become the only means for over one lakh people of 15 to 20 villages since a concrete one over t...

UAE to reopen market to Bangladeshi workers: Crown Prince tells PM

UAE to reopen market to Bangladeshi workers: Crown Prince tells PM

-- 2019-11-17 22:15:13

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will reopen its labour market for Bangladeshi workers, which was closed several years ago. Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday said...

Onion price starts falling; wholesalers receive backlash

Onion price starts falling; wholesalers receive backlash

UNB 2019-11-17 21:00:08

As onion price started falling with the government’s move to import the produce and arrival of the locally-produced ones in the market, the wholesalers in the capital were seen passing idle time...