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JSC, JDC exams scheduled for Nov 11 suspended

JSC, JDC exams scheduled for Nov 11 suspended

-- 2019-11-09 13:05:32

The government has suspended the Junior School Certificate or JSC and Junior Dakhil Certificate or JDC exams of Nov 11 due to Cyclone Bulbul, a severe storm which is nearing the coasts. The new dates...

PM opens Jatiya Sramik League conf

PM opens Jatiya Sramik League conf

-- 2019-11-09 12:23:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the 12th national conference of Bangladesh Jatiya Sramik League (BJSL), the labour wing of Bangladesh Awami League (AL). Sheikh Hasina, also the AL presid...

Business options few for women in SMEs: Study

Business options few for women in SMEs: Study

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2019-11-09 11:01:15

The variation of businesses remains very limited for women entrepreneurs in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to a study. Conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Deve...

'Bulbul' set to hit early Sunday

'Bulbul' set to hit early Sunday

FE REPORT 2019-11-09 10:57:35

The cyclonic storm 'Bulbul' is gradually becoming stronger and it is likely to hit the country's coastal regions in the early hours of Sunday, said meteorologists. The storm remained in the West Cent...

Pharma export sees strong growth

Pharma export sees strong growth

Saif Uddin 2019-11-09 10:51:20

Export earnings from the country's pharmaceutical sector continued its upward trend over the last seven years on the back of a conducive policy environment, skilled human resources and patent waiver,...

Cost, execution time for Nilphamari-Saidpur road widening project double

Cost, execution time for Nilphamari-Saidpur road widening project double

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-11-09 10:44:32

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has failed to complete a 15.5-kilomtre road widening project in two years' time. The department has now sought revision of the project titled the Nilphamari-Sa...

22 to vie for BB’s deputy governor post

22 to vie for BB’s deputy governor post

FE REPORT 2019-11-09 10:29:54

A total of 19 senior bankers along with three professionals have applied for the post of a deputy governor of the Bangladesh Bank, officials said. The government-formed search committee on appointing...

Great danger signals for Mongla, Payra and Ctg

Great danger signals for Mongla, Payra and Ctg

-- 2019-11-09 09:42:33

Bangladesh raised the storm danger signal on Saturday morning as cyclone ‘Bulbul’ intensified further and was expected to make landfall around the evening. Low-lying areas of the coastal...

BIWTA suspends vessel operation as cyclone nears

BIWTA suspends vessel operation as cyclone nears

-- 2019-11-08 21:50:01

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspended all sorts of activities at three maritime ports and inland water transportation as cyclonic storm Bulbul over the Bay of Bengal is nearing...

Cyclone Bulbul: Danger signal 7 for Mongla, Payra; 6 for Chattogram

Cyclone Bulbul: Danger signal 7 for Mongla, Payra; 6 for Chattogram

-- 2019-11-08 21:40:17

Danger signals were issued for key maritime ports of Bangladesh on Friday evening as very severe cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ approaches Bangladesh, reports UNB.  Danger signal 7 was advi...

Bus with 50 passengers plunges into pond in Noakhali

Bus with 50 passengers plunges into pond in Noakhali

-- 2019-11-08 20:49:26

A bus plunged into a pond with over 50 passengers on board at Kalugazir Pukur of Subarna Char upazila in Noakhali on Friday evening. Sayedur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Char Jabbar Police Station, s...

Govt to announce Razakars’ list on Dec 16

Govt to announce Razakars’ list on Dec 16

-- 2019-11-08 20:04:38

The list of the Razakars, who collaborated the then Pakistani Army during the Liberation War of the country in 1971, will be announced on December 16, this year. “The list of the Razakars will...

Govt introduces digital technology for pest control

Govt introduces digital technology for pest control

-- 2019-11-08 19:55:27

The Department of Agricultural Extension or DAE is embracing digital technologies to monitor pest attacks on crops and in turn, minimise the damage these inflict by at least 5.0 per cent, reports bdne...

Disaster Management Ministry to oversee aid programme for erosion victims

Disaster Management Ministry to oversee aid programme for erosion victims

-- 2019-11-08 19:45:16

Poor, landless and destitute families affected by river erosion would be given financial aid based on losses suffered and number of family members. The authorities decided to provide a lump sum of Tk...

149 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24hr

149 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24hr

-- 2019-11-08 17:39:41

Some 149 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday. Fifty-seven of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General of...

Cyclone 'Bulbul' likely to hit BD Saturday evening

Cyclone 'Bulbul' likely to hit BD Saturday evening

-- 2019-11-08 16:54:48

Country’s southwestern coastal districts have taken all-out preparations and kept 1377 cyclone shelters ready as severe cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ may hit the region on Saturday evening...

'No cases under new transport law till Nov 14'

'No cases under new transport law till Nov 14'

-- 2019-11-08 16:53:47

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday directed the authorities concerned not to file any case under the Road Transport Act-2018 in the next seven days. “As the law came i...

Six die in Panchagarh road crash

Six die in Panchagarh road crash

-- 2019-11-08 15:39:20

At least six people have died in a head-on collision between a minibus and an auto-rickshaw on the Magurmari intersection of the Panchagarh-Tetulia highway in Panchagarh district. One other person wa...

BSF shoots dead Bangladeshi youth in Jhenaidah

BSF shoots dead Bangladeshi youth in Jhenaidah

-- 2019-11-08 15:21:29

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by Border Security Force of India at Shilgate in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah early Friday. The deceased was identified as Sumon, 25, son of Abdul Mannan of Shyamk...

RAB nabs ‘outlawed party leader’ with arms

RAB nabs ‘outlawed party leader’ with arms

-- 2019-11-08 15:20:02

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested a regional leader of a banned outlawed party along with arms from Durbachar Bazar in Sadar upazila of Kushtia district. The arrestee is Habibur M...

Three hurt as police vehicle ploughs thru city footpath

Three hurt as police vehicle ploughs thru city footpath

-- 2019-11-08 15:14:53

Three people, including two cops, were injured in a road accident near Chandrima Udyan at Sher-e-Banglanagar in Dhaka on Friday. The injured were identified as Masud Pervez, inspector (investigation)...

Cyclone Bulbul moves towards Sundarbans

Cyclone Bulbul moves towards Sundarbans

-- 2019-11-08 14:15:37

The cyclone Bulbul has intensified into a ‘very severe’ cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal and is moving towards the Bangladeshi coast with a wind speed of up to 115 kilometres per hour...

BD housemaids most in demand by Saudi families

BD housemaids most in demand by Saudi families

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-08 12:22:17

Housemaids from Bangladesh were the most in demand with the recruitment ratio reaching 21 per cent during last month, according to the monthly periodic bulletin issued by Musanid electronic gate of th...

BD halts Myanmar's entry into IORA

BD halts Myanmar's entry into IORA

-- 2019-11-08 11:42:17

Myanmar has been denied membership of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) amid its non-fulfillment of commitment over the Rohingya repatriation. Myanmar again applied for the IORA membership this...

Cyclone Bulbul: Maritime ports asked to hoist signal No 4

Cyclone Bulbul: Maritime ports asked to hoist signal No 4

-- 2019-11-08 11:34:10

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to lower local cautionary signal No 3 and hoist local warning signal No 4. The severe cyclonic storm “Bulbul...

Man dies in Panchagarh road crash

Man dies in Panchagarh road crash

-- 2019-11-08 11:32:40

A man was killed and another injured when a truck hit a motorbike on Boda-Debiganj road in Boda upazila of Panchagarh district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Rajkumar, 35, son of D...

Govt mulling raising subsidies to boost jute goods export

Govt mulling raising subsidies to boost jute goods export

FE REPORT 2019-11-08 10:03:45

Textiles and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has said the government is considering increasing subsidies to boost export of jute goods. The entrepreneurs will also get raw materials at affordable p...

Indonesian coal import to increase threefold

Indonesian coal import to increase threefold

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2019-11-08 09:58:54

Coal import from Indonesia is expected to soar threefold to 60,000 tonnes this month as the installation of the 1,320-megawatt (MW) Payra coal-fired power plant is nearing completion. The import pric...

KSA deports 96 more BD workers

KSA deports 96 more BD workers

-- 2019-11-07 20:32:53

Some 96 Bangladeshi workers were deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Wednesday night. A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV804 carrying the deportees landed at Hazrat Shahjalal Internatio...

Khoka laid to rest

Khoka laid to rest

-- 2019-11-07 20:11:04

Valiant freedom fighter and the last mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka was laid to rest with state honour at his mother’s grave in Jurain graveyard in the city afte...