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a2i working to ensure online services for all: Palak

a2i working to ensure online services for all: Palak

-- 2019-06-22 20:40:08

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday told the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) that a2i Programme under the ICT Division is working with an aim of ensuri...

Steps taken to overhaul railways: Minister

Steps taken to overhaul railways: Minister

-- 2019-06-22 20:38:49

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujon on Saturday said various steps have been taken to improve Bangladesh Railway's services. "Railway will be overhauled drastically to improve its services," he sa...

'Govt working to boost fish production'

'Govt working to boost fish production'

-- 2019-06-22 20:36:03

State minister for fisheries and livestock Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru said on Saturday said the present government has taken many innovative programmes including setting up fish sanctuaries for boosting f...

Egyptian gets 10 years in prison for murdering Bangladeshi

Egyptian gets 10 years in prison for murdering Bangladeshi

-- 2019-06-22 18:31:58

An Egyptian landlord has been jailed for 10 years for murdering a Bangladeshi man in New York two in 2017, as per a bdnews24.com report. Justice James McCarty of Bronx County Supreme Court delivered...

Police arrest 47 for drug related offences in city

Police arrest 47 for drug related offences in city

-- 2019-06-22 18:25:10

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate raids has arrested 47 persons over different drug related offences. Teams of different police stations and detective branch conducted the drives from Frida...

S Korean PM to visit BD next month

S Korean PM to visit BD next month

-- 2019-06-22 18:12:56

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon will pay an official visit to Bangladesh on July 13-15 as the two countries are working to further strengthen their bilateral relations. Foreign Minister Dr A...

Buet students return to classes

Buet students return to classes

-- 2019-06-22 18:06:48

Agitating students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) returned to their classes on Saturday, a week after their protests rocked the campus. Buet students started demonstrat...

Two killed in Joypurhat road crashes

Two killed in Joypurhat road crashes

-- 2019-06-22 17:09:15

A human hauler driver and a child were killed in separate road accidents in Akkelpur and Khetlal upazilas of Joypurhat district on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Abdus Salam, 35, f...

River Police begins journey in Rajshahi

River Police begins journey in Rajshahi

-- 2019-06-22 17:08:58

The River Police has launched its journey for the first time in Rajshahi to ensure security at the riverine areas creating high hope among the public in general here. The River Police has installed t...

Miscreants stab trader to death

Miscreants stab trader to death

-- 2019-06-22 13:33:30

A trader was stabbed to death by some unidentified miscreants in his house in Alamdanga uapzila of Chuadanga district early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Abdus Sabur, son of late Poran Mon...

Transport strike in Sylhet, B’baria postponed

Transport strike in Sylhet, B’baria postponed

-- 2019-06-22 13:29:10

Transport owners and workers have postponed their strike scheduled for June 24 in Sylhet division and Brahmanbaria. Earlier a transport strike was called protesting launch of Bangladesh Road Transpor...

Mother hands over drug-addict son to police 

Mother hands over drug-addict son to police 

-- 2019-06-22 13:23:16

An annoyed mother handed over her drug-addict son to police in Goalanda municipality area of Rajbari district on Thursday night. The arrestee is Mashiur Rahman Sumon, 28, son of late Azibor Rahman of...

Fire at Cumilla EPZ factory doused

Fire at Cumilla EPZ factory doused

-- 2019-06-22 13:16:37

The fire broke out in a factory in Cumilla Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Cumilla was brought under control after two hours on Saturday morning. The fire broke out on the third floor of Episia Int...

Sheltech MD passes away at 63

Sheltech MD passes away at 63

FE Online Desk 2019-06-22 12:25:04

Dr Toufiq M Seraj, managing director of Sheltech (Pvt) Ltd, a leading real estate company died in Doha of Qatar on Friday. He was 63. Sheltech officials said Seraj was accompanying chairman Kutubuddi...

Vitamin A plus campaign gets underway

Vitamin A plus campaign gets underway

-- 2019-06-22 11:58:54

The national Vitamin A plus campaign is underway across the country today (Saturday), aiming to feed Vitamin A plus capsules to nearly 22 million (2.20 crore) children aged from six months to 59 month...

Work on four-lane project yet to start for delay in land acquisition

Work on four-lane project yet to start for delay in land acquisition

Munima Sultana 2019-06-22 11:29:33

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) could not start the construction work to upgrade the Elenga-Hatikumrul-Rangpur highway to four-lane even after completion of the tender process. The start of t...

Ctg at high risk of earthquake

Ctg at high risk of earthquake

Nazimuddin Shyamol 2019-06-22 11:06:24

Chattogram and its adjoining areas are at high risk of earthquake, experts said. Over six million people now live in an earthquake zone while more than 0.14 million buildings are vulnerable to it,...

17 Bangladeshi migrants return from Tunisia

17 Bangladeshi migrants return from Tunisia

-- 2019-06-21 21:26:08

Seventeen Bangladeshis, among the 64 stranded for three weeks in the Mediterranean, returned home on Friday from Tunisia under special arrangements. Shariful Hasan, programme head of BRAC Migration,...

Two brothers die in ‘gunfight’ with RAB

Two brothers die in ‘gunfight’ with RAB

-- 2019-06-21 21:00:49

Two brothers were killed in an alleged gunfight with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Saran union in Banshkhali Upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Md Jafar Prokash, 48, and his bro...

Bangladesh-China 'strategic partnership' to reach new height

Bangladesh-China 'strategic partnership' to reach new height

-- 2019-06-21 20:51:19

Dhaka and Beijing plan to take their 'strategic partnership' to a new height as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to visit China next month. Beijing has invited Prime Minister Hasina to pay an...

Digital passport distribution likely to start from July

Digital passport distribution likely to start from July

-- 2019-06-21 19:26:29

The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) is ready to begin distribution of digital passports (ePassports) from July. "It'll start from July 1 if the Home Ministry gives clearance," Brig Gen...

Road crashes kill nine in four districts

Road crashes kill nine in four districts

-- 2019-06-21 18:18:13

At least nine people were killed and as many injured in separate road accidents in Natore, Faridpur, Satkhira and Magura on Friday. In Natore, three people were killed when a truck hit a goods-laden...

'Govt identifying illegal buildings in Dhaka'

'Govt identifying illegal buildings in Dhaka'

-- 2019-06-21 18:16:00

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Friday said the government has started identifying the buildings constructed illegally in Dhaka. The minister also warned that no risky buildings...

Operation of Payra Power Plant halted for third day   

Operation of Payra Power Plant halted for third day   

-- 2019-06-21 17:59:57

Operation at Payra 1,320 MW thermal power plant in Kalapra upazila remained suspended for the third consecutive day following workers unrest which was triggered by the death of a co-worker. Two cases...

Former Sonagazi OC Moazzem wants division in jail

Former Sonagazi OC Moazzem wants division in jail

-- 2019-06-21 17:27:17

Former officer in-charge (OC) of Sonagazi police station, who is now in jail in connection with a case lodged for making and circulating videos of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, has pleaded for first class divisi...

44 women tortured to death for dowry in Jan-May

44 women tortured to death for dowry in Jan-May

FE Online Report 2019-06-21 17:15:15

At least 44 women were tortured to death for dowry alone across the country in the first five months of current calendar year, according to local rights body Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). ASK also repor...

Dhaka’s rail link with northern, southern regions resumes

Dhaka’s rail link with northern, southern regions resumes

-- 2019-06-21 17:06:57

Train communication of Dhaka with northern and southern parts of the country was restored after four hours of suspension following the derailment of a compartment of a train at Salna in Gazipur distri...

Dhaka-north rail links snap as train derails

Dhaka-north rail links snap as train derails

FE Online Desk 2019-06-21 13:54:45

A train has derailed in Gazipur district town on Friday morning snapping railway communications between Dhaka and the northern region. A carriage of the Dhaka-bound Rangpur Express train went off the...

Siblings die in Buriganga boat capsize

Siblings die in Buriganga boat capsize

-- 2019-06-21 13:06:33

Divers of Fire Service and Bangladesh Navy have recovered the bodies of a boy and his five-year-old younger sister who went missing in the Buriganga river after a boat capsized being hit by a launch n...

BHBFC moves to cut lending rates

BHBFC moves to cut lending rates

FE Report 2019-06-21 12:43:23

The state-owned Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) has taken a move to reduce interest rates on its general housing loan and the housing loan for farmers. The only state-owned spec...