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BNP vice-chairman Barrister Aminul Haque passes away

BNP vice-chairman Barrister Aminul Haque passes away

-- 2019-04-21 12:43:07

BNP vice-chairman and former minister Barrister Aminul Haque died at United Hospital in the city on Sunday. He was 76. Aminul Haque, who had long been suffering from liver cancer and put on life supp...

PM flies to Brunei on three-day visit

PM flies to Brunei on three-day visit

-- 2019-04-21 11:07:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka for Brunei Darussalam on a three-day official visit when the two countries are expected to sign seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs). A special flight o...

StanChart to help improve clients’ operating efficiency

StanChart to help improve clients’ operating efficiency

FE Report 2019-04-21 10:35:43

Lisa Robins is Global Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered and a member of Corporate and Institutional Banking Management Team. Based in Singapore, she is responsible for the bank's trans...

Thrust on eco-friendly RMG production process

Thrust on eco-friendly RMG production process

FE Report 2019-04-21 10:30:10

Speakers at a seminar have put stress on an environment-friendly production process in the country's growing garment and textile industry which is adversely affecting the environment by excessive us...

Luxury car, bike to cost Tk 7.7m!

Luxury car, bike to cost Tk 7.7m!

FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-04-21 10:26:48

The Department of Narcotics Control has proposed to purchase a luxury car and a motorbike at a staggering Tk 7.7 million out of a Tk 1.13 billion project. Narcotics department is going to construct s...

Sonagazi AL leader on five-day remand over Nusrat murder

Sonagazi AL leader on five-day remand over Nusrat murder

-- 2019-04-20 21:48:26

A Feni court has granted a five-day remand to interrogate Sonagazi Upazila Awami League President Ruhul Amin in custody in a case over the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. Senior Judicial...

Mango farmers in Rangpur region expect high profit this season

Mango farmers in Rangpur region expect high profit this season

-- 2019-04-20 21:10:58

RANGPUR, Apr 20 (BSS): Farmers and officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting bumper mango output following smooth formation of the tender fruits in Rangpur agriculture r...

Illegal sand lifting puts Atrai embankment at risk

Illegal sand lifting puts Atrai embankment at risk

Our Correspondent 2019-04-20 21:09:57

NAOGAON, Apr 20: The flood control embankment adjacent to the Atrai river in Maheshbathan area under Mohadevpur upazila of the district is at great risk due to illegal lifting of sand. A section of in...

Wheat harvest nears end in Joypurhat

Wheat harvest nears end in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2019-04-20 21:09:22

JOYPURHAT, Apr 20: Wheat harvest is nearing completion in the district.Deputy director of DAE Shudhindranath Roy said farmers are happy as they achieved an abundant yield.The newly-harvested wheat is...

'Bargaining over Khaleda’s release to be a bad example'

'Bargaining over Khaleda’s release to be a bad example'

-- 2019-04-20 19:57:33

Awami League's acting general secretary Mahbub-Ul- Alam has said bargaining over the release of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, now in jail on graft charge, would be an bad instance in country&rsqu...

'495 foreign nationals in jail for illegal migration'

'495 foreign nationals in jail for illegal migration'

-- 2019-04-20 19:51:19

Terming human trafficking a global menace, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said 495 people have so far been arrested for illegal migration from neighbouring countries. The Home Minister al...

Dhaka WASA supplies 100pc drinkable water, MD claims

Dhaka WASA supplies 100pc drinkable water, MD claims

-- 2019-04-20 19:50:23

The state-owned water supplier, Dhaka WASA, has claimed it supplies completely drinkable water to the households in the capital. Dhaka WASA Managing Director Taqsem A Khan came up with the claim at a...

Tk 2.32m fine realised for violating traffic rules in city

Tk 2.32m fine realised for violating traffic rules in city

-- 2019-04-20 19:37:10

Traffic Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) filed 4729 cases and realised fines of Tk 2.32 million in separate drives against traffic rules violators in the capital on Friday. Besides, 28 v...

Gonoforum to issue show-cause notice to MP Mokabbir

Gonoforum to issue show-cause notice to MP Mokabbir

-- 2019-04-20 19:06:26

Gonoforum will send a showcase notice to party presidium member and MP Mokabbir Khan for 'violating' its constitution and indulging 'anti- party' activities. The decision was taken on Saturday at a m...

Local administration to investigate 'obscenity' at Patuakhali Shaheed Minar

Local administration to investigate 'obscenity' at Patuakhali Shaheed Minar

-- 2019-04-20 18:53:05

The local administration has opened a probe into an alleged incident of ‘obscenity’ at the altar of Shaheed Minar in Patuakhali's Kalapara Upazila, according to bdnews24.com. Kalapara May...

CID to probe allegation of illegal financial transactions

CID to probe allegation of illegal financial transactions

-- 2019-04-20 17:48:39

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will probe the allegation of illegal financial transactions over the murder of Feni madrasah student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.  “In the next week, a CI...

BD education quality good, GDP proves it: Nowfel

BD education quality good, GDP proves it: Nowfel

-- 2019-04-20 17:48:19

Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel has rejected criticisms of the current standard of education in Bangladesh. Speaking at an event in Chattogram on Saturday, Nowfel sa...

Farmers expect bumper Boro production in Gaibandha

Farmers expect bumper Boro production in Gaibandha

-- 2019-04-20 17:41:58

Farmers of all the seven upazilas in Gaibandha are expecting a bumper production of Boro paddy, a high value crop, during the current Boro season. Office sources said the department has set a target...

'Partial operation of HSIA 3rd terminal to start by 2020'

'Partial operation of HSIA 3rd terminal to start by 2020'

-- 2019-04-20 17:37:41

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is hopeful to start at least partial operation of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) by the end of 2020. CAAB Chairm...

Man found dead in Gazipur

Man found dead in Gazipur

-- 2019-04-20 17:21:18

A man was found dead at Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) in Gazipur on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Ansarul Haque Talukdar, 55, son of Mujibur Rahman of Phulbari upazi...

No explosives, firecrackers during Shab-e-Barat: DMP

No explosives, firecrackers during Shab-e-Barat: DMP

FE Online Report 2019-04-20 17:08:26

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) imposed a ban on carrying  of all types of explosives, crackers and explosion of firecrackers in the areas of its jurisdiction ahead the holy Shab-e-Barat slated f...

29 journalists face harassment across country in Jan-Feb

29 journalists face harassment across country in Jan-Feb

FE Online Report 2019-04-20 16:56:47

At least 29 journalists fell victim to harassment across country in the first two months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them, four received deat...

Burqa used during Nusrat murder recovered

Burqa used during Nusrat murder recovered

-- 2019-04-20 16:35:52

A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) recovered a burqa used during the killing of Feni madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi from Dangi canal in Sonagazi municipality area on Saturday. Shaha Alam,...

BD welcomes China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Gowher Rizvi

BD welcomes China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Gowher Rizvi

-- 2019-04-20 14:56:16

Prime Minister’s adviser for international affairs Gowher Rizvi has said Bangladesh has welcomed China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it 'fits into our national priorities'. He made...

PM flies to Brunei tomorrow

PM flies to Brunei tomorrow

-- 2019-04-20 14:37:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Bangladesh tomorrow (Monday) for a three-day official visit to Brunei Darussalam at the invitation of the kingdom’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah. A speci...

JCI Bangladesh holds leadership conclave in city

JCI Bangladesh holds leadership conclave in city

FE Online Desk 2019-04-20 14:21:16

Junior Chambers International (JCI) Bangladesh organised leadership conclave titled “JCI Bangladesh Leadership Conclave 2019 ‐ Together Towards Tomorrow” at Hotel Le Meridien in Dhaka on S...

Madrasa student ‘raped’ in Barguna, principal among two held

Madrasa student ‘raped’ in Barguna, principal among two held

-- 2019-04-20 14:02:11

Detectives in a drive arrested two people including the principal of a madrasa from Foyla area in Rampal upazila on Friday night in a case filed over violating a 11-year student of the madrasa. The a...

Suspected drug pedlar dies in Sirajganj ‘gunfight’

Suspected drug pedlar dies in Sirajganj ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-04-20 13:41:47

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Ghoshgati village in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj in the early hours of Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mostafa Kama...

Five die in Mymensingh road accident

Five die in Mymensingh road accident

-- 2019-04-20 12:35:25

At least five people were killed and three others injured after a truck ploughed into two autorickshaws on Mymensingh-Haluaghat road in Alalpur area of the city on Saturday. The accident occurred on...

Light engineering sector seeks policy support for expansion

Light engineering sector seeks policy support for expansion

Arafat Ara 2019-04-20 10:37:30

The country's light engineering sector has sought policy support for its expansion with ensuring quality and sustainability. The leaders of the sector have started preparing a set of proposals in thi...