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Tight security for Pahela Baishakh celebrations: DMP chief

Tight security for Pahela Baishakh celebrations: DMP chief

-- 2019-04-11 14:34:43

Tight security measures have been taken to ensure a smooth celebration of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of a Bengali new year, Dhaka city police say. "Major celebration places will be brought under...

HC pledges interference in case of negligence in Nusrat murder probe

HC pledges interference in case of negligence in Nusrat murder probe

FE Online Desk 2019-04-11 14:03:56

The High Court has vowed to interfere in the event of any negligence in the investigation into the murder of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Jus...

Four killed in separate ‘gunfights’

Four killed in separate ‘gunfights’

-- 2019-04-11 13:05:58

Four people, including three alleged drug traders, were killed in separate 'gunfights' with law enforcers early Thursday. The reported gunfights took place in Dhaka, Cox's Bazar, Meherpur, and Chatto...

PM orders stern action against Feni girl’s killers

PM orders stern action against Feni girl’s killers

FE Online Desk 2019-04-11 12:38:35

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the law enforcement agencies to take stern actions against the killers of Sonagazi madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, bringing them to book. “The prime mi...

Bangladeshis among 53 stranded Kuwaiti expats in Saudi Arabia

Bangladeshis among 53 stranded Kuwaiti expats in Saudi Arabia

-- 2019-04-11 11:15:24

A total of 53 Kuwaiti expatriates, including Bangladeshis, have become stranded in Saudi Arabia after losing their passports while performing Umrah in the holy city of Makkah. All of them holding val...

Pay 15pc VAT to claim rebate, says NBR chief

Pay 15pc VAT to claim rebate, says NBR chief

FE Report 2019-04-11 11:00:49

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman has said a 15 per cent VAT (Value Added Tax) would be applicable to businesses that claim VAT rebate. Multiple VAT rates lower than 15 per cent would also...

WTO praises BD's trade policy

WTO praises BD's trade policy

FE Report 2019-04-11 10:57:28

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Wednesday that members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) praised the country's trade policy that contributed to the nation's progress in different sectors ove...

RHD unlikely to get WB funding this year

RHD unlikely to get WB funding this year

Munima Sultana 2019-04-11 10:53:54

A slow progress in preparing the technical project on the start of the bus-based mass transit system in city's southern part has delayed getting the project's assistance from the World Bank by a year,...

Feni madrasa student loses battle with burn injuries

Feni madrasa student loses battle with burn injuries

-- 2019-04-10 22:01:19

Feni madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was set afire by some miscreants, succumbed to her injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday night, after fighting for her life for five d...

Bogura potato growers incur loss for low  market price

Bogura potato growers incur loss for low market price

Our Correspondent 2019-04-10 21:14:25

BOGURA, Apr 10: A good number of farmers in the twelve upazilas of the district are worried over the low market price of potato this year. Farmers said Fata Pakri, Diamond, Telpakri and some others p...

Road crashes in three districts leave six dead

Road crashes in three districts leave six dead

-- 2019-04-10 21:05:28

Six people were killed and 13 others were injured in separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Natore and Satkhira districts on Wednesday. In Dinajpur, a minor girl and her grandmother were killed and two...

Six non-resident envoys present credentials to President

Six non-resident envoys present credentials to President

-- 2019-04-10 20:58:03

Six non-resident envoys to Bangladesh separately presented their credentials to President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Wednesday afternoon. The envoys are: Gambia High Commissioner Jainaba Jagne,...

DNCC conducts drive against tobacco advertising

DNCC conducts drive against tobacco advertising

FE Online Report 2019-04-10 20:31:04

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Wednesday conducted a mobile court drive against illegal advertising of tobacco products in several areas of the capital city. Zonal Executive Officer of DNCC,...

Buses in Dhaka to run on 22 routes under 6 companies

Buses in Dhaka to run on 22 routes under 6 companies

-- 2019-04-10 20:26:49

Public buses in Dhaka and its adjoining areas will run on 22 routes under six companies with an aim to bring discipline on roads. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon came up with...

'Strong syndicate controlling transport sector in Dhaka'

'Strong syndicate controlling transport sector in Dhaka'

-- 2019-04-10 20:19:56

Speakers at a discussion on Wednesday alleged that a strong syndicate is controlling the entire transport sector in the capital making it hard to restore discipline on roads. They also opposed differ...

Govt expands school meal programme

Govt expands school meal programme

-- 2019-04-10 19:58:14

The government has announced that it will expand a cooked school meal programme reaching 400,000 children at 2,000 schools in 16 upazilas. The programme, piloted by the World Food Programme (WFP)in 2...

HC orders Jaha Alam to appear on April 17

HC orders Jaha Alam to appear on April 17

-- 2019-04-10 18:15:47

The High Court on Wednesday asked Jaha Alam, who languished in jail in place of the real accused in corruption cases, to appear before it on April 17. Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul...

Over 1500 metres of Padma Bridge now visible

Over 1500 metres of Padma Bridge now visible

-- 2019-04-10 18:11:53

Over 1500 metres of the 6.15-kilometre long Padma Bridge is now visible with the installation of its 10th span at Mawa point in Munshiganj on Wednesday. A 150-metre long ‘3-A’ span, secon...

'Govt takes steps to stop local adds on foreign televisions'

'Govt takes steps to stop local adds on foreign televisions'

-- 2019-04-10 18:01:39

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said the government has already taken necessary initiatives to stop airing local advertisements in foreign television channels.  “Cable op...

Feni madrasa principal put on seven-day remand

Feni madrasa principal put on seven-day remand

-- 2019-04-10 17:59:44

A Feni court on Wednesday placed Sirajuddoulan, principal of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa, on a seven-day remand and two other people on five-day remand each in a case filed over the arson at...

Russel receives Tk 0.5 million as compensation from Green Line

Russel receives Tk 0.5 million as compensation from Green Line

-- 2019-04-10 17:46:41

Complying with the High Court Order, the authorities of Green Line Parihaban on Wednesday handed over a cheque of Tk 0.5 million to Russel Sarkar, who lost his leg in an accident on April 28 last year...

Mentally challenged youth burned dead in Chattogram

Mentally challenged youth burned dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-04-10 17:29:33

A mentally challenged young man was burned to death in a fire incident at Lakhera under Kolagaon union of Patiya upazila in Chattogram on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Hinu Barua, 28,...

Two dead in Natore road crashes

Two dead in Natore road crashes

-- 2019-04-10 17:24:45

Two people were killed in separate road accidents in Natore on Wednesday. A man was killed and 10 others were injured after a cattle-laden human hauler plunged into a ditch near Ramaigachi area of Na...

Find ways to maintain growth: PM to researchers

Find ways to maintain growth: PM to researchers

-- 2019-04-10 17:04:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that scientists and researchers in the country have responsibilities to devise sustainable ways to maintain the economic and growth pattern. “We&r...

Sylhet Gas Fields MD found dead in mysterious circumstances

Sylhet Gas Fields MD found dead in mysterious circumstances

-- 2019-04-10 14:54:36

Police have recovered the dead body of engineer Md Lutfur Rahman, the managing director of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited at his Haripur residence under Jaintapur Upazila. The body was found hanging from...

Feni girl murder attempt: Police arrest principal’s niece

Feni girl murder attempt: Police arrest principal’s niece

-- 2019-04-10 14:00:05

Police have arrested Umme Sultana Popi, the prime suspect in the case over the attempted murder of the critically burnt madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi in Feni’s Sonagazi. Popi, the niece of...

Two die in Natore road crashes

Two die in Natore road crashes

-- 2019-04-10 13:40:35

A man and a woman were killed while ten others injured in separate road crashes in Natore district town and Baraigram upazila on Wednesday. A cattle trader was killed and ten others injured when a ca...

War criminals Azhar, Qaiser’s appeal hearing on June 18

War criminals Azhar, Qaiser’s appeal hearing on June 18

-- 2019-04-10 13:14:34

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has set June 18 for hearing appeals filed against International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) verdicts sentencing Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam and former st...

Two vessels sink in Pashur River

Two vessels sink in Pashur River

-- 2019-04-10 11:54:43

A man went missing as two vessels including a passenger launch sank in Pashur River in the Sundarabns of Mongla upazila of Bagerhat district during a storm on Tuesday night. Fertilizer-laden cargo ve...

Coast Guard arrests two with 0.5m Yaba pills in Patuakhali

Coast Guard arrests two with 0.5m Yaba pills in Patuakhali

-- 2019-04-10 11:50:58

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in an overnight drive arrested two suspected Yaba pedlars along with 0.5 million pieces of Yaba pills from the Bay of Bengal near Ramanabad in Kuakata in the Patuakha...