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PM for protection of own language, culture

PM for protection of own language, culture

-- 2019-02-20 20:19:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to protect and practice own language and culture for ensuring a healthy environment for the future generation. "It's our duty to protect, exercise and take...

CJ for allowing journalists at courtroom

CJ for allowing journalists at courtroom

-- 2019-02-20 19:55:22

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Wednesday underscored the need for allowing journalists to be at the courtroom for transparency of the judiciary. He came up with the remark after inaugurating th...

Five get life term for murder in Pabna

Five get life term for murder in Pabna

-- 2019-02-20 19:42:37

A court in Pabna sentenced five people to life imprisonment on Wednesday for murdering a man in 2009. Judge Rustam Ali of Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court also fined the convicts Tk 1,5...

Bus catches fire from leaked gas line

Bus catches fire from leaked gas line

-- 2019-02-20 19:39:57

At least eight people suffered burn injuries as a fire broke out in a bus in the city's Dhanmondi-27 area on Wednesday afternoon. Mizanur Rahman, duty officer of fire service control room, said that...

Police arrest four in Dhaka over question paper leak

Police arrest four in Dhaka over question paper leak

-- 2019-02-20 19:35:24

Four members of a syndicate involved in scamming people with fake question papers of various examinations were arrested by police's Detective Branch in Dhaka on Wednesday. The men, arrested in a spe...

Train hits picnic bus in Chattogram, 13 injured

Train hits picnic bus in Chattogram, 13 injured

-- 2019-02-20 19:13:56

At least 13 people were injured as a Chattogram- bound train hit a picnic bus carrying students and guardians of a madrasha on a level crossing near the Eco -Park in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on...

21 citizens receive Ekushey Padak

21 citizens receive Ekushey Padak

-- 2019-02-20 18:20:58

21 eminent citizens on Wedenesday received Ekushey Padak-2019 for their contributions in their respective fields. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the second highest civilian award to the awa...

Probe into reserve heist underway: Finance minister

Probe into reserve heist underway: Finance minister

-- 2019-02-20 18:04:35

Finance Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal has said the investigation into the reserve heist from the Bangladesh Bank is going on and progress on the matter from time to time is being informed to the governme...

Dhaka’s air fifth worst polluted on Wednesday

Dhaka’s air fifth worst polluted on Wednesday

-- 2019-02-20 17:35:05

Dhaka ranked fifth on Wednesday in the AirVisual Index of the world's cities with the worst air quality. In the real-time air quality ranking, Dhaka scored 164 on Wednesday and classified as "unhealt...

Now BNP wants Jamaat to apologise for 1971 role

Now BNP wants Jamaat to apologise for 1971 role

-- 2019-02-20 17:10:22

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday said Jamaat-e-Islami should apologise to the nation for its anti-liberation war role in 1971. Talking to reporters after placing a wreath...

Nation set to pay homage to language martyrs

Nation set to pay homage to language martyrs

-- 2019-02-20 16:28:31

The nation is set to observer the ‘Shaheed Dibash’ (Language Martyrs Day) and the International Mother Language Day on February 21 through extensive programmes. People from all walks of l...

Police recover bodies of two female RMG workers

Police recover bodies of two female RMG workers

-- 2019-02-20 16:01:12

Police recovered the bodies of two female garment workers from Bhorari area in Tentuljhora union and municipality area under Savar upazila on Wednesday morning. One of the deceased was identified as...

1200 metres of Padma Bridge now visible

1200 metres of Padma Bridge now visible

-- 2019-02-20 14:23:56

Around 1200 metres of the much-hyped Padma Bridge is now visible following the installation of another span on the pillars no 35 and 36 on Wednesday. The 150 metre span, weighing 3,140 tonnes, was in...

School teacher dies in Natore road crash

School teacher dies in Natore road crash

-- 2019-02-20 14:23:41

A school teacher was killed and six others including five schoolboys injured in a road accident at Automills area in Natore’s Baraigram upazila on Wednesday noon. The dead man was identified as...

IS bride Shamima to lose UK citizenship

IS bride Shamima to lose UK citizenship

-- 2019-02-20 14:02:02

The British government has revoked the citizenship of Shamima Begum, a teenager of Bangladeshi origin, who left London when to join Islamic State in Syria, according to a letter sent to her family. B...

DB detains four ‘hackers’ in city

DB detains four ‘hackers’ in city

-- 2019-02-20 12:42:38

Detective Branch of Police in special drives detained four suspected hackers from Dhaka city. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Deputy Commissioner (Media) Masudur Rahman on Wednesday said details rega...

BGB nabs two hundi traders in Benapole

BGB nabs two hundi traders in Benapole

-- 2019-02-20 12:33:30

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two hundi traders along with Tk 0.65 million from Boro Achra bordering area in Benapole port region on Tuesday night. The arrestees were identified a...

Three ‘drug pedlars’ die in ‘gunfights’

Three ‘drug pedlars’ die in ‘gunfights’

-- 2019-02-20 11:52:14

Three suspected drug pedlars were killed in separate gunfights in Dhaka, Cox's Bazar and Benapole in the early hours of Wednesday. Of them, two of the pedlars were killed in separate gunfights with m...

JS reserved seats: Newly elected woman MPs sworn in

JS reserved seats: Newly elected woman MPs sworn in

-- 2019-02-20 11:25:34

The newly elected Members of Parliament to the seats reserved for women in the 11th parliament were sworn in on Wednesday morning. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath to the new...

Lalmonirhat road crash kills five

Lalmonirhat road crash kills five

-- 2019-02-20 10:58:53

A bus rammed an auto-rickshaw at Airkhamar in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, killing five people on Tuesday night. The deceased could not be identified yet, says a UNB report. Officer-in-Charge of Sada...

Thirty-three unopposed in upazila polls

Thirty-three unopposed in upazila polls

-- 2019-02-20 10:46:49

As many as 33 candidates for chairman, vice-chairman and female vice-chairperson posts are set to win uncontested in the first two phases of the upazila elections. The staggered Upazila Parishad poll...

RHD to build 60-km circular road to ease city’s gridlock

RHD to build 60-km circular road to ease city’s gridlock

FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-02-20 10:43:28

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will build a 60.1-km inner circular road in the south-western part of Dhaka city, investing around US$ 1.61 billion, officials said on Monday. The proposed f...

PM returns home

PM returns home

-- 2019-02-20 10:29:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Wednesday morning, wrapping up her six-day visit to Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the P...

FY ’16 to be new GDP base year

FY ’16 to be new GDP base year

Yasir Wardad 2019-02-20 10:20:18

The local statistical agency has said it will adopt a new base year for calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) effective from July 2020 and it is expected to raise the size of the economy by a...

Tariff, NTBs impede RMG’s access to Indian market

Tariff, NTBs impede RMG’s access to Indian market

Monira Munni 2019-02-20 10:14:02

Various types of tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs) imposed by both India and Bangladesh impede the growth of bilateral trade and textile and clothing (TC) value chain engagement between the two...

TIB condemns govt over Shajahan-led safety body

TIB condemns govt over Shajahan-led safety body

FE Online Report 2019-02-19 21:20:31

The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday condemned the government for forming a committee on road safety with the former shipping minister Shajahan Khan as its chief. TIB expresse...

National Housing Authority pulls down illegal houses at Bhashantek

National Housing Authority pulls down illegal houses at Bhashantek

FE Online Report 2019-02-19 20:59:37

Hundreds of illegal shanty houses, shops and structures were pulled down on Tuesday in the capital’s Bhashantek area in an eviction drive. National Housing Authority conducted the drive with th...

Tangail cultivators show interest in guava farming

Tangail cultivators show interest in guava farming

Our Correspondent 2019-02-19 20:58:50

TANGAIL, Feb 19: Guava cultivation has brought smile on the faces of many grassroots farmers in the district. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, sources, some 797 he...

Thrust on comprehensive initiatives to stop school dropout

Thrust on comprehensive initiatives to stop school dropout

-- 2019-02-19 20:58:10

RANGPUR, Feb 19 (BSS): Experts at a citizen dialogue laid emphasis on Tuesday on comprehensive efforts of all concerned to stop dropout from school for ensuring normal educational life of children for...

Boro seedling transplantation nears end

Boro seedling transplantation nears end

-- 2019-02-19 20:57:21

RANGPUR, Feb 19 (BSS): The farmers have already completed transplantation of Boro seedlings on 92 per cent of targeted land area on way to achieve the fixed farming target of the crop in Rangpur agric...