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EVMs can create scope for digital vote rigging: Rizvi

EVMs can create scope for digital vote rigging: Rizvi

-- 2018-08-19 20:43:38

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) can create a scope for 'digital vote rigging'. "BNP will not accept the use of EVMs in next par...

'Animal waste to be removed within 24 hrs'

'Animal waste to be removed within 24 hrs'

-- 2018-08-19 19:32:10

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has said the waste of sacrificial animals will be removed within 24 hours of the day of Eid-ul-Azha. The DSCC mayor said this while talking to...

Court rejects bail plea of Jabal-e-Noor driver

Court rejects bail plea of Jabal-e-Noor driver

-- 2018-08-19 19:22:48

A court in Dhaka has rejected the bail petition of a bus driver of 'Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan' in a case over the death of two college students in a road accident on Airport Road on July 29. The accused...

AL parliamentary nomination board meeting Monday

AL parliamentary nomination board meeting Monday

-- 2018-08-19 19:04:20

A meeting of the Awami League (AL) parliamentary nomination board will be held at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister, on Monday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, president of AL pa...

PSC recommends recruiting 5,100 senior staff nurses

PSC recommends recruiting 5,100 senior staff nurses

-- 2018-08-19 18:59:44

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has recommended recruiting some 5,100 senior staff nurses. The results in this regard were published on Sunday the PSC website. The commission recommended recruiti...

BD, US in talks to extradite Bangabandhu’s killer: Minister

BD, US in talks to extradite Bangabandhu’s killer: Minister

-- 2018-08-19 18:10:45

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that Bangladesh is in discussion with the United States for extradition of Rashed Chowdhury, one of the killers of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mu...

25 students get bail

25 students get bail

-- 2018-08-19 17:41:17

25 students, who were arrested in different cases during the protests for safe roads, have secured bail. Separate courts in Dhaka granted their bail on Sunday after hearing separate bail petitions, r...

Three to die for killing college student in Jhenaidah

Three to die for killing college student in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-08-19 17:22:16

A Jhenaidah court on Sunday sentenced three people to death for killing a college student in 2011. The condemned convicts are Imran Hossain, Nasim Biswashand Manirul Islam Mukul. Of them, Mukul was t...

Fakhrul senses plot to keep BNP away from election

Fakhrul senses plot to keep BNP away from election

-- 2018-08-19 17:17:13

The ruling party is again 'plotting' to keep BNP away from the next general election 'creating a chaos' in the country. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the comment on Sunday wh...

Erosion wreaks havoc in Shariatpur

Erosion wreaks havoc in Shariatpur

-- 2018-08-19 17:02:42

Massive erosion by the mighty Padma threatens dwellings and establishments in different areas of Naria upazila of Shariatpur. On a single day on Saturday the mighty river devoured several multi-store...

Train service suffers heavy delays

Train service suffers heavy delays

-- 2018-08-19 16:37:41

The train service at Kamalapur Railway Station has suffered heavy delays on the third day of Eid journeys. Most trains set out behind schedule on Sunday, following similar delays in the past last two...

Faulty, unfit launches getting new look

Faulty, unfit launches getting new look

-- 2018-08-19 16:27:39

Private launch operators are busy refurbishing and repairing their vessels to attract more passengers during journeys on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Dozens of launches were found undergoing repairin...

Five to walk gallows for killing man in Natore

Five to walk gallows for killing man in Natore

-- 2018-08-19 14:19:24

A Natore court on Sunday sentenced five people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Singra upazila of Natore in 2004. The condemned convicts are- Hafizur Rahman, Bul...

Safe roads agitation: 16 private university students get bail

Safe roads agitation: 16 private university students get bail

-- 2018-08-19 14:07:23

Two courts in Dhaka on Sunday granted bail to 16 private university students accused in two cases filed over vandalism and attacks on police during the student movement demanding road safety. The stu...

National Mourning Day observed at IUB

National Mourning Day observed at IUB

FE Online Desk 2018-08-19 13:23:44

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a Discussion Session on the glorious life and contributions of Bangabandhu to observe the 43th martyrdom anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bang...

Slum dwellers to get high-rise buildings: PM

Slum dwellers to get high-rise buildings: PM

-- 2018-08-19 13:22:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that the existing slums in the capital city would be replaced by multi-storey buildings to allow the inhabitants to live in a healthy and better condition....

Local administration seize 10 sacks of VGF rice

Local administration seize 10 sacks of VGF rice

-- 2018-08-19 12:58:39

The local administration has seized 10 sacks of rice meant for distribution among the ultra poor under the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme from Sorerhat village in Bagha upazila of Rajshah...

RAB nab ‘drug trader’ with 7,837 Yaba in Cox’s Bazar

RAB nab ‘drug trader’ with 7,837 Yaba in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-08-19 12:26:26

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel in a drive arrested an alleged drug trader along with 7,837 Yaba tablets from Naitron Para of Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday night. The arreste...

Army man hacked dead in Jhenaidah

Army man hacked dead in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-08-19 11:29:00

A Bangladesh Army member was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Bonkira village in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 38. Further detai...

Two cattle traders die in Nilphamari road crash

Two cattle traders die in Nilphamari road crash

-- 2018-08-19 11:00:14

Two cattle traders were killed as the vehicle carrying them and their cows collided head on with a pickup van on Nilphamari-Syedpur road at Kazirhat under Syedpur Upazila in Nilphamari on Sunday night...

Holidaymakers suffer on pre-Eid journey

Holidaymakers suffer on pre-Eid journey

FE Report 2018-08-19 10:25:18

The home-bound passengers, who are going to celebrate the upcoming Eid festival, had to suffer a lot on Saturday due to unwanted disruptions in schedules of trains and buses. Some intercity trains le...

Rooppur NPP: Fixing 'core catcher' safety system starts

Rooppur NPP: Fixing 'core catcher' safety system starts

FE Report 2018-08-19 10:19:03

Installation of the 'core catcher' safety system started at unit-one of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project at Ishwardi in Pabna on Saturday. Core catcher is a device for catching molten core,...

Sales of sacrificial animals yet to gain momentum in city

Sales of sacrificial animals yet to gain momentum in city

FE Report 2018-08-19 09:58:05

Sales of sacrificial animals began in the city's 25 cattle markets on Saturday with their prices showing comparatively higher than that of last year. Traders have attributed the higher prices of sacr...

Ctg people start getting re-gasified LNG supply

Ctg people start getting re-gasified LNG supply

M Azizur Rahman 2018-08-19 09:51:17

Consumers of Chattogram have started consuming the much expected re-gasified imported LNG from Saturday as the fuel entered into the city's pipeline network after necessary testing, said officials. S...

Govt cuts source tax to 0.6pc for all exporters

Govt cuts source tax to 0.6pc for all exporters

Doulot Akter Mala 2018-08-19 09:46:48

The government has decided to reduce both source tax and corporate tax for all exporters to support them to stay competitive in the international market. The source tax will be 0.6 per cent for expor...

Natural cattle fattening method gaining popularity in Bogura, Nilphamari

Natural cattle fattening method gaining popularity in Bogura, Nilphamari

Our Correspondent 2018-08-18 21:15:27

Hundreds of cattle rearers across the district have been applying natural fattening method to sell those animals in the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha market. According to the district livestock office, more t...

Police arrest UP member for assaulting school headmaster

Police arrest UP member for assaulting school headmaster

-- 2018-08-18 21:10:46

Police on Saturday arrested a Union Parishad (UP) member for allegedly beating the headmaster of a government primary school in Muragacha village of Manirampur upazila. Manowar Hossain, 30, member of...

JP will remain with Awami League if BNP goes to polls: Ershad

JP will remain with Awami League if BNP goes to polls: Ershad

-- 2018-08-18 20:40:02

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Alhaj Hussein Muhammad Ershad has said his party will remain in the alliance with Awami League (AL) if BNP takes part in the next ge...

Rizvi blames Quader for barricade in front of Moudud's house

Rizvi blames Quader for barricade in front of Moudud's house

-- 2018-08-18 20:35:47

BNP's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader gave the directives to put barricade in front of BNP leader Moudud Ahmed's an...

'Conspiracy going on for another movement'

'Conspiracy going on for another movement'

-- 2018-08-18 20:20:26

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said a conspiracy is still going on to wage another movement like recent movement for safer roads. "A conspiracy is on to wage such a movement again....