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Principal Mahfuza’s death: Two domestic workers accused

Principal Mahfuza’s death: Two domestic workers accused

-- 2019-02-11 14:16:01

Two domestic workers have been accused in the case over the murder of former Eden College Principal Mahfuza Chowdhury Parveen. The victim’s husband, former Chhatra League leader Ismat Quadir Ga...

HC orders survey on contaminated cow milk

HC orders survey on contaminated cow milk

-- 2019-02-11 14:13:59

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned to conduct a survey to determine how much cow milk, dairy products, and cow fodder containing bacteria, antibiotic, lead, and pesticides are suppl...

Pro-BNP lawyer Badrul Anwar becomes CBA president

Pro-BNP lawyer Badrul Anwar becomes CBA president

-- 2019-02-11 14:13:49

Pro-BNP lawyer ASM Badrul Anwar has been elected president and Pro-Awami League lawyer Ayub Khan secretary in the Chittagong Bar Association (CBA) election. Chief Election Commissioner Anwarul Haque...

DUCSU polls schedule announced, elections on March 11

DUCSU polls schedule announced, elections on March 11

-- 2019-02-11 12:02:21

The elections to Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) and its hall unions for 25 posts will be held on March 11. Chief Returning Officer Prof Mahfuzur Rahman announced the schedule of the...

Ex-Eden College principal found dead at home

Ex-Eden College principal found dead at home

-- 2019-02-11 11:19:51

Former Eden Mohila College principal Mahfuza Chowdhury Parveen has been found dead in her flat at Science Laboratory area in Dhaka in what police believe is a murder. Police believe she had been suff...

Three SSC, equivalent exams deferred for Ijtema

Three SSC, equivalent exams deferred for Ijtema

-- 2019-02-11 11:00:36

The authorities have deferred some SSC and equivalent examinations of all boards due to Biswa Ijtema, the congregation of Tabligh Jamaat. Professor Muhammad Ziaul Haque, who heads the inter-board coo...

Khulna road crash kills five BCL, Jubo League men

Khulna road crash kills five BCL, Jubo League men

-- 2019-02-11 10:56:27

Five leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League were killed in a collision between a truck and a private car on Rupsha bridge bypass road at Harintala in Khulna city on S...

Mahindra plans to expand its business in Bangladesh

Mahindra plans to expand its business in Bangladesh

Babul Barman 2019-02-11 10:46:24

Mahindra & Mahindra, a part of the $20.70-billion Mahindra Group, is planning to further expand its business in Bangladesh. The Indian multinational automaker has an ambitious goal to expand its...

Investors should press int'l brands more: Report

Investors should press int'l brands more: Report

Monira Munni 2019-02-11 10:39:47

Investors should increase their leverage on goals and strategies of global brands to ensure that workers in Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) factories get living wages, a latest report opined. Acc...

Some MNCs keep rallying

Some MNCs keep rallying

Mohammad Mufazzal 2019-02-11 10:35:53

Some listed multinational companies (MNCs) have witnessed a continuous rise in their share prices over the last 10 sessions. The share prices rose as high as 34.73 per cent from January 27 to Februar...

Meat production exceeds target in Rangpur div

Meat production exceeds target in Rangpur div

Our Correspondent 2019-02-10 22:25:13

RANGPUR, Feb 10: The production of meat has exceeded its target in Rangpur division during the last five years. According to Divisional Livestock office, Rangpur sources, around 3.4 million tonnes of...

Garlic peasants optimistic of bumper output in Joypurhat

Garlic peasants optimistic of bumper output in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2019-02-10 22:24:41

JOYPURHAT, Feb 10: Garlic peasants of Joypurhat district are optimistic of bumper output this season as they have been provided with all sorts of necessary agro-inputs during sowing seeds. According...

Sylhet-Tamabil-Jafflong highway reconstruction work starts

Sylhet-Tamabil-Jafflong highway reconstruction work starts

Our Correspondent 2019-02-10 22:23:54

SYLHET, Feb 10: Work on the much- talked about Sylhet-Tamabil-Jaflong highway has been started. The project worth Tk 1.98 billion was approved at the ECNEC in June last year. Accordingly, bidding and...

Syed Ashraf’s sister elected uncontested from Kishoreganj-1

Syed Ashraf’s sister elected uncontested from Kishoreganj-1

-- 2019-02-10 21:54:50

Awami League (AL) candidate Syeda Zakia Noor Lipi has been elected uncontested to the Kishoreganj-1 parliamentary seat previously represented by her brother late public administration minister Syed As...

90 new books hit Ekushey Grantha Mela on Sunday

90 new books hit Ekushey Grantha Mela on Sunday

FE Online Report 2019-02-10 20:19:52

Some 90 new books were introduced at Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela on Sunday, the tenth day of the month-long book fair. A total of 218 books were released the day before, said a Bangla Academy press rel...

DUCSU to announce election schedule Monday

DUCSU to announce election schedule Monday

-- 2019-02-10 19:41:38

The schedule for the election to Dhaka University’s Central Student Union (DUCSU) will be announced on Monday. The university made the announcement in a statement on Sunday, reports bdnews24.co...

Over 35pc mobile phones, 19pc computers in BD malware infected: Study

Over 35pc mobile phones, 19pc computers in BD malware infected: Study

FE Online Report 2019-02-10 19:29:58

35.91 per cent mobile phones and 19.07 per cent computers in the country are attacked by malware, said a UK-based study. The study also stated that Bangladesh was the 6th most malware susceptible cou...

Call to curb climate impacts for sustainable economic growth

Call to curb climate impacts for sustainable economic growth

FE Online Report 2019-02-10 19:25:08

Climate experts on Sunday stressed the need for tackling the adverse impacts of climate change to sustain the momentum of current economic growth. Calling upon the enhancement of internal capacity to...

Court sentences man to death for raping, murdering child

Court sentences man to death for raping, murdering child

-- 2019-02-10 18:28:27

A Chattogram court has sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old child in Chattogram’s Hathazari. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Judge Motahir Ali d...

Court again seeks CID report on BB heist by March 13

Court again seeks CID report on BB heist by March 13

-- 2019-02-10 17:51:39

A Dhaka court on Sunday asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to again submit its report by March 13 over a case filed regarding the incident of cyber heist of $101 million from Bangladesh...

Motorcycle showroom catches fire in city

Motorcycle showroom catches fire in city

-- 2019-02-10 17:02:26

A fire broke out in a motorcycle showroom in the city's Bangsal area on Sunday afternoon. The fire engulfed the Makimpur outlet at around 2:35pm, said Dana Mia, an operator of Fire Service Control Ro...

Dry weather ahead, says Met

Dry weather ahead, says Met

-- 2019-02-10 16:40:38

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted dry weather with partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country in next 24 hours commencing at 9:00am on Sunday. However, light to moderate fog may...

‘Govt prepared to tackle any natural disasters’

‘Govt prepared to tackle any natural disasters’

-- 2019-02-10 16:31:57

State Minister for the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman on Sunday expressed that the government remains prepared round the clock to face any natural disasters. He came up with...

Fire guts over 100 shanties in Chattogram

Fire guts over 100 shanties in Chattogram

-- 2019-02-10 15:29:05

Over 100 shanties were gutted in a devastating fire at three slums in Rail gate area of Chattogram city on Saturday night. Three firefighting units from Chandanpur, Agrabad and Bayzid Station managed...

Work out master plan to protect croplands: PM

Work out master plan to protect croplands: PM

-- 2019-02-10 15:28:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives to work out a master plan for every upazila for protecting cultivable lands and check...

Mechanism underway to ease cold storage debt burden

Mechanism underway to ease cold storage debt burden

Yasir Wardad 2019-02-10 14:37:47

A mechanism is underway to ease the mounting debt burden on the country's cold storage owners, officials and industry insiders said. According to the Bangladesh Bank, 108 cold storages are Tk 14.44 b...

30 hurt in Lalmonirhat AL factional clash

30 hurt in Lalmonirhat AL factional clash

-- 2019-02-10 14:27:18

At least 30 people including three policemen sustained injuries during a clash between two factions of Awami League at Aditmari upazila headquarters in Lalmonirhat on Sunday centering the nomination o...

AL reveals more UZ chairman candidate names

AL reveals more UZ chairman candidate names

Agencies 2019-02-10 14:03:39

The ruling Awami League has announced the names of chairman candidates for the second phase of upazila parishad elections in 122 of the 129 upazilas scheduled to be held on March 18. AL General Secre...

Three college students die in Gazipur road accident

Three college students die in Gazipur road accident

-- 2019-02-10 13:09:58

Three college students have died as a bus rammed a motorcycle on which they were riding at Etahata area in Gazipur city on Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified as Rajababu, Jony, and Mah...

Five DNCC mayoral aspirants get electoral symbols

Five DNCC mayoral aspirants get electoral symbols

-- 2019-02-10 12:45:39

The Election Commission on Sunday allocated symbols among the candidates vying for the posts of mayor for the by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Atiqul Islam of Awami League secured the...