Loading...

Search results for: national

No internet packages with less than seven-day validity from Jan 27

No internet packages with less than seven-day validity from Jan 27

-- 2019-01-16 17:18:02

Mobile phone operators will not be allowed to offer internet packages with less than seven-day validity from January 27, said the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Wednesday...

Chattogram oil depot fire under control

Chattogram oil depot fire under control

-- 2019-01-16 17:16:53

A fire that broke out from an oil depot at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram was brought under control after more than one hour of frantic efforts on Wednesday afternoon. Jashim Uddin, Chattogram divis...

Criminal dies in ‘shootout’ with police in Narail

Criminal dies in ‘shootout’ with police in Narail

-- 2019-01-16 16:41:10

Police say a man accused in 13 cases of murder and robbery has been killed in an alleged shootout in the Narail Sadar upazila. The shootout took place on the Narail-Noapara road in the Kararbil area...

Oil depot catches fire in Chattogram

Oil depot catches fire in Chattogram

Agencies 2019-01-16 16:27:28

A massive fire has broken out from an oil depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda. The depot for storing oil collected from vessels at ship-breaking yards at Fouzdarhat caught fire at around 2:00pm on...

TIB report on polls fabricated: Information minister

TIB report on polls fabricated: Information minister

-- 2019-01-16 16:25:39

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday termed the report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on the 11th parliamentary election as untrue, prejudiced, politically motivated and a...

Police nab two ‘drug pedlars’ in city

Police nab two ‘drug pedlars’ in city

FE Online Report 2019-01-16 16:17:20

Police arrested two drug pedlars from Dhaka city’s Bongshal area on Tuesday night for possessing huge cache of phensedyl syrup. Bongshal Police Station on conducted a secret drive which led to...

DMP files 6,909 cases against traffic violators

DMP files 6,909 cases against traffic violators

FE Online Report 2019-01-16 16:08:30

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Tuesday filed a total of 6,909 cases against different modes of vehicles for violating traffic rules, DMP said in a statement. The departme...

DMP arrests 75 drug suspects in city

DMP arrests 75 drug suspects in city

FE Online Report 2019-01-16 16:00:29

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-narcotics drive arrested 75 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, comprising De...

PM for greater unity of Muslim Ummah

PM for greater unity of Muslim Ummah

-- 2019-01-16 15:01:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday put emphasis on unity among the Muslim Ummah, saying that it should remain together. "The Muslim Ummah should remain together...if there's any problem among...

20 go missing as trawler capsizes in Meghna River

20 go missing as trawler capsizes in Meghna River

-- 2019-01-16 14:21:53

At least 20 people went missing as a soil-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna River at Charjhapta in Munshiganj sadar upazila on Wednesday. Faruk Ahmed, UNO of sadar upazila, said the soil-laden tra...

HC clears way for holding DNCC by-election

HC clears way for holding DNCC by-election

-- 2019-01-16 14:16:49

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday cleared the way for holding the by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The bench of Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore and Justice Mohammad Ullah withdrew it...

Sylhet to be country’s 1st digital city, Foreign Minister says

Sylhet to be country’s 1st digital city, Foreign Minister says

-- 2019-01-16 14:01:52

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Sylhet will be the country’s first digital city where its residents will get free WiFi access at each and every point of it. The minister said this w...

Moderate cold wave grips parts of country

Moderate cold wave grips parts of country

-- 2019-01-16 12:22:00

Mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Rangpur division and the regions of Madaripur, Moulvibazar, Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Khulna, Satkhira, Jashore, Chuadanga, Barishal, Khepupara and Bhola an...

Xulhaz-Tonoy murders: Police arrest ‘main suspect’

Xulhaz-Tonoy murders: Police arrest ‘main suspect’

-- 2019-01-16 12:01:31

Police arrested the main accused behind the killing of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tanoy in 2016 from Tongi area in Gazipur district on Tuesday night. Tipped off, a team...

Man 'commits suicide' in Natore police custody

Man 'commits suicide' in Natore police custody

-- 2019-01-16 11:39:02

The hanging body of an individual in custody of police was recovered from Natore’s Bagatipara Police Station on Tuesday. Police claimed the arrestee Mohsin Ali, 30, son of Mahiruddin of Chakgoa...

Man beats wife to death in Chattogram

Man beats wife to death in Chattogram

-- 2019-01-16 11:23:53

A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband at Raufabad in Chattogram city on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Tahera Begum, 32, a garment worker and wife of Nur Hossain of the area...

Cops recover bullet-riddled body in Satkhira

Cops recover bullet-riddled body in Satkhira

-- 2019-01-16 11:15:46

Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of a suspected drug trader from Tetulia Biswashpara in Tala upazila of Satkhira in the early hours of Wednesday. The dead man was identified as Maijuddin Ahme...

Journalist Amanullah Kabir passes away

Journalist Amanullah Kabir passes away

-- 2019-01-16 10:41:17

Eminent journalist Amanullah Kabir passed away at a hospital in the capital early Wednesday. He was 71. The veteran journalist passed away at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) a...

MFIs witness steep rise in number of loan recipients

MFIs witness steep rise in number of loan recipients

Rezaul Karim 2019-01-16 10:31:26

The number of microcredit beneficiaries has risen significantly across the country although the rate of interest on the loan is higher than other credits. The total number of loan recipients increase...

Tenth edition of Chobi Mela begins from February 29

Tenth edition of Chobi Mela begins from February 29

FE Online Report 2019-01-15 22:35:55

Chobi Mela, one of the most prestigious photography festivals in Asia, is set to begin on February 28 2019 at the new Drik Gallery in Panthapath. The tenth edition of the biannual festival will conti...

400 ‘gachhis’ become self-reliant preparing molasses

400 ‘gachhis’ become self-reliant preparing molasses

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-15 22:07:33

JOYPURHAT, Jan 15: Over 400 extreme poor date juice extractors, locally known as gachhies, have become self-reliant preparing tasty molasses in Joypurhat district. The trading of date molasses is goi...

500 ultra-poor families get new houses

500 ultra-poor families get new houses

Our Correspondent 2019-01-15 22:06:44

NAOGAON, Jan 15: More than five hundred ultra-poor families of Manda upazila in the district have got new houses as they had no shelter. Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Khandakar Mushfiqur Rahman hande...

Salman F Rahman becomes PM’s adviser

Salman F Rahman becomes PM’s adviser

-- 2019-01-15 21:28:44

Beximco’s Salman F Rahman has been appointed as an advisor for prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to an announcement.  Salman has been appointed as an advisor for private industry and...

‘Unfinished memoirs’ distributed at IU

‘Unfinished memoirs’ distributed at IU

-- 2019-01-15 21:26:25

The copies of 'Unfinished Memoirs', the autobiography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were distributed among the students of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Tuesday....

Prosecution submits plea to scrap Shafat’s bail

Prosecution submits plea to scrap Shafat’s bail

-- 2019-01-15 21:13:58

The prosecution has submitted a petition to court for cancel bail for Shafat Ahmed, the main accused in rape charged committed at a Banani hotel in 2017. Shafat had secured bail based on his claims o...

Sajeeb Wazed Joy becomes PM's ICT affairs adviser again

Sajeeb Wazed Joy becomes PM's ICT affairs adviser again

-- 2019-01-15 20:21:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has re-appointed her son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy as her ICT affairs adviser. A circular from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday that the Prime Minister made...

'International airport to be constructed near Padma River'

'International airport to be constructed near Padma River'

-- 2019-01-15 20:12:58

An international airport, named after Bangladesh's founding father, will be constructed near the Padma River. State Minister for Civil Aviation Mahbub Ali gave the information at a meeting with Civil...

BSF kills BD national along Nilphamari border

BSF kills BD national along Nilphamari border

-- 2019-01-15 20:04:14

A Bangladeshi national was shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Bhujaripara border under Dimla upazila in Nilphamari early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Khal...

Eskaton double murder case verdict on Jan 30

Eskaton double murder case verdict on Jan 30

-- 2019-01-15 19:43:59

The verdict on the New Eskaton double murder case against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of former Awami League MP Pinu Khan, will now be delivered on January 30. Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Session's Jud...

Cuban President, Czech PM greet Hasina

Cuban President, Czech PM greet Hasina

-- 2019-01-15 17:35:08

President of the Council of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, in a message, congratulated Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on her reelection as Pri...