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New foreign minister to focus on economic diplomacy

New foreign minister to focus on economic diplomacy

-- 2019-01-07 18:23:46

New Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said that he would focus on enhancing economic diplomacy for realising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s vision to upgrade Bangladesh to higher middle inc...

Habiganj youth gets death sentence for killing college girl

Habiganj youth gets death sentence for killing college girl

-- 2019-01-07 18:17:50

A tribunal in Sylhet on Monday sentenced a young man to death for killing a college girl after rape in 2016. The condemned convict is Ranu Roy, the boyfriend of Tonni Roy. According to the prosecuti...

Better to step than be removed: Muhith

Better to step than be removed: Muhith

-- 2019-01-07 18:00:09

Outgoing Finance Minister AMA Muhith feels that he is "lucky" about his decision to step down from the post of minister. “In one way it is good. I was not driven away, but could choose to retir...

‘Extortionist’ lynched in Chattogram

‘Extortionist’ lynched in Chattogram

-- 2019-01-07 17:34:37

A suspected extortionist was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Pahartali Bazar at Double Mooring in Chattogram on Monday. The deceased, Mohiuddin Sohel, 27, was a listed drug trader of Khulshi area and...

Ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers take oath

Ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers take oath

-- 2019-01-07 17:27:36

Ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers of new cabinet took oath on Monday following Awami League's massive victory in the 11th national election. 24 ministers, 19 state ministers and three d...

Hasina takes oath as PM for fourth term

Hasina takes oath as PM for fourth term

FE Online Desk 2019-01-07 16:02:08

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has taken oath as prime minister of Bangladesh for an unprecedented fourth term as well as third consecutive term. President Abdul Hamid administered the oath to...

RMG workers stage demo in Gazipur, Savar, Uttara; 20 hurt

RMG workers stage demo in Gazipur, Savar, Uttara; 20 hurt

-- 2019-01-07 14:05:20

Garment workers staged demonstrations in Uttara, Savar and Gazipur on Monday demanding cancellation of the 'discriminatory' wage board announced by the government for them, disrupting traffic on Dhaka...

47-member cabinet set to take oath

47-member cabinet set to take oath

-- 2019-01-07 13:58:03

The 47-member new cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will take oath at a ceremony in Bangabhaban at around 3.30 pm on Monday a week after the 11th parliamentary election was held on Decembe...

Farmer dies from electrocution

Farmer dies from electrocution

-- 2019-01-07 13:57:59

A farmer died from electrocution at Srifalkati village in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira on Monday morning. The deceased has been identified as Ichha Morol, 55, according to a news agency report. Ab...

DMP arrests 41 in anti-narcotics drive

DMP arrests 41 in anti-narcotics drive

FE Online Report 2019-01-07 13:12:52

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive arrested 41 drug suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, co...

DMP collects over Tk 2.7m in fines from traffic offenders

DMP collects over Tk 2.7m in fines from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2019-01-07 12:50:16

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Sunday realised Tk 2.717 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 4,846 cases were also filed against differ...

Japan to support smallholder farmers, Rohingyas in Bangladesh

Japan to support smallholder farmers, Rohingyas in Bangladesh

-- 2019-01-07 12:42:24

The government of Japan and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) concluded an agreement on Monday which will provide US$5 million to support Bangladeshi smallholder farmers and Rohingya peopl...

Cyclone 'Pabuk' weakens into deep depression

Cyclone 'Pabuk' weakens into deep depression

-- 2019-01-07 11:56:59

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal number-one as Cyclone 'Pabuk' weakened into deep depression over Andaman Sea....

Satkhira schoolgirl dies after being raped

Satkhira schoolgirl dies after being raped

-- 2019-01-07 11:39:54

A class three girl died after being violated allegedly by a college student at Gabtola village in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Sushmita, daughter of P...

DNCRP will install weighing scale to prevent cheating in markets

DNCRP will install weighing scale to prevent cheating in markets

Saif Uddin 2019-01-07 10:56:07

A new service to help consumers get exact weight of goods purchased in the kitchen markets will be launched at the end of this month, an official said. The service, called 'Ojon Bondhu' (Friend for w...

Kitchen market monitoring hits a snag in capital

Kitchen market monitoring hits a snag in capital

Rezaul Karim 2019-01-07 10:48:42

The kitchen market monitoring activities are seriously being hampered as required number of law enforcers are not available for conducting drives against irregularities committed by traders, officials...

Experts praise PM over new cabinet

Experts praise PM over new cabinet

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-01-07 10:26:56

Experts from different sectors hailed on Sunday Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's prudence and dynamism in forming her council of ministers. The cabinet division declared the names of 46 members for the...

New cabinet comprises 47 members

New cabinet comprises 47 members

FE Report 2019-01-07 09:59:20

A 47-member new cabinet has been declared with the induction of a crop of new and young faces to run the Sheikh Hasina-led government for the next five years. Thirty-six members [25 ministers, nine s...

Police recover unidentified body with injury marks

Police recover unidentified body with injury marks

-- 2019-01-07 09:57:54

Police recovered the unidentified body of a man from Sukhbaspur in Munshiganj sadar upazila on Sunday night. Md Aminul Islam, inspector of Hatimara Police investigation camp, said locals spotted the...

Bitter gourd farmers happy with market price in Bogura, Magura

Bitter gourd farmers happy with market price in Bogura, Magura

Our Correspondents 2019-01-06 22:06:48

BOGURA, Jan 06: The bitter gourd farmers are happy over fair market price as well as good output in Bogura district this season.  Each maund of bitter gourd is being sold at Tk 1400 to 1500 in th...

Santahar-Rohanpur rly track desire of Rajshahi people

Santahar-Rohanpur rly track desire of Rajshahi people

Our Correspondent 2019-01-06 22:01:46

RAJSHAHI, Jan 06:  A long cherished desire of millions of people of Rajshahi will be fulfilled if a project, left abandoned for the last 108 years, is implemented. With the construction of railw...

Abundant potato production likely in Naogaon

Abundant potato production likely in Naogaon

Our Correspondent 2019-01-06 22:00:57

NAOGAON, Jan 06: Cultivators and local agro-officials are expecting a bumper potato production across the district this season. Sources at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said, a total...

Two bodies recovered in B’baria, Narsingdi

Two bodies recovered in B’baria, Narsingdi

-- 2019-01-06 19:54:54

Police recovered the bodies of two young men from Brahmanbaria and Narisingdi districts on Sunday. In Brahmanbaria, police recovered the body of a young seven days after he went missing Titas River a...

Syed Ashraf laid to eternal rest at Banani graveyard

Syed Ashraf laid to eternal rest at Banani graveyard

-- 2019-01-06 19:45:10

Veteran Awami League leader and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam was laid to eternal rest at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon, three days after he breathed his last at t...

Hasina forms new cabinet sans AL allies

Hasina forms new cabinet sans AL allies

-- 2019-01-06 19:41:36

Sheikh Hasina, who has always included representatives from the Awami League’s allied parties in her administration, has not picked any of them as her new cabinet members. The Awami League won...

Journalist murder: SC scraps bail of suspended mayor

Journalist murder: SC scraps bail of suspended mayor

-- 2019-01-06 19:25:13

The Appellate Division on Sunday cancelled the six-month High Court bail of suspended Shahjadpur municipality mayor Halimul Haque Miru over Daily Samakal's Shahjadpur correspondent Abdul Hakim Shimul...

BGB recovered smuggled goods of Tk 9.03b last year

BGB recovered smuggled goods of Tk 9.03b last year

-- 2019-01-06 19:08:10

Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) in its countrywide drive last year recovered smuggled goods and contraband items worth Tk 9.03billion, says a BSS report citing a release. The smuggled contraband drugs...

Sultan of Oman, Sudanese PM greet Hasina

Sultan of Oman, Sudanese PM greet Hasina

-- 2019-01-06 18:18:03

Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said Al Said has extended his heartiest congratulations to Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on her party's absolute victory in the 11th parl...

Noakhali gang-rape: ex-AL leader, six others put on five-day remand

Noakhali gang-rape: ex-AL leader, six others put on five-day remand

-- 2019-01-06 18:12:40

A Noakhali court on Sunday placed seven accused on a five-day remand each in a case over the gang-rape of a woman in Subarnachar upazila of the district. Noakhali Senior Magistrate of No-2 Cognigenc...

Sujan urges EC for probe into polls irregularities

Sujan urges EC for probe into polls irregularities

-- 2019-01-06 18:11:01

Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) urged the Election Commission (EC) to properly investigate the irregularities took place during the 11thnational election held on December 30. "Many candidates did no...