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UN wants credible polls in Bangladesh

UN wants credible polls in Bangladesh

FE Online Desk 2018-12-27 13:25:57

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all stakeholders to ensure an environment free of violence, intimidation and coercion before, during and after the general election in Bangladesh, s...

Police detain 79 in Satkhira

Police detain 79 in Satkhira

-- 2018-12-27 13:00:42

Police in special drives arrested 79 people, accused in different cases, from eight upazilas of Satkhira district from Wednesday evening to Thursday morning. Of them, 22 were arrested from Sadar upaz...

Meherpur BNP leader’s house comes under bomb attack

Meherpur BNP leader’s house comes under bomb attack

-- 2018-12-27 12:09:01

Some unidentified miscreants hurled two crude bombs at the house of Asaduzzaman Bablu, general secretary of Gangni upazila unit BNP at Cougaccha in Meherpur on Wednesday night. Tozbira Zaman, wife of...

Police recover elderly man’s body in Jashore

Police recover elderly man’s body in Jashore

-- 2018-12-27 11:42:42

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from Bhairab River in Jashore on Wednesday. Locals spotted the floating body of the elderly man at Naoapara Ferryghat in Abhoynagar upazila...

Fair election not possible under AL: Fakhrul

Fair election not possible under AL: Fakhrul

-- 2018-12-27 11:27:36

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said holding a fair election under the Awami League government is not possible. “The election process has turned into a farce and n...

Fire guts 180 rooms at Gazipur workers’ colony

Fire guts 180 rooms at Gazipur workers’ colony

-- 2018-12-27 10:41:58

At least 180 rooms at the workers colony in Chakrawarty area of Gazipur were gutted in a fire early Thursday. The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a tin-shed room of the colony aroun...

RAKUB seeks state guarantee against Tk 5.0b refinancing loan

RAKUB seeks state guarantee against Tk 5.0b refinancing loan

FE Report 2018-12-27 10:24:34

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has sought a guarantee from the government against a Tk 5.0 billion (500 crore) loan under the Bangladesh Bank (BB) refinancing scheme, officials said. The specia...

Waterway dredging to come under real-time monitoring

Waterway dredging to come under real-time monitoring

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-27 10:20:10

The dredging of inland waterways is set to come under real-time monitoring as part of a government plan to develop a web-based system to track all such schemes. Shipping ministry is working to initia...

Benefit of army presence hinges on EC: Experts

Benefit of army presence hinges on EC: Experts

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-12-27 09:37:53

The deployment of army will not deliver the goods if the Election Commission (EC) fails to play a neutral role, experts told the FE on Wednesday. Members of the armed forces have been stationed acros...

Police service association protests Dr Kamal’s remarks

Police service association protests Dr Kamal’s remarks

-- 2018-12-26 21:48:06

The Bangladesh Police Service Association on Wednesday protested the remarks of Jatiya Oikyafront convenor Dr Kamal Hossain on the law enforcement agency, saying his remarks were unexpected, unwarrant...

Bumper output makes chilli  farmers happy

Bumper output makes chilli farmers happy

Our Correspondent 2018-12-26 20:49:03

BOGURA, Dec 26: Bumper yield of chilli has made hundreds of grassroots peasants in the district happy this season. Sources said chilli production in the district has exceeded all the records in t...

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-12-26 20:46:12

GOPALGANJ, Dec 26: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in the district has taken a massive programme to grow Boro paddy on 80,690 hectares of land this season with a production target of 3...

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

-- 2018-12-26 20:44:56

RAJSHAHI, Dec 26 (BSS): Field-level agricultural extension officials and scientists concerned along with the growers are expecting a good yield of mustard seed this season as the government has taken...

AL-led alliance may win 248 seats: Survey

AL-led alliance may win 248 seats: Survey

-- 2018-12-26 20:33:47

The Awami League-led Grand Alliance is likely to get 248 seats in the upcoming 11th parliamentary election, according to a survey. The Jatiya Oikyafront (JOF) may win in 49 constituencies and three m...

Army warns against fraudulence using military identity

Army warns against fraudulence using military identity

-- 2018-12-26 20:32:53

Bangladesh Army on Wednesday issued a warning note against the vested fraudulent clique who is demanding money from election candidates promising facilities identifying themselves as army officers. A...

Quader says Dr Kamal should quit, not CEC

Quader says Dr Kamal should quit, not CEC

-- 2018-12-26 20:23:49

Claiming that the Jatiya Oikyafront chief has failed to demonstrate his leadership, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said Dr Kamal Hossain should quit taking the responsibili...

Police officials meet Dr Kamal to ‘discuss security issues’

Police officials meet Dr Kamal to ‘discuss security issues’

-- 2018-12-26 20:21:32

A team of police officials met Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain at his Motijheel chamber on Wednesday to 'discuss security issues'. The police team, led by Deputy Commissioner (Motijheel Zone) Anwar...

Three remanded over ‘distributing money among voters’ in city

Three remanded over ‘distributing money among voters’ in city

-- 2018-12-26 19:08:20

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed three people, including a businessman, on a five-day remand in a case filed for distributing money among voters to influence the national election. Those remanded ar...

HC blocks three more candidates from polls

HC blocks three more candidates from polls

-- 2018-12-26 19:03:33

The High Court (HC) has blocked three more BNP candidates from competing in the 11th national parliamentary election because their resignations from their upazila chairman posts were not accepted. Pa...

Editors' Council wants free movement of journalists’ vehicles

Editors' Council wants free movement of journalists’ vehicles

-- 2018-12-26 18:31:02

The Editors' Council has urged the election commission to ensure the free movement of journalists' vehicles for three days from December 29 to 31. The council made the call in a letter signed by its...

PM criticises Oikyafront for 'ugly attitude' at EC

PM criticises Oikyafront for 'ugly attitude' at EC

-- 2018-12-26 18:18:44

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday came down heavily on the Jatiya Oikyafront for its ugly attitude at the election commission and rebuking the police. “None i...

Bomb-making materials seized from car of BNP candidate’s brother

Bomb-making materials seized from car of BNP candidate’s brother

-- 2018-12-26 17:48:16

Police say they have seized a large quantity of materials used to make petrol bombs and other makeshift weapons from a vehicle belonging to the brother of Ishaq Quader Chowdhury, the ‘paddy shea...

EC to arrange 'mock voting' through EVMs Thursday

EC to arrange 'mock voting' through EVMs Thursday

-- 2018-12-26 17:30:14

The Election Commission (EC) will hold 'mock voting' through electronic voting machines (EVMs) in six constituencies on Thursday as part of its preparation to use the machines there instead of ballot...

Bangabandhu’s autobiography published in Assamese language

Bangabandhu’s autobiography published in Assamese language

-- 2018-12-26 17:18:44

In yet another milestone, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's much acclaimed autobiography, The Unfinished Memoirs, has been published in Assamese language. The Assamese translation of the book, writ...

BD envoy visits ailing freedom fighters at Army Hospital in Delhi

BD envoy visits ailing freedom fighters at Army Hospital in Delhi

-- 2018-12-26 17:07:59

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali on Tuesday visited a group of Bangladeshi freedom fighters who are receiving free medical treatment at the Army Hospital in New Delhi. He talked...

HC rejects writ challenging candidacy of actor Farooque

HC rejects writ challenging candidacy of actor Farooque

-- 2018-12-26 16:39:21

The High Court has rejected a writ petition filed challenging the candidature of Awami League candidate from Dhaka-17 candidacy Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque alleging Farooque is a bank loan defaulter...

Information Ministry opens media centre for polls

Information Ministry opens media centre for polls

-- 2018-12-26 16:36:00

The Information Ministry opened a media centre to disseminate the 11th national election-related information including its results at Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka city on Wednesday. “The media cent...

Oikyafront will not boycott election: Dr Kamal

Oikyafront will not boycott election: Dr Kamal

-- 2018-12-26 16:28:20

Expressing doubt about fair polls, Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain has said they will not boycott upcoming parliamentary election under any circumstances. The Gono Forum president also annou...

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road crash

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-12-26 16:16:40

Two motorcycle passengers have been killed after their vehicle was rammed by a bus in Mymensingh’s Nandail upazila. The accident occurred on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj Highway in the Chamta are...

Police officials meet Dr Kamal at his chamber

Police officials meet Dr Kamal at his chamber

-- 2018-12-26 14:41:58

A team of police officials has met Oikya Front chief Dr Kamal Hossain at his Motijheel chamber in the capital to discuss 'security issues'. The police team, led by officer-in-charge of Motijheel Poli...