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Delhi meeting to review progress in LoC projects

Delhi meeting to review progress in LoC projects

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-12-01 09:43:13

Dhaka and Delhi are going to review again the progress in execution of projects under the Indian Lines of Credit (LoCs) this month in New Delhi, officials have said. The officials on Friday said a Ba...

Suicide tendency at DU on rise

Suicide tendency at DU on rise

UNB 2018-11-30 21:05:58

Suicide tendency is on the rise at an alarming rate among the students of Dhaka University (DU) in recent times. So far this year, eight students have committed suicide. Three students killed selves...

Bleak future awaits defectors: Quader

Bleak future awaits defectors: Quader

-- 2018-11-30 20:47:55

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says that those who defected from the party to join the Jatiya Oikya Front have a bleak future. “They were once a part of the Awami League. Their s...

Police recovers bodies of elderly couple in Barguna

Police recovers bodies of elderly couple in Barguna

-- 2018-11-30 20:33:14

An elderly couple was found dead at their house at Nali in Barguna Sadar upazila on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Abdul Mannan, 75, and his wife Fatema Begum, 60. Police detained c...

Freedom fighter difficult to find in Jamaat: Muhith

Freedom fighter difficult to find in Jamaat: Muhith

-- 2018-11-30 19:29:54

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said it is difficult to find any freedom fighter in Jamaat-e-Islami as the party worked against the country during the Liberation War. “Jamaat-e-Islami is...

PM attends meeting of Bangabandhu Memorial Trust

PM attends meeting of Bangabandhu Memorial Trust

-- 2018-11-30 19:28:33

A meeting of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust was held at the Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi area in Dhaka on Friday. Chairperson of the trust and Bangabandh...

BGB seizes six kg gunpowder in C’nawabganj

BGB seizes six kg gunpowder in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-11-30 18:40:37

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized six kilograms of gunpowder from bordering Wahedpur area of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Friday morning. Lt Col Sajjad Sarwar, commandin...

Yarn warehouse catches fire in Chattogram

Yarn warehouse catches fire in Chattogram

-- 2018-11-30 18:39:37

A fire broke out at a yarn warehouse at Chaktai in Chattogram on Friday afternoon. Jasim Uddin, deputy assistant director of Chattogram Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire originated at the...

Bill placed in US Congress against Jamaat, Shibir

Bill placed in US Congress against Jamaat, Shibir

-- 2018-11-30 17:54:41

A bill was introduced in the US Congress against radical groups and parties in Bangladesh, including Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir. According to the bipartisan bill, the organisations pos...

BNP criticises PM for electoral code 'violation'

BNP criticises PM for electoral code 'violation'

-- 2018-11-30 16:55:25

BNP on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina herself creating barriers towards ensuring a level-playing field by 'violating' the electoral code of conduct. "Over 150 retired army officers...

Road crashes leave two dead in Rajshahi

Road crashes leave two dead in Rajshahi

-- 2018-11-30 15:57:47

Two people, including an octogenarian woman were killed in two separate road crashes in Rajshahi district on Friday. The victims were identified as Rahima Begum, 80, and Akbar Ali, 48, reports BSS....

Girls in Nageshwari stand up against child marriage

Girls in Nageshwari stand up against child marriage

Sajibur Rahman, back from Kurigram 2018-11-30 15:20:55

Family members of 12-year-old Sharmin (not real name) have completed all the arrangements. This is one of their repeated attempts to marry their daughter off forcefully. Fortunately, the juvenile gir...

No AL candidate in 36 seats, no BNP for five

No AL candidate in 36 seats, no BNP for five

-- 2018-11-30 14:39:25

No candidate has submitted nomination papers from the Awami League for 36 parliamentary constituencies while the number is five for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The number of candidates wh...

AL election manifesto by Dec 15, says Quader

AL election manifesto by Dec 15, says Quader

-- 2018-11-30 14:23:17

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said his party's manifesto for the 11th parliamentary elections will be unveiled by December 15. The plan to transform villages into townships...

Police detain three over madrasa student death

Police detain three over madrasa student death

-- 2018-11-30 13:09:36

A madrasa student was found hanging from a window grill the premises of the institution in Feni on Thursday evening. The student was identified as Zahurul Islam, 13, son of Abdul Awal of East Ukilpar...

Krishak League man dies after being stabbed

Krishak League man dies after being stabbed

-- 2018-11-30 13:03:26

An active member of local unit of Krishak League was stabbed to death allegedly by some miscreants at Baburbazar in the municipality area of Netrokona district on Thursday. The deceased was identifie...

Fuel charge mooted to raise funds for road maintenance

Fuel charge mooted to raise funds for road maintenance

FE Report 2018-11-30 11:59:34

The road maintenance authority has finalised a draft guideline of the 'road fund' with a provision of paying charge for fuel use. Fuel charge is one of the options mooted to increase funds for mainte...

Cops detain 16 in Habiganj

Cops detain 16 in Habiganj

-- 2018-11-30 11:48:01

Police arrested 16 people including nine wanted accused and seven accused in regular cases from different areas of Habiganj district in last 12-hour ending at 9:00 am on Friday morning. Detective Bra...

Arable land acreage falls on grabbing, acquisition

Arable land acreage falls on grabbing, acquisition

FE Report 2018-11-30 11:37:01

Farmland acreage keeps shrinking unabatedly in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the Asia due to illegal encroachment on the one hand and acquisition or lease of land for development of economic units and o...

Two burn to death in Shariatpur

Two burn to death in Shariatpur

-- 2018-11-30 11:36:26

Two workers of a sweetmeat shop were burned to death in a fire that broke out at Palong Bazar in Sadar upazila of Shariatpur in the early hours of Friday. The victims were identified as Palash, 25, s...

RAB detains 10 Malaysia-bound Rohingyas

RAB detains 10 Malaysia-bound Rohingyas

-- 2018-11-30 11:34:14

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested ten Rohingyas and an alleged human trafficker from a trawler illegally headed for Malaysia in the bay near Shahparir Dwip in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Ba...

First death anniversary of Annisul Huq being observed

First death anniversary of Annisul Huq being observed

-- 2018-11-30 10:18:13

The first death anniversary of former Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq is being observed today (Friday). Different socio-political and business organisations have taken various programm...

HC clears BNP contestant Sabira’s participation in election

HC clears BNP contestant Sabira’s participation in election

-- 2018-11-29 21:22:42

The High Court (HC) on Thursday stayed the conviction and sentence of BNP candidate from Jashore-2 constituency Sabira Sultana in a graft case, clearing the way for her participation in the forthcomin...

T-Aman harvest progressing  fast in Sirajganj district

T-Aman harvest progressing fast in Sirajganj district

Roving Correspondent 2018-11-29 21:01:32

SIRAJGANJ, Nov 29: T-Aman rice harvest is progressing fast in the district as the growers will bring the same land under Rabi crops. Officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Aman ha...

Two to walk gallows for killing ex-Eden College teacher

Two to walk gallows for killing ex-Eden College teacher

-- 2018-11-29 20:54:57

A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced two people to death for killing former Eden Mohila College teacher Prof Ali Hossain Malik in the capital in 2016. The condemned convicts are domestic helps Sayed F...

US for strong Dhaka-Washington ties

US for strong Dhaka-Washington ties

-- 2018-11-29 20:30:13

Newly appointed US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller on Thursday said a strong Bangladesh-US relationship is in the interest of US and Bangladeshi people as well as global community. Ambassador...

Lower internet price likely from Dec

Lower internet price likely from Dec

-- 2018-11-29 20:12:38

The government is likely to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) for the backward linkage of internet service providers to 5.0 per cent with a view to lowering the internet price for the end users. &ldqu...

HC orders former mayor Khoka’s son, daughter to surrender

HC orders former mayor Khoka’s son, daughter to surrender

-- 2018-11-29 18:40:01

Ishrak Hossain and Sarika Sadeque, son and daughter of former Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, were ordered to surrender to trial courts within four weeks in a case that involves the suppression of...

BGB recovers yaba pills, hemp from Jashore

BGB recovers yaba pills, hemp from Jashore

-- 2018-11-29 18:33:07

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Thursday seized 3,945 Yaba pills and 200 grams of hemp from a mango orchard in Agravullat village of Sharsha upazila. Acting on a tip-off the team conducte...

Narsingdi BNP candidate lands in jail 

Narsingdi BNP candidate lands in jail 

-- 2018-11-29 18:27:10

BNP senior joint secretary general and the party's candidate for Narsingd-1 constituency, Khairul Kabair Khokon, was sent to jail in two cases on Thursday. Narsingdi Distract and Sessions judge Moham...