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Babar, Salam among 31 accused taken to court

Babar, Salam among 31 accused taken to court

-- 2018-10-10 11:57:14

Thirty one accused, including former State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar and former Deputy Minister for Education Abdus Salam Pintu, were produced before a special tribunal in Dhaka which is set...

Mobile phone users slam anomalies in telecom sector

Mobile phone users slam anomalies in telecom sector

FE Report 2018-10-10 10:47:14

A section of mobile phone users have observed a token strike by switching off their cell phones for one hour in protest against recent government move in increasing call rate and the prevailing chaos...

Accord starts handover of responsibility next week

Accord starts handover of responsibility next week

Monira Munni 2018-10-10 10:34:25

The global buyers' platform accord will start the process to hand over responsibility of its ongoing safety activities in the country's ready-made garment (RMG) factories to the authority concerned...

Cyclone ‘Titli’: Distant cautionary signal No 4 at maritime ports

Cyclone ‘Titli’: Distant cautionary signal No 4 at maritime ports

-- 2018-10-10 10:32:21

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal No 4 as the cyclonic storm, 'Titli', over the West-central Bay and adjoinin...

Mayanmar team due on Oct 28 to discuss Rohingya return

Mayanmar team due on Oct 28 to discuss Rohingya return

FE Report 2018-10-10 10:31:06

A Myanmar delegation is scheduled to visit Bangladesh from October 28 to October 30 to discuss the Rohingya repatriation issue. Led by Myanmar Foreign Secretary Mint Thaw, the delegation will atten...

All set for Aug 21 grenade attack verdict

All set for Aug 21 grenade attack verdict

-- 2018-10-10 09:48:34

After a long wait for over 14 years, a speedy trial tribunal is set to deliver its verdict today (Wednesday) in two cases filed over the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capita...

Early winter cabbage farmers making good profit

Early winter cabbage farmers making good profit

Our Correspondent 2018-10-09 22:06:20

BOGURA, Oct 09: Early winter cabbage farmers of Shibganj upazila in the district are happy over the bumper production and fair market prices. Favourable weather condition and timely supply of neces...

Joypurhat Sugar Mill eyes 500 tonnes of production

Joypurhat Sugar Mill eyes 500 tonnes of production

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-09 22:04:51

JOYPURHAT, Oct 09: Authority of the Joypurhat Sugar Mill is expecting to produce around 500 tonnes of sugar this season. The mill official sources said farmers of the district have brought over 6,500...

PM stresses proper use of maritime resources

PM stresses proper use of maritime resources

-- 2018-10-09 21:53:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said there is a huge potential of maritime sector in South Asia and proper utilisation of maritime resources is very necessary for  socioeconomic development. Sh...

Deep depression intensifies into cyclone Titli

Deep depression intensifies into cyclone Titli

-- 2018-10-09 21:04:16

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm, Titli, , said a Met office special bulletin. The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra were adv...

No step taken yet to stop oil spillage in Meghna

No step taken yet to stop oil spillage in Meghna

-- 2018-10-09 21:02:39

A thick layer of oil was seen floating on the Meghna River as the oil spillage could not be stopped till Tuesday after an oil-tanker capsized in the river at Raghurchar village in Gazaria upazila on F...

Govt working for CHT development: Secretary

Govt working for CHT development: Secretary

-- 2018-10-09 21:02:13

Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Ministry Secretary Md Nurul Amin on Tuesday said that the government wants to make sure all children in the CHT region get education. He made the remark while spe...

President stresses low-cost legal services

President stresses low-cost legal services

-- 2018-10-09 19:36:23

President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday asked lawyers and others concerned to ensure that the general people can get their legal support easily at low cost. “Consider the financial condition of the...

Woman to die for killing husband in B’baria

Woman to die for killing husband in B’baria

-- 2018-10-09 18:28:09

A Brahmanbaria court on Tuesday sentenced a woman and three others to death for killing her husband over extramarital affair in 2009. The convicts are Kohinur Begum, Doha alias Duissa, Abul Khayer an...

Ensure Digital Security Act in line with human rights law

Ensure Digital Security Act in line with human rights law

-- 2018-10-09 18:22:23

UN Human Rights body has called on Bangladesh to urgently revise the Digital Security Act and ensure that it is in line with international human rights law. The rights body wants to see that the law...

Woman, three accomplices to walk gallows for killing husband

Woman, three accomplices to walk gallows for killing husband

-- 2018-10-09 18:12:38

A woman and her three accomplices have got death penalty in a case filed over the murder of her husband in Nabinagar Upazila of Brahmanbaria district. Brahmanbaria Additional District and Sessions Ju...

Two die as sunshade collapses in Khulna

Two die as sunshade collapses in Khulna

-- 2018-10-09 18:02:20

Two siblings died in sunshade collapse of an under-construction building in Deana Uttarpara area under Daulatpur police station in Khulna district on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased were identified a...

No security threat over Aug 21 grenade attack verdict: DMP

No security threat over Aug 21 grenade attack verdict: DMP

-- 2018-10-09 17:45:42

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia  on Tuesday said there is no security threat in the cases regarding August 21, 2004 grenade attack. “The verdict in the Augu...

'Rumour detection to start activities this month'

'Rumour detection to start activities this month'

-- 2018-10-09 16:31:17

The social media rumour detection and monitoring cell will start its activities within this month, said State Minister for Information Tarana Halim. She informed that the government has formed a nine...

CU teacher Maidul gets six-month bail

CU teacher Maidul gets six-month bail

-- 2018-10-09 14:54:51

The High Court has granted six-month bail to Maidul Islam, an ssistant professor of Chittagong University (CU), in a case filed for making 'derogatory remarks' about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Fa...

Foot Overbridges: Accessibility remains a sticking point

Foot Overbridges: Accessibility remains a sticking point

-- 2018-10-09 13:48:10

Patients, the physically-challenged, women, the elderly and children often fail to avail themselves of overbridges to cross roads as they severely run out of energy while climbing them up, some of whi...

UK announces $22.25m fund for Rohingyas

UK announces $22.25m fund for Rohingyas

-- 2018-10-09 13:42:16

The United Kingdom has announced a new contribution of $22.25 million US dollar to help meet the immediate food and nutrition needs of Rohingya refugees living in Cox's Bazar. The United Nations Worl...

Naogaon road crash kills three

Naogaon road crash kills three

-- 2018-10-09 13:22:17

Three people were killed when a truck rammed their motorbike on Mohadebpur-Patnitola road in Patnitola upazila headquarters in Naogaon on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Abdus Salam, 45, son...

13 get jail terms for violating hilsa fishing ban

13 get jail terms for violating hilsa fishing ban

-- 2018-10-09 12:40:14

A total of thirteen fishermen were sentenced to 15-day jail term each in Naria upazila early Tuesday for catching hilsa from the Padma River defying a government ban. A team of Upazila Fisheries Depa...

Three new Appellate Division judges take oath

Three new Appellate Division judges take oath

-- 2018-10-09 12:10:44

Three judges, who were appointed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday, have been sworn in. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain administered the oath at the Supreme Court Judges' Lou...

Conducive environ a far cry: Jt UN assessment

Conducive environ a far cry: Jt UN assessment

FE Report 2018-10-09 11:21:14

Conducive environment for Rohingya repatriation in Myanmar's Rakhine state still remains a far cry, a joint assessment report said. Many communities, especially the Muslims are not allowed to move fr...

Passports in a day likely

Passports in a day likely

Munima Sultana 2018-10-09 10:06:05

The government has planned to issue passport in a single day to meet emergency needs of citizens. Officials said before introducing the super express service, the Department of Immigration and Pass...

Commercial banana cultivation gains  ground in Rajshahi district

Commercial banana cultivation gains ground in Rajshahi district

Our Correspondent 2018-10-08 21:46:01

RAJSHAHI, Oct 08: Commercial cultivation of banana is gaining ground in the district. According to sources, the price of banana remained dull during last year. But, this year the price of banana pr...

Malta farming brings smile on faces  of Chapainawabganj peasants

Malta farming brings smile on faces of Chapainawabganj peasants

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-08 21:44:53

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 8: Commercial malta farming has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of grassroots peasants in the district this season. Sources said BARI-1 malta variety is popular among th...

56 teachers of MBSTU resign over BCL humiliation

56 teachers of MBSTU resign over BCL humiliation

-- 2018-10-08 21:32:01

56 teachers of Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) in Tangail on Monday submitted resignation letters as their colleagues were allegedly humiliated by Bangladesh Chhatra League...