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BIWTA evicts 15 illegal structures

BIWTA evicts 15 illegal structures

-- 2020-03-04 20:15:00

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) on Wednesday evicted 15 illegal establishments and removed 50,000 cubic feet soil from Charwashpur in Keraniganj. The evicted establishments in...

Registration for ‘Joy Bangla Concert’ begins

Registration for ‘Joy Bangla Concert’ begins

-- 2020-03-04 19:14:33

The online registration for ‘Joy Bangla Concert’ began on Tuesday focusing on ‘100 Years of Mujib’. Young Bangla, the country’s leading youth platform under Centre for R...

Kamal urges bankers to ensure better services

Kamal urges bankers to ensure better services

-- 2020-03-04 18:25:04

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday asked the Sonali Bank officials and staff to explore its potentials and opportunities as a major state-owned financial institution, delivering better se...

Fakhrul raises question about independence of judiciary

Fakhrul raises question about independence of judiciary

-- 2020-03-04 18:07:46

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday raised a question about the independence of the judiciary since a former ruling party MP and his wife was granted bail on Tuesday hours a...

Dr Kamal dissolves Gono Forum central committee

Dr Kamal dissolves Gono Forum central committee

-- 2020-03-04 18:05:44

Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain has dissolved the central committee of the party amid a deepening conflict among party leaders. Dr Kamal and took the decision exercising the power he was given...

HC seeks explanation on stand release of Pirojpur judge

HC seeks explanation on stand release of Pirojpur judge

-- 2020-03-04 17:45:49

The High Court has ordered the law ministry to explain why the stand release of Pirojpur District and Sessions Judge Abdul Mannan should not be deemed illegal. A bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and J...

Bangladeshi ‘infected with coronavirus’ in Italy

Bangladeshi ‘infected with coronavirus’ in Italy

-- 2020-03-04 15:57:15

A Bangladeshi national has been infected with coronavirus or Covid-19 in Italy, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Wednesday. The Bangladeshi was tested coron...

PM places five-point proposal for SME sector dev

PM places five-point proposal for SME sector dev

-- 2020-03-04 14:48:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed a five-point proposal for further development of the country’s potential small and medium enterprise (SME) sector. She placed the proposal while inaugura...

Sagar-Runi murder case: HC drops plea against it from cause list

Sagar-Runi murder case: HC drops plea against it from cause list

-- 2020-03-04 14:22:33

The High Court on Wednesday dropped from the cause list a petition filed by Tanvir Rahman, an accused in the journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi murder case, seeking cancellation of the c...

Dhaka, Beijing to reach new climax in economic, trade cooperation: Envoy

Dhaka, Beijing to reach new climax in economic, trade cooperation: Envoy

-- 2020-03-04 13:49:30

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Wednesday hoped that the government of Bangladesh, together with the Chinese government, will continue to introduce effective policies and measures that a...

Police arrest IU student with heroin worth Tk 5.0m

Police arrest IU student with heroin worth Tk 5.0m

-- 2020-03-04 13:23:20

A team of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) of police have arrested a university student along with 500 grams of heroin from Katakhali municipal area of Rajshahi district. Ali Aslam Hossain,...

Five die in road crashes in four districts

Five die in road crashes in four districts

-- 2020-03-04 13:11:47

At least five people, including a female schoolteacher and her daughter, were killed and eight others injured in road accidents in four districts on Wednesday. In Dhaka, a motorcyclist was killed whe...

Three hurt as CU shuttle train collides with freight train

Three hurt as CU shuttle train collides with freight train

-- 2020-03-04 12:41:47

Three people, including the loco master, were injured when a shuttle train of Chittagong University (CU) derailed after a collision with a freight train at Sholoshahar Railway Station in the port city...

PM opens national SME fair

PM opens national SME fair

-- 2020-03-04 12:31:01

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the ‘8th National SME Product Fair 2020’ at the Krishibid Institution, Bangladesh (KIB) Auditorium at Farmgate area in Dhaka. The nine-day fai...

Mubarakganj Sugar Mill exceeds cane supply target

Mubarakganj Sugar Mill exceeds cane supply target

Our Correspondent 2020-03-04 11:51:36

Mubarakganj Sugar Mill Limited (MSM) has exceeded target of cane supply during the current crushing season. Earlier, the mill set a supply target of 1,30,000 metric tonnes (MT) of sugarcane for the o...

Napier grass farming proves lucrative in Rangpur district

Napier grass farming proves lucrative in Rangpur district

Our Correspondent 2020-03-04 11:44:07

The cultivation of Napier grass, an animal feed, has proved lucrative at different upazilas in Rangpur district in recent years as the farmers are getting financially benefited through its farming. A...

Noakhali road crash kills schoolteacher, daughter

Noakhali road crash kills schoolteacher, daughter

-- 2020-03-04 11:37:07

A female schoolteacher and her daughter were killed and three other people injured in a road accident on Begumganj-Sonaimuri road in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali on Wednesday. The deceased were iden...

Yarn prices rise allegedly by 15pc

Yarn prices rise allegedly by 15pc

Monira Munni 2020-03-04 11:09:26

Local spinners have allegedly raised the yarn prices by 15 per cent in the domestic market taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak. Bangladesh Garment Buying House Association (BGBA) in a letter...

Coronavirus: Kuwait restricts entry from BD

Coronavirus: Kuwait restricts entry from BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-03-04 10:27:00

In a move aimed at controlling the rapid spread of the disease at home, Kuwait’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday passengers from 10 nations, including Bangladesh, must produce certifica...

Togarbandh people to  get floating bridge

Togarbandh people to get floating bridge

Our Correspondent 2020-03-04 00:43:56

FARIDPUR, Mar 03: The dream of about 12,000 people of six unions, including the Togarbandh union under Alfadanga upazila in the district, is about to be fulfilled as a 9,000-foot-long floating bridge...

0.54m tonnes of coal pilfered from Barapukuria: CAB

0.54m tonnes of coal pilfered from Barapukuria: CAB

-- 2020-03-03 21:25:04

The actual quantity of stolen coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mine was 0.54m tonnes higher than what was estimated by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC). An investigation commission of Consumers Ass...

Avoid unnecessary foreign tours, health minister suggests

Avoid unnecessary foreign tours, health minister suggests

-- 2020-03-03 18:16:53

Health Minister Zahid Malik has suggested the countrymen not to make unnecessary foreign trips as deadly novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread to 60 countries across the globe.  “It&rsqu...

Teachers urge govt to make their jobs permanent

Teachers urge govt to make their jobs permanent

-- 2020-03-03 17:34:31

An organisation of teachers on Tuesday urged the government to make their jobs permanent within a short time. They made the call at a human chain at Jatiya Press Club in the capital. "We’ve be...

ECNEC approves Tk 7.32b project for emergency water supply

ECNEC approves Tk 7.32b project for emergency water supply

-- 2020-03-03 17:32:53

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project with an estimated cost of Taka 7.32 billion to supply emergency water in Dhaka city. The approval came from the...

Bangabandhu rail bridge cost to go up by Tk 70.47b

Bangabandhu rail bridge cost to go up by Tk 70.47b

-- 2020-03-03 17:14:43

Total cost for the Bangabandhu Railway Bridge Project, to be implemented by Bangladesh Railway under the Ministry of Railways within December 2025, reached Taka 167.81 billion. The Executive Committe...

BGB-villagers clash claims four lives in Khagrachhari

BGB-villagers clash claims four lives in Khagrachhari

-- 2020-03-03 16:35:18

At least four people, including a member of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), were killed in a clash between BGB members and villagers at Gazinagar Bazar area in Matiranga upazila of Khagrachhari dis...

Former AL MP Awal, wife land in jail in graft cases

Former AL MP Awal, wife land in jail in graft cases

-- 2020-03-03 15:55:47

A Pirojpur court on Tuesday ordered to send former Awami League MP AKM Awal and his wife Lyla Parveen to jail in three separate graft cases on charges of grabbing government land. District and Sessio...

Assistant teachers urge govt to make their jobs permanent

Assistant teachers urge govt to make their jobs permanent

-- 2020-03-03 14:25:23

An organisation of primary assistant teachers on Tuesday urged the government to make their jobs permanent within a short time. They made the call at a human chain at Jatiya Press Club in the capital...

BNP's Ishraque files plea seeking reelection to DSCC

BNP's Ishraque files plea seeking reelection to DSCC

FE Online Report 2020-03-03 14:21:58

BNP mayoral candidate in recently-held Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections Ishraque Hossain has filed a petition with the election tribunal seeking cancellation of the gazette on DSCC electi...

Country's internet subscribers reach 99.24 million

Country's internet subscribers reach 99.24 million

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-03-03 13:54:58

The total number of internet subscribers has reached 99.246 million at the end of January 2020, according to the statistics of the country's telecom regulator. There were 91.421 million subscribers a...