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29 Bangladeshi workers return home from Libya

29 Bangladeshi workers return home from Libya

-- 2019-07-02 12:35:02

Twenty-nine Bangladeshi workers returned home willingly from volatile Libya on Tuesday. A Turkish Airlines flight carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5:20am, said pr...

Ninth wage board award within July: Quader

Ninth wage board award within July: Quader

-- 2019-07-02 12:32:37

The ninth wage board award for journalists and employees of newspapers and news agencies will be announced this month, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said. He said, “T...

Police recover throat-slit body of youth in Magura

Police recover throat-slit body of youth in Magura

-- 2019-07-02 11:47:06

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a young man from Kerinagar village of Mohammadpur upazila of Magura on Tuesday morning. The identity of the deceased, aged around 30, could not be known immed...

PM Hasina joins WEF Annual Meeting

PM Hasina joins WEF Annual Meeting

-- 2019-07-02 11:23:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has joined the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in China. More than 1,800 leaders including heads of state and government, busi...

BIDA one-stop phase-2 work to end by Sept

BIDA one-stop phase-2 work to end by Sept

Saif Uddin 2019-07-02 10:48:24

The second phase work of virtual One-Stop Service (OSS) under the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) is scheduled to be completed by September, officials said. After that, investo...

NBR lifts VAT, SD on diaper, sanitary pad raw materials

NBR lifts VAT, SD on diaper, sanitary pad raw materials

FE Report 2019-07-02 10:31:32

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted Value Added Tax (VAT) and Supplementary Duty (SD) on import of raw materials for producing sanitary napkin and diaper in a bid to make their prices a...

Main focus on investment as PM lands in China

Main focus on investment as PM lands in China

-- 2019-07-02 10:18:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in China on a five-day official visit -- her first to the Asian superpower after forming government for a third straight term. A VVIP flight of Bangladesh Bim...

Rifat murder: Prime accused dies in ‘gunfight’

Rifat murder: Prime accused dies in ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-07-02 09:34:58

Prime accused of the Rifat Sharif murder case Sabbir Ahmed alias Nayon Bond was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Barguna sadar upazila early Tuesday. A team of police led by Additional Su...

Child rape rose alarmingly by 41pc in Jan-June

Child rape rose alarmingly by 41pc in Jan-June

FE Online Report 2019-07-01 21:22:33

Child rape across the country rose alarmingly by 41 per cent in the first six months of the current calendar year, compared to that of the corresponding period in 2018, according to a report by a c...

Ershad on life support: Health minister

Ershad on life support: Health minister

-- 2019-07-01 21:13:44

The condition of ailing Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, has deteriorated further and has been placed on life support. Health Min...

Repair work of flood control  structures going on in Sylhet

Repair work of flood control structures going on in Sylhet

Our Correspondent 2019-07-01 21:08:39

SYLHET, July 01: Emergency protection and reconstruction works on the flood control embankments and structures in different districts of Sylhet division are going on. The Water Development Board (WDB...

Law ministry officials get 109 luxury cars

Law ministry officials get 109 luxury cars

-- 2019-07-01 20:30:43

Law, Justice and Parliamentary affairs ministry on Monday handed over keys of a total 109 vehicles to its officials including additional district judges and session judges. A total of 62 additional d...

'New faces to get priority for appointment as DAG'

'New faces to get priority for appointment as DAG'

-- 2019-07-01 20:25:09

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Monday said that new appointments will be made in the post of deputy attorney general (DAG) and new faces will be given priority in this.  “I had asked the law o...

Attack on Hasina's train in 1994: Verdict on Wednesday

Attack on Hasina's train in 1994: Verdict on Wednesday

-- 2019-07-01 20:21:03

The verdict in a case filed over the bomb attack on a train carrying then opposition leader and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina in Pabna in 1994 will be delivered on Wednesday. Judge of the Addi...

15 Bangladeshis killed along border in Jan-May

15 Bangladeshis killed along border in Jan-May

FE Online Report 2019-07-01 18:30:57

A total of 15 Bangladeshis were killed in incidents of violence along the country's border in the first five months of the current calendar year, according to a local independent rights and legal aid...

Leftist parties call half-day strike for July 7 over gas price

Leftist parties call half-day strike for July 7 over gas price

-- 2019-07-01 18:11:06

The Left Democratic Alliance has called a half-day nationwide general strike for July 7, protesting a gas price hike. The leftist alliance took the decision after an urgent meeting of the party in Dh...

Rich tributes paid to Holey Artisan victims

Rich tributes paid to Holey Artisan victims

-- 2019-07-01 17:57:49

People from all walks of life on Monday paid rich tributes to victims of the Holey Artisan cafe attack by placing wreaths at the site of the country’s deadliest terrorist incident in capital&rsq...

PM leaves Dhaka for China

PM leaves Dhaka for China

-- 2019-07-01 17:49:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Monday afternoon for Dalian and Beijing on a five-day official visit, which is expected to bolster ties with Bangladesh and China. A special flight of Biman...

Govt uncomfortable over gas price hike: Obaidul Quader

Govt uncomfortable over gas price hike: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-07-01 17:46:02

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said the government is uncomfortable due to the gas price hike. "I've talked to the Energy Ministry and the Energy Regulatory Commission....

9,862 candidates pass in 38th BCS written test

9,862 candidates pass in 38th BCS written test

-- 2019-07-01 17:36:40

The Bangladesh Public Service Commission has published the results of the written tests under the 38th BCS examinations choosing 9,862 examinees for viva voce. The results are now available on its we...

Cancellation of any hajj flight unlikely this year: Biman

Cancellation of any hajj flight unlikely this year: Biman

-- 2019-07-01 17:23:17

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is not fearing cancellation of any hajj flight due to scarcity of passengers this year as the airlines has already sold 99 per cent tickets of its 365 hajj flights. Biman&rs...

HC hands over suspended DIG Mizan to police

HC hands over suspended DIG Mizan to police

-- 2019-07-01 16:47:43

The High Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman seeking anticipatory bail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC...

Govt assigns mobile courts to stop ads on foreign TV channels

Govt assigns mobile courts to stop ads on foreign TV channels

-- 2019-07-01 16:24:12

The government has decided to take action through mobile courts from Monday against airing local advertisements in foreign television channels. Information Minister Hasan Mahmud gave the information...

LDP leader Redwan detained with bullets at Dhaka airport

LDP leader Redwan detained with bullets at Dhaka airport

-- 2019-07-01 15:09:41

A leader of Liberal Democratic Party has been detained with seven bullets at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. LDP Secretary General Redwan Ahmed was detained for carrying the bullets...

BD observes third anniversary of Gulshan café attack

BD observes third anniversary of Gulshan café attack

-- 2019-07-01 14:49:14

The third anniversary of the Holey Artisan cafe attack, the deadliest militant attack in the country's history which claimed 22 lives, is being observed on Monday. Relatives and those close to the vi...

Suspended DIG Mizan skips ACC interrogation

Suspended DIG Mizan skips ACC interrogation

-- 2019-07-01 14:17:38

Suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman on Monday skipped interrogation by the Anti-Corruption Commission over bribery allegation. DIG Mizan was scheduled to appear at ACC's...

SC stays ex-MP Rana’s bail till July 8

SC stays ex-MP Rana’s bail till July 8

-- 2019-07-01 13:49:17

The Appellate Division on Monday stayed till July 8 the bail granted by the High Court to former Awami League MP from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a case filed over killing of two Ju...

Ershad’s health condition remains unchanged: GM Quader

Ershad’s health condition remains unchanged: GM Quader

-- 2019-07-01 11:55:12

The condition of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), remained unchanged, said his brother GM Quader on Monday. “Infections in his...

Ershad being given oxygen as health worsens: GM Quader

Ershad being given oxygen as health worsens: GM Quader

-- 2019-07-01 10:46:24

Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad is being given oxygen as his health has deteriorated with water in his lungs, according to his brother GM Quader. The 89-year-old former military strongm...

Road crash on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway kills three

Road crash on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway kills three

-- 2019-07-01 10:13:44

Three people were killed in an accident on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Habirbari in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh early Monday. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet, reports a news a...