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Quader undergoes successful bypass surgery

Quader undergoes successful bypass surgery

-- 2019-03-20 16:59:10

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and also General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Obaidul Quader underwent a successful bypass surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Cardioth...

Youth killed in Ashulia

Youth killed in Ashulia

-- 2019-03-20 16:52:21

A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants in Ashulia's Jamgora area on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mamun Hossain, 22, son of Mozammel Hossain of Pirojpur village of Nagaon...

Four to die for double murder in Mymensingh

Four to die for double murder in Mymensingh

-- 2019-03-20 16:49:56

A court in Mymensing  on Wednesday sentenced four people to death for killing two siblings in Tarakanda upazila of the district in 2001. The condemned convicted are: Liakat Ali, 55, Abul Kashem,...

Death penalty for 15 in murder case over land dispute

Death penalty for 15 in murder case over land dispute

-- 2019-03-20 16:44:33

A Dhaka court has handed death penalty to 15 people for their roles in the murder of Nazrul Islam, a clothing trader in Dohar in a conflict over land a decade ago. Dhaka First Additional District and...

Three of a family suffer burn injuries in city

Three of a family suffer burn injuries in city

-- 2019-03-20 16:42:21

Three members of a family sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at their house in city's Mirpur-13 area early Wednesday. The victims are Md Hannan, 35, his wife Achia, 28, both garment worke...

HC asks Suprovat Paribahan to pay TK 1m to Abrar’s family

HC asks Suprovat Paribahan to pay TK 1m to Abrar’s family

-- 2019-03-20 15:46:26

The High Court (HC) has ordered Suprovat Paribahan to pay Tk 1.0 million to the family of BUP student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury who was killed in a road crash in the capital on Tuesday. The HC bench of J...

AL leader accuses BCL leader of mugging, extortion

AL leader accuses BCL leader of mugging, extortion

-- 2019-03-20 14:59:52

Bangladesh Chhatra League's district unit general secretary of Satkhira was accused of mugging and extortion by a local leader of ruling Awami League's municipal unit on Tuesday night. Aminur Rahman,...

HC bans making film on Jaha Alam

HC bans making film on Jaha Alam

-- 2019-03-20 14:48:06

The High Court has imposed a ban on making films and dramas on Jaha Alam, who spent three years in jail in place of the real accused in two dozen corruption cases. Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder an...

Fire at Singer warehouse in Ctg

Fire at Singer warehouse in Ctg

-- 2019-03-20 14:46:28

A fire broke out at a warehouse of Singer in Pahartoli thana in Chattogram district on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 5:45am and spread rapidly, said Jashim Uddin, deputy assistant dire...

Protesters vow to continue road safety demo until demands met

Protesters vow to continue road safety demo until demands met

Agencies 2019-03-20 14:26:21

Students demanding safer roads have given the government 48 hours to concede their demands. The agitated students ignored Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and city police chief...

Case filed over BUP student’s death

Case filed over BUP student’s death

-- 2019-03-20 12:39:52

A case has been filed in connection with the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, 20, in a road accident at Pragati Sarani in Dhaka. Brig Gen (retd) Ar...

Now schoolgirl loses leg in Jashore road crash

Now schoolgirl loses leg in Jashore road crash

-- 2019-03-20 12:12:53

A schoolgirl lost a leg in a road crash at Navaron area in Jashore’s Benapole on Wednesday. Sixth graders Nipa, Rina and Saleha were injured after a pick-up van of Polly Bidyut Samity hit their...

Train hits motorbike in Gopalganj, killing three

Train hits motorbike in Gopalganj, killing three

-- 2019-03-20 11:47:42

A train hit a motorbike at Bhennabari level crossing in Gopalganj Sadar upazila in the early hours of Wednesday, leaving the biker and two other pillion riders dead on the spot. Two of the deceased w...

Dhaka ranks worst in daily Air Quality Index

Dhaka ranks worst in daily Air Quality Index

-- 2019-03-20 11:42:27

Bangladesh's capital has been ranked worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday. Dhaka had a score of 179 at 10:50am, indicating that the air quality was unhealthy. A numerical value between...

Poor ICT infrastructure constrains e-Governance

Poor ICT infrastructure constrains e-Governance

Saif Uddin 2019-03-20 11:32:46

The lack of experts and inadequate information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure are key barriers to implementing e-government programmes, an official survey has revealed. Other fac...

Protests over BUP student's death continue

Protests over BUP student's death continue

Agencies 2019-03-20 10:52:34

Protesters have blocked the streets near Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka for the second day on Wednesday after the death of a student in a road accident. A bus operated by Suprobhat Paribahan ran over an...

BIWTA demolish 200 illegal establishments in Savar

BIWTA demolish 200 illegal establishments in Savar

-- 2019-03-20 10:50:33

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) demolished 200 illegal establishments during an eviction drive in Savar’s Aminbazar and Gabtoli area on Tuesday. Officials of BIWTA later...

Govt forms body to probe Baghaichhari killings

Govt forms body to probe Baghaichhari killings

-- 2019-03-20 10:34:19

The government has constituted a seven-member committee to investigate the incident in which gunmen in Rangamati’s Baghaichhari shot dead seven people, including election officials. Chattogram...

Official data mismatch allows traders to deprive salt farmers

Official data mismatch allows traders to deprive salt farmers

FE Report 2019-03-20 10:31:20

Three government agencies are generating three separate figures of the country's demand for salt, encouraging unscrupulous traders to import the essential item illegally and depriving the local salt...

Govt revises down ADP to Tk 1.65tn

Govt revises down ADP to Tk 1.65tn

FE Report 2019-03-20 10:28:14

The government revised the Annual Development Programme (ADP) on Tuesday, trimming the fund allocation by 4.62 per cent to Tk 1.65 trillion. In the revised ADP, the transport sector has got top pri...

Agitating students call for countrywide class boycott

Agitating students call for countrywide class boycott

-- 2019-03-19 21:19:33

The private university students, who were demonstrating on Tuesday, have called for boycotting classes in all educational institutions across the country on Wednesday. As per the announcement on Tues...

Brick kilns hurting fruit, crop growth

Brick kilns hurting fruit, crop growth

Our Correspondent 2019-03-19 21:18:40

RAJSHAHI, Mar 19: Fruits and leaves of various trees are dying due to impact of deposited dust, fumes, smoke, ash, toxic carbon and sulfur gas disposed from the brick kilns of the district. In additi...

Pointed gourd cultivators hopeful about high yield

Pointed gourd cultivators hopeful about high yield

Our Correspondent 2019-03-19 21:17:41

RANGPUR, Mar 19: The pointed gourd (Potol) cultivators in different areas of the district are hopeful about a plentiful yield of the vegetable in this current season. Motaleb, a grower of potol at Na...

Nation to sing national anthem simultaneously on Mar 26

Nation to sing national anthem simultaneously on Mar 26

-- 2019-03-19 21:05:09

The national anthem 'Amar Sonar Bangla' will be sung simultaneously across the country on the Independence Day on March 26. Educational institutions run by Bangladesh missions abroad will sing the na...

BUP students clear street after daylong protest

BUP students clear street after daylong protest

-- 2019-03-19 19:35:07

Students of the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), protesting the death of a peer after being run over by a bus, have left the street at Nodda in Dhaka following a daylong demonstration. T...

Rangamati attackers will be brought to book

Rangamati attackers will be brought to book

-- 2019-03-19 18:08:55

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday said criminals involved in the gun attack on election officials and law enforcers in Rangamati will be brought to book. He called Monday's B...

Bhutanese PM to visit BD next month

Bhutanese PM to visit BD next month

-- 2019-03-19 18:00:45

Bhutanese Premier Lotay Tshering is expected to visit Bangladesh next month at the invitation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to increase cooperation on trade, inland waterways, health and agriculture...

Govt seeking stay on Khaleda’s bail in Cumilla case

Govt seeking stay on Khaleda’s bail in Cumilla case

-- 2019-03-19 17:39:26

The government on Tuesday filed a petition seeking stay on the High Court order that had granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed over the death of eight people in an arson a...

AL leader shot dead in Rangamati

AL leader shot dead in Rangamati

-- 2019-03-19 17:38:14

Suresh Kanti Tanchangya, president of Bilaichhari upazila Awami League, was shot dead by unidentified miscreants on Tuesday. Miscreants gunned down Suresh, 45, when he was returning home from the upa...

Boutique shop owner found dead in Chattogram

Boutique shop owner found dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-03-19 17:32:34

A boutique shop owner was found dead at Halishahar in Chattogram on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Lucky Akter, 32. SM Obaidul Haq, officer-in-charge of Halishahar Police Station, said bein...