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SoEs get bounty amid worries over default

SoEs get bounty amid worries over default

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-02-09 10:20:08

The pace of converting debts of state firms into equity picked up after the government implemented its new pay scale in 2015, officials said. So far, the government has converted over Tk 65 billion...

Quota-revival protesters block Shahbagh intersection

Quota-revival protesters block Shahbagh intersection

-- 2019-02-08 23:01:31

A group of freedom fighters’ descendants have demonstrated at Shahbagh in Dhaka blocking the key intersection for several hours to demand that the government revive 30 per cent quota for them in...

Noakhali road crash kills three army men

Noakhali road crash kills three army men

-- 2019-02-08 22:04:00

Three army personnel were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Subarnachar upazila in Noakhali on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as sepoys Mamun, Foyez and Firoz of th...

Two ASIs of police arrested for kidnapping three youths

Two ASIs of police arrested for kidnapping three youths

-- 2019-02-08 19:46:13

Two assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) of police -- one from Gazipur and other from Tangail -- have been arrested reportedly for kidnapping three friends from Gazipur and demanding Tk 3.0 million as rans...

BD urges India to share water of common rivers

BD urges India to share water of common rivers

-- 2019-02-08 19:08:01

Bangladesh has urged India to take steps for sharing the water of all common rivers and resolving the long-pending Teesta water-sharing deal. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen raised the issue at th...

Sharp decline in number of prisoners in last 21 days

Sharp decline in number of prisoners in last 21 days

FE Online Report 2019-02-08 18:48:25

The number of prisoners in the country saw a sharp decline in the last 21 days. As on January 18, the number of inmates was 92, 845 which declined to 87, 473 in February 8, 2019, according to the dat...

BD, India sign four MoUs to strengthen ‘multifaceted cooperation’

BD, India sign four MoUs to strengthen ‘multifaceted cooperation’

-- 2019-02-08 18:33:11

Bangladesh and India signed four MoUs on Friday to further strengthen the existing "multifaceted cooperation" between the two countries. The MoUs were signed at the fifth meeting of the Bangladesh-In...

Gopalganj road crash leaves two dead

Gopalganj road crash leaves two dead

-- 2019-02-08 16:55:36

A woman and her mother-in-law were killed in a collision between a motorcycle and human hauler at Devgram in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila on Friday morning. The dead were identified as Mansur...

Police recover body of youth from septic tank in Satkhira

Police recover body of youth from septic tank in Satkhira

-- 2019-02-08 16:16:29

A youth was found dead inside a septic tank at a local madrasha in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira on Thursday midnight. The dead was identified as Jahangir Hossain, 24, son of Khokon Gazi of Razapur v...

Maldives arrests 80 Bangladeshis

Maldives arrests 80 Bangladeshis

-- 2019-02-08 15:18:35

The immigration authorities in Maldives have arrested 80 Bangladeshis in a crackdown on undocumented expatriate workers. In a Twitter post, Maldives Immigration said the operation to detect the undoc...

Khaleda completes one year behind bars

Khaleda completes one year behind bars

-- 2019-02-08 14:57:40

BNP leaders thought Khaleda Zia would be out on bail after she was sentenced to prison for graft involving the Zia Orphanage Trust. It never happened. Instead they saw another graft verdict being ann...

Malaysia detains 68 Bangladeshis

Malaysia detains 68 Bangladeshis

-- 2019-02-08 14:50:52

Around 100 expatriates, 68 of whom are Bangladeshis, have been detained in a police operation during the Chinese New Year holiday in Kuala Lumpur. Many expatriates were detained earlier in the year w...

Fire guts 13 shops in Mirsarai

Fire guts 13 shops in Mirsarai

-- 2019-02-08 14:37:37

At least 13 shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at College Bazar Road in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram early Friday. Jashimuddin, Assistant director of Chattogram Fire Service and Civil Defe...

Man dies as truck plunges in Bogura

Man dies as truck plunges in Bogura

-- 2019-02-08 12:40:10

A man was killed when a truck plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhanut-Sherpur road at Boalkandi in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as truck helper Aminul Islam,...

Police recover Saudi national’s body in Mymensingh

Police recover Saudi national’s body in Mymensingh

-- 2019-02-08 12:10:34

A Saudi national was found dead at his friend's house at Douhakhala village in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abu Naser, 55, a resident of Dammam in...

Miscreants stab AL leader dead in Pabna

Miscreants stab AL leader dead in Pabna

-- 2019-02-08 11:39:15

A local leader of Awami League was stabbed to death allegedly by miscreants at Char Shibrampur in Sadar upazila of Pabna on Thursday. The dead man was Khairul Islam, 42, convener of Ward no. 9 Hemaye...

Assailants shoot PCJSS activist dead in Khagrachhari

Assailants shoot PCJSS activist dead in Khagrachhari

-- 2019-02-08 11:29:11

An activist of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) was gunned down by assailants in front of a hotel in Khagrachhari’s Panchhari upazila on Thursday evening. The victim wa...

Rohingya shifting to Bhasan Char unlikely before monsoon

Rohingya shifting to Bhasan Char unlikely before monsoon

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-02-08 11:21:56

The government's plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char may not be implemented before the end of the upcoming monsoon. Earlier, the government took a move to start the relocation to the is...

Court fixes Feb 27 for defence hearing of Gatco case

Court fixes Feb 27 for defence hearing of Gatco case

-- 2019-02-07 21:45:19

A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed February 27 for starting defence hearing of the Gatco corruption case against BNP chief Khaleda Zia and others, reports UNB. Judge Abu Syed Diljar Hossain of the Speci...

Absence of pucca bridge over Iramati Khal  causes suffering to Bogura UZ commuters

Absence of pucca bridge over Iramati Khal causes suffering to Bogura UZ commuters

Our Correspondent 2019-02-07 21:29:18

BOGURA, Feb 07: The absence of a concrete bridge over Iramaty Khal is causing serious setback for thousands of commuters under Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura district for a long time. Local political...

Indonesia police find 193 Bangladeshis locked up in shop house

Indonesia police find 193 Bangladeshis locked up in shop house

-- 2019-02-07 21:24:06

Indonesian police found 193 Bangladeshis locked up in a shop house after human traffickers had lured them with the promise of getting them to Malaysia, an immigration official said on Thursday. The m...

BSTI destroys 2,000 jars of unhygienic water in city

BSTI destroys 2,000 jars of unhygienic water in city

FE Online Report 2019-02-07 19:17:00

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Thursday destroyed a total of 2,000 substandard water jars at different parts of the capital. The jars were torn down as untreated and unhyg...

ACC arrests four passport officials for irregularities

ACC arrests four passport officials for irregularities

FE Online Report 2019-02-07 18:27:04

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) conducted drives at passport offices in seven districts on Thursday following allegations lodged through its hotline of irregularities and harassment by officials....

Govt policy to bar private coaching legal: HC

Govt policy to bar private coaching legal: HC

-- 2019-02-07 18:22:45

The High Court on Thursday declared a government policy valid, barring teachers of both government and private educational institutions from getting involved in coaching business. The HC bench of Jus...

Human rights violators ‘will be brought to book’

Human rights violators ‘will be brought to book’

FE Online Report 2019-02-07 18:11:04

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday warned of tougher actions against the human rights violators in the country. He said, “The government has made its position clear about human rights violatio...

Human hauler registration drops significantly last year

Human hauler registration drops significantly last year

FE Online Report 2019-02-07 17:56:02

Human hauler registrations in the country witnessed a significant decline in 2018 compared to those in 2017. A total of 1,423 human haulers were registered in 2018, while it was 3,393 the year before...

Mud collapse kills two children in Kushtia

Mud collapse kills two children in Kushtia

-- 2019-02-07 16:37:59

Two minor boys were killed and another was injured as mud collapsed on them while they were playing in Ghordoho Khal Para in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia on Thursday noon. The dead were identified as Ak...

Rizvi urges Quader to join BNP

Rizvi urges Quader to join BNP

-- 2019-02-07 16:08:51

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has invited Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader to join BNP as its adviser since he has long been giving the party various suggestions....

Kushtia man gets death for killing teenager

Kushtia man gets death for killing teenager

-- 2019-02-07 16:07:10

A man has been sentenced to death for murdering a 14-year-old boy in Kushtia. Kushtia’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Munshi Md Moshiar Rahman gave the verdict in the...

Play due role in ensuring constitutional stability: PM to Armed Forces

Play due role in ensuring constitutional stability: PM to Armed Forces

-- 2019-02-07 15:03:21

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the Armed Forces to play the due role in advancing the nation as well as maintaining democratic and constitutional stability in the country. “Bang...