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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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....
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
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