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Nasrul pays visit to injured Gayeshwar

Nasrul pays visit to injured Gayeshwar

-- 2018-12-26 14:27:42

Awami League candidate for Dhaka-3 constituency Nasrul Hamid Bipu has visited his opponent BNP candidate Gayeshwar Chandra Roy who sustained injuries in an attack during electioneering on Tuesday in K...

Man dies in road crash in Gazipur

Man dies in road crash in Gazipur

-- 2018-12-26 12:56:20

A man was killed and another injured when a truck rammed a covered-van on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Rajendrapur intersection in Gazipur on Wednesday. The dead man was identified as Mosharraf Hossai...

8,539 villages now under electricity coverage in Rangpur

8,539 villages now under electricity coverage in Rangpur

-- 2018-12-26 12:48:02

The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has brought 8,539 villages of Rangpur division under electricity coverage in last ten years improving human resources, rural economy and life-style of the rural p...

Compressor blast kills man in city

Compressor blast kills man in city

-- 2018-12-26 12:16:38

A worker was killed and two others sustained burn injuries in an explosion at a tyre repair factory in the city's Shyampur area on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Nasir, 35, a worker o...

RAB seizes 5,280 yaba pills, arrests three

RAB seizes 5,280 yaba pills, arrests three

-- 2018-12-26 11:47:07

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three drug pedlars with 5,280 pieces of yaba tablets in two separate drives in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday night. RAB sources said th...

Indian prisoner dies in Jashore jail

Indian prisoner dies in Jashore jail

-- 2018-12-26 11:39:00

An Indian citizen accused in a gold smuggling case died of cardiac arrest at Jashore Central Jail on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sanzid Bharma, 48, son of Mahindar Bharma of New Delhi. J...

Two die after being hit by truck in city

Two die after being hit by truck in city

-- 2018-12-26 10:59:12

Two people were killed after being hit by a truck in the capital's Shanir Akhra area on Wednesday. The deceased have been identified as Harunur Rashid, 40, and Bashar, 31 - a truck helper and son of...

Tripura plans tea export to Bangladesh

Tripura plans tea export to Bangladesh

FE Report 2018-12-26 10:50:12

Indian northeast state of Tripura is planning to export tea to Bangladesh through participating in the auction at Sreemangal in Sylhet, according to a report published in an Indian daily on Tuesday....

Mustard growers eye bumper yield

Mustard growers eye bumper yield

Yasir Wardad 2018-12-26 10:36:42

Mustard growers have been eyeing a bumper production this season with a hope to recoup losses they suffered previously due to severe crop failures. Farmers and agriculturists expressed optimism that...

Oikya Front calls for CEC's immediate resignation

Oikya Front calls for CEC's immediate resignation

-- 2018-12-26 10:35:23

The Jatiya Oikya Front late on Tuesday demanded immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda and urged the President to replace him with a neutral person. "This shameless, incom...

"Perpetual protectionism leads to high local prices"

"Perpetual protectionism leads to high local prices"

FE Report 2018-12-26 10:32:46

Unending domestic industry protection leads to high prices of goods in the local market and consumers are made the victims, a leading economist has said. "A time-bound tariff protection can be offere...

Climate change displaces 95.7pc internally: Study

Climate change displaces 95.7pc internally: Study

FE Report 2018-12-26 09:52:12

International migration from climate change-affected areas in Bangladesh is far below than that of the internal migration, according to a new study. It said only 4.30 per cent of the respondents from...

Profuse vegetables yield cheers  Sirajganj, Sylhet growers

Profuse vegetables yield cheers Sirajganj, Sylhet growers

Our Correspondents 2018-12-25 21:47:55

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 25: Vegetable growers in the vast Barind tract are delighted as they have been getting repeated bumper yield over the last few years. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), the...

Naogaon quilt makers  passing busy time

Naogaon quilt makers passing busy time

Our Correspondent 2018-12-25 21:42:46

NAOGAON, Dec 25: In the middle of winter season, the demand for quilts increases manifold in Mohadevpur upazila of the district. The business of making hand woven quilts is an age old tradition in th...

Record 2.65m tonnes of Aman paddy output in Rangpur zone

Record 2.65m tonnes of Aman paddy output in Rangpur zone

-- 2018-12-25 21:41:37

The farmers have produced a record 1.76 million tonnes of clean Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) rice - 2.65 million tonnes of paddy - exceeding the production target by eight percent in Rangpur agriculture...

EC starts sending ballot papers to districts

EC starts sending ballot papers to districts

-- 2018-12-25 21:38:34

The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday started sending ballot papers to districts to arrange the 11th parliamentary elections on December 30. The EC will send the ballot papers to 293 constituencies...

Raheed, new DCAB president, Hasib GS

Raheed, new DCAB president, Hasib GS

-- 2018-12-25 21:01:02

Daily Prothom Alo special correspondent Raheed Ejaz and bdnews24.com senior correspondent Nurul Islam Hasib were elected president and general secretary of the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, B...

BD allowed to import power from neighbours via India

BD allowed to import power from neighbours via India

-- 2018-12-25 20:35:34

Bangladesh will be able to import power from the neighbouring countries via India as the Indian government has approved the 'Guidelines for Import/Export (Cross Border) of Electricity- 2018' which was...

Gayeshwar injured in attack during electioneering

Gayeshwar injured in attack during electioneering

-- 2018-12-25 19:49:32

At least 15 BNP leaders and activists, including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, were injured in an attack by masked men during electioneering at Chunkutia of South Keraniganj in the city on Tuesday. Local BN...

President urges countrymen to exercise voting rights

President urges countrymen to exercise voting rights

-- 2018-12-25 19:43:37

President Md Abdul Hamid has called upon the people to continue country’s ongoing development trend by franchising their voting rights in the next Jatiya Sangsad election slated for December 30....

Power generation rises by 2200MW in one year

Power generation rises by 2200MW in one year

-- 2018-12-25 19:25:45

The country's available power generation increased by about 2,200MW in the last one year while installed production capacity saw a rise by around 4,000MW, according to statistics of state-owned Power...

RAB arrests three over election manipulation charge

RAB arrests three over election manipulation charge

FE Online Report 2018-12-25 19:20:16

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested three traders red handed with Tk 85 million in cash for their alleged involvement in distributing the money for manipulating the election. The det...

Three burned as fire breaks out in Narayanganj warehouses

Three burned as fire breaks out in Narayanganj warehouses

-- 2018-12-25 18:59:03

At least three peoples sustained burn injuries as a fire broke out in two cotton warehouses at Dhamgar in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj district on Tuesday. The injured -Anowar Hossain Anu, 40, Kayum...

AL always comes to power in democratic way: Quader

AL always comes to power in democratic way: Quader

-- 2018-12-25 18:47:01

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the AL has come to power every time in democratic way by attaining the people’s mandate in elections as the party does politics for...

BNP expresses frustration over ‘growing’ election violence

BNP expresses frustration over ‘growing’ election violence

-- 2018-12-25 17:08:17

BNP on Tuesday voiced frustration over the 'growing' incidents of violence across the country, even after the army deployment. Speaking at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office,...

BGB seizes 1,850 yaba pills in C’nawabganj

BGB seizes 1,850 yaba pills in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-12-25 15:43:13

Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,850 pieces of yaba tablets from Lakkhichar frontier area under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday morning. A patrol team of BGB-53 Ba...

China biggest trade partner of BD

China biggest trade partner of BD

FE Report 2018-12-25 15:03:00

Bilateral trade between Beijing and Dhaka is growing and China has become Bangladesh's biggest trade partner. "Import and export between the two countries increased by 17 per cent and 7.0 per cent re...

Oikyafront walks out of EC meeting

Oikyafront walks out of EC meeting

-- 2018-12-25 14:54:55

Jatiya Oikyafront leaders, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Tuesday walked out of a meeting with the Election Commission (EC) as they found the Commission’s attitude to be ‘biased and impolite&...

Three suffer burns in petrol bomb attack on AL campaign

Three suffer burns in petrol bomb attack on AL campaign

-- 2018-12-25 14:32:58

Three people have suffered burn injuries after a petrol bomb attack on an Awami League campaign in Madam Bibirhat area of Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila. Four people were admitted to Chattogram Medic...

Oikyafront delegation meets CEC

Oikyafront delegation meets CEC

-- 2018-12-25 14:05:19

A 10-member Oikyafront delegation, led by its chief Dr Kamal Hossain, have sat in a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda at Nirbachan Bhaban in Dhaka. They are likely to seek the El...