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IEDCR suggests home  quarantine for returnees   

IEDCR suggests home quarantine for returnees  

-- 2020-03-01 17:14:10

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research has suggested people returning from countries having coronavirus infection cases to quarantine themselves at home even if they do not show...

Onion price downtrend causes mixed reaction among Magura people

Onion price downtrend causes mixed reaction among Magura people

Our Correspondent 2020-03-01 15:53:05

Downtrend of onion price has caused a mixed reaction among the people in the district. Onion was sold at Tk 250 per kg around two months back and it was Tk 140 to Tk 150 per kg one week ago. Now on...

Sand lifting continues from Jamuneshwari river

Sand lifting continues from Jamuneshwari river

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-03-01 15:42:52

A section of unscrupulous people are lifting sand from Jamuneshwari river at Hansia village of Balua Mashimpur union in Mithapukur upazila under Rangpur district. As a result a good number of establi...

Plastic policy suggests national council

Plastic policy suggests national council

TALHA BIN HABIB 2020-03-01 15:23:30

The government has drafted a plastic and packaging policy with some provisions that include formation of a national council and specific timeframe for implementing it. Besides, the policy stresses th...

Tangail lemon growers happy with market price

Tangail lemon growers happy with market price

Our Correspondent 2020-03-01 15:11:42

Lemon growers of the district are happy over the present market price of their produce. Many poor and ultra-poor people in the district have become self-reliant by growing lemon on commercial basis....

Work starts to dredge Arial Khan banks to prevent erosion

Work starts to dredge Arial Khan banks to prevent erosion

Our Correspondent 2020-03-01 15:02:48

Work has started to dredge river banks to prevent erosion by Arial Khan river at Sadarpur of Faridpur. On completion of the work, it will be possible to prevent yearly erosion in the river. In addi...

Poultry breeding farm suffers from shortage of funds

Poultry breeding farm suffers from shortage of funds

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-03-01 14:44:20

Regional poultry breeding farm in the district have been suffering for absence of modern equipment and shortage of manpower. Sources said, "It is a profitable venture but the farm is suffering for ac...

Two-month Hilsa ban begins

Two-month Hilsa ban begins

-- 2020-03-01 14:39:14

The government’s two-month ban on catching, selling and transporting of Hilsa began Sunday. A 90-kilometre stretch of the Padma and Meghna rivers has turned into a sanctuary for Hilsa after the...

Two, including BRAC Bank official, dead in Jashore road crash

Two, including BRAC Bank official, dead in Jashore road crash

-- 2020-03-01 13:12:36

Two people including a BRAC Bank official were killed after a truck hit a parked auto-rickshaw in Santola area of Jashore on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Taniya, 30, an employee of...

Moghbazar fire: One more dies at hospital

Moghbazar fire: One more dies at hospital

-- 2020-03-01 12:04:01

A woman who suffered burns in a fire at a multi-story building in Moghbazar, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Sunday morning. “Jannatul Ferdousi succumbed...

Six school students die in Netrokona road crash

Six school students die in Netrokona road crash

-- 2020-03-01 11:56:23

A pickup van collided head-on with a truck in Durgapur upazila of Netrokona on Saturday night killing six students and injuring 20 others. All those killed are students of Gauripur Hajee Amiruddin Hi...

NBR likely to slash tax exemptions in next budget

NBR likely to slash tax exemptions in next budget

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-03-01 09:53:57

The authorities are planning to scale back tax exemptions for sectors like ICT, power, charity and fisheries in the upcoming budget after flagrant abuse. The National Board of Revenue, or NBR, has un...

Six candidates contesting in Dhaka-10 by-polls

Six candidates contesting in Dhaka-10 by-polls

UNB 2020-02-29 21:17:43

Six candidates, including Awami League’s Md Shafiul Islam (Mohiuddin) and BNP’s Sheikh Robiul Alam, will contest the Dhaka-10 parliamentary by-election slated for March 21. “No cand...

'Sports, cultural practices indispensable'

'Sports, cultural practices indispensable'

-- 2020-02-29 18:59:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government wants to make the children of the country as worthy citizens keeping them away from terrorism, militancy, drugs and corruption by engaging...

42 ‘snatchers’ including ‘Salam Party’ members held in city

42 ‘snatchers’ including ‘Salam Party’ members held in city

-- 2020-02-29 16:52:35

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested 42 snatchers, including members of ‘Salam party’, a gang of snatchers, in separate drives in the city on Friday. DB police conducted dr...

Two BD nationals recover from coronavirus in Singapore

Two BD nationals recover from coronavirus in Singapore

-- 2020-02-29 16:50:55

Two Bangladeshi nationals have recovered from bouts with the novel coronavirus in Singapore. But the government's disease control agency, IEDCR, advised greater caution while pointing out that the ch...

26 Nilphamari EPZ workers hospitalised with breathing problems

26 Nilphamari EPZ workers hospitalised with breathing problems

-- 2020-02-29 16:35:41

Some 26 workers of a Chinese company of Uttara Export Processing Zone were admitted to Adhunik Sadar Hospital in Nilphamari on Saturday morning with breathing problems. Civil surgeon Ranajit Kumar Ro...

BNP announces nationwide protest over power, water tariff hike

BNP announces nationwide protest over power, water tariff hike

-- 2020-02-29 15:20:38

Describing the government’s move to increase the tariffs of power and water as an ‘anti-people move’, BNP has decided to organise human chain programmes across the country, including...

Six die in Rajshahi road accident

Six die in Rajshahi road accident

-- 2020-02-29 14:51:35

At least six people were killed after a car slammed into a tree at Kadirpur area in Godabari upazila of Rajshahi district on Saturday. The accident took place on the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj road in...

‘Robber’ dies in Moulvibazar ‘gunfight'

‘Robber’ dies in Moulvibazar ‘gunfight'

-- 2020-02-29 14:11:08

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Bortola area in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Bulu Mia, reports UNB. Alamgir Hossain, o...

Motorcyclist dies in Manikganj road crash

Motorcyclist dies in Manikganj road crash

-- 2020-02-29 13:25:46

A motorcyclist was killed as a bus hit his vehicle on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Folsatia bus stand area in Shivalaya upazila of Manikganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Masud Rana...

Nordic countries eye stronger partnership with BD

Nordic countries eye stronger partnership with BD

-- 2020-02-29 12:35:48

The ambassadors of three Nordic countries–Denmark, Norway and Sweden–on Saturday promised to have a stronger partnership with Bangladesh with a focus on green growth and increased investme...

Woman dies in fall during snatching attempt in city

Woman dies in fall during snatching attempt in city

-- 2020-02-29 11:42:43

A woman died as she fell down from a rickshaw when muggers tried to snatch her bag on Biswa Road in Mugda area in Dhaka on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Lipa, wife of Goalm Kibria, hailing...

Three die in Cumilla road accident

Three die in Cumilla road accident

-- 2020-02-29 10:34:47

Three bus passengers were killed and 15 others injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Zinglatoli in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla on Saturday morning. The victims were identified as Shafiqu...

Govt to relax drone rules

Govt to relax drone rules

-- 2020-02-28 21:11:09

The government is loosening rules allowing use of drones for research, survey, photography, movie-making, feasibility studies and entertainment, reports bdnews24.com.  The civil aviation and tou...

Symposium on Bangladesh’s ties with Nordic countries Saturday

Symposium on Bangladesh’s ties with Nordic countries Saturday

-- 2020-02-28 20:36:24

A symposium titled 'Bangladesh and Nordic Countries: Prognosis for Partnership’ will be held at Six Seasons Hotel in the city on Saturday. Danish Ambassador to Bangladesh Winnie Estrup Petersen...

Water prices rise again in space of six months

Water prices rise again in space of six months

-- 2020-02-28 17:27:09

The Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) is raising water prices for residential and commercial users in Dhaka and Chattogram for a second time in the space of six months. The price of each uni...

Govt plans online-only college application system

Govt plans online-only college application system

-- 2020-02-28 16:51:06

The government is planning to introduce an exclusively online application system for students seeking enrolment in class XI. The move would mean that students will no longer be able to apply for col...

Woman dies in Mohammadpur building fire

Woman dies in Mohammadpur building fire

-- 2020-02-28 12:09:03

A woman was burnt to death as a fire broke out at a multi-storey building on Bashbari Mandir road in the city’s Mohammadpur area on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mabia Begum, 55, repor...

BWDB removes 5,574 structures from country’s riverbanks

BWDB removes 5,574 structures from country’s riverbanks

-- 2020-02-28 12:06:05

Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has demolished 5,574 illegal riverbank structures and recovered about 593 acres of occupied land in the first phase of government’s countrywide drive....