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Top court fines Southeast University Tk 1.0m for violating UGC rules

Top court fines Southeast University Tk 1.0m for violating UGC rules

-- 2020-02-20 12:21:40

The Supreme Court has imposed a fine of Tk 1.0 million on Southeast University for enrolling more than 50 students in its law department for a semester in breach of the rules set by the University Gra...

PM hands over Ekushey Padak

PM hands over Ekushey Padak

-- 2020-02-20 11:56:29

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday distributed the prestigious Ekushey Padak-2020 among 20 eminent personalities and an organisation in recognition of their contributions to various fields. The...

Pata Piyaz cultivation being  taken to farmers level

Pata Piyaz cultivation being taken to farmers level

A Correspondent 2020-02-20 01:02:55

FARIDPUR, Feb 19: Pata Piyaz (bunching onion) has been developed successfully in Bangladesh. Researchers say this type of onion is rich in nutritional value.  Faridpur Spice Research sub-stati...

Aloe vera farming becomes popular in Naogaon

Aloe vera farming becomes popular in Naogaon

Our Correspondent 2020-02-20 01:02:11

NAOGAON, Feb 18: Commercial farming of aloe vera is becoming popular in Raninagar upazila of the district due to its growing demand, excellent yield and good market price. Sources said, many people...

Bailey bridge collapse disrupts road link on Dhunat-Sherpur road

Bailey bridge collapse disrupts road link on Dhunat-Sherpur road

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-02-20 01:01:27

BOGURA, Feb 19: Smooth movement of both vehicles as well as pedestrians has been disrupted as a bailey bridge over the Garamara Canal at Mahatpara village on Dhunat-Sherpur road in the district has...

Khaleda’s bail totally a matter of court: Quader

Khaleda’s bail totally a matter of court: Quader

-- 2020-02-19 19:21:05

Reiterating that the court will decide about the bail of Khaleda Zia, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the bail issue of graft-convicted BNP chairperson is totally a mat...

Five collect BNP nomination forms to contest CCC mayoral polls

Five collect BNP nomination forms to contest CCC mayoral polls

-- 2020-02-19 19:16:54

Five BNP leaders have collected their party’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming elections to Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) as a mayoral candidate of ‘Sheaf of Paddy’. The...

Bangladesh can export vegetables, fish to Nepal: PM

Bangladesh can export vegetables, fish to Nepal: PM

-- 2020-02-19 18:46:33

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh can export vegetables and fish to Nepal. “In winter, Bangladesh can export vegetables and fish. I always advocate transit for Nepal thr...

Pesticide-free vegetable farming getting popularity in Rangpur char areas

Pesticide-free vegetable farming getting popularity in Rangpur char areas

-- 2020-02-19 18:14:56

Cultivation of pesticide-free vegetables adopting eco-friendly agricultural technologies is becoming popular among farmers in char areas and dried-up riverbeds of Kawnia upazila in Rangpur . Being in...

Sweet potato cultivation regaining its glory in Manikganj

Sweet potato cultivation regaining its glory in Manikganj

-- 2020-02-19 18:01:22

The cultivation of sweet potato is regaining its lost glory in Manikganj that was disappeared from in Manikganj. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said a total of 170 hectares of land...

2,823 people suffer from cold-related disease in 24hr

2,823 people suffer from cold-related disease in 24hr

-- 2020-02-19 17:27:15

Various cold-related diseases affected 2,823 people across the country in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room showed tha...

Don't construct high-rise buildings along sea in Cox’s Bazar: PM

Don't construct high-rise buildings along sea in Cox’s Bazar: PM

-- 2020-02-19 17:04:09

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned not to build high-rise establishments along the sea in Cox’s Bazar. “We will not allow construction of high-rise establish...

PM to hand over Ekushey Padak Thursday

PM to hand over Ekushey Padak Thursday

-- 2020-02-19 15:18:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will distribute on Thursday the coveted Ekushey Padak-2020 among 20 eminent personalities and an organisation in recognition of their contributions to various fields. The...

No possibility of militant attack on Feb 21: DMP chief

No possibility of militant attack on Feb 21: DMP chief

-- 2020-02-19 14:03:24

Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Shafiqul Islam on Wednesday said there is no possibility of any militant attack and act of sabotage centring the International Mother Language...

Virus-infected Bangladeshi in ‘critical state’ in Singapore: FM

Virus-infected Bangladeshi in ‘critical state’ in Singapore: FM

-- 2020-02-19 13:39:33

One of the Bangladesh citizens, infected with coronavirus or Covid-19 in Singapore, is now in a “very critical state” and medicine given to him is not responding, said Foreign Minister Dr...

SC fines City University Tk 1m for flouting UGC rules

SC fines City University Tk 1m for flouting UGC rules

-- 2020-02-19 13:30:53

The Supreme Court has imposed a fine of Tk 1 million on City University after it admitted more than 50 students to its law department in violation of the rules set by the University Grants Commission...

Farm credit disbursement grows by 8.0pc in Jul-Jan

Farm credit disbursement grows by 8.0pc in Jul-Jan

Siddique Islam 2020-02-19 12:56:05

Farm credit disbursement grew by more than 8.0 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 as the demand for such loan is picking up gradually due to seasonal effects....

HC sets Sunday for hearing Khaleda’s fresh bail plea

HC sets Sunday for hearing Khaleda’s fresh bail plea

FE Online Report 2020-02-19 12:18:32

The High Court has fixed Sunday (February 23) for hearing a fresh bail petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Charitable Trust case in which she was sentenced for seven years by a tr...

Miscreants shoot UPDF man to death in Rangamati

Miscreants shoot UPDF man to death in Rangamati

-- 2020-02-19 11:59:02

An activist of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was gunned down by miscreants at Banduk Bhanga in Rangamati Sadar upazila on Wednesday. The identity of the deceased could not be known im...

12 arrested for gambling in Chattogram

12 arrested for gambling in Chattogram

-- 2020-02-19 10:48:46

Police arrested 12 people while gambling at a place in port city’s Kazir Deuri area on Tuesday night. Those arrestees were identified as Abul Hossain, 34, Zahid, 35, Shipon, 30, Shahjahan, 39,...

Maize harvest fourfold now

Maize harvest fourfold now

Yasir Wardad 2020-02-19 10:38:55

The country's maize production has quadrupled just in a decade amid its rising demand propelled by a booming commercial animal feed industry, said sector insiders. The output of the corn rose to 3.5...

Move to cut import duties on sugar

Move to cut import duties on sugar

REZAUL KARIM 2020-02-19 10:35:34

The government is likely to reduce import duties on sugar in order to ensure enough supply and stable prices of the commodity, especially during the upcoming Ramadan, sources said. To this end, the...

Our economy is stronger than Singapore’s: PM Hasina

Our economy is stronger than Singapore’s: PM Hasina

-- 2020-02-19 10:27:55

Bangladesh sits on a stronger economic position than Singapore does, considering problems such as violent protests and dense population that do not blight the South-East Asian city state, prime minist...

‘WASA’s tariff-hike proposal irrational’

‘WASA’s tariff-hike proposal irrational’

-- 2020-02-18 21:47:04

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday described the proposal of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to hike water tariff by 80 per cent at residential and commercial leve...

Mat artisans pass hard days as they can’t compete  with plastic products

Mat artisans pass hard days as they can’t compete with plastic products

A Correspondent 2020-02-18 21:16:26

MYMENSINGH, Feb 18: Mat artisans in the district are passing hard days as they cannot compete with plastic products. The families who depend of mat weaving for earning a day's breads are suffering a...

President for utilising BD-Nepal trade, investment potentials

President for utilising BD-Nepal trade, investment potentials

-- 2020-02-18 21:01:35

President M Abdul Hamid has stressed the need for utilising commerce and investment potentials between Bangladesh and Nepal as visiting Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawall paid a courtesy...

BD opens Saidpur Airport to Nepal; greater trade expected

BD opens Saidpur Airport to Nepal; greater trade expected

-- 2020-02-18 19:54:20

Bangladesh has agreed to allow Nepal to use its Saidpur Airport as part of strengthening trade and connectivity between the two countries. Welcoming the Nepalese proposal, Bangladesh says a technical...

Khaleda files fresh bail petition

Khaleda files fresh bail petition

UNB 2020-02-18 18:44:28

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed a fresh petition with the High Court seeking bail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case, citing illness. The petition was moved before the bench of...

Fakhrul denies discussing parole, Quader has 'evidence of conversation'

Fakhrul denies discussing parole, Quader has 'evidence of conversation'

-- 2020-02-18 18:37:05

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said he did not discuss about Khaleda Zia’s parole with Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader during their recent telephonic...

Court sentences three to death for 2011 murder in Dinajpur

Court sentences three to death for 2011 murder in Dinajpur

-- 2020-02-18 18:04:22

A Dinajpur court has sentenced three villagers to death for murdering a tutor following a dispute over fishing in Birampur Upazila in 2011. Additional District and Sessions Judge Anwarul Haque on Tue...