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India's change in visa penalty irks Bangladesh

India's change in visa penalty irks Bangladesh

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-10 12:53:07

A visa regulation introduced by India about a year ago has deeply irked Bangladesh, which the latter's foreign ministry officials see as a discrimination on religious lines. Following the regulation,...

RMG gas heater blast kills one, injures 10

RMG gas heater blast kills one, injures 10

-- 2019-12-10 12:14:49

A garment worker was killed and ten other pedestrians were injured as a wall of a sweater factory collapsed on them following a blast inside it at Gouripur in Savar’s Ashulia on Tuesday. The de...

PSC with Petrobangla: Posco seeks review of commercial term

PSC with Petrobangla: Posco seeks review of commercial term

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2019-12-10 11:25:44

South Korean oil and gas firm Posco International has sought a review of the existing 'commercial term' of its contract with Petrobangla to continue hydrocarbon exploration in deep sea block in the Ba...

Tannery relocation yet to yield benefits

Tannery relocation yet to yield benefits

FE REPORT 2019-12-10 10:52:22

The relocation of tanneries from Dhaka city to Savar has hardly yielded any benefit for the sector so far while making almost no contribution to better the environment and ensure labour rights, speake...

Students take lessons under open  sky for shortage of classrooms

Students take lessons under open sky for shortage of classrooms

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2019-12-10 00:02:22

PABNA, Dec 09: Due to shortage of adequate class rooms, the students of Shalikha Government Primary School under Chatmohar Upazila in Pabna district are attending their classes under the open sky. Ac...

Tangail farmers profit from green onion

Tangail farmers profit from green onion

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2019-12-10 00:01:04

TANGAIL, Dec 09: Early variety of green onion growers of the twelve upazilas of the district are earning a handsome profit by selling their produce, as dry onion price is extremely high at the local k...

Bangladesh doing well in Global Hunger Index: Minister

Bangladesh doing well in Global Hunger Index: Minister

-- 2019-12-09 22:24:27

Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque on Monday said the country is doing relatively well in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) because of increased food production, reports UNB. “At the moment...

14 charged with Hotel Olio blast

14 charged with Hotel Olio blast

bdnews24.com 2019-12-09 20:57:10

Police have pressed formal charges against 14 militant suspects in connection with a suicide bomb blast in a hotel in Dhaka’s Panthapath two years ago in what is said to be a foiled plot to atta...

Human Rights Day Tuesday

Human Rights Day Tuesday

-- 2019-12-09 19:09:56

Human Rights Day will be observed in the country like elsewhere in the world, marking the 71th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the United Nations General Ass...

DNCC evicts 200 illegal establishments

DNCC evicts 200 illegal establishments

FE Online Report 2019-12-09 18:18:53

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) evicted some 200 illegal establishments from the footpaths and roads in the city. A mobile court, led by Sajia Afrin, executive magistrate of the DNCC, conducted t...

15,578 cars get registration in Jan-Nov

15,578 cars get registration in Jan-Nov

FE Online Report 2019-12-09 17:11:00

Car registration in the country stood at 15,578 in the first eleven months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total, 13,941 cars got registration in Dhaka from Januar...

Universities turning into business institutions

Universities turning into business institutions

-- 2019-12-09 17:04:18

President Abdul Hamid on Monday said commercial courses are turning public universities into business institutions disrupting the campus atmosphere. “Thousands of graduates are being produced e...

Move to bring city buses under six companies from March

Move to bring city buses under six companies from March

-- 2019-12-09 17:01:49

Dhaka South Mayor Sayeed Khokon says a decision could be made by March to bring the buses operating in Dhaka under six companies as part of an effort to discipline public transports. “We hope w...

Low-quality materials used in some climate change projects

Low-quality materials used in some climate change projects

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2019-12-09 16:50:47

Expected outcome of some Bangladesh Climate Change Trust (BCCT) projects could not be achieved due to lack of coordination among the authorities or departments concerned, according to a study. As a r...

Kidnap suspect commits suicide in Dhaka

Kidnap suspect commits suicide in Dhaka

-- 2019-12-09 15:15:39

Police have recovered the body of a kidnap suspect from a house in Dhaka’s Sutrapur area. The man’s body was found hanging from a ceiling fan with a scarf tied around his neck on Sunday n...

Prof Ajoy Roy dies at 84

Prof Ajoy Roy dies at 84

-- 2019-12-09 14:35:48

Prominent Professor Ajoy Roy, the father of slain writer-blogger Avijit, has died in a Dhaka hospital at the age of 84. The retired professor of physics at Dhaka University breathed his last while un...

Int’l Anti-Corruption Day being observed

Int’l Anti-Corruption Day being observed

-- 2019-12-09 14:15:08

The International Anti-Corruption Day is being observed in the country as elsewhere across the world on Monday to raise voice against the growing culture of corruption. This year’s theme is &ls...

Won’t spare the corrupt: ACC Chairman

Won’t spare the corrupt: ACC Chairman

-- 2019-12-09 14:08:56

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Monday warned the corrupt that they will not be spared. “We’ve a massage for the corrupt that the wealth they accumulated belong...

Stay alert against women repression: PM

Stay alert against women repression: PM

-- 2019-12-09 13:20:01

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to remain alert against any sort of repression of women in society, saying that only enacting laws is not enough to stop this social disease. "We’ve e...

Irregularities foil World Bank-funded clean air project

Irregularities foil World Bank-funded clean air project

-- 2019-12-09 12:44:41

New reports of irregularities in the government’s Clean Air and Sustainable Environment (CASE) project, funded by the World Bank, are emerging. After questioning irregularities in appointment o...

Johnson, Corbyn make final campaign push

Johnson, Corbyn make final campaign push

REUTERS 2019-12-09 12:02:18

Prime minister Boris Johnson will travel to the heartlands of Brexit Britain in a final campaign blitz ahead of Thursday’s election, as he seeks to secure the parliamentary majority he needs to...

India should follow standard procedure in sending back illegal Bangladeshis: Foreign minister

India should follow standard procedure in sending back illegal Bangladeshis: Foreign minister

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2019-12-09 11:33:22

Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said India should use a standard procedure to send back Bangladeshis if they live in India unlawfully, instead of pushing them back through the border. "If any...

PM distributes Begum Rokeya Padak

PM distributes Begum Rokeya Padak

-- 2019-12-09 11:24:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has handed over the prestigious Begum Rokeya Padak to five persons for their outstanding contributions towards the society and women empowerment. Sheikh Hasina distribute...

Address labour rights issues to avail GSP-plus benefits

Address labour rights issues to avail GSP-plus benefits

FE REPORT 2019-12-09 11:10:34

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Rensje Teerink has suggested that Bangladesh should address outstanding labour issues including freedom of association in the Export Processing Zones (EP...

Panchagarh shivers as mercury dips to 8C

Panchagarh shivers as mercury dips to 8C

-- 2019-12-09 10:19:08

The temperature in Panchagarh district dropped below 10 degrees Celsius on Sunday, hinting at a rough winter ahead. Locals said it begins to warm up after sunrise but gets increasingly cold after 3:0...

Cracks develop in Dacope upazila staff quarters

Cracks develop in Dacope upazila staff quarters

A Correspondent 2019-12-08 22:15:01

KHULNA, Dec 08: The 37-year- old government residential buildings in Dacope upazila of Khulna have become risky for residents as cracks have developed in different places, including ceilings and beams...

PM inaugurates Bangabandhu BPL

PM inaugurates Bangabandhu BPL

-- 2019-12-08 21:06:59

The Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the special edition of BPL T20 to mark the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, kicked off amid huge enthusiasm and much...

BNP to face Muslim League’s fate for leadership crisis: Obaidul Quader

BNP to face Muslim League’s fate for leadership crisis: Obaidul Quader

UNB 2019-12-08 18:48:20

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP will face the same fate of Muslim League due to its leadership crisis. “The leadership of BNP is now facing the existential cris...

We will stage demonstrations again Tuesday: Rizvi

We will stage demonstrations again Tuesday: Rizvi

UNB 2019-12-08 18:47:43

Accusing the government of obstructing its today’s (Sunday’s) scheduled programme at different places, BNP again announced countrywide demonstrations for Tuesday demanding the release of i...

Saikat remanded over Rumpa murder

Saikat remanded over Rumpa murder

-- 2019-12-08 17:07:50

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Abdur Rahman Saikat, the accused of the mysterious death Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa , on a 4-day remand. Police detained Saikat on Saturday night over the death of Stamford...