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AL names Joynal Hazari in advisory council

AL names Joynal Hazari in advisory council

-- 2019-10-28 20:54:54

The Awami League has inducted former Feni lawmaker Joynal Abedin Hazari into its advisory council, reports bdnews24.com. The ruling party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader handed the controversial l...

Accused AL MPs to be expelled if found guilty: Obaidul Quader

Accused AL MPs to be expelled if found guilty: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-10-28 20:49:58

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said Awami League will expel its lawmakers if the allegations brought against them are proved to be correct and they are convicted. The Aw...

Govt trying to improve image by catching small fry: Fakhrul

Govt trying to improve image by catching small fry: Fakhrul

UNB 2019-10-28 20:39:18

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government is trying to improve its image by arresting only a few ‘small fry’ in the current anti-corruption dr...

Anti-drug authority files two cases after raiding Aziz Mohammad's house

Anti-drug authority files two cases after raiding Aziz Mohammad's house

-- 2019-10-28 20:29:29

The anti-drug authority has started two cases after confiscating 390 bottles of liquor in a raid on controversial industrialist Aziz Mohammad Bhai’s house in the capital’s Gulshan. Depart...

Loan proposal for procuring 200 railway coaches gets approval

Loan proposal for procuring 200 railway coaches gets approval

-- 2019-10-28 20:20:39

The government has approved a proposal for taking $84.97 million as loan through tenderer’s financing from the Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank for procuring 200 MG coaches for Bang...

‘No scope of onion prices to come down before shipment arrives’

‘No scope of onion prices to come down before shipment arrives’

-- 2019-10-28 20:19:09

There is no scope for price of onions to come down until consignments from Egypt and Turkey arrive, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Monday. The minister also stated that 7,000-8,000 tonnes of o...

BNP MP Harun secures six-month interim bail

BNP MP Harun secures six-month interim bail

UNB 2019-10-28 20:02:30

The High Court (HC) on Monday granted six-month interim bail to BNP MP Harun-ur Rashid Harun of Chapainawabganj-3 constituency in a case filed for abusing duty-free import privilege. The HC bench of...

Abrar murder: Another suspect put on four-day remand

Abrar murder: Another suspect put on four-day remand

UNB 2019-10-28 18:54:37

A court in Dhaka on Monday granted a four-day remand to interrogate a suspect, SM Mahmud Setu, in a case filed over the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abr...

Biman starts Dhaka-Madina direct flight

Biman starts Dhaka-Madina direct flight

-- 2019-10-28 18:30:19

Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Monday launched direct flight operation to Madina from Dhaka as the second destination to Saudi Arabia after Jeddah. The national flag carrier will operate flights on Dha...

Gazipur to get dev authority

Gazipur to get dev authority

-- 2019-10-28 18:16:23

Gazipur city is set to get a development authority with the view to making the fast-growing Gazipur city as a planned, liveable and environment-friendly urban area. To this end, Gazipur Unnayan Kartr...

Army Chief adorned as 7th Col Commandant of Corps of Engineers

Army Chief adorned as 7th Col Commandant of Corps of Engineers

-- 2019-10-28 17:32:25

Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed was adorned as the 7th Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Engineers on Tuesday at the Engineer Center and School of Military Engineering at Qadirabad Cantonment...

DU Gha unit result Tuesday

DU Gha unit result Tuesday

-- 2019-10-28 17:24:12

The first year honours admission test result of Dhaka University (DU) ‘Gha’ unit under the Social Science Faculty for 2019-20 academic sessions will be published on Tuesday. DU vice-chanc...

Cabinet approves proposed list of holidays for 2020

Cabinet approves proposed list of holidays for 2020

UNB 2019-10-28 17:16:02

The cabinet on Monday approved the proposed list of holidays for the 2020 calendar year with 14 general holidays and eight more by the executive order of the government. The approval was given at the...

Khaleda's health condition is good, her life not at risk: BSMMU

Khaleda's health condition is good, her life not at risk: BSMMU

UNB 2019-10-28 16:43:06

The authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Monday said the health condition of BNP's detained Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s is stable with significant improvement in s...

Prime Minister to brief media Tuesday

Prime Minister to brief media Tuesday

-- 2019-10-28 15:10:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief the media on Tuesday afternoon on her just concluded Azerbaijan tour for attending the 18th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). "The press conference wil...

251 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

251 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2019-10-28 15:06:58

A total of 251 patients were admitted to hospitals with dengue in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday. Eighty-nine of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General of Health Services s...

Don’t arrest or harass Dr Yunus till Nov 7: HC to govt

Don’t arrest or harass Dr Yunus till Nov 7: HC to govt

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-10-28 14:40:27

The High Court has ordered that the government should not arrest or harass Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus until November 7 in three cases filed for sacking as many employees of Grameen Communication...

Nusrat murder: Death references to be sent to HC Tuesday

Nusrat murder: Death references to be sent to HC Tuesday

-- 2019-10-28 13:41:16

The death references of 16 convicts in Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case are ready to be sent to the High Court. “The death references have been prepared. We’re optimistic about sending them...

Clinic manager ‘rapes’ nurse in Magura

Clinic manager ‘rapes’ nurse in Magura

-- 2019-10-28 12:42:10

A nurse of a private clinic was allegedly raped by the manager in Stadium Para area of Magura district town on Sunday night. Saidur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Magura Police Station, said they rece...

Bus, truck collide head-on in Rangpur, killing two

Bus, truck collide head-on in Rangpur, killing two

-- 2019-10-28 12:21:13

Two people were killed and another was injured after a bus and a truck collided head-on at Boldipakur on Rangpur–Dhaka Highway in Mithapakur Upazila of Rangpur district on early Monday. The dec...

Worker dies in Mymensingh warehouse fire

Worker dies in Mymensingh warehouse fire

-- 2019-10-28 12:12:29

A worker was burned to death in a fire at a warehouse at Aampotti area of the city on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Sumon Das. Dinmoni Sharma, deputy director of Mymensingh Fire Ser...

Saudi to launch new visa: BD expats can host relatives for 90 days

Saudi to launch new visa: BD expats can host relatives for 90 days

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-10-28 11:59:29

All expatriates in Saudi Arabia, not to mention Bangladeshis there too, can host their "close" relatives under a new 90-day visa, which will be made available within the coming days. The visa will re...

President Abdul Hamid returns home

President Abdul Hamid returns home

-- 2019-10-28 11:27:28

President Abdul Hamid returned home on Sunday after his eight-day visit to Japan and Singapore. A regular flight of Singapore Airlines, carrying the President and his entourage, landed at Hazrat Shah...

Police arrest another suspect over Abrar murder

Police arrest another suspect over Abrar murder

-- 2019-10-28 11:04:02

Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested another suspect in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case on Sunday. The arrestee was identified as Mahmud Setu, a student of batch-14 of Buet and...

Police arrest ex-BCL leader over Bhola housewife ‘gang rape’

Police arrest ex-BCL leader over Bhola housewife ‘gang rape’

-- 2019-10-28 10:44:11

Police on early Monday arrested a former Chhatra League leader over the reported gang rape of a housewife at remote Char Piyal in Manpura upazila of Bhola. The arrestee was identified as Nazrul Islam...

Living wage remains elusive for BD's female apparel workers in Jordan

Living wage remains elusive for BD's female apparel workers in Jordan

Arafat Ara 2019-10-28 10:34:33

Despite doing hard work, Bangladeshi outbound women garment workers are being deprived of living wage in Jordan, a study shows. As a result, the study said, they are unable to send required money hom...

BD scientists plan to turn trash into eco-friendly fuel

BD scientists plan to turn trash into eco-friendly fuel

-- 2019-10-28 10:24:13

Bangladesh is exploring ways to transform over 227 million tonnes of annual waste into environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel in a bid to ease the government's waste management woes. Scientists say i...

Century-old dead trees on Jashore-Benapole road to be removed

Century-old dead trees on Jashore-Benapole road to be removed

A Correspondent 2019-10-27 22:16:04

BENAPOLE, Oct 27: The district council is identifying dead trees along the Benapole-Jashore Highway Road for their removal. The removal started jointly with the forest department and the Zilla Parish...

No chances of onion prices to come down: Minister

No chances of onion prices to come down: Minister

-- 2019-10-27 20:30:24

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Sunday said there is no possibility for onion price to come down within a month. However, the prices will come down to Tk 70-80 per kg after its import from Egypt, w...

PM returns home from Azerbaijan

PM returns home from Azerbaijan

BSS 2019-10-27 19:42:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Sunday evening after wrapping up her four-day official visit to Azerbaijan for attending the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Baku. A spe...