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Anti-narcotics team raids Aziz Mohammad's residence

Anti-narcotics team raids Aziz Mohammad's residence

-- 2019-10-27 18:55:39

An anti-narcotics team has seized casino equipment and alcohol from industrialist Aziz Mohammad Bhai’s home in Gulshan. According to bdnews24.com, the team started the raid shortly before 5:00p...

SC orders Moon Cinema Hall land registration by Nov 10

SC orders Moon Cinema Hall land registration by Nov 10

-- 2019-10-27 18:16:39

The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division has ordered all parties to complete land registration of Moon Cinema Hall in Old Dhaka by Nov 10. An appellate bench of four headed by the chief justice i...

Expelled JL leader Khaled formally charged in arms case

Expelled JL leader Khaled formally charged in arms case

-- 2019-10-27 17:48:27

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has pressed formal charges against expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan in a case involving illegal firearms. RAB-3’s Assistant Superintendent of P...

Policy reforms to boost fish production stressed

Policy reforms to boost fish production stressed

-- 2019-10-27 17:26:08

Scientists, agricultural experts and researchers from international organisations on Sunday stressed the need for policy reforms and targeted investments for creating greater access to fish as a sourc...

KSA deports 373 BD workers in 24 hrs

KSA deports 373 BD workers in 24 hrs

-- 2019-10-27 16:46:22

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) forcibly sent back 373 Bangladeshi workers in 24 hours though the deportees claimed that they had all the legal documents. A flight carrying 200 deportees landed at...

Khaled, GK Shamim put on seven-day remand on graft charges

Khaled, GK Shamim put on seven-day remand on graft charges

-- 2019-10-27 15:09:14

The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has been granted permission to grill controversial Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan and government contractor SM Golam Kibria Shamim, better known as GK S...

257 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

257 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

-- 2019-10-27 14:56:37

A total of 257 more people have been admitted to hospitals with dengue across the country in 24 hours till Sunday morning. Of them, 74 were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General of Health Se...

Chattogram also to have metro rail service: Quader

Chattogram also to have metro rail service: Quader

-- 2019-10-27 13:55:11

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the port city of Chattogram will also be brought under the metro rail network. “It’s good news for the residents of Chatt...

PM leaves Baku for home

PM leaves Baku for home

-- 2019-10-27 13:43:49

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left BAKU, Azerbaijan, for home this morning winding up her four-day official visit to Azerbaijan for attending the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). A speci...

US Senators mull more pressure on Myanmar

US Senators mull more pressure on Myanmar

-- 2019-10-27 13:33:19

After visiting Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar that hosted over 1.1 million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, New York State Senators are planning to ask their federal colleagues to put more e...

HC wants breastfeeding corners at workplaces, elsewhere

HC wants breastfeeding corners at workplaces, elsewhere

-- 2019-10-27 13:18:35

The High Court on Sunday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why directives should not be given to set up breastfeeding and baby-care corners at workplaces, airports, bus s...

Law will take its own course regardless of offender’s identity, says PM

Law will take its own course regardless of offender’s identity, says PM

-- 2019-10-27 12:01:47

The law will take its own course irrespective of the identity of the offenders, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said as she vowed to continue the drive against casinos, drugs and corruption. Hasina made...

Police recover youth’s body from Cumilla river

Police recover youth’s body from Cumilla river

-- 2019-10-27 11:34:40

Police recovered the body of a young man, who went missing on Saturday evening, from the Gomti River in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ali, 23...

BGMEA seeks slew of measures to remain competitive

BGMEA seeks slew of measures to remain competitive

MONIRA MUNNI 2019-10-27 10:28:03

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has sought at least an additional Tk 2.0 on top of the market-based exchange rate per US dollar. It also demanded several other meas...

Farm credit disbursement picks up

Farm credit disbursement picks up

Siddique Islam 2019-10-27 10:21:52

Farm credit disbursement grew by nearly 2.0 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, as demand for such loan started generating after floods. Disbursement rose to Tk 35.55 bill...

Rohingya shift to Bhasanchar by November

Rohingya shift to Bhasanchar by November

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2019-10-27 10:13:29

The government has now planned to start transferring the Rohingya to Bhasanchar Island by this November amid many donor bodies' reservations about the process. "We're ready. Whenever the government d...

Huge oil spills over Karnaphuli, poses environmental threat

Huge oil spills over Karnaphuli, poses environmental threat

-- 2019-10-26 21:48:27

Huge oil has spilled over the Karnaphuli River from a ship following a collision with another one in the Dolphin Oil Jetty-3 area of Chittagong Port early Thursday, posing a serious threat to the rive...

Hebron road to be named after Bangabandhu

Hebron road to be named after Bangabandhu

-- 2019-10-26 20:49:57

Palestine has decided to name a road in Hebron after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Malki said this when he called on Prime Minister She...

'Bangladesh, India, Nepal can initially make BBIN initiatives operational'

'Bangladesh, India, Nepal can initially make BBIN initiatives operational'

UNB 2019-10-26 20:18:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said three countries –Bangladesh, India and Nepal – can initially make the BBIN Motor Vehicles agreement operational, if Bhutan needs more time. T...

Probe body submits report on Bhola violence

Probe body submits report on Bhola violence

-- 2019-10-26 16:56:39

Local authorities have completed a probe into the violent clashes which left four people dead and over 100 others injured in Bhola's Borhanuddin. A three-strong probe panel, headed by Mamudur Rahman,...

952 dengue patients undergoing treatment

952 dengue patients undergoing treatment

-- 2019-10-26 16:39:42

Around 952 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals and clinics across the country. Among them, 437 patients are taking treatment in Dhaka division and 515 are hospitalised out...

Saudi Arabia deports 200 Bangladeshi workers

Saudi Arabia deports 200 Bangladeshi workers

-- 2019-10-26 14:19:15

Many of the 200 Bangladeshi workers forcibly sent back from Saudi Arabia on Friday night said they were deported despite having legal documents. A flight carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal Inte...

Malaysia to continue work to recruit more Bangladeshi workers: Mahathir

Malaysia to continue work to recruit more Bangladeshi workers: Mahathir

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-10-26 13:23:58

Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad has said his government will continue work to recruit more Bangladeshi workers. Terming Malaysia’s ties with Bangladesh as very deep, he assured th...

Two motorcyclists die in Magura road crash

Two motorcyclists die in Magura road crash

-- 2019-10-26 13:16:13

Two motorcyclists were killed in front of a refuelling station in Magura district town on Jhenidah-Magura road on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Hasanuzzaman and his nephew Rashedul Is...

Rights breach higher than reported, fear experts

Rights breach higher than reported, fear experts

SAIF UDDIN 2019-10-26 12:47:36

Experts fear infringement of consumer rights in the country is much higher than reported. They identified lack of awareness among both the consumers and businesses about their respective rights and r...

Woman dies in Dhanmondi residential building fire

Woman dies in Dhanmondi residential building fire

-- 2019-10-26 10:35:56

A woman has died from suffocation in a fire that ignited in a multi-storey residential building in the capital's Dhanmondi. Two others were injured after the fire broke out on the third floor o...

Govt plans fair rawhide prices from next Eid

Govt plans fair rawhide prices from next Eid

Rezaul Karim 2019-10-26 10:31:11

The government plans to introduce a system of fixing rational prices of rawhide of sacrificial animals from next Eid-ul-Azha in a bid to prevent repeat of the price debacle seen this year, officials...

TCB suffers Tk 147m loss in two fiscal years

TCB suffers Tk 147m loss in two fiscal years

FE REPORT 2019-10-26 10:27:54

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has sought Tk 147 million in subsidies from the government to make up for the financial loss that it had incurred in the last two financial years. The stat...

Country to see increased rainfall, less but harmful drought, study says

Country to see increased rainfall, less but harmful drought, study says

YASIR WARDAD 2019-10-26 10:19:44

Rainfall in the drought-prone northern region in the country is going to increase significantly in future for the consequence of climate change thus posing serious threat to the agro-ecology. However...

100-day countdown to begin before ‘Mujib Year’

100-day countdown to begin before ‘Mujib Year’

BSS 2019-10-25 23:23:34

An event will be observed across the country to begin the 100-day countdown to ‘Mujib Year’ will begin to mark the celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman&rsq...