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RAB arrests four suspected militants in city

RAB arrests four suspected militants in city

-- 2019-10-21 11:58:44

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested four suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Ansar al-Islam’ in Dhaka. They were arrested in a raid in Gabtoli and Savar's Amin Bazar i...

President Abdul Hamid reaches Tokyo

President Abdul Hamid reaches Tokyo

-- 2019-10-21 11:20:40

President Abdul Hamid reached Tokyo on Monday on an eight-day official visit to Japan and Singapore. During his stay, he will attend the enthronement ceremony of the new Japanese emperor on Tuesday,...

Dhaka ranks third worst city in Air Quality Index

Dhaka ranks third worst city in Air Quality Index

-- 2019-10-21 11:10:21

Dhaka was ranked third worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning. The capital city of Bangladesh had a score of 197 at 9:00am, which means the city’s air quality was classified as unhea...

Omar Faruk removed from Jubo League

Omar Faruk removed from Jubo League

-- 2019-10-20 21:34:06

Omar Faruk Chowdhury has been relieved of his duty as chairman of the ruling Awami League’s youth front Jubo League. The decision was taken during a meeting between party chief Prime Minister S...

PM urges countrymen to show patience over Bhola incident

PM urges countrymen to show patience over Bhola incident

BSS 2019-10-20 21:27:34

Sounding a note of caution against rumour-mongers, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to show patience and not to pay heed to rumours to avert any further untoward incident over the...

Madrasah students attack police in Chattogram over Bhola violence

Madrasah students attack police in Chattogram over Bhola violence

-- 2019-10-20 20:53:36

Madrasah students on Sunday attacked Hathazari police after four people were killed and over 200 injured in a clash between police and locals in Borhanuddin upazila of Chattogram over a ‘Faceboo...

Hason Raja’s ancestral home needs care for historical interest

Hason Raja’s ancestral home needs care for historical interest

IQBAL SIDDIQUEE 2019-10-20 20:40:10

SYLHET, Oct 20: Great mystic poet Hason Raja has a lot many popular songs. 'Loke bole bolery, ghar bari bala nay amar, ki ghor banaimu ami shunneri majhar', 'agey Jodi janto Hason, bachbo koto din, ba...

JS body for speedy implementation of dev projects

JS body for speedy implementation of dev projects

-- 2019-10-20 20:13:58

The parliamentary standing committee on housing and public works ministry on Sunday reviewed the ongoing urban projects and future plans of major cities. The parliamentary watchdog discussed various...

Joy inaugurates three digital one-stop services

Joy inaugurates three digital one-stop services

-- 2019-10-20 18:29:36

Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has inaugurated three digital one-stop services – Eksheba, Ekpay and Ekshop – to enable the people to get different government s...

PM orders not to set up industries in Sonadia

PM orders not to set up industries in Sonadia

-- 2019-10-20 17:55:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed all concerned not to establish any industry in Sonadia, saying that only ecotourism will be developed in the island of Cox’s Bazar. The prime min...

ACC arrests DIG Bazlur Rashid over bribery charges

ACC arrests DIG Bazlur Rashid over bribery charges

-- 2019-10-20 17:48:24

The Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Bazlur Rashid on charges of amassing illegal wealth. Rashid stands accused of having links to bribery, ACC Secretary Mu...

88 journalists harassed in Jan-Sept

88 journalists harassed in Jan-Sept

FE Online Report 2019-10-20 17:36:10

At least 88 journalists were victims of harassment across country in the first nine months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them, eleven received...

Court seeks reserve heist probe report on November 20

Court seeks reserve heist probe report on November 20

BSS 2019-10-20 17:19:23

A Dhaka court has asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist on November 20. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir...

Four dead as villagers clash with police over Facebook post

Four dead as villagers clash with police over Facebook post

-- 2019-10-20 15:51:20

At least four people have died and 50 others are injured in clashes between police and locals in Bhola's Borhanuddin. The violence erupted around 10:45 am on Sunday after locals gathered for a meetin...

PM calls for boosting bilateral trade with Vietnam

PM calls for boosting bilateral trade with Vietnam

-- 2019-10-20 14:49:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put emphasis on boosting trade and commerce between Bangladesh and Vietnam for mutual benefits of the two countries. “The Southeast Asia has a huge population a...

President embarks on eight-day visit to Japan, Singapore

President embarks on eight-day visit to Japan, Singapore

-- 2019-10-20 14:39:52

President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka on Sunday on an eight-day official visit to Japan and Singapore. During his tour to Japan, the President will attend the enthronement ceremony of the new Japanese emp...

Quader takes jab at Menon over election comment

Quader takes jab at Menon over election comment

-- 2019-10-20 13:42:46

Taking a swipe at Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon for his claim that people could not cast their votes in the last parliamentary elections, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on S...

Nine additional judges appointed to HC

Nine additional judges appointed to HC

-- 2019-10-20 13:40:40

Nine additional judges have been appointed to the High Court. The Law Ministry issued a notification on Sunday in this regard following the approval of the President, said Rezaul Karim, public relati...

Police detain four over Chattogram father-daughter murder

Police detain four over Chattogram father-daughter murder

-- 2019-10-20 11:23:59

Police have detained four people for interrogation over the murder of a man and his daughter in Nimtali Biswa Road area of Chattogram as they suspected that the incident might have taken place followi...

DNCC councillor Rajib held on extortion charges

DNCC councillor Rajib held on extortion charges

-- 2019-10-20 10:46:02

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Tarequzzaman Rajib, the councillor of ward No. 33 under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), on allegations of extortion and encroachment by terrorising p...

President to join Japanese new emperor’s enthronement ceremony

President to join Japanese new emperor’s enthronement ceremony

BSS 2019-10-19 20:49:14

President M Abdul Hamid will leave Dhaka tomorrow on an eight-day official visit to Japan and Singapore.  “The President will attend Japanese new emperor’s enthronement ceremony slat...

'Flawless charge-sheet in Abrar murder case soon'

'Flawless charge-sheet in Abrar murder case soon'

UNB 2019-10-19 20:06:14

Describing the killing of BUET student Abrar Fahad as ‘unfortunate’, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said the investigation agency has already been directed to prepare a flawles...

EC plans to go to four countries for expat voters’ registration

EC plans to go to four countries for expat voters’ registration

-- 2019-10-19 17:45:47

The Election Commission (EC) has planned to send its teams to four countries -- Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirate (UAE) and the United Kingdom (UK) -- to enrol Bangladeshi voters, accord...

Govt to replace diesel-run irrigation pumps with solar-powered ones

Govt to replace diesel-run irrigation pumps with solar-powered ones

-- 2019-10-19 17:23:54

The government has initiated a move to draw a roadmap for replacing diesel-run irrigation pumps with solar-powered ones across the country. Under the roadmap, some 100,000 diesel-operated irrigation...

Govt plans to set up special 'cell’ to combat dengue

Govt plans to set up special 'cell’ to combat dengue

-- 2019-10-19 17:02:09

The government plans to set up a special 'cell’ to combat dengue and other vector-borne diseases in the wake of the most prolific outbreak of the virus on record this year. Experts have been pr...

184 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

184 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

-- 2019-10-19 16:47:18

A total of 184 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country in 24 hours till Saturday morning. Of them, 62 were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General of Health Services said...

Man accused of killing toddler son in Faridpur

Man accused of killing toddler son in Faridpur

-- 2019-10-19 16:42:02

A man has been accused of killing his three-year-old son in Sadarpur upazila’s Bhasanchar union. The body of Rahmat Promanik, 3, son of Hanif Promanik, was recovered from a paddy field in Chand...

Two killed in Habiganj road accident

Two killed in Habiganj road accident

-- 2019-10-19 16:41:44

Two people were killed and one wounded in a road accident in Mouchak area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district in the early hours of Saturday, police said, reports...

BD urges Germany to take 'effective steps' for Rohingya repatriation

BD urges Germany to take 'effective steps' for Rohingya repatriation

-- 2019-10-19 16:19:13

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has urged his German counterpart Heiko Maas to exert pressure on Myanmar to create a conducive environment for repatriation of Rohingyas. In his maiden bilateral meeti...

Two die in Habiganj road accident

Two die in Habiganj road accident

-- 2019-10-19 14:40:47

Two people were killed in a head-on collision between two trucks at Mouchak area on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as truck...