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Final estimates put GDP growth at 7.86pc in FY ‘18

The country's economy expanded at a rate of 7.86 per cent in the last fiscal year (FY) 2017-18, propelled by its industrial and agriculture sectors, the final data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) showed.The final Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth was 0.21 percentage points higher than 7.65 per cent,...

A volunteer urging jaywalkers to use nearby overbridge

A traffic policeman stopping a mini-truck from taking a wrong turn while a volunteer urging jaywalkers to use the nearby overbridge in a bid to ensure discipline on the road in the capital's Banglamotor area on Tuesday — FE Photo

Hasina, Modi launch work on cross-border oil pipeline

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have jointly unveiled the plaque of a 130km cross-border oil pipeline project, known as Bangladesh-India Friendship Pipeline, report agencies.Besides, they inaugurated the construction of an India-financed railway line that will ease travel between Bangladesh and India. The oil pipeline...

Tk 38.25b EVM project gets ECNEC nod

The government approved on Tuesday the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) project at a cost of Tk 38.25 billion.The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) endorsed the purchase of EVMs at its meeting held at the Planning Commission (PC) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.The Election Commission...

UN report wants prosecution of top Myanmar generals

GENEVA, Sept 18 (Agencies): The level of brutality used by Myanmar's military against the Rohingya minority is "hard to fathom", a UN investigator said on Tuesday, presenting a damning report calling for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide."It is hard to fathom the level of brutality of Tatmadaw operations,...

Grenade attack case verdict on Oct 10

A speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka on Tuesday fixed October 10 to deliver its verdict in two cases filed over the August 21 grenade attack, report agencies.Judge of Speedy Trial Tribunal Shahed Nuruddin set the date after completion of the hearing on Tuesday in a carnage that killed 24 people...

News Watch (19-9-2018)

Shifting of Rohingya to Bhasan Char starts from OctThe government will start moving 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island from next month (October), officials said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled on October 3 to officially open the newly-constructed shelters for the displaced people on Bhashan Char,...