FE Report The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) in Bangladesh will only receive machine readable passports (MRPs) from Bangladeshi applicants seeking to get Indian visas with effect from September 01, 2015. The IVAC won't accept any handwritten passports from Bangladeshi...
Pankaj Dastider | 2015-08-29 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Aug 28: The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is leasing out its three container vessels procured for the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (ICT) to a private party for not having expected business on the Chittagong-Pangaon route. The CPA said it...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) authority is yet to get back its full strength to operate over 300 trains as 50 per cent of key posts at operational level have been lying vacant for long, officials said. Although nearly 9,000 people...
Two people have been killed in separate road accidents at Mirpur and Tejgaon in Dhaka. The deceased were identified as Labib Khan, 20, son of Abdul Hai of Mirza village in Gopalganj Sadar upazila, and Masud Rana, 26, son of...
A housewife has been gang-raped in Sabujbagh area in Dhaka city after being picked up from her house. Sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital said a gang of local young men stormed into the house of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver...
Blogger and Ganajagaran Mancha activist Shammi Haque has filed a general diary (GD) with police seeking security after she felt a threat to her life. The 23-year-old lodged the GD at Mohmmadpur Police Station on Friday afternoon, saying two youths...
Three members of a family were killed and four others injured in a road accident at Battamor Natunbazar under Bakshiganj upazila in Jamalpur district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Babul, 28, a resident of Battala village in Rajibpur...
Two more people have been arrested in Rangamati after Myanmar separatists-BGB gunfight in Bandarban district. A team of Bangladesh Army detained the two persons on Friday afternoon after the recent encounter between suspected ‘Arakan Army’ members of Myanmar and Border...
US stocks have come surging back and ended the week Friday on a placid note that suggested the worst may be over for now. The Dow Jones industrial average fell a scant 11.76 points Friday, or 0.1 per cent, to...
A man was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over previous enmity at Satpur Khasjan village in Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Rafiq Miah,...
At least 15 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Comilla University (CU) unit were injured, among them two bullet-hit, in a clash between two factions of the unit over establishing supremacy on the campus on Friday night. Campus sources said...
Authorities in Hungary and Italy have made arrests in the deaths of scores of migrants and refugees this week, including 71 whose bodies were found in an abandoned truck in Austria. Those who died in Austria's A4-Motorway between Parndorf and...
The UN has said ‘much more is required’ to prevent the deaths of migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in recent days. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a ‘collective political response’ to avert ‘a crisis of solidarity’....
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room at Kabirpur village in Shailakupa municipality area of Jhenidah district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Kanak Rani, 35, wife of Suranjan Karmaker, a resident...
Army personnel arrested two young men along with 94 pieces of Yaba tablet and two bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Bazar area in Manikchhari upazila of Khagrachari district on Friday night. The arrestees were identified as Parvej Hossain, 25,...
Two lovers have allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves with a single scarf from a tree at Bhumurdia village in Narail Sadar upazila. One of the deceased was identified as Imran, 25, son of Harun Sheikh of the village. Locals...
A woman was injured in an acid attack by miscreants at West Matuail in Jatrabari area of Dhaka city on Friday night. The victim was identified as Piya Pakhi, 50, wife of Ruhul Amin of Bishadpur village in Ataikula upazila...
A 30-km long tailback was created on both sides of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway on Saturday for suspension of vehicular movement due to repair work of Shahbazpur Bridge in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria district. Sources said plying of vehicles remained halted...
Police have arrested five people in Dhaka, who they claim are involved in illegal trade of human organs. They were arrested during a raid on Friday night from the capitals’ Shahbagh and Gabtali areas, Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP) spokesperson Muntasirul...
A college girl died from snakebite at Tengrakhali village in Satkhira Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Shilpi Khatun, student of Shahid Smrity College and daughter of Ful Gazi of the village. Local sources said a venomous...
FBCCI President Abdul Matlub Ahmad on Saturday urged industrialists to go for power-based industrial units instead of gas-based ones to cut dependence on gas as there is a short supply of the precious energy. “You (manufacturers) please go for power-based...
A tropical storm heading across the Caribbean has killed at least 20 people on the island of Dominica, with dozens more missing. Tropical storm Erika hit Dominica, in the eastern Caribbean, causing floods and mudslides that have set the country...
The floods situation across the country is expected to improve as most of the major rivers have stopped swelling or are falling during the last 24 hours. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said Saturday that the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the...
Chittagong Metropolitan Police in a raid arrested two drug peddlers with 525 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from a passenger bus at Karnaphuli Bridge area of the port city Saturday. The arrestee were identified as Ressul Miah, 35, Atiqur Rahman,...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged all governments involved to provide comprehensive responses, expand safe and legal channels of migration and act with humanity, compassion and in accordance with their international obligations. “I commend those leaders and communities who...
Members of Chittagong coast guard on Saturday morning arrested two dacoits with a foreign made pistol and ammunition from Azimpur primary school area under Sandwip Police Station. The arrested dacoits were identified as Shamsuddin, 37 and Suman, 33, both hailed...
Brokers have been advised to know the sources of the large amount before placing buying orders on be-half of their big clients to help check money laundering through capital market. "Investment of large amount in stock without knowing the profession...
Terming illogical and unacceptable the government’s decision to raise the prices of gas and power, BNP on Saturday demanded its immediate annulment. The party also urged the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to revise the power tariff in accordance with...
Police on Saturday foiled BNP’s demonstration and human chain programmes they arranged in the port city protesting the price hike of power, gas and essential commodities. The leaders and activists of the party, led by city BNP general secretary Dr...
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Saturday said the government would renovate and preserve the historic places of religious worship for highlighting the county's past heritage before the new generation. "We will take initiative to renovate and preserve past heritage...
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