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Chemical-free muri production in Manikganj

Chemical-free muri production in Manikganj

-- 2019-05-07 18:19:49

Puffed rice (Muri) is one of the most essential and tasty item of ‘Iftar’ during the holy Ramadan everywhere across the country. Though it has demand throughout the year, but during the ho...

BSTI files cases against 10 enterprises in city

BSTI files cases against 10 enterprises in city

-- 2019-05-07 18:12:22

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Tuesday filed cases against 10 enterprises in different areas of the city for selling and manufacturing adulterated food items and forgery wi...

'22pc RMG workers face sexual harassment at workplace'

'22pc RMG workers face sexual harassment at workplace'

-- 2019-05-07 18:01:16

An estimated 22.4 per cent female readymade garment (RMG) workers face sexual harassment at factories, a study by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) finds. MJF Executive Director Shaheen Anam said the s...

Commuters suffer as hawkers block city roads

Commuters suffer as hawkers block city roads

-- 2019-05-07 17:59:11

Traffic in Gulistan and its surrounding areas came to a halt as hawkers put up blockade on Tuesday, the first day of Ramadan. The hawkers began a sit-in in front of Dhaka South City Corporation's (DS...

Kushtia man to walk gallows for killing wife

Kushtia man to walk gallows for killing wife

-- 2019-05-07 17:25:01

A Kushtia court on Tuesday sentenced death penalty to a man for killing his wife in Mirpur upazila of the district in 2016. The judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Munshi Md Mo...

Wasa responsible for polluted water, speakers say at public hearing

Wasa responsible for polluted water, speakers say at public hearing

-- 2019-05-07 16:50:53

Speakers at a programme has said Wasa is responsible for its contaminated water and urged stakeholders to take stern steps to resolve the issue. They also condemned the commercialisation of drinking...

Royal Bengal Tigers unlikely to survive climate change

Royal Bengal Tigers unlikely to survive climate change

The New York Times 2019-05-07 16:33:51

Climate change and rising sea levels eventually may wipe out one of the world’s last and largest tiger strongholds, scientists warned in a new study. The cats are among nearly 500,000 land spec...

UNHCR chief calls for solidarity with Rohingyas in Ramadan

UNHCR chief calls for solidarity with Rohingyas in Ramadan

-- 2019-05-07 15:24:12

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has called for solidarity with millions of forcibly displaced people worldwide, including over one million Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. The...

Violence mars Dhaka protest by jute mill workers

Violence mars Dhaka protest by jute mill workers

FE Online Desk 2019-05-07 15:06:56

Jute mill workers have staged demonstrations demanding their outstanding wages in Dhaka and Khulna. In Demra, the workers of Latif Bawnia Jute Mills took position on the streets around 7:00am, haltin...

Heat wave likely to continue

Heat wave likely to continue

-- 2019-05-07 14:48:43

Mild heat wave is sweeping over Rajshahi and Khulna divisions and the regions of Tangail, Dinajpur, and Sayedpur and it may continue and spread further, said a met office release on Tuesday. The met...

Cyclone Fani destroyed crops worth over Tk 385m: Minister

Cyclone Fani destroyed crops worth over Tk 385m: Minister

-- 2019-05-07 13:40:20

Cyclone Fani has destroyed crops worth Tk 385 million, says Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque. Briefing the media at the Secretariat on Tuesday, the minister said the storm partially damaged the ha...

Two suspected drug traders killed in separate ‘gunfights’

Two suspected drug traders killed in separate ‘gunfights’

-- 2019-05-07 12:50:11

Two suspected drug dealers were killed in separate 'gunfights' in Dhaka and Munshiganj on Tuesday. The reported gunfight in the capital took place between Rapid Action Battalion RAB-1 members and the...

Hundreds of jute mill workers block Jatrabari intersection

Hundreds of jute mill workers block Jatrabari intersection

FE Online Desk 2019-05-07 12:36:40

Hundreds of jute mill workers have blocked Jatrabari intersection in Dhaka city bringing to a half traffic movement on Dhaka-Chattogram highway this morning, demanding their outstanding arrears. They...

Woman ‘kills self’ in Rajshahi

Woman ‘kills self’ in Rajshahi

-- 2019-05-07 11:37:02

A woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Kismat Kukhandi in Poba upazila of Rajshahi in the early hours of Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Ayesha Begum, 35, wife of Samjan....

President, PM mourn death of Subir Nandi

President, PM mourn death of Subir Nandi

-- 2019-05-07 11:26:32

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday mourned the death of renowned singer and composer Subir Nandi. The Ekushey award-winning singer breathed his last at Singapore Gene...

India wants to invest in LNG, power sectors

India wants to invest in LNG, power sectors

FE Report 2019-05-07 10:08:36

India has shown interest to invest in the liquefied natural gas (LNG), power and other potential sectors in Bangladesh. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Riva Ganguly Das expressed the interest at a...

Subir Nandi passes away

Subir Nandi passes away

-- 2019-05-07 09:15:43

Revered singer Subir Nandi has died at the Singapore General Hospital after suffering multiple heart attacks, says a doctor. He was 66. Doctor Samanta Lal Sen in Dhaka, who supervised the singer&rsqu...

Jute farming expands across Bogura

Jute farming expands across Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-05-07 00:42:47

BOGURA, May 06: Jute growers in the district are eyeing an abundant yield this season amid the prevailing weather. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) officials said over 1,200 tonnes of the go...

Andaleeve quits BNP-led alliance

Andaleeve quits BNP-led alliance

-- 2019-05-06 21:49:57

Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho on Monday announced that his party has left BNP-led 20-party alliance. Partho made the announcement in Dhaka on Monday evening in protes...

President, PM greet countrymen on eve of Ramadan

President, PM greet countrymen on eve of Ramadan

-- 2019-05-06 20:40:19

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday greeted the countrymen and all Muslims across the world on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan. In a message, Abdul Hamid said, &l...

Repatriation to take at least two years: Rohingya refugees

Repatriation to take at least two years: Rohingya refugees

FE Online Report 2019-05-06 20:01:54

73 per cent Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh do not believe that repatriation will happen in at least two years’ time, according to a research. Besides, 69 per cent of them did not believe that...

DNCC knocks down 350 illegal makeshift shops

DNCC knocks down 350 illegal makeshift shops

FE Online Report 2019-05-06 19:50:52

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) demolished more than 350 illegal makeshift shops during an eviction drive in the city’s Banasree area on Monday. A team, led by DNCC Zonal Executive Officer...

Holy month of Ramadan starts Tuesday

Holy month of Ramadan starts Tuesday

-- 2019-05-06 19:50:08

The holy month of Ramadan will begin on Tuesday as the national moon-sighting committee has announced the sighting of the Ramadan crescent moon in the sky of Bangladesh. Muslims in Bangladesh will st...

No sponsor for TV news segment, headlines from September 1

No sponsor for TV news segment, headlines from September 1

-- 2019-05-06 19:42:26

The High Court (HC) has banned broadcasting any kind of commercials in news segments of the television channels from September 1. A High Court division bench comprising Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhu...

Padma Bridge’s 12th span installed

Padma Bridge’s 12th span installed

-- 2019-05-06 19:17:23

The 12th span of the Padma Bridge was installed temporarily on pillars 20 and 21 on Monday, according to UNB. Deputy Assistant Engineer of the Padma Bridge Project Humayun Kabir said the 12th span wa...

Decision is better than indecision, says Gayeshwar

Decision is better than indecision, says Gayeshwar

-- 2019-05-06 19:10:03

Apparently contradicting Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday said time will say whether their party's decision to join parliament was right or wrong. "Our M...

Technical Board witnesses 72.24pc pass rate

Technical Board witnesses 72.24pc pass rate

-- 2019-05-06 18:23:58

The Technical Education Board has obtained 72.24 per cent pass rate in the SSC (Vocational) examination this year while the pass rate was 71.96 per cent last year, according to the results published h...

Twin brothers drown in Dinajpur pond

Twin brothers drown in Dinajpur pond

-- 2019-05-06 18:07:02

Two minor siblings drowned in a pond beside their house at Bhabki village under Birganj upazila in Dinajpur on Monday. The deceased were identified as Hasan and Hussain, two-year-old twin sons of Sid...

UNICEF, Le Méridien to work together for children in Ramadan

UNICEF, Le Méridien to work together for children in Ramadan

FE Online Report 2019-05-06 17:51:35

UNICEF Bangladesh and Le Méridien Dhaka signed an agreement to raise money for children during the holy month of Ramadan. Le Méridien Dhaka will support UNICEF Bangladesh by contributin...

PM greets successful SSC candidates

PM greets successful SSC candidates

-- 2019-05-06 17:43:15

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is currently in the UK on an official visit, has greeted the students who have done well in the SSC and equivalent examinations this year. Sheikh Hasina also express...