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Noakhali road crash leaves four dead

Noakhali road crash leaves four dead

-- 2019-01-21 17:23:42

Four people died and two others were injured in a road accident in Begumganj Upazila of Noakhali on Monday. Begumganj Police OC Firoze Hossain Molla said the accident occurred when when a bus collide...

BGB arrests 14 Bangladeshi nationals at Benapole

BGB arrests 14 Bangladeshi nationals at Benapole

-- 2019-01-21 17:13:32

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troopers arrested 14 Bangladeshis while entering the country illegally through Putkhali border at Charer Math on Monday. Of the arrestees, six are women and two are chil...

Aug 21 case: Two ex-IGPs serving time in jail receive bail

Aug 21 case: Two ex-IGPs serving time in jail receive bail

-- 2019-01-21 14:49:42

The High Court has granted bail to two former inspectors general of police who were sentenced to two years in prison in the Aug 21 grenade attack case. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Abdul Aw...

DMP arrests 63 in anti-narcotics drive

DMP arrests 63 in anti-narcotics drive

FE Online Report 2019-01-21 14:35:56

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive arrested 63 drug suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, co...

Work sincerely to meet public expectations: PM tells new cabinet

Work sincerely to meet public expectations: PM tells new cabinet

-- 2019-01-21 13:40:18

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the new cabinet to work with sincerity and honesty to fulfil the expectations of people who have voted Awami League to power again with a huge mandate. "The cab...

Security guard found dead inside ATM booth in Dhaka

Security guard found dead inside ATM booth in Dhaka

FE Online Desk 2019-01-21 13:33:50

A security guard has been found dead inside a private bank ATM booth in Dhaka city’s Baridhara. Bhatara Police Station’s Inspector (investigations) Mahfuzur Rahman said, “The securi...

Teknaf gunfight leaves ‘drug trader’ dead

Teknaf gunfight leaves ‘drug trader’ dead

-- 2019-01-21 13:17:31

A suspected drug trader was killed in a gunfight with police at Hneela Domdomia Checkpost area in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on Monday. The deceased was identified Shamsul Prokash Bharmai...

DMP realises nearly Tk 3m in fines from traffic offenders

DMP realises nearly Tk 3m in fines from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2019-01-21 13:13:26

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Sunday realised Tk 2.997 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 6,153 cases were also filed against differ...

Barrister Nazmul Huda secures bail

Barrister Nazmul Huda secures bail

-- 2019-01-21 12:09:19

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has granted bail to former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in a graft case. A four member bench led by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order on...

18 people still missing after trawler capsize in Meghna

18 people still missing after trawler capsize in Meghna

-- 2019-01-21 12:05:36

Authorities have identified two bodies, but 18 people still remain missing six days after a trawler capsized on the Meghna River in Munshiganj. Munshiganj Additional Superintendent of Police (Sadar-G...

Fire guts 72 shanties in Narayanganj

Fire guts 72 shanties in Narayanganj

-- 2019-01-21 11:01:44

A fire that broke out at Chandmari slum in Narayanganj’s Fatulla in the early hours of Monday gutted 72 shanties. Narayanganj fire service sources said that the fire broke out in a jhut warehou...

Adani Wilmar to invest $400m in Mirsarai Economic Zone

Adani Wilmar to invest $400m in Mirsarai Economic Zone

FE Report 2019-01-21 10:33:15

Adani Wilmar Limited, a joint venture of India and Singapore-based two companies, is set to invest US $400 million in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Industrial City in Chattogram region to establish agro-...

'Riverine tourism' potentials wither

'Riverine tourism' potentials wither

Kamrun Nahar 2019-01-21 10:19:46

The potential of "riverine tourism" is tapering off due to the negligence of the authorities including the relevant ministry, industry insiders say. The absence of inter-ministerial coordination, b...

Aurangzeb Chowdhury new Navy chief

Aurangzeb Chowdhury new Navy chief

-- 2019-01-20 21:19:59

Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) Director General Rear Admiral AMMM Aurangzeb Chowdhury has been appointed as the new Chief of Naval Staff. The Defence Ministry issued a gazette notification in this rega...

Physician shortage hampers healthcare in Bogura UZ

Physician shortage hampers healthcare in Bogura UZ

Our Correspondent 2019-01-20 20:54:32

BOGURA, Jan 20: Medicare service is being disrupted severely due to acute shortage of physicians at Kahaloo Upazila Health Complex of Bogura district. According to hospital sources, some twenty five...

Lucrative price boosts sesame  cultivation in Sirajganj

Lucrative price boosts sesame cultivation in Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-20 20:53:33

SIRAJGANJ, Jan 20: Sesame is being cultivated abundantly across Sirajganj district due to its lucrative price this season. Farmers of the district showed more interest to grow the crops on a large sc...

HC seeks explanation on gas price hike

HC seeks explanation on gas price hike

-- 2019-01-20 20:21:29

The High Court (HC) on Sunday issued a rule seeking an explanation as to why the decision of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to raise the prices of gas production, transmission and...

‘No election is perfect’

‘No election is perfect’

-- 2019-01-20 19:20:26

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has responded to the UN secretary general’s remarks on the 11th parliamentary election in Bangladesh, saying that there is no perfect election. At...

Holey Artisan attack:  JMB man put on five-day remand

Holey Artisan attack: JMB man put on five-day remand

-- 2019-01-20 19:01:05

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) member Md Mammunur Rashid, an accused in Gulshan Holey Artisan Bakery cafe attack case, on a five-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan M...

Meghna trawler capsize: Bodies of two ‘missing workers’ found

Meghna trawler capsize: Bodies of two ‘missing workers’ found

-- 2019-01-20 18:47:34

The bodies of two workers, who along with 18 others went missing after a sand-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna River on Tuesday, were recovered Sunday on the 6th day of the rescue operation. The...

21 Bangladeshis return home after serving jail in India

21 Bangladeshis return home after serving jail in India

-- 2019-01-20 18:26:24

Twenty one Bangladeshi nationals returned to country on Sunday after serving different jail terms in India. The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Assam Police handed over the Bangladeshi nationa...

'New committee will be formed for ninth wage board'

'New committee will be formed for ninth wage board'

-- 2019-01-20 18:26:16

A new cabinet committee will be formed to review the recommendations of the ninth wage board for journalists of newspaper and news agencies, said Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday. “I...

BD seeks Singapore's continued support on Rohingya issue

BD seeks Singapore's continued support on Rohingya issue

-- 2019-01-20 17:52:06

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday thanked Singapore for standing beside Bangladesh with humanitarian assistance and also urged for its continued support to resolve the Rohingya crisis. The...

RAB arrests couple with 5,300 yaba pills in Chattogram

RAB arrests couple with 5,300 yaba pills in Chattogram

-- 2019-01-20 17:11:44

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a suspected drug trading couple along with 5,300 pieces of yaba tablets (worth Tk 2.65m) from Pahartoli area in Chattogram city in the early...

Assailants stab ward councillor dead in Natore

Assailants stab ward councillor dead in Natore

-- 2019-01-20 16:48:25

A ward councillor of Gopalpur Municipality in Natore was stabbed to death by some unidentified miscreants in front of his residence at Biropara in Lalpur upazila on Sunday. The dead man was identifie...

Awareness programme in Rajshahi village to resist militancy

Awareness programme in Rajshahi village to resist militancy

-- 2019-01-20 16:38:33

  Villagers have come together to free their respective villages in Nezampur Union Parishad (UP) under Nachole Upazila of Rajshahi district from the curse of terrorism and militancy. Awareness...

BNP accuses AL of being reckless after election win

BNP accuses AL of being reckless after election win

-- 2019-01-20 16:06:12

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says the ruling Awami League’s activists have become ‘reckless and diabolically exhilarated’ after the election. He referred to...

Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation offers fellowship for journos

Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation offers fellowship for journos

FE Online Report 2019-01-20 15:27:49

The Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation (CCA Foundation) is offering a fellowship programme for the journalists in a bid to provide them in-depth knowledge on cyber crimes and violent extremism. CCA F...

Meghna trawler capsize: Rescuers recover two bodies

Meghna trawler capsize: Rescuers recover two bodies

-- 2019-01-20 13:59:28

The bodies of two workers, who along with 18 others went missing after a sand-laden trawler capsized in the Meghna River in Munshiganj on Tuesday, were recovered Sunday on the 6th day of the rescue op...

Car crashes into ditch in Narayanganj, killing four

Car crashes into ditch in Narayanganj, killing four

-- 2019-01-20 13:17:49

Four people have been killed after a car crashed into a ditch in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon. The accident occurred on the Madanpur-Bhulta-Joydebpur road in the Bastal area on Sunday morning, said...