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Fakhrul visits Noakhali rape victim

Fakhrul visits Noakhali rape victim

-- 2019-01-05 16:48:31

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited the Subarnachar gang-rape victim, who is now undergoing treatment at Noakhali Sadar hospital, on Saturday. Fakhrul assured the victim that th...

Quader blasts BNP for complaining to foreigners

Quader blasts BNP for complaining to foreigners

-- 2019-01-05 16:08:24

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP has nothing other than complaining to foreigners after its failure in both the election and its movement. He also described the rema...

Police recover body of RMG worker in Gazipur

Police recover body of RMG worker in Gazipur

-- 2019-01-05 15:42:41

Police recovered the body of a female garment worker from a septic tank of a house at Bhauraid Uttarpara area in Gazipur city on Saturday morning. The dead woman was Afroza, wife of Shahjahan Chowdhu...

ASI’s wife found dead in city

ASI’s wife found dead in city

-- 2019-01-05 15:28:45

Law enforcers recovered the body of a police officer's wife from Bhatara area in Dhaka city in the early hours of Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mina Akhter, 25, wife of Sohel Rana, assista...

Ershad nominates Ranga as opposition chief whip

Ershad nominates Ranga as opposition chief whip

FE Online Desk 2019-01-05 13:22:50

Jatiya Party has nominated its Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga as the opposition chief whip of the 11the parliament. A letter in this regard signed by Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad was...

AL expels Noakhali leader over election day gang-rape

AL expels Noakhali leader over election day gang-rape

-- 2019-01-05 12:59:56

The Awami League has expelled Noakhali party leader Ruhul Amin in connection with the gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachor on election day. The Subarnachor Upazila Awami League public...

Bangladeshi student aims to become HK lawmaker

Bangladeshi student aims to become HK lawmaker

-- 2019-01-05 12:54:19

Fariha Salma Deiya Bakar was born to a Bangladeshi family in Hong Kong and now aims to become the city’s first ethnic minority lawmaker, the South China Morning Post reports. “I want to s...

Teenage girl gets raped in Cumilla

Teenage girl gets raped in Cumilla

-- 2019-01-05 11:51:24

A 16-year-old girl was reportedly raped by the employer of her father at Krishnapur village in Cumilla’s Lakhsham upazila on Thursday night. Police arrested Tajul Islam Majumdar, 42, son of lat...

Cops recover two bullet-riddled bodies in Cox’s Bazar

Cops recover two bullet-riddled bodies in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2019-01-05 11:45:00

Police recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of two unidentified young men from Balichar area adjacent to Rajarchhora Marine Drive in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday morning. Pradip Kum...

Fakhrul headed to Noakhali to meet gang-rape victim

Fakhrul headed to Noakhali to meet gang-rape victim

-- 2019-01-05 11:01:43

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other Jatiya Oikya Front leaders are headed to Noakhali to meet the woman who became the victim of gang-rape on the election day and her family....

Sirajganj road crash kills three

Sirajganj road crash kills three

-- 2019-01-05 10:28:50

Three people were killed as a truck hit a pick-up van on Bangabandhu West Bridge connecting highway in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj in the early hours of Saturday. The victims could not be identi...

BD workers bear brunt of visa trading in Kuwait

BD workers bear brunt of visa trading in Kuwait

Arafat Ara 2019-01-05 10:25:12

Visa trading goes uncontrolled badly affecting the lives of Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait as many of them still remain jobless there, victims and insiders said. In addition, they said, many workers a...

Rice retails at high rate

Rice retails at high rate

FE Report 2019-01-05 09:57:13

Rice prices have gone up further in the retail market in less than two weeks, but reasons behind such a surge remain unascertained. As always, millers and traders play a trump of increased prices o...

RAB arrests ex-Tarique aide over 'polls money plot'

RAB arrests ex-Tarique aide over 'polls money plot'

-- 2019-01-04 21:33:09

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Miah Nuruddin Ahmad Apu, a former aide to BNP's acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, over the seizure of money in Dhaka before the elections. Apu, who cont...

City-bound passengers suffer for gridlock at Daulatdia

City-bound passengers suffer for gridlock at Daulatdia

-- 2019-01-04 20:55:57

A three-kilometre-long tailback was created at Daulatdia Ferry Ghat in Rajbari on Friday following shortage of ferries and rush of city-bound passengers. Thousands of passengers of the country's sout...

Syed Ashraf's body to be brought back Saturday

Syed Ashraf's body to be brought back Saturday

-- 2019-01-04 20:23:51

The body of Awami League presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam will be brought back home on Saturday evening. Ashraf, who passed away at a Thailand hospital on Thurs...

AL’s grand rally in capital on January 19

AL’s grand rally in capital on January 19

-- 2019-01-04 19:29:34

Awami League will organise a grand rally marking its landslide victory in the 11th parliamentary election at 2.30pm on January 19 at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital. AL President and Prime Minister S...

Rizvi slams EC’s ‘Pitha Utsab’

Rizvi slams EC’s ‘Pitha Utsab’

-- 2019-01-04 19:25:15

BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday has slammed the Election Commission (EC)’s “Pitha Utsab”. His criticism came a day after the EC organised the festival at its headquarters in...

BNP is doing what defeated parties do: Quader

BNP is doing what defeated parties do: Quader

-- 2019-01-04 18:22:56

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is doing what the defeated opposition parties do and this trend will stop after a few days. “The people of the country gave thei...

Dr Kamal mourns Syed Ashraf's death

Dr Kamal mourns Syed Ashraf's death

-- 2019-01-04 17:47:53

Gano Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain and general secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu on Friday expressed deep shock at the death of Awami League Presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed As...

Protesters demand removing STS from Malibagh

Protesters demand removing STS from Malibagh

UNB 2019-01-04 17:20:05

A human chain was formed on Friday in demand of immediate relocation of Secondary Transfer Station (STS) of waste from near the freedom fighters' graves at Malibagh. Malibagh first lane mosque commit...

Norway to work with BD govt, other stake holders

Norway to work with BD govt, other stake holders

-- 2019-01-04 17:03:11

Norway said it will continue to work with the government, opposition, as well as other stakeholders to further advance the democratic and economic development of Bangladesh. "Our countries' good and...

‘Main culprit’ behind gang-rape caught

‘Main culprit’ behind gang-rape caught

-- 2019-01-04 16:43:29

The man who allegedly ordered the gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali over an argument on election day has been arrested, police have said. Hasan Ali Bulu, 60, is known locally as the ‘chief assoc...

BNP informs US envoy about ‘election irregularities’

BNP informs US envoy about ‘election irregularities’

-- 2019-01-04 16:11:28

A three-member BNP delegation, led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on Friday met US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and discussed various issues relating to 11th national...

AL sees BNP's oath-taking boycott as another mistake

AL sees BNP's oath-taking boycott as another mistake

FE Online Desk 2019-01-04 15:12:57

Awami General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP's decision not to take the oath as members of parliament (MPs) was the repetition of its mistake. "BNP made a mistake in 2014 by boycotting t...

Child murder, rape rate up: Report

Child murder, rape rate up: Report

FE Online Report 2019-01-04 14:40:03

Incidents of murder, rape, and suicide of children across the country marked a significant rise in 11 months from January to November of 2018 over the corresponding period of the year before, accordin...

Ershad to lead opposition in parliament

Ershad to lead opposition in parliament

-- 2019-01-04 13:55:37

The Jatiya Party has decided to form the main opposition in parliament with Chairman HM Ershad as the leader of the group.  The party’s newly-elected MPs will not join the government&rsqu...

Two die in Savar road mishap

Two die in Savar road mishap

-- 2019-01-04 13:45:27

Two people were killed and three others injured when a truck hit a number of rickshaws on Tongi-Ashulia-EPZ road at Itakhola in Ashulia of Savar on Friday. One of the victims was identified as Moushu...

A selfless giant in politics: Colleagues on Syed Ashraf

A selfless giant in politics: Colleagues on Syed Ashraf

-- 2019-01-04 13:01:58

The colleagues of Syed Ashraful Islam have recalled how selfless, honest and visionary the “intellectual giant” was in Bangladesh’s politics. “He was a clean politician. Altru...

UNHCR, partners help to bring safe water for Rohingyas

UNHCR, partners help to bring safe water for Rohingyas

-- 2019-01-04 12:57:31

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners have been turning to green and non-polluting technology, including solar power, to help provide safe and clean water to Rohingyas refugees. Over the pas...