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RAB seizes seven kg gold bars, arrests four

RAB seizes seven kg gold bars, arrests four

-- 2018-11-23 20:33:56

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-2 on Friday arrested four active members of international gold smuggling gang from capital’s Kalyanpur area and recovered 56 gold bars weighing around seven kilogram...

New railway station in Khulna to start operation Saturday

New railway station in Khulna to start operation Saturday

-- 2018-11-23 20:33:40

The newly-constructed railway station in Khulna will start its operation from Saturday. Railway officials said Dhaka-bound Chitra Express train will left the railway station around 8:40am on Saturday...

12 workers burned as melted iron falls on them in N’ganj

12 workers burned as melted iron falls on them in N’ganj

FE Online Report 2018-11-23 18:33:46

Twelve workers sustained burn injuries as melted iron fell on them at a steel and rod factory in Madanpur area of Bandar upazila in Narayanganj on Friday. All of them are undergoing treatment at Dhak...

AL-led alliance to get victory again: Obaidul Quader

AL-led alliance to get victory again: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-11-23 18:16:14

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today expressed his hope that the grand alliance led by his party will achieve victory again in the next parliamentary election. “Our grand allianc...

No legal bar to EVM use in parliamentary polls, says CEC

No legal bar to EVM use in parliamentary polls, says CEC

-- 2018-11-23 18:07:47

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Friday said there is no legal bar to the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the upcoming 11th parliamentary elections and decision on the exte...

Let Rohingyas visit Rakhine before repatriation: UNHCR to Myanmar

Let Rohingyas visit Rakhine before repatriation: UNHCR to Myanmar

-- 2018-11-23 17:49:41

The UNHCR has stressed Rohingyas' "go-and-see visits" to Rakhine State in Myanmar before repatriation from Cox’s Bazar to help them make an independent choice. The UN refugee agency in a statem...

Chandpur court sends BNP leader Milon to jail

Chandpur court sends BNP leader Milon to jail

-- 2018-11-23 17:17:20

A court in Chandpur has sent BNP leader ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon to jail in three separate cases. The three cases were filed against the former state minister for education with Kachua police station...

Air Force pilot dies as training jet crashes in Tangail

Air Force pilot dies as training jet crashes in Tangail

-- 2018-11-23 16:52:28

A training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed at Rasulpur in Madhupur upazila of Tangail district on Friday afternoon, killing its lone pilot. Rezaul Karim, assistant director of Inter Se...

26 rivers register rise, 52 fall

26 rivers register rise, 52 fall

-- 2018-11-23 16:52:11

Water levels in 26 rivers stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 52 stations recorded falls. Among the 94 monitored water level stations, 16 are stead...

DMP files 3,551 cases for traffic offences

DMP files 3,551 cases for traffic offences

FE Online Report 2018-11-23 16:37:07

The Traffic Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in its regular drive against traffic rule violations filed a total of 3,551 cases against different modes of vehicles in Dhaka on Wednesday. Th...

No need to take consent before arrest of corrupt officials: ACC chief

No need to take consent before arrest of corrupt officials: ACC chief

FE Report 2018-11-23 15:50:24

The country will be free of corruption if there is no unholy alliance between the bureaucrats and politicians, said Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Thursday. "If the govern...

BIWTA godown catches fire in Narayanganj

BIWTA godown catches fire in Narayanganj

-- 2018-11-23 15:41:07

A fire broke out in a godown of Bangladesh Inland Transport Authority (BIWTA) in Khanpur area in Narayanganj on Friday.    The fire originated from the southern part of the rented godown at...

EC wants police to investigate murder of BNP leader Abu

EC wants police to investigate murder of BNP leader Abu

-- 2018-11-23 14:30:34

The Election Commission (EC) will give directives to the police to investigate the murder of Abu Bakar Abu, a BNP nomination aspirant from Jashore. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda sai...

EC to meet BTRC, mobile operators on Nov 26

EC to meet BTRC, mobile operators on Nov 26

-- 2018-11-23 13:45:14

The Election Commission (EC) will meet Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and mobile operators to address them on preventing violations of the election code of conduct in the so...

Time to protect wild life, birds: Experts

Time to protect wild life, birds: Experts

-- 2018-11-23 13:04:25

Experts and development activists at a discussion in Rajshahi have unanimously observed that protection of wild life and birds has become an urgent need for maintaining ecological balance. They menti...

Two die after bus hits truck in Lalmonirhat

Two die after bus hits truck in Lalmonirhat

-- 2018-11-23 12:51:18

A man and a 10-year-old child were killed and five others injured after a bus hit a truck in Lalmonirhat. The incident took place at around 6:30 am on Friday on the Rangpur-Kurigram Highway in the Sa...

Police detain 34 in Habiganj

Police detain 34 in Habiganj

-- 2018-11-23 12:36:26

Police arrested 34 people including 23 wanted accused and 11 accused in regular cases from different areas of Habiganj district in last 12-hour ending at 9:00 am on Friday morning. Detective Branch (...

Feni road crash leaves two dead

Feni road crash leaves two dead

-- 2018-11-23 12:18:55

Two people were killed and three others injured when a truck rammed a covered van on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Lemua bridge in Sadar upazila on Friday. The identities of the deceased could not be k...

Labour dies of electrocution in Habiganj

Labour dies of electrocution in Habiganj

-- 2018-11-23 11:43:28

A labour died after being electrocuted at Kumri village under Baniachang upazila in Habiganj on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Jamirul Mia, 25, a resident of Jatra Pasha village under sadar...

DU teacher in jail on rape charges

DU teacher in jail on rape charges

-- 2018-11-23 11:33:36

A court has sent a teacher of Dhaka University’s Institute of Business Administration or IBA to jail on charges of raping a woman with whom he had an affair. Police arrested Khaled Mahmud, an a...

Gas line fire burns six in city

Gas line fire burns six in city

-- 2018-11-23 11:15:57

At least six people have been burnt in a fire that originated from gas line during repairs at a house in the city’s Mohammadpur area. The incident occurred at a flat on the fourth floor of the...

BNP nomination seeker found dead in Dhaka

BNP nomination seeker found dead in Dhaka

-- 2018-11-23 11:05:35

A BNP leader from Jashore, who went missing from Paltan four days ago after coming to Dhaka to seek party ticket, has been found dead. The body of Abu Bakar Abu was floating in the Buriganga River ne...

BNP leader Milon arrested in Chattogram

BNP leader Milon arrested in Chattogram

-- 2018-11-23 10:18:22

BNP leader ANM Ehsanul Haq Milon has been arrested in Chattogram. A team of Chandpur's Detective Branch detained Milon from his relative’s home on Chatteshwari Road on Friday morning, according...

Man gets life-term for killing sister-in-law

Man gets life-term for killing sister-in-law

-- 2018-11-23 10:09:04

A tribunal in Chuadanga has sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing his sister-in-law after rape in 2014. The convict was identified as Imon Ali, a resident of Darshana area in Damurhud...

‘Dr Kamal’s main issue Khaleda's release, not polls’

‘Dr Kamal’s main issue Khaleda's release, not polls’

-- 2018-11-22 22:13:02

Workers Party of Bangladesh President Rashed Khan Menon on Thursday said Dr Kamal Hossain’s main issue is not the general election but the release of Begum Khaleda Zia and her corrupted son Tari...

Hasina promises modern tanneries in Ctg, Rajshahi

Hasina promises modern tanneries in Ctg, Rajshahi

-- 2018-11-22 22:00:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said if elected again her government would set up modern tanneries in Chattogram and Rajshahi as well as an exclusive leather industrial zone with all modern f...

Bird lover detects rare bird  Tree Pipit in Rajshahi village

Bird lover detects rare bird Tree Pipit in Rajshahi village

Our Correspondent 2018-11-22 21:14:45

RAJSHAHI, Nov 22: 'Tree Pipit,' a tiny, sparrow like bird thought to be extinct 140-year ago, has been detected by a bird lover in a village in Rajshahi recently. Tree Pipit is called 'Gecho Tulika'...

Health complexes in Magura, Bogura suffer for staff, instrument shortages

Health complexes in Magura, Bogura suffer for staff, instrument shortages

Our Correspondent 2018-11-22 21:13:13

MAGURA, Nov 22: Upazila Health Complex, Sreepur, has been suffering from manpower shortage. Moreover, some medical instrument have been lying without repair since long. Sreepur upazila health comple...

SSC, equivalent exams to start Feb 2

SSC, equivalent exams to start Feb 2

-- 2018-11-22 20:08:27

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2019 will begin on February 2. The Education Ministry published the exam schedule on Thursday, reports UNB. The detailed sch...

One to walk gallows for killing woman in 2015

One to walk gallows for killing woman in 2015

-- 2018-11-22 20:04:34

A Chandpur court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing a woman in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district in 2015. The condemned convict is Khayer Miah, 32, son of Md Jamal Miah, a resi...