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Four die as pickup van overturns in Noakhali

Four die as pickup van overturns in Noakhali

-- 2019-07-28 10:10:36

Four people have been killed and 15 others injured after a pickup van overturned in Noakhali’s Chowmuhani Upazila. The incident took place at the Chowmuhani Bazar around 7:00am on Sunday, accor...

Number of dengue infected people hits record-high

Number of dengue infected people hits record-high

-- 2019-07-27 20:26:59

This year dengue situation has taken a severe turn as  the mosquito-borne disease has already infected more people than ever before in a calendar year, and claimed nine lives to boot. The rate o...

Conviction rate in graft cases increases by 4.0pc

Conviction rate in graft cases increases by 4.0pc

-- 2019-07-27 19:59:45

The conviction rate in graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) increased in the first six months of the current calendar year compared to that of the same period in 2018. The conv...

BRTC advance bus ticket from July 29

BRTC advance bus ticket from July 29

FE Online Report 2019-07-27 19:55:26

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will start selling advance bus tickets for Eid-ul-Azha from July 29, while the Eid Special Service will bgin from August 8, said officials. The tickets ca...

Record 683 patients diagnosed with dengu on Saturday

Record 683 patients diagnosed with dengu on Saturday

-- 2019-07-27 19:33:19

The number of reported cases of dengue is increasing continuously across Bangladesh, with the highest number of patients diagnosed with the viral disease in a day. The Directorate General of Health S...

Three college students go missing in Dhaleshwari River

Three college students go missing in Dhaleshwari River

-- 2019-07-27 19:01:36

Three college students from Dhaka went missing while taking bath in Dhaleshwari River in Savar on Saturday. The victims – Mehedi, 17, Rajon, 17, and Akash, 18 – are first-year students of...

Mob beating took away 36 lives in six months

Mob beating took away 36 lives in six months

FE Online Report 2019-07-27 17:39:53

Mob beating took away 36 lives across the country in the first six months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights and legal aid body. The highest number of lynchi...

Govt serious about tackling dengue: Quader

Govt serious about tackling dengue: Quader

-- 2019-07-27 16:51:35

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the government is working sincerely to tackle the prevailing dengue and flood situation. He said this while delivering speech at a progra...

Khaleda receives dental care at BSMMU

Khaleda receives dental care at BSMMU

-- 2019-07-27 15:31:09

Imprisoned BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is currently undergoing medical treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, has received dental care. The 74-year-old was taken...

28 industries to get national productivity award

28 industries to get national productivity award

-- 2019-07-27 14:40:13

The industries ministry is going to adorn 28 industries and services oriented organisations with National Productivity and Quality Excellent Award-2018 for their outstanding contribution in increasing...

Hasina wishes Johnson with mangoes, flowers

Hasina wishes Johnson with mangoes, flowers

-- 2019-07-27 12:58:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in London on an official visit, has sent Bangladesh's famous mangoes along with flowers to newly appointed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a mark of her good...

Truck hits autorickshaw in Kishoreganj, killing four

Truck hits autorickshaw in Kishoreganj, killing four

-- 2019-07-27 12:43:50

At least four people have died in a collision between a truck and an autorickshaw in Kishoreganj. The incident took place in Pakundia Upazila’s Battala area at around 8am on Saturday, said Md M...

Five of a family held in city over ‘militant link’

Five of a family held in city over ‘militant link’

-- 2019-07-27 12:05:42

A special team of the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) arrested five members of a family at Rupnagar in Dhaka's Mirpur following an exchange of gunfire early Saturday for their suspected involvement in milit...

DU student dies of dengue

DU student dies of dengue

-- 2019-07-27 11:51:53

A student of  Dhaka University (DU)  died of dengue fever at a private hospital in the city on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Firoz Kabir, a finance department student of 2013...

Child-lifting rumour: Ctg youth escapes death in mass beating

Child-lifting rumour: Ctg youth escapes death in mass beating

-- 2019-07-27 11:33:49

A youth escaped death in mass beating as he managed to flee after local people caught him suspecting him to be a child-lifter in Hathajari in Chattogram on Friday night.  The victim was identifi...

Dengue patients stretch Dhaka hospitals

Dengue patients stretch Dhaka hospitals

-- 2019-07-27 10:44:08

Hospitals in Dhaka are packed with dengue patients so much amid an outbreak of the disease that the relatives have to rush from one hospital to another to get their loved ones urgent medical attention...

Stocks crawl back into green on regulatory interventions

Stocks crawl back into green on regulatory interventions

Babul Barman 2019-07-27 10:23:33

Stocks inched up in the outgoing week, snapping a three-week losing streak, as institutional investors came forward to stop the big declines. Week on week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Ex...

Downtrend in hilsa prices

Downtrend in hilsa prices

FE Report 2019-07-27 10:06:46

The prices of hilsa showed a downward trend from last week, thanks to the end of a two-month fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal. However, the prices are still much higher for consumers in the lower i...

Repatriation: Myanmar team due today

Repatriation: Myanmar team due today

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-07-27 09:51:37

A high level Myanmar delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary U Myint Thu, is scheduled to visit the Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps today (Saturday) to encourage them to go back to their hom...

Flood prevails as water levels of major rivers decrease slowly

Flood prevails as water levels of major rivers decrease slowly

-- 2019-07-26 20:26:07

Low-lying and char areas in northern, northeastern and middle parts of the country have been badly affected by flood as water levels of major rivers are decreasing slowly. Md Arrifuzzaman Bhuiyan, ex...

BNP demands Khaleda's 'better treatment' either at home or abroad

BNP demands Khaleda's 'better treatment' either at home or abroad

-- 2019-07-26 20:14:43

Voicing deep concern over the illness of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the party on Friday demanded that immediate steps be taken for Khaleda's proper treatment either at home or abroad as per her desi...

3,200 hectares of cropland flooded in Naogaon

3,200 hectares of cropland flooded in Naogaon

-- 2019-07-26 20:07:47

Thousands of farmers are staring at a bleak future after Atrai and Chhoto Jamuna rivers burst their banks, flooding several thousand hectares of farmland in the district. The affected croplands are i...

16 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

16 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

-- 2019-07-26 20:04:51

A total of 16 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims have died of various reasons this year in Saudi Arabia as of Thursday. Of them, 14 were males and two females, according to a bulletin of the Bangladesh Haj Ma...

Three of a family killed in Kurigram road crash

Three of a family killed in Kurigram road crash

-- 2019-07-26 20:04:37

Three members of a family were killed after a minibus rammed into an auto-rickshaw in the sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Mostafa, 35, his wife Josna, 28, and their grandmoth...

Govt aims to make country poverty-free in five years

Govt aims to make country poverty-free in five years

-- 2019-07-26 19:47:32

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the present government is working with an aim to make the country free from poverty in next five years. So, everybody has to give attention so that none is...

DNCC offers free dengue tests

DNCC offers free dengue tests

-- 2019-07-26 19:44:16

People will get free dengue fever tests at 52 health centres from Monday in the city, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam said on Friday, reports UNB. The centres include five...

Rifat’s father demands arrest of Minni’s parents

Rifat’s father demands arrest of Minni’s parents

-- 2019-07-26 19:02:54

Dulal Sharif, the father of Rifat Sharif who was stabbed to death in Barguna, has again demanded the arrest of the parents of his daughter-in-law Ayesha Siddiqua Minni over the murder. Dulal reiterat...

Marriage takes place in Feni police station

Marriage takes place in Feni police station

-- 2019-07-26 19:00:03

The Sonagazi Police Station In Feni on Thursday evening witnessed a surprising marriage when a girl was married off to a youth who attempted to kidnap her on the previous day, reports UNB. Officer-i...

Badda lynching: Police arrest woman

Badda lynching: Police arrest woman

-- 2019-07-26 18:21:37

Police arrested a woman in connection with the lynching of Taslima Begum Renu in Dhaka’s Badda. Riya Begum alias Moina, 27, was arrested in a raid in the Satarkul neighbourhood on Thursday nigh...

Kurigram road crash kills three

Kurigram road crash kills three

-- 2019-07-26 17:28:07

Three members of a family were killed after a minibus rammed into an auto-rickshaw in Kurigram sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Mostafa, 35, his wife Josna, 28, and their gran...