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Over 300 RMG units vulnerable: Police

Over 300 RMG units vulnerable: Police

Monira Munni 2019-07-25 10:31:57

Some 328 factories including textile and readymade garment (RMG) across the country, except for Dhaka metropolitan area, are 'vulnerable' to labour unrest over the payment of wages and festival al...

Pressure builds on city hospitals treating dengue patients

Pressure builds on city hospitals treating dengue patients

FE Report 2019-07-25 10:21:40

Pressure built on hospitals, clinics and doctors in handling the ever-growing number of dengue patients in the city in recent days. During visits to some public and private hospitals and clinics on W...

Food safety authority sues 10 firms for ‘lead in milk’

Food safety authority sues 10 firms for ‘lead in milk’

-- 2019-07-24 21:58:15

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority has sued 10 companies after 'lead and other heavy metals were found along with substances harmful for human consumption' in their pasteurised milk products. Food Insp...

Gopalganj betel leaf farmers need govt patronage

Gopalganj betel leaf farmers need govt patronage

Our Correspondent 2019-07-24 21:37:11

GOPALGANJ, July 24: Betel leaf cultivation in the district has been facing a setback due to lack of proper guidance from the department concerned. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension...

PMO for social awareness against child-lifting rumours, dengue

PMO for social awareness against child-lifting rumours, dengue

-- 2019-07-24 20:50:40

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned, particularly local government ministry and city corporations, to engage local communities in forging social awareness an...

No possibility of countrywide power cut

No possibility of countrywide power cut

-- 2019-07-24 20:29:23

Terming it rumour that there will be no power supply across the country during the next three days, Power Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus on Wednesday said there is no chance of countrywide power cut. "Th...

Rohingya repatriation may start in September: FM

Rohingya repatriation may start in September: FM

FE Online Report 2019-07-24 20:03:18

The much-awaited Rohiongya repatriation may start in September this year, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said on Wednesday. “I am expecting that repatriation will start from this September....

Move to introduce 15 new train services by 2020

Move to introduce 15 new train services by 2020

-- 2019-07-24 19:18:49

Railways Minister Mohammad Nurul Islam Sujan has said Bangladesh Railway will introduce 15 more new train services across the country by 2020. "Over 220 most modern new passenger coach will reach in...

Main perpetrator behind Badda lynching on five-day remand

Main perpetrator behind Badda lynching on five-day remand

-- 2019-07-24 18:00:10

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed the alleged main perpetrator behind lynching of an innocent woman in capital’s North Badda area on July 20, on five-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M...

'34 officials involved in Rooppur nuke plant graft'

'34 officials involved in Rooppur nuke plant graft'

-- 2019-07-24 17:54:28

Two probe committees have found the involvement of 34 government officials in graft while purchasing furniture and other household items for Green City housing project under Rooppur Nuclear Power Plan...

Water transport workers partially call off strike

Water transport workers partially call off strike

-- 2019-07-24 17:46:43

Water transport workers have partially called off their strike, allowing launches to operate across the country. “The strike for the freighter ships continues. We’re now in talks with the...

7,766 people infected with dengue in seven months

7,766 people infected with dengue in seven months

-- 2019-07-24 16:55:22

Dengue outbreak has taken a severe turn this year as a total of 7,766 people were admitted to hospitals with dengue from January 1 to July 23 across the country. According to health officials, dengue...

Two killed in BGB anti-narcotics drive in Teknaf

Two killed in BGB anti-narcotics drive in Teknaf

-- 2019-07-24 16:47:52

Two suspected drug peddlers have been killed in a so-called shootout with Border Guard Bangladesh, or BGB, in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf. The incident occurred in the Hoikong area adjoining the...

HC orders WASA to supply pure water

HC orders WASA to supply pure water

-- 2019-07-24 16:26:57

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday ordered Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to ensure supply of pure water. “If they (WASA) can solve the problem, it is fine. We want water, pure...

EU announces €8.5m aid for South and South East Asia

EU announces €8.5m aid for South and South East Asia

-- 2019-07-24 16:15:30

The European Commission has mobilised a new humanitarian funding package worth €8.5 million to help the most affected communities in South and South East Asia hit by natural disasters and humanit...

Quader warns action against rumour-mongers

Quader warns action against rumour-mongers

-- 2019-07-24 14:56:56

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has warned against spreading rumours, saying the government is investigating whether the recent incidents are part of an attempt to destabilise the countr...

Strike brings water transport to a standstill

Strike brings water transport to a standstill

-- 2019-07-24 14:50:46

River transportation services have come to a halt as workers went on an indefinite strike, demanding appointment letters, allowances, and an end to extortion. According to a bdnews24 report, water tr...

Arrestees in lynching cases linked to ‘anti-govt’ force: IGP

Arrestees in lynching cases linked to ‘anti-govt’ force: IGP

-- 2019-07-24 14:17:42

Police found some of the arrestees in lynching cases in parts of Bangladesh having links to the ‘anti-government’ force, said Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary. “A...

Miscreants hack AL leader to death in Bandarban

Miscreants hack AL leader to death in Bandarban

-- 2019-07-24 12:40:32

A local leader of the ruling Awami League was hacked to death by miscreants at Hasnapara in Lama upazila of Bandarban district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Shikdar, former...

Police find beheaded body of a madrasa boy

Police find beheaded body of a madrasa boy

-- 2019-07-24 12:36:35

Police recovered the beheaded body of a madrasa student from Koyradanga village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified Abir Hossain, 11, a class-II stude...

Police arrest another suspect over lynching of woman in city

Police arrest another suspect over lynching of woman in city

-- 2019-07-24 11:46:07

Police have arrested a teenager, suspected to have been involved in the lynching of a woman in Badda, in Bhulta area of Narayanganj district on Tuesday night. Police identified the arrestee as Hridoy...

Myanmar's preparations for Rohingya return raise concern

Myanmar's preparations for Rohingya return raise concern

Reuters 2019-07-24 11:29:01

Myanmar has made “minimal” preparations for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees sheltering in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to an Australian think-tank, de...

Bomb scare hits Dhaka’s Paltan, Khamarbari

Bomb scare hits Dhaka’s Paltan, Khamarbari

-- 2019-07-24 11:13:14

The law enforcers have recovered a bomb from in front of a police box at Paltan intersection in Dhaka. Bomb scare also gripped Khamarbari area when a similar object was found near a police box in t...

Gunfight kills ‘Rohingya drug peddler’

Gunfight kills ‘Rohingya drug peddler’

-- 2019-07-24 11:02:23

A Rohingya man and a suspected drug peddler were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on early Wednesday. The deceased...

Two die in motorcycle accident in Ctg

Two die in motorcycle accident in Ctg

-- 2019-07-24 10:56:40

Two people were killed and two others injured when a motorcycle hit a covered van at Sholosohor over Akteruzzaman flyover in Chattogram city on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Munna, 2...

Miscreants kill female school teacher in Natore

Miscreants kill female school teacher in Natore

-- 2019-07-24 10:53:16

A female primary school teacher was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Gopinathpur in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Latifa Helen Manzu, an...

Road crash leaves two dead in Gazipur

Road crash leaves two dead in Gazipur

-- 2019-07-24 10:50:36

Two people were killed and five others injured in a road crash at Bhuterbazar in Kapasia upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Manik Mia, 30, son of Shahjahan, of Kapasia and Saifuzzama...

21st BCS admin forum forms new committee

21st BCS admin forum forms new committee

-- 2019-07-23 22:29:45

A 21-member committee of BCS Administration Forum has been formed with Dhananjay Kumar Das, deputy secretary of public security division of Home Ministry and Md Shahidul Islam, deputy commissioner of...

Highest number of dengue cases for a month recorded in July

Highest number of dengue cases for a month recorded in July

-- 2019-07-23 21:28:37

The health department has recorded more than 5,500 dengue cases in July, the highest number for a month in the history of this mosquito-borne viral disease in Bangladesh, according to bdnews24.com. T...

Raushon refuses to accept GM Quader as party chairman

Raushon refuses to accept GM Quader as party chairman

-- 2019-07-23 21:04:08

Jatiya Party Senior Co-Chairman Raushon Ershad has refused to accept GM Quader as chairman of the party following the death of founder HM Ershad. Ershad named his brother Quader acting chairman and h...