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ACC catches fisheries officer red-handed while taking bribe

ACC catches fisheries officer red-handed while taking bribe

-- 2019-07-09 18:27:48

Dinajpur's Parbatipur Upazila fisheries officer was arrested from his office while accepting Tk 200,000 bribe on Tuesday. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) identified the official as Rezaul Karim...

Gonoforum to oppose govt’s ‘unfair’ acts: Kibria

Gonoforum to oppose govt’s ‘unfair’ acts: Kibria

-- 2019-07-09 18:24:43

Gonoforum General Secretary Reza Kibria on Tuesday said their party will intensify its anti-government role both in parliament and outside. "Gonoforum is a party of people. We stand here in protest a...

94.4 million internet users in Bangladesh: Minister

94.4 million internet users in Bangladesh: Minister

-- 2019-07-09 18:10:04

The total number of internet subscribers in Bangladesh reached 94.4 million at the end of May this year. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar gave the information in the parliament on...

Don’t run misleading milk ads, HC tells BSTI

Don’t run misleading milk ads, HC tells BSTI

-- 2019-07-09 16:56:06

The High Court on Tuesday asked the lawyer of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) to stop publishing advertisements and reports on milk that might spread misleading information among t...

53 journalists face harassment in Jan-May

53 journalists face harassment in Jan-May

FE Online Report 2019-07-09 16:44:36

At least 53 journalists fell victim to harassment across the country in the first five months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent legal aid and rights body. Of them,...

Six new witnesses testify in Holey Artisan attack case

Six new witnesses testify in Holey Artisan attack case

-- 2019-07-09 16:35:29

Six new prosecution witnesses including four staff members of Holey Artisan Bakery have testified before an anti-terror special court in a case lodged over 2016 terrorist attack at the upscale cafe in...

Rape suspect dies in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

Rape suspect dies in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-07-09 15:56:53

A rape suspect has been killed in an alleged shootout with police at Hatiber village in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district. The incident took place at the village of Uthura in the early hours o...

HC rejects plea seeking stay on gas price hike

HC rejects plea seeking stay on gas price hike

FE Online Desk 2019-07-09 15:13:00

The government decision to hike the gas price will now remain effective as the High Court today rejected the writ petition that sought a stay order on it. The bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhur...

Mayor Khokon hints at talks with rickshaw pullers

Mayor Khokon hints at talks with rickshaw pullers

FE Report 2019-07-09 13:57:11

Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon has called upon the agitating rickshaw drivers to take it into consideration that banning rickshaws on three roads only out of hundreds would not hit t...

Ex-MP Rana released from jail

Ex-MP Rana released from jail

-- 2019-07-09 13:48:59

Former Awami League MP from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana was released from jail on bail on Tuesday, after two years and 10 months. He walked out of Tangail District Jail around 9:30am...

Physician found dead in Sylhet

Physician found dead in Sylhet

-- 2019-07-09 13:25:46

A physician was found dead at his residence in Baghbari area of Sylhet on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Dr Habib Ullah Khan, an assistant professor of Paediatric Surgery department of...

'Drug trader' dies in city 'gunfight'

'Drug trader' dies in city 'gunfight'

-- 2019-07-09 11:39:18

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Uttarkhan area of the capital in the early hours of Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Md Anwar Hos...

Rickshaw-pullers block road in Rampura

Rickshaw-pullers block road in Rampura

-- 2019-07-09 09:58:57

Rickshaw-pullers blocked the road at Rampura in Dhaka city on Tuesday morning protesting the decision banning the plying of rickshaws on three major thoroughfares of the capital, including the Kuril-S...

350 families evacuated from risky hills in Chattogram

350 families evacuated from risky hills in Chattogram

-- 2019-07-08 20:51:24

Chattogram district administration on Monday evacuated more than 350 families living in the risky zones as rain forecasts have triggered fear of landslides in the port city’s hills region. The...

Accused in Saima murder gives confession, lands in jail

Accused in Saima murder gives confession, lands in jail

-- 2019-07-08 20:17:26

The lone accused in the case filed over the killing of Wari minor girl Samia Afrin Saima after rape reportedly confessed before a city court on Monday to his crime. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sara...

PM slams US Congressman’s proposal to incorporate Rakhine with Bangladesh

PM slams US Congressman’s proposal to incorporate Rakhine with Bangladesh

-- 2019-07-08 19:39:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday came down heavily on US Congressman and Chairman of the Asia and Pacific Subcommittee Brad Sherman for his proposal to incorporate Rakhine State of Myanmar into...

‘Gas price hike has to be accepted for development’

‘Gas price hike has to be accepted for development’

-- 2019-07-08 18:58:21

People will have to accept gas price hike for the sake of the country's economic progress as the government has to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) at a higher cost, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin...

Heavy rain destroys 3,400 Rohingya shelters in 72 hours

Heavy rain destroys 3,400 Rohingya shelters in 72 hours

-- 2019-07-08 18:24:29

Five days of heavy rains and winds have destroyed Rohingya camps in the district displacing over 2,700, damaging over 3,400 houses and leaving two people dead, said IOM on Monday. "We're only half wa...

SC upholds HC bail to Rana 

SC upholds HC bail to Rana 

-- 2019-07-08 18:10:06

The Appellate Division on Monday upheld the bail granted by the High Court (HC) to former Awami League MP from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a case filed over killing of two Jubo Leag...

Bagerhat road accident leaves two dead

Bagerhat road accident leaves two dead

-- 2019-07-08 18:00:08

An easy-bike driver and a cyclist were killed after being hit by a truck on Khulna-Mawa highway at Bishwa Road intersection in Fakirhat upazila in Bagerhat on Monday. The deceased were identified as...

Freedom of expression, media key to functioning democracy: UK

Freedom of expression, media key to functioning democracy: UK

-- 2019-07-08 17:49:19

British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson on Monday said freedom of expression and the media are essential qualities of any functioning democracy. "As Bangladesh continues its jour...

HSC, equivalent examination results on July 17

HSC, equivalent examination results on July 17

-- 2019-07-08 17:18:56

The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 17. Inter-education board coordination subcommittee chief Prof Md Ziaul Haque g...

Heavy rain triggers landslide in Rangamati, two die

Heavy rain triggers landslide in Rangamati, two die

-- 2019-07-08 17:13:51

A minor boy and a woman were killed and three others injured on Monday in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall for the last couple of days at Kalabagan in Kaptai upazila of Rangamati. The deceased...

Dutch Queen Maxima arrives in city Tuesday

Dutch Queen Maxima arrives in city Tuesday

-- 2019-07-08 15:10:21

Dutch Queen Maxima arrives in Dhaka on Tuesday on a four-day official visit to see various development activities on the ground. Queen Máxima has served as the UN Secretary-General's Special A...

BSF shoots Bangladeshi dead along in C’nawabganj

BSF shoots Bangladeshi dead along in C’nawabganj

-- 2019-07-08 14:52:09

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Kiranganj border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj early Monday. The deceased was identified as Dulal, 20...

Kader Siddique leaves Oikya Front

Kader Siddique leaves Oikya Front

-- 2019-07-08 14:03:42

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique has officially left the Jatiya Oikya Front, an election-time opposition alliance. “The alliance has turned into an almost non-existen...

Rickshaw pullers block Dhaka roads to protest ban

Rickshaw pullers block Dhaka roads to protest ban

-- 2019-07-08 13:45:53

A large number of rickshaw-pullers have blocked Dhaka roads, demanding the city authorities reverse a ban on rickshaw movement on three important roads in the capital.  The protesters have occup...

Feroz Rashid’s daughter-in-law suffers gunshot at home

Feroz Rashid’s daughter-in-law suffers gunshot at home

-- 2019-07-08 13:34:06

Merina Shoeb, wife of Kazi Shoeb Rashid, the eldest son of Jatiya Party Presidium member Kazi Feroz Rashid, has been admitted to hospital after being shot. She was shot in the stomach at around 8pm o...

Miscreants stab ninth grader to death in Gazipur

Miscreants stab ninth grader to death in Gazipur

-- 2019-07-08 13:21:12

Some unidentified miscreants stabbed a ninth grader to death in Tongi BSCIC industrial area in Gazipur on early Monday. The deceased was identified as Shuvo Ahmed, 15, son of Md Raju Miah of Fakir Ma...

My only job to give people a better life: PM

My only job to give people a better life: PM

-- 2019-07-08 13:19:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her only job is to make Bangladesh a sustainable country and give its people a better life. “I lost all my family members except my sister, but the people...