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Rajshahi fruit growers hopeful about bumper mango yield

Rajshahi fruit growers hopeful about bumper mango yield

-- 2019-04-04 17:22:23

Mango growers and businessmen have become hopeful about the ensuing mango production as the fruit setting process is going on successfully in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj, nationwide famous for the de...

RCC adopts Tk 27.14b mega project

RCC adopts Tk 27.14b mega project

-- 2019-04-04 16:46:49

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) adopted a mega project involving Tk 27.1442 billion (Tk 2,714.42 crore) for improving living and livelihood condition of its people. City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton...

Green Line gets High Court’s ultimatum

Green Line gets High Court’s ultimatum

-- 2019-04-04 16:30:30

Green Line Paribahan has been given until Apr 10 by the High Court to pay Tk 5.0 million to Russell Sarkar, who lost his leg after being hit by a bus of the company on Dhaka’s Mayor Mohammad Han...

Faridpur man killed in factional infighting

Faridpur man killed in factional infighting

-- 2019-04-04 16:25:18

A man was killed and 20 others injured in a clash between two factions of local Awami League (AL) over establishing supremacy at Poail village in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur district early Thursday....

Compensate Russell or face auction: HC to Green Line

Compensate Russell or face auction: HC to Green Line

-- 2019-04-04 14:46:48

Green Line Paribahan has drawn the ire of the High Court over its failure to pay Tk 5 million to accident victim Russell Sarkar despite being told to do so by the apex court. Russell lost his leg aft...

Bus crushes security guard in Barishal; driver held

Bus crushes security guard in Barishal; driver held

FE Online Desk 2019-04-04 14:11:21

A security guard of a textile mill was killed when a bus crushed him on Barishal-Patuakhali highway on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Shah Alam, 50, a worker of Sonargaon Texti...

UNDP to implement US$10m Adaptation Fund in Bangladesh

UNDP to implement US$10m Adaptation Fund in Bangladesh

FE Report 2019-04-04 14:07:50

UNDP is going to implement the US$10m Adaptation Fund in small islands of Bangladesh to enhance resilience of vulnerable communities. "The allocation would be spent through a project being jointly im...

RAB arrests man with phensedyl in Chattogram

RAB arrests man with phensedyl in Chattogram

-- 2019-04-04 13:43:37

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man along with 442 bottles of Phensedyl from a truck on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Dakkhin Mahadeb in Sitakunda upazila of the port city in the earl...

Air pollution killed 0.12m people in Bangladesh in 2017: Report

Air pollution killed 0.12m people in Bangladesh in 2017: Report

-- 2019-04-04 12:14:07

At least 0.12 million (123,000) people were killed in Bangladesh in 2017 due to indoor and outdoor air pollution, said a new study on global air pollution. Two US based institutes--Health Effects Ins...

Rohingya repatriation through discussions, not conflict: PM

Rohingya repatriation through discussions, not conflict: PM

-- 2019-04-04 12:11:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh will keep up its efforts to repatriate displaced Rohingyas through negotiations, not engaging in any conflict with Myanmar. "Since they (Myanmar) are...

Jute mill workers continue protest for third day

Jute mill workers continue protest for third day

-- 2019-04-04 10:46:20

For the third consecutive day on Thursday, workers of the state owned jute mills in Khulna district are continuing the 72-hour strike to press home their nine-point demand including implementation of...

Pelé seeks Hasina's help to launch his climate initiative

Pelé seeks Hasina's help to launch his climate initiative

-- 2019-04-04 10:39:39

He has decided games on his own and hogged the global limelight for decades, but this time football legend Pelé is looking for an assist – from Bangladesh. He plans to be a potential game...

Private Medical College Assoc seeks tax exemption

Private Medical College Assoc seeks tax exemption

FE Report 2019-04-04 10:34:35

Private medical college authorities have sought tax exemption on the earnings of the colleges in the upcoming budget for fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, saying that these educational institutions are nonp...

Fire breaks out at Khilgaon kitchen market

Fire breaks out at Khilgaon kitchen market

FE Online Desk 2019-04-04 09:38:44

A fire broke out at a kitchen market in Dhaka's Khilgaon, burning down over 50 shops, in the early hours of Thursday. A total of 16 firefighting units managed to douse the fire at 5:15 after two hour...

Khaleda Zia can get release only from court: Hanif

Khaleda Zia can get release only from court: Hanif

-- 2019-04-03 20:19:09

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-Ul Alam Hanif has said none but the court can release BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia from jail. “There is no scope of freeing Begum Zia from the j...

Operators yet to ensure 4G mobile services outside Dhaka

Operators yet to ensure 4G mobile services outside Dhaka

-- 2019-04-03 19:48:52

Country's mobile phone operators are yet to ensure 4G services outside the capital, according to a report of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). The telecom regular published o...

Court orders exhuming SAU student’s body

Court orders exhuming SAU student’s body

-- 2019-04-03 19:42:47

A court in Moulvibazar has ordered exhuming the body of a Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) student, who was killed after being pushed off a bus last month. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md...

'Pahela Baishakh celebrations must end by 6:00pm'

'Pahela Baishakh celebrations must end by 6:00pm'

-- 2019-04-03 19:39:17

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said programmes to celebrate Pahela Baishakh must end by 6:00pm and traditional masks cannot be used during Mongol Shovajatra (procession of good wishes)....

Law ministry to assist for quick disposal of cases on illegal buildings

Law ministry to assist for quick disposal of cases on illegal buildings

-- 2019-04-03 18:30:49

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday said his ministry will assist housing ministry for quick disposal of the cases related to illegal buildings in the capital. "I've told the housing minister that w...

No gunfight in Rangamati

No gunfight in Rangamati

-- 2019-04-03 18:12:01

Local administration of Rangamati trashed media reports about a gunfight between two terrorist groups in Rajasthali Upazila. "The law enforcement agencies did not find evidence of a gunfight in Tui K...

RAJUK marks three high-rises in Banani as 'fire risks'

RAJUK marks three high-rises in Banani as 'fire risks'

-- 2019-04-03 16:58:09

In the aftermath of the fire in Banani's FR Tower, the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) has resumed its drives to inspect safety measures at multi-storey buildings for third day. A four-member p...

RAB arrests six fake customs officials in city

RAB arrests six fake customs officials in city

-- 2019-04-03 16:49:01

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday arrested six persons for allegedly impersonating themselves as customs officials and grabbing money from different people leaving them in traps, raiding in ci...

Chawkbazar fire probe report on May 8

Chawkbazar fire probe report on May 8

-- 2019-04-03 16:45:33

A Dhaka court on Wednesday set May 8 for submitting probe report in the case filed over devastating fire in capital’s Chawkbazar on February 20. Dhaka additional metropolitan magistrate Qaisaru...

HC to hear compensation rule on Titumir student Rajib next week

HC to hear compensation rule on Titumir student Rajib next week

-- 2019-04-03 16:42:54

The High Court on Wednesday fixed April 10 for a final hearing on a rule on paying damages to Government Titumir College student Rajib Hasan's family. Rajib lost his right arm after it got stuck betw...

Road crashes leave five dead in three districts

Road crashes leave five dead in three districts

-- 2019-04-03 16:39:42

Al least five people, including a minor girl, were killed in separate road crashes in Natore, Khagrachhari and Netrakona districts on Wednesday. In Khagrachhari, pedestrian Mahmudul Haque, 70, was ki...

ZEE TV channels back on air

ZEE TV channels back on air

-- 2019-04-03 16:24:47

The popular TV channels of India’s Zee Entertainment Enterprises are back on the air after a 24-hour blackout. The channels could not be watched from Bangladesh after the government pulled two...

DMP realises Tk 2.7m in fines from traffic offenders

DMP realises Tk 2.7m in fines from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2019-04-03 15:04:59

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Tuesday realised Tk 2.7 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 5,224 cases were also filed against differe...

PM asks businessmen not to hike prices of essentials during Ramadan

PM asks businessmen not to hike prices of essentials during Ramadan

-- 2019-04-03 14:41:25

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the business community not to raise the prices of essentials, including sugar and edible oil, during the upcoming Ramadan. She made the call at a funct...

‘Neighbour’ beats youth to death in Natore

‘Neighbour’ beats youth to death in Natore

-- 2019-04-03 14:11:48

A young man was killed after being hit reportedly by a stick by a neighbour at Bilmaria area of Lalpur upazila in Natore on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as cattle breeder Nantu Islam, 2...

Storm, heatwave likely in April: Met office

Storm, heatwave likely in April: Met office

-- 2019-04-03 13:53:35

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has forecasted two to three days of intense storms, about six days of thunderstorms followed by sporadic heatwaves in this month. Met office said that the...