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66pc buildings in Rajuk areas unplanned

66pc buildings in Rajuk areas unplanned

UNB 2019-03-30 18:15:54

Around 66 per cent buildings in Dhaka and its adjoining areas under the jurisdiction of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) have been constructed in an unplanned way, said Housing and Public Works M...

No question leak this time: Dipu Moni

No question leak this time: Dipu Moni

-- 2019-03-30 18:00:32

Education Minister Dipu Moni has assured Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinees that questions will not be leaked this time. "Fraudsters spread rumours to swindle people. Don't p...

Rajuk to probe Banani fire

Rajuk to probe Banani fire

-- 2019-03-30 17:54:54

Rajuk, the capital’s development authority, formed a committee on Saturday to investigate last week’s fire at Banani’s FR Tower that killed 25 people. The six-member committee will...

Mayor Khokon suspects sabotage in recent fire incidents

Mayor Khokon suspects sabotage in recent fire incidents

-- 2019-03-30 17:42:03

Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday directed the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence to ascertain whether the recent incidents of fire were acts of sabotage. His direc...

Gazipur fire burns four, one in critical condition

Gazipur fire burns four, one in critical condition

-- 2019-03-30 17:36:46

Four members of a family have suffered burn injuries after a mosquito coil led to a fire at their home in Gazipur city’s Chakrabarty area. The fire broke out at Friday night at the home of Abdu...

Govt to stop airing local advertisements on foreign channels from April 1

Govt to stop airing local advertisements on foreign channels from April 1

-- 2019-03-30 17:21:10

The government will strictly implement its decision to stop the airing of Bangladeshi advertisements on down-linked foreign television channels from April 1. Information Minister Hasan Mahmud gave th...

Gulshan kitchen market fire guts 211 shops

Gulshan kitchen market fire guts 211 shops

-- 2019-03-30 17:04:18

The fire that broke out Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan area on Saturday has gutted all of the 211 shops in the market. Zaman Prodhan, vice-president of Gulshan-1 DNCC K...

First of many cases over Banani inferno: DMP

First of many cases over Banani inferno: DMP

FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 16:29:06

A case has started over a deadly fire at a high-rise in Dhaka's Banani that claimed 26 lives and injured over 70 others on Thursday, the city police say. The case was filed with Banani Police Station...

Photo story of extraordinary Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia goes viral

Photo story of extraordinary Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia goes viral

FE Online Report 2019-03-30 16:20:51

A photo story about a Bangladeshi who has been working in Malaysia for 27 years at a great personal sacrifice away from his family has gone viral, drawing huge reactions from Malaysian netizens. Huma...

'City waterways to regain its beauty in 10 years'

'City waterways to regain its beauty in 10 years'

-- 2019-03-30 16:16:59

State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has expressed his hope that the waterways around the capital city will get back its lost beauty within next 10 years. The junior minister came up w...

Another Banani fire victim dies

Another Banani fire victim dies

-- 2019-03-30 15:13:07

Another victim of the fire at FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani has succumbed to his injuries, raising the death toll from the inferno to 26. The fire broke out at the commercial building on Th...

Singer Khurshid Alam injured in road crash

Singer Khurshid Alam injured in road crash

-- 2019-03-30 14:43:51

Prominent Singer Khurshid Alam, 75, was injured when a truck hit his private car on Dhaka-Rangpur highway at Jhupgari area in Bogura district early Saturday. He is now undergoing treatment at Shaheed...

Fire safety recommendations go unheeded by DNCC market authorities

Fire safety recommendations go unheeded by DNCC market authorities

FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 14:22:15

The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department says none of their previous recommendations to protect from any fire was implemented by the DNCC market authorities. The recommendations were...

Four of a family sustain burns in mosquito coil fire

Four of a family sustain burns in mosquito coil fire

-- 2019-03-30 14:04:43

Four members of a family have suffered burn injuries after a mosquito coil led to a fire at their home in Gazipur city’s Chakrabarty area. The fire broke out at Friday night at the home of Abdu...

Suspected drug trader dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘shootout’

Suspected drug trader dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘shootout’

-- 2019-03-30 13:22:50

A suspected drug trader was killed in a so-called gunfight with police in Habirchhora hilly area in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Hossain,...

Water crisis leads to delay in dousing Gulshan 1 DNCC market fire: Official

Water crisis leads to delay in dousing Gulshan 1 DNCC market fire: Official

FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 12:12:08

The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department (BFSCDD) says they had to struggle a bit longer to douse the fire at the kitchen market of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in Gulshan-1&nbs...

AL to hold national council in October

AL to hold national council in October

-- 2019-03-30 11:39:08

The Awami League has decided to hold its next national council in October, three years after the incumbent central committee was formed. The party’s presidium took the decision in a meeting cha...

'Structure fire' deaths highest in Bangladesh

'Structure fire' deaths highest in Bangladesh

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-03-30 11:04:01

Bangladesh topped the list of deaths in major "structure fire" incidents in the world in the last one decade since 2010, according to Wikipedia. A structure fire is a blaze involving the structural c...

FR Tower owners ‘neglected’ 2018 fire safety notice

FR Tower owners ‘neglected’ 2018 fire safety notice

-- 2019-03-30 10:11:14

RAJUK says it has found dissimilarities between the building plan showed by the Faruque Rupayan Tower authorities and the one kept at the capital’s development authority. The owners of the high...

Gulshan-1 DNCC market fire under control

Gulshan-1 DNCC market fire under control

FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 09:23:02

A fire that broke out at the Dhaka Norh City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan-1 under has been brought under control. No casualty was reported immediately. Twenty of the firefighting...

Atiqul instructs RajuK to inspect all structures in Dhaka north

Atiqul instructs RajuK to inspect all structures in Dhaka north

-- 2019-03-29 21:19:14

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Friday asked Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to identify all faulty and illegal structures in the northern part of the capital. "I've a...

AL presidium meeting held

AL presidium meeting held

-- 2019-03-29 20:50:35

A meeting of the Awami League (AL) presidium was held at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister, in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina presided...

Indo-Bangla customs meeting to begin Sunday

Indo-Bangla customs meeting to begin Sunday

-- 2019-03-29 20:46:07

A two-day meeting of the customs officials of Bangladesh and India would begin on Sunday, aiming to ease bilateral trade and stop smuggling. National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman M Mosharraf Hossa...

24 out of 25 bodies identified in Banani fire: DMP

24 out of 25 bodies identified in Banani fire: DMP

-- 2019-03-29 18:47:28

A total of the 24 victims out of 25, who died in the devastating fire at Banani’s FR Tower on Thursday, have been identified. “Out of the 24 deceased identified so far, 18 people were mal...

BD, UK to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic ties

BD, UK to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic ties

-- 2019-03-29 18:16:59

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has said Bangladesh and the UK will jointly celebrate 50 years of diplomatic bonhomie in both Dhaka and London. Britain was one of the first countries...

Fire service completes ‘final search’ in FR Tower

Fire service completes ‘final search’ in FR Tower

-- 2019-03-29 18:10:28

Fire service personnel have conducted a final sweep on all the floors of the 22-storey FR Tower in Banani to ensure that there are no risks of another fire outbreak. Shahjahan Sikder, a senior statio...

Dhaka-Kolkata cruise service starts Friday

Dhaka-Kolkata cruise service starts Friday

-- 2019-03-29 18:09:17

Indo-Bangla cruise service with 110 tourists is set to kick off from Narayanganj today aiming to explore a new sphere of tourism between the two neighbouring countries Bangladesh and India. Home Mini...

Dr Kamal suggests commission to ensure building safety

Dr Kamal suggests commission to ensure building safety

-- 2019-03-29 17:59:25

Jatiya Oikyafront convener Dr Kamal Hossain on Friday suggested formation of a national commission to find out whether there is any lack of law in ensuring safe construction of high-rise buildings in...

Fakhrul says govt acts like a puppet

Fakhrul says govt acts like a puppet

-- 2019-03-29 17:54:03

Terming the Awami League-led government a 'puppet', BNP on Friday alleged that bureaucrats are now ruling the country. "We all know who did what in the (December-30) election. Now, the state is being...

Fire at Banani again

Fire at Banani again

FE Online Desk 2019-03-29 15:13:22

A six-storey residential building has caught fire in Dhaka's Banani just a day after 25 people were killed and 73 others injured in a fire in a commercial building there on Thursday. No casualties to...