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UP member stabbed dead in Chattogram

UP member stabbed dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-02-26 14:56:55

A union parishad member, who sustained stab injuries in a knife attack by his rivals at Ichhapur Bazar in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila on Monday, succumbed to his injuries at Chattogram Medica...

PM seeks investment by expats in economic zones

PM seeks investment by expats in economic zones

-- 2019-02-26 14:25:46

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the Bangladesh expatriates to come up with their investment in the country's economic zones alongside foreign investors. "We're setting up 100 economic zones. N...

Bangla Academy announces ‘Gunijon Sahitya Puroskar’

Bangla Academy announces ‘Gunijon Sahitya Puroskar’

-- 2019-02-26 14:16:20

Bangla Academy announced the list of winners of its ‘Gunijon Sahitya Puroskar’ chosen from among the publishing houses participating at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair. The awards will be hand...

UNICEF seeks support from everyone for Rohingya children

UNICEF seeks support from everyone for Rohingya children

-- 2019-02-26 13:48:54

UNICEF Executive Director (ED) Henrietta Fore has sought support from everyone across the world for the Rohingya children who are living in Cox's Bazar district. "We need everyone's help. Children ha...

Accidents leave two dead in Rajshahi

Accidents leave two dead in Rajshahi

-- 2019-02-26 13:47:51

Two separate accidents left an elderly man and another elderly woman dead in Rajshahi. On Tuesday morning, an elderly man was killed as a bus rammed his bi-cycle on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway i...

Police arrest 72 held Satkhira

Police arrest 72 held Satkhira

-- 2019-02-26 13:28:27

Police, in special drives arrested 72 suspects including five drug pedlars from eight upazilas of Satkhira district in last 12-hour ending at 8:00am Monday morning. Police also recovered 1,042 pieces...

Five of a family die of unknown disease in Thakurgaon

Five of a family die of unknown disease in Thakurgaon

FE Online Desk 2019-02-26 13:17:12

Five people of a family have died of an unknown disease in 15 days between February 9 and 24 at Bhardardah Morichparha village under Baliadanghi upazila in Thakurgaon, spreading panic among locals. P...

EU offers condolences over Chawkbazar fire

EU offers condolences over Chawkbazar fire

FE Online Desk 2019-02-26 12:53:16

The EU Delegation in Bangladesh has expressed its condolences for all those affected by the fire which occurred at Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar on 20 February. In a condolence message on Tuesday morning, i...

Two die in Kushtia, Barishal ‘gunfights’

Two die in Kushtia, Barishal ‘gunfights’

-- 2019-02-26 12:16:12

A suspected drug trader and an alleged robber were killed in separate gunfights with police in Kushtia and Barishal districts in the early hours of Tuesday. In Kushtia, suspected drug trader Emdad Kh...

Tremor hits Dhaka, neighbourhoods

Tremor hits Dhaka, neighbourhoods

FE Online Desk 2019-02-26 12:08:25

A mild tremor has hit Dhaka city and its neighbourhoods, registering 4.1 on the Richter scale. The epicentre of the quake, which was felt at 10:55 am, was at Gazipur, an adjoining district of the cap...

Man stabs youth to death in Jhenaidah

Man stabs youth to death in Jhenaidah

-- 2019-02-26 12:04:25

A young man was stabbed to death at Chadpur village in Jhenaidah’s Harinakundu upazila on Monday night over a trifling matter. The victim was identified as Aslam Mandal, 20, son of Aynal Mandal...

Japan to extend $32.5m in addl support to Rohingyas, hosts

Japan to extend $32.5m in addl support to Rohingyas, hosts

FE Online Report 2019-02-26 11:53:33

The Japan government has decided to extend approximately 32.5 million US dollars as additional support to the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar. According to a press release...

Death toll in Chawkbazar fire reaches 69

Death toll in Chawkbazar fire reaches 69

-- 2019-02-26 10:55:29

Another victim of the Chawkbazar fire died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the capital early Tuesday, taking the death toll from the incident to 69. Sohag, 22, succumbed to his injuries a...

Screw piling system to help expedite work of MRT-6

Screw piling system to help expedite work of MRT-6

FE Report 2019-02-26 10:28:30

The metro rail company has introduced a screw-based piling system to speed up the construction work of the first mass rapid transit line in the city's busy corridor from Agargaon to Motijheel. The...

Dhaka sees rains overnight through morning

Dhaka sees rains overnight through morning

FE Online Desk 2019-02-26 10:13:06

Dhaka city experienced rains along with freezing cold winds overnight through Tuesday morning. The rains stopped for some time early in the morning but dark clouds were not gone. Then in torrents ca...

CAAB files case over plane ‘hijack attempt’

CAAB files case over plane ‘hijack attempt’

-- 2019-02-25 22:59:04

The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) filed a case with Patenga Police Station in Chattogram over the ‘attempted hijacking’ of a Biman plane. Debotosh Sarkar, the national aviat...

Chawkbazar fire not an accident, HC observes

Chawkbazar fire not an accident, HC observes

-- 2019-02-25 21:23:33

Observing that the Chawkbazar fire that claimed the lives of 67 people was not an accident, the High Court on Monday said someone must take the responsibility for it. It also said the fire incident w...

Thrust on gender budgeting for women to empower them truly

Thrust on gender budgeting for women to empower them truly

FE Online Report 2019-02-25 20:55:32

Gender budgeting for relevant ministries needs to be enacted aimed at ensuring women empowerment in the truest sense instead of attaining just a quantity. Speakers came up with the recommendation on...

Black cumin cultivation gains popularity in Gopalganj district

Black cumin cultivation gains popularity in Gopalganj district

Our Correspondent 2019-02-25 20:50:43

GOPALGANJ, Feb 25: BARI-1 black cumin cultivation is gaining popularity among the grassroots farmers of Muksudpur upazila in the district. According to the upazila agriculture office sources, a total...

Re-excavation work of  Mora Karotoa river on

Re-excavation work of Mora Karotoa river on

Our Correspondent 2019-02-25 20:49:46

GAIBANDHA, Feb 25: Re-excavation work of 03-km long Mora Karotoa river at Gumaniganj union under Gobindaganj upazila has been progressing fast since January this year. The Department of Fisheries has...

Customs officials seize 20 gold bars from Dhaka airport dustbin

Customs officials seize 20 gold bars from Dhaka airport dustbin

-- 2019-02-25 20:25:05

Customs officials on Monday seized 20 gold bars, weighing around 2.32 kg, from a dustbin at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Customs Intelligence and...

'Primary school headmasters to get salary under grade-10'

'Primary school headmasters to get salary under grade-10'

-- 2019-02-25 20:20:18

The High Court on Monday asked the government to provide salary to primary school headmasters under grade-10. Passing the order, the HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Khizir Ahmed Choudhur...

Romanian national found dead at Akij factory in Dhamrai

Romanian national found dead at Akij factory in Dhamrai

-- 2019-02-25 20:07:48

A Romanian man was found dead at the Dhamrai factory of Akij Food and Beverage Limited in Dhaka on Saturday. Police identified him as Niculae Manea, 60. Manea, appointed by German company FAS, had b...

Stranded Biman passengers leave for Dubai

Stranded Biman passengers leave for Dubai

-- 2019-02-25 19:23:47

Passengers of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane which made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shah Amanat International Airport following a 'hijack bid', left for Dubai in the afternoon. Shah Amanat In...

Psychodrama can change youths’ sexual behaviour: Study

Psychodrama can change youths’ sexual behaviour: Study

FE Online Report 2019-02-25 19:22:24

Psychodrama system, a type of intervention, will protect youths from risky sexual behaviour, reveals a study. The study also suggested that the youths living in slums are a highly vulnerable communit...

Schoolgirl rape: Man gets life term

Schoolgirl rape: Man gets life term

-- 2019-02-25 19:08:23

A Manikganj court on Monday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment for raping a schoolgirl at Chala village of Harirampur Upazila in 2012. The convict was identified as Md Mehedi Hasan, son of Nas...

Chandpur gas cylinder blast damages seven houses

Chandpur gas cylinder blast damages seven houses

-- 2019-02-25 19:06:56

Seven houses were damaged after a gas cylinder exploded at a house in Monoharpur village in Kachua Upazila of Chandpur on Sunday night, reports UNB. Ten people were injured during rescue efforts, sai...

Separate road crashes leave five dead

Separate road crashes leave five dead

-- 2019-02-25 18:51:26

At least five people were killed and 23 others injured in separate road accidents in Cumilla, Dhaka, Jashore and Khulna. In Cumilla, two people were killed and 20 others injured after a bus collided...

President urges students to prioritise country’s interest

President urges students to prioritise country’s interest

-- 2019-02-25 18:40:20

Stressing the importance of moral education alongside academic excellence to build a nation, President M Abdul Hamid on Monday asked students to give priority to the interest of the country. “G...

Two physicians among three die in Khulna road crash

Two physicians among three die in Khulna road crash

-- 2019-02-25 18:20:03

Three people, including two physicians, were killed when a bus hit a private car on Khulna-Jashore road in Phultola Upazila in Khulna on Monday. The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain, 62,...