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Police recover 32 ‘wartime’ grenades from Khulna

Police recover 32 ‘wartime’ grenades from Khulna

-- 2019-02-17 19:12:09

Police recovered 32 abandoned grenades from a fish enclosure at Sonadala village in Paikgachha upazila of Khulna district on Sunday. A group of workers spotted some bomb like objects while they were...

BNP to take action if any leader joins UZ polls: Rizvi

BNP to take action if any leader joins UZ polls: Rizvi

-- 2019-02-17 18:57:54

BNP on Sunday warned of taking organisational action if any of its leaders and activists will take part in the upcoming Upazila Elections. Senior joint secretary general of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi issu...

Corruption is the root of disparity and treachery: Anisul

Corruption is the root of disparity and treachery: Anisul

FE Online Report 2019-02-17 18:46:36

Corruption, as the root of all societal and economic evil, is creating disloyalty and disparity in the country. Law Minister Anisul Huq came up with the remark on Sunday while speaking at a seminar...

Jubo League leader stabbed to death in Jashore

Jubo League leader stabbed to death in Jashore

-- 2019-02-17 18:44:45

A local leader of Jubo League leader was stabbed to death and his brother injured in an attack by their rivals at Charabari village in Chougaccha upazila of Jashore district on Sunday. The deceased w...

Gas crisis hits major parts of Chattogram

Gas crisis hits major parts of Chattogram

-- 2019-02-17 18:11:41

Gas supply to major parts of Chattogram has remained suspended since Sunday morning after a leakage developed in the gas pipeline at Halisahar, causing huge sufferings to the city dwellers. The autho...

PM seeks 'will' of richer sections to fight climate change

PM seeks 'will' of richer sections to fight climate change

-- 2019-02-17 17:53:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has underscored the 'will' of the richer segments of societies - everywhere - to act ambitiously against climate change as there are enormous amount of science, technology...

Two bodies formed to curb road accidents

Two bodies formed to curb road accidents

FE Report 2019-02-17 17:51:33

Two committees were formed to submit reports with recommendations for averting road accidents and implementing the Road Transport Act (RTA). The bodies – one is comprised of three members with...

‘Gang rape’ victim files case in Savar

‘Gang rape’ victim files case in Savar

-- 2019-02-17 16:17:17

A case was filed in connection with the 'gang-rape' of a female garment worker at Natunpara in Savar’s Hemayetpur on Sunday. The victim filed the case with the Savar Model Police Station on Sun...

Bogura AL President Momtaz Uddin dies

Bogura AL President Momtaz Uddin dies

-- 2019-02-17 16:04:35

Awami league (AL) Central Working Committee Member and Bogura District AL President Alhaj Md Momtaz Uddin died of heart attack at the age of 78 at a hospital in Bogura in the early hours of Sunday. M...

Bangladeshi dies in Saudi road mishap

Bangladeshi dies in Saudi road mishap

-- 2019-02-17 15:26:32

A Bangladeshi man died in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia in the early hours of Sunday. The deceased was identified as Dalilur Rahman Dulal, 24, son of Ramij Miah of Cumilla’s Dhanuak...

Upazila election: Non-participation of some major parties frustrating, says CEC

Upazila election: Non-participation of some major parties frustrating, says CEC

FE Online Desk 2019-02-17 14:33:50

Chief Election Commissioner K M Nurul Huda has described the non-participation of some major political parties in the the upcoming Upazila Parishad election as “frustrating”. He said this...

Heavy rains damage books at Ekushey book fair

Heavy rains damage books at Ekushey book fair

FE Online Desk 2019-02-17 13:48:19

Thousands of books at the month-long Ekushey book fair in Dhaka city were damaged due to heavy rains coupled with hailstorm, thunderstorm and temporary gusty wind on Sunday morning. Many of the makes...

Gas supply resumes in Dhaka city, adjacent areas

Gas supply resumes in Dhaka city, adjacent areas

-- 2019-02-17 13:19:15

Gas supply resumed in the capital and its adjacent areas on Sunday morning around 26 hours after it was partially halted due to a technical glitch at Ashulia gas station of the state-run Gas Transmiss...

BGB arrests man with 14 gold bars at Benapole

BGB arrests man with 14 gold bars at Benapole

-- 2019-02-17 13:10:04

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a suspected gold smuggler along with 14 gold bars (worth Tk 8.5m) from Putkhali border in Benapole region on Saturday evening. The arrestee was ident...

Year's first rain causes sufferings to commuters

Year's first rain causes sufferings to commuters

-- 2019-02-17 13:07:41

The country, including its capital city, on Sunday morning experienced around 20mm of rainfall coupled with hailstorm, thunderstorm, and temporary gusty wind, under the influence of seasonal low that...

Three die in ‘gunfights’

Three die in ‘gunfights’

-- 2019-02-17 12:56:57

Two suspected drug pedlars and a suspected robber were killed in separate shootouts with police in Kushtia, Munshiganj and Cumilla districts in the early hours of Sunday. In Kushtia, suspected drug p...

PM arrives in Abu Dhabi from Germany

PM arrives in Abu Dhabi from Germany

-- 2019-02-17 12:36:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday morning from Germany on an official visit to attend the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX-2019) to be held in Abu...

RAB nabs one with 4,400 yaba pills

RAB nabs one with 4,400 yaba pills

-- 2019-02-17 11:56:38

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a drug pedlar with 4,400 pieces of yaba pills from Babupur Miratuli village under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Saturday night. The arrestee is...

Earthquake jolts Chattogram

Earthquake jolts Chattogram

-- 2019-02-17 11:07:47

A mild earthquake shook different parts of Chattogram district and its adjoining Bandarban, Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Feni districts on Sunday morning. The tremor, measuring 4.9 magnitude on the...

Govt decides to start piloting vannamei shrimp farming

Govt decides to start piloting vannamei shrimp farming

Arafat Ara 2019-02-17 10:54:47

The government has taken a decision to start farming vannamei variety of shrimp on a pilot basis and selected 10-20 acres of land in Cox's Bazar and Khulna districts in this regard. Initially two e...

Bus rams truck in Cumilla, killing five

Bus rams truck in Cumilla, killing five

-- 2019-02-17 10:03:01

Five people have died after a bus rammed a parked truck in Cumilla’s Chauddagram. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Jagannath Dighi Union’s Gangra area around 5:30a...

Eight die in Chattogram slum fire

Eight die in Chattogram slum fire

-- 2019-02-17 09:42:46

Eight people have died after a fire broke out at a slum in Chattogram’s Chaktai. The blaze began early on Saturday morning in the slum near the Bhera Market area and gutted nearly 200 hom...

52 PIC officials face action for irregularities

52 PIC officials face action for irregularities

Our Correspondent 2019-02-16 21:23:15

SYLHET, Feb 16: Punitive actions has been taken against at least 52 Project Implementation Committees (PICs) officials in Sunamganj district for negligence, violation of rules and flawed works on the...

Farmers eye good output as Atrai UZ achieves 'best maize cultivation area'

Farmers eye good output as Atrai UZ achieves 'best maize cultivation area'

Our Correspondent 2019-02-16 21:22:13

NAOGAON, Feb 16: The Atrai upazila of Naogaon district has already achieved fame as the 'best maize cultivation area' in the district. Farmers under eight unions under Atrai upazila of the district a...

Magura cucumber growers  get bumper production

Magura cucumber growers get bumper production

Our Correspondent 2019-02-16 21:21:21

MAGURA, Feb 16: Magura growers achieved a bumper production of cucumber in the district this season.  At the same time cucumber is being sold in the district at a high price. In this situation th...

Betel leaf farming increases in northern districts

Betel leaf farming increases in northern districts

Roving Correspondent 2019-02-16 21:20:15

JOYPURHAT, Feb 16: Betel leaf cultivation is increasing day-by-day in the northern districts since its cultivation boosts profit compare to other crops. With the effort of farmers two types of betel...

Road crashes leave four dead in three districts

Road crashes leave four dead in three districts

-- 2019-02-16 20:48:02

At least four people died in separate road accidents in Gazipur, Sylhet and Chattogram districts on Saturday. In Gazipur, a police constable was killed after being hit by a covered van on Dhaka-Mymen...

49 MPs in reserved seats for women elected uncontested

49 MPs in reserved seats for women elected uncontested

-- 2019-02-16 20:45:50

Forty-nine members of parliament in the women reserved seats in the 11th parliament have unofficially been elected uncontested. Of them, the 43 are from the ruling Awami League, four from Jatiya Part...

‘Chattogogram got more dev fund than Dhaka’

‘Chattogogram got more dev fund than Dhaka’

-- 2019-02-16 19:54:02

The port city Chattogram received more allocation for development works than Dhaka, Housingand Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim said on Saturday. "The prime minister is giving Chattogram priorit...

Gas crisis hits capital, outskirts

Gas crisis hits capital, outskirts

-- 2019-02-16 19:49:59

Different areas of Dhaka city, including Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Kalabagan, Shyamoli, Agargaon and some adjacent areas like Dhamrai, Ashulia, Aminbazar, Savar and Manikganj have been experiencing disrupt...