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Miscreants torch another Hindu home in Thakurgaon

Miscreants torch another Hindu home in Thakurgaon

-- 2018-12-28 13:58:48

Another Hindu family home has come under alleged arson attack at Thakurgaon Sadar upazila. So far, three homes belonging to members of the religious minority community were torched in Thakurgaon Sada...

Edict bars Chandpur females from voting since 1972

Edict bars Chandpur females from voting since 1972

-- 2018-12-28 13:44:05

Barred by an arbitrary religious edict imposed by a local pir (religious leader), female voters of an entire union in Faridganj upazila have willingly not exercised their right to franchise in indepen...

Blaze at Faridpur bazar guts 13 shops

Blaze at Faridpur bazar guts 13 shops

-- 2018-12-28 13:24:44

Thirteen shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Satroshi Bazar in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur early Friday. Faridpur Fire Service station officer Saifuzzaman said the fire broke out at a sho...

Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’

Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’

-- 2018-12-28 11:57:11

A class X student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree after being failed to secure first position in the final examination at Ista village in Jashore’s Jhikargachha upazil...

Violence marks closing day of electioneering in Khulna, Cumilla

Violence marks closing day of electioneering in Khulna, Cumilla

-- 2018-12-28 11:47:04

Attacks, torture and vandalism marked the closing day of electioneering in Khulna and Cumilla districts on Wednesday. In Khulna, the house of BNP candidate of Khulna-3 constituency was attacked and v...

Countdown on as curtain falls on electioneering

Countdown on as curtain falls on electioneering

-- 2018-12-28 11:04:04

The curtain fell on the campaign this morning (Friday), 48 hours before the voting in the 11th parliamentary elections starts on Sunday morning. The restriction came into effect at 8:00am as per the...

3G, 4G back on after 10-hour blackout ahead of election

3G, 4G back on after 10-hour blackout ahead of election

-- 2018-12-28 10:25:30

The 3G and 4G mobile internet is back after a 10-hour blackout ahead of the national election. The data services resumed at around 8:00 am on Friday following a directive from telecoms regulators, se...

Police arrest three AL leaders for attack on Gayeshwar

Police arrest three AL leaders for attack on Gayeshwar

-- 2018-12-27 21:33:02

The police arrested three leaders of the Jubo League and the Shechha Shebok League and produced them to court on Thursday in connection with the attack on BNP Dhaka-3 candidate Gayeshwaar Chandra Roy....

Boro farming starts in Sylhet

Boro farming starts in Sylhet

Our Correspondents 2018-12-27 21:29:34

SYLHET, Dec 27: Boro paddy cultivation has started in all the four districts of Sylhet division as farmers began transplanting seedlings in the main cropland from seedbeds. An official at the DAE S...

Maize cultivation expands  in Jhenidah district

Maize cultivation expands in Jhenidah district

Our Correspondent 2018-12-27 21:28:09

JHENIDAH, Dec 27: Maize cultivation is expanding in the district for its popularity among the farmers. Every season cultivators make handsome profit from the crop amid favourable weather condition....

Miscreants torch AL election campaign office in Meherpur

Miscreants torch AL election campaign office in Meherpur

-- 2018-12-27 20:28:10

Miscreants torched an election campaign office of Awami League (AL) candidate for Meherpur-2 constituency at Bholadanga village in Gangni upazila early Thursday. Harendranath Sarker, officer-in-charg...

188 foreign observers to oversee polls

188 foreign observers to oversee polls

-- 2018-12-27 20:08:16

A total of 188 foreign observers from nine international organisations and a dozen foreign missions in Bangladesh and 56 foreign journalists are set to observe the upcoming polls.  Revealing thi...

BB imposes restrictions on mobile banking during polls

BB imposes restrictions on mobile banking during polls

-- 2018-12-27 19:26:18

The Bangladesh Bank has imposed restrictions on mobile financial services during the polls on the Election Commission’s instruction to avert influence of money on votes. The central bank has as...

Hasina says BNP senses defeat in election

Hasina says BNP senses defeat in election

-- 2018-12-27 18:59:32

Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said opposition BNP appeared to have sensed their defeat in the December 30 elections which could led them to sabotage the polls. &...

EC allows journalists to use bikes during polls

EC allows journalists to use bikes during polls

-- 2018-12-27 18:49:34

Journalists covering the December 30 national election will be able to use motorcycles, the Election Commission announced on Thursday. The EC withdrew the ban on motorcycles a week after imposing it...

Army to act only when other forces will fail: Shahadat 

Army to act only when other forces will fail: Shahadat 

-- 2018-12-27 18:40:17

Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury on Thursday said the Armed Forces personnel will act only when police, RAB and BGB members fail to control any untoward situation durin...

Three held with AK-22 rifle, ammo in Rangamati

Three held with AK-22 rifle, ammo in Rangamati

-- 2018-12-27 18:26:27

Members of joint forces morning arrested three people along with an AK 22 automatic rifle, three rounds of ammunition and four Chinese knives during a drive at Farua under Bilaichhari upazila in Ranga...

12,588 opposition activists injured in attacks in 22 days: Rizvi

12,588 opposition activists injured in attacks in 22 days: Rizvi

-- 2018-12-27 18:21:38

BNP on Thursday claimed that 12,588 opposition leaders and activists were injured in around 2,716 incidents of attack across the country during electioneering in last 22 days. Besides, eight leaders...

Dr Kamal urges to stage ‘ballot revolution’ on Dec 30

Dr Kamal urges to stage ‘ballot revolution’ on Dec 30

-- 2018-12-27 18:11:24

Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Thursday said December 30 will be another victory day of the nation Oikyafront will win the election through a ‘ballot revolution’. "We won in...

Ershad steps down from Dhaka-17 race

Ershad steps down from Dhaka-17 race

-- 2018-12-27 17:54:43

Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad on Thursday has announced that he is pulling out of the Dhaka -17 election race after returning from Singapore. The JaPa chief confirmed it at a p...

No HC bar for 25 Jamaat leaders to contest polls

No HC bar for 25 Jamaat leaders to contest polls

-- 2018-12-27 17:26:55

The High Court on Thursday cleared the way for 25 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders to contest the 11th parliamentary elections as it declined to direct the Election Commission to treat the Jamaat men disqualif...

Rajshahi people hit hard by cold weather

Rajshahi people hit hard by cold weather

-- 2018-12-27 17:17:33

The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in Rajshahi and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was further reduced during t...

DB police detain two with 18 petrol bombs in Ctg

DB police detain two with 18 petrol bombs in Ctg

-- 2018-12-27 17:10:43

Two men were arrested with petrol bombs from Chattogram city's Khulshi area in the early hours of Thursday. They detainees are Md Jabed, 40, and Md Ruhul Amin, 41, said Detective Branch (DB) of polic...

$33m deal to build adaptive capacity of coastal women

$33m deal to build adaptive capacity of coastal women

-- 2018-12-27 16:52:11

The government and the UNDP signed an agreement to implement a $33 million project, aiming to build adaptive capacity of women. Monowar Ahmed, ERD secretary, and Sudipto Mukherjee, UNDP's country dir...

Cold wave to hit country before polls

Cold wave to hit country before polls

-- 2018-12-27 16:32:07

A cold wave is settling on Bangladesh ahead of the Dec 30 national parliamentary election. The lowest temperature recorded across the country on Wednesday was 7.4 degrees Celsius in Rajshahi. Accord...

Excavation of five rivers begins in Panchagarh

Excavation of five rivers begins in Panchagarh

-- 2018-12-27 15:26:37

Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has begun excavation and re-excavation works of five rivers at a cost of Tk 1.5 billion in five upazilas of Panchagarh district. Deputy Commissioner of Panch...

RAB opens Facebook page to verify fake news

RAB opens Facebook page to verify fake news

-- 2018-12-27 15:01:42

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has opened a Facebook page titled 'RAB - Cyber News Verification Center' to make people aware of false news and rumours surrounding the upcoming general election. Dir...

DMP collects Tk 2.5m in fines from traffic offenders

DMP collects Tk 2.5m in fines from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2018-12-27 14:51:08

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday realised Tk 2.5 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 4,420 cases were also filed against dif...

Workplace accidents claim 898 lives in 2018

Workplace accidents claim 898 lives in 2018

FE Online Report 2018-12-27 14:00:31

A total of 898 workers were killed and some 341 others injured in 2018 due to workplace accidents in the country, according to a report. It said the workplace death count has come down compared to pr...

DMP arrests 23 in anti-narcotics drive

DMP arrests 23 in anti-narcotics drive

FE Online Report 2018-12-27 13:43:14

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive has arrested 23 drug suspects from different areas of the capital city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. Different po...