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Brisk mango trading in Rajshahi, C’nawabganj

Brisk mango trading in Rajshahi, C’nawabganj

-- 2018-06-02 17:33:12

Mango trading has started gaining momentum in different markets of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts with appearing varieties of the seasonal fruit along with rushing buyers from across the count...

Home Minister pledges action against Ekramul’s killers

Home Minister pledges action against Ekramul’s killers

-- 2018-06-02 17:14:15

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said a magistrate will investigate the recent killing of former president of Teknaf Upazila Juba League and councillor Ekramul Haque. “Steps wil...

Mistakes can occur in anti-narcotics drive: Obaidul Quader

Mistakes can occur in anti-narcotics drive: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-06-02 17:08:30

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that one or two mistakes may occur during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive. "It's a huge drive, one or two mistake can occur during it" the...

UN ‘closely following’ anti-drug drive of BD

UN ‘closely following’ anti-drug drive of BD

-- 2018-06-02 17:00:26

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is closely following" the anti-drug operations in Bangladesh. The UN office also urged member states to adhere to their commitments "to promote ba...

Gas crisis hits Chattogram hard

Gas crisis hits Chattogram hard

-- 2018-06-02 16:50:04

Musa Hawlader, a resident of Askar Dighi area in the port city, now has to buy Iftar items from hotels and restaurants as there is no gas supply to cook those at home. "I know, these iftar items whic...

PM visits Bangabandhu’s mazar in Tungipara

PM visits Bangabandhu’s mazar in Tungipara

-- 2018-06-02 16:44:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has visited the mazar of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara of Gopalganj on Saturday. She offered Fateha and special munajat there seekin...

Man ‘stabs brother to death’ in Kushtia

Man ‘stabs brother to death’ in Kushtia

-- 2018-06-02 15:48:34

A man allegedly stabbed his elder brother dead at Laxmidhordia village in Kushtia upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam Labpu alias Rajib (26), son of Abdul Jalil...

Two more drug suspects die in ‘gunfights’

Two more drug suspects die in ‘gunfights’

-- 2018-06-02 14:46:07

Two suspected drug traders were killed in reported gunfights in Cumilla and Cox’s Bazar districts early Saturday. Both of them were accused in multiple cases. In Cumilla, suspected drug pedl...

‘Miscreants’ hack drug suspect dead in Jhenaidah

‘Miscreants’ hack drug suspect dead in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-06-02 13:54:31

Police said a man named in several narcotics cases has been hacked to death in Jhenaidah’s Maheshpur. Maheshpur police chief Laskar Jayedul Hoque said a person had been detained and interrogate...

Benapole port users threaten indefinite strike

Benapole port users threaten indefinite strike

-- 2018-06-02 13:42:59

Seven port users' organisations have threatened to go for an indefinite strike at Benapole port protesting 'harassment by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members through seizing their imported goods.'...

Drug addict ‘commits suicide’ in custody

Drug addict ‘commits suicide’ in custody

-- 2018-06-02 13:28:18

A detainee arrested on charges of abusing drugs has committed suicide at Sonaimuri Police Station in Noakhali, according to police. The deceased, 23-year-old Tazul Islam Tushar, was an auto-rickshaw...

Speeding truck kills worker in Rajshahi

Speeding truck kills worker in Rajshahi

-- 2018-06-02 12:37:25

A day labourer was killed after being hit by a truck on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway in Bypass Rail gate area of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as S...

UN honours four fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers

UN honours four fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers

-- 2018-06-02 12:11:40

Four fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been honoured at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York. The four fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh are Sergeant Md Altaf Hossain, Lance Corporal...

Road crash claims four lives in Sirajganj

Road crash claims four lives in Sirajganj

-- 2018-06-02 10:54:52

Four people have died and 23 others suffered injuries in a collision between a bus and a covered van in Saidabad area of Sirajganj Sadar upazila on early Saturday. Syed Shaheed Alam, Officer-in-Charg...

Nilphamari road crash kills two

Nilphamari road crash kills two

-- 2018-06-02 10:01:35

Two people have died and two others sustained injuries when a ‘Josheda Paribahan’ bus hit an auto-rickshaw at Dhoyera bus stand in Jaldhaka upazila in Nilphamari on early Saturday. The de...

Eid shopping gains momentum

Eid shopping gains momentum

Saif Uddin 2018-06-02 09:43:42

Eid shopping has picked up as different city markets are witnessing a growing number of buyers. The New Market and Bashundhara City have been seeing a big rush for last few day. The number of shoppe...

Land acquisition starts for upgrading eight airports

Land acquisition starts for upgrading eight airports

Kamrun Nahar 2018-06-02 09:37:15

The government has started the land acquisition process for upgradation and extension of eight airports across the country. The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has recently submitted a...

IDB set to open regional HQ in Dhaka in Sept

IDB set to open regional HQ in Dhaka in Sept

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-06-02 09:31:45

Dhaka is set to become a regional hub of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) by September next, ending months of speculation. Sources at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) and the IDB told the FE t...

Coast guard rescues 18 fishermen

Coast guard rescues 18 fishermen

FE Online Report 2018-06-01 21:15:46

Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) rescued 18 abducted fishermen on Friday in a special drive in the Sundarbans area. Besides, 10 boats were also recovered from the area during the drive. The west zone of...

Female AL leader dies of electrocution in Gopalganj

Female AL leader dies of electrocution in Gopalganj

-- 2018-06-01 20:39:54

A female Awami League died after being electrocuted at Kashalia village in Muksudpur upazila of Gopalganj on Friday. The deceased was identified as Rashmoni Mondal, 55, Women Affairs Secretary of upa...

Road accidents claim around 2,000 lives in five months: Study

Road accidents claim around 2,000 lives in five months: Study

FE Online Report 2018-06-01 20:02:07

Some 1,995 people were killed and 4,772 injured in road accidents in the country in the last five months, said a study report said. The study, conducted by Bangladesh Riverine, Road and Railway Prote...

PM to visit Tungipara tomorrow

PM to visit Tungipara tomorrow

-- 2018-06-01 18:20:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Tungipara, the ancestral home of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on Saturday (tomorrow) to offer ziarat at the mazar of the father of the nation. The prim...

Namaz-e-janaza of two UN peacekeepers held

Namaz-e-janaza of two UN peacekeepers held

-- 2018-06-01 17:57:29

The Namaz-e-janaza of two Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers, who were killed in Central Africai, was held with military honour at Dhaka Cantonment on Friday. Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad...

Police detain 8 for unfair means in teacher recruitment test

Police detain 8 for unfair means in teacher recruitment test

-- 2018-06-01 17:34:02

Police arrested eight examinees in Kurigram for adopting unfair means in the primary teacher recruitment test on Friday. They were arrested from five centres in Sadar and Ulipur upazilas of the distr...

Police recover body of ‘drug abuser’ in Cumilla

Police recover body of ‘drug abuser’ in Cumilla

-- 2018-06-01 16:50:09

Police recovered the body of an alleged drug addict from near a canal at Chowara in Sadar Dakkhin upazila in Cumilla on Thursday night. The deceased is Monir Hossain, 45, of Ulurchar village in the u...

BD Muslim millennials discuss Islamic economy aplenty on social media

BD Muslim millennials discuss Islamic economy aplenty on social media

FE Online Report 2018-06-01 15:31:39

Bangladeshi Muslim millennials, people aged between 18 and 35, rank fourth in using social media to interact on Islamic economy related topics, according to an estimate. Data from the most popular so...

Panel finds evidence of  manipulation in Khulna city polls

Panel finds evidence of manipulation in Khulna city polls

-- 2018-06-01 14:08:01

A probe committee formed by the Election Commission has found evidence of negligence on the part of polling and security officials in charge of three polling centres closed for irregularities during...

Two drug suspects get jail in Magura

Two drug suspects get jail in Magura

-- 2018-06-01 13:33:18

A mobile court on Thursday sentenced two people to six months of imprisonment on drug charges at Arpara Bazar under Shalikha upazila in Magura. They are Zillu Sheikh, 40, hailing from Shalikha upazil...

Two die after tractor collides with auto-rikshaw in Lalmonirhat

Two die after tractor collides with auto-rikshaw in Lalmonirhat

-- 2018-06-01 11:59:41

Two people were killed and five others injured when a tractor hit a CNG run auto-rickshaw on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway at Kamarer Haat in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat early Friday. The deceased...

Long queue at Kamalapur as Eid ticket sale begins

Long queue at Kamalapur as Eid ticket sale begins

-- 2018-06-01 11:59:18

The authorities of Bangladesh Railway have started selling advance train tickets on Friday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Several hundred holidaymakers standing in long queues were seen collecting t...