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Lightning claims four lives in three districts

Lightning claims four lives in three districts

-- 2018-05-24 10:58:18

Four people have been killed in lightning strikes in three different districts -- Mymensingh, Bogura, and Sunamganj. In Mymensingh, two people died on Wednesday after being hit by lightning while cat...

Priyanka Chopra hears Rohingya children’s harrowing tales

Priyanka Chopra hears Rohingya children’s harrowing tales

Our Correspondent 2018-05-24 10:32:46

Bollywood actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador for child rights Priyanka Chopra was traumatised hearing stories of atrocities from Rohingyas on Wednesday. She said she was deeply hurt hearing the h...

Dramatic turn in Teesta issue looks unlikely

Dramatic turn in Teesta issue looks unlikely

FE Report 2018-05-24 10:30:49

Dhaka does not expect any positive outcome involving the Teesta water-sharing problem during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to Indian state of West Bengal. The prime minister will meet...

SMEs turning garment waste into cash in Pabna

SMEs turning garment waste into cash in Pabna

Saif Uddin, back from Pabna 2018-05-24 10:25:35

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Pabna are thriving on the use of ready-made garment waste in apparel making, business insiders have said. The demand for these apparels made of garment wast...

Hajj pilgrim can carry $ 1000

Hajj pilgrim can carry $ 1000

FE Report 2018-05-24 10:16:14

A Hajj pilgrim can carry upto US$ 1000 or equivalent currencies while performing the next pilgrimage. This is applicable for both ballotee and non-ballootee Hajis, according to a circular issued Wedn...

Nine more die in anti-narcotics drive

Nine more die in anti-narcotics drive

-- 2018-05-24 10:02:43

Nine more people have been killed in what security forces described as shootouts as the country’s war on drugs continued amid criticism from different rights groups and rival political parties....

City water retention area shrinks fast

City water retention area shrinks fast

Kamrun Nahar 2018-05-24 09:59:48

The water retention area, proposed in Dhaka's Detailed Area Plan (DAP), has declined alarmingly over the last seven years, said an official of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK). In its wake,...

Rajbangshi community demands  re-enlistment as ethnic group

Rajbangshi community demands re-enlistment as ethnic group

-- 2018-05-24 00:43:06

Representatives of the Rajbangshi community at a programme on Wednesday demanded that the community be re-enlisted officially as an ethnic minority people, reports UNB. At the programme organised by...

Steps to ensure safe Eid journey, says Shajahan

Steps to ensure safe Eid journey, says Shajahan

FE Report 2018-05-24 00:42:13

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Wednesday said the government will take necessary measures to ensure safety of waterway passengers during Eid-ul-Fitr. Law-enforcement agencies have been given dire...

Demand for locally-made threshing machines increasing in Natore

Demand for locally-made threshing machines increasing in Natore

Our Correspondent 2018-05-23 21:32:06

RAJSHAHI, May 23: The demand of locally produced threshing machine is increasing among the farmers of the country. By meeting local demands, the machines produced in Natore are being sold in other dis...

'Amnesty report not to affect Rohingya repatriation talks'

'Amnesty report not to affect Rohingya repatriation talks'

-- 2018-05-23 21:11:19

Bangladesh has ruled out any negative impact over the ongoing Rohingya repatriation talks between Bangladesh and Myanmar due to Amnesty International's (AI's) new report. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood...

65 held during anti-drug drives in Jashore

65 held during anti-drug drives in Jashore

-- 2018-05-23 20:46:15

Police arrested 65 drug dealers and drug addicts during anti-drug drives at different parts of the district from Tuesday night to Wednesday noon. Of them, 28 were arrested in Sadar upazila while thre...

RAB arrests 10 with yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar

RAB arrests 10 with yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-05-23 20:22:35

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested 10 people and recovered 1,08,000 pieces of yaba tablets from their possessions at Kolatoli area in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday afternoon. Asla...

Six ‘carjackers’ held in city

Six ‘carjackers’ held in city

-- 2018-05-23 19:59:05

Detectives arrested six alleged members of a 'carjacking' gang along with stolen vehicles from the capital and elsewhere. During drives conducted on Tuesday, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metrop...

PM hosts iftar for judges, diplomats, officials

PM hosts iftar for judges, diplomats, officials

-- 2018-05-23 19:50:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted an iftar mahfil in honour of the judges, diplomats and high civil and military government officials on Wednesday. Arriving at the iftar venue, the green lawn of Ga...

4 get life term in Netrokona over murder

4 get life term in Netrokona over murder

-- 2018-05-23 19:33:52

Four people get life term imprisonment in a case filed over killing a man over a trifling matter in Kendua upazila of Netrokona. District and Sessions Judge KM Rasheduzzaman Raja handed down the verd...

Fakhrul suggests 'non-political drive' to eradicate drug menace

Fakhrul suggests 'non-political drive' to eradicate drug menace

-- 2018-05-23 19:27:32

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed the eradication of drug abuse is possible with a 'non-political' drive and enforcement of law. "Killing people in crossfires in the name...

Three of a family die in Gopalganj road crash

Three of a family die in Gopalganj road crash

-- 2018-05-23 19:11:02

Three members of a family have died in a road accident at Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj. Two others injured in the accident that occurred when a truck collided with a human hauler on Dhaka-Khulna hig...

Govt mulls 23,252MW power generation

Govt mulls 23,252MW power generation

-- 2018-05-23 18:26:46

The government is planning to construct 21 power plants, including private sector ones, in the country to generate 23,252 megawatt (MW) of electricity. "The government is constructing 47 power plants...

Infant drowns in Habiganj

Infant drowns in Habiganj

-- 2018-05-23 17:55:44

An infant drowned in a pond at Horaiteka village under Bahubol upazila in Habiganj on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Reduan, 2, son of Shajid Mia of the village. Locals said Redu...

‘No progress over Teesta deal’

‘No progress over Teesta deal’

-- 2018-05-23 17:22:02

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Wednesday indicated that there is no progress over Teesta water-sharing deal saying that the purpose of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Kolkata visit is something dif...

WFP gets $30m from US to support Rohingyas

WFP gets $30m from US to support Rohingyas

-- 2018-05-23 17:12:36

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has got additional $30 million from the United States (US) for providing food assistance to Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar. This funding comes on top of $25 mi...

57 Sundarbans robbers lay down their arms

57 Sundarbans robbers lay down their arms

-- 2018-05-23 16:15:12

Fifty seven members of six forest robber gangs surrendered to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal along with their arms and ammunition at Labonchora in the district town on Wednesday. While surrende...

Journalist M Kamal Uddin passes away

Journalist M Kamal Uddin passes away

-- 2018-05-23 16:00:32

Prominent Journalist M Kamal Uddin has passed away aged around 62. He breathed his last at 6:15 am on Wednesday at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. M Kamal was suffering from lung cancer....

Basic Bank scam: HC summons all investigating officers

Basic Bank scam: HC summons all investigating officers

Agencies 2018-05-23 15:15:24

The High Court has summoned all the investigating officers (IOs) of 56 graft cases filed over BASIC Bank’s Tk 35 billion loan scam as they failed to complete the investigation in two and a half...

Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char soon: PM

Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char soon: PM

-- 2018-05-23 15:05:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said 0.10 million Rohingya people, now living in Bangladesh, will be shifted to Bhasan Char Island in Noakhali soon for giving them shelter there until their repatriat...

Cops arrest two with 33 crude bombs in city

Cops arrest two with 33 crude bombs in city

-- 2018-05-23 14:52:09

Police have arrested two culprits along with 33 crude bombs from Sher-e-Banglanagar in the capital on Tuesday night. "We arrested two people identifying them as Mominul Rahman,31, and Shafiqul Islam...

Flash floods submerge 30 B’baria villages

Flash floods submerge 30 B’baria villages

-- 2018-05-23 14:28:36

At least 30 villages in Akhaura upazila of Brahmanbaria district were submerged due to rains and onrush of water from Indian hills over the past several days. Onrush of water from Indian hills throug...

Five die as truck rams into human hauler in Bogura

Five die as truck rams into human hauler in Bogura

-- 2018-05-23 13:16:32

At least five people were killed and seven injured as a truck hit a human hauler on Bogura-Natore road at Partekur in Bogura sadar upazila on Wednesday. Three of the deceased have been identified as...

Bangladeshi passport is 94th powerful one

Bangladeshi passport is 94th powerful one

FE Online Report 2018-05-23 12:47:57

The passport of Bangladesh is 94th powerful one in the world, according to an international index released on Wednesday. Apart from Bangladesh, Lebanon also ranked 94th in the latest rankings. The i...