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Rivals stab youth to death in Chattogram

Rivals stab youth to death in Chattogram

-- 2018-05-22 12:19:46

A young man was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals in Mohra Kamal Bazar area under Chandgaon Police Station in Chattogram’s port city on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Moham...

Speeding truck kills two motorcyclists in Jhenaidah

Speeding truck kills two motorcyclists in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-05-22 12:13:39

Two motorcyclists were killed as a speeding truck ran over the motorcycle at Narayankandi village in Harinakundu upazila in Jhenaidah on Monday noon. The deceased were identified as Mokhles, son of S...

SC stays HC order on compensation to Rajib’s family

SC stays HC order on compensation to Rajib’s family

Agencies 2018-05-22 11:54:44

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed the High Court order that directed Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) and Swajan Paribahan to pay Tk 10 million in compensation to the...

Dhaka-bound passenger plane makes crash landing in Jeddah

Dhaka-bound passenger plane makes crash landing in Jeddah

FE Online Desk 2018-05-22 10:41:20

A Dhaka-bound Saudi Arabian Airlines flight made an emergency landing at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah following a malfunction of hydraulic system and subsequent retraction of its nos...

PC to revise DPP for curbing misuse of taxpayers' money

PC to revise DPP for curbing misuse of taxpayers' money

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-22 10:33:30

The Planning Commission (PC) is set to revise the existing Development Project Proposal (DPP) format in a bid to check fraud and misappropriation of public funds, officials said Monday. They said the...

Salt output misses target, reliance on imports grows

Salt output misses target, reliance on imports grows

Abdul Monayem Khan 2018-05-22 10:23:53

Salt production in the country fell short of the target this year also in continuation of the trend of last few years leading to the country's growing dependence on imports. The current season fetche...

11 more die in anti-drug drives

11 more die in anti-drug drives

-- 2018-05-22 09:54:35

Eleven more people have died overnight in what law-enforcement agencies described as shootouts as Bangladesh expanded its anti-drug crackdown. Law-enforcement agencies said they engaged in gun battle...

Sonargaon hosts iftar for underprivileged children   

Sonargaon hosts iftar for underprivileged children  

-- 2018-05-21 21:18:11

Pan Pacific Sonargoan Hotel Monday hosted an iftar for over 500 underprivileged children of different children welfare institutes. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal joined the...

Narsingdi Jamdani weavers busy ahead of Eid

Narsingdi Jamdani weavers busy ahead of Eid

-- 2018-05-21 21:12:01

NARSINGDI, May 21 (BSS): Doulotpur Jamdani Palli in Monohardi upazila of the district came to lively as Jamdani saree weavers are now passing very busy time with producing one of the finest muslin tex...

Advance train ticket sale to begin June 2

Advance train ticket sale to begin June 2

-- 2018-05-21 20:38:19

Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets on June 2 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Bangladesh Railway Director General Md Amzad Hossain said they have primarily decided to start th...

'Crackdown on drug peddlers to continue'

'Crackdown on drug peddlers to continue'

-- 2018-05-21 20:18:45

Amid the killings of drug dealers in growing 'gunfights', Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said the crackdown on the drug dealers will continue. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said...

ACC sacks official on corruption charges

ACC sacks official on corruption charges

FE Online Report 2018-05-21 20:16:46

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday has dismissed one on its official from his duty and suspended another on corruption charges. “The anti-graft watchdog sacked its assistant direct...

PM hosts iftar for war-maimed FFs, orphans

PM hosts iftar for war-maimed FFs, orphans

-- 2018-05-21 19:50:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday hosted an iftar for war-wounded freedom fighters (FFs), orphans, physically-challenged children and alem-ulema (Islamic scholars) at her official residence Ganob...

Compensation over Rajib’s death: SC verdict Tuesday

Compensation over Rajib’s death: SC verdict Tuesday

-- 2018-05-21 19:41:31

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Tuesday on a petition seeking a stay on a High Court order directing to provide Tk 10 million as compensation to the family of deceased Titumir College st...

Lightning strikes kill 200 in 75 days

Lightning strikes kill 200 in 75 days

-- 2018-05-21 19:36:44

The country is witnessing unusual casualties in lightning strikes ahead of monsoon this year due to change in the thunderstorm formation area along with other causes like deforestation, climate variab...

Bangabandhu-1 to reach orbit by Tuesday

Bangabandhu-1 to reach orbit by Tuesday

-- 2018-05-21 17:23:54

Bangabandhu-1, the first commercial satellite of the country, will reach its orbit by Tuesday, said Managing Director of Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Ltd (BCSCL) Saiful Islam on Monday...

Govt to set up ETPs at 14 state-owned sugar mills

Govt to set up ETPs at 14 state-owned sugar mills

-- 2018-05-21 17:13:12

The government has initiated a move to set up Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs) at 14 state-owned sugar mills across the country in a bid to ensure a healthy environment for the biodiversity and people...

Man gets life term over murder in Netrokona

Man gets life term over murder in Netrokona

-- 2018-05-21 17:12:53

A court in Dhaka has awarded life term imprisonment to a man in a case filed over killing a retired teacher of Barhatta upazila in Netrokona in 2008. Netrokona District and Sessions Court Judge, KM R...

No national election under Hasina: Rizvi

No national election under Hasina: Rizvi

-- 2018-05-21 17:03:58

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged that it will be suicidal for the opposition to join any national election under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "The Prime Minister has expo...

$1.0m KRCS aid for Rohingyas

$1.0m KRCS aid for Rohingyas

-- 2018-05-21 17:01:35

The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) provided $1.0 million contribution to provide food assistance to Rohingyas and host communities in Bangladesh. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) wel...

68 drug peddlers held in city

68 drug peddlers held in city

-- 2018-05-21 16:52:06

The Department of Narcotic Control (DNC) in special drives across the city arrested 68 suspected drug peddlers along with a huge quantity of illegal drugs, including 88,386 pieces of contraband yaba t...

Miscreants strangle schoolgirl in C’nawabganj

Miscreants strangle schoolgirl in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-05-21 16:44:24

A school girl was strangled by some miscreants at Rashik Nagar Shirotola village under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj early Monday. The deceased identified as Shyamoli Khatun, 16, daughter Dubai...

Priyanka Chopra in Cox's Bazar to visit Rohingya camps

Priyanka Chopra in Cox's Bazar to visit Rohingya camps

-- 2018-05-21 16:40:27

Bollywood actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra arrived in Bangladesh on a four-day visit to witness Rohingya situation on the ground. "Follow my Instagram to share my experiences as...

Two electrocuted in Gaibandha

Two electrocuted in Gaibandha

-- 2018-05-21 16:38:50

Two people died from electrocution at Ballamjhar village under Sadar upazila in Gaibandha on Monday. The deceased were identified as Aijal Mia, 50, and Belal Mia, 16 of the village. Mohammad Shahria...

Ministers, secretaries to get Tk 75,000 handset allowance

Ministers, secretaries to get Tk 75,000 handset allowance

-- 2018-05-21 16:31:47

Minsters, state ministers, deputy ministers, secretaries and acting secretaries will be entitled to Tk 75,000 for buying mobile phone sets. The government will provide mobile services without any lim...

Landslide leaves four dead in Bandarban

Landslide leaves four dead in Bandarban

-- 2018-05-21 16:26:49

Four people were killed and another one was injured in a landslide at Boroitoli Manjurpara in Naikhongchhari upazila in Bandarban on Monday. The deceased were identified as Shona Meher, Mohammad Abu,...

Village people suffer in absence of river bridge in Rangpur

Village people suffer in absence of river bridge in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2018-05-21 15:19:36

Around 15,000 people of different villages at Taraganj upazila in Rangpur district are suffering much owing to absence of a concrete bridge over the Jomuneshwari river in Joybangla Ghat area of Hariar...

High Court orders probe into pasteurised milk

High Court orders probe into pasteurised milk

-- 2018-05-21 14:47:52

The High Court on Monday ordered the government to form a probe committee and submit a report within a month after testing pasteurised milk available in the market. The bench of Justice Zubayer Rahma...

Security guard found dead in ATM

Security guard found dead in ATM

-- 2018-05-21 14:44:52

Police have recovered the throat-slit body of a security guard from an Eastern Bank ATM booth near the Cantonment Post Officein in the capital. The incident occurred at some point after sehri on Mond...

RAB arrests youth with 20,000 Yaba pills

RAB arrests youth with 20,000 Yaba pills

-- 2018-05-21 13:32:24

Detectives in a drive have arrested a young man along with 20,000 Yaba tablets from Maizyartek area under Karnaphuli thana of the port city. The arrestee was identified as Nur Helal, 25. Asif Mohiud...