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BGB arrests 39 BD nationals at Benapole border

BGB arrests 39 BD nationals at Benapole border

-- 2018-03-13 17:38:21

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 39 Bangladeshi nationals along Daulatpur border area of Benapole in Jessore on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB-21 conducted a drive in th...

Nepal transfers six air traffic officials

Nepal transfers six air traffic officials

-- 2018-03-13 16:59:45

Nepal government has transferred six officers stationed at the Air Traffic Control Tower of at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) following Monday's plane crash. The officers have been shifted to...

39 get death penalty in Ekram murder case

39 get death penalty in Ekram murder case

FE Online Desk 2018-03-13 16:37:58

A court in Feni has awarded the death penalty to 39 people in sensational Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque killing case. District and Session's Court Judge Aminul Haque handed down the verdict...

Women safety app for RMG workers

Women safety app for RMG workers

FE Online Report 2018-03-13 16:16:43

Care Bangladesh, in association with UN Women and Colors of Benneton, has launched a mobile app on women safety for RMG workers to resolve sexual incidents in the sector.   The app named &lsqu...

PM unveils orchid 'Dendrobium Sheikh Hasina'

PM unveils orchid 'Dendrobium Sheikh Hasina'

-- 2018-03-13 15:09:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled an orchid named after her in the National Orchid Garden of Singapore Botanic Garden, a UNESCO World Heritage. The Singapore government has named the orchid a...

PM cuts short Singapore visit, on way back home

PM cuts short Singapore visit, on way back home

-- 2018-03-13 14:48:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Singapore for Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon, cutting short her four-day official visit to the city-state by a day, following the crash of a Bangladeshi plane in Nepa...

Nepal forms probe body over US-Bangla plane crash

Nepal forms probe body over US-Bangla plane crash

FE Online Desk 2018-03-13 14:28:43

The Nepal government has formed a six-member committee to probe the crash-landing of US-Bangla Airlines at Tribhuvan International Airport. Yagya Prasad Gautam, former director general at the Civil A...

Govt, ACC file appeals against Khaleda’s bail

Govt, ACC file appeals against Khaleda’s bail

-- 2018-03-13 14:06:02

The government and its anti-corruption commission (ACC) filed two separate appeals against four-month interim bail of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Lawyer Khurs...

Guideline for rural housing in disaster-prone areas to be launched Wednesday

Guideline for rural housing in disaster-prone areas to be launched Wednesday

FE Online Desk 2018-03-13 13:46:26

House Building Research Institute(HBRI) and Friendship will formally launch Standard Guideline for Rural Housing in Disaster Prone Areas of Bangladesh Wednesday.     The guideline has...

Two minor cousins drown in Satkhira pond

Two minor cousins drown in Satkhira pond

-- 2018-03-13 13:36:41

Two minor cousins drowned in a pond at Mollapara village in Shyamnagar upazila under Satkhira district on Tuesday morning. The deceased have been identified as Marium Akhter Sumaiya, 5, daughter of N...

Three to die for war crimes in Noakhali

Three to die for war crimes in Noakhali

-- 2018-03-13 13:18:03

The International Crimes Tribunal or ICT has sentenced three people to death and jailed a fourth for 20 years for crimes against humanity committed in Noakhali during the 1971 Liberation War. The dea...

46 relatives of plane crash victims reach Kathmandu

46 relatives of plane crash victims reach Kathmandu

-- 2018-03-13 12:34:52

A flight of US-Bangla Airlines, carrying 46 relatives of victims who died and injured in Monday's deadly crash of its another flight at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal, reached Kathmandu on T...

Voting in Brahmanbaria-1 by-poll underway

Voting in Brahmanbaria-1 by-poll underway

-- 2018-03-13 12:04:28

Voting in the election to Brahmanbaria by-election began on Tuesday morning with over two lakh people expected to exercise their franchise. The voting started at 8am and will continue till 4pm. In e...

Robi, Airtel offer free call to emergency hotline number in Nepal

Robi, Airtel offer free call to emergency hotline number in Nepal

FE Online Desk 2018-03-13 12:00:09

The leading digital service provider, Robi, has offered free call to the Bangladesh High Commission’s emergency hotline numbers: +977 981 010 0401 and +977 986 146 7422 in Nepal for Robi and Air...

All crew including pilot die in US-Bangla plane crash

All crew including pilot die in US-Bangla plane crash

-- 2018-03-13 11:49:26

All four crew, including pilot Abid Sultan, of the crashed US-Bangla Airlines flight have died, an official said on Tuesday. M Delwar Hossain, Director General (External Affairs) at the Ministry of F...

Elderly woman dies in fire in Chittagong

Elderly woman dies in fire in Chittagong

-- 2018-03-13 11:05:55

An elderly woman was killed in a fire while cooking in her kitchen at East Chararkul village in Hathazari upazila in Chittagong on Monday night. According to local sources, the fire broke out from th...

Advent Pharma IPO lottery today

Advent Pharma IPO lottery today

FE Report 2018-03-13 10:55:06

The IPO lottery of Advent Pharma Limited will be conducted today (Tuesday). The event will be held at 10:30AM at the auditorium of the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) in Dhaka, according to...

Govt to lower requirement for trade union registration

Govt to lower requirement for trade union registration

Monira Munni 2018-03-13 10:47:08

The government has decided to cut the requisite rate of workers' representation in trade union registration, bringing it down by 5.0 and 10 per cent depending on the size of workforce. The decision c...

46 relatives of plane crash victims off to Kathmandu

46 relatives of plane crash victims off to Kathmandu

-- 2018-03-13 10:30:08

A US-Bangla flight left Dhaka for Nepal on Tuesday morning with 46 relatives of the victims who died and injured in Monday's deadly crash of its another flight at Tribhuvan International Airport in Ne...

Bangladesh about to meet LDC graduation criteria

Bangladesh about to meet LDC graduation criteria

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-03-13 10:22:08

Bangladesh is set to get the qualifying marks for LDC graduation when the UN policy body sits for a review of the country status today (Tuesday). The 20th plenary meeting of the Committee for Develop...

Minister releases names of Bangladeshi survivors

Minister releases names of Bangladeshi survivors

-- 2018-03-13 09:52:11

The foreign ministry says nine Bangladeshis were rescued alive and hospitalised followed the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu on Monday. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam poste...

Police arrest four JMB suspects with bombs

Police arrest four JMB suspects with bombs

-- 2018-03-13 09:36:00

Police in a drive arrested four suspected activists of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Dighapatia, on the outskirts of Natore town, early Tuesday. The arrestees have been ide...

Fire guts thousands of houses at Mirpur slum

Fire guts thousands of houses at Mirpur slum

FE Report 2018-03-13 00:36:51

A devastating fire destroyed several thousand houses at a slum in the city's Mirpur-12 area during early hours of Monday. The incident left one elderly woman injured and thousands of people homeles...

Magura farmers start cultivating  BINA-9 Mosur for higher yield

Magura farmers start cultivating BINA-9 Mosur for higher yield

Our Correspondent 2018-03-13 00:34:02

MAGURA, Mar 12: One Moksed Mandal has achieved success in farming BINA-9 Mosur in Ramnagar village under Magura Sadar. The farmer said cultivation of the lentil variety is profitable as 12 to 14 ma...

Two Civil aviation officials to assist Nepalese probe body

Two Civil aviation officials to assist Nepalese probe body

-- 2018-03-12 23:01:23

The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) has sent two officials to Nepal to assist the Nepalese probe body looking into the causes of US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash. CAAB public relations o...

Pilot survives US-Bangla plane crash, co-pilot dies

Pilot survives US-Bangla plane crash, co-pilot dies

-- 2018-03-12 22:18:08

Abid Sultan, the pilot of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal has survived, the airliner says. However, co-pilot Prithula Rashid could not survive, according to Kathmandu Medical Colle...

PM to return Tuesday cutting short Singapore tour

PM to return Tuesday cutting short Singapore tour

-- 2018-03-12 22:03:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return home from Singapore on Tuesday cutting short her four-day official visit following the crash of a Bangladeshi plane in Nepal. According to a release issued by...

Khaleda shown arrested in Comilla arson case

Khaleda shown arrested in Comilla arson case

-- 2018-03-12 21:39:12

Showing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia arrested in a case filed over the 2015 arson attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila that left eight people dead, a Comilla court on Monday asked police to produce h...

Ragib-Rabeya medical's 13 Nepalese students among plane crash victims

Ragib-Rabeya medical's 13 Nepalese students among plane crash victims

FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 21:36:55

Thirteen Nepalese students of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and Hospital in Sylhet were among the victims of Monday's plane crash. A US-Bangla aircraft crashed at Tribhuvan International Air...

Pilot received 'wrong signals' from Nepal airport: US-Bangla CEO

Pilot received 'wrong signals' from Nepal airport: US-Bangla CEO

FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 21:01:44

US-Bangla Airlines CEO Imran Asif has suspected that ‘wrong signals’ from the air traffic control tower at Tribhuvan International Airport might have led to the crash of its plane. Asif c...