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Australia’s support to BD over Rohingya to continue, says its FM

Australia’s support to BD over Rohingya to continue, says its FM

-- 2019-09-05 14:45:46

Visiting Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne on Thursday said Australia will continue to provide strong support to Bangladesh on Rohingya issue. Marise Payne said this at a meeting with...

Cabin crew held with 10 kg gold at Dhaka airport

Cabin crew held with 10 kg gold at Dhaka airport

FE Online Desk 2019-09-05 14:25:29

Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) today (Thursday) detained a private airlines cabin crew member in possession of 10 kg gold from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka city. APBn ad...

DNCC earmarks Tk 493m for mosquito control

DNCC earmarks Tk 493m for mosquito control

-- 2019-09-05 14:24:55

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has earmarked Tk 493 million (49.3 crore) for mosquito control programmes in its proposed budget for the 2019-20 financial year. It was revealed when Mayor Ati...

Dhaka road crash kills woman, husband wounded

Dhaka road crash kills woman, husband wounded

-- 2019-09-05 13:59:38

A woman has been killed and her husband injured when a bus ran them over in Dhaka's Mohakhali. The incident occurred around 9am in Mohakhali's Amtoli, said Banani Police Sub-Inspector Afzal Hossain....

Cop dies in Gazipur road accident

Cop dies in Gazipur road accident

-- 2019-09-05 13:36:44

An inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was killed in a road accident in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Inspector Mosharra...

Miscreants hack Pabna housewife to death

Miscreants hack Pabna housewife to death

-- 2019-09-05 12:01:03

A housewife was hacked to death by miscreants at Pachuabari village in Faridpur upazila in Pabna early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sathi Khatun, 20, wife of Mizanur Rahman of Tiapara in...

Help protect marine ecology: PM to IORA

Help protect marine ecology: PM to IORA

-- 2019-09-05 11:55:38

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina today (Thursday) urged the IORA member states to respond quickly to save the marine ecological system as the protection of ocean and sea resources is essential to get long...

‘Criminal’ dies in Chattogram ‘gunfight’

‘Criminal’ dies in Chattogram ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-09-05 11:54:00

A suspected criminal was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Jalalabad Hill in Khulshi area in Chattogram on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Belal, 43, son of Abdul Quader...

Overall economic achievements remain below true potentials

Overall economic achievements remain below true potentials

FE Report 2019-09-05 11:01:51

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) has listed inadequate infrastructure, lack of investors' confidence, and shortage of power and energy as major impediments to the countr...

Head-on collision claims three lives in Bogura

Head-on collision claims three lives in Bogura

-- 2019-09-05 10:37:52

Three people were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Sherpur upazila of Bogura district on Thursday morning. Police said the head-on collision between two trucks took place on the Dh...

Erosion by Jamuna river takes serious turn at Dhunat

Erosion by Jamuna river takes serious turn at Dhunat

Roving Correspondent 2019-09-04 22:00:54

BOGURA, Sept 04: Erosion by the Jamuna river has taken a serious turn at Kaigari-Baroitali point of Bhandarbari union under Dhunat upazila in the district. The Water Development Board (WDB) built the...

Red rot disease affects sugarcane plants in Raninagar upazila

Red rot disease affects sugarcane plants in Raninagar upazila

Our Correspondent 2019-09-04 21:59:40

NAOGAON, Sept 04: Peasants in Raninagar upazila of the district are worried over the pest attack on their sugarcane fields. As the result of the pest attack, the sugarcane plants are drying and dying...

Fourth dreamliner to join Biman fleet on Sept 12

Fourth dreamliner to join Biman fleet on Sept 12

-- 2019-09-04 21:59:28

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will get its forth brand new Boeing 787-8, last in the row of 10 new aircraft, on September 12 as the 16th aircraft of its fleet. “The new aircraft named as Rajhangsha...

T-Aman farmers in Sylhet division complete replanting of paddy seedlings

T-Aman farmers in Sylhet division complete replanting of paddy seedlings

Our Correspondent 2019-09-04 21:58:53

SYLHET, Sept 04: The flood-hit Aman farmers in Sylhet division, who had been badly affected by the recent flood, have almost completed their replanting of the Aman seedlings as the season is about to...

Enable BBIN MVA with financial, digital connectivity: Speakers

Enable BBIN MVA with financial, digital connectivity: Speakers

-- 2019-09-04 21:10:32

Speakers at a dialogue laid emphasis on enabling the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicle Agreement (MVA) with appropriate regulatory, financial and digital connectivity to unlock...

Govt bans two NGOs for ‘assisting, instigating’ Rohingya rally

Govt bans two NGOs for ‘assisting, instigating’ Rohingya rally

-- 2019-09-04 19:59:07

The government has ordered two non-government organisations to close down their activities for 'secretly assisting' and 'instigating' Rohingya to rally in a refugee camp area in Cox’s Bazar. Th...

Yunus receives ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’ award

Yunus receives ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’ award

-- 2019-09-04 19:40:18

The Vatican has honoured Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’ award at the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi, Italy.  The award is given...

Chuadanga grapples with pneumonia outbreak

Chuadanga grapples with pneumonia outbreak

-- 2019-09-04 18:17:29

The outbreak of pneumonia in Chuadanga district has put severe strain on the limited resources of the Sadar Upazila hospital which is struggling to cope with the situation, reports BSS. More than 400...

BS-I services for 34 TVs from Oct 1

BS-I services for 34 TVs from Oct 1

-- 2019-09-04 17:49:53

All local television channels will start their full-fledged transmission using the feed of country’s first communication satellite Bangabandhu-I (BS-I) on October 1. “Prime Minister Sheik...

Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad’s 48th death anniversary Thursday

Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad’s 48th death anniversary Thursday

-- 2019-09-04 17:34:43

The 48th death anniversary of Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad Sheikh will be observed at Nur Mohammad Nagar in Chandibarpur union of Narail on Thursday. The Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad Sheikh Trust and Narai...

RAKUB to disburse Tk 23b agri-loan in NW region

RAKUB to disburse Tk 23b agri-loan in NW region

-- 2019-09-04 17:21:25

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) will disburse Tk 23 billion (Tk 2,300 crore) agri-loans in the country’s northwest (NW) region during the current 2019-20 fiscal year to facilitate increasin...

Jamalpur gets luxurious busses

Jamalpur gets luxurious busses

-- 2019-09-04 17:19:12

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation launched two new luxurious buses in Jamalpur on Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Enamul Haque inaugurated the bus service as the chief guest at his office...

Two gang rape suspects held in Tangail

Two gang rape suspects held in Tangail

-- 2019-09-04 17:00:51

Two young men, suspected of being involved in the gang rape of a teenage girl, were arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from Tangail on early Wednesday. The arrestees were identified as Md A...

Two men to walk gallows for murder of Kushtia schoolboy

Two men to walk gallows for murder of Kushtia schoolboy

-- 2019-09-04 16:55:44

A Kushtia court has sentenced two people to death and three others to life in prison in a case over the murder of a school student in 2012, reports bdnews24.com. District and Sessions Judge Arup Kuma...

Viqarunnisa student dies of dengue

Viqarunnisa student dies of dengue

-- 2019-09-04 16:47:00

Isra Taskin Asmita, a student of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, has died from dengue at a Dhaka hospital amid a drop in the daily rate of hospitalisations due to the mosquito-borne disease, repo...

Dhaka third worst city to live in: EIU report

Dhaka third worst city to live in: EIU report

-- 2019-09-04 14:43:31

Dhaka ranks the third least liveable city in the world, according to a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Damascus in war-torn Syria remained the worst-ranked city, below Lagos in...

Man found dead along Myanmar border

Man found dead along Myanmar border

-- 2019-09-04 13:50:12

The body of a man was recovered from Tambru along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban on Tuesday night. Police recovered the body lying 500 yards inside the zero poin...

Schoolboy commits suicide in Khulna

Schoolboy commits suicide in Khulna

-- 2019-09-04 11:58:10

A schoolboy reportedly took his own life by hanging himself at his house in Tajpur village of Phultala upazila of Khulna district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Siam, 16, a...

Dhaka, Islamabad hold tele talks over Kashmir issue

Dhaka, Islamabad hold tele talks over Kashmir issue

-- 2019-09-04 11:40:59

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his Pakistan counterpart Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi held a telephonic conversation on Tuesday and discussed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. An official a...

Woman dies in Satkhira road crash

Woman dies in Satkhira road crash

-- 2019-09-04 11:23:01

A woman was killed after a pick-up van hit a motorbike on Satkhira-Khulna road at Kumira in Tala upazila of Satkhira district on Wednesday. The deceased, Fatima Khatun, 30, was the wife of Dr Azizur...