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50 Ahmadiyya, 29 Hindus injured in seven months: ASK

50 Ahmadiyya, 29 Hindus injured in seven months: ASK

FE Online Report 2019-08-31 20:36:11

At least 79 people were injured in religion-related violence in first seven months of the current calendar year across the country, according to a local independent rights and legal aid body. Among t...

No one can become a true leader without ideology: PM

No one can become a true leader without ideology: PM

-- 2019-08-31 20:34:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one can become a true leader without ideology and principle. "One may become a leader (without ideology) for the time being, but that leadership can’t g...

Road crash kills one in city

Road crash kills one in city

FE Online Report 2019-08-31 20:23:34

A motorcyclist died after a CNG driven auto-rickshaw hit him at city’s Malibagh area on Saturday, said the police. The deceased was identified as Hemayet Hossain (35). He hails from Barishal di...

Assam NRC: Foreign minister rules out any concern for Bangladesh

Assam NRC: Foreign minister rules out any concern for Bangladesh

-- 2019-08-31 20:01:20

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday ruled out any concern for Bangladesh amid the exclusion of nearly 2 million people from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) for India's border...

Dengue infections mark significant fall

Dengue infections mark significant fall

UNB 2019-08-31 19:13:35

Two people have died of dengue in Khulna and Chattogram and 760 new patients have been hospitalised across the country, showing a significant improvement in the situation. The new deaths were recorde...

UN allocates $5.0m to assist flood-hit female-headed households

UN allocates $5.0m to assist flood-hit female-headed households

-- 2019-08-31 19:06:28

The United Nations (UN) has allocated US$ 5.0 million to help the people severely hit by flooding caused by monsoon rains in July. UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocation will pr...

Medical students furious at proposed two-year internship

Medical students furious at proposed two-year internship

-- 2019-08-31 18:48:17

Enraged medical students organised a protest rally and took to social media to vent their fury on Saturday against the government’s proposal of implementing a two-year internship programme for a...

BNP should seek apology before accusing AL: Hasan Mahmud

BNP should seek apology before accusing AL: Hasan Mahmud

BSS 2019-08-31 18:07:01

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said BNP must seek apology to the people for the killing of thousands of people during their regime before pointing gun at Awami League.  “BNP has...

President off to London for health check-up

President off to London for health check-up

-- 2019-08-31 18:05:05

President M Abdul Hamid left the capital for London on Saturday morning for health check-up and treatment of eyes. A VVIP flight (BG-001) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President took off...

AL govt to be accused of committing crime one day: Fakhrul

AL govt to be accused of committing crime one day: Fakhrul

UNB 2019-08-31 18:03:47

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday claimed that the current government will be accused of committing crime against humanity someday for "indulging in the incidents of enforced...

Move to form company to manufacture electric tools, smart pre-paid meters

Move to form company to manufacture electric tools, smart pre-paid meters

BSS 2019-08-31 16:56:56

Under a joint venture initiative, the government is working to form Bangladesh Power Equipment Manufacturing Company Limited (BPEMC) to manufacture electric equipment and smart pre-paid meters in the...

41 NGOs withdrawn from Rohingya camps: Momen

41 NGOs withdrawn from Rohingya camps: Momen

FE Online Desk 2019-08-31 15:36:54

A total of 41 non-government organisations have been withdrawn from the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar for their wrongdoings, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said today (Saturday). He came up with the...

Dengue claims another life in Chattogram

Dengue claims another life in Chattogram

-- 2019-08-31 14:45:33

A fifty-five year old man died of mosquito-borne disease dengue at a private hospital in Chattogram on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Badsha Molla, of Jafrabad area in Sitakunda, reports a...

Brahmaputra devours over 100 homesteads in Kurigram 

Brahmaputra devours over 100 homesteads in Kurigram 

-- 2019-08-31 13:40:34

Over 100 homesteads at Hatiya union in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram have gone into the gorge of the Brahmaputra River in a week as the riverbank erosion has taken a serious turn with the recession of fl...

Schoolgirl ‘kills self’ after being stalked in Pirojpur

Schoolgirl ‘kills self’ after being stalked in Pirojpur

-- 2019-08-31 12:23:37

A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by taking sleeping pills after being stalked by a youth in Bhandaria upazila headquarters in Pirojpur on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Ruksan...

‘Top terror’ dies in Narsingdi gunfight

‘Top terror’ dies in Narsingdi gunfight

-- 2019-08-31 12:06:54

A listed ‘top terror’ was killed in a reported gunfight with Detective Branch (DB) police at Katapara  of Madhabdi municipality area in Narsingdi on Saturday. The deceased was identi...

President off to London for medical checkup

President off to London for medical checkup

-- 2019-08-31 10:59:56

President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for London on Saturday for health checkup. A VVIP flight (BG-001) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Air...

Soaring prices of maize to affect poultry, aquaculture, dairy industries

Soaring prices of maize to affect poultry, aquaculture, dairy industries

Yasir Wardad 2019-08-31 10:49:36

Prices of maize increased notably in the country in recent weeks. The surge in corn prices might hurt local poultry, aquaculture and dairy industries in the form of rising feed prices, said insider...

Drastic fall in shrimp export earnings

Drastic fall in shrimp export earnings

Sajibur Rahman 2019-08-31 10:44:10

Shrimp exports fell drastically both in terms of value and volume in 2018-2019 thanks to weak demand in international market of local species and failure to introduce farming of vannamei. Export...

India jails four Bangladeshis over Burdwan blast

India jails four Bangladeshis over Burdwan blast

-- 2019-08-30 21:07:27

An Indian court has sentenced 19 people, including four Bangladeshis, to up to 10 years in jail over the 2014 blast at Burdwan in West Bengal, local media report. A special court of National Intellig...

Bodies of three minors found in imam’s room

Bodies of three minors found in imam’s room

-- 2019-08-30 21:01:19

Police have recovered the bodies of three children from the room of a mosque’s imam, including his own, in Chandpur’s Matlab Upazila. They believe the children died from “some kind...

Make sure ‘hyenas’ don’t return to power, says PM

Make sure ‘hyenas’ don’t return to power, says PM

-- 2019-08-30 19:28:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the people of the country to remain cautious so that the country does not go under the control of the evil force who were involved in August 15 massacre....

1,025 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

1,025 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2019-08-30 17:09:27

Dengue claimed another life in the capital while 1,025 new patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Friday morning, according to government data. Fifty-two-year old Munni Begum...

Hasina, Modi likely to meet in NY before Delhi talks in Oct

Hasina, Modi likely to meet in NY before Delhi talks in Oct

-- 2019-08-30 17:01:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are likely to have a brief meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September. The high-level meetings...

Teenage boy dies in Satkhira road crash

Teenage boy dies in Satkhira road crash

-- 2019-08-30 15:04:10

A teenage boy was killed in a road accident at Isakur in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Sadek Hossain, 18, son of Samsur Hazari of Parulgaccha villa...

Mob beat cop for ‘sexually harassing’ woman

Mob beat cop for ‘sexually harassing’ woman

-- 2019-08-30 14:50:14

A police constable was beaten up by local people allegedly for sexually harassing a woman at Laxmipur in Rajshahi city on Thursday night. Quoting witnesses, sub-inspector of Rajpara Police Station Ha...

US Embassy in Dhaka to remain closed Sunday

US Embassy in Dhaka to remain closed Sunday

-- 2019-08-30 13:11:50

The US Embassy in Dhaka including its consular section will remain closed on Sunday in observance of US Labor Day. The American Center with the Archer K. Blood American Center Library and the Educati...

'Pirate' dies in Chattogram gunfight

'Pirate' dies in Chattogram gunfight

-- 2019-08-30 11:44:50

A suspected pirate was killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) in Bashkhali upazila of Chattogram district on Friday. The incident occurred in the upazila's East Chambol in the morning...

SC upholds HC order barring 11 from fund withdrawal

SC upholds HC order barring 11 from fund withdrawal

FE Report 2019-08-30 10:30:27

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a High Court order that issued an injunction preventing withdrawal of money by eleven individuals -- nine former People's Leasing and Financial Services Limited (P...

BGB declares red alert along Rajshahi borders

BGB declares red alert along Rajshahi borders

Our Correspondent 2019-08-29 21:20:08

RAJSHAHI, Aug 29:  To avert smuggling of rawhide, the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has declared a red alert throughout the frontier of Rajshahi. According to sources, the wholesale rawhide trad...