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HC asks authorities to take more effective steps to control aedes

HC asks authorities to take more effective steps to control aedes

-- 2019-08-28 13:54:13

The High Court has ordered the authorities concerned to take effective measures to control aedes mosquitoes, responsible for spreading dengue. Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice Md Shohrowardi’...

Separate road crashes kill four in Dinajpur

Separate road crashes kill four in Dinajpur

-- 2019-08-28 13:52:57

Four people have been killed and three others injured in two separate road crashes in Dinajpur’s Phulbari and Birganj Upazila. Three of them died in a motorbike accident while another in autori...

Four suspected militants held in city

Four suspected militants held in city

-- 2019-08-28 12:46:08

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested four suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Allah'r Dal’ in Dhaka. The detainees have been identified as Sirajul, Monir, Hafij, and Tur...

EC to provide BD expats with NID cards abroad

EC to provide BD expats with NID cards abroad

-- 2019-08-28 12:40:41

The Election Commission plans to begin registration of Bangladeshi expatriates in the second week of September to provide them with national identity cards. The commission is waiting for the Singapor...

IU officers threaten to intensify protest if demands not met

IU officers threaten to intensify protest if demands not met

-- 2019-08-28 12:29:36

The Islamic University Officers’ Association has threatened to start an indefinite work abstention from September 2 if their three-point demand is not accepted. A press release, signed by the a...

Mymensingh-Bhairab train service resumes after seven hours

Mymensingh-Bhairab train service resumes after seven hours

-- 2019-08-28 12:16:00

Rail communication between Mymensingh and Bhairab was restored after seven hours on Wednesday. The derailment of a freight train wagon in Kishoreganj’s Gochihata on Tuesday snapped the communic...

Sundarbans tigress wasn’t killed by poachers: Investigators

Sundarbans tigress wasn’t killed by poachers: Investigators

-- 2019-08-28 12:07:06

A tigress, found dead in Sundarbans East Zone on August 20, was not killed by poachers, investigators have confirmed. But the probe body is yet to specify the cause of death. The three-member commit...

BCL expels three Barishal unit leaders

BCL expels three Barishal unit leaders

-- 2019-08-28 11:38:50

The Bangladesh Chhatra League expelled three of its leaders on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in vandalism and obstruction of government work. Those who have been expelled are – Chhatr...

Two more people die of dengue

Two more people die of dengue

-- 2019-08-28 11:23:47

Two people, including a woman, died of mosquito-borne disease dengue in Khulna and Mymensingh districts on Wednesday. In Mymensingh, Hafizul Islam, 30, a readymade garment worker from Trishal upazila...

Woman dies of dengue in Khulna

Woman dies of dengue in Khulna

-- 2019-08-28 10:50:03

A woman suffering from dengue died at the Khulna Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning, doctors said. The deceased, Shahida Begum, 50, wife of Saidur Rahman of Pirojpur, was hospitalised with...

Govt set to issue guarantee on Tk 10b BB refinancing to BKB

Govt set to issue guarantee on Tk 10b BB refinancing to BKB

FE Report 2019-08-28 10:34:43

The government is set to issue a guarantee against a Tk 10-billion central bank refinancing loan to aid farm credit disbursements by Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB). The Bangladesh Bank has already...

BD, Japan sign deal for hiring skilled workers

BD, Japan sign deal for hiring skilled workers

FE Report 2019-08-28 10:28:11

Tokyo has signed a deal with Dhaka, paving the way for recruiting skilled workers under different categories from Bangladesh. Rownaq Jahan, Secretary of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overs...

Lack of road delays launch of  border haat at Dalfabazar

Lack of road delays launch of border haat at Dalfabazar

Our Correspondent 2019-08-27 21:18:23

SYLHET, Aug 27: Launching of a new border haat on Sunamganj district's Dalfabazar border would be delayed as the connecting road is yet to be ready, sources informed. Sources said, locals demanded im...

Bogura cultivators busy  growing early winter  vegetables

Bogura cultivators busy growing early winter vegetables

Our Correspondent 2019-08-27 21:17:28

BOGURA, Aug 27: Many farmers in the district are passing busy time growing early winter vegetables. Early winter cabbage, bean, carrot, cauliflower, spinach, red spinach, water spinach, Malaber spina...

Govt confirms 52 deaths from dengue

Govt confirms 52 deaths from dengue

FE Online Report 2019-08-27 21:10:39

The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has received 173 suspected death reports from dengue infections from different hospitals across the country. And, after examining 88...

Fire guts Benapole chemical warehouse

Fire guts Benapole chemical warehouse

-- 2019-08-27 21:08:34

A chemical warehouse was gutted in a fire at Benapole port on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said the fire originated at Shed-35 of the port around 9am. On information, firefighters rushed in and brough...

‘More engagement with Beijing, Tokyo, Delhi to resolve Rohingya crisis’

‘More engagement with Beijing, Tokyo, Delhi to resolve Rohingya crisis’

-- 2019-08-27 20:34:23

Bangladesh needs to get engaged with three pocket countries of Myanmar -- China, Japan and India -- in a much more “creative way” to find a sustainable solution to Rohingya crisis, said an...

'Zia was mastermind behind assassination of Bangabandhu'

'Zia was mastermind behind assassination of Bangabandhu'

BSS 2019-08-27 19:39:01

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was the mastermind behind the murder of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family membe...

Riverbank erosion makes 100 families homeless

Riverbank erosion makes 100 families homeless

BSS 2019-08-27 19:34:36

With huge losses of standing crops, riverbank erosion of the Padma River made 100 families homeless in the Harirampur Upazila of Manikganj district this year. Officials of local administration said h...

DNCC’s ‘combing operation’ continues

DNCC’s ‘combing operation’ continues

FE Online Report 2019-08-27 18:32:58

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) spotted Aedes larvae in 248 houses and establishments on Tuesday, the third day of its ‘combing operation’ to eliminate the dengue-carrying mosquito...

Bangladesh signs MoC with Japan to send skilled workers

Bangladesh signs MoC with Japan to send skilled workers

-- 2019-08-27 18:07:48

Bangladesh on Tuesday signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) with Japan to send specified skilled workers to Japan. The MoC was signed by the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Mini...

PM donates Tk 1.40 billion to eight organisations

PM donates Tk 1.40 billion to eight organisations

BSS 2019-08-27 17:44:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday gave financial assistance of Taka 1.40 billion to eight organisations. “The Prime Minister handed over cheques for the amount to the authorities concerne...

HC issues rule on giving Tk 10m to Renu’s family

HC issues rule on giving Tk 10m to Renu’s family

-- 2019-08-27 17:40:06

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday ordered authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why they shall not be directed to give Tk 10 million to the family of Taslima Begum Renu who was killed in a...

64 female workers return home from KSA

64 female workers return home from KSA

-- 2019-08-27 17:14:40

A total of sixty-four Bangladeshi female workers returned home from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Monday night following alleged abuse by their employers. The female workers had taken shelter at i...

ECNEC approves land acquisition project for Uttara sewerage plant

ECNEC approves land acquisition project for Uttara sewerage plant

-- 2019-08-27 16:23:57

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project for acquiring land to build a sewerage treatment plant in the city’s Uttara area with Taka 13.98 billion....

Two more die of Dengue

Two more die of Dengue

-- 2019-08-27 15:08:21

Two more people died of dengue in Dhaka and Rangpur districts on Tuesday. In Dhaka, Md Zisan, 18, son of Billal Hossain of  Joydebpur upazila in Gazipur, died of the mosquito-borne disease at Dh...

Fire guts Benapole port chemical warehouse

Fire guts Benapole port chemical warehouse

-- 2019-08-27 14:15:08

A chemical warehouse was gutted in a fire at Benapole port in Jessore district on Tuesday. Witnesses said the fire originated at Shed-35 of the port around 9:00am. On information, fire-fighters rush...

Indictment hearing in Niko graft case on Sept 23

Indictment hearing in Niko graft case on Sept 23

-- 2019-08-27 13:43:00

A court in Dhaka today set September 23 to hold hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of Dhaka 9th special jud...

Awami League pays homage to Nazrul

Awami League pays homage to Nazrul

-- 2019-08-27 13:34:10

Awami League on Tuesday paid tributes of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam marking his 43rd death anniversary. The party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader placed a wreath at the poet’s grave by...

Youth dies in city road crash

Youth dies in city road crash

-- 2019-08-27 13:17:57

A young man was killed after a vehicle hit his bicycle in the city’s Wari area early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Tatalu Chandra, 23, of Jatrabari’s Dhalpur area, reports UNB....