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DB arrests cop for ‘raping’ woman in Narayanganj

DB arrests cop for ‘raping’ woman in Narayanganj

-- 2019-08-27 12:55:56

A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested a ‘constable’ for allegedly raping a woman and extorting money and ornaments from her through blackmail. The arrestee is identified...

Rajshahi's Abdus Samad gets death for war crimes

Rajshahi's Abdus Samad gets death for war crimes

-- 2019-08-27 12:46:53

A war crimes tribunal has sentenced Md Abdus Samad alias Feroz Khan to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and arson, during the 1971 Liberation War in Rajshahi’s Puthi...

Mobile court punishes 26 over crimes

Mobile court punishes 26 over crimes

-- 2019-08-27 12:07:37

A mobile court has arrested 26 teenagers and young men from the Dhaka’s Mugda and Manda areas over crimes, including mugging and drug peddling. Twenty-three of them have been sentenced to a thr...

Bodies of two missing minors recovered from Habiganj pond

Bodies of two missing minors recovered from Habiganj pond

-- 2019-08-27 11:59:09

The floating bodies of two minor cousins were recovered from a pond at Ballavpur village in Baniachang upazila of Habiganj on Tuesday morning, 12 hours after they went missing. The deceased were iden...

Nazrul’s 43rd death anniversary being observed

Nazrul’s 43rd death anniversary being observed

-- 2019-08-27 11:30:36

The 43rd death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed today (Tuesday). Nazrul, revered as Bidrohi Kobi (a rebel poet) for his activism for political and social justice, brea...

Only 37 RMG buying houses get registration from DoT

Only 37 RMG buying houses get registration from DoT

Monira Munni 2019-08-27 10:50:06

Only 37 buying houses have been registered with the Department of Textile (DoT) within the official deadline that ended in July last, officials said. The Ministry of Textiles and Jute (MoTJ) issu...

Two workers die in Gazipur road crash

Two workers die in Gazipur road crash

-- 2019-08-27 10:38:25

Two workers were killed as a covered van crashed into a three- wheeler at Baroipara on Chandra-Nabinagar highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identi...

Four kids drown in Magura

Four kids drown in Magura

-- 2019-08-27 10:34:56

At least four children drowned in Sadar and Sreepur upazilas of Magura district on Monday. Akayeed, 2, son of Enamul Haque of Gangnia village in Sadar upazila, met the watery burial in a pond near th...

No more separate licences for telcos

No more separate licences for telcos

Ismail Hossain 2019-08-27 10:26:35

The country's telecom regulator has moved to formulate a unified guideline for the country's mobile operators instead of separate licences for 2G, 3G and 4G services. The Bangladesh Telecommunica...

Foreign Office taken aback as Rohingya stage rally

Foreign Office taken aback as Rohingya stage rally

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-08-27 10:19:19

Sunday's showdown by nearly 0.2 million Rohingya at the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar has caught government high-ups off guard. The Foreign Ministry has already communicated with the Home Ministry t...

Recent flood damages roads, bridges, culverts worth Tk 650m in Bogura

Recent flood damages roads, bridges, culverts worth Tk 650m in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-08-26 22:01:49

BOGURA, Aug 26: Some 115 major roads in the district have severely been damaged by the recent flood, causing untold sufferings to the locals. Sources at the Local Government Engineering Department (L...

Overall dengue situation improves in dists

Overall dengue situation improves in dists

Our Correspondent 2019-08-26 22:00:22

RAJSHAHI, Aug 26:  Officials of the Department of Health have started collecting samples of Aedes mosquito larvae for the second time in Rajshahi. Dr Gopendranath Acharya, director of Department...

Wax gourd brings good profit to Gopalganj growers

Wax gourd brings good profit to Gopalganj growers

Our Correspondent 2019-08-26 21:58:53

GOPALGANJ, Aug 26: A good number of peasants in the remote villages under Gopalganj Sadar upazila have been making a good profit by cultivating wax gourd. They are satisfied over the present market p...

DNCC ‘combing operation’ continues for second day

DNCC ‘combing operation’ continues for second day

FE Online Report 2019-08-26 21:07:41

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), in separate drives on Monday, found Aedes larvae in 298 houses and establishments during their second day of its ‘10-day combing operation’. Apart fro...

Compensation for death in plane accident to increase

Compensation for death in plane accident to increase

-- 2019-08-26 20:20:33

A draft law, which was approved by the cabinet in principle on Monday, has proposed $160,000 as compensation for the death of a passenger in plane accident. In case of failure to give the compensatio...

BB re-fixes commemorative gold coin price

BB re-fixes commemorative gold coin price

-- 2019-08-26 18:37:24

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has re-fixed the prices of commemorative gold coins for International Mother Language Day. From now, a 22-carat gold commemorative coin, each weighing 10-gram, will cost Tk 50,00...

BHBFC loan: Harsher punishment for false information

BHBFC loan: Harsher punishment for false information

-- 2019-08-26 18:32:32

The cabinet has approved a draft law that proposes harsher punishment for giving false information while seeking loan from the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC). The draft of &ldq...

'Rangpur-3 constituency very important for Jatiya Party'

'Rangpur-3 constituency very important for Jatiya Party'

-- 2019-08-26 17:57:00

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday said their party has formed the nomination board before the announcement of schedule for the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency as the seat is very importa...

'Govt has no diplomatic success in resolving Rohingya crisis'

'Govt has no diplomatic success in resolving Rohingya crisis'

-- 2019-08-26 17:53:39

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government has no diplomatic success in resolving the protracted Rohingya crisis and repatriating the displaced Myanmar nation...

5,562 dengue patients undergoing treatment

5,562 dengue patients undergoing treatment

BSS 2019-08-26 17:49:19

Around 5,562 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals and clinics across the country. Among them, 3,081 patients are taking treatment in Dhaka division and 2,481 are hospitalis...

HC wants info on govt steps taken against mob beating

HC wants info on govt steps taken against mob beating

-- 2019-08-26 17:40:01

The High Court on Monday asked the authorities concerned to inform it about steps taken against those involved in the incidents of recent mob beating. It issued a rule seeking an explanation as to wh...

Khagrachhari ‘shootout’ kills three UPDF activists

Khagrachhari ‘shootout’ kills three UPDF activists

-- 2019-08-26 15:16:12

Three activists of the Prasit Bikash Khisha-led United People’s Democratic Front or UPDF have been killed in a ‘shootout’ with the army in Khagrachhari, according to the Inter-Servic...

Trawler capsizes in Meghna, two missing

Trawler capsizes in Meghna, two missing

-- 2019-08-26 15:15:25

Two youths went missing as a trawler capsized at Puranbazar near the confluence of the Meghna and Dakatia Rivers in Chandpur on Sunday night. The missing youths were identified as Khokon, 22, Mohsin,...

Verdict on war criminal Abdus Samad Tuesday

Verdict on war criminal Abdus Samad Tuesday

-- 2019-08-26 15:04:29

The war crimes tribunal has fixed Tuesday to deliver its verdict in the case against Md Abdus Samad, alias Feroz Khan, of Rajshahi over his alleged crimes against humanity during the Liberation War....

BD migrants in Tunisia allege pressure to return home

BD migrants in Tunisia allege pressure to return home

FE Online Desk 2019-08-26 13:17:37

Bangladeshi migrants in Tunisia have accused diplomats from their country and officials of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the host country of pressuring them to return home. A...

Electrocution kills minor boy in Magura

Electrocution kills minor boy in Magura

-- 2019-08-26 11:40:35

A seven-year-old boy was electrocuted at Dighi village in Shalikha upazila of Magura district on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Abu Huraira, 7, son of Badsha Mia of the area, reports...

Sexagenarian rapes five-year old girl

Sexagenarian rapes five-year old girl

-- 2019-08-26 11:37:23

A five-year-old girl was raped by a sexagenarian man at Nawdapara village in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah district on Sunday. Quoting family members and locals, Yunus Ali, officer-in-charge of Kaliga...

People hardly get benefits from ‘digital island’ project

People hardly get benefits from ‘digital island’ project

Kamrun Nahar 2019-08-26 11:01:06

There is hardly any tangible benefit from declaring Maheshkhali as a 'digital island' by the government due to "irregularities and poor communication" with the mainland. The project is neither help...

Jute farmers getting high prices this year

Jute farmers getting high prices this year

Yasir Wardad 2019-08-26 10:53:52

Local farmers are getting much higher prices for their raw jute in this harvesting season than last season, following the government's withdrawal of ban on uncut jute export from June, said inside...

Rohingya crisis: Donor fatigue concerns Dhaka

Rohingya crisis: Donor fatigue concerns Dhaka

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-08-26 10:09:39

The funding for humanitarian response to the Rohingya living at multiple camps in Cox's Bazar is declining, giving Bangladesh serious cause for concern. As of August 24, only $330 million out of $920...