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'Missing Mohona TV journalist would be rescued soon'

'Missing Mohona TV journalist would be rescued soon'

-- 2019-08-04 17:17:44

Home Minister Assaduzzaman Khan Kamal has expressed his hope that missing Mohona TV journalist FM Mushfiqur Rahman would be rescued soon. The minister also informed that he has directed police to tak...

Bullet-hit body found along Kushtia border

Bullet-hit body found along Kushtia border

-- 2019-08-04 17:00:46

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man from Charpara border along Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia district on Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased was identif...

Trial of Khaleda in another case to start

Trial of Khaleda in another case to start

-- 2019-08-04 16:54:28

A Dhaka court on Sunday transferred a case against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia lodged for making derogatory remarks about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the present government, reports BS...

Five killed in Tangail road accident

Five killed in Tangail road accident

-- 2019-08-04 16:51:45

Five people, including husband and wife, were killed and five others injured in three separate road accidents in Tangail on Sunday. Mirzapur Thana police said three people including husband and wife...

Red Crescent opens hotline for safe blood

Red Crescent opens hotline for safe blood

-- 2019-08-04 16:48:01

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has opened hotline for safe blood and blood platelets (01811458537, 02- 9139940). The society has also started distributing leaflets among homebound people ahe...

PM to visit India in October

PM to visit India in October

FE Online Report 2019-08-04 16:41:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India in the first week of October to join India Economic Summit, to be held in New Delhi. Foreign Minister Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen gave the information while tal...

Three die as bus hits autorickshaw in Tangail

Three die as bus hits autorickshaw in Tangail

-- 2019-08-04 15:22:23

Three people have been killed after a bus crashed into an autorickshaw in Tangail's Mirzapur. The dead were the passengers of the autorickshaw. The incident took place on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway a...

Wife of Addl IGP dies of dengue in Dhaka

Wife of Addl IGP dies of dengue in Dhaka

FE Online Desk 2019-08-04 14:19:40

The wife of additional inspector general of police Shahabuddin Qureshi has died of Aedes mosquito-borne disease dengue at a hospital in Dhaka city. Syeda Akter, 54, died at the Square Hospital around...

Admin, AL workers in field to tame dengue: PM

Admin, AL workers in field to tame dengue: PM

-- 2019-08-04 13:21:47

Referring to the recent dengue outbreak in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of the the ruling Awami League, said apart from the administration, party workers have been involved...

Schoolboy, elderly woman die of dengue in Khulna

Schoolboy, elderly woman die of dengue in Khulna

-- 2019-08-04 11:41:06

A 70-year-old woman and a schoolboy died of dengue on Sunday – the first reported deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in the district. The deceased are – Morjina Begum, wife of Ismail...

NBR allows importers to get Kamalapur ICD-bound goods released at Pangaon

NBR allows importers to get Kamalapur ICD-bound goods released at Pangaon

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-08-04 11:06:12

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will allow importers for a period of three months to release their products through Pangoan port if the goods are bound to Kamalapur Inland Container Depot (ICD)...

India-BD talks to sharpen focus on illegal immigration

India-BD talks to sharpen focus on illegal immigration

FE Report 2019-08-04 10:59:03

Devising ways to curb illegal migration will come into focus of the upcoming home ministry-level talks between Bangladesh and India. "The present Indian government is very sensitive to the illegal mi...

Dengue fever spreading  fast across districts

Dengue fever spreading fast across districts

FE Desk Report 2019-08-03 21:37:28

Dengue fever is spreading fast across the districts. It is spreading alarmingly to Bogura and Sylhet. Patients admitted to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital in Bogura only get treatme...

BAEC develops Aedes mosquito controlling method

BAEC develops Aedes mosquito controlling method

-- 2019-08-03 20:51:51

Scientists of Insect Biotechnology Division of Institute of Food and Radiation Biology of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (BAEC) have developed an effective method of controlling Aedes mosqui...

Dengue Test: Two private hospitals fined for charging extra fees

Dengue Test: Two private hospitals fined for charging extra fees

-- 2019-08-03 20:15:03

Two private hospitals were fined in the capital on Saturday for charging extra fees for dengue detection tests. The National Health Care Network, and Alok Health Care were fined Tk 50,000 each by the...

Moderately heavy rainfall likely at places

Moderately heavy rainfall likely at places

-- 2019-08-03 19:44:01

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at a few places over Khulna, Barishal & Chattogram divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, D...

29 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

29 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

-- 2019-08-03 19:38:25

At least 29 Bangladeshi pilgrims, who went to Saudi Arabia for performing hajj this year, have so far died of various reasons till Friday. According to a bulletin of the Bangladesh Haj Management Por...

DGHS claims 18 people died of dengue in Dhaka

DGHS claims 18 people died of dengue in Dhaka

-- 2019-08-03 19:12:42

Eighteen dengue patients died in the capital city since the beginning of this year, said the government on Saturday. Officially, the death toll was 14 until the morning. The Health Emergency Operatio...

Information minister to take classes at DU

Information minister to take classes at DU

-- 2019-08-03 18:58:02

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud will take classes as a part-time teacher at Dhaka University (DU) from tomorrow (Sunday). Dr Hasan, also an environmentalist, will conduct a course titled ‘...

DNCC conducts drives to curb Aedes breeding grounds, fines Tk 0.32m

DNCC conducts drives to curb Aedes breeding grounds, fines Tk 0.32m

FE Online Report 2019-08-03 18:10:08

The mobile courts of Dhaka North City Corporation (DSCC) conducted drives at different parts of the city on Saturday aiming to curb dengue mosquito breeding in the capital. The courts also fined Tk...

Five units of Ghorashal Power Plant out of order

Five units of Ghorashal Power Plant out of order

-- 2019-08-03 17:27:22

Technical glitches forced five out of seven units of Ghorashal Thermal Power Plant to suspend operation. Mir Ruhul Kuddus, the plant's Chief Engineer, said the glitches will be gradually fixed. "Uni...

Govt cancels Eid vacation, weekly holidays of DNCC, DSCC officials

Govt cancels Eid vacation, weekly holidays of DNCC, DSCC officials

-- 2019-08-03 16:24:10

The government on Saturday cancelled the Eid vacation and weekly holidays of the officials of Dhaka north and south city corporations until further notice. In a circular, local government ministry sa...

Chattogram police to use drone to monitor cattle markets

Chattogram police to use drone to monitor cattle markets

-- 2019-08-03 16:15:13

The Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) will use drone for the first time to monitor the cattle markets in the port city. "We’ll have a control room in every cattle market. There will also be...

India urges world to help BD to ease Rohingya burden

India urges world to help BD to ease Rohingya burden

-- 2019-08-03 14:18:24

India has urged the world to help Bangladesh cope with the “humanitarian burden” mentioning that they are “deeply conscious” of the humanitarian and security implications due t...

Battered roads repel Panam City’s tourists

Battered roads repel Panam City’s tourists

-- 2019-08-03 13:57:18

Panam City, an attractive tourist spot in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj, is losing its attraction due to the dilapidated condition of roads in the areas. There are big and small potholes and stagn...

Liquid fuel-fired power plants to retire in five years

Liquid fuel-fired power plants to retire in five years

-- 2019-08-03 11:49:28

The government has planned to put on retirement a good number of liquid fuel-fired power plants, mostly the rental and quick rental ones installed in private sector with the total capacity of 4,390 MW...

Four die in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’

Four die in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’

-- 2019-08-03 11:25:45

Three suspected robbers and a drug pedlar were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ at Nurullaghona hill and Dorgapara of Marine Drive road in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Saturday. The...

1,787 cattle, poultry farms affected by flood: Report

1,787 cattle, poultry farms affected by flood: Report

Sajibur Rahman 2019-08-03 10:27:10

A good number of cattle farmers in 18 districts across the country are counting heavy losses due to recent floods. As of July 31, some 1,321 cattle and 466 poultry farms were affected by flood, a...

FY19 imports up by 6.0pc

FY19 imports up by 6.0pc

Siddique Islam 2019-08-03 10:15:57

The country's imports grew by more than 6.0 per cent in fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 following higher imports of construction materials as intermediate goods, officials said. The actual import in ter...

Dengue spreading across country fast

Dengue spreading across country fast

FE Report 2019-08-03 09:55:10

A total of 1,687 more people, suffering from the deadly dengue fever, were hospitalised across the country during last 24 hours, ending at 8:00am Friday. Of them, 691 got admitted at various hospital...