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Sinha seeks asylum in Canada

Sinha seeks asylum in Canada

-- 2019-07-26 16:29:43

Surendra Kumar Sinha, the former chief justice of Bangladesh, has sought political asylum in Canada. He entered Canada at Fort Erie on July 4 and filed a refugee claim, reports UNB quoting Canadian o...

No irresponsible remarks on dengue situation: Quader

No irresponsible remarks on dengue situation: Quader

-- 2019-07-26 16:20:42

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has called for not making any irresponsible remark on the present dengue situation in the country. The road transport and bridges minister came up with t...

IS claims Dhaka bomb attempts

IS claims Dhaka bomb attempts

-- 2019-07-26 15:35:03

The Middle East based extremist organisation Islamic State (IS) has claimed the responsibility for the two bombs found near police boxes in Dhaka. The bomb disposal unit of police detonated the two b...

Dengue not 'epidemic' yet, says DSCC Mayor

Dengue not 'epidemic' yet, says DSCC Mayor

-- 2019-07-26 14:28:05

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Friday said the prevalence of dengue virus in the city cannot yet be called an epidemic. "Dengue cannot be called an epidemic yet (in the ci...

Advance bus ticket sales start ahead of Eid

Advance bus ticket sales start ahead of Eid

FE Online Desk 2019-07-26 13:44:35

Private bus operators have started selling tickets in advance for the home goers ahead of Eid-ul-Azha today. The sale started at 6:00am as per the decision Bangladesh Bus Truck Owners’ Associat...

Police recover auto-rickshaw driver’s body in Kushtia

Police recover auto-rickshaw driver’s body in Kushtia

-- 2019-07-26 13:35:20

An unidentified auto-rickshaw driver was found dead in Bout area in Doulatpur upazila of Kushtia district on Thursday. Being informed by local people, police recovered the body of the auto-rickshaw d...

Dhaka suggests presence of non-military observers in Rakhine

Dhaka suggests presence of non-military observers in Rakhine

FE Report 2019-07-26 11:35:36

Bangladesh has suggested deploying non-military observers in the Rakhine state of Myanmar to ensure safety of the Rohingya, foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said on Thursday. "Since the safety issu...

Farmers busy harvesting jute to get ready for  T-Aman farming

Farmers busy harvesting jute to get ready for T-Aman farming

Our Correspondent 2019-07-25 21:47:24

BOGURA, July 25: Farmers in the district are passing busy time harvesting jute to get ready to cultivate T-Aman on the same land. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, a...

Increasing number of dengue patients get admitted in hospitals

Increasing number of dengue patients get admitted in hospitals

FE Online Report 2019-07-25 21:32:32

Patients infected with dengue continued to get admitted in hospitals on Thursday like other days of the month. July 2019 has already been put on the record of affecting with the mosquito-borne diseas...

PM congratulates new British PM Boris Johnson

PM congratulates new British PM Boris Johnson

-- 2019-07-25 21:11:25

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated her new British counterpart Boris Johnson and said she is looking forward to working closely with him. In a message, Hasina also expected to celebrate o...

ACC lacks capability to fully expose all graft allegations

ACC lacks capability to fully expose all graft allegations

-- 2019-07-25 20:31:32

Admitting that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lacks capability to some extent, its Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Thursday said it is not possible to fully expose all the corruption allegations for t...

40th BCS preliminary test results published

40th BCS preliminary test results published

-- 2019-07-25 19:33:23

The Public Service Commission has published the results of 40th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary exams. A total of 20,277 candidates have passed the tests, according to the results published on T...

Sale of advance bus ticket begins Friday

Sale of advance bus ticket begins Friday

FE Online Report 2019-07-25 19:02:27

Sale of advance bus ticket by private operators ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha will begin in the city from Friday morning. The sale of tickets, both online and at counters, will start from 5:30am. Home go...

Badda woman lynching: Five accused put on three-day remand

Badda woman lynching: Five accused put on three-day remand

-- 2019-07-25 18:56:47

A city court on Thursday put five accused on a three-day remand each in a case over lynching of Taslima Begum Renu in the city over child-lifting rumour. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court Judge Tof...

Keep dengue test charge within tolerable level: HC

Keep dengue test charge within tolerable level: HC

-- 2019-07-25 18:07:29

The High Court (HC) on Thursday asked the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to inform it about the steps taken to stop taking of excessive fees for dengue tests at private hospitals and cl...

826 children raped, abused in Jan-July CRAC   

826 children raped, abused in Jan-July CRAC   

-- 2019-07-25 17:49:08

A total of 826 children were raped and abused in the first seven months (from Jan 1 to July 20) across the country, said a new report. Child Rights Advocacy Coalition (CRAC) in Bangladesh on Thursday...

Cabinet committee finalises report on wage board for newsmen: Quader

Cabinet committee finalises report on wage board for newsmen: Quader

-- 2019-07-25 17:23:27

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said a cabinet committee on the Ninth Wage Board Award for newspaper and news agency journalists and employees has finalised its report f...

Trial of Sayeedi begins over killing of BCL activist

Trial of Sayeedi begins over killing of BCL activist

-- 2019-07-25 16:52:43

A Rajshahi court has started the trial of Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi and 103 others in the killing of Bangladesh Chhatra League activist Faruk Hossain nine years ago, reports bdnews24.com....

Five children drown as boat capsizes in Jamalpur

Five children drown as boat capsizes in Jamalpur

-- 2019-07-25 15:00:13

Five children have drowned in Jamalpur while travelling by a boat in a wetland. The incident took place at around 12 noon in Sarishabari Upazila on Thursday, according to Mohabbat Kabir, a local poli...

Rumours about dengue run rife, says mayor Khokon

Rumours about dengue run rife, says mayor Khokon

-- 2019-07-25 14:48:01

Dhaka South Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon has said conspirators are spreading rumours about dengue, just the way kidnapping rumours ran rife across the country. The government will tackle the dengue s...

BHBCUC denounces Priya Saha’s comments

BHBCUC denounces Priya Saha’s comments

-- 2019-07-25 13:43:43

Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) on Thursday denounced comments by Priya Saha, one of its organising secretaries. During a meeting with US President Donald Trump, she claime...

Import effective Aedes mosquito repellents within a week: HC

Import effective Aedes mosquito repellents within a week: HC

FE Online Desk 2019-07-25 13:39:41

Expressing concern over the dengue outbreak and its resultant panic in the country, the High Court has asked the relevant authorities to import effective Aedes mosquito repellents within a week. The...

Customs officials seize 64 gold bars at Ctg airport

Customs officials seize 64 gold bars at Ctg airport

-- 2019-07-25 13:36:10

Customs officials have recovered seven-and-half kilograms of gold from a passenger car at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport. The gold bars were found in a Regent Airways vehicle on Thurs...

Five more arrested over Badda woman lynching

Five more arrested over Badda woman lynching

-- 2019-07-25 13:23:34

Police arrested five more people from different parts of the capital on Wednesday night in connection with the lynching of a woman in Badda. The arrestees were identified as Sohel Rana, 30, Raju, 23,...

BD, WFP launch project to assist flood-hit people

BD, WFP launch project to assist flood-hit people

FE Online Desk 2019-07-25 12:50:44

The World Food Programme (WFP) is working together with the Government of Bangladesh to assist more than 275,000 people affected by flooding in the north-west of the country, activating for the first...

Miscreants stab ‘criminal’ to death in Pirojpur

Miscreants stab ‘criminal’ to death in Pirojpur

-- 2019-07-25 12:05:57

A man, accused in several criminal cases, was stabbed to death by miscreants at Millbari in Indurkani upazila of Pirojpur in the early hours of Thursday. The deceased was identified as Jalil Hawladar...

Dengue under control, says LGRD minister

Dengue under control, says LGRD minister

-- 2019-07-25 11:51:48

Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Mohammad Tajul Islam on Thursday claimed that the dengue situation is under control. "It's (Dengue) under control, because all institutions are...

European Union to support BD achieve SDGs

European Union to support BD achieve SDGs

-- 2019-07-25 11:35:41

The European Union (EU) has launched a new financial package of 142 million euro to strengthen public financial management and social security in Bangladesh. The EU has reiterated its commitment to e...

Vannamei farming on pilot basis starts in 2 dists in Jan

Vannamei farming on pilot basis starts in 2 dists in Jan

Arafat Ara 2019-07-25 11:15:53

Bangladesh is set to start piloting vannamei shrimp production from January next year to help increase the shipment of frozen shrimp abroad, sources said. To this effect, the Department of Fisherie...

Snakebite now a severe threat to public health

Snakebite now a severe threat to public health

Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad 2019-07-25 10:44:16

Snakebite has emerged as a severe threat to thousands of people across the country, especially in the flood-hit areas, due to inadequate supply of the expensive drug, used to counter snake venom,...