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Many Tangail farmers become solvent thru commercial  banana cultivation

Many Tangail farmers become solvent thru commercial banana cultivation

Our Correspondent 2019-07-23 20:58:40

TANGAIL, July 23: Commercial banana cultivation has made thousands of growers self-reliant across the district. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, sources said some 6,353 hectare...

Suraiya, who received bullet wounds in mother’s womb needs better treatment

Suraiya, who received bullet wounds in mother’s womb needs better treatment

Our Correspondent 2019-07-23 20:57:20

MAGURA, July 23: Suraiya, now a four-year- old girl, who had received bullet injury in her mother's womb, is growing up with physical disability and leading a miserable life. During a visit to Suraiy...

Barguna court to hear Minni’s bail plea on July 30

Barguna court to hear Minni’s bail plea on July 30

-- 2019-07-23 20:53:38

A court in Barguna will hear the bail petition of Aysha Siddika Minni on July 30 in a case filed over the killing of her husband Rifat Sharif. District and Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman on Tuesday fi...

HC questions legality of BB circular giving facilities to loan defaulters

HC questions legality of BB circular giving facilities to loan defaulters

-- 2019-07-23 20:47:06

The High Court has issued a rule asking authorities concerned to explain within 10 days why the Bangladesh Bank circular providing special privileges to loan defaulters should not be declared illegal....

‘Won’t spare anyone involved in mob beatings’

‘Won’t spare anyone involved in mob beatings’

-- 2019-07-23 20:38:59

Amid growing incidents of mob attacks over child-lifting rumours, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said those who are responsible for the killings will not be spared, reports UNB. About six...

Floods claim 94 lives in 13 days

Floods claim 94 lives in 13 days

FE Online Report 2019-07-23 20:23:03

Severe flooding has claimed the lives of at least 94 people across the country in the last 13 days, said health ministry data on Tuesday. According to the data of Health Emergency Operations Centre a...

PM undergoes eye surgery in London

PM undergoes eye surgery in London

-- 2019-07-23 19:03:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now on an official visit to the United Kingdom, underwent a surgery in her left eye at a London hospital on Monday. “The Prime Minister underwent the operation in...

Lightning kills four in Moulvibazar   

Lightning kills four in Moulvibazar   

-- 2019-07-23 18:35:25

At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in lightning strikes in Baliadangi and Ranisankail upazilas of Moulvibazar on Tuesday. Officer-in-Charge of Baliadangi Police Station Mosadderul...

Bangladesh invents green throw-away bag

Bangladesh invents green throw-away bag

-- 2019-07-23 18:34:35

As countries around the world try to cut down on throw-away plastic shopping bags, Bangladesh is hoping to cash in on an alternative: plastic-like bags made from jute, the plant fibre used to produce...

‘Finish of roads, highways repair works before Eid’

‘Finish of roads, highways repair works before Eid’

-- 2019-07-23 18:20:50

Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday ordered the authorities concerned to complete the repair of roads and highways damaged by flood at least a week before the Eid-ul-Azha. He gave the i...

Sergeant Kibria’s death: Father seeks Tk 100 million compensation

Sergeant Kibria’s death: Father seeks Tk 100 million compensation

-- 2019-07-23 18:13:22

A writ was filed with the High Court on Tuesday seeking its directive to provide Tk 100 million as compensation to the family members of traffic police sergeant Golam Kibria who died in a road crash o...

'2,000 level crossings are unauthorised'

'2,000 level crossings are unauthorised'

-- 2019-07-23 17:45:56

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Tuesday said about 2,000 level crossings out of 3,200 across the country are unauthorised. "Permission is needed from the Railways to construct roads over ra...

Earn people’s trust, President tells govt officials

Earn people’s trust, President tells govt officials

-- 2019-07-23 17:34:04

President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday urged the government officials to earn the confidence of people that they can avail of government services without any lobbying. “There’s a lack of confid...

Court sends suspended ACC director to jail

Court sends suspended ACC director to jail

-- 2019-07-23 16:46:13

A court in Dhaka on Tuesday sent Khandaker Enamul Basir, a suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), to jail in a case filed over Tk 4.0 million bribery scandal. Dhaka Senior Special Ju...

Non-govt TT college teachers holds grand rally in city

Non-govt TT college teachers holds grand rally in city

FE Online Desk 2019-07-23 16:32:13

Teachers from different non-government teachers’ training (TT) colleges have organised a grand rally in Dhaka to press for their five-point demand including Monthly Pay Order (MPO) system. Priv...

Get your vehicle's fitness certified in two months: HC

Get your vehicle's fitness certified in two months: HC

FE Online Desk 2019-07-23 15:50:58

The High Court has asked the defaulter vehicle owners to have their vehicles certified by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) office in two months from August to September. The bench of Ju...

0.47m unfit vehicles on roads countrywide

0.47m unfit vehicles on roads countrywide

FE Online Desk 2019-07-23 14:29:13

A total of 4,79,320 vehicles are now plying without fitness certificates across the country, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has said in a report. In the report submitted to the High Court...

DU students lock academic, admin buildings for third day

DU students lock academic, admin buildings for third day

-- 2019-07-23 14:14:33

A group of students of Dhaka University (DU) put academic and administrative buildings under lock and key for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, demanding an end to the university's affiliation wit...

Three die in ‘gunfights’ in Khulna, Meherpur

Three die in ‘gunfights’ in Khulna, Meherpur

-- 2019-07-23 12:57:33

Two forest robbers and a suspected drug dealer were killed in separate gunfights in Khulna and Meherpur districts on Tuesday. In Khulna, the ringleader of a 'robber gang' and another member were kil...

CMCH Psychiatry department catches fire

CMCH Psychiatry department catches fire

-- 2019-07-23 12:49:26

The Psychiatry department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) caught fire on Tuesday morning, spreading panic among patients and their relatives. Zahirul Haque Bhuiyan, in-charge of CMCH po...

589 arsenic patients detected in Khulna

589 arsenic patients detected in Khulna

-- 2019-07-23 12:43:33

A total of 589 people have been detected with arsenicosis in Khulna district, showing a slight rise in the number of such patients over the last eight years. Sources at the local office of the Depart...

Eid advance train ticket sale from July 29

Eid advance train ticket sale from July 29

-- 2019-07-23 12:20:00

Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets from July 29 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Half of the tickets will be sold at the counters while the rest online, Railways Minister Md N...

30 female students fall sick due to mass hysteria

30 female students fall sick due to mass hysteria

-- 2019-07-23 11:56:56

Thirty female students of a high school have fallen sick with symptoms of mass hysteria in Sadar upazila of Cumilla. The incident took place at Syedpur High School by the Dhaka-Chattogram highway on...

Suspended ACC director Basir held over bribery

Suspended ACC director Basir held over bribery

-- 2019-07-23 11:47:04

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested its suspended Director Khandaker Enamul Basir over the Tk 4.0 million bribery scandal. A team of the national anti-graft body picked him up from his...

‘Gunfight’ kills ‘drug trader’ in Meherpur

‘Gunfight’ kills ‘drug trader’ in Meherpur

-- 2019-07-23 11:02:41

A suspected drug dealer was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of drug pushers in Sadar upazila of Meherpur district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Hamidul Islam, 30, son of...

Employer arrested for raping domestic help

Employer arrested for raping domestic help

-- 2019-07-23 10:58:45

Police have arrested a man in Narayanganj city for repeatedly 'raping' his teenage domestic help whereby she has become five months pregnant. The arrestee is SM Salauddin, 68, son of late Sheikh Faz...

First grader raped by 22-year-old in in Noakhali

First grader raped by 22-year-old in in Noakhali

-- 2019-07-23 10:50:44

A seven-year-old girl has allegedly been raped by a young man in Sadar upazila of Noakhali district. Victim's mother said the girl, a Class-I student of a local madrasa, was playing with other childr...

Fire guts cotton mill, sawmill in Narail fire

Fire guts cotton mill, sawmill in Narail fire

-- 2019-07-23 10:45:29

A cotton mill and a sawmill were gutted by a fire in Lohagara upazila of Narail on Monday, leaving a worker injured. Witnesses said the fire originated at the cotton mill at Laxmipasha from an elec...

Four Biman officials get jail terms for embezzlement

Four Biman officials get jail terms for embezzlement

-- 2019-07-23 10:42:07

A Dhaka court has sentenced four officials of Bangladesh Biman Airline to different terms jail in an embezzlement cases of Tk 2.85 million. The convicts are airline salary section former manager Moha...

Poverty up among hosts of Rohingyas: Study

Poverty up among hosts of Rohingyas: Study

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-07-23 09:55:47

The poverty increased by nearly 3.0 per cent in the host community due to the massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, says a new study. The study, jointly conducted by the Policy Research...