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Erosion by Teesta takes serious turn with recession of flood water in Rangpur district

Erosion by Teesta takes serious turn with recession of flood water in Rangpur district

Our Correspondent 2019-07-22 21:08:46

RANGPUR, July 22: With the recession of flood water, erosion by the Teesta river has taken a devastating turn, devouring a large portion of the  flood control dyke at Char Binbina village at Kolk...

Flood-hit Bogura farmers selling cattle head at throw away prices

Flood-hit Bogura farmers selling cattle head at throw away prices

Our Correspondent 2019-07-22 21:07:54

BOGURA, July 22: Cattle rearers of Sonatola, Sariakandi and Dhunot upazilas of the district are facing acute fodder crisis as a vast area of pasture land has been submerged by flooding of the mighty J...

Mobarak can consume one kg green chilli a day

Mobarak can consume one kg green chilli a day

Our Correspondent 2019-07-22 21:06:50

RAJSHAHI, July 22: He is popularly known in the locality as 'Pepper Eater Mobarak' from his boyhood. He eats green, red chilli or pepper like that of chocolates. He can chew and consume at least one...

Tree fair witnesses rise in sapling sales this year

Tree fair witnesses rise in sapling sales this year

-- 2019-07-22 19:55:36

The month-long National Tree Plantation Campaign and Fair-2019 has got an overwhelming response from plant and nature lovers as saplings worth around Tk 110 million were sold during the fair. The fai...

Professor Barkat protests Priya Saha’s claim

Professor Barkat protests Priya Saha’s claim

FE Online Report 2019-07-22 19:07:37

Professor Abul Barkat, president of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA), has protested Priya Saha’s misinterpreting data from his study. Earlier, Priya Saha was criticised for telling US Pres...

HC seeks explanation on failure to control mosquitoes in city

HC seeks explanation on failure to control mosquitoes in city

-- 2019-07-22 18:13:24

The High Court (HC) on Monday summoned the chief health officers of the capitals’ two city corporations to appear before it on July 25 and explain their failure in controlling mosquitoes in Dhak...

Habiganj civil surgeon dies of ‘dengue' fever

Habiganj civil surgeon dies of ‘dengue' fever

-- 2019-07-22 18:06:06

Civil Surgeon of Habiganj died at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College & Hospital (SBMCH) in Dhaka on Sunday night reportedly after being affected by dengue virus. Confirming the death, Shah Alam,...

Three suspects on four-day remand over Badda lynching

Three suspects on four-day remand over Badda lynching

-- 2019-07-22 18:05:31

A Dhaka court on Monday granted a four-day remand to interrogate three accused, arrested in the case lodged over lynching of an innocent woman in capital’s North Badda area on July 20, Dhaka Me...

BRAC allocates additional Tk 5.0m as flood relief

BRAC allocates additional Tk 5.0m as flood relief

-- 2019-07-22 17:57:10

BRAC has allocated Tk 5.0 million as flood relief across the country on top of their ongoing programme of distributing food and cash among 7,644 families in 30 upazilas. The non-government organisat...

Rohingya Crisis: Dhaka seeks role of NAM, ASEAN

Rohingya Crisis: Dhaka seeks role of NAM, ASEAN

-- 2019-07-22 15:26:00

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York Ambassador Masud Bin Momen has urged the NAM member states, including the ASEAN neighbours of Myanmar, to remain engaged and pu...

Floods-damaged roads to be repaired before Eid, in time: Quader

Floods-damaged roads to be repaired before Eid, in time: Quader

-- 2019-07-22 15:16:37

Roads damaged by floods across the country will be repaired before the rush of Eid-ul-Azha sets in, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said. "They are already being repaired on an...

Two die in Chapainawabganj road crashes

Two die in Chapainawabganj road crashes

-- 2019-07-22 14:18:37

Two people, including a retired army person, were killed and another one was injured in two separate road accidents in Chapainawabganj  districts on Monday. The deceased were identified as ret...

Gas stations to remain open 24 hrs during Eid

Gas stations to remain open 24 hrs during Eid

-- 2019-07-22 14:18:29

Gas stations across the country will remain open for 24 hours for 10 days to facilitate people’s homebound journey to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha, which may fall on August 12. “The movement...

Taxicab falls into canal in Savar: Rescue operation continues

Taxicab falls into canal in Savar: Rescue operation continues

-- 2019-07-22 14:09:28

Rescuers continued their operation till Monday afternoon after a Taxicab plunged into a canal connecting to the Turag River at Aminbazar area of Savar upazila of Dhaka on Sunday night. Divers along w...

Dr Kamal seeks nat’l dialogue to tackle flood

Dr Kamal seeks nat’l dialogue to tackle flood

-- 2019-07-22 14:00:10

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain has called for holding a national dialogue to find ways to effectively overcome the natural disaster. Stating that the government cannot alone tackle the current...

BRTC staffers lock head office demanding arrears

BRTC staffers lock head office demanding arrears

FE Online Report 2019-07-22 13:23:19

Around 60 workers and employees of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC), including drivers and mechanics, have put the head office at Motijheel in Dhaka city under lock and key demanding their...

Affiliation of seven colleges: DU protests continue

Affiliation of seven colleges: DU protests continue

-- 2019-07-22 12:07:24

General students of Dhaka University (DU) put the academic and the administrative buildings under lock and key on Monday morning demanding an end to the university's affiliation with seven colleges....

‘Deranged son’ kills father in Munshiganj

‘Deranged son’ kills father in Munshiganj

-- 2019-07-22 11:22:52

A father was stabbed to death allegedly by his deranged son at Durgabari in Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj district early Monday. The deceased was identified as Shahed Ali, 60, of Shologhar union in...

Police arrest three over lynching of woman in city

Police arrest three over lynching of woman in city

-- 2019-07-22 11:08:05

Police have arrested three people from Ali Mor area in Uttar Badda in Dhaka in connection with the lynching a woman on Saturday following a child-lifting rumour. The arrestees are Md Bacchu Mia, 28,...

Floods claim 64 lives in 11 days countrywide

Floods claim 64 lives in 11 days countrywide

FE Report 2019-07-22 10:28:00

Sixty-four people died in the past eleven days because of floods nationwide and thousands are at risk amid a dearth of food and water, official sources said. Floodwaters in the north continued to rec...

Fodder crisis, high prices of other feeds  frustrate cattle rearers in flood-hit areas

Fodder crisis, high prices of other feeds frustrate cattle rearers in flood-hit areas

Our Correspondent 2019-07-21 21:34:31

RANGPUR, July 21: The cattle rearers in different areas under Rangpur division are apprehensive about making expected profit this year from the sale of sacrificial animals due to the ongoing flood sit...

Ishwardi-16 sugarcane  farming gains popularity among growers

Ishwardi-16 sugarcane farming gains popularity among growers

Our Correspondent 2019-07-21 21:33:28

GOPALGANJ, July 21: Sugarcane cultivation is gaining popularity among the farmers of Kasiani upazila in the district. According to the Kasiani upazila agriculture office sources, about 200 hectares o...

President urges to eliminate irregularities in fisheries, livestock sectors

President urges to eliminate irregularities in fisheries, livestock sectors

-- 2019-07-21 21:00:44

President Abdul Hamid on Sunday said irregularities in fisheries and livestock sectors must be strictly prevented to continue the trend of development of these sectors. "Any irregularity in fisheries...

Rab arrests 14 members of ‘teen-gang’

Rab arrests 14 members of ‘teen-gang’

-- 2019-07-21 20:34:50

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested 14 members of a teenagers gang named 'First Hitter Boss' or "FHB" from the city's Uttara on Saturday night. The arrestees are Bishu Chandra Shil, 20, Nay...

'Plans finalised to free rivers from grabbers, pollution'

'Plans finalised to free rivers from grabbers, pollution'

FE Online Report 2019-07-21 20:22:57

The government has finalised two master plans to free rivers in the capital and port city from grabbers and pollutions. Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam said it t...

ACC finds involvement of 23 in Barapukuria coal scam

ACC finds involvement of 23 in Barapukuria coal scam

-- 2019-07-21 20:05:16

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found involvement of 23 people in the alleged embezzlement of about 144,000 tonnes of coal worth over Tk 2.43 billion from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limi...

DIG Mizan shown arrested in bribery case

DIG Mizan shown arrested in bribery case

-- 2019-07-21 20:03:02

Suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman was shown arrested in a case over bribing an official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Dhaka Senior Special Judge AKM Emrul K...

Court turns down Minni’s bail plea over Rifat murder

Court turns down Minni’s bail plea over Rifat murder

-- 2019-07-21 19:19:02

A court in Barguna on Sunday rejected the bail petition of Aysha Siddika Minni, wife of Rifat Sharif, in a case over the killing of her husband in the town. Barguna Senior Judicial Magistrate Sirajul...

Joy accuses US Embassy of having ulterior motive   

Joy accuses US Embassy of having ulterior motive   

-- 2019-07-21 18:10:34

Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Sunday said the US Embassy in Dhaka is the one that had an "ulterior motive" mentioning that they picked Priya Saha because they knew she would...

Awami League imported dengue virus in 1997: Rizvi

Awami League imported dengue virus in 1997: Rizvi

-- 2019-07-21 17:48:46

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that ruling Awami League imported the deadly dengue virus in 1997. "Awami League imported the deadly dengue virus in 1997, and later A...