UNB 2019-03-30 18:15:54
Around 66 per cent buildings in Dhaka and its adjoining areas under the jurisdiction of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) have been constructed in an unplanned way, said Housing and Public Works M...
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Education Minister Dipu Moni has assured Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinees that questions will not be leaked this time. "Fraudsters spread rumours to swindle people. Don't p...
-- 2019-03-30 17:54:54
Rajuk, the capital’s development authority, formed a committee on Saturday to investigate last week’s fire at Banani’s FR Tower that killed 25 people. The six-member committee will...
-- 2019-03-30 17:42:03
Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday directed the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence to ascertain whether the recent incidents of fire were acts of sabotage. His direc...
-- 2019-03-30 17:36:46
Four members of a family have suffered burn injuries after a mosquito coil led to a fire at their home in Gazipur city’s Chakrabarty area. The fire broke out at Friday night at the home of Abdu...
-- 2019-03-30 17:21:10
The government will strictly implement its decision to stop the airing of Bangladeshi advertisements on down-linked foreign television channels from April 1. Information Minister Hasan Mahmud gave th...
-- 2019-03-30 17:04:18
The fire that broke out Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan area on Saturday has gutted all of the 211 shops in the market. Zaman Prodhan, vice-president of Gulshan-1 DNCC K...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 16:29:06
A case has started over a deadly fire at a high-rise in Dhaka's Banani that claimed 26 lives and injured over 70 others on Thursday, the city police say. The case was filed with Banani Police Station...
FE Online Report 2019-03-30 16:20:51
A photo story about a Bangladeshi who has been working in Malaysia for 27 years at a great personal sacrifice away from his family has gone viral, drawing huge reactions from Malaysian netizens. Huma...
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State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has expressed his hope that the waterways around the capital city will get back its lost beauty within next 10 years. The junior minister came up w...
-- 2019-03-30 15:13:07
Another victim of the fire at FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani has succumbed to his injuries, raising the death toll from the inferno to 26. The fire broke out at the commercial building on Th...
-- 2019-03-30 14:43:51
Prominent Singer Khurshid Alam, 75, was injured when a truck hit his private car on Dhaka-Rangpur highway at Jhupgari area in Bogura district early Saturday. He is now undergoing treatment at Shaheed...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 14:22:15
The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department says none of their previous recommendations to protect from any fire was implemented by the DNCC market authorities. The recommendations were...
-- 2019-03-30 14:04:43
Four members of a family have suffered burn injuries after a mosquito coil led to a fire at their home in Gazipur city’s Chakrabarty area. The fire broke out at Friday night at the home of Abdu...
-- 2019-03-30 13:22:50
A suspected drug trader was killed in a so-called gunfight with police in Habirchhora hilly area in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Hossain,...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 12:12:08
The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department (BFSCDD) says they had to struggle a bit longer to douse the fire at the kitchen market of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in Gulshan-1&nbs...
-- 2019-03-30 11:39:08
The Awami League has decided to hold its next national council in October, three years after the incumbent central committee was formed. The party’s presidium took the decision in a meeting cha...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-03-30 11:04:01
Bangladesh topped the list of deaths in major "structure fire" incidents in the world in the last one decade since 2010, according to Wikipedia. A structure fire is a blaze involving the structural c...
-- 2019-03-30 10:11:14
RAJUK says it has found dissimilarities between the building plan showed by the Faruque Rupayan Tower authorities and the one kept at the capital’s development authority. The owners of the high...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-30 09:23:02
A fire that broke out at the Dhaka Norh City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan-1 under has been brought under control. No casualty was reported immediately. Twenty of the firefighting...
-- 2019-03-29 21:19:14
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Friday asked Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to identify all faulty and illegal structures in the northern part of the capital. "I've a...
-- 2019-03-29 20:50:35
A meeting of the Awami League (AL) presidium was held at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister, in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina presided...
-- 2019-03-29 20:46:07
A two-day meeting of the customs officials of Bangladesh and India would begin on Sunday, aiming to ease bilateral trade and stop smuggling. National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman M Mosharraf Hossa...
-- 2019-03-29 18:47:28
A total of the 24 victims out of 25, who died in the devastating fire at Banani’s FR Tower on Thursday, have been identified. “Out of the 24 deceased identified so far, 18 people were mal...
-- 2019-03-29 18:16:59
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has said Bangladesh and the UK will jointly celebrate 50 years of diplomatic bonhomie in both Dhaka and London. Britain was one of the first countries...
-- 2019-03-29 18:10:28
Fire service personnel have conducted a final sweep on all the floors of the 22-storey FR Tower in Banani to ensure that there are no risks of another fire outbreak. Shahjahan Sikder, a senior statio...
-- 2019-03-29 18:09:17
Indo-Bangla cruise service with 110 tourists is set to kick off from Narayanganj today aiming to explore a new sphere of tourism between the two neighbouring countries Bangladesh and India. Home Mini...
-- 2019-03-29 17:59:25
Jatiya Oikyafront convener Dr Kamal Hossain on Friday suggested formation of a national commission to find out whether there is any lack of law in ensuring safe construction of high-rise buildings in...
-- 2019-03-29 17:54:03
Terming the Awami League-led government a 'puppet', BNP on Friday alleged that bureaucrats are now ruling the country. "We all know who did what in the (December-30) election. Now, the state is being...
FE Online Desk 2019-03-29 15:13:22
A six-storey residential building has caught fire in Dhaka's Banani just a day after 25 people were killed and 73 others injured in a fire in a commercial building there on Thursday. No casualties to...
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