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Refrain from littering, Mayor Atiqul asks citizenry

Refrain from littering, Mayor Atiqul asks citizenry

FE Online Report 2019-03-17 18:22:25

The newly-elected Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam has urged the city dwellers to abstain from littering and keep the city clean of their own volition. He came up with the call...

13 people lynched in Jan-Feb: Official data

13 people lynched in Jan-Feb: Official data

FE Online Report 2019-03-17 18:05:24

As many as 13 people were lynched across the country in the first two months of this calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. The highest number of incidents of killings to...

Mass awareness in focus for better traffic management

Mass awareness in focus for better traffic management

FE Online Report 2019-03-17 17:43:28

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) launched the Traffic Week on Sunday aimed at ensuring discipline in streets and creating awareness among city dwellers for a better vehicular management. DMP Commissio...

Motijheel, Dhanmondi, Uttara to have circular bus services

Motijheel, Dhanmondi, Uttara to have circular bus services

-- 2019-03-17 17:06:09

Circular bus services will be introduced within April next in Motijheel, Dhanmondi and Uttara areas to ease the city's traffic situation. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia...

CRI celebrates Bangabandhu’s birthday with children

CRI celebrates Bangabandhu’s birthday with children

-- 2019-03-17 16:56:29

Ruling Awami League’s research wing Centre for Research and Information (CRI) has celebrated the 100th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Children&rs...

BNP will not accept govt's move to hike gas prices: Fakhrul

BNP will not accept govt's move to hike gas prices: Fakhrul

-- 2019-03-17 16:52:41

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday warned that their party will not accept any gas price hike as it will only inflict sufferings on people. "Our position is clear about the g...

Govt working for worthy future of children: PM

Govt working for worthy future of children: PM

-- 2019-03-17 14:41:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her firm commitment to give a ‘bright future’ to the children by building Bangladesh as a developed and prosperous one freeing from hunger, pove...

Four Bangladeshis died in NZ terror attacks: State minister

Four Bangladeshis died in NZ terror attacks: State minister

FE Online Desk 2019-03-17 14:10:58

The Bangladeshi death toll in the New Zealand mosque attacks has so far reached four, says State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam. He feared that the count might go up to six. A senior f...

Man dies in ‘shootout’ with police in Dhaka

Man dies in ‘shootout’ with police in Dhaka

-- 2019-03-17 14:07:56

A man has been killed and another injured after an alleged shootout with Dhaka police in Mohammadpur’s Bosila in the early hours of Sunday. Police claim the victims were hijackers. Mohammadpur...

Crane accident kills two in Rampal power plant

Crane accident kills two in Rampal power plant

FE Online Desk 2019-03-17 13:46:04

Two workers have died in a crane accident at the under-construction Rampal power plant in Bagerhat on Saturday. The deceased were Nasir Hossain, 27, son of Ansar Ali from Kalinagar village in Chapain...

Two suffer burns in city flat fire

Two suffer burns in city flat fire

-- 2019-03-17 13:11:13

Two people sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a multi-storey house in Dhaka's Banani area on Sunday. The injured - Sagar, 25, and Himel, 19 - have been admitted to the burn unit of D...

President, PM pay homage to Bangabandhu on his 100th birthday

President, PM pay homage to Bangabandhu on his 100th birthday

-- 2019-03-17 12:19:37

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Gopalganj’s Tungipara this morning paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the...

Two die in Joypurhat AL clash

Two die in Joypurhat AL clash

FE Online Desk 2019-03-17 11:59:46

A clash between two rival sides of the Awami League has left at least two of the party activists dead and 30 others injured in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila. The incident took place at the upazila&...

Shocked cricketers return home

Shocked cricketers return home

-- 2019-03-17 11:51:34

Bangladesh's cricket team arrived in Dhaka after narrowly avoiding being involved in the worst mass shooting in New Zealand. They reached Dhaka at 10:40pm on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed at...

BD offers India RMG at ‘a very competitive’ price

BD offers India RMG at ‘a very competitive’ price

FE Report 2019-03-17 10:30:39

A total of 23 local readymade garment (RMG) exporters are participating in the Apparel Sourcing Week in Bengaluru to increase apparel export to India. Apparel Resources at ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru org...

Olympic Industries posts 14pc revenue growth

Olympic Industries posts 14pc revenue growth

Babul Barman 2019-03-17 10:24:22

Olympic Industries, the country's largest biscuits manufacturer, has posted a 14.51 per cent growth in revenue year-on-year in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18 to Tk 12.93 billion. Amid growing demand for it...

Experts for right use of steroid in glaucoma treatment

Experts for right use of steroid in glaucoma treatment

FE Report 2019-03-17 10:18:34

Ophthalmologists at a programme on Saturday suggested more responsible and appropriate use of steroid by physicians in treating eyes so that people can avoid any attack of glaucoma. At present there...

BNP expels further 17 leaders for joining upazila polls

BNP expels further 17 leaders for joining upazila polls

FE Online Desk 2019-03-17 10:15:15

BNP has expelled its yet another 17 leaders for running in the Upazila election race violating its decision. They were also stripped even of the membership, said the party in a statement signed by it...

Overseas jobs for BD workers drop by 23pc in Jan-Feb

Overseas jobs for BD workers drop by 23pc in Jan-Feb

Arafat Ara 2019-03-17 10:05:47

The number of outbound Bangladeshi workers continues to fall over months with a significant number of expatriates returning home from abroad. According to the official data, the country's outbound jo...

PM pays homage to Bangabandhu on his 100th birthday

PM pays homage to Bangabandhu on his 100th birthday

-- 2019-03-17 09:27:21

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman heralding the nationwide programmes on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the great l...

DMP to observe traffic week every month

DMP to observe traffic week every month

-- 2019-03-16 21:52:55

The Traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has decided to observe 'Traffic Discipline Week’ every month as part of its initiative to continue improving the trend of traffic discip...

Messy Dhamalia Canal work may affect crops, lead to erosion

Messy Dhamalia Canal work may affect crops, lead to erosion

Our Correspondent 2019-03-16 21:43:36

SYLHET, Mar 16: A number of locals alleged that contractors concerned were not excavating a canal in a haor area of Biswambharpur upazila under Sunamganj district.They also expressed their disappointm...

Commercial fish farming expands in Bogura

Commercial fish farming expands in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-03-16 21:42:39

BOGURA, Mar 16: Indigenous fish farming has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of extreme poor farmers in the district.Officials at the district Fisheries Department said commercial fish cultivati...

Meherpur wall collapse kills couple

Meherpur wall collapse kills couple

-- 2019-03-16 21:28:46

A man and his wife were killed as a clay wall collapsed on them at Harirampur village in Meherpur sadar upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Md Kabatullah, 50, son of late Moksed Ali...

Maintain peaceful atmosphere on campus, PM asks DUCSU leaders

Maintain peaceful atmosphere on campus, PM asks DUCSU leaders

-- 2019-03-16 21:26:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the newly-elected DUCSU leaders to maintain peaceful atmosphere on the campus, saying that her government wants to further develop the country by utilising the t...

BNP going through a tough time: Fakhrul

BNP going through a tough time: Fakhrul

-- 2019-03-16 21:21:28

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said their party has been passing through a critical juncture due to the current government’s ‘misrule’. “BNP has...

Ex-ambassador who went missing 15 months ago returns home

Ex-ambassador who went missing 15 months ago returns home

-- 2019-03-16 21:01:23

Former ambassador to Vietnam Maroof Zaman who went missing more than 15 months ago has returned home, said police. “His daughter informed police that he returned home last night,” Abdul L...

Bangabandhu’s birthday on Sunday

Bangabandhu’s birthday on Sunday

-- 2019-03-16 19:41:41

The country is set to celebrate the 100th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Sunday. On the day in 1920, Bangabandhu, the vivacious leader of the Bangalee nation, t...

‘All educational institutions to get internet connections’

‘All educational institutions to get internet connections’

-- 2019-03-16 18:19:14

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Saturday said Bangladesh will engage with the world in a bigger way doing everything on diplomatic fronts to take the country to the next stage of...

Govt confirms two BD nationals’ deaths in NZ shootings

Govt confirms two BD nationals’ deaths in NZ shootings

-- 2019-03-16 18:12:05

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam confirmed that two Bangladeshi nationals were killed in the attack on two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch. The state minister informed...