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Mango imports plummet as local yields keep soaring

Mango imports plummet as local yields keep soaring

FE Report 2019-03-10 10:23:05

The import of mango has declined gradually in recent years, thanks to a sustained rise in local production of the delicious tropical fruit. This trend in mango imports has thus saved millions of fore...

First phase upazila election underway

First phase upazila election underway

-- 2019-03-10 09:28:22

Voting in the election to 78 Upazila Parishads has started in the first of five phases. Started at 8:00am, it will continue till 4:00pm without any break. The size of the electorate in the 78 upazil...

15 shops gutted in Chandpur, estimated loss Tk 15m

15 shops gutted in Chandpur, estimated loss Tk 15m

-- 2019-03-09 20:46:22

At least 15 shops were burned down and 15 people sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a market in Moiddhya Baburhat in Chandpur sadar upazila on Saturday. The affected shop owners said...

‘Democracy buried on Dec 30’

‘Democracy buried on Dec 30’

-- 2019-03-09 20:33:11

Gono Forum president Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday alleged that democracy was buried in the country by holding a 'tainted and so-called' national election on December 30.  Speaking at a meeting o...

Fire at city market under control

Fire at city market under control

-- 2019-03-09 20:21:55

A fire that broke out at 'Anarkali Super Market' in the city's Mouchak area on Saturday afternoon was brought under control after 30 minutes of frantic effort. The fire originated on the third floor...

11 AL men face jail term over electoral code violation in Rajshahi

11 AL men face jail term over electoral code violation in Rajshahi

-- 2019-03-09 20:15:44

A Rajshahi mobile court on Saturday sentenced 11 Awami League men, including a municipality mayor, to five-day imprisonment each for violating electoral code of conduct in Durgapur upazila of the dist...

17,208 land ministry officials submit wealth info

17,208 land ministry officials submit wealth info

-- 2019-03-09 19:47:35

A total of 17,208 employees of different offices under the Land Ministry submitted their wealth statements as per the instruction of the land minister. Out of 17,576, some 368 employees could not sub...

Information minister urges BNP to join local polls

Information minister urges BNP to join local polls

-- 2019-03-09 19:40:39

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has urged BNP to join the local government elections without making the Election Commission (EC) and the elections questionable. “I think that the countryme...

Separate road crashes leave seven dead in four districts

Separate road crashes leave seven dead in four districts

-- 2019-03-09 19:24:59

At least seven people died and nine others were injured in separate road accidents in Barishal, Dinajpur, Narail and Bogura on Saturday. In Bogura, a car collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw killin...

Purbachal to be liveable by December, minister hopes

Purbachal to be liveable by December, minister hopes

-- 2019-03-09 19:08:35

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim is hopeful of making the Purbachal housing project liveable by December of this year through ensuring all public services. “Various obstacles d...

Women Leadership Summit held in city

Women Leadership Summit held in city

-- 2019-03-09 19:03:48

The 4th edition of Women Leadership Summit promoting women empowerment and aspiring for gender-balanced future was held in the city on Saturday. With the theme 'creative leadership through diversity'...

185,286 women received legal help through national helpline

185,286 women received legal help through national helpline

-- 2019-03-09 18:50:01

A total of 185,286 women, subjected to physical and mental tortures, have received legal help through toll-free national helpline ‘16430’ since launching of the service in 2016. Revealing...

Fire at Anarkali Market in Mouchak

Fire at Anarkali Market in Mouchak

-- 2019-03-09 18:22:12

A fire broke out at the Anarkali Market in the city’s Mouchak area on Saturday. The fire originated from third floor of the five-storey building around 5:20pm, said Kamrul Hasan, duty officer o...

CEC’s comments prove election was rigged: BNP  

CEC’s comments prove election was rigged: BNP  

-- 2019-03-09 18:20:58

BNP said the recent comments made by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda prove the vote rigging allegations raised by the Jatiya Okayfront is true, according to bdnews24.com. “The C...

Law enforcers only fire in self-defence, home minister says

Law enforcers only fire in self-defence, home minister says

-- 2019-03-09 18:04:55

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday defended deaths during alleged cross fires, saying law enforcement agencies only fire in self-defence during anti-drug drives. "Many civil society members c...

Papaya farming gains popularity in Panchagarh

Papaya farming gains popularity in Panchagarh

-- 2019-03-09 17:49:29

Papaya framing has been gaining popularity among farmers in the district for last few years as many farmers found the occupation as an important source of income generation leading to their economic s...

JCC satisfied over RNPP construction progress

JCC satisfied over RNPP construction progress

-- 2019-03-09 17:47:14

Bangladesh-Russia Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) has expressed their satisfaction over construction progress of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP). They made the expression at the 4th meeting of...

‘Purbachal to be built as modern city’

‘Purbachal to be built as modern city’

-- 2019-03-09 17:29:43

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Saturday said the government is taking various initiatives to build Purbachal as a modern city. “As part of expansion of Dhaka city, Purbach...

Customs officials seize six gold bars at Chattogram airport

Customs officials seize six gold bars at Chattogram airport

-- 2019-03-09 16:55:22

Customs officials recovered six gold bars, weighing 60 tolas, from the rectum a passenger at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram Saturday. Jamal Uddin, who arrived in the port city by a f...

Create mass awareness to end violence against women: PM

Create mass awareness to end violence against women: PM

-- 2019-03-09 14:28:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put emphasis on creating mass awareness in society to eliminate discriminations and violence against women saying that only enacting laws is not enough to get this don...

24-hr restriction on movement inside DU

24-hr restriction on movement inside DU

FE Online Desk 2019-03-09 13:35:43

A 24-hour restriction has been imposed on the movement inside Dhaka University for its central students'union election. The restriction will come into effect at 6:00 pm on Sunday and it will continue...

Bus hits human hauler in Barishal, killing woman

Bus hits human hauler in Barishal, killing woman

-- 2019-03-09 13:01:45

A bus crashed into a human-hauler on Barishal-Patuakhali highway in Rupatoli area on Saturday morning, leaving a woman dead and three other people injured. The deceased has been identified as Renu Be...

Nasrul Hamid’s Facebook page, email hacked

Nasrul Hamid’s Facebook page, email hacked

-- 2019-03-09 12:45:43

The Facebook page of State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has been hacked, soon after a similar incident involving the page of the minister of industries. In addition t...

WB approves $165m grant for Rohingyas

WB approves $165m grant for Rohingyas

-- 2019-03-09 12:35:20

The World Bank has approved a $165million grant to help Bangladesh provide basic services and build disaster and social resilience for the Rohingyas who fled violence in Myanmar and took shelter in Te...

RAB detains one with 13,430 Yaba pills in Chattogram

RAB detains one with 13,430 Yaba pills in Chattogram

-- 2019-03-09 12:11:00

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a suspected drug trader along with 13,430 pieces of Yaba pills from a hotel in Chattogram’s Station Road area under Kotwali thana on F...

Quader talks to doctors, relatives: Ministry

Quader talks to doctors, relatives: Ministry

FE Online Desk 2019-03-09 12:00:25

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has talked to doctors and relatives after he was taken off the breathing tube on Saturday morning. He may be shifted to a cabin from the coronary ca...

China says working utmost to get trade deal with US

China says working utmost to get trade deal with US

-- 2019-03-09 11:21:45

China and the United States are still working day and night to achieve a trade deal that matches the interests of both sides and the hopes of the world, including eliminating tit-for-tat tariffs, a se...

Buriganga boat capsize: Divers recover four more bodies

Buriganga boat capsize: Divers recover four more bodies

-- 2019-03-09 11:08:34

Bodies of four other people, who went missing in a boat capsize in the Buriganga River on Thursday, were recovered on Saturday, raising the death toll from the incident to five. The deceased were ide...

Weekly analysis: Stocks extend loss amid liquidity shortage

Weekly analysis: Stocks extend loss amid liquidity shortage

Babul Barman 2019-03-09 10:13:02

Stocks ended lower for the sixth straight weeks that ended Thursday amid dull trading as investors continued their selling binge on sector-wise shares. Market analysts said majority investors were re...

Energy sector warrants priority attention: WB

Energy sector warrants priority attention: WB

Syful Islam 2019-03-09 10:10:15

The World Bank (WB) conducts a mid-term review of the implementation progress of its ongoing Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with Bangladesh tomorrow (Sunday), officials say. In the review meet...