-- 2019-02-24 17:22:38
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said over 1.2 million Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar district of the country are eating up much of forests in the area. He, however, said Bangladesh has...
-- 2019-02-24 17:15:28
Voicing deep concern over of the security of its chairperson Khaleda Zia in Old Dhaka central jail near Chawkbazar where a devastating fire has taken place, BNP on Sunday demanded her immediate releas...
-- 2019-02-24 16:45:40
Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury visited Chawkbazar fire victims at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday. During her visit, she talked to the...
-- 2019-02-24 16:11:33
Two workers were killed as a tractor overturned and fell into a ditch while climbing up a hill at Tungtunglapara in Khargachhari’s Lakkhichhara upazila on Sunday. The dead men were identified a...
-- 2019-02-24 15:07:10
Awami League (AL) has nominated its three candidates for contesting chairmen posts in three upazilas of Narail district as part of participating in third phase of upazila polls scheduled to be held on...
FE Online Desk 2019-02-24 14:40:08
The people who were responsible for the Chawkbazar fire will be brought to justice under the purview of law, the deputy commissioner (Lalbagh Zone) has said. Investigations are going on. Whoever &nda...
-- 2019-02-24 13:33:41
#Wateryouwearing, a campaign targeted to raise awareness and funds in the trajectory of access to safe drinking water has been launched in Dhaka city. Footsteps Foundation, a youth based social enter...
-- 2019-02-24 12:36:21
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the boring work of the much-awaited Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the Karnaphuli river, opening up a new horizon in the country’s co...
FE Online Desk 2019-02-24 12:26:16
Shifting of chemicals from Haji Wahed Mansion at Churihatta in Dhaka’s Chawkbazar has started for the second straight day. Owners of the warehouses started it at around 10:30 am on Sunday. Poli...
-- 2019-02-24 11:53:53
Vegetable farming on floating beds made of water hyacinth and bamboo in water bodies or ponds, is gaining popularity in different areas of Sylhet district. With support from Bangladesh Agriculture Re...
-- 2019-02-24 11:42:12
A mobile court in Khulna on Saturday sentenced a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to one-year jail for teasing a female SSC examinee at Chuknagar in Dumuria upazila. The mobile court l...
FE Online Desk 2019-02-24 11:18:11
Be it the Nimtali tragedy or the latest in Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka, neither could make local traders realise that their businesses should be relocated. They are unwilling to even admit that the chemi...
-- 2019-02-24 11:13:20
Authorities of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) rescued a newborn girl from a bathroom of its new building on Sunday morning. A woman spotted the baby inside the bathroom at around 6:00am an...
-- 2019-02-24 10:48:17
The rail communication of Rajshahi with other parts of the country was restored after six-hour disruption following derailment of a freight train near Halidagachhi station of Charghat upazila of Rajsh...
FE Report 2019-02-24 09:53:17
The country's 70.4 per cent public transport drivers have some kind of problems with their eyesight, findings of a survey revealed on Saturday. Of the 70.4 per cent drivers, some 64.66 per cent drive...
Jubair Hasan 2019-02-24 09:12:42
Dhaka South Mayor Sayeed Khokon and others helping in loading a truck with chemicals being transfered from the basement of the Hazi Wahid Manzil at the city’s Chawkbazaron Saturday — FE ph...
-- 2019-02-23 20:19:15
The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Foundation on Saturday announced to extend an interim support to the affected families and injured of Chawkbazar (Churihatta) fire incident with an am...
-- 2019-02-23 20:07:27
Two people were killed and six others injured in a road crash in Tangail’s Kalihati, as per a bdnews24.com report. The accident occurred around 4 am on Saturday on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in...
FE Online Report 2019-02-23 19:22:40
Investigators collected DNA samples of 36 people until Saturday who are relatives of the victims who died in the devastating fire at Chawkbazar on Wednesday night. Forensic officers of the Criminal I...
-- 2019-02-23 19:12:51
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said although Myanmar has agreed to take back 800,000 Rohingyas, the country is yet to create a congenial atmosphere for their repatriation. "Initiatives are under...
-- 2019-02-23 18:33:50
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday released two commemorative postage stamps, a first-day cover and a data card, marking the golden jubilee of conferring the 'Bangabandhu' title on Father of the...
-- 2019-02-23 18:03:40
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) authority has begun to remove a substantial amount of illegally stored chemicals from the basement of the Hajji Wahed Manzil building. The building took the heavie...
-- 2019-02-23 18:02:16
In the wake of devastating fire in the capital's Chawkbazar area, BNP has urged the government to allocate a specific place for chemical warehouses and its business. "Old Dhaka is a residential area....
-- 2019-02-23 17:41:59
Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal leader and former minister of industries Dilip Barua has blamed his successor, Awami League leader and former Minister of Industries Amir Hossain Amu, for the tragic fire at...
-- 2019-02-23 17:13:43
The main phase of construction work on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram is to begin Sunday. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader ann...
-- 2019-02-23 17:07:57
At least two people were killed and eight others received bullet injures in a clash between two groups over a disputed land at Bilhachua in Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua upazila on Saturday. The de...
-- 2019-02-23 16:56:52
A Rohingya youth was shot dead by some miscreants at Shalbagan Ronhigya camp of Noyapara in Teknaf on Friday night. The dead man was identified as Mohammad Hamid, 36, son of Md Hossain. Inspector of...
-- 2019-02-23 14:57:22
A man and his son were killed as a covered van rammed their motorbike at Chattogram’s Kadamtoli in the city on Friday night. The victims are - Md Sagir, 42, a grocery shop owner and his son Md...
FE Online Desk 2019-02-23 13:52:07
Though different media outlets from home and abroad reported different death tolls in the Old Dhaka fire creating a confusion, Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (BFSCD) says it is 67. The dea...
-- 2019-02-23 13:40:39
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described the decision of owners not to move chemical warehouses from Old Dhaka despite government pressure as ‘unfortunate’. A national mourning event wo...
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