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Normalcy returns at Suhrawardy

Normalcy returns at Suhrawardy

FE Online Report 2019-02-16 19:04:27

Day-to-day operations at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital have partly resumed after the Thursday’s devastating fire. Out of 16 wards of the public hospital, 15 are now fully func...

DMP arrests 44 for selling, consuming drugs in city

DMP arrests 44 for selling, consuming drugs in city

-- 2019-02-16 18:54:40

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 44 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the ongoing anti-narcotics drives in the capital in last 24 hours till 6:00 Saturday. Detective Bra...

Child protection at Rohingya camps in focus

Child protection at Rohingya camps in focus

-- 2019-02-16 18:28:31

As children face ‘serious protection risks’, including psychosocial distress, neglect, abuse, separation from caregivers, sexual violence, child marriage and labour, child protection syste...

HAAB announces private hajj package

HAAB announces private hajj package

-- 2019-02-16 17:36:54

The Hajj Agencies Association Of Bangladesh (Haab) has announced private hajj package-2019, fixing Tk 3,45,800 as minimum cost for each pilgrim. HAAB Secretary General M Shahadat Hossain made the ann...

Govt alert over digital transaction

Govt alert over digital transaction

-- 2019-02-16 17:30:36

Planning Minister MA Mannan on Saturday said the government is always ready and alert to face the security concerns over digital transaction and mobile banking. “We’re trying to face such...

Waiting to see Jamaat’s plan: Quader

Waiting to see Jamaat’s plan: Quader

-- 2019-02-16 17:16:24

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says he is waiting to see if Abdur Razzaq’s resignation from Jamaat-e-Islami is part of some party strategy before taking any further steps on the m...

Syed Ashraf’s sister Zakia Nur takes oath as MP

Syed Ashraf’s sister Zakia Nur takes oath as MP

-- 2019-02-16 16:32:32

Syeda Zakia Nur, sister of late Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, on Saturday took oath as a member of the 11th parliament from Kishoreganj-1 constituency. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin...

Cops recover RMG worker’s bullet-riddled body

Cops recover RMG worker’s bullet-riddled body

-- 2019-02-16 16:17:16

Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of a garment worker from Savar’s Ashulia in the early hours of Saturday. The dead man was Russel Khan, 27, son of Fazlu Khan and a worker of 'Manta Appa...

Collaboration key to ensuring digital financial inclusion: Speakers

Collaboration key to ensuring digital financial inclusion: Speakers

FE Online Report 2019-02-16 15:32:19

Collaboration among the stakeholders, including regulators, financial institutions, telecom operators and customers is the key to ensuring digital financial inclusion in the country, speakers said at...

CWASA to launch water supply project in June

CWASA to launch water supply project in June

Pankaj Dastider 2019-02-16 14:42:58

Chittagong WASA has finally undertaken its most profitable water supply project targeting thriving industrial zones, existing industrial plants and proposed economic zones in the south of the Karnaphu...

Over 100 Yaba traders surrender to police in Cox’s Bazar 

Over 100 Yaba traders surrender to police in Cox’s Bazar 

-- 2019-02-16 13:53:30

Over 100 Yaba traders, including 10 relatives of former MP Abdur Rahman Bodi, who had been kept at a police safe house, formally surrendered to police on Saturday. The surrender programme began at Pi...

Worker burns to death in Chattogram

Worker burns to death in Chattogram

-- 2019-02-16 13:45:45

A worker was burned to death as a fire broke out in a paper mill in Kalurghat BSCIC industrial area of Chattogram city in the early hours of Saturday. The dead man was identified as Arman, 19, a work...

No gas for 24 hours in parts of Dhaka

No gas for 24 hours in parts of Dhaka

-- 2019-02-16 13:33:53

The gas supply to homes and CNG filling stations in Dhaka’s Azimpur, Dhanmondi and Mipur will be turned off for 24 hours for repairs. The Titas Gas Transmission and Supply Company announced the...

BIWTA chairman gets transfer order

BIWTA chairman gets transfer order

Ismail Hossain 2019-02-16 12:54:36

Commodore Mohammad Mozammel Haque, was withdrawn from the post of chairman of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Thursday and was sent back to the Bangladesh Navy. The transfer o...

Police arrest two over Eden College ex-principal murder

Police arrest two over Eden College ex-principal murder

-- 2019-02-16 11:55:09

Police arrested two people in connection with the murder of former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin from Dhaka city's Mirpur and Netrokona district on Friday. The arrestees a...

RAB detains two with 3,640 yaba tablets

RAB detains two with 3,640 yaba tablets

-- 2019-02-16 11:42:14

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug pedlars with 3,640 yaba tablets from Ranihati Bazar area under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday. The arrestees were identified as A...

Age limit for govt jobs to be 35 from March: Obaidul

Age limit for govt jobs to be 35 from March: Obaidul

-- 2019-02-16 11:40:52

Awami League (AL) Secretary General Obaidul Quader has said the government is planning to announce 35 years to be the maximum age for applying for government jobs. "An announcement in this regard wil...

Dhaka condemns Kashmir attack on Indian troops

Dhaka condemns Kashmir attack on Indian troops

-- 2019-02-16 11:28:17

Bangladesh has strongly condemned the dastardly terrorist attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir state in northern India. "On behalf of the people and the go...

Suhrawardy Hospital lacks basic fire-safety measures

Suhrawardy Hospital lacks basic fire-safety measures

Jubair Hasan 2019-02-16 10:16:53

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital has no minimum fire safety measures, which hampered fire-dousing operations in Thursday's inferno. To avert any possible event of fire, the state-run B...

Move underway to promote rural microenterprises involving $190m

Move underway to promote rural microenterprises involving $190m

FE Report 2019-02-16 10:12:12

The government has taken a move to promote microenterprises across the country involving US$ 190 million. The new initiative aims to promote microenterprises in different rural areas, said a senior...

HSIA re-opens green, red channels

HSIA re-opens green, red channels

FE Report 2019-02-16 10:01:32

Customs Department of National Board of Revenue (NBR) has re-opened green and red channels at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) aiming to facilitate trade and passenger traffic and impro...

Rohingya crisis: UN aid agencies, NGOs appeal for US$ 920m

Rohingya crisis: UN aid agencies, NGOs appeal for US$ 920m

FE Report 2019-02-16 09:57:59

United Nations aid agencies and NGO partners launched on Friday the 2019 Joint Response Plan (JRP) to tackle the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. The appeal seeks to raise USD920 million to meet the m...

Poet Al Mahmud passes away

Poet Al Mahmud passes away

-- 2019-02-16 09:25:35

Poet Al Mahmud has died at a hospital in Dhaka at the age of 82. He breathed his last at the Ibn Sina Hospital at 11:05 pm on Friday, Abid Azam, an aide to the poet, said. The poet had been sufferin...

‘Egg-plant bomb’ scare grips Chittagong University

‘Egg-plant bomb’ scare grips Chittagong University

-- 2019-02-15 20:44:28

Chittagong University students and authorities spent a sleepless night on Thursday as they mistook an egg-plant as a bomb. Witnesses said panic spread to such extent that first police and then the b...

PM seeks more engagement of WHO for universal health services

PM seeks more engagement of WHO for universal health services

-- 2019-02-15 20:29:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid importance on more engagement of the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure universal health services for all. “As a global leader, the WHO needs to be...

BGB charges three including two killed in Thakurgaon clash

BGB charges three including two killed in Thakurgaon clash

-- 2019-02-15 19:31:00

Two men, killed in Tuesday's clash with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Thakurgaon, were named in a case filed by BGB on Thursday night. Nayeb Subedar Ziaur Rahman, company commander of the district...

272 new books unveiled at Boi Mela on Friday

272 new books unveiled at Boi Mela on Friday

FE Online Report 2019-02-15 18:39:40

Some 272 new books were unveiled at Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela on Friday, the fifteenth day of the month-long book fair. With the latest additions, a total of 2,241 books were released until February...

Govt imposed autocracy in name of democracy: BNP

Govt imposed autocracy in name of democracy: BNP

-- 2019-02-15 18:04:08

BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday alleged that the government has imposed an autocratic role in the country undercover of democracy. "The government has established an unwritten one-pa...

RAB arrests man with arms in C’nawabganj

RAB arrests man with arms in C’nawabganj

-- 2019-02-15 15:14:16

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man along with firearms from Baliadighi in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj in the early hours of Friday. The arrestee is Senaul Islam, 44, son o...

BNP trying hard to make Dec-30 election questionable: PM   

BNP trying hard to make Dec-30 election questionable: PM   

-- 2019-02-15 14:37:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said BNP had an evil intention to make the 2018 general election questionable and they are still trying to do so. "Their [BNP’s] intention was to make the Dec-3...