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-- 2019-02-15 14:06:44
Two more devotees died of cardiac arrest at Biswa Ijtema venue in Tongi on Friday. With these, the death toll at the Ijtema venue rose to four this year. The deceased were identified as Shafiqur Rah...
-- 2019-02-15 13:06:33
Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest Muslim congregations in the world, began on the bank of the Turag River at Tongi in Gazipur after Fazr prayers on Friday. Ijtema began with "Aambayan" (general sermon...
-- 2019-02-15 12:48:01
A fire gutted raw materials of a textile factory in its godown in Tongi's Badam area in Gazipur on Thursday night. Senior Station Officer of Tongi Fire Service and Civil Defense, Atiqur Rahman said t...
-- 2019-02-15 12:41:48
Barrister Abdur Razzaq has resigned from the Jamaat-e-Islami citing its failure to apologise for its anti-liberation role and reform party charter. The top leader of the Islamist party, who held the...
FE Report 2019-02-15 12:22:56
The government is drafting a master plan to initially protect the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Sitalakhya and Balu in Dhaka and the Karnaphuli in Chattogram from pollution and encroachment. As part of the...
-- 2019-02-15 11:56:18
A college student was killed and another injured in an attack by a young man at Bangabandhu Udyan in Barishal city on Thursday. The dead man was identified as Rubel Hossain, 1st year student of Braja...
-- 2019-02-15 11:42:06
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two Rohingyas along with 14,000 yaba pills from Balukhali in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila on Thursday. The arrestees are Sohel, 21, son of...
FE Online Report 2019-02-14 22:46:40
A textile mill in Tongi, Annetect Fabrics, caught fire on Thursday night, said several television channels. Eight fire fighting units are working to bring the fire under control, till the filing of t...
FE Report 2019-02-14 22:28:40
A three-day food and hospitality fair began in the city on Thursday to showcase exotic traditional Bangladeshi foods for promoting culinary tourism to both local and international tourists. The fair...
Roving Correspondent 2019-02-14 21:11:32
JOYPURHAT, Feb 14: Fair market price of newly harvested mustard seeds is making hundreds of marginal farmers happy in Joypurhat district. The farmers are passing busy time harvesting mustard seeds wi...
Our Correspondent 2019-02-14 21:10:38
SYLHET, Feb 14: With a target to raising the paddy yield in Sylhet division, irrigation facilities would be provided for a total of 2,46,969 hectares of Boro land this season by using a total of 36,97...
Our Correspondent 2019-02-14 21:09:10
BOGURA, Feb 14: With prevailing favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agro-input, bumper lentil output likely in Bogura this season. During sowing seeds, Bangladesh Agriculture...
FE Online Report 2019-02-14 21:08:04
Some 147 new books were introduced at Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela on Thursday, the fourteenth day of the month-long book fair. With the latest additions, a total of 1,969 books were released until Febr...
FE Online Report 2019-02-14 20:37:16
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Thursday lodged cases against eight businesses including petrol pumps in Gazipur and Tangail districts on charge of weight and measurement manipu...
FE Online Report 2019-02-14 19:36:56
The fire at Shaheed Suhrwardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar was brought under control around 10.15PM. 16 fire fighting units of Fire Service and Civil Defence managed...
-- 2019-02-14 18:11:04
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has instructed returning and assistant returning officers to carry out their duties impartially in the Upazila polls. “You have to bear in mind t...
-- 2019-02-14 17:55:13
Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tazul Islam said that a 10-year master plan has been taken to increase navigability of rivers around Dhaka and the Karnaphuli river of Chattog...
-- 2019-02-14 17:35:43
The Dhaka South City Corporation's (DSCC's) decision to construct a floor above the single-storey extended part of the New Market was declared illegal by the High Court on Thursday. Justice Sheikh Ha...
-- 2019-02-14 17:27:56
Myanmar keeps distorting facts showing Bangladesh’s St Martin’s Island as part of its territory in Myanmar's government maps prompting Dhaka to react sharply and lodge a strong protest off...
-- 2019-02-14 16:56:50
All pillars including electricity poles that are dangerously located on roads and highways will have to be removed, the High Court has said. The order must be implemented within 60 days, said Justice...
-- 2019-02-14 16:42:09
Two people were crushed under wheels of separate trains in Shewra rail line area in Dhaka on Thursday. One of the deceased was identified as Arafat Hossain, 45. Nazrul Islam, in-charge of Dhaka Airp...
-- 2019-02-14 12:36:38
A new study has warned that the Sundarbans' famed 'Royal Bengal Tigers' could be gone within 50 years, especially from the Bangladeshi part, because of constant rise in sea levels and climate change....
-- 2019-02-14 12:07:49
Police have recovered two bodies from Laxmipur and Chapainawabganj districts in the last 24 hours. In Laxmipur, law enforcers have recovered the bullet-riddled body of a convicted fugitive robber fr...
-- 2019-02-14 11:37:32
Two people were killed and eight others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Shialdangi village in Rajbari’s Pangsha upazila in the early hours of Thursday. The dead were identif...
FE Report 2019-02-14 10:30:03
Experts have identified several challenges to ensuring healthy diets for all age groups in Bangladesh, including an increase in consumption of healthy foods and a cut in consumption of some processe...
-- 2019-02-14 10:13:27
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka Thursday morning for Germany in her maiden overseas tour in the third consecutive term in office which would take her to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well...
FE Report 2019-02-14 10:12:48
Export earnings from the country's service sector swelled up by more than 50 per cent during the July-December period or first half (H1) of this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, over the corresponding per...
M Azizur Rahman 2019-02-14 10:00:15
The authorities are expected to start large-scale coal import by August this year to run US$ 1.98 billion Payra power plant in Patuakhaili in southern Bangladesh. The Bangladesh-China Power Company...
Roving Correspondent 2019-02-13 20:49:31
NATORE, Feb 13: Due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agro-input, peasants in Natore district cultivating cucumber, locally known as Khira, are happy. Getting both fair m...
-- 2019-02-13 20:48:14
RANGPUR, Feb 13 (BSS): The farmers are happy witnessing excellent blooming in their litchi trees amid favorable climatic condition with advent of the spring on the eve of departure of the winter in Ra...
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