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DNCC by-election on February 28

DNCC by-election on February 28

-- 2019-01-22 18:36:53

The mayoral by-election to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will be held on February 28. The election to the Kishoreganj-1 parliamentary constituency, which has fallen vacant after the death o...

ACC evicts brick kilns in Singair for polluting environment

ACC evicts brick kilns in Singair for polluting environment

FE Online Report 2019-01-22 18:24:09

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday evicted two brick kilns at Singair Upazila in Manikganj on grounds of illegal operation, destruction of agricultural lands and affecting public health. A t...

DMP arrest 61 with contraband substance

DMP arrest 61 with contraband substance

FE Online Report 2019-01-22 17:35:32

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special drive arrested 61 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming contraband substance. A special team of DMP, comprising members De...

‘BSF’ shoots down another Bangladeshi in Thakurgaon

‘BSF’ shoots down another Bangladeshi in Thakurgaon

-- 2019-01-22 17:19:46

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the border in Haripur upazila on Tuesday, four days after the killing of another man by the BSF t...

ECNEC clears Jatrabari-Demra highway four-lane project

ECNEC clears Jatrabari-Demra highway four-lane project

-- 2019-01-22 17:11:52

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project to upgrade Jatrabari-Demra road into four-lane one. The approval came from the first ECNEC meeting of the newly...

Woman ‘slaughters’ husband in Chattogram

Woman ‘slaughters’ husband in Chattogram

-- 2019-01-22 17:09:15

A man was slaughtered allegedly by his wife at Dewanpur village in Chattogram’s Mirsharai upazila in the early hours of Tuesday. The victim was identified as Sonatan Mazumder Prokash Sanak, 45,...

Schoolboy dies in Ctg road crash

Schoolboy dies in Ctg road crash

-- 2019-01-22 16:47:09

A teenager has died in a road accident while on his way to school in Chattogram’s Dhanialapara. Kazi Mahmudur Rahman, an eighth grader, was killed when the tempo he was travelling on collided h...

31 Rohingyas ‘taken back’ by BSF from no man’s land

31 Rohingyas ‘taken back’ by BSF from no man’s land

-- 2019-01-22 16:27:36

Thirty-one Rohingya refugees, who were waiting near the border at Brahmanbaria’s Kasba to enter Bangladesh from India, were taken back by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday mor...

ECNEC approves eight projects worth Tk 18.93b

ECNEC approves eight projects worth Tk 18.93b

-- 2019-01-22 15:15:00

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved eight projects involving an estimated cost of over Tk 18.93 billion. The approval came from the first ECNEC meetin...

5,637 CNG-run auto-rickshaws get registrations in 2018

5,637 CNG-run auto-rickshaws get registrations in 2018

FE Online Report 2019-01-22 15:13:46

A total of 5,637 CNG-run auto-rickshaws were registered in Dhaka city in 2018 - a year when all of such vehicles manufactured in 2002 or earlier were also dismantled. A year before, in 2017, 42 auto-...

RAB arrests man with firearms, bombs in Manikganj

RAB arrests man with firearms, bombs in Manikganj

-- 2019-01-22 14:48:12

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a man along with a pistol, two rounds of bullet, four Molotov bombs and 10 crude bombs from Bhakum village in Singair upazila of Manikganj i...

President mourns Bulbul’s death

President mourns Bulbul’s death

-- 2019-01-22 14:02:04

President Md Abdul Hamid has mourned the death of music composer and freedom fighter Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul. "The death of Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul is a great loss for culture in our country. He will forever...

Expedite projects maintaining quality: PM

Expedite projects maintaining quality: PM

-- 2019-01-22 13:31:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed all concerned to implement various projects in a faster manner, maintaining the quality and standard of works and strengthen monitoring in this regard. The...

RAB detain Mahila Dal leader over FB posts

RAB detain Mahila Dal leader over FB posts

-- 2019-01-22 13:04:51

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have arrested a Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal leader from Chattogram city over posting 'provocative remarks against the state and law enforcement agencies' on her face...

RAB arrests ‘militant’ from C’nawabganj den

RAB arrests ‘militant’ from C’nawabganj den

-- 2019-01-22 12:52:30

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a suspected militant from a militant den at Shibnarayanpur village in Kansat union of Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. The...

Ctg customs to introduce PAPS for expediting trade flow

Ctg customs to introduce PAPS for expediting trade flow

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 11:02:41

Chittagong Customs House will introduce Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS) to expedite the flow of trade as well as check smuggling of contraband goods into the country through the Chittagong Port....

NID server down since Thursday

NID server down since Thursday

Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad 2019-01-22 10:59:18

The country's NID (national identity) server has been down for the last few days, seriously affecting service delivery of the key government agencies, officials and service recipients have said. Acco...

Resettle Rohingya elsewhere in the world, Bangladesh tells UN

Resettle Rohingya elsewhere in the world, Bangladesh tells UN

FE Report 2019-01-22 10:56:03

Bangladesh has made a proposal to the United Nations for resettling some of the Rohingya refugees staying in Bangladesh in different parts of the world. "I have told the UNHCR that the UN secretary...

Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul dies at 62

Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul dies at 62

-- 2019-01-22 09:30:45

Leading musician Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, who was also a freedom fighter, has died at the age of 63. Bulbul suffered a heart attack at his residence at Aftabnagar in the capital on Tuesday and was taken...

Amnura by-pass rly station faces closure

Amnura by-pass rly station faces closure

Our Correspondent 2019-01-21 20:45:39

RAJSHAHI, Jan 21: Just 19-month after its inauguration, Amnura by-pass railway station under west zone railway in Rajshahi is going to be closed. Already an official letter to close the rail station h...

Tomato farming changes fate of poor farmers in Bogura

Tomato farming changes fate of poor farmers in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-01-21 20:44:43

BOGURA, Jan 21: With noticeable assistance of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) tomato farming has changed fate of hundreds of poor farmers in Bogura district. Getting repeated bumper produ...

Gopalganj growers expect good yield of BARI Mustard -14

Gopalganj growers expect good yield of BARI Mustard -14

Our Correspondent 2019-01-21 20:43:39

GOPALGANJ, Jan 21: Farmers of Suktail Union under Sadar Upazila of the district are excepting a bumper production of BARI Mustard -14 this year. Subal Kirtania (70), a farmer of village Suchidanga...

40pc govt doctors remain absent at workplace

40pc govt doctors remain absent at workplace

FE Online Report 2019-01-21 19:17:18

Nearly 40 per cent doctors at different public hospitals and health centres in the country remain absent from their duties during working hours, said the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday. A...

President praises Navy

President praises Navy

-- 2019-01-21 19:08:02

President Abdul Hamid on Monday said the country's naval force is now more capable to face any challenge in the defence sector. The President said this when outgoing Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Moha...

UNHCR to help BD find lasting solution to Rohingya crisis

UNHCR to help BD find lasting solution to Rohingya crisis

-- 2019-01-21 18:43:25

Newly-appointed UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh Steven Corliss on Monday said he would devote his full efforts to support Bangladesh in protecting and finding a lasting solution to the Rohingya cri...

Water from five companies unsafe to drink: BSTI

Water from five companies unsafe to drink: BSTI

-- 2019-01-21 18:16:55

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) said to a court that five companies permitted to sell water in bottles and jars provide ‘unhealthy and undrinkable water’. Accordin...

Canal grabbers won’t be spared:Khokon

Canal grabbers won’t be spared:Khokon

-- 2019-01-21 18:08:18

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Monday warned the canal grabbers, saying none of them will be spared. "Land grabbers, whoever they are, will not be let off the hook," he said whil...

Quotas for disabled people to remain unchanged

Quotas for disabled people to remain unchanged

-- 2019-01-21 17:59:47

The quota system for people with disabilities has remained unchanged, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammed Shafiul Alam on Monday.   Alam said it while briefing reporters after the first cabinet meet...

Vegetable consumption poor in five years

Vegetable consumption poor in five years

-- 2019-01-21 17:46:40

Although vegetable production increased by 35.24 per cent over the last five years (from 2013-14 to 2017-18 FY) in the country, the consumption rate is still poor for various reasons, including its hi...

Newborn dies due to ‘negligence’ at Mymensing clinic

Newborn dies due to ‘negligence’ at Mymensing clinic

-- 2019-01-21 17:40:21

A newborn died due to reported negligence at a private clinic in Krishtapur of Mymensingh on Monday. Harun-or-Rashid, a resident of Kolyanpur village in Sadar Upazila, said his wife Jannat Begum was...