-- 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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
-- 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,...
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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...
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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...
-- 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...
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-...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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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...
-- 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...
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....
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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