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Police recover abducted minor’s body in Manikganj

Police recover abducted minor’s body in Manikganj

-- 2019-01-20 13:08:00

Police recovered the body of a minor boy from a lemon orchard at Jalsuka village in Saturia upazila of Manikganj on Sunday morning three days after his abduction. The deceased was identified as Jubay...

UP chairman gets seven days in jail for digging pond illegally

UP chairman gets seven days in jail for digging pond illegally

-- 2019-01-20 12:33:13

A mobile court has sentenced a union parishad chairman to seven-day imprisonment for digging a pond in a piece of cultivable land in Tiorkuri Beel of Durgapur upazila in Rajshahi. The convict is Riaz...

Free country from corruption, drug abuse, militancy: PM

Free country from corruption, drug abuse, militancy: PM

-- 2019-01-20 12:32:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the home ministry to work with greater attention to root out drug abuse, terrorism, militancy, and corruption from the country as that is the necessity of time....

Suspected drug pedlar dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

Suspected drug pedlar dies in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-01-20 12:04:13

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with the law enforcers in Jaliapara area of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Sunday. The deceased was identified as...

Export earnings from jute, jute goods fall 26pc in H1

Export earnings from jute, jute goods fall 26pc in H1

Yasir Wardad 2019-01-20 10:59:44

Export earnings from jute and jute goods declined by 26 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal year (July-December 2018) compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year (FY). The s...

RAB arrests Holey Artisan attack fugitive

RAB arrests Holey Artisan attack fugitive

-- 2019-01-20 10:24:12

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) says the militant arrested from a bus in Gazipur’s Tongi area has been identified as absconding Holey Artisan attack suspect Mamunur Rashid Ripon. The elite force&r...

Kamal Hossain off to Singapore for treatment

Kamal Hossain off to Singapore for treatment

-- 2019-01-20 10:17:24

Jatiya Oikya Front Convener Dr Kamal Hossain, also president of Gono Forum, flew to Singapore on Saturday night for medical purposes. Along with his wife Hameeda Hossain, he left the Hazrat Shahjalal...

EC sets upazila polls spending at Tk 6.77b

EC sets upazila polls spending at Tk 6.77b

Jubair Hasan 2019-01-20 09:29:54

The election authorities have estimated the cost at Tk 6.77 billion (677 crore) for holding the upcoming fifth upazila (UZ) council polls across the country. According to officials concerned, nearly...

Rohingyas waiting at border as India push them out

Rohingyas waiting at border as India push them out

-- 2019-01-19 20:46:50

More Rohingyas are waiting to enter Bangladesh through Brahmanbaria’s Kasba border from India amid fears of deportation to Myanmar. “As many as 31 Rohingya women, men and children have ga...

Plum cultivators happy with output, fair price in Natore

Plum cultivators happy with output, fair price in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-19 20:26:03

NATORE, Jan 19: A good number of plum cultivators of Gurudaspur upazila in Natore district are happy over bumper output and fair market price this season.Meanwhile, the cultivation of Baukul, Thai plu...

Pedestrian dies in Ctg train accident

Pedestrian dies in Ctg train accident

-- 2019-01-19 20:03:17

A pedestrian was killed as a city-bound train from Chittagong University hit him in Nasirabad area on Saturday afternoon. The dead man was identified as Shahin Alam, 45, son of Nur Alam, an inhabita...

Another woman falls victim to 'gang rape' in Noakhali

Another woman falls victim to 'gang rape' in Noakhali

-- 2019-01-19 19:13:54

Another woman fell victim to gang rape in Noakhali on Saturday, a few days after the Subarnachar upazila’s occurrence on the night following national election day. The heinous act was committed...

DMP arrests 62 during anti-drug drives in city

DMP arrests 62 during anti-drug drives in city

-- 2019-01-19 19:09:26

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) attested 62 people in 24 hours from the capital for selling and consuming drugs. They were apprehended between 6:00am Friday and 6:00am Saturday during the DMP's speci...

Death by mob beating decreased in 2018: Report

Death by mob beating decreased in 2018: Report

FE Online Report 2019-01-19 18:06:47

Incidents of killing by mob beating across the country decreased significantly in 2018 compared to the period of 2017, according to a report by an independent rights body. As many as 37 people were k...

Miscreants kill two people in Khulna

Miscreants kill two people in Khulna

-- 2019-01-19 17:50:29

Two people were killed by unidentified criminals last night in Sonadanga Bus Stand area under Sonadanga Model Police Station in Khulna city. The victims are Akter Hossain, 55, owner of an Engineering...

Total lunar eclipse Monday

Total lunar eclipse Monday

-- 2019-01-19 17:45:30

A total eclipse of the moon will occur on Monday (January 21), according to a statement issued by ISPR on Saturday. It said this eclipse will start at 08 hours 36 minutes 30 seconds Bangladesh Stand...

Law enforcers nab 12 in Netrokona, Jashore

Law enforcers nab 12 in Netrokona, Jashore

-- 2019-01-19 17:33:17

Twelve people were arrested in anti-narcotics drives in Netrokona and Jashore on Saturday. In Netrakona, police arrested 11 people from Sadar upazila, said Sadar Model Police Station's in-charge Borh...

Shaheed Asad Day Sunday

Shaheed Asad Day Sunday

-- 2019-01-19 17:22:37

The nation will observe the 50th anniversary of martyrdom of Shaheed Asaduzzaman Asad tomorrow (Sunday). Asad was gunned down by police on January 20 triggering the 1969 mass upheaval that toppled th...

Govt to work for all, has no partisan mindset: PM

Govt to work for all, has no partisan mindset: PM

-- 2019-01-19 17:21:28

Expressing gratitude to the countrymen for giving mandate to form government for the third consecutive time, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced to ensure balanced development for all irrespect...

DMP realises over Tk 2.08m in fines from traffic offenders

DMP realises over Tk 2.08m in fines from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2019-01-19 16:35:30

The Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday realised over Tk 2.083 million in fines from traffic offenders. In simultaneous drives on the city streets conducted on the day,...

AL celebrates victory to hide moral defeat: Fakhrul

AL celebrates victory to hide moral defeat: Fakhrul

-- 2019-01-19 16:35:08

BNP on Saturday alleged that the ruling party is celebrating its victory to divert people's attention from 'vote rigging' in the December-30 election. "They (AL) are celebrating the victory to hide t...

Cumilla road crash leaves bus supervisor, helper dead

Cumilla road crash leaves bus supervisor, helper dead

-- 2019-01-19 16:30:03

A bus supervisor and a driver's assistant were killed in a collision involving three vehicles on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Daudkandi Upazila's Iliatganj in Cumilla on Saturday. The victims were...

Law enforcers recover arms, ammo in city

Law enforcers recover arms, ammo in city

-- 2019-01-19 16:27:18

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) recovered numerous firearms and ammunition from a Baridhara DOHS house in Dhaka city on Thursday. The team...

AL victory rally underway

AL victory rally underway

-- 2019-01-19 16:08:33

The grand rally of Awami League is underway at the Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on Saturday, 19 days after the 11th national parliamentary election. The ruling party has arranged the programme, marki...

Mystery of Uttara weapons cache unresolved even after 2.5 years

Mystery of Uttara weapons cache unresolved even after 2.5 years

-- 2019-01-19 14:55:07

The mystery of the huge weapons cache found in a canal in Dhaka’s Uttara has yet to be solved even though two-and-a-half years have passed by since it was discovered. “Those involved with...

Housewife ‘burnt to death’ in Bhola

Housewife ‘burnt to death’ in Bhola

-- 2019-01-19 14:25:22

A housewife was reportedly burnt to death while her sister and niece received burn injuries as miscreants set fire on their room at Kharakandi village in Lalmohan upazila of Bhola in the early hours o...

BNP pays homage to Zia on 83rd birth anniversary

BNP pays homage to Zia on 83rd birth anniversary

-- 2019-01-19 14:24:33

BNP on Saturday paid homage to its founder Ziaur Rahman on the occasion of his 83rd birth anniversary. BNP leaders and activists led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir placed wreath...

Police recover two hanging bodies in Khulna

Police recover two hanging bodies in Khulna

-- 2019-01-19 14:11:24

Police have recovered two hanging bodies of two people from a house in Sonadanga Bus Terminal area in Khulna district. The deceased were identified as Md Akhter Hossain, 45, son of Shamsuddin, hailin...

Ershad to fly to Singapore for treatment Sunday

Ershad to fly to Singapore for treatment Sunday

-- 2019-01-19 14:00:51

Jatiya Party Chairman and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament HM Ershad is going to Singapore for medical checkup on Sunday. Ershad along with his younger brother Hossain Morshed, his wife Roksana...

DB detain man with 5000 yaba pills

DB detain man with 5000 yaba pills

FE Online Report 2019-01-19 13:40:34

The detective branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested a man with 5000 pieces contraband yaba pills in the capital on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Md Mostafa, 23, a suspect...