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Mentally challenged girl ‘raped’ in Satkhira

Mentally challenged girl ‘raped’ in Satkhira

-- 2019-01-15 17:08:37

A mentally challenged minor girl was allegedly raped at Taltala village in suburb of Satkhira town. Police arrested the alleged rapist, Sajedul Islam, 19, son of Intaj Ali of the village. The victim...

AL to contest UZ polls without alliance: Quader

AL to contest UZ polls without alliance: Quader

-- 2019-01-15 17:05:09

Awami League will contest the upcoming Upazila Parishad elections without any alliance, party General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Tuesday. "We won't go into the polls as part of any alliance," h...

Microbus crash leaves five dead in Brahmanbaria

Microbus crash leaves five dead in Brahmanbaria

-- 2019-01-15 16:11:06

At least five people have been killed and several others injured as a microbus lost control and crashed into a roadside tree in Brahmanbaria. Khantihata Highway Police OC Hossain Sarkar of the distri...

DMP fines traffic offenders over Tk 3.178m

DMP fines traffic offenders over Tk 3.178m

FE Online Report 2019-01-15 16:02:26

The Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Monday realised over Tk 3.178 million in fines from traffic offenders. In simultaneous drives across the city streets conducted on the d...

Daily Manabkantho editor dies

Daily Manabkantho editor dies

-- 2019-01-15 15:18:40

Daily Manabkantho acting editor Abu Bakar Chowhdury has passed away. He was rushed to a hospital in Dhaka while suffering critical illness on early Tuesday. The 54-year-old may have suffered a strok...

Police detain youth with yaba at Cox’s Bazar airport

Police detain youth with yaba at Cox’s Bazar airport

-- 2019-01-15 14:11:18

Police arrested a young man along with 4,500 pieces of yaba pills from the main gate of the Cox's Bazar airport on Tuesday morning. The arrestee has been identified as Md Abdullah, 32, son of late Ma...

DMP nabs 61 in city

DMP nabs 61 in city

FE Online Report 2019-01-15 14:08:52

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-narcotics drive arrested 61 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, comprising De...

Electrocution kills father, son in Noakhali

Electrocution kills father, son in Noakhali

-- 2019-01-15 12:39:01

A man and his son died after being electrocuted in Noakhali’s Kabirhat upazila on Monday. Salah Uddin, 45, and his son Shourov, 12, died after coming in contact with a cable tied to an electric...

AL starts selling nomination forms for reserved seats

AL starts selling nomination forms for reserved seats

-- 2019-01-15 12:19:40

The ruling Awami League has started selling its nomination forms for the parliamentary seats reserved for women. The sales of nomination forms began around 10:00am on Tuesday at the Awami League Pres...

College student ‘commits suicide’ in Rajshahi

College student ‘commits suicide’ in Rajshahi

-- 2019-01-15 11:51:32

A college student reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence at Rajpara in Rajshahi city on Monday. The victim was identified as Ishtiaque Omi, 20, a Class XI...

Bus crushes motorcyclist in Thakurgaon

Bus crushes motorcyclist in Thakurgaon

-- 2019-01-15 11:41:46

A motorcyclist was crushed to death under a bus at Chhoto Khochabari area in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon on Monday night. The biker was identified as Danesh Barman, 38, son of Surendranath Barman of...

Rivals shoot PCJSS activist dead in Khagrachhari

Rivals shoot PCJSS activist dead in Khagrachhari

-- 2019-01-15 11:35:37

An activist of a breakaway faction of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS Reformist or MN Larma) was shot dead allegedly by the members of rival political party United People's Democratic...

BFSA set to launch restaurant gradation programme soon

BFSA set to launch restaurant gradation programme soon

Saif Uddin 2019-01-15 10:48:17

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) will formally launch its restaurant gradation programme in the city on January 20 aiming to help customers identify eateries' hygiene level, a high official sai...

BB seeks Tk 8.0b for ESF to fund agro-based projects

BB seeks Tk 8.0b for ESF to fund agro-based projects

FE Report 2019-01-15 10:30:20

The central bank has sought an allocation of Tk 8.0 billion for its 'Entrepreneurship Support Fund' (ESF) in the upcoming fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 for financing agro-based projects. Besides, it has p...

Rohingya crisis: Foreign minister sees no 'easy solution'

Rohingya crisis: Foreign minister sees no 'easy solution'

-- 2019-01-14 21:34:32

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen does not see any easy solution to the crisis surrounding the Rohingya people, which he says is “a very serious issue”. “There will be no easy solutio...

Sudden price fall saddens Bogura T-Aman paddy farmers

Sudden price fall saddens Bogura T-Aman paddy farmers

Our Correspondent 2019-01-14 21:33:37

BOGURA, Jan 14: Sudden price fall makes hundreds of T-Aman paddy farmers worried in the district. After harvesting the crops the farmers were worried as they were selling each maund of crops at Tk 60...

Vegetables production abundant, prices lucrative in Rangpur region

Vegetables production abundant, prices lucrative in Rangpur region

-- 2019-01-14 21:32:23

RANGPUR, Jan 14 (BSS): Farmers are expecting a bumper production of winter vegetables after exceeding its fixed farming target of the crops in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region this sea...

DAE expects bumper garlic output in Natore

DAE expects bumper garlic output in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-14 21:31:29

NATROE Jan 14: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting more than one thousand tonnes of garlic output this season due to favourable weather condition in Natore agri-zone.  Fro...

SUST student found hanging in Sylhet

SUST student found hanging in Sylhet

-- 2019-01-14 20:36:15

A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was found hanging from the ceiling at his room at Kajalshah in Sylhet on Monday. The deceased was identified as Taifur Rahman Pratik...

Dr Kamal demands legal action against Hefajat chief

Dr Kamal demands legal action against Hefajat chief

-- 2019-01-14 20:26:09

Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain and General Secretary of the party Mostafa Mohsin Montu have demanded legal actions against Hefajat-e-Islam chief Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi over recent anti-female...

PM retains five advisors for new term

PM retains five advisors for new term

-- 2019-01-14 20:14:46

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has retained her five advisors of the previous tenure for the new government. The advisors are: HT Imam (Political Affairs), Dr Mashiur Rahman (Economic Affairs), Dr Gow...

New cabinet to have first meeting on Jan 21

New cabinet to have first meeting on Jan 21

-- 2019-01-14 19:18:55

The first meeting of the new cabinet will be held on January 21, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam on Monday. The meeting will be held at the Prime Minister's Office at 10am on the day, a...

Three more solar park projects facing the axe

Three more solar park projects facing the axe

-- 2019-01-14 18:34:29

The government is likely to revoke three more solar park projects in the private sector as the implementing agencies have failed to make any progress though the deadlines of the projects expired. The...

ILO acknowledges efforts for revising RMG workers' wages

ILO acknowledges efforts for revising RMG workers' wages

FE Online Report 2019-01-14 18:26:22

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has acknowledged the efforts of all parties, led by the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Bangladesh, to work towards setting new wage structure for read...

Minister vows legal actions against illegal buildings

Minister vows legal actions against illegal buildings

-- 2019-01-14 17:18:20

The capital's development authority has been directed to prevent the construction of unplanned buildings, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rejaul Karim said on Monday. "We will take strict legal...

Mirza Abbas, wife get HC bail in graft case

Mirza Abbas, wife get HC bail in graft case

-- 2019-01-14 17:12:08

The High Court on Monday granted an eight-week anticipatory bail to BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas in a corruption case. The couple has been accused of amassing i...

Ninth Wage Board to be declared in specified period: Mahmud

Ninth Wage Board to be declared in specified period: Mahmud

-- 2019-01-14 16:30:40

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud Monday assured newsmen that the new Wage Board for newspaper and news agency journalists and employees will be announced within specified period. “From righ...

DMP arrest 49 for selling, consuming drugs

DMP arrest 49 for selling, consuming drugs

FE Online Report 2019-01-14 15:13:01

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-drug drive arrested 49 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of the DMP, comprising Det...

Health Ministry suspends employee for ‘amassing wealth illegally’

Health Ministry suspends employee for ‘amassing wealth illegally’

-- 2019-01-14 14:58:19

An official of the Health Ministry has been suspended over allegation of amassing wealth illegally. The suspended official is Md Abzal Hossain, accounts officer of Directorate General of Health Servi...

Two suspended Viqarunnisa teachers secure bail

Two suspended Viqarunnisa teachers secure bail

-- 2019-01-14 14:30:58

A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to suspended acting principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Naznin Ferdous and another teacher in a case filed over the suicide incident of a ninth grader...