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Shayestaganj becomes new upazila

Shayestaganj becomes new upazila

-- 2017-11-20 06:08:57

The government has decided to upgrade Shayestaganj thana under Habiganj district to a new upazila. Another new pourashava will be established at Tarash Upazila headquarter in Sirajganj district. The...

Ctg man gets death penalty for killing wife

Ctg man gets death penalty for killing wife

-- 2017-11-20 03:58:05

A Chittagong court on Monday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2010. The convict, Mohamamad Mostafa, a resident of South Pahartoli Natun Para in Hathazari upazila, strangled his wife R...

Boiler explosion kills Kushtia worker

Boiler explosion kills Kushtia worker

FE Online Desk 2017-11-20 01:25:34

Sabia Khatun (50), a worker of Daud Mandal Rice Mill, was killed when a boiler blasted with a big bang at the mill at Khwajanagar area of Kushtia on Sunday night Witnesses said the boiler explosion,...

Bus rams into human hauler, killing one

Bus rams into human hauler, killing one

FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00

A vegetable vendor was killed when a Bagerhat-bound passenger bus rammed into a human hauler on Bagerhat-Khulna road in Fulbari area of Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased, Akkas F...

Electrocution kills mother, daughter in Panchagarh

Electrocution kills mother, daughter in Panchagarh

FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00

Protima Rani (25), wife of Provat and her minor girl Khushi Rani (3) of Panchagarh’s Lalmohon Para village died after being electrocuted at their own residence in Debiganj upazila of the distric...

Chittagong sawmill worker dies from electrocution

Chittagong sawmill worker dies from electrocution

FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00

Mohammad Jakir (22), a sawmill worker died after being electrocuted while working at a mill in Wapda gate area in Chittagong’s Bakalia on Saturday night. Assistant Sub-Inpector of Chittagong Me...

Winter vegetables bring smiles on farmers’ faces

Winter vegetables bring smiles on farmers’ faces

-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00

Varieties of early winter vegetables have bring smiles on farmer's faces in Rajshahi, which started appearing in both retail and wholesale markets for the last couple of days. Farmers in the region...

BGB rescues 12 BD nationals at Benapole

BGB rescues 12 BD nationals at Benapole

-- 2017-11-18 11:06:06

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 12 Bangladeshi nationals, including five women and two children, from Sadipur bordering area at Benapole on Friday night while they were being traffick...

T-Aman harvest going on in full swing across Bogra

T-Aman harvest going on in full swing across Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-18 10:36:25

BOGRA, Nov 18: T-Aman harvest is going on in full swing across the district.Farmers are expecting 2.43 tonnes of yield from a hectare of land, said sub-assistance agriculture officer of the Departme...

Teenager from Savar remains missing

Teenager from Savar remains missing

-- 2017-11-18 10:04:20

A teenager is missing for seven days in Chapain Laltek area of the upazila. The missing is Emon Hossain, 14, a madrassa student, son of late Yusuf Ali, hailing from Jamalpur. He used to live with hi...

Police arrest 2 doctors over patient's death

Police arrest 2 doctors over patient's death

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

A female patient have died reportedly for wrong treatment at a hospital in in Lakshmipur district on Friday. Family members of the deceased, Fatema Begum,  said she died due to 'wrong treatment'...

Three die in Rajshahi road crash

Three die in Rajshahi road crash

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

Three people, including a couple, have died in a road accident at Poba Upazila in Rajshahi on Friday afternoon. The accident occurred when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch after hitting a motorcyc...

Fire burns 20 shops in Comilla

Fire burns 20 shops in Comilla

-- 2017-11-17 09:25:11

At least 20 shops were gutted in a fire at Kongso Nagar Bazar in Burichang upazila of Comilla on Friday afternoon. Deputy Assistant Director of Comilla Fire Service Farid Ahmed said the fire broke ou...

One dies in train-covered van collision

One dies in train-covered van collision

-- 2017-11-16 12:03:33

A man was killed as a train collided with a covered-van at Baropukuria coalmine level crossing in Dinajpur district early Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Biplob, 22, helper of the cover...

10 get jail time, fine for catching Hilsa

10 get jail time, fine for catching Hilsa

-- 2017-11-16 12:00:00

Ten fishermen were arrested and sentenced to different jail terms for catching Hilsa defying the government-imposed ban at Tulatuli and Bhola Khal in Meghna River area under Bhola district on Wednesda...

Police recovers 24 crude bombs in Savar

Police recovers 24 crude bombs in Savar

-- 2017-11-16 11:38:36

Police recovered 24 crude bombs from Basaid area in Ashulia here on Thursday. Locals said that they found a black bag in an abandoned condition in the area at noon and found the bombs wrapped with bl...

Early cultivated cabbage growers  making handsome profit

Early cultivated cabbage growers making handsome profit

Our Correspondent 2017-11-16 09:11:03

RANGPUR, Nov 16: The growers of early cultivated cabbage in different areas under the district are jubilant as they are earning handsome profit this season. Presently, harvesting of early cultivate...

As winter sets in, Bhapa Pitha gets popularity among commoners of Rajshahi city

As winter sets in, Bhapa Pitha gets popularity among commoners of Rajshahi city

Our Correspondent 2017-11-16 09:10:09

RAJSHAHI, Nov16: With the approaching of winter, selling of some seasonal foods has also been started in Rajshahi city and surrounding areas. One of such foods is Bhapa Pitha, a traditional cake mad...

Water spinach production on the rise in Bogra

Water spinach production on the rise in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-16 09:08:59

BOGRA, Nov 16: A good number of peasants of all the twelve upazilas of the district cultivate the water spinach (Kolmi Shak) round the year due to a high market demand. The Department of Agricultur...

HC orders arrest of Patuakhali fake doctor

HC orders arrest of Patuakhali fake doctor

-- 2017-11-16 06:58:46

The High Court has directed the officer-in-charge of Baufal police station in Patuakhali to arrest fake physician Razan Das who left gauze inside a woman's abdomen during her cesarean surgery at a pri...

Sundarbans ‘gunfight’ leaves two robbers dead

Sundarbans ‘gunfight’ leaves two robbers dead

-- 2017-11-15 12:41:51

Two members of a pirate gang, "Abbas Bahini" were killed during a 'gunfight' with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Katlar Khal of Baleshwar River under Swarankhola range of the Sundarbans on...

Modern methods boosting output

Modern methods boosting output

Iqbal Siddiquee 2017-11-15 12:07:34

HABIGANJ, Nov 14: Cultivation of summer season vegetables by using modern methods has been gaining popularity among the farmers of Sylhet region. Chairman of Horticulture Department of Sylhet Agricul...

Char people attain solvency from cucumber cultivation

Char people attain solvency from cucumber cultivation

Our Correspondent 2017-11-15 12:00:57

BOGRA, Nov 14: Hundreds of char people of the mighty Jamuna in Sarikandi, Sonatola and Dhunot upazilas of the district has attained financial self-reliance by cultivating cucumber. Cucumber was culti...

Dainik Purbokone editor no more

Dainik Purbokone editor no more

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Dainik Purbokone editor Taslim Uddin Chowdhury has passed away. He was 63. Mohammad Ali, a senor journalist of the daily published from Chittagong, said the editor breathed his last at a hospital in...

Manikganj gas cylinder explosion burns couple

Manikganj gas cylinder explosion burns couple

FE Online Desk 2017-11-15 11:38:33

A couple has been shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) with severe burn wounds sustained in a cooking gas cylinder blast at their house in Gangadhar Patti area of Manikganj on early We...

Youth dies in BSF firing

Youth dies in BSF firing

-- 2017-11-15 10:31:05

A Bangladeshi national was reportedly shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Burimari border in Patgram upazila early Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Fari...

BT brinjal farming gaining popularity in Bogra

BT brinjal farming gaining popularity in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-15 08:59:57

BOGRA, Nov 15: Cultivation of BT brinjal is gaining popularity among the marginal farmers of the district. A good number of growers have shown interest to more land under the farming of the vegetable...

Patuakhali bus plunge kills elderly woman

Patuakhali bus plunge kills elderly woman

FE Online Desk 2017-11-15 01:48:03

An elderly woman was killed and at least 13 other people sustained injuries as the bus in which they were travelling, plunged into a ditch on Patuakhali-Kuakata highway in Kalapara upazila of Patuakha...

Expat, family members sued over Facebook post

Expat, family members sued over Facebook post

-- 2017-11-14 12:04:55

A case has been filed against an expatriate youth living in Italy and four members of his family under section 57 of the ICT Act for allegedly making disparaging posts against a female US expatriate a...

Jessore ‘gunfight’ leaves one dead

Jessore ‘gunfight’ leaves one dead

FE Online Desk 2017-11-14 12:00:00

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man along with a gun, two rounds of bullets, five cutlasses and one Chinese axe from Nongorpur Mazar area on Magura road in Jessore district on early Tuesd...