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B’Baria UNO foils child marriage

B’Baria UNO foils child marriage

FE Online Desk 2017-11-06 12:00:00

A ninth-grader girl was saved from the curse of untimely wedlock by the intervention of Brahmanbaria’s Bancharampur upazila administration. Parvin Akhter, a student of Ruposdi Brindabon School...

Blue Whale claims another teenager's life

Blue Whale claims another teenager's life

-- 2017-11-06 12:00:00

A teenager allegedly addicted to online game "Blue Whale" committed suicide in Kashiani upazila in Gopalganj on Monday.  The victim is identified as Rafiqul Islam Partha, 15, son of Abul Hossain...

Fair market price delights  Sirajganj radish peasants

Fair market price delights Sirajganj radish peasants

Roving Correspondent 2017-11-06 09:09:23

SIRAJGANJ, Nov 6: The ultra-poor radish growers of the district are happy over the fair market prices this season. Sources said radish is being sold at Tk 40 to Tk 50 in the retail market while the...

Joypurhat growers farming Bari-1 Malta on experimental basis

Joypurhat growers farming Bari-1 Malta on experimental basis

Roving Correspondent 2017-11-05 12:00:00

  JOYPURHAT, Nov 05: Some farmers in the district have been cultivating Bari-1 Malta on an experimental basis over the last couple of years. Taking short-term training sessions the farmers st...

‘Extortionists’ hack fish trader to death

‘Extortionists’ hack fish trader to death

-- 2017-11-05 12:00:00

Local extortionists allegedly hacked a fish trader dead in Kolatia area in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka on early Sunday. The deceased Salauddin (38) was the son of Alan, hailing from Khanakandi area o...

Savar road crash claims two lives

Savar road crash claims two lives

FE Online Desk 2017-11-05 12:00:00

Two rickshaw passengers were killed and three others sustained injuries as the rickshaw in which they were travelling, overturned after being hit by a Dhaka-bound sand-laden truck in Pakija area on Dh...

RU professor invents RK Fibre,  an alternative of jute

RU professor invents RK Fibre, an alternative of jute

Our Correspondent 2017-11-05 08:58:25

RAJSHAHI, Nov 05: RK Fibre, an alternative of jute fibre, has been invented by Dr Anwarul Islam, professor of the Department of Pharmacy of Rajshahi University.  The natural fibre he invented is...

Use of spurious fuel in vehicles going on in Gopalganj district

Use of spurious fuel in vehicles going on in Gopalganj district

Our Correspondent 2017-11-05 08:57:07

GOPALGANJ, Nov 05: Use of spurious fuel in motor vehicles has increased in the district. Sources said open sale of spurious fuel like diesel, petrol and kerosene mobil by a section of dishonest deale...

Rangpur sees good yield of cauliflower

Rangpur sees good yield of cauliflower

Our Correspondent 2017-11-05 08:54:52

RANGPUR, Nov 5: A good yield of early variety of cauliflower has brought smile on the faces of the growers in Rangpur district during this current season. Expressing satisfaction growers said that...

Rangpur road mishap kills one, injures 11

Rangpur road mishap kills one, injures 11

FE Online Desk 2017-11-05 02:45:10

A bicycle rider was killed and 11 passengers of a Lalmonirhat-bound bus were critically wounded when the bus rammed into the bicycle at Shah Amanat Filing Station point on the Rangpur-Dhaka highway un...

Fire engulfs 12 shops in Sylhet

Fire engulfs 12 shops in Sylhet

FE Online Desk 2017-11-05 02:18:53

A fierce fire gutted twelve shops at Caraboi Bazar of Sewla Union in Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet on early Sunday. According to local sources, the fire originated from an electric short circuit from...

Road crash leaves one dead in city

Road crash leaves one dead in city

FE Online Desk 2017-11-05 02:05:20

A 28-year-old man was killed when a speedy truck knocked him down in House Building area in the capital's Uttara on early Sunday. Tipped off, police rushed to the spot and took him to Tongi Hospital...

Dinajpur road mishap kills four

Dinajpur road mishap kills four

FE Online Desk 2017-11-04 12:00:00

Four people have died as a pick-up van hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw they were travelling in at Shalbagan in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district on Saturday morning. The deceased, identified as Ha...

Cops recover hanging body of domestic help

Cops recover hanging body of domestic help

FE Online Desk 2017-11-04 12:00:00

A 15-year-old domestic help was found dead at a flat in the capital’s Kalabagan area on Friday. The deceased Thaima Tripura, daughter of Shadhu Tripura, hailing from Khagrachhari, used to work...

Marginal farmers attain financial solvency by farming red spinach

Marginal farmers attain financial solvency by farming red spinach

Our Correspondent 2017-11-04 08:24:50

BOGRA, Nov 04: Marginal farmers of the district have attained financial solvency by cultivating red spinach (Lal Shak).According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official sources, the...

Bomb explosion leaves one dead in C'nawabganj

Bomb explosion leaves one dead in C'nawabganj

-- 2017-11-03 07:43:23

A bomb explosion left a man dead at Mordana Bamunpara village in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Taifur Rahman, 40, son of Fazlur Rahman. Habi...

Police recover 90 crude bombs in Jessore

Police recover 90 crude bombs in Jessore

-- 2017-11-03 04:48:32

Law enforcers recovered some 90 crude bombs from a three-storied house in Kharki area in Jessore district town on Thursday night. A group of unidentified young men entered his house with some bags ar...

T-Aman harvest to start in a week in Sylhet division

T-Aman harvest to start in a week in Sylhet division

Our Correspondent 2017-11-02 12:00:00

Harvest of the much-awaited Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy would begin in a week in Sylhet division, some agri officials and farmers said on Thursday. Only a few farmers in the region however have...

Kushtia transport strike withdrawn

Kushtia transport strike withdrawn

-- 2017-11-02 11:15:24

Transport owners and workers have withdrawn their indefinite strike that began in the district on Tuesday morning. Azgar Ali, president of Bus-Minibus Owners Group, said they decided to withdraw the...

Two die after taking liquor

Two die after taking liquor

-- 2017-11-02 11:07:22

Two men died after drinking toxic liquor at Sonamukhi Bazaar area in Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Motiar Rahman Moti (42), son of Joynal Abedin...

Cops recover bullet-hit body of Lakshmipur terrorist

Cops recover bullet-hit body of Lakshmipur terrorist

FE Online Desk 2017-11-02 10:35:08

Bullet-hit body of a listed local top terrorist was recovered from Bater Pukurpar area of Balaishpur in Lakshmipur district town early Thursday. Officer-in-charge of Chandraganj Police Station, Md Mu...

Speakers focus on bringing  well-off section under income  tax network in Gaibandha

Speakers focus on bringing well-off section under income tax network in Gaibandha

Our Correspondent 2017-11-02 09:16:35

GAIBANDHA, Nov 02: Speakers at a function on Thursday laid emphasis on the need for encouraging the people to pay income tax spontaneously to strengthen the national economy. If the solvent people...

Cauliflower farming starts in Bogra

Cauliflower farming starts in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-02 09:14:40

BOGRA, Nov 02: Farmers in the district started farming of cauliflower from the middle week of October this season. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office source, 600 hectar...

Pabna paddy growers using light traps to control pests

Pabna paddy growers using light traps to control pests

Our Correspondent 2017-11-02 01:20:25

PABNA, Nov 01: A good number of farmers at different upazilas in the district have been using light trap method to control pests in their Aman fields. The environment-friendly and low-cost method is...

Truck ploughs into bike, killing one

Truck ploughs into bike, killing one

FE Online Desk 2017-11-01 12:00:00

A man was killed as a truck hit his bike in Fukra Bazaar area in Kashiani upazila of Gopalgabnj district on Tuesday evening.Imran Hossain, 45, an accountant of Kashiani-Gopalganj Railway Track Constru...

Two JSC examinees die in B’baria boat capsize

Two JSC examinees die in B’baria boat capsize

FE Online Desk 2017-11-01 12:00:00

Two examinees of Junior School Certificate (JSC) exam died, three went missing and 10 more sustained injuries as a boat carrying them sank in the Pagla River in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria distr...

Fire breaks out at jute mill in Jessore

Fire breaks out at jute mill in Jessore

-- 2017-11-01 09:13:17

A fire broke out at two godowns of a jute mill in Nawapara of Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district on Wednesday afternoon.  On information, five fire fighting units of Jessore and Nawapara sta...

WDB to face delay due to water  recession in Sunamganj haor areas

WDB to face delay due to water recession in Sunamganj haor areas

Iqbal Siddiquee 2017-10-31 12:46:31

SYLHET, Oct 30: The Water Development Board (WDB) would face a little to implement the crop protection schemes under the new systems and time-frame, set by the government due to delay in water recessi...

‘Medical negligence’ leads to infant’s death

‘Medical negligence’ leads to infant’s death

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

An infant at Satkhira Sadar Hospital died due to alleged negligence of the hospital nurses. The infant's father Joynul Abedin, hailing from Dhulihar village in Sadar upazila, said that he came to the...

Court sentences two to death for murder

Court sentences two to death for murder

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

A Gazipur court on Tuesday sentenced two men to death for killing a workshop mason in Kapasia upazila in 2016. The convicts are Md Shakil, son of Md Mostafa, and Sanjiban Chandra Monidas, residents o...