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Sherpur farmer killed in wild elephant attack

Sherpur farmer killed in wild elephant attack

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-03 11:12:31

A 65-year-old farmer was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur district on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the Patrachh...

NID mentions Venezuela as birthplace of 12 Moulvibazar residents

NID mentions Venezuela as birthplace of 12 Moulvibazar residents

-- 2022-08-01 18:33:39

The national identity card (NID) of at least 12 permanent residents of the Moulvibazar district mentioned their birthplace as Venezuela. The mistake occurred after these NID holders living in the cou...

350 sued over Thakurgaon UP polls violence that left infant dead

350 sued over Thakurgaon UP polls violence that left infant dead

-- 2022-07-30 20:36:30

A case was filed against 350 people on Saturday over violence after announcement of election results of Bachor Union Parishad in Ranisankail Upazila of Thakurgaon when a nine-month old was shot dead a...

PKSF installs water purifier in salinity-hit Koyra

PKSF installs water purifier in salinity-hit Koyra

FE REPORT 2022-07-28 10:37:12

Some 250 families of Koyra upazila in Khulna will get potable water supply as another water treatment plant has been set up in the coastal area that faces a serious crisis of drinking water due to ris...

Young tourist drowns in Nikli haor

Young tourist drowns in Nikli haor

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-22 14:18:32

A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others sustained injuries while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Akash, a resident of Dhaka. Fire serv...

Five dead as bus slams into autorickshaw in Barishal

Five dead as bus slams into autorickshaw in Barishal

-- 2022-07-20 14:16:47

Five people were killed and two others injured in a road crash involving a bus and an autorickshaw in Barishal’s Bakerganj Upazila on Wednesday afternoon. The accident occurred on the Barishal-...

Bus ploughs into microbus in Habiganj, four killed

Bus ploughs into microbus in Habiganj, four killed

-- 2022-07-18 16:56:25

At least four people were killed and 15 others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus in Habiganj's Shayestaganj. The accident occurred near the Shahjibazar power plant on t...

152 projects worth Tk 66.8m implemented in Mymensingh

152 projects worth Tk 66.8m implemented in Mymensingh

-- 2022-07-17 18:37:52

The government under the Department of Disaster Management (DDM) has implemented 152 projects at a cost of Tk 66.80 million under its rural infrastructural repairing programme (TR-Kabita) during the 2...

ICU, HDU in Chuadanga Sadar Hospital hit hard by manpower shortage

ICU, HDU in Chuadanga Sadar Hospital hit hard by manpower shortage

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-17 10:37:19

Medicare services of ICU and HDU units at Chuadanga sadar hospital remain suspended for around nine months due to lack of manpower causing a grave concern in the district as the fourth wave of the Cov...

Homes, temple attacked in Narail over Facebook post

Homes, temple attacked in Narail over Facebook post

-- 2022-07-16 18:58:37

Angry people have attacked Hindu homes and a temple in Narail’s Lohagara over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious minorities of Ban...

Man throttles wife, daughters to death in Jashore

Man throttles wife, daughters to death in Jashore

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 13:58:12

A man allegedly throttled his wife and their two daughters to death over a family feud in Avhoynagar upazila of Jashore district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Sabina Yeasmin Bithi, 28, w...

Three dead, two injured in Dinajpur car crash

Three dead, two injured in Dinajpur car crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-13 10:45:54

At least three people have died after a car veered out of control and plunged into a roadside ditch in Dinajpur Sadar. Two others were injured in the accident that took place on the Dinajpur-Rangpur...

Orphan siblings spend 17 days on a tree as flood washes away their house

Orphan siblings spend 17 days on a tree as flood washes away their house

-- 2022-07-12 22:27:08

Two siblings spent 17 days on the branches of a tree as flood water washed away their house at Dhalagaon village in Sunamganj. The ill-fated siblings are Julekha, 22 and Rakib, 13. The orphans used t...

Seven children drown in four districts during Eid-ul-Azha holidays

Seven children drown in four districts during Eid-ul-Azha holidays

-- 2022-07-12 19:04:26

Seven children died from drowning in Chattogram, Chapainawabganj, Sherpur and Brahmanbaria districts during the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. In Chattogram, two children drowned in a canal in Kalpolok reside...

Seven dengue patients hospitalised in city 

Seven dengue patients hospitalised in city 

-- 2022-07-11 17:02:36

Another seven dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours until Monday morning in Bangladesh, reports UNB. All the new patients were hospitalised in Dhaka division, according to the Directorate Gen...

6.6m mobile phone subscribers left Dhaka in the two days before Eid-ul-Azha   

6.6m mobile phone subscribers left Dhaka in the two days before Eid-ul-Azha  

-- 2022-07-11 15:15:24

Users of more than 6.6 million mobile phone connections have left the capital on the first two days of the Eid-ul-Azha holidays, according to Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar. In...

Mild heat wave may sweep country

Mild heat wave may sweep country

-- 2022-07-11 15:04:16

A mild heat wave may sweep across the country including  Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Panchagarh and Srimangal , according to weather office on Monday. Light to moderate rain or thundershower...

All set to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in Rajshahi

All set to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in Rajshahi

-- 2022-07-08 13:05:25

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), district administration and all other organisations concerned have chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate the holy Eid-ul-Azha in the city with due fervor and e...

Acute crisis of drinking water in flood-hit Sylhet, Sunamganj

Acute crisis of drinking water in flood-hit Sylhet, Sunamganj

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-07-08 09:26:17

SYLHET: The people of greater Sylhet district face acute crisis of pure drinking water as about 91,672 tube-wells have been submerged by floodwaters in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts. According to la...

Two cousins die in Rajbari road crash

Two cousins die in Rajbari road crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-07 10:49:51

Two cousins returning to their respective homes from Dhaka to celebrate Eid with their families in Jhenaidah died after a three-wheel vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Rajbari district tow...

Pirojpur man arrested during his wedding ceremony

Pirojpur man arrested during his wedding ceremony

-- 2022-07-03 16:13:53

A man in Pirojpur's Mothbaria has been arrested at his own wedding a day after he had been released by police due to confusion over his name. A native of Mothbaria's Amorbunia, 35-year-old Babu Taluk...

Two children drown in Netrokona floodwaters

Two children drown in Netrokona floodwaters

-- 2022-07-03 16:00:58

Two children have died after they drowned in floodwaters in Netrokona’s Mohongonj Upazila. Locals found their bodies near a bridge in Utiarkona Village on Saturday evening, according to Inspect...

Makeshift cattle markets gaining momentum in Khulna

Makeshift cattle markets gaining momentum in Khulna

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-03 11:21:18

A festive mood looks across Khulna city centring the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festivals of the Muslim community which is expected to be held on July 10, as cattle farmers started to d...

Do Something Foundation distributes relief to 5,000 flood victims in six districts

Do Something Foundation distributes relief to 5,000 flood victims in six districts

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-27 13:40:32

Do Something Foundation - a humanitarian organisation - has so far distributed relief among 5,000 people affected by floods in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Netrokona, Kurigram, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat....

Padma Bridge opening ceremony cancelled in Sylhet

Padma Bridge opening ceremony cancelled in Sylhet

-- 2022-06-24 20:09:19

The district administration in Sylhet has cancelled the inaugural ceremony of the much-awaited Padma Bridge in view of the devastating floods in the district. However, a discussion programme will be...

Five killed as truck crushes autorickshaw in Naogaon

Five killed as truck crushes autorickshaw in Naogaon

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-24 12:43:31

At least five passengers of an autorickshaw were killed after a truck ploughed into the vehicle in Naogaon. The head-on collision occurred on the Sadar Upazila's Naogaon-Rajshahi highway around 8:00a...

Husband to walk gallows for killing wife in Netrokona

Husband to walk gallows for killing wife in Netrokona

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-06-22 17:42:48

A Netrakona court has sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2018. District and Sessions Judge Shahjahan Kabir passed the order on Wednesday noon. The convicted person is – Birbal Ch...

Sufferings mount as Kurigram people in need of drinking water, food

Sufferings mount as Kurigram people in need of drinking water, food

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-22 13:46:54

People in flood-hit Kurigram district are suffering increasingly due to lack of pure drinking water, food and sanitation. Though water levels of almost all rivers have subsided to a large extent, som...

Schoolteacher drowns in floodwaters in Netrakona

Schoolteacher drowns in floodwaters in Netrakona

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETRAKONA 2022-06-22 11:20:05

A school teacher has drowned in flood waters in Netrakona’s Madan upazila. Hafizur Rahman (55), an assistant teacher at Ranihala Private Primary School, drowned in the flood waters on the road...

Flood hits 39 unions in Netrokona

Flood hits 39 unions in Netrokona

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-06-17 21:25:30

Residents in 39 unions in six Upazilas of Netrokona district were affected by floods amid a rise in water levels on major rivers in the district. According to the local Bangladesh Water Development B...