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Dates of Biswa Ijtema to be announced later

Dates of Biswa Ijtema to be announced later

-- 2018-11-16 21:23:16

The dates for holding Biswa Ijtema will be announced later, says BSS citing a press release. It was decided at a meeting with two factions of Tablig Jamaat held at in the conference room of the Home...

AL factional clash leaves three dead in Narsingdi

AL factional clash leaves three dead in Narsingdi

-- 2018-11-16 21:14:23

Three people were killed and 100 others injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League (AL) over establishing supremacy in Nilakkha union of Raipura upazila on Friday. Two of the deceased we...

‘Keep eyes on govt activities for fair election’

‘Keep eyes on govt activities for fair election’

-- 2018-11-16 21:06:36

Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain on Friday urged the newspaper editors to keep close eyes on government activities to hold the next general election in a free and fair manner. He made the ca...

Half of all parties apply for boat, paddy sheaf

Half of all parties apply for boat, paddy sheaf

-- 2018-11-16 18:18:50

Almost half of the registered political parties have applied for the symbols associated with the two major players in the election as they built alliances for the nationwide race. The Election Commis...

PM mourns death of Bhandaria AL leader

PM mourns death of Bhandaria AL leader

-- 2018-11-16 18:14:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Kazi Bazlur Rahman, a leader of Bhandaria upazila Awami League in Pirojpur. In a condolence message, the prime m...

Tax Fair draws huge crowds on weekend

Tax Fair draws huge crowds on weekend

-- 2018-11-16 18:01:56

The Income Tax Fair wore a festive look on Friday as hundreds of taxpayers rushed to its venue in the city to avail themselves of various tax-related services under one roof without any hassle on the...

200 BNP men join AL in Gazipur

200 BNP men join AL in Gazipur

-- 2018-11-16 17:44:44

Around 200 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations on Friday joined Awami League at a function at Tangi in Gazipur. They joined the AL by giving bouquets to AL Tangi unit President A...

14-party meeting Saturday

14-party meeting Saturday

-- 2018-11-16 17:41:31

The central 14-party alliance will hold a meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at 11:30am at Awami League Office in the city’s Bangabandhu Avenue, said a party press release on Friday. Health and Family...

SSC examinee shot dead during AL infighting in Narsingdi

SSC examinee shot dead during AL infighting in Narsingdi

-- 2018-11-16 17:24:15

A Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinee was shot dead during a clash between two factions of Awami League at Bashgari under Raipura upazila in Narsingdi early Friday. The deceased was identifie...

Police recover bullet-riddled body in Cox’s Bazar

Police recover bullet-riddled body in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-11-16 17:12:55

Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of a suspected drug pedlar in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Friday. The victim was identified as Belal, 35, a criminal listed by the Home Ministry a...

Election never fully fair: Kabita Khanam

Election never fully fair: Kabita Khanam

-- 2018-11-16 17:10:39

Election Commissioner Kabita Khanam says that no countries can ensure completely fair elections. “We want an election acceptable to all and will make sure it remains beyond question,” Kab...

Oikyafornt leaders sit with editors

Oikyafornt leaders sit with editors

-- 2018-11-16 17:00:20

Jatiya Oikyafront leaders, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, are exchanging views with editors of print media at Hotel Lakeshore in the city on Friday. The view-exchanging programme began at 3:30pm. BNP secr...

EC turns into AL party office: Rizvi

EC turns into AL party office: Rizvi

-- 2018-11-16 16:33:43

The BNP has accused the Election Commission of providing special privileges to the ruling Awami League. “The Election Commission is providing ruling party members with information and easy acce...

Nipun Roy, six other BNP leaders remanded

Nipun Roy, six other BNP leaders remanded

-- 2018-11-16 16:32:16

A Dhaka court has granted police five days to question in their custody seven BNP leaders, including Nipun Roy Chowdhury, for their alleged links to Naya Paltan violence. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrat...

DMP files 3,221 cases for traffic offences

DMP files 3,221 cases for traffic offences

FE Online Report 2018-11-16 15:11:17

The Traffic Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in its regular drive against traffic rule violations filed a total of 3,221 cases against different modes of vehicles in Dhaka on Wednesday. Th...

Cops recover ten bombs in Faridpur

Cops recover ten bombs in Faridpur

-- 2018-11-16 14:39:50

Police recovered four petrol bombs and six crude bombs from a car near a house in Faridpur’s Saltha upazila on Thursday night. Delwar Hossain Khan, officer-in-charge of Saltha Police Station, s...

Road crash kills one in Rajshahi

Road crash kills one in Rajshahi

-- 2018-11-16 13:33:02

A man was killed and ten others were injured when a bus overturned at Haripur in Paba upazila of Rajshahi on Friday. The deceased was identified as Shawkat Ali, 30. Damkura Police Station’s of...

Young housewife commits suicide in Manikganj

Young housewife commits suicide in Manikganj

-- 2018-11-16 11:48:47

A young housewife was found hanging at her house in Manikganj on Thursday. Police recovered the body of Marzina Begum, 26, from Tillirchar village in Saturia upazila at noon. She was the wife of ex...

Speeding truck kills van-puller in Savar

Speeding truck kills van-puller in Savar

-- 2018-11-16 11:38:16

A van-puller was killed when a truck hit his van on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Genda area of Savar on Friday. Police said Jamal Hossain, the van-puller of 'Nur Mahal Bakery' shop died on the spot when a...

City gas cylinder blast kills one, injures six

City gas cylinder blast kills one, injures six

-- 2018-11-16 11:37:49

A child was killed while six others sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion at Dhalpur in Jatrabari area of Dhaka city on Friday. The identities of the victims could not be known immediat...

Narayanganj seven murders: Full text of High Court verdict likely Sunday

Narayanganj seven murders: Full text of High Court verdict likely Sunday

-- 2018-11-16 11:26:08

The full text of the High Court verdict in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder cases is likely to be released on Sunday as the judges concerned signed the judgment copy on Thursday. On August 22...

Man to die for killing mother, wife

Man to die for killing mother, wife

-- 2018-11-16 11:12:24

A court in Kishoreganj district has convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his mother and wife over a family feud in 2003. The convict was identified as Sabed Ali, son of Muslim Uddin...

‘Rohingyas won’t be sent back forcibly’

‘Rohingyas won’t be sent back forcibly’

-- 2018-11-15 20:42:18

Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali on Thursday said the Rohingyas living in Bangladesh will not be repatriated to Myanmar forcibly. “There’s a negative campaign that Bangladesh is forcing t...

Juktofront will join AL-led alliance: Quader

Juktofront will join AL-led alliance: Quader

-- 2018-11-15 20:35:05

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury-led Juktofront will 'undoubtedly' participate in the upcoming national election under their party-led alliance....

30 identified over attack on police: DMP

30 identified over attack on police: DMP

-- 2018-11-15 20:31:02

Police have identified 30 people who were involved in Wednesday's attack on police in front of BNP's Nayapaltan central office. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said this...

Veg farming gets a boost in Sylhet, Joypurhat

Veg farming gets a boost in Sylhet, Joypurhat

Our Correspondent 2018-11-15 20:30:33

SYLHET, Nov 15: Some 26,262 hectares of land in all the four districts of Sylhet division have already been brought under the farming of winter crops and vegetables. Of the said total, varieties of v...

EC rules out deferment of election

EC rules out deferment of election

FE Online Desk 2018-11-15 19:17:02

The Election Commission (EC) will not defer the upcoming 11th parliamentary polls, slated for December 30. “There is no scope for pushing back the election for some legal and constitutional rea...

BNP accuses PM of violating electoral code

BNP accuses PM of violating electoral code

-- 2018-11-15 17:10:11

BNP on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has violated the election code of conduct by holding a meeting with her party's 4,500 nomination seekers at her official residence Ganobhaban...

Shahidul Alam secures bail from HC

Shahidul Alam secures bail from HC

-- 2018-11-15 17:04:22

Prominent photographer Shahidul Alam has secured bail from the High Court in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal and J...

Man dies in Jashore road crash

Man dies in Jashore road crash

-- 2018-11-15 16:33:08

A man was killed while 20 others injured following a head-on collision between two buses at Karimpur on Jashore-Narail highway on Thursday morning. The dead man was identified as Sushovon Khisha, 65,...