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Janmashtami being observed

Janmashtami being observed

-- 2018-09-02 11:05:46

Janmashtami, marking the birth of Lord Krishna, is being observed across the country today (Sunday) with due religious fervour and zeal. According to Hindu belief, Lord Vishnu incarnated in the unive...

Train rams bus in Chattogram, killing one

Train rams bus in Chattogram, killing one

-- 2018-09-02 09:57:04

One person was killed and 22 others were injured after a train rammed a bus on a rail crossing in Chattogram’s Mirsharai. The accident occurred at the Bariarhat Rail Crossing area around 4:00...

Customs seize container for 'laundering money'

Customs seize container for 'laundering money'

Our Correspondent 2018-09-02 09:54:25

Chattogram customs officials seized on Saturday a container for reported money laundering by a paper importer. The ship, MV Happy Bee, was supposed to carry imported white paper from China. A team o...

Overlooking Rohingya crisis is frustrating, say experts

Overlooking Rohingya crisis is frustrating, say experts

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-09-02 09:37:24

The overlooking of Rohingya issue in the just-concluded summit of the Bay of Bengal regional grouping has frustrated foreign relations experts. They noted that the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-...

Maize output exceeds target in Rangpur region

Maize output exceeds target in Rangpur region

-- 2018-09-01 21:43:37

RANGPUR, Sept 01 (BSS): The farmers have achieved a bumper output of maize exceeding the fixed production target by 20 per cent during this Kharip-1 season in all five districts under Rangpur agricult...

Arum harvest begins in Joypurhat

Arum harvest begins in Joypurhat

-- 2018-09-01 21:42:20

Roving CorrespondentJOYPURHAT, Sept 01: Farmers of the district have started harvesting arum this season.Sources said arum farmers across the district are trying to complete the harvest the vegetable...

Ctg policeman gets caught for trafficking yaba

Ctg policeman gets caught for trafficking yaba

-- 2018-09-01 20:56:03

Police have arrested a Chattogram Sub-Inspector named Badruzzaman for his alleged involvement in yaba trafficking. He is believed to be involved with a significant shipment of the contraband substanc...

Police arrests bus helper for killing youth by pushing off bus

Police arrests bus helper for killing youth by pushing off bus

-- 2018-09-01 19:38:45

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Saturday arrested the helper of a bus for allegedly pushing a young man to death from the moving bus following an altercation in City Gate area of the port city...

BNP pushes for greater political unity

BNP pushes for greater political unity

-- 2018-09-01 19:29:38

Senior leaders of BNP have urged all, other political parties, to forge a greater unity to 'restore' democracy. They made the call while addressing a public rally marking the 40th founding anniversar...

RAB arrests four pirates with arms in Barguna

RAB arrests four pirates with arms in Barguna

-- 2018-09-01 19:22:47

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained four members of two pirate gangs from different areas of Patharghata near the Sundarbans in Barguna on Friday. The detainees were identified as Rumi S...

Bullet-hit body of ‘drug trader’ found in Chuadanga

Bullet-hit body of ‘drug trader’ found in Chuadanga

-- 2018-09-01 19:16:28

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a suspected drug trader from a garden at Benipur village in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Shahin, son of...

Death of infant: Police seizes bus, driver on run

Death of infant: Police seizes bus, driver on run

-- 2018-09-01 18:38:50

Police on Friday night seized the bus of 'Ganj-e-raj Paribahan' that hit infant Akifa and her mother at Chourhash intersection of Kushtia town on Tuesday. The bus was seized from New Bus Stand area i...

Janmashtami Sunday

Janmashtami Sunday

-- 2018-09-01 18:14:09

The holy Janmashtami, the birth celebration of Sri Krishna and one of the major festivals of the Hindu community, will be observed across the country on Sunday with due religious fervour and zeal. Ac...

Indigenous woman raped in Chattogram

Indigenous woman raped in Chattogram

-- 2018-09-01 18:03:00

A woman of an ethnic minority community was allegedly raped in BRAC Karnafuli Tea Garden in Shetkua area of Kanchan Nagar in Chattogram on Friday. Police arrested a man, Md Azam, 40, of Kanchan Nagar...

Uphold dignity of universities, PM asks students

Uphold dignity of universities, PM asks students

-- 2018-09-01 17:50:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the students to follow the rules and to uphold the dignity of universities. “The students must uphold the dignity of their universities and indiscipline w...

Nasrul Hamid terms unplanned development a challenge for power sector   

Nasrul Hamid terms unplanned development a challenge for power sector   

-- 2018-09-01 17:23:06

Unplanned urbanisation and industrialisation is the biggest challenge for power sector to ensure uninterrupted power supply. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid made the remarks while ad...

President lauds role of cultural activists in promoting communal harmony

President lauds role of cultural activists in promoting communal harmony

-- 2018-09-01 17:13:00

President Abdul Hamid said cultural activities play an important role in promoting the tradition of communal harmony including the development of the spirit of nationalism, patriotism and discipline a...

Road crashes leave nine dead in Gaibandha, Netrokona

Road crashes leave nine dead in Gaibandha, Netrokona

-- 2018-09-01 16:53:47

Separate road accidents claimed at least nine lives in Gaibandha and Netrokona districts on Saturday. Five people, including four of a family, died in a head-on collision between a bus and tractor in...

Private car catches fire in Gazipur 

Private car catches fire in Gazipur 

-- 2018-09-01 15:49:37

A private car was gutted as a fire broke out in it on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Masterbari area in Gazipur city on Saturday morning. Zakir Hossain, station officer of Gazipur Fire Service, said a...

Restoring democracy now a big challenge: BNP

Restoring democracy now a big challenge: BNP

FE Online Report 2018-09-01 15:37:51

Restoring democracy in the country is now a big challenge for BNP, said the party secretary general Mirza Fakrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday, vowing to continue their movement for it. “Our fight...

PM to brief media on Bimstec summit Sunday

PM to brief media on Bimstec summit Sunday

-- 2018-09-01 15:33:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference on Sunday to brief journalists about the outcomes of her just-concluded visit to Nepal for attending the 4th Bimstec summit. The press...

Three bodies found after boat capsize in Pabna

Three bodies found after boat capsize in Pabna

-- 2018-09-01 14:52:45

A diving squad has recovered the bodies of three people who had gone missing after a boat capsized in the Chalan Beel area of Pabna’s Chatmohar. Two others are still missing. As of 12pm on Satu...

PM inaugurates ‘7th March Bhaban’ at DU

PM inaugurates ‘7th March Bhaban’ at DU

-- 2018-09-01 13:28:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the ‘7th March Bhaban’ of Rokeya Hall of Dhaka University (DU) constructed in memory of the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Ban...

Road crash claims four lives in Gaibandha

Road crash claims four lives in Gaibandha

-- 2018-09-01 11:50:41

At least four people were killed and 11 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and truck on Gaibandha-Palashbari road in Palashbari upazila of the district on Friday night. The identi...

Miscreants hack AL expat leader dead in Sylhet

Miscreants hack AL expat leader dead in Sylhet

-- 2018-09-01 10:16:27

A leader of Kuwait unit of Awami League was hacked to death by miscreants at Zindabazar in the Sylhet city on Friday night. The deceased was identified as SM Abdul Ahad, 40, son of Haji Nur Miah of M...

0.2m illegal rickshaws plying in Chattogram city

0.2m illegal rickshaws plying in Chattogram city

Pankaj Dastider 2018-09-01 09:50:49

A mobile court started drive against the unlicensed and license-expired rickshaws plying illegally in the port-city. Executive Magistrate Afia Akhtar and Special Magistrate Jahanara Ferdous jointly l...

Aus paddy harvest starts, bumper yield likely

Aus paddy harvest starts, bumper yield likely

FE Report 2018-09-01 09:38:19

The harvest of Aus paddy has begun across the country, raising hope among the farmers of getting another bumper output this year. Paddy price is much higher this year than that of last year due to de...

Nod for 100-yr Delta Plan likely this week

Nod for 100-yr Delta Plan likely this week

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-09-01 09:35:30

The long-awaited mega strategy 'Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP) 2100' is likely to get the go-ahead this week. It will potentially pave the way for the country to increase its water-related spending th...

PC turns down RHD proposal to revise cost, change design

PC turns down RHD proposal to revise cost, change design

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-09-01 09:24:34

The Planning Commission (PC) has refused to revise the Dhaka-Mawa four-lane road upgrades project on the grounds of spiralling costs and drastic changes in the design, officials said on Friday. "We...

Journalists recall role of Moazzem Hossain, Golam Sarwar

Journalists recall role of Moazzem Hossain, Golam Sarwar

FE Report 2018-08-31 22:58:24

The two editors, who died recently, will be remembered for their valuable contributions in the field of journalism, said speakers at a memorial meeting on Friday.  The deeds and examples they ha...