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BNP leaders fail to meet Khaleda on Eid day

BNP leaders fail to meet Khaleda on Eid day

-- 2018-08-22 16:01:38

BNP senior leaders failed to meet their chairperson Khaleda Zia at the Old Dhaka Central Jail in the capital on the Eid day on Wednesday, reports UNB. Senior BNP leaders, including standing committee...

Tolerance to build happy society: Hamid

Tolerance to build happy society: Hamid

FE Online Desk 2018-08-22 15:56:04

President Md Abdul Hamid hosted a reception on the Eid day at Bangabhaban for the people of all classes and professions, including distinguished people, senior politicians, higher-ranking government...

PM remarks to affect Aug-21 case verdict, says Fakhrul

PM remarks to affect Aug-21 case verdict, says Fakhrul

-- 2018-08-22 15:27:55

BNP on Wednesday feared that the PM’s comment involving its chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman with August 21 grenade attack may influence the verdict of the case, reports UNB....

Laxmipur road crash kills Motorcyclist

Laxmipur road crash kills Motorcyclist

-- 2018-08-22 15:21:31

A motorcyclist was killed and another seriously injured at Samra in Ramganj Upazila on Ramganj-Hajiganj road on Wednesday morning, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Faruk Hossain, son of Ho...

Water tank explosion at Pallabi building injures 11

Water tank explosion at Pallabi building injures 11

FE Online Report 2018-08-22 14:55:21

A water tank explosion at a building at Pallabi in the capital on Tuesday night left at least 11 people, including eight of two families, injured. Conditions of some of the injured were stated to be...

Baitul Mukarram hosts five Eid congregations

Baitul Mukarram hosts five Eid congregations

FE Online Report 2018-08-22 13:44:23

The Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital hosted a total of five Jamaat (congregations) of Eid-ul-Azha on Wednesday morning. The first Eid Jamaat was began at 7:00am, the second one at 8:00a...

Three die in Bagura road crash

Three die in Bagura road crash

-- 2018-08-22 13:39:58

Three people have been killed and two others injured after a bus crashed head-on into an autorickshaw in Bagura’s Shajahanpur on Eid morning, reports bdnews24.com. The accident occurred on the...

Slaughtering everywhere; govt advice goes unheeded    

Slaughtering everywhere; govt advice goes unheeded    

-- 2018-08-22 13:27:07

Though the city corporations have designated 620 places in Dhaka South and 543 in Dhaka North for slaughtering sacrificial animals, the city-dwells slaughtered their cattle on the streets in front of...

Prime Minister exchanges Eid greetings

Prime Minister exchanges Eid greetings

FE Online Report 2018-08-22 13:06:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has exchanged Eid greetings and pleasantries with the cross sections of people at her official residence Ganobhaban in the capital. People of Bangladesh are observing Hol...

Mugger loots Tk 2.3m from Premier Bank at gunpoint

Mugger loots Tk 2.3m from Premier Bank at gunpoint

-- 2018-08-22 12:33:20

An unidentified armed mugger allegedly looted Tk 2.3 million (23 lakh) from the Badda branch of Premier Bank at gunpoint on Monday, reports UNB. An armed man entered into the branch of the bank at Li...

Lodge waste management complaint over hotline 09611000999

Lodge waste management complaint over hotline 09611000999

-- 2018-08-22 12:28:54

The Dhaka south and north city corporations have jointly introduced hotline 09611000999 aimed at cleaning waste of sacrificial animals within 24 hours, reports BSS. The hotline is mainly introduced t...

Eid-ul-Azha at Rohingya refugee camps

Eid-ul-Azha at Rohingya refugee camps

FE Online Desk 2018-08-22 12:14:25

Rohingya refugees, who entered Bangladesh from burdering Rakhine state of Myanmar and are living in different refugee camps, are observing Holy Eid-ul-Azha with religious fervour and festivity in Cox&...

Slaugheter sacrificial animals at 1,054 designated spots

Slaugheter sacrificial animals at 1,054 designated spots

FE Online Report 2018-08-22 11:08:56

For ensuring better waste management during Eid-ul-Azha vacation, the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have designated 1,054 spots for slaughtering the sacri...

President offers Eid prayers with thousands of Muslims

President offers Eid prayers with thousands of Muslims

FE Online Report 2018-08-22 10:40:53

Thousands of Muslims of all classes of the society, ages and professions joined the main Jamaat (congregation) of Holy Eid-ul-Azha at the National Eidgah adjacent to the Old High Court and the Supreme...

Eid-ul-Azha being observed

Eid-ul-Azha being observed

-- 2018-08-22 09:42:53

Holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of Muslims, is being observed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, reports BSS. On this day, Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) has set an incomparable example of love...

Huge cattle come from Assam illegally: Indian Media

Huge cattle come from Assam illegally: Indian Media

-- 2018-08-21 20:45:52

  GUWAHATI : Tens of thousands of cow are being smuggled out of India through Assam-Bangladesh border due to upcoming Eid Ul Adha  and both the Bangladesh and Indian government have turned...

Road crashes kill nine in five districts

Road crashes kill nine in five districts

-- 2018-08-21 19:52:55

At least nine people including a schoolboy and a local BNP leader were killed while 53 others injured in separate road accidents in Gopalganj, Narail, Rajshahi, Natore and Khagrachhari districts on Tu...

Quota reform: 10 more students released from jail

Quota reform: 10 more students released from jail

-- 2018-08-21 18:21:58

Ten leaders and activists of the movement for quota reform, all accused in cases filed with Shahbagh Police Station, were released from jail on Tuesday, continuing the easing of the government's hard...

Actress Nawshaba gets bail

Actress Nawshaba gets bail

-- 2018-08-21 18:06:50

A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, reports UNB. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debabrat...

Eid-ul-Azha Wednesday

Eid-ul-Azha Wednesday

-- 2018-08-21 17:58:04

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on Wednesday with due solemnity and religious fervour, reports BSS. The Eid-ul-Azha i...

BNP wants to visit Khaleda Zia in jail on Eid day

BNP wants to visit Khaleda Zia in jail on Eid day

-- 2018-08-21 17:41:13

The senior leaders of BNP have written to the prison authority seeking permission to visit party chief Khaleda Zia on Eid day on Wednesday. A similar request was turned down during the last Eid-ul-Fit...

Persistent train delays become travellers’ bane

Persistent train delays become travellers’ bane

-- 2018-08-21 17:29:34

Train schedule problems faced by passengers travelling home for Eid have persisted into the day before the Islamic festival. Some trains leaving Dhaka’s Kamalapur Station on Tuesday were delaye...

Tofail hopes Aug 21 grenade attack verdict in September 

Tofail hopes Aug 21 grenade attack verdict in September 

-- 2018-08-21 17:07:42

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday hoped that the verdict in the August 21 grenade attack case will be pronounced in September. The minister said this while addressing a rally organised by Awa...

18 rivers register rise, 70 fall

18 rivers register rise, 70 fall

-- 2018-08-21 16:26:23

Water levels in 18 rivers stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rise and 70 stations recorded fall, reports BSS. Among the 94 monitored water level stations, f...

Sadarghat launch accident kills one

Sadarghat launch accident kills one

-- 2018-08-21 15:44:21

A man was killed in a launch accident after the vessel he was travelling in was struck by another launch at Sadarghat terminal. The deceased has been identified as Delwar Hossain, 52. He was going to...

Four districts celebrate Eid Tuesday in line with Saudi

Four districts celebrate Eid Tuesday in line with Saudi

-- 2018-08-21 14:24:33

A large number of residents of Satkhira, Laxmipur, Dinajpur and Chattogram districts are celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha on Tuesday in line with Saudi Arabia. In Satkhira, many residents of Satani, Bhada...

Rain likely on Eid day: Met office

Rain likely on Eid day: Met office

-- 2018-08-21 14:07:11

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast rain on Eid-ul-Azha, caused by the ongoing monsoon winds and a low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal, which may dampen festivities, reports b...

Eid home-goers face long tailbacks

Eid home-goers face long tailbacks

-- 2018-08-21 13:24:40

Home-bound people got stuck on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Tuesday due to serious traffic chaos as a large number of vehicles left the capital for many destinations of the southern part of the country ahe...

Ctg man kills younger brother

Ctg man kills younger brother

-- 2018-08-21 12:34:57

A man was killed allegedly by his elder brother over a land-related dispute at Purba Syedbari village in Rangunia Upazila of Chattogram district on Monday night, reports UNB. The victim was identifie...

52 BD Hajj pilgrims die

52 BD Hajj pilgrims die

-- 2018-08-21 11:32:56

Some 52 Bangladeshi pilgrims, who went for performing Hajj this year, have so far died in Saudi Arabia, reports UNB. Of them, 43 were males and nine females. Forty-three died in Makkah while six in M...