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Flood situation improves in Moulvibazar

Flood situation improves in Moulvibazar

-- 2018-06-23 19:38:55

The overall flood condition in Moulvibazar slightly improved on Saturday, but the sufferings of flood affected people have increased immensely. The flood water has started reducing from Moulvibazar m...

Road crashes claim 37 lives

Road crashes claim 37 lives

-- 2018-06-23 19:30:06

At least 37 people have died in road accidents in Gaibandha, Rangpur, Natore, Gopalganj, Faridpur, Savar, Sirajganj, Tangail, Narsingdi and Chuadanga. Eighteen people were killed after a bus overturn...

Police arrest former female councillor with yaba in Bagerhat

Police arrest former female councillor with yaba in Bagerhat

-- 2018-06-23 18:47:42

Police arrested a former female ward councillor of Morrelganj Municipality along with yaba tablets from her house at East Sarail in Bagerhat on Saturday. Arrestee Nasima Begum, 45, wife of Zahangir A...

BGB seizes 52kg hemp in Brahmanbaria

BGB seizes 52kg hemp in Brahmanbaria

-- 2018-06-23 18:32:17

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday recovered 52 kilograms of hemp from a pick up van at Bijoynagar of Brahmanbaria. Acting on a tip-off, the BGB team of Mukundpur camp in Paharpur union, led b...

Govt plans to upgrade Jatrabari-Demra road into four-lane

Govt plans to upgrade Jatrabari-Demra road into four-lane

-- 2018-06-23 18:11:27

The government has planned to upgrade the existing 5.4-km Jatrabari-Demra road into four-lane aiming to ease traffic congestion at the entrance of the capital Dhaka. “The Roads and Highways Dep...

UN, World Bank chiefs to visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar

UN, World Bank chiefs to visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar

-- 2018-06-23 17:36:09

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim are coming to Bangladesh to visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. They will visit the camps to witness the suffe...

AL observes 69th founding anniversary

AL observes 69th founding anniversary

-- 2018-06-23 17:04:42

Leaders and activists of ruling Awami League observed 69th founding anniversary of the party on Friday. AL leaders and its front organisations paid tribute to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu She...

Take preparation for next election, PM asks AL leaders

Take preparation for next election, PM asks AL leaders

-- 2018-06-23 16:36:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the grassroots leaders and activists of Awami League to take preparation for next general election. The Awami League president gave the direction while speak...

NBR forms spl unit to reduce risk of state security

NBR forms spl unit to reduce risk of state security

-- 2018-06-23 16:10:53

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has formed 'Risk Management Central Technical Unit (RMCTU)' to reduce the risk of state security and duty evasion at all levels, including false declarations. Th...

Miscreants snatch drug pedlar from police custody

Miscreants snatch drug pedlar from police custody

-- 2018-06-23 16:00:02

A drug peddler was snatched from police custody by his cohorts at Jalanda village in Boraigram upazila in Natore on Saturday. Officer-in-charge of Boraigram Police Station Dilip Kumar Das said as par...

UN peacekeeping official due Sunday

UN peacekeeping official due Sunday

-- 2018-06-23 15:48:23

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix arrives in Dhaka on Sunday on a three-day visit. He will also visit three other nations—Nepal, India, and Pakistan&...

Met office forecasts rain over country

Met office forecasts rain over country

-- 2018-06-23 15:19:47

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind and lightning flashes are likely to occur at many places across the country in the next 24 hours ending 9 am on Sunday. &l...

Three BD mountaineers climb Mt. Lhakpa Ri

Three BD mountaineers climb Mt. Lhakpa Ri

FE Online Report 2018-06-23 14:47:55

Three Bangladeshi mountaineers have conquered Lhakpa Ri (Xang Dong Feng), a 23,113-foot Himalayan peak in Tibet. The three mountaineers—MA Mohit, Bahlul Maznu and Shayla Parvin Bithi—re...

Police recover body of ‘drug pedlar’ in Chuadanga

Police recover body of ‘drug pedlar’ in Chuadanga

-- 2018-06-23 13:12:03

Police recovered the body of a suspected drug trader from Satkopat area in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Oltu Mandal, 27, son of Mohasin Ali, a re...

PM inaugurates AL’s new office building

PM inaugurates AL’s new office building

-- 2018-06-23 11:50:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the newly constructed head office building of Bangladesh Awami League at city’s Bangabandhu Avenue at Gulistan on Saturday, coinciding the 69th founding...

ADB to provide $300m for infrastructure projects

ADB to provide $300m for infrastructure projects

Syful Islam 2018-06-23 10:50:38

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to provide US$300 million to state-run Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL) to catalyse long-term infrastructure project finance. The BIFFL w...

RAB arrests 20 ‘addicts’ in Rajshahi

RAB arrests 20 ‘addicts’ in Rajshahi

-- 2018-06-23 10:42:41

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 20 people on charge of using narcotics in Rajshahi on Friday. On a tip-off, a team of the elite anti-crime force conducted raids in different areas of Godagari u...

Another drug suspect dies in ‘gunfight’ with police

Another drug suspect dies in ‘gunfight’ with police

-- 2018-06-23 10:29:23

Another suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Mahmudpur field in municipality area of Sirajganj district early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Hossa...

Outflow of women migrants on rise despite workplace abuse

Outflow of women migrants on rise despite workplace abuse

Arafat Ara 2018-06-23 10:05:36

The number of women workers leaving for Saudi Arabia for jobs has increased in recent months despite the fact that workplace abuse has forced many to return home. A total of 39,578 women migrants wen...

BR automation move suffers on anomalies, manpower shortage

BR automation move suffers on anomalies, manpower shortage

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-06-23 10:03:01

The automation and reform initiatives of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) have faced a setback due to large-scale anomalies in implementation of the project concerned and shortage of required manpower, ins...

Overcrowding of prisons strains budgetary funds

Overcrowding of prisons strains budgetary funds

Jubair Hasan 2018-06-23 09:50:34

The jail authorities are facing hardship to accommodate an increasing number of inmates, placing strains on its limited budget, officials said. This leads to financial constraints, while making it di...

Agri sector not getting its due in nat'l budget

Agri sector not getting its due in nat'l budget

FE Report 2018-06-23 09:36:21

The country's agriculture sector is witnessing a sluggish growth in recent years and it is inadequate to propel the targeted GDP growth, experts warned at a seminar in the capital on Friday. At the s...

Road crashes kill 33 in eight districts

Road crashes kill 33 in eight districts

-- 2018-06-23 09:29:47

At least 33 people were killed and 105 others injured in road accidents in eight districts on Saturday. Among the victims, 16 were killed in Gaibandha, six in Rangpur, two each in Natore, Gopalganj,...

AL finalises mayoral candidates for three cities

AL finalises mayoral candidates for three cities

-- 2018-06-22 20:42:49

Awami League has nominated AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Badar Uddin Kamran and Serniabat Sadeq Abdullah to contest Rajshahi, Sylhet Barishal city corporation elections respectively. The ruling party final...

Make fruits available year round: Matia

Make fruits available year round: Matia

-- 2018-06-22 20:30:27

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has urged scientists to invent ways to ensure the availability of fruits all over the year. The minister said around 60 per cent of the fruits are available in th...

Fruit festival kicks off in the capital

Fruit festival kicks off in the capital

FE Online Report 2018-06-22 20:23:49

The ‘National Fruit Tree Planting Fortnight’ and ‘National Fruit Exhibition-2018’ began at the AKM Giasuddin Milky Auditorium at the capital’s Farmgate area on Friday. L...

Chattogram road crash leaves four dead

Chattogram road crash leaves four dead

-- 2018-06-22 19:10:56

At least four people were killed and many injured as a bus tumbled into a roadside ditch on Chattogram- Rangamati road at Dhalarmukh in Raozan upazila on Friday. The identities of the deceased could...

Divers recover drowned bodies of two missing students

Divers recover drowned bodies of two missing students

-- 2018-06-22 18:24:13

The two students, who had gone missing in the Bay of Bengal while swimming in Bashbaria beach under Sitakunda upazila on Thursday, were found dead on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as...

'AL will certainly feel necessity of dialogue'

'AL will certainly feel necessity of dialogue'

-- 2018-06-22 16:39:02

BNP leader Moudud Ahmed has said Awami League will certainly feel the necessity of dialogue. Referring to a statement of AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, Moudud said: "You will certainly feel the...

Rab arrests bus driver, helper with Yaba

Rab arrests bus driver, helper with Yaba

-- 2018-06-22 16:29:56

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a bus driver and his helper along with 2401 Yaba tablets from Rupnagar area in the capital on Friday morning. The arrestees are driver Md Z...