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DC conference begins Sunday

DC conference begins Sunday

-- 2018-06-22 16:25:08

The annual conference of the deputy commissioners (DCs), a meeting of the heads of districts with policy makers of the government, will be held in the capital city on July 24-26. Prime Minister Sh...

Obaidul Quader sees no necessity of dialogue with BNP

Obaidul Quader sees no necessity of dialogue with BNP

-- 2018-06-22 16:24:10

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader sees no necessity of dialogue with BNP ahead of the next parliament election. “BNP missed the ‘train’ of dialogue by rejecting the prop...

PR in Canada from Bangladesh declines

PR in Canada from Bangladesh declines

FE Online Report 2018-06-22 16:15:44

Total number of Bangladeshis who have been granted Permanent Resident (PR) status in Canada has been declining for the last couple of years. Canadian official statistics showed that in 2015 some 3,30...

Four die, 23 injured in separate road crashes

Four die, 23 injured in separate road crashes

-- 2018-06-22 15:57:37

At least four people were killed and 23 others injured in two separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Naogaon districts on Friday morning. In Sirajganj, two people were killed and 23 others injur...

Bus plunges into Sirajganj ditch killing two

Bus plunges into Sirajganj ditch killing two

-- 2018-06-22 14:33:00

Two people were killed and 23 others injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Bogra highway in Bhuiyanganti Bazar area in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj on Friday morning. The deceased w...

Two die in Naogaon road accident

Two die in Naogaon road accident

-- 2018-06-22 12:50:36

Two people were killed when a truck hit a van at Godown Para in Sapahar upazila headquarters of Naogaon region on Friday. The deceased were identified as Abdus Salam, 24, son of Majed Ali of Shibganj...

Two ‘drug traders’ die in ‘gunfights’

Two ‘drug traders’ die in ‘gunfights’

-- 2018-06-22 12:28:39

Two suspected drug traders were killed in reported gunfights with police in Tarakanda and Trishal upazilas of Mymensingh early Friday. In Tarakanda, Ali Hossain, 38, son of Shahed Ali of the upazila,...

Man, his son, daughter found dead in Narsingdi

Man, his son, daughter found dead in Narsingdi

-- 2018-06-22 11:40:16

Police have found a man, his son and daughter dead in Narsingdi's Raipura upazila. The bodies of Kajol Mollah, 32, and his eight-year-old daughter Kakoli and five-year-old son Swan were recovered fro...

Police recover body of pry school teacher

Police recover body of pry school teacher

-- 2018-06-22 11:36:58

A school teacher was found dead at his Syedpur Sarkarpara house in Thakurgaon sadar upazila on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Ismail Hossain, an assistant teacher of Gedapara Governmen...

Cops arrest BGB man 'selling Yaba pills'

Cops arrest BGB man 'selling Yaba pills'

-- 2018-06-22 11:33:11

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was held reportedly with 54 pieces of Yaba tablets from Binodpur Bazar in Mohammadpur upazila under Magura district on Thursday. The arrestee was identified...

Mobile court jails 23 drug suspects

Mobile court jails 23 drug suspects

-- 2018-06-22 11:28:28

A mobile court in Rajshahi on Thursday sentenced 23 people to six months' jail for drug abuse. Mahbubul Alam, director of RAB-5, said the elite force in a drive arrested 20 'drug addicts' from differ...

Road crashes leave 10 dead in four districts

Road crashes leave 10 dead in four districts

-- 2018-06-21 21:14:11

At least 10 people were killed and 50 others injured in separate road accidents in Khulna, Bhola, Kishoreganj and Khagrachhari districts on Thursday. In Khulna, five people were killed and 14 others...

JS body for report on blue economy act within a month

JS body for report on blue economy act within a month

-- 2018-06-21 21:07:41

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry on Thursday recommended submitting a report on the draft of Blue Economy Authority Act within a month. The committee c...

Increasing supply leads  to lower mango prices

Increasing supply leads to lower mango prices

-- 2018-06-21 21:04:43

Our Correspondent RAJSHAHI, June 21: An abundant supply of mango in the markets and its low price is frustrating mango growers and mango traders of the district. It is learnt, mango is regarded as mai...

Nat’l Fruit Exhibition begins Friday

Nat’l Fruit Exhibition begins Friday

-- 2018-06-21 21:00:43

The National Fruit Tree Planting Fortnight and ‘National Fruit Exhibition’ under the initiative of Agriculture Ministry will begin at Krishibid Institution at Farmgate in the city on Frida...

Man dies as tree falls on him 

Man dies as tree falls on him 

-- 2018-06-21 20:12:13

A man was killed and two others injured as a tree fell on them at Kalna village in Koyra upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Tipu Sikdar, 47 son of Ali Sikdar of Tikari Bazar area in...

Art show on Rohingyas begins in city

Art show on Rohingyas begins in city

-- 2018-06-21 19:42:50

A weeklong art exhibition on Rohingya refugees kicked off at Liberation War Museum in the city on Wednesday with lighting the candles. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is hosting the exhibition in colla...

Legal action against agencies failing to send hajj pilgrims

Legal action against agencies failing to send hajj pilgrims

-- 2018-06-21 19:07:43

The Religious Affairs Ministry will take legal action against those hajj agencies who fail to send pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year for not buying air ticket in due time. The ministry issued an urg...

BTV still most favourite!

BTV still most favourite!

-- 2018-06-21 18:40:28

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has claimed that Bangladesh Television (BTV), with 83 per cent viewers, is still the most popular television channel in the country.   The minister came up w...

Three-day DC conference to begin July 24

Three-day DC conference to begin July 24

-- 2018-06-21 18:35:52

Three-day conference of the Deputy Commissioners (DCs), an annual meeting of the heads of districts with policy makers of the government, will begin on July 24. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wi...

Rupsha power plant to produce 800MW in 2021

Rupsha power plant to produce 800MW in 2021

-- 2018-06-21 18:33:02

Sate Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Thursday expected that Rupsha 800MW Combined Cycle Power plant will commence its generation in June 2021. “We have floated...

29,000 academic bodies working to mobilise anti-narcotics public opinion

29,000 academic bodies working to mobilise anti-narcotics public opinion

-- 2018-06-21 18:25:35

As many as 29,000 anti-narcotic committees in various educational institutions up to degree level have been working to drum up public opinion against drugs aimed at mainly saving the new generation fr...

11 factories sealed off, 137 cases filed during Ramadan: BSTI

11 factories sealed off, 137 cases filed during Ramadan: BSTI

-- 2018-06-21 17:23:04

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) sealed off eleven factories and filed 137 cases during anti-adulteration drives in the capital throughout the month of Ramadan. They conducted a to...

Science ministry signs APA with eight subordinate bodies

Science ministry signs APA with eight subordinate bodies

-- 2018-06-21 17:11:10

The Ministry of Science and Technology on Thursday signed the ‘Annual Performance Agreement (APA)’ for 2018-19 fiscal with its eight subordinate bodies aimed at escalating government&rsquo...

Tonu murder suspects’ DNA reports next week  

Tonu murder suspects’ DNA reports next week  

-- 2018-06-21 17:04:24

The DNA report on the suspected killers of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, who was killed in Cumilla 27 months back, will be disclosed next week. Investigation officer of the case Jalal Uddin Ahmed said police re...

Road accident in Bhola kills two

Road accident in Bhola kills two

-- 2018-06-21 17:03:41

A man and a teenage boy were killed and six others injured following a collision between a human hauler and a trolley in Helipad area of Charfassion upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased were ide...

Coast guard arrests one with gold bars in Teknaf

Coast guard arrests one with gold bars in Teknaf

-- 2018-06-21 16:40:06

Members of Coast Guard arrested a suspected smuggler along with four gold bars from Baroitoli area in Teknaf upazila at Cox’s Bazar early Thursday. Lt Commander B N Abdullah Al Maruf of Coast G...

Order on Khaleda’s bail petitions July 5

Order on Khaleda’s bail petitions July 5

-- 2018-06-21 16:34:48

Two courts in Dhaka on Thursday fixed July 5 to pass their orders on the bail petitions of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases, -- one for celebrating 'fake' birthday and another for undermining...

Two get death penalty for murder in Natore

Two get death penalty for murder in Natore

-- 2018-06-21 16:07:44

A Natore court on Thursday sentenced a man and his friend to death for killing his wife in 2016. The convicts were identified as Shahmim, 26, son of Shahajamal and Ramijul Alam, 23, son of Nur Islam...

Country observes World Hydrography Day

Country observes World Hydrography Day

FE Online Desk 2018-06-21 15:54:06

Bangladesh has observed World Hydrography Day with an aim to highlighting the importance of Hydrography. This year the theme of the day is “Bathymetry-the foundation for sustainable seas, oc...