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Detectives arrest mother, son with '2,000 Yaba tablets'

Detectives arrest mother, son with '2,000 Yaba tablets'

-- 2018-05-25 16:39:26

Detectives arrested a woman and her son allegedly along with 2,000 Yaba tablets from a village in Saturia upazila of Manikganj on Friday. The arrestees were identified as Ayesha Begum, 48, and her so...

Garment workers demand Eid bonus within June 6

Garment workers demand Eid bonus within June 6

-- 2018-05-25 16:16:48

The National Garment Workers Federation has urged authorities of all factories to pay festival bonus for Eid-ul-Fitr within June 6. The Federation came up with the demand from a meeting held in front...

Two die in Chattogram road crash

Two die in Chattogram road crash

-- 2018-05-25 16:03:37

Two men were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Kumira Gul Ahmed Jute Mills Gate area under Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram district Friday. The deceased were identified as...

Moudud hints at street movement after Eid

Moudud hints at street movement after Eid

-- 2018-05-25 15:40:59

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed has said that their party will begin harsher programmes after Eid-ul-Fitr as it is the only way to realise their demands and free their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail...

BD fifth largest Muslim consumer food spending market

BD fifth largest Muslim consumer food spending market

FE Online Report 2018-05-25 15:21:53

Bangladesh has been ranked as the fifth largest Muslim consumer food expenditure market in the world, according to an estimate unveiled in the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2017-18. It e...

PM Hasina, Modi unveil Bangladesh Bhavana

PM Hasina, Modi unveil Bangladesh Bhavana

FE Online Desk 2018-05-25 13:54:36

  Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have jointly unveiled the plaque of Bangladesh Bhavan at Visva-Bharati University, founded by Rabindranath Tago...

RAB destroys 45,000 litres liquor in Rajshahi

RAB destroys 45,000 litres liquor in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-25 12:05:04

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 45,000 litres of domestically produced liquor and arrested 22 people involved in drug-addiction and trading from different areas in Rajshahi district on...

Police recover Bishnu statue in Gobindaganj

Police recover Bishnu statue in Gobindaganj

-- 2018-05-25 11:47:56

Police in a raid recovered a Bishnu statue from a house at Raza Birat village of Gobindaganj upazila on Thursday. Acting on a tip off, a team of police conducted a drive at the house and seized the s...

Ten more die as war on drugs continues

Ten more die as war on drugs continues

-- 2018-05-25 11:31:13

Ten more people have been killed in what security forces describe as shootouts as Bangladesh’s war on drugs continued amid criticism from different rights groups and rival political parties. Th...

PM reaches Kolkata to open Bangladesh Bhavana

PM reaches Kolkata to open Bangladesh Bhavana

-- 2018-05-25 10:49:10

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached the West Bengal to join her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the opening of Bangladesh Bhavana at the Visva-Bharati during a convocation of the university....

PM leaves Dhaka for Kolkata

PM leaves Dhaka for Kolkata

-- 2018-05-25 10:03:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka on a two-day visit to West Bengal at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Prime Mini...

Boro harvest nears end in Sylhet, Panchagarh

Boro harvest nears end in Sylhet, Panchagarh

Our Correspondent 2018-05-24 22:19:17

SYLHET, May 24: Boro harvest is about to be completed in days in Sylhet region and the common farmers are seemed to be happy as they managed making a safe harvest amid a troubled weather. Non-haor are...

National Poet Nazrul’s 119th birth anniversary Friday

National Poet Nazrul’s 119th birth anniversary Friday

-- 2018-05-24 22:11:47

National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 119th birth anniversary will be celebrated in the country on Friday in a befitting manner. Born on May 25, 1899 at village Churulia in Burdwan district of West...

Three workers die from electrocution in Jamalpur

Three workers die from electrocution in Jamalpur

-- 2018-05-24 21:08:29

Three persons were killed and five others injured from electrocution at Islampur upazila in Jamalpur district Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Hasan, 25, Taher, 20, and Obaidul, 22...

119th birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam Friday

119th birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam Friday

-- 2018-05-24 21:05:16

The 119th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed on Friday. An elaborate programme has been taken to mark the day. Different organisations and cultural bodies in the ca...

PM inquires about Mahmud Abbas's health

PM inquires about Mahmud Abbas's health

-- 2018-05-24 19:57:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday talked to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to inquire about his health over telephone. The Prime Minister phoned Abbas at about 5:15pm and talked to him. Sh...

Thrust on launching anti-tobacco campaign

Thrust on launching anti-tobacco campaign

FE Online Report 2018-05-24 18:40:04

Increased anti-tobacco campaign is necessary in order to discourage people from consuming the harmful product, observed speakers on Thursday.   They came up with the assertion at an award giving...

JS body for preparing 'Road Transport (draft) Act-2017'

JS body for preparing 'Road Transport (draft) Act-2017'

-- 2018-05-24 18:29:59

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges on Thursday recommended measures to prepare the proposed 'Road Transport (draft) Act-2017' soon to ensure safe roads...

HRW for relocation of Rohingyas to safer places before monsoon  

HRW for relocation of Rohingyas to safer places before monsoon  

-- 2018-05-24 18:20:19

Tens of thousands of Rohingyas at different camps in Cox's Bazar are at imminent risk of landslides, Human Rights Watch said in a newly released online video. Bangladesh authorities with assistance f...

Dhaka Ahsania Mission wins Tobacco Control Award-2018

Dhaka Ahsania Mission wins Tobacco Control Award-2018

-- 2018-05-24 18:04:50

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) on Thursday got the Tobacco Control Award of this year in the institutional category for its outstanding contribution in tobacco control. The award was given at a programm...

Home Minister warns of stern action against drug dealers

Home Minister warns of stern action against drug dealers

-- 2018-05-24 17:58:09

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said there will be no place for drug traders in the city. "Actions will be taken against them following the list made based on intelligence information," he...

Govt’s ties with India one-sided: BNP

Govt’s ties with India one-sided: BNP

-- 2018-05-24 17:13:41

BNP on Thursday alleged that the government has failed to make any progress on the much-sought Teesta water-sharing deal over the last eight years as its relations with India are unilateral ones. "Aw...

EC allows MPs to join city election campaigns

EC allows MPs to join city election campaigns

-- 2018-05-24 16:57:13

Members of Parliaments (MPs) are allowed to participate in city corporation election campaigns from now on. Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed on Thursday said they have amended ele...

RAB detains two with Tk 250m cobra venom in city

RAB detains two with Tk 250m cobra venom in city

-- 2018-05-24 15:43:00

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people along with venom of cobra snake worth about Tk 250 million, from the city's Dakhhinkhan area, on Wednesday afternoon. "We arrested Abdus Samad, 55, o...

Eid advance train ticket sale from June 1

Eid advance train ticket sale from June 1

-- 2018-05-24 15:02:33

The authorities of Bangladesh Railway have decided to start the sale of train tickets on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr from June 1, a day ahead of its earlier announced date. Railway Minister Mazibul H...

Teenager dies in police custody in Brahmanbaria

Teenager dies in police custody in Brahmanbaria

-- 2018-05-24 13:39:54

A teenager, who was arrested over an alleged theft, died in police custody in Brahmanbaria, according to his family. The victim, Russell Miah, 19, was the son of Robi Miah from Madhapara area in the...

Rajshahi starts mango exports to Europe's chain shops

Rajshahi starts mango exports to Europe's chain shops

-- 2018-05-24 12:25:34

Keeping their traditional intrinsic value and similar to previous years, Rajshahi has started export of mangoes to eight European countries such as England, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Fran...

Huge Yaba haul in Teknaf

Huge Yaba haul in Teknaf

-- 2018-05-24 11:26:47

Police in a drive have found 0.25 million pieces of contraband Yaba pills worth Tk 75 million from a house at Habirchhara Ghat in Teknaf upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police raided the hous...

Cops recover bullet-riddled body of man in Satkhira

Cops recover bullet-riddled body of man in Satkhira

-- 2018-05-24 11:24:12

A bullet-riddled body of an unidentified man was found at Hizla Chandipur in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira early Thursday. Being informed by locals, police recovered the body from the area in the morn...

Chattogram road crash kills truck diver

Chattogram road crash kills truck diver

-- 2018-05-24 11:16:23

A driver of a truck died and two others sustained injuries when the stone-laden truck hit a covered van at Fouzdarhat Jalil Textile Gate on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda upazila of the port ci...