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Netrokona police detain 23 in special drive

Netrokona police detain 23 in special drive

-- 2018-05-20 11:54:30

Police in a special drive arrested 23 people, including drug traders and sex workers, from different areas in Netrokona district town early Sunday. Md Borhan Uddin, officer-in-charge of Netrakona Mod...

Five suspects die in ‘gunfights’ with police

Five suspects die in ‘gunfights’ with police

-- 2018-05-20 11:52:03

Police say that five people have been killed in shootouts in Mymensingh, Barisal, Feni, Jashore and Dinajpur early on Sunday morning. Reazul Islam Biplob, approximately 40, was killed in a gunfight w...

Land acquisition delay backpedals on regional railway project

Land acquisition delay backpedals on regional railway project

Munima Sultana 2018-05-20 10:15:55

The railway's regional connectivity project faced delay as over 100-kilometre rail line from Dohazari of Chattogram to Cox's Bazar could not be constructed upon failure to acquire land. Officials sai...

Govt set to earn over Tk 1.0b in capital gains tax

Govt set to earn over Tk 1.0b in capital gains tax

Mohammad Mufazzal 2018-05-20 10:03:44

The government would get around Tk 1.1 billion in taxes at source from the revenue earned by the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) through the sale of its shares to the Chinese consortium, now a strategic pa...

'Traffic congestion in Dhaka causes Tk 370b annual loss'

'Traffic congestion in Dhaka causes Tk 370b annual loss'

-- 2018-05-19 21:51:44

Traffic congestion in Dhaka is causing a loss of Tk 370 billion annually, which is equal to 11 per cent of the national budget, according to a recent study. The research also said the people in Dhaka...

Taking selfie before moving train: Injured Ctg boy dies

Taking selfie before moving train: Injured Ctg boy dies

-- 2018-05-19 21:17:22

The teenage boy, who sustained injuries while taking selfie in front of a moving train, died while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Saturday. The deceased was identified...

Transport workers block Dhaka-Ctg highway

Transport workers block Dhaka-Ctg highway

-- 2018-05-19 20:20:41

Transport workers blocked the Dhaka- Chattogram highway in front of Load Control Station (weighing scale) in Sitakunda upazila for two hours on Saturday protesting an alleged assault on a truck driver...

'Govt fails to keep market stable during Ramadan'

'Govt fails to keep market stable during Ramadan'

-- 2018-05-19 20:12:52

Two BNP leaders have alleged that the government has failed to control the market at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan. BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and BNP s...

CIID seizes mobile phones worth Tk 29m

CIID seizes mobile phones worth Tk 29m

-- 2018-05-19 19:59:15

Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) on Saturday seized 262 illegal mobile phones, including 121 expensive iPhones by conducting drives at city's Bashundhara Shopping...

Lightning strikes leave three dead in Chattogram

Lightning strikes leave three dead in Chattogram

-- 2018-05-19 19:40:46

Three people were killed and two others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Banshkhali and Sandwip upazilas in Chattogram on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Latun Barua, 55...

RAB destroys 1,100 maunds of chemically-ripened mangoes

RAB destroys 1,100 maunds of chemically-ripened mangoes

-- 2018-05-19 18:35:25

A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Saturday destroyed around 1,100 maunds of chemically ripened mangoes and jailed six traders at the Mazar Road area of Mirpur-1 in the city. Execu...

Ctg port congestion worsens on highway gridlock

Ctg port congestion worsens on highway gridlock

Pankaj Dastider 2018-05-19 18:24:40

Chattogram port is facing a severe problem in the delivery of cargo stockpiled in its yards due to the unprecedented tailback on the Chattogram-Dhaka Highway and the inter-district roads. Although th...

Over 1.0m people living in Chattogram hills amid landslide risks  

Over 1.0m people living in Chattogram hills amid landslide risks  

-- 2018-05-19 18:09:16

More than 1.0 million people have been living on the slopes of 30 hills in Chattogram amid danger of landslides during monsoon. According to the Divisional Hill Management Committee, these 1.0million...

Govt follows zero tolerance against drugs: Minister

Govt follows zero tolerance against drugs: Minister

-- 2018-05-19 17:54:48

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said that the government follows a zero tolerance policy to control the drug business in the country. "If anyone found guilty of extrajudicial killing...

Relocation of 100,000 Rohingyas to Bhasanchar within two months  

Relocation of 100,000 Rohingyas to Bhasanchar within two months  

-- 2018-05-19 17:29:54

Some 100,000 Rohingyas, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh amid persecution in Myanmar, will be relocated to Bhasanchar of Hatiya upazila in Noakhali within two months. Disaster Management and Reli...

Miscreants hack youth to death in Savar

Miscreants hack youth to death in Savar

-- 2018-05-19 17:08:44

Miscreants hacked a young man to death and injured his brother at Uttar Kolma in Savar Sadar union in the city on Saturday morning over previous enmity. The deceased was identified as Ershad Sikder,...

Quota protestors postpone exam boycott programme

Quota protestors postpone exam boycott programme

-- 2018-05-19 17:06:01

The protesting jobseekers, who have been demanding reforms in quota system in government job recruitments, have postponed their examination boycott programme. They stated holy Ramadan and session jam...

Quader orders to repair roads by June 8

Quader orders to repair roads by June 8

-- 2018-05-19 16:53:08

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday asked the authorities concerned to repair all roads and highways by June 8 for smooth vehicular movement during the upcoming holy Eid-ul-...

DMP files 1,980 cases over violating traffic rules

DMP files 1,980 cases over violating traffic rules

-- 2018-05-19 15:56:47

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Friday filed 1,980 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also realised ov...

Cops recover bodies of two teenage ethnic girls in Ctg

Cops recover bodies of two teenage ethnic girls in Ctg

-- 2018-05-19 15:42:44

Two teenage girls of ethnic minority were found dead at Jangal Mahadevpur hilly village in Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Sukhlati Tripura, 15, daugh...

B’baria road accident claims three lives

B’baria road accident claims three lives

-- 2018-05-19 14:53:54

Three young men were killed as a bus rammed a CNG-run auto rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Malihata area in Sarail upazila in Brahmanbaria on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Nos...

Two international flights miss arrival schedules at HSIA

Two international flights miss arrival schedules at HSIA

FE Online Report 2018-05-19 14:31:14

Two international flights have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Saturday. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, BG026 from Doha was schedule...

Sericulture gets momentum in Rajshahi

Sericulture gets momentum in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-19 12:53:51

Field level promotional activities of sericulture are progressing with the aim of bringing back its lost glory through revitalising the sector. In last five fiscal years, Bangladesh Sericulture Deve...

One dies as auto-rikshaw overturns in Cox’s Bazar

One dies as auto-rikshaw overturns in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-05-19 11:44:02

A young man was killed and two other people were injured as an auto-rickshaw overturned after being hit by a truck at Kutupalong in Ukhia upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as R...

Man dies in Pabna clash

Man dies in Pabna clash

-- 2018-05-19 11:34:10

A man was killed and at least 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Char Ghoshpur village in sadar upazila of Pabna district on Friday evening. There had been a long st...

Three die in ‘shootout’ with RAB in Jessore

Three die in ‘shootout’ with RAB in Jessore

-- 2018-05-19 11:17:23

Police say three people have been killed in an alleged shootout with RAB in Jessore’s Abhaynagar, but the families of the dead claim that they were taken and murdered by the elite security force...

Dhaka for mobilising global pressure on Israel

Dhaka for mobilising global pressure on Israel

FE Online Desk 2018-05-19 11:07:50

Bangladesh has underlined the importance of mobilising international pressure on Israel for halting and reversing its policies and practices, urging the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to pl...

Murder suspect dies in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

Murder suspect dies in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-05-19 10:46:42

A murder accused has been killed in a reported gunfight with DB police in Chowrasta area of Nandail upazila in Mymensingh on early Saturday. The deceased Emon, son of Nurul Islam and a resident of Ko...

Weekly analysis: Stocks nosedive as selling frenzy continues

Weekly analysis: Stocks nosedive as selling frenzy continues

Babul Barman 2018-05-19 09:49:59

Stocks extended the loss for fourth straight week as worried investors continued heavy sell-offs amid lack of confidence. Core index of the Dhaka bourse hit one-year low, much to the chagrin of gen...

LGED set to spend Tk 75b addl  fund for 'upgrading' rural roads

LGED set to spend Tk 75b addl fund for 'upgrading' rural roads

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-19 00:51:11

The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is going to inject some Tk 75 billion in additional funds for upgrading rural roads, as those were not constructed by maintaining standard, officials...