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Bangladeshi passport holder Rohingyas tarnishing country’s image: Minister

Bangladeshi passport holder Rohingyas tarnishing country’s image: Minister

FE Online Report 2018-04-28 19:25:11

Around 250,000 Bangladeshi passport holder Rohingyas, currently residing abroad, are involved in various criminal activities and tarnishing the country’s image, said expatriates’ welfare m...

Buddha Purnima Sunday

Buddha Purnima Sunday

-- 2018-04-28 19:04:00

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country on Sunday. Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death. On thi...

Another loses limb in bus accident on Dhaka flyover

Another loses limb in bus accident on Dhaka flyover

-- 2018-04-28 18:42:14

A man has lost his leg after being hit by a bus on the Mayor Mohammad Hanif flyover in Dhaka’s Jatrabari on Saturday. The victim is identified as Md Russell, 25, says a bdnews24 report. He is...

2,429 cases filed over traffic rule violations

2,429 cases filed over traffic rule violations

-- 2018-04-28 18:30:06

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Thursday filed 2,429 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also realised...

Ensure Khaleda's treatment at United Hospital: Fakhrul

Ensure Khaleda's treatment at United Hospital: Fakhrul

-- 2018-04-28 17:29:59

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the government to ensure 'better treatment' of Khaleda Zia at United Hospital in the capital. The BNP leader made the demand after meeting...

Khaleda may get crippled, lose eyesight: fears physicians

Khaleda may get crippled, lose eyesight: fears physicians

-- 2018-04-28 16:34:26

BNP on Saturday alleged that the party's ‘critically ill’ Chairperson Khaleda Zia cannot be taken to a specialised hospital for better treatment as a file in this regard are stuck at the P...

Female farmer pioneers purple rice farming in Gaibandha

Female farmer pioneers purple rice farming in Gaibandha

-- 2018-04-28 16:13:26

Dulali Begum, a resident of Surandah village at Ramjibon union in Sundarganj upazila, has set an example and generated huge interest among local farmers cultivating purple rice. Purple rice is a rare...

AL leader among nine accused of killing JL activist

AL leader among nine accused of killing JL activist

-- 2018-04-28 14:18:22

The family of Juba League activist Farid Islam, who was killed in a shootout over the control of a cable TV business in Chattogram, has filed a case against nine people, including an Awami League lead...

Rohingya camps face ‘life threatening’ funding crisis

Rohingya camps face ‘life threatening’ funding crisis

-- 2018-04-28 13:46:33

Rohingya refugee camps are under imminent threat, unless urgent funding is secured in the next six weeks, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned. “Without new funding,...

116 families overcome poverty in Nilphamari

116 families overcome poverty in Nilphamari

-- 2018-04-28 13:32:10

Some 116 extremely poor families came out from the vicious cycle of poverty in Sarkerpara village under Ramnagar union of Sadar upazila in Nilphamari district. The villagers who used to lead very mis...

BRTA starts replacing old autorickshaws with new ones

BRTA starts replacing old autorickshaws with new ones

-- 2018-04-28 11:44:46

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has begun replacing several thousand old autorickshaws, sometimes referred to as ‘moving bombs’, in Dhaka and Chattogram. The process began...

BCL leader ‘beats up’ RU student

BCL leader ‘beats up’ RU student

-- 2018-04-28 10:48:23

A Rajshahi University student sustained injuries as a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) allegedly beat him up on Friday evening. Jihad Hossain, a 4th year student of Anthropology Department s...

Criminal dies in Mymensingh ‘shootout’

Criminal dies in Mymensingh ‘shootout’

-- 2018-04-28 10:32:47

A suspect in at least eight cases has been killed in an alleged shootout following his arrest in Mymensingh. The shootout occurred early on Saturday, when police had taken Kala Chan, 38, on a raid in...

Bhola fire guts dozens of shop

Bhola fire guts dozens of shop

-- 2018-04-28 10:25:11

At least 50 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at a market of Bhola district town early Saturday. The fire broke out from a shop in Monohari Potti around 12:45am and engulfed the adjoining st...

Man ‘beats father-in-law to death’ in Pabna

Man ‘beats father-in-law to death’ in Pabna

-- 2018-04-28 10:05:41

A man allegedly beat his father-in-law to death at Sonaharpara village in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna on Friday evening over a trifling matter. Md Shariful Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Chatmohar Police...

Country getting ready for post-LDC trade benefits

Country getting ready for post-LDC trade benefits

Syful Islam 2018-04-28 09:48:00

As Bangladesh is poised to graduate to a developing country, the government is getting prepared to claim new facilities in the global market, officials said. The national committee on export, heade...

Likely output glut eases rice import pressure

Likely output glut eases rice import pressure

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-04-28 09:37:08

The government has cut its high rice import target by 500,000 tonnes in the current financial year on the back of the "stabilised" local market. The ongoing Boro harvest, the biggest source of rice c...

Govt launches probe on London mission attack

Govt launches probe on London mission attack

-- 2018-04-27 21:49:40

The government has formed a high-profile committee to investigate the recent attack on the Bangladesh High Commission in London. Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New Yo...

AL welcomes informal meeting between China, India

AL welcomes informal meeting between China, India

-- 2018-04-27 21:22:37

Ruling Awami League (AL) has welcomed the informal meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be held on April 27-28 in China's Wuhan. "We welcome the mee...

'Tarique should return home to clear smokescreen over citizenship'

'Tarique should return home to clear smokescreen over citizenship'

-- 2018-04-27 20:36:27

BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman should return home to clear the smokescreen created over his Bangladeshi citizenship. Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya made t...

Minister seeks support from all for ensuring safe food

Minister seeks support from all for ensuring safe food

-- 2018-04-27 19:59:09

Food Minister Quamrul Islam has sought support from all stakeholders, including private sector, to ensure safe food healthy life of the people. Alongside the government's efforts, all stakeholders sh...

TIB urges to review drafted government employees act

TIB urges to review drafted government employees act

FE Online Report 2018-04-27 19:45:24

The Transparency international, Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the authorities concerned to review some provisions of drafted act for government employees. The watchdog made the call through a statement...

PM receives Global Women's Leadership Award

PM receives Global Women's Leadership Award

-- 2018-04-27 18:08:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the prestigious Global Women's Leadership Award at a ceremony in Sydney of Australia. Sheikh Hasina received the award at a Gala Dinner of the Global Summit...

AL will face music if fair polls conducted: Mosharraf

AL will face music if fair polls conducted: Mosharraf

-- 2018-04-27 17:59:57

Claiming that the ruling party has no popularity, BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Friday said Awami League will face dire consequences if a fair election is held. "The government has...

Govt provides free legal aid to over 300,000 people

Govt provides free legal aid to over 300,000 people

-- 2018-04-27 17:45:38

The government through its different organisations including National Legal Aid Services Organization (NLASO) has provided free legal assistance to 3,00,598 people from 2009 to March, 2018. "Of these...

UNSC delegation to visit Rohingya camps Sunday

UNSC delegation to visit Rohingya camps Sunday

-- 2018-04-27 17:23:07

A high-profile delegation of the UN Security Council is coming to Bangladesh to visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar. UNSC President for April Gustavo Meza-Cuadra will lead the UNSC delegation, says a...

Detectives arrest 45 Jamaat men in Gazipur

Detectives arrest 45 Jamaat men in Gazipur

-- 2018-04-27 17:11:57

Detectives arrested 45 leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami along with explosives from a resort at Pubail area of Gazipur on Friday. A team of Detective Branch of police arrested them, including Gaz...

Two die as truck rams ambulance in Bagura

Two die as truck rams ambulance in Bagura

-- 2018-04-27 17:05:08

Two people were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a truck at Ghoga Battala on Dhaka-Bogura highway in Sherpur upazila on Friday noon. The identities of t...

Rain accompanied by thundershowers likely

Rain accompanied by thundershowers likely

-- 2018-04-27 16:58:04

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind and lighting flashes is likely to occur at a few places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Rangpur, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet and Chi...

Gaibandha farmers see boost in chilli production

Gaibandha farmers see boost in chilli production

-- 2018-04-27 16:11:39

Chilli cultivation has changed lots of the char farmers of Fulchhari and Shaghata upazilas in the district in recent years. According to sources, the char farmers of the upazilas used to cultivate c...