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Continue pressure on Myanmar: PM

Continue pressure on Myanmar: PM

-- 2018-04-27 13:47:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call for putting continued pressure on Myanmar from different levels for the safe return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. The appeal was made when...

$0.5m Kazakhstan aids for Rohingyas

$0.5m Kazakhstan aids for Rohingyas

FE Online Desk 2018-04-27 13:44:37

The Government of Kazakhstan has allocated 0.50 million US dollars as humanitarian aid to Rohingya refugees who have taken shelter in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. Mr. Barlybay Sadyk...

Vietnam seeks Bangladesh support over UNSC membership

Vietnam seeks Bangladesh support over UNSC membership

-- 2018-04-27 13:31:48

Vietnam has sought Bangladesh's support to its candidature for membership to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2020-2021 session. Vice President of Vietnam Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh sought the support...

Police recover throat-slit body of cloth trader

Police recover throat-slit body of cloth trader

-- 2018-04-27 13:24:30

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a cloth trader in Konkolosh area in Beanibazar upazila on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as Shaiban Ahmed, 55, owner of 'Aboroni Fashion' at...

Forest officials seize timber worth Tk 5m

Forest officials seize timber worth Tk 5m

-- 2018-04-27 12:43:36

Forest officials in a drive seized timbers worth Tk 5 million from a forest in Dighinala upazila on Thursday. Harunur Rashid, an official of the Naraichhari range, said a team of forest officials wit...

Miscreants stab youth to death in Sylhet

Miscreants stab youth to death in Sylhet

-- 2018-04-27 12:30:47

A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants following a dispute over sharing business money at Kazirbazar Bridge in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ali, 30, a residen...

BGB detains ‘smuggler’ with seven gold bars

BGB detains ‘smuggler’ with seven gold bars

-- 2018-04-27 11:52:52

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a raid arrested a suspected smuggler along with seven gold bars worth Tk 3.50 million from a bus in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district on Friday. The a...

Separate ‘gunfights’ leave two robbers dead

Separate ‘gunfights’ leave two robbers dead

-- 2018-04-27 11:29:15

Two suspected robbers were killed in separate gunfights in Laxmipur and Rajshahi districts on Friday. In Laxmipur, an alleged robber—Nurul Alam alias Nuru, son of Samsuddoha of East Zafarpur vi...

PM reaches Sydney

PM reaches Sydney

FE Online Desk 2018-04-27 10:07:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Sydney this (Friday) morning on a three-day official visit to Australia at the invitation of her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull to receive the Global...

60pc youths for avoiding others’ religious festivals, finds survey

60pc youths for avoiding others’ religious festivals, finds survey

FE Report 2018-04-27 00:18:11

Sixty per cent of youths feel that a person of a particular religion should not participate in festivals of other religions or take food during that time while 50 per cent think violence is allowed to...

RU prof innovates new paddy  variety ‘Rabi Dhan-1’

RU prof innovates new paddy variety ‘Rabi Dhan-1’

RU Correspondent 2018-04-26 21:52:02

RAJSHAHI, Apr 26: Professor of Agronomy and Agricultural Extension Department of Rajshahi Department Dr. Aminul Haque innovated a new paddy variety named 'Rabi Dhan-1'. The yield of the new variety w...

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road accident

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road accident

-- 2018-04-26 21:20:30

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Madhupur under Tarakandha upazila in Mymensingh on Thursday evening. The deceased were identified as Anamul Haque, son of Mufazzel Hossain of Duha...

Buddhist monk hacks fellow to death in Bandarban

Buddhist monk hacks fellow to death in Bandarban

-- 2018-04-26 21:20:30

A Buddhist monk was hacked to death by another monk at a monastery in Bakichhara Tungkhapara of Sadar upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mongthui Sang alias Nainda Vikkhu, 78. Polic...

EU for inclusive, credible polls in Bangladesh

EU for inclusive, credible polls in Bangladesh

-- 2018-04-26 20:36:41

The European Union (EU) at a meeting in the city on Thursday hoped that the government of Bangladesh will ensure conditions for credible, transparent and inclusive elections. At the meeting, Banglade...

 ‘No Bangladeshis killed by BSF this year’

 ‘No Bangladeshis killed by BSF this year’

-- 2018-04-26 20:29:51

No Bangladeshi nationals were killed this year along Indo-Bangla border till to date as BSF started maintaining non-lethal strategy. Director General (DG) of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) KK Sha...

Three officials promoted to secretaries

Three officials promoted to secretaries

-- 2018-04-26 20:13:26

The government has elevated three acting secretaries to the rank of secretaries. The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Thursday, reports UNB. The newly promoted...

BGB detains four Indian citizens over border trespassing

BGB detains four Indian citizens over border trespassing

-- 2018-04-26 18:13:01

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four Indian nationals from Chargaon border area in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj on Thursday morning. The detainees are Arjit Hajong, 60, his wife De...

Tarique Rahman no longer a BD citizen: Anisul Huq

Tarique Rahman no longer a BD citizen: Anisul Huq

-- 2018-04-26 18:08:19

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman is no longer a Bangladeshi citizen. "As long as Tarique had passport in his hand, he was a Bangladeshi citizen, but he surr...

EC rules out army deployment in Gazipur, Khulna polls

EC rules out army deployment in Gazipur, Khulna polls

-- 2018-04-26 18:05:31

The Election Commission has categorically said it will not deploy the army in the upcoming city corporation elections in Gazipur and Khulna. Police and the Rapid Action Battalion backed by border gua...

BNP smells rat over AL leaders’ India visit

BNP smells rat over AL leaders’ India visit

-- 2018-04-26 17:21:01

BNP on Thursday alleged that a 19-member Awami League delegation went to India as part of the party's 'desperate move' to hold another 'lopsided' general election in the country with interference by o...

PM leaves for Australia

PM leaves for Australia

-- 2018-04-26 14:26:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka for Sydney on Thursday afternoon on a three-day official visit to Australia at the invitation of her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull. During her st...

KCC poll campaign gains momentum

KCC poll campaign gains momentum

-- 2018-04-26 14:20:52

With only 18 days left, campaign for the upcoming election of Khulna City Corporation (KCC), scheduled to be held on May 15, has gained momentum. After getting election symbol, all the candidates fo...

‘Citizenship not linked to passport surrendering’

‘Citizenship not linked to passport surrendering’

FE Online Desk 2018-04-26 13:56:33

The head of the country’s Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has said there is no connection between citizenship and passport surrendering. DIP director general Maj Gen Md Masud Rez...

Mirpur building fire: Man dies too after child, wife

Mirpur building fire: Man dies too after child, wife

-- 2018-04-26 13:56:15

The man who sustained burn injuries of which his child and wife already died has met the same fate. Thirty-five-year-old Manik, who was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with 95 per c...

Pregnant woman among three die in road crash

Pregnant woman among three die in road crash

-- 2018-04-26 13:15:52

Three people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in a road crash at Paglapir in Sadar upazila on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Moni Begum, 25, Moni's aunt Asia Begum, 50 and Tushar,...

DU student gets life for strategically killing wife

DU student gets life for strategically killing wife

-- 2018-04-26 12:26:38

A court in Satkhira on Wednesday sentenced a student of Dhaka University (DU) to life term imprisonment for killing his wife, also a DU student from Khanpur village in Sadar upazila in 2012. The cond...

Accidental drowning kills siblings in Habiganj

Accidental drowning kills siblings in Habiganj

-- 2018-04-26 12:07:30

Two siblings drowned in a pond at Shaestaganj Poura hospital road area in Habiganj on Wednesday evening. The victims were identified as Sourav Miah, 15, son of Zahir Miah and his sister Anufa Akhte,...

BGIC recommends 10pc cash dividend

BGIC recommends 10pc cash dividend

FE Online Report 2018-04-26 12:02:43

The board of directors of Bangladesh General Insurance Company (BGIC) has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017, said an official disclosure on Thursday. The f...

Police detain 32 in Habiganj

Police detain 32 in Habiganj

-- 2018-04-26 11:34:24

Police, in regular drives arrested 32 people including 12 wanted accused and two drug traders from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 9 am this morning. Assistant Superintende...

BGB seizes 37 kg gold in Chuadanga border

BGB seizes 37 kg gold in Chuadanga border

-- 2018-04-26 10:53:51

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized 320 gold bars weighing around 37 kg from the Mathabhanga River along Nastipur border in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga Wednesday. BGB battalion- command...