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Pahela Baishakh celebrated

Pahela Baishakh celebrated

-- 2018-04-14 20:42:16

Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, was celebrated amid traditional festivities and enthusiasm across the country on Saturday.  The festivities began at dawn with the artistes fro...

Teen dies falling from tree in Jashore

Teen dies falling from tree in Jashore

-- 2018-04-14 19:55:33

A teenage boy died falling from a tree in Manirampur upazila of Jashore on Friday. The deceased was identified as Pranta Biswash, 16, son of Baneshwar Biswash of Balia-Pachakori village in the upazil...

RAB detains seven ‘militants’, including Red Cross worker

RAB detains seven ‘militants’, including Red Cross worker

-- 2018-04-14 19:03:27

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained seven suspected militants in Chattogram, including an employee of the International Red Cross. They have been identified as Md Mohiuddin Tamim; 29, Md Af...

5.3pc employed people have tertiary education

5.3pc employed people have tertiary education

FE Online Report 2018-04-14 17:57:58

Around 5.30 per cent of the country’s total employed population have completed tertiary level education, according to the latest data of the labour force survey. It also showed that the number...

BGB, BSF exchange sweets on Pahela Baishakh

BGB, BSF exchange sweets on Pahela Baishakh

-- 2018-04-14 17:20:10

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) entertained India's Border Security Force (BSF) members with sweetmeats on Saturday on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh. Members of BGB Battalion-18 distributed sweetmeat...

Rathish murder case: Accused dies in custody

Rathish murder case: Accused dies in custody

-- 2018-04-14 16:54:35

An accused in a case filed over Rangpur's public prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik murder has died in police custody. The deceased, Milon Kumar Mahant; 30, died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital a...

President Hamid to take oath on April 24

President Hamid to take oath on April 24

-- 2018-04-14 16:42:34

President Md Abdul Hamid will take his oath of office for his second consecutive term as the country’s 21st president on April 24. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will conduct the oath-taking...

RAB arrests two with guns, Yaba pills in Rajshahi

RAB arrests two with guns, Yaba pills in Rajshahi

-- 2018-04-14 16:29:02

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in two separate anti-crime drives, arrested two with two foreign pistols and 1,187 Yaba tablets in Rajshahi in the past 16 hours. The arrested were identifie...

PM sends gifts, greetings to FFs for Pahela Baishakh

PM sends gifts, greetings to FFs for Pahela Baishakh

-- 2018-04-14 16:11:46

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday greeted all Freedom Fighters (FFs) on the occasion of 'Pahela Baishakh', the first day of Bengali New Year-1425. Like the previous years, the Prime Minister s...

Google Doodle celebrates Pahela Baishakh

Google Doodle celebrates Pahela Baishakh

-- 2018-04-14 16:09:18

Google Doodle celebrated Pahela Baishakh by replacing its regular homepage graphic with a special doodle featuring a colourful elephant. According to Google's blog, the elephant on the search engine...

Clash leaves man dead in Chuadanga

Clash leaves man dead in Chuadanga

-- 2018-04-14 16:02:12

A man was hacked to death in a clash over a coconut tree dispute at Farmpara in Chuadanga district town on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Lalon, 34, son of Anar Ali of the town and an a...

Former MP Khurram passes away

Former MP Khurram passes away

-- 2018-04-14 15:09:18

Khandaker Md Khurram, former MP of Sherpur-3 constituency, died at a hospital in Dhaka due to old age complications on Saturday. He was 65. Md Khurram, member of Awami League executive committee, bre...

Do not let BNP, Jamaat take power: PM

Do not let BNP, Jamaat take power: PM

-- 2018-04-14 13:54:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to remain united so that evil forces like BNP-Jamaat clique cannot grab power as they will undermine the country's heritage, culture and existence....

Old Dhaka traders begin Halkhata

Old Dhaka traders begin Halkhata

SM Najmus Sakib 2018-04-14 13:00:28

Old Dhaka Traders Friday said they will join the Pahela Baishakh celebration by observing the Halkhata tradition like every year.  The traders also said they carry out the tradition to set an ex...

Three hurt in gas cylinder blast in Faridpur

Three hurt in gas cylinder blast in Faridpur

-- 2018-04-14 11:55:33

Three people including a balloon vendor were injured in a gas cylinder blast at Fairdpur Government Rajendrapur College campus here on Saturday morning. The injured were identified as Azim Talukdar,...

139 Bangladeshi peacekeepers receive UN service medal

139 Bangladeshi peacekeepers receive UN service medal

-- 2018-04-14 11:48:05

The UN has awarded the 139 members of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit for its work with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to bring peace to the...

Coastguards seize 0.3m Yaba pills in Teknaf

Coastguards seize 0.3m Yaba pills in Teknaf

-- 2018-04-14 11:06:29

Members of Coast Guard Bangladesh in a drive recovered three lakh pieces of Yaba pills from St Martin's Island in Teknaf on Friday noon. Based on secret information, a team of Coast Guard conducted a...

Six Bangladeshis die in Riyadh fire

Six Bangladeshis die in Riyadh fire

-- 2018-04-14 10:49:05

At least six Bangladeshis among seven were killed in a fire at a residential building occupied by expatriate workers in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Friday. Confirming the incident, Golam Moshi, B...

Nation celebrating Bangla New Year

Nation celebrating Bangla New Year

-- 2018-04-14 09:37:50

Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, has started celebrating across the country today amid festivity and gaiety. True to their centuries’ old tradition, people from all walks of l...

Bengali New Year today

Bengali New Year today

FE Report 2018-04-14 00:38:10

The nation celebrates Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar year, today (Saturday) amid festivity and enthusiasm across the country. The day is a public holiday. People from all walks of...

Baishakh tourists throng Cox’s Bazar beach

Baishakh tourists throng Cox’s Bazar beach

Abdul Monayem Khan 2018-04-14 00:35:00

COX'S BAZAR, Apr 13: A fairly large number of tourists arrived in Cox's Bazar town to celebrate Pahela Baishakh. Most of the residential hotels of the town are now swarming with tourists, according t...

Steps against social media users instigating violence

Steps against social media users instigating violence

-- 2018-04-14 00:33:51

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Friday tough actions will be taken against the perpetrators who misused social media, including Facebook, to spread rumours to instigate violence in the na...

PM to highlight Rohingya issue in Commonwealth summit

PM to highlight Rohingya issue in Commonwealth summit

FE Report 2018-04-13 20:32:40

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will apprise the heads of government of the Commonwealth countries of the latest scenario of the Rohingya crisis in the upcoming summit. The Commonwealth summit is schedu...

Hilsa dearer ahead of Pahela Baishakh

Hilsa dearer ahead of Pahela Baishakh

-- 2018-04-13 20:12:56

Hilsa was selling at much higher prices at city kitchen markets on Friday, just one day ahead of Pahela Baishakh, following a high demand for the fish.  Although vigorous campaigns were carried...

Burglars loot Tk 55,000 at Alamdanga upazila complex

Burglars loot Tk 55,000 at Alamdanga upazila complex

-- 2018-04-13 19:58:07

Burglars have looted Tk 55,000 from the offices of three organisations at the upazila complex of Alamdanga. Alamdanga municipality mayor Saifur Rahman said burglars entered the three offices sometime...

PM begins nine-day visit to Saudi, UK Sunday

PM begins nine-day visit to Saudi, UK Sunday

-- 2018-04-13 19:54:47

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here on Sunday on a nine-day official visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. During the two-nation visit, the Prime Minister will attend the concluding cer...

Missing women found dead in Nawabganj

Missing women found dead in Nawabganj

-- 2018-04-13 19:01:36

Police recovered the decomposed bodies of two missing women from a pond in Sultanpur area of Nawabganj upazila of Dhaka on Friday.  The deceased were identified as Moyna Akhter, 50, wife of Md J...

BGB arrest three with Hundi money, hemp in Benapole

BGB arrest three with Hundi money, hemp in Benapole

-- 2018-04-13 18:40:46

In separate incidents, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three people along with Tk 2.72 million Hundi money, 1200 bottles of Phensidyl syrup and five maunds of hemp in Benapole on Fr...

DSCC sets world record by organising symbolic cleaning programme

DSCC sets world record by organising symbolic cleaning programme

-- 2018-04-13 18:21:45

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) set Guinness Book of World Record by organising minute-long symbolic cleaning programme titled "Dettol Clean Dhaka" in the city on Friday. DSCC and the Reckitt Be...

BD, UNHCR sign MoU over voluntary return of Rohingya refugees

BD, UNHCR sign MoU over voluntary return of Rohingya refugees

-- 2018-04-13 17:46:00

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Bangladesh government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to the voluntary returns of Rohingya refugees once the conditions in Myanmar are rig...