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Efforts on to reach zero killing on border: S Bengal Frontier IG

-- 2018-04-07 16:56:29

Inspector General of Border Security Force's (BSF's) South Bengal Frontier PSR Anjaneyulu has said his force is doing everything possible to reach the target of zero killing along its border with Bang...

Three die in Khulna bus accident

-- 2018-04-07 16:50:59

A bus accident has killed two men and a child and injured eight others in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila. The accident took place at Majher Beri area during afternoon on Saturday, said Habil Hossain,...

Khaleda's treatment as per jail code: Quader

-- 2018-04-07 16:44:41

Awami League General Obaidul Quader has said the government will take necessary steps for the treatment of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia as per the jail code. "She has been given medical treatmen...

Khaleda needs release from jail for better treatment: Moudud

-- 2018-04-07 16:40:56

BNP leader Moudud Ahmed has said he has no confidence over the government-provided treatment to Khaleda Zia. He demanded Khaleda's immediate release so that she could receive better treatment, report...

Khaleda heads back to jail after medical tests

-- 2018-04-07 14:26:39

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is headed back to the prison at old Dhaka’s Nazimuddin Road after undergoing medical tests at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). The former prime m...

Rivals hack BNP leader to death in Chuadanga

-- 2018-04-07 13:57:37

A local BNP leader was hacked to death by rivals at Jugirhuda village in Alamdanga upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Helalul Islam Helal, son of Eldil Biswas. Helal was vice...

Rohingya repatriation: Myanmar to take more verification time

-- 2018-04-07 13:16:11

Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Win Myat Aye says more time is needed to verify people before beginning the repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Aye is set to...

Babul confesses to killing Beauty after rape

-- 2018-04-07 13:03:07

Babul Miah, the prime accused in a case over the killing of teenage girl Beauty after rape in Sayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district, gave statement before a court here confessing to his guilt on Fr...

Bangladeshi shot dead in Jeddah allegedly by Saudi

-- 2018-04-07 12:52:33

A Bangladeshi vegetables vendor has allegedly been shot and killed by a Saudi in Jeddah. The deceased, Azizul Talukder, 40, hails from Raipura in Narsingdi. His two sons and a daughter live with thei...

Wheat harvesting sets off in Panchagarh

-- 2018-04-07 12:28:08

Farmers in the district have started harvesting wheat amid an expectation of achieving a bumper production of the crop in the current season. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DA...

Current yield rates on savings certificates to stay: NBR chief

FE Online Report 2018-04-07 12:24:57

The government has no plan to cut yield rates on state-owned savings certificates, said National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Saturday. Despite the interest payments b...

Road crashes claim 13 lives on Friday

-- 2018-04-07 12:20:07

A total of 13 people were killed in separate road accidents in six upazilas of five districts across the country on Friday. In Raipur of Narsingdi, four motorcyclists were killed when a bus hit thei...

Khaleda arrives at BSMMU for medical tests

-- 2018-04-07 11:33:24

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has left prison and reached Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for medical tests. A cabin at BSMMU has been made ready for the former prime minister at th...

Police arrest eight Shibir men with ‘bombs’ in Jashore

-- 2018-04-07 10:27:22

Eight activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir were arrested along with seven bombs from Narayandpur union in Sadar upazila of Jashore district on Friday night. A team of police, led by Assistant Sub-Inspe...

Core index sees biggest single-week gain since 2013 on Dhaka bourse

Babul Barman 2018-04-07 10:16:57

The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) soared 4.35 per cent last week, the biggest single-week gain since its inception in January 2013. Market operators said the enthusiastic investors sh...

Sales start picking up at city fashion houses

Arafat Ara 2018-04-07 09:47:22

Sales of clothes have started picking up at different fashion and boutique houses in the city ahead of Pahela Baishakh, the country's biggest cultural festival. On the occasion of Bangla New Year, va...

Money ideal for health ministry goes elsewhere

Kamrun Nahar 2018-04-07 09:34:35

The government has been allocating resources for health to 16 other ministries even as the core ministry responsible for overall health outcome struggles to find money. Health experts suggested integ...

Project aid allocation worth Tk 600b likely

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-04-07 09:27:11

The government is likely to earmark more than Tk 600 billion as project aid in the development budget for the next financial year (FY) 2018-19, up 16 per cent from the outlay for the current FY, offic...

PM asks UN chief to see plight of Rohingyas himself

-- 2018-04-06 23:17:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday invited UN Secretary-General António Guterres to visit Bangladesh and see the plight of Rohingya refugees himself. The Prime Minister made the invitation...

BNP becomes self-confessed corrupt party: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-04-06 21:18:00

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has claimed that the BNP has become a 'self-confessed corrupt party' through changing its constitution. "They changed the section 7 of the party constitu...

Two die in lightning in Faridpur

-- 2018-04-06 21:01:27

Two people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Faridpur on Friday. The deceased were identified as Hiro Bepari, 40, son of Rintu Bepari of Munshidangi and Bashar Molla, 35, son o...

10 women to get Ananya award Saturday

-- 2018-04-06 19:59:13

Ananya, a fortnightly magazine, has announced names of 10 women as winners of annual Ananya Shirsha Dosh awards for their outstanding contributions to their respective areas. The awards will be hande...

VDP man held with ‘Yaba tablets’ in Satkhira

-- 2018-04-06 19:43:03

A Village Defence Party (VDP) member was held allegedly along with 20 Yaba tablets from Fultala intersection of the district town on Friday morning. The arrestee is Saiful Islam, a VDP member of Alip...

Fakhrul meets Khaleda in jail

FE Online Desk 2018-04-06 19:04:33

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir met his party's imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia at old central jail at Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka on Friday. "Although Khaleda's health condition is...

Wari shootout victim was murder suspect: Police

-- 2018-04-06 18:32:08

The youth, who died in a gunfight with police in Wari area of Dhaka on Friday, was a suspect in murder of Daffodil University student Khandaker Abu Talha. ‘Rakib’, 22, died in a shootout...

Series of Narsingdi road mishaps claim nine lives

-- 2018-04-06 18:23:58

Nine people were killed in three road accidents in Raipura and Madhabdi upazilas on Friday. In Raipura, four motorcyclists were killed when a bus hit their motorbike on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Charab...

Food grain reserve set to increase

-- 2018-04-06 18:16:04

Bangladesh is set to have an increased reserve of food grains from this year on to avert food crisis during natural calamities, said a senior official of the Directorate of Food. To this end, the go...

Fire burns 14 furniture shops in Khulna

-- 2018-04-06 17:46:09

At least 14 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at a furniture market in West Rupsha area of Khulna on Friday. Locals said the fire ensued in a shop around 5am and soon spread to adjoining one...

Crimes in Sundarbans on decline owing to smart patrolling

-- 2018-04-06 17:34:24

The incidents of crimes are declining in the Sundarbans as smart patrolling has proved to be an effective mechanism to combat forest crimes, claim officials. Members of a special smart patrolling tea...

Surgery no longer needed for treating stroke in BD, doctors show how

-- 2018-04-06 17:21:19

The National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital for the first time in Bangladesh brought the treatment to restore blood flow by dissolving the blood clot that is causing the stroke without cutt...