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Gayeshwar released on bail

Gayeshwar released on bail

-- 2018-04-03 20:38:00

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was released from jail on bail on Tuesday, over three months after his arrest. He walked out of the Keraniganj Central Jail around 7:00pm after the...

BNP to sell nomination forms Thursday for Khulna, Gazipur polls

BNP to sell nomination forms Thursday for Khulna, Gazipur polls

-- 2018-04-03 20:34:42

BNP will sell nomination forms on Thursday among people willing to contest the upcoming elections to Khulna and Gazipur city corporations with its tickets. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Ka...

Probe bodies submit report on baby's decapitation during caesarean

Probe bodies submit report on baby's decapitation during caesarean

-- 2018-04-03 20:16:49

Two probe bodies formed to look into a faulty cesarean operation when doctors cut the baby's head off on March 18 here have submitted their respective reports. A four-member probe committee, led by d...

Police arrest Chattogram headmaster for ‘sexually harassing’ students

Police arrest Chattogram headmaster for ‘sexually harassing’ students

-- 2018-04-03 19:29:16

Police on Tuesday arrested the headmaster of a Karnaphuli primary school from the capital for 'sexually harassing' students.  Tipped off, a team of Karnaphuli Police Station with the help of Dha...

Youth gets death sentence for killing grandmother

Youth gets death sentence for killing grandmother

-- 2018-04-03 19:27:35

A Chandpur court on Tuesday convicted a young man of killing his grandmother in 2014 and sentenced him to death. The convict is Mokhlesur Rahman, 26, son of Abdur Rashid of Chhengarchar MM Kandi vill...

Coast Guard rescues 178 Bawalis in Sundarbans

Coast Guard rescues 178 Bawalis in Sundarbans

-- 2018-04-03 17:57:22

Bangladesh Coast Guard members rescued 178 Bawalis (wood collectors) who were held hostage by forest robbers after a gunfight with the bandits in Tepar Bharani canal of the Sundarbans under Dakope upa...

Inter-Service Qirat, Azan competition begins

Inter-Service Qirat, Azan competition begins

FE Online Desk 2018-04-03 17:05:29

A four-day Inter-Service Qirat and Azan competition began on Tuesday at the central mosque of Bangladesh Air Force in the capital on Tuesday. Major General Md Abu Sayed Siddique, SPP, afwc, psc, PhD...

Two school girls drown in Buriganga

Two school girls drown in Buriganga

-- 2018-04-03 16:30:28

Two school students drowned in the Buriganga river as a boat capsized while crossing the river at Sadarghat in the city on Monday. The deceased were identified as Sanjida Aktar, 14, daughter of Shahi...

Two Biman Bangladesh flights miss arrival schedules at HSIA

Two Biman Bangladesh flights miss arrival schedules at HSIA

FE Online Report 2018-04-03 14:58:54

Two international flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Tuesday. BG 036 from Jeddah was scheduled to arrive a...

Two die after bikes collide head-on

Two die after bikes collide head-on

-- 2018-04-03 13:41:18

Two motorcycle riders were killed and two others injured following a head-on collision between two motorbikes on Kaliganj-Shymganj road in Pirojpur Katakhali area of Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday mornin...

Police detain man for ‘murdering’ wife

Police detain man for ‘murdering’ wife

-- 2018-04-03 12:15:07

Police in a drive arrested a murder accused from Fatullah area in Narayanganj city on Monday noon. The arrestee was identified as Al-Amin, son of late Ahellah Sardar of Kotailbagh area of Fatullah....

Two idols go missing from Rajshahi temple

Two idols go missing from Rajshahi temple

-- 2018-04-03 11:57:55

Two idols were reportedly stolen from a shiv temple at Kamargaon Ganghati Purbapara village in Tanore upazila in Rajshahi. A written complaint was filed with Tanore Police Station around 10:30 pm on...

Fire guts seven shops in Magura

Fire guts seven shops in Magura

-- 2018-04-03 11:49:04

At least seven shops were gutted in a fire at Arpara Bazar in Shalikha upazila in Magura early Tuesday. Moniruzzaman, an officer at Magura Fire Service, said the fire broke out from an electric-short...

Suspected robber dies in ‘gunfight’ with police

Suspected robber dies in ‘gunfight’ with police

-- 2018-04-03 11:25:16

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police in 29 Mile area near Thakurgaon-Dinajpur highway in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. Tipped off that a gang of robber numbering 13-14 was...

Savar road accidents claim four lives

Savar road accidents claim four lives

-- 2018-04-03 11:14:27

Four people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed in separate road accidents on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar on Monday. Two motorbike riders, Nahid Uzzaman and Yunus Ali, marketing office...

Banks achieve 71pc target in disbursement of farm loan

Banks achieve 71pc target in disbursement of farm loan

FE Report 2018-04-03 10:41:03

Disbursement of farm loan by the scheduled banks achieved 71.18 per cent of the total target in the eight months to February last as banks strengthened disbursement drives, a central bank official sai...

Bashundhara Paper’s IPO subscription to begin April 26

Bashundhara Paper’s IPO subscription to begin April 26

FE Report 2018-04-03 10:30:45

Public subscription of Bashundhara Paper Mills is set to begin on April 26 for raising Tk 2.0 billion from the capital market under the book-building method. Bashundhara Paper Mills received the re...

Trust Bank launches 't-cash'

Trust Bank launches 't-cash'

-- 2018-04-03 10:26:01

Trust Bank has launched 't-cash', the complete gamut of Bank's Mobile Financial Services (MFS), to bring banked and unbanked citizens of the country under the wide umbrella of its value added services...

Use of modern technology in vegetable cultivation  expanding in Bogra

Use of modern technology in vegetable cultivation expanding in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2018-04-03 00:16:51

Most of the vegetable farmers of the district are happy over the production as they are applying modern technology on their field. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) peasants...

Number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh surpasses Bhutan’s population

Number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh surpasses Bhutan’s population

-- 2018-04-02 21:41:53

Currently Bangladesh has a Rohingya population which is far more than the Bhutan's entire population, said Director of Centre for Genocide Studies at Dhaka University, Professor Imtiaz Ahmed on Monday...

Road crash leaves college principal dead

Road crash leaves college principal dead

-- 2018-04-02 21:12:01

A college principal was killed as a truck hit a human-hauler on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Noyduari of Katachhara union under Mirsarai Upazila in Chattogram on Monday. The deceased was identified as...

HC issues rule over detention of four BNP leaders

HC issues rule over detention of four BNP leaders

-- 2018-04-02 20:59:41

The High Court on Monday issued a rule asking the government to explain why the detention of four BNP leaders would not be deemed as illegal. The court also asked the government to explain within fou...

Pry scholarship results on Tuesday

Pry scholarship results on Tuesday

-- 2018-04-02 20:30:35

The results of the Primary Terminal Examination Scholarship will be published on Tuesday. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman will announce the results at a press conference at the...

President visits Padma bridge project sites

President visits Padma bridge project sites

-- 2018-04-02 20:20:30

President Abdul Hamid visited the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project sites in Munshiganj and Shariatpur on Monday. He expressed his satisfaction to hear that 53 per cent of the construction work of th...

Govt declares March 1 as National Voters' Day

Govt declares March 1 as National Voters' Day

-- 2018-04-02 19:30:30

The government has decided to observe March 1 every year as the National Voters' Day. The decision was taken in the weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at her office...

Cabinet okays draft bill on establishing medical university in Sylhet

Cabinet okays draft bill on establishing medical university in Sylhet

-- 2018-04-02 19:26:38

The cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of the 'Sylhet Medical University Bill, 2018" to set up a medical university in Sylhet Division. The approval was given at the weekly meeting of...

Wasa MD refutes water crisis during summer, Ramadan

Wasa MD refutes water crisis during summer, Ramadan

-- 2018-04-02 18:59:00

City dwellers will not face water crisis in the upcoming summer season and during the month of Ramadan. Managing Director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Taqsem A Khan made the co...

BNP accuses AL of ‘monopolising’ corruption   

BNP accuses AL of ‘monopolising’ corruption   

-- 2018-04-02 18:48:52

BNP senior leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Monday alleged state-sponsored corruption is now taking place in Bangladesh as the ruling party men made it their 'monopoly'. Speaking at a discussio...

Forest ministry set to plant saplings to commemorate martyrs

Forest ministry set to plant saplings to commemorate martyrs

-- 2018-04-02 18:38:18

The environment and forest ministry is set to plant trees in different educational institutes of the country to commemorate the freedom fighters who gave up their lives for the independence of the cou...

Coast Guard members seize Yaba pills worth Tk 75m

Coast Guard members seize Yaba pills worth Tk 75m

-- 2018-04-02 18:24:18

Members of Coast Guard in a drive seized huge amount of Yaba tablets worth Tk 75 million from Saint. Martin's Island in Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar on Monday. Tipped off, a team of Coast Guard East...