Loading...

Search results for: National

Nepal plane crash victim Mahmudur buried

Nepal plane crash victim Mahmudur buried

-- 2018-03-20 13:13:08

S M Mahmudur Rahman, one of the victims died in US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, was buried at his family graveyard at Laskardia in Nagarkanda upazila under Faridpur district on Tuesday morning. H...

Police detain 24 in Dinajpur

Police detain 24 in Dinajpur

-- 2018-03-20 11:58:25

Police, in special drives arrested 24 people including two activists of BNP and an activist of Jamaat-E-Islami from different areas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 8 am this morning. Polic...

Gabtoli gunfight kills ‘robber’

Gabtoli gunfight kills ‘robber’

-- 2018-03-20 11:54:57

A suspected robber was killed and another received bullet injuries in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Gabtoli area of Dhaka on Tuesday. The deceased was identifi...

Survey on marine resources likely to end in April

Survey on marine resources likely to end in April

Talha Bin Habib 2018-03-20 10:59:20

The ongoing survey on marine resources in the Bay of Bengal is expected to be complete in April. The Department of Fisheries (DoF) has been carrying out the survey under the project titled 'Banglades...

CCCI moves to build SEZ with own fund

CCCI moves to build SEZ with own fund

Our Correspondent 2018-03-20 10:55:43

With support of all directors and members, Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has decided to build a special economic zone (SEZ) here with its own fund. The decision was taken at an e...

Four Bangladeshi youths return home

Four Bangladeshi youths return home

-- 2018-03-20 10:54:19

Four Bangladeshi youths returned home on Monday evening through Benapole Check Post after serving two and half years jail term in India. The returnees are - Mintu Rahman, 14, son of Abdul Gaffar, a r...

Non-coarse rice prices start creeping up as OMS goes on

Non-coarse rice prices start creeping up as OMS goes on

Yasir Wardad 2018-03-20 10:36:12

Prices of rice, especially those of fine quality, increased again at the retail level, straining purses of fixed-earning consumers. Factory-gate and city wholesale prices of coarse rice also increase...

DB inspector dies in Mirpur ‘gunfight’

DB inspector dies in Mirpur ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-03-20 10:18:46

An inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police was killed in a reported gunfight with criminals at Middle Pirerbagh in the capital's Mirpur area on early Tuesday. The deceased Md Jalaluddin was an i...

Many children in jails for no offence of their own

Many children in jails for no offence of their own

Sajibur Rahman 2018-03-20 00:22:37

Several hundred children are in the country's central jails with their imprisoned mothers. Such confinement, according to experts, might affect their normal upbringing and lead them to go astray. Ban...

Country will fall into darkness  if BNP regains power: Nasim

Country will fall into darkness if BNP regains power: Nasim

-- 2018-03-20 00:17:14

Awami League Presidium Member Mohammed Nasim expressed his apprehension on Monday that if anti-liberation communal forces like BNP-Jamaat come back to power, the country will fall into darkness and wi...

Downtrend in potato market price disheartens Rangpur growers

Downtrend in potato market price disheartens Rangpur growers

Our Correspondent 2018-03-20 00:15:23

A good yield of potato failed to make the growers of the district delighted for the low market price. Sources said the potato cultivators of the district made vigorous efforts this season with the ho...

Boro cultivation target exceeds in Sylhet amid good weather

Boro cultivation target exceeds in Sylhet amid good weather

Our Correspondent 2018-03-20 00:13:44

SYLHET, Mar 19: Boro cultivation target has exceeded in Sylhet division this season amid a good weather condition. However, for reasons the cultivation much-awaited crop in the region had been hit fo...

Sudden collapse of embankment  worries Sirajganj villagers

Sudden collapse of embankment worries Sirajganj villagers

Roving Correspondent 2018-03-20 00:12:30

SIRAJGANJ, Mar 19: Villagers of Khas Kaulia under Chouhali upazila in the district are worried due to sudden collapse of some 30 metre-long embankment. A good number of farmers said a vast tract of c...

Commercial brinjal farming gains popularity

Commercial brinjal farming gains popularity

Our Correspondent 2018-03-20 00:11:42

Commercial brinjal cultivation is gaining popularity in the district. A good number of farmers have attained financial solvency by growing the vegetable on their land. The Department of Agriculture...

PM terms BD’s LDC graduation a slap on ‘bottomless basket’ storytellers

PM terms BD’s LDC graduation a slap on ‘bottomless basket’ storytellers

-- 2018-03-19 22:00:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh's graduation to the developing country group is a slap on the faces of those who had thought it would be a 'bottomless basket' after the independ...

Two minor siblings die in Shariatpur fire

Two minor siblings die in Shariatpur fire

-- 2018-03-19 21:29:29

Two minor siblings were burned to death in a fire that broke out at Shibson village in Bhedarganj upazila of Shariatpur on Monday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Asma, 8, and Mafia, 6, dau...

Five more cops suspended for torturing journalist

Five more cops suspended for torturing journalist

-- 2018-03-19 21:13:37

Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) has suspended five more members of Detective Branch (DB) of police over the incident of assault on a journalist. Those who were suspended are sub-inspector Abdul Bas...

Police recover two bombs at Badda shopping mall

Police recover two bombs at Badda shopping mall

-- 2018-03-19 20:48:55

Police have neutralised two bombs reportedly planted by a young man at a shopping mall at Badda area of Dhaka. Witnesses said he fled after placing a bag on the staircase of Tanha Plaza at the Gudara...

Khulna, Gazipur city polls schedules on March 31

Khulna, Gazipur city polls schedules on March 31

-- 2018-03-19 20:40:25

The Election Commission (EC) will announce the election schedules for Khulna and Gazipur city corporations on March 31. EC Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed told reporters that the EC took the decision at a...

Bangladesh pays last respect to plane crash victims

Bangladesh pays last respect to plane crash victims

-- 2018-03-19 20:30:45

Bangladesh paid last respect to the victims, who were killed in US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, at Bangladesh Army Stadium on Monday afternoon. The bodies of 23 identified Bangladeshi victims wer...

Coast Guard seizes 1.20 lakh Yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar

Coast Guard seizes 1.20 lakh Yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-03-19 20:04:45

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive recovered 1.20 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets from Noyapara area in Shah Porir Dwip of Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, a team o...

Conference of gender equality in SA begins at DU

Conference of gender equality in SA begins at DU

-- 2018-03-19 19:46:02

A two-day South Asia Regional Conference on gender equity and access to justice began on Monday. The conference titled "Gender, Rights and Choices: Access to Justice in a Megacity" started at the Un...

Pilot Abid Sultan’s wife Afsana on life support

Pilot Abid Sultan’s wife Afsana on life support

-- 2018-03-19 19:10:49

Afsana Khanom, wife of pilot Abid Sultan who died in the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu, has been kept on life support at the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital. Dr Shiraji Sha...

Khaleda denied justice by SC:  Fakhrul

Khaleda denied justice by SC:  Fakhrul

-- 2018-03-19 18:52:51

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that its chairperson Khaleda Zia was denied justice by the Supreme Court (SC) as its order staying her bail until May 8 has reflecte...

Persons responsible for adulterating fertilisers to face harsher punishment

Persons responsible for adulterating fertilisers to face harsher punishment

-- 2018-03-19 18:39:59

Persons responsible for adulterating fertilisers will have to face jail time and hefty fine from now on.   To this end, the Cabinet approved in principle the draft of "The Fertiliser (Management...

Second namaz-e-janaza of 23 plane crash victims held

Second namaz-e-janaza of 23 plane crash victims held

FE Online Desk 2018-03-19 17:47:41

The second namaz-e-janaza of 23 Bangladeshi plane crash victims was held at Bangladesh Army Stadium in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. Hundreds of people; including ministers, government officials, relati...

Call to strengthen Bimstec

Call to strengthen Bimstec

-- 2018-03-19 17:40:12

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) must redouble its efforts to be more effective and result-oriented in integrating the economies of its seve...

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Another accused on 7-day remand

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Another accused on 7-day remand

-- 2018-03-19 16:40:50

A Sylhet court has granted a seven-day remand to interrogate Sohagh Mia, another accused in the case filed over the attack on eminent writer Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal. Sohagh Mia is an associate of F...

Bodies of 23 plane crash victims arrive

Bodies of 23 plane crash victims arrive

-- 2018-03-19 16:27:08

A Bangladesh Air Force plane, carrying the bodies of 23 Bangladeshi plane crash victims, arrived in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. Local news agencies said the Air Force plane landed at Hazrat Shahjalal...

BNP announces countrywide demo Tuesday

BNP announces countrywide demo Tuesday

-- 2018-03-19 15:20:29

Leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies will stage demonstrations across the country on Tuesday demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. BNP Secretary General Mir...