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Bangladesh seeks China’s support for solution to Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh seeks China’s support for solution to Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-03-12 20:46:13

Bangladesh on Monday sought political support of China for a durable solution over the Rohingya crisis. Bangladesh also appreciated Chinese humanitarian assistance for the displaced people of Rakhine...

Hasina assures Nepal PM of assistance

Hasina assures Nepal PM of assistance

-- 2018-03-12 20:42:01

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in Singapore on a four-day official visit, phoned her Nepalese counterpart Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli after the tragic plane crash in Kathmandu and assured him of al...

ICT to deliver Noakhali war crime verdict Tuesday

ICT to deliver Noakhali war crime verdict Tuesday

-- 2018-03-12 19:47:38

The war crimes tribunal is expected to deliver its verdict in a 1971 war crime case against four men from Noakhali war crime verdict Tuesday. The war crimes suspects face charges of murder, genocide,...

Stress on formulating separate directorate for children

Stress on formulating separate directorate for children

-- 2018-03-12 19:35:31

A separate directorate for children under the Ministry of Children and Women Affairs with office at upazila level was suggested to coordinate all kinds of activities related to the children across the...

Plane crash: Relatives passing time with anxiety

Plane crash: Relatives passing time with anxiety

-- 2018-03-12 19:19:59

Relatives of Bangladeshi passengers of a US-Bangla aircraft that crashed in Nepal are passing the time with anxiety as at least 50 died in the crash. The 78-seater Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft too...

I am fortunate to be alive, says a survivor

I am fortunate to be alive, says a survivor

FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 19:10:08

Basanta Bohora is one of the survivors of the deadly plane crash that occurred in Kathmandu of Nepal on Monday. He shared his experience about the accident with the Kathmandu Post. The Nepalese citi...

President, PM mourn casualties in US-Bangla plane crash

President, PM mourn casualties in US-Bangla plane crash

-- 2018-03-12 18:39:12

President Abdul Hamid expressed deep shock and sorrow at the casualties in a plane crash of Bangladesh's US-Bangla Airlines in Nepal's Tribhuban International Airport. The president prayed for the de...

Relocation of 133,000 Rohingyas to safer places by March 31

Relocation of 133,000 Rohingyas to safer places by March 31

-- 2018-03-12 18:17:10

The government has taken initiatives to relocate as many as 133,000 Rohingyas to safer places by March 31, aimed at protecting them from natural calamity during the monsoon. "We are to shift 25,000 R...

50 die as Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal

50 die as Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal

FE Online Report 2018-03-12 18:07:53

At least 50 people died after a Bangladeshi plane with 67 passengers and four crew on board crashed near Kathmandu airport on Monday. The plane crashed on Monday before landing at Tribhuvan Internati...

President returns home

President returns home

-- 2018-03-12 17:59:49

President Abdul Hamid on Monday returned home after wrapping up his four-day official visit to India. A regular aircraft of Jet Airways flight No-9W272 carrying the President and his entourage land...

Minor girl, youth found dead in Gazipur

Minor girl, youth found dead in Gazipur

-- 2018-03-12 17:46:54

A minor girl and a youth were found dead at Kaliakoir and Sreepur upazilas in Gazipur on Monday morning. The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately. Locals informed police n...

50 feared dead as Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal

50 feared dead as Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal

FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 17:31:22

At least 50 people are feared dead after a Bangladeshi plane with 67 passengers and four crew on board crashed near Kathmandu airport on Monday. According to The Telegraph, an army spokesperson told...

Youth found dead in Dinajpur

Youth found dead in Dinajpur

-- 2018-03-12 15:24:09

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a young man from Hili in Hakimpur upazila on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Mithun, 27, son of Shahadat Hossain, a resident of Chandipur village...

Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal with 71 on board

Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal with 71 on board

FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 15:20:32

A Bangladeshi aircraft, operated by US-Bangla Airlines, carrying 67 passengers and four crew crashed on Monday when landing at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu of Nepal. Nepal's Tou...

Khaleda secures four-month interim bail

Khaleda secures four-month interim bail

-- 2018-03-12 15:08:25

The High Court (HC) has granted a four-month interim bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim p...

BNP sets fresh date for rally

BNP sets fresh date for rally

-- 2018-03-12 13:46:17

BNP has announced a fresh date for holding its rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka city as police denied the party to hold it on Monday. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with...

Cops arrest 10 Jamaat activists in Rajshahi

Cops arrest 10 Jamaat activists in Rajshahi

-- 2018-03-12 12:50:16

Police arrested 10 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami while they were allegedly holding a secret meeting in a building at Barnali intersection of Rajshahi on Monday morning. Witnesse...

Press Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis, PM urges Singapore

Press Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis, PM urges Singapore

-- 2018-03-12 12:03:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested Singapore to influence Myanmar in finding a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis as the city state is the present chair of Association of Southeast Asian...

N’ganj ‘shootout’ kills two

N’ganj ‘shootout’ kills two

-- 2018-03-12 11:48:10

Two suspected pirates have been killed in a shootout with RAB at Alirtek area in Sadar upazila of Narayanganj district. The deceased were identified as pirate gang Zillur Bahini leader Zillur and o...

General Pharma looks to more countries for export

General Pharma looks to more countries for export

Special Correspondent 2018-03-12 10:47:26

General Pharmaceuticals Ltd (GPL) will broaden its export-oriented product line, company officials said. "We are now exporting our products to 26 countries and 14 more countries will be added to our...

Huge fire burns 4,000 shanties in Mirpur

Huge fire burns 4,000 shanties in Mirpur

Agencies 2018-03-12 09:49:46

A massive fire has burnt 4,000 shanties at Ilias Ali Slum in Dhaka’s Mirpur. The fire began around 4am on Monday and it took 21 fire service units three-and-a-half hours to bring the fire under...

96pc of CNG-run  3-wheelers in capital ply on contract

96pc of CNG-run 3-wheelers in capital ply on contract

FE Report 2018-03-12 00:25:59

  Nearly 96 per cent of the CNG-run three-wheelers in the capital ply on contract basis, thus charging exorbitant fare from the passengers, a study has revealed. According to the study, 91 pe...

Remote Rajshahi village farmers grow poppy illegally

Remote Rajshahi village farmers grow poppy illegally

Our Correspondent 2018-03-12 00:19:38

  RAJSHAHI, Mar 11: Poppy is being cultivated in a remote village of Mohadevpur upazila under greater Rajshahi district. Officials of the Department of Narcotics Control in a recent drive storm...

Police constable wants divorce after taking dowry, getting job

Police constable wants divorce after taking dowry, getting job

-- 2018-03-11 22:03:04

A police constable has sent divorce letter after taking dowry and enjoying favour from wife's family in getting his job. Now the woman, Zannatul Ferdous, in Pabna has sued her husband Al Amin accusin...

AL running after foreigners to retain power: Rizvi  

AL running after foreigners to retain power: Rizvi  

-- 2018-03-11 21:28:27

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said Awami League is running after foreigners as it is desperate to hold another unilateral election with a 'master plan'. "Awami League...

Verdict on section 70 March 18

Verdict on section 70 March 18

-- 2018-03-11 21:14:42

The High Court will deliver its verdict on March 18 on a writ petition filed challenging the legality of section 70 of the Constitution that allows cancellation of parliament membership for crossing t...

Govt plan shipbuilding, recycling industries near Payra port

Govt plan shipbuilding, recycling industries near Payra port

-- 2018-03-11 20:46:44

The government plans to set up a shipbuilding and recycling industry at Tetulbaria in Taltoli upazila close to Payra seaport. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu revealed this on Sunday while speak...

Hajj registration deadline extends, to end on March 18

Hajj registration deadline extends, to end on March 18

-- 2018-03-11 20:37:55

The government has extended Hajj pilgrims' registration deadline of 2018 for seven days. Religious Affairs Ministry Secretary Anisur Rahman said the registration will now end on March 18 "The initia...

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Faizur’s parents, uncle on remand

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Faizur’s parents, uncle on remand

-- 2018-03-11 19:37:32

A Sylhet court on Sunday placed the parents and an uncle of Faizur Hasan, attacker of Professor Zafar Iqbal, on remand for different terms. Haridas Kumar, judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Court, put fath...

Three die in Mymensingh road crash

Three die in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-03-11 19:23:10

Three people were killed and five others injured as a bus collided with a human hauler at Barkhila under Haluaghat upazila in Mymensingh on Sunday. Two of the deceased were identified as Lovely, 42, a...