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IOM says Rohingyas face further dangers ahead of monsoon

IOM says Rohingyas face further dangers ahead of monsoon

-- 2018-02-12 15:34:58

The impending cyclone and monsoon season mean the Rohingya refugees now face more life-threatening dangers from the weather and environmental conditions in Bangladesh. UN migration agency on Monday s...

Kushtia road accident kills one

Kushtia road accident kills one

-- 2018-02-12 15:32:42

A school student was killed as a trolley hit his motorbike at Nagar mohammadpur in Sadar upazila of Kushtia on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Ashif Hossain (15), a student of class ni...

Pro BNP-Jamaat lawyers win Ctg Bar election

Pro BNP-Jamaat lawyers win Ctg Bar election

-- 2018-02-12 15:12:26

The pro BNP-Jamaat lawyers’ panel has won the Chittagong Bar Association election. Among the 19 posts, the panel backed by BNP and Jamaat, bagged 12 posts including that of the secretary while...

Flower farming gets momentum in Rajshahi

Flower farming gets momentum in Rajshahi

-- 2018-02-12 14:39:24

A large number of farmers in Rajshahi are passing a busy time in farming flowers on a commercial basis as they are getting a good yield and price. The farming of different varieties of flowers includ...

Southeast University gives award on literature

Southeast University gives award on literature

FE Online Desk 2018-02-12 14:24:18

Southeast University (SEU) has organised the “Literature Award Giving Ceremony 2017” on Sunday at its Tejgaon campus. Asaduzzaman Noor, Minister of Cultural Affairs, was the chief guest a...

Peaceful movement to continue until Khaleda's release: BNP

Peaceful movement to continue until Khaleda's release: BNP

-- 2018-02-12 14:11:41

BNP says it will continue movement in a peaceful way until its Chairperson Khaleda Zia is released from jail. The party made the announcement during a human chain amid huge police presence in front o...

Four to die for Rupa’s rape, murder

Four to die for Rupa’s rape, murder

-- 2018-02-12 12:12:20

A Tangail court has sentenced four people to death and another to seven years in prison over the 2017 rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa. Tangail Women and Children Repression Prev...

Question leak: RAB arrests two of a gang in Ctg

Question leak: RAB arrests two of a gang in Ctg

-- 2018-02-12 11:59:08

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two members of a gang involved in the SSC question paper leak from Dabua Bazar area in Raozan Upazila of Chittagong on Sunday night. The arrestees are...

BNP forms human chain over Khaleda’s jailing

BNP forms human chain over Khaleda’s jailing

-- 2018-02-12 11:37:27

As part of its countrywide scheduled programme, BNP leaders and activists formed a human chain in Dhaka on Monday protesting against the jailing of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case. Severa...

Police arrest six BNP, Jamaat men

Police arrest six BNP, Jamaat men

-- 2018-02-12 11:04:17

Police in special drives arrested six leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different upazilas of Comilla district. Police conducted the drives from Sunday night to Monday morning and...

Gas supply shortage: Gazipur industries in dire straits

Gas supply shortage: Gazipur industries in dire straits

Jubair Hasan 2018-02-12 10:59:16

Industrial enterprises in Gazipur, one of the key industrial belts of the country, are facing serious production setback due to disruption in natural gas supply. Dozens of factories in the area, most...

Regulator takes U-turn on internet outage to stop question leaks

Regulator takes U-turn on internet outage to stop question leaks

-- 2018-02-12 10:55:27

Country's regulatory authority has reversed its plan to block the internet as part of an effort to stop SSC questions leaking on Facebook and other social media sites after a brief outage on Monday mo...

RAB arrests ‘arms traders’ in city

RAB arrests ‘arms traders’ in city

-- 2018-02-12 10:39:57

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected arms traders from Mohammadpur area of Dhaka in the capital on early Monday. A team of RAB-2 conducted a drive in the area and arrested...

Extreme poor in Rangpur attain  solvency by rearing goats

Extreme poor in Rangpur attain solvency by rearing goats

Our Correspondent 2018-02-12 00:29:29

Thousands of extreme poor people at different remote villages and char areas under the district are becoming financially benefited through rearing goat in recent years. Some of the goat rearers said...

Boro cultivation progressing fast in Sylhet division

Boro cultivation progressing fast in Sylhet division

Our Correspondent 2018-02-12 00:28:19

Farmers of different areas in Sylhet division are busy in Boro paddy cultivation as the transplantation period is nearing to end. Additional director of DAE, Sylhet divisional office, Md Altabur Rahm...

Internet to be disrupted during remaining SSC exam days

Internet to be disrupted during remaining SSC exam days

-- 2018-02-11 23:06:56

The internet will remain disrupted for two and half hours every day during the remaining Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations days in a bid to prevent the question paper leakage. President...

BNP says peaceful movement a strategy, not weakness

BNP says peaceful movement a strategy, not weakness

-- 2018-02-11 21:56:28

Senior leaders of BNP have defended their current strategy to gain public sympathy while not losing the party's strength. About maintaining a soft line of action after the court verdict against Khale...

Metro police in Gazipur, Rangpur on cards

Metro police in Gazipur, Rangpur on cards

-- 2018-02-11 21:54:49

Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday had two bills tabled regarding the formation of Gazipur Metropolitan Police and Rangpur Metropolitan Police. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan placed the bills titled ‘Gaz...

Nationwide campaign launched to save electricity

Nationwide campaign launched to save electricity

FE Online Report 2018-02-11 21:29:45

A national campaign, titled ‘Responsible Use of Electricity’, has been launched to get users to become more responsible about electricity use. Bangladesh Solar and Renewable Energy Associ...

Rupa murder case verdict Monday

Rupa murder case verdict Monday

-- 2018-02-11 21:24:38

A Tangail court will deliver its verdict on Monday in a case filed over the killing of Zakia Sultana Rupa after gang rape in a running bus on August 25 last year. Women and Children Repression Preven...

Padma Bridge to have third span in March first week

Padma Bridge to have third span in March first week

-- 2018-02-11 21:16:40

The Road Transport and Bridges Minister has said that the third span of Padma Bridge will be installed in the first week of next month (March). The remaining spans, Obaidul Quader on Sunday said, wou...

Another worker dies in Sylhet stone quarry

Another worker dies in Sylhet stone quarry

-- 2018-02-11 21:03:53

Yet another worker died on Sunday while he was extracting stones from a quarry at Shah Arifin Tila in Companyganj upazila of Sylhet. The deceased was identified as Basir Miah, 42, son of Rupa Miah, r...

RAB holds one with Molotov bombs, Yaba

RAB holds one with Molotov bombs, Yaba

-- 2018-02-11 21:01:05

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a youth along with 15 Molotov cocktails and Yaba tablets from Goalchamot area of Faridpur town on Sunday morning. The arrestee was identified as Shahr...

FBCCI, DCI stress private sector’s involvement for underprivileged children

FBCCI, DCI stress private sector’s involvement for underprivileged children

FE Online Report 2018-02-11 19:35:10

Collaborative efforts of the private sector are essential for flourishing the talents of the country’s underprivileged children, said speakers at a dialogue. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambe...

Quader prefers emergency service lanes, not VIP ones

Quader prefers emergency service lanes, not VIP ones

-- 2018-02-11 19:01:35

The road transport and bridges minister has opposed the idea of introducing separate lanes for VIPs in favour of emergency service lanes in Dhaka. He instead thinks emergency service lanes need to be...

Khaleda gets division facilities in prison

Khaleda gets division facilities in prison

-- 2018-02-11 18:48:51

The jail authorities has ensured the facilities of the first class division for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia following a court order. Several televisions confirmed the information quoting Inspector Ge...

Minister sees no cop failure behind Sagar-Runi murder probe

Minister sees no cop failure behind Sagar-Runi murder probe

-- 2018-02-11 18:29:58

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan sees no failure of law enforcers in unearthing the mystery behind the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi. The minister came up with the remarks...

Shakib to fight corruption as ACC goodwill envoy

Shakib to fight corruption as ACC goodwill envoy

-- 2018-02-11 17:17:37

Bangladesh's star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has become an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) goodwill ambassador to campaign against corruption. The signing ceremony was held at the ACC's office at S...

EC, court to decide on Khaleda’s election participation

EC, court to decide on Khaleda’s election participation

-- 2018-02-11 17:17:27

The law minister has said that the country’s court and Election Commission will take the final decision on BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s eligibility for participation in the next general electio...

BNP, allies meet this evening

BNP, allies meet this evening

-- 2018-02-11 15:40:03

Senior leaders of the BNP-led alliance will sit in a meeting on Sunday evening to discuss the evolving situation following the jailing of Khaleda Zia, and work out its next course of action. BNP secr...