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Difficult to find people willingly disappear: Kamal

Difficult to find people willingly disappear: Kamal

-- 2017-11-08 10:41:37

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that it becomes difficult for law-enforcement agencies to find out them who willingly go into hiding. “Many a times people hole themselves up, they...

Rajshahi farm owners face sharp price hike of fodder

Rajshahi farm owners face sharp price hike of fodder

Our Correspondent 2017-11-08 10:02:15

RAJSHAHI, Nov 08: The cattle and goat farm owners of greater Rajshahi districts are facing a dire strait due to an abnormal increase of price of straw, a popular fodder for goat, sheep, cow and buffal...

Visually-impaired persons get life term for murder

Visually-impaired persons get life term for murder

-- 2017-11-08 09:01:27

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced two visually-impaired people to life imprisonment and another person to seven years of jail term for killing a person with vision problem in 2011. Judge Sayeed Ah...

Law minister to meet SC judges Nov 16

Law minister to meet SC judges Nov 16

-- 2017-11-08 07:22:34

Law Minister Anisul Huq will hold a meeting with the apex court judges on November 16 over the service rules and conduct of lower court judges. Law ministry spokesperson Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim said the...

UNHCR terms one-third Rohingyas in BD vulnerable

UNHCR terms one-third Rohingyas in BD vulnerable

-- 2017-11-08 07:09:49

One-third of the Rohingya population taking refuge in Bangladesh is vulnerable, revealed the innovative data collection technology employed by the United Nations refugee agency for the first stage of...

Bogra jute mill fire doused

Bogra jute mill fire doused

-- 2017-11-08 02:11:23

A massive fire, that broke out at a jute mill in Manik Chalk area in Sadar upazila of Bogra on Wednesday morning, was doused.   The fire originated from electric short circuit at the warehouse of...

RMU starts academic activities

RMU starts academic activities

-- 2017-11-08 02:06:33

The academic activities of Rajshahi Medical University (RMU) has started, aiming to improve and expand scopes of the medical education, research and treatment in the region. In the preliminary stage,...

Jessore road mishap leaves biker dead

Jessore road mishap leaves biker dead

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 01:37:53

A motorcyclist was killed and a person riding pillion sustained injuries in a motorcycle crash on Nabharan-Satkhira Road in Sharsha Upazila of Jessore on Tuesday night.   Ziaur Rahman, Officer-i...

Kate Winslet says, will never quit acting

Kate Winslet says, will never quit acting

-- 2017-11-07 12:27:00

Actor Kate Winslet said she does not want to quit acting ever and will keep working in films till life allows her to. The 42-year-old star, however, said to maintain a long career it is important for...

Sylhet stone quarry collapse kills six

Sylhet stone quarry collapse kills six

-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00

Five madrasa students, including two siblings, and another local residence were killed as a portion of hill collapsed on them while they were extracting stones from a hillock in union No 1 of Sylhet&r...

Amin Jute Mill in Ctg catches fire

Amin Jute Mill in Ctg catches fire

FE Online Desk 2017-11-07 12:00:00

A fire has broken out at Amin Jute Mill in Oxygen area of Chittagong on Tuesday morning. Service operator of Agrabad fire service and civil defense station, Humayun Kabir, said the fire originated ar...

Khulna-Kolkata train service begins Thursday

Khulna-Kolkata train service begins Thursday

-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00

The much awaited Khulna-Kolkata direct train service ‘Bandhan Express’ is set to launch on November 9 (Thursday) in a bid to ease communication between India and Bangladesh. The new trai...

‘Fake WhatsApp’ fools one million Android users

‘Fake WhatsApp’ fools one million Android users

BBC 2017-11-07 11:16:35

A fake version of the WhatsApp messenger app was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store before it was removed. The app, "Update WhatsApp Messenger", appeared to have been dev...

Police recover woman’s dead body

Police recover woman’s dead body

FE Online Desk 2017-11-07 10:58:24

Police recovered the dead body of Hiramoti Begum (50), wife of an expatriate Dhune Mandal, from her own bedroom at Chitla village in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district on Monday night. Officer-i...

Police detain RUET Shibir leader

Police detain RUET Shibir leader

-- 2017-11-07 10:40:50

Police arrested the president of Islami Chhatra Shibir of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) unit from the campus over subversive activities on Monday. The arrestee was Nasir Ud...

Exporters to get Tk 11.25b cash incentives

Exporters to get Tk 11.25b cash incentives

FE Report 2017-11-07 10:14:38

The government has released the second installment of cash incentives amounting to Tk 11.25 billion among major exporters for the fiscal year 2017-18. The ministry of finance on Sunday advised the Ch...

HC reduces three rape convicts’ death penalty

HC reduces three rape convicts’ death penalty

-- 2017-11-07 10:02:19

The High Court reduced death sentences of three people to life term in a rape case of a health worker of BRAC in 2005. Justice Bhabani Prasad Singha and Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam announced the verd...

Agricultural innovation to alleviate poverty: Mosharraf

Agricultural innovation to alleviate poverty: Mosharraf

-- 2017-11-07 09:40:30

Agricultural innovation will play an effective role to wipe off poverty from the country, said LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain "Rural Development Academy can play a leading...

Customs arrests Biman staff over gold smuggling

Customs arrests Biman staff over gold smuggling

-- 2017-11-07 08:27:40

Customs intelligence has arrested a security guard of Biman Bangladesh Airlines over alleged involvement in gold smuggling. The Biman official, Zakaria and a passenger of flight BG 040 were caught at...

EC to use EVMs in Rangpur polls

EC to use EVMs in Rangpur polls

-- 2017-11-07 08:04:51

The Election Commission (EC) plans to use  Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in upcoming Rangpur city polls. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) designed the EVM in 2010. Bu...

CPA seeks immediate steps for Rohingya crisis

CPA seeks immediate steps for Rohingya crisis

-- 2017-11-07 07:28:51

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has urged the international community to take immediate steps to solve the Rohingya crisis. The organisation made the call through adopting a consensu...

BCL men vandalise CU VC office

BCL men vandalise CU VC office

-- 2017-11-07 07:24:08

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has vandalised the academic building of Chittagong University and the vice-chancellor's office, demanding suspension of a university teacher.  The un...

Mitu murder: Suspect gets bail

Mitu murder: Suspect gets bail

-- 2017-11-07 05:18:47

The High Court has granted six months of interim bail to Sayedul Islam Sikder, the brother of prime suspect Kamrul Islam Shikder alias Musa in the murder of police officer’s wife Mahmuda Aktar M...

Prosecution refers 13 confessional statements in Aug 21 grenade case

Prosecution refers 13 confessional statements in Aug 21 grenade case

-- 2017-11-07 05:04:07

The prosecution in its arguments in the sensational August 21 grenade attack case has referred to 13 confessional statements that were given by 12 accused at different times accepting their connection...

Stamford signs MoU with Chinese univ

Stamford signs MoU with Chinese univ

FE Online Report 2017-11-07 02:39:20

Stamford University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lanzhou Jiaotong University, in collaboration with Bangladesh China Institute of Technology (BCIT), to start a 4-year undergraduate...

RAB nabs two with Phensedyl in C’nawabganj

RAB nabs two with Phensedyl in C’nawabganj

-- 2017-11-07 02:35:46

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive detained two alleged drug traders with 664 bottles of contraband Indian Phensedyl from a house at Housenagar village in Shibganj upazila of Chapainaw...

Malaria breath test shows promise: Study

Malaria breath test shows promise: Study

BBC 2017-11-07 02:23:32

People with malaria give off a distinctive "breath-print" that could be used as a test for the disease, according to American scientists. They had already tried out a crude prototype breathalyser in...

Police recover buried body from abandoned house

Police recover buried body from abandoned house

-- 2017-11-07 01:48:13

Police recovered the dead body of a man from an abandoned house at Chupua village in Nangalkot upazila of Comilla on early Tuesday five days after he had gone missing. The deceased was identified as...

‘Pirate’ dies in gunfight with RAB

‘Pirate’ dies in gunfight with RAB

-- 2017-11-07 01:44:26

A top leader of a pirate gang was killed in a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Chunkuri Khal in Sundarbans under Satkhira range on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified...

Dhaka condemns Houthi missile attack on Riyadh

Dhaka condemns Houthi missile attack on Riyadh

-- 2017-11-07 01:39:06

Bangladesh has expressed deep concern at the reported ballistic missile attack by the Houthi rebels targeting the King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh which was successfully intercepted by the...