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Two dead after lorry crushes motorcycle in Dhaka

Two dead after lorry crushes motorcycle in Dhaka

-- 2022-04-29 13:38:47

Two motorcycle riders have died after a lorry ploughed into the two-wheeler on the Khilgaon flyover in Dhaka. The incident occurred early on Friday, according to police. The riders were flung off...

Nachol residents struggle to get potable water

Nachol residents struggle to get potable water

-- 2022-04-29 09:22:05

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Amid soaring temperatures during the fasting month of Ramadan, residents of Nachol in the northern district have been struggling to get potable water. The aggrieved residents claim t...

Legal aid for poor litigants stressed

Legal aid for poor litigants stressed

-- 2022-04-29 09:08:32

Speakers here called upon lawyers and others concerned to be more sincere for ensuring legal aids to the grassroots poor, distressed and other litigants. They said that all people are equal to the...

Hasina offers Ctg port for use by India's NE states

Hasina offers Ctg port for use by India's NE states

-- 2022-04-29 08:35:25

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the India's northeastern states like Assam and Tripura can use Bangladesh's Chittagong seaport by strengthening the connectivity between the two neighbour...

TIB should face legal actions for spreading lies, says Hasan Mahmud

TIB should face legal actions for spreading lies, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-04-28 22:54:58

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said legal action should be taken against Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and others who he said are lying about the governme...

BNP leader MA Mannan dies

BNP leader MA Mannan dies

-- 2022-04-28 22:48:55

MA Mannan, the first mayor of Gazipur City Corporation and a BNP vice-chairman, died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 72. Mannan, also a former state minister for religious affairs, breathed hi...

40,000 Rangpur women busy with ornamental stitching ahead of Eid

40,000 Rangpur women busy with ornamental stitching ahead of Eid

-- 2022-04-28 22:23:52

Around 40,000 women are now busy with ornamental needlework at homes or local enterprises in Rangpur division ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, according to BSS. Ornamental stitching has a huge demand, especiall...

Fake herbal cosmetics worth Tk 336,000 seized in Rajshahi

Fake herbal cosmetics worth Tk 336,000 seized in Rajshahi

-- 2022-04-28 21:59:14

Police arrested two persons with huge fake herbal cosmetics worth Tk 336,000 from Puthiya Upazila in the Rajshahi district on Thursday. The arrested persons were identified as Muhammad Sujan, 33, and...

Muslim devotees observing Shab-e-Qadr

Muslim devotees observing Shab-e-Qadr

-- 2022-04-28 21:31:40

Holy Shab-e-Qadr, the holiest and most blessed night for Muslims, is being observed across the country on Thursday night with due solemnity and religious fervour. Muslim devotees are spending the nig...

Saida Muna receives ‘Diplomat of the Year 2022’ award as first Bangladesh envoy

Saida Muna receives ‘Diplomat of the Year 2022’ award as first Bangladesh envoy

-- 2022-04-28 21:18:58

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem has received the Diplomat of the Year 2022 Award from the Diplomat magazine in London for her “outstanding contribution to climate diplo...

Dhaka WASA didn't find any bacteria at source of its water, cabinet secretary says

Dhaka WASA didn't find any bacteria at source of its water, cabinet secretary says

-- 2022-04-28 21:10:07

Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam has said Dhaka Water Supply And Sewerage Authority (Dhaka WASA) didn't find any bacteria at the source of its water as they conducted tests in different areas....

Jamalpur, Rangpur districts to get rural development academies

Jamalpur, Rangpur districts to get rural development academies

-- 2022-04-28 20:59:54

The government has taken an initiative to establish two more rural development academies in Jamalpur and Rangpur districts. The cabinet, in principle, approved the drafts of Sheikh Hasina Rural Devel...

Indian North-Eastern states can use Ctg port, said Hasina

Indian North-Eastern states can use Ctg port, said Hasina

-- 2022-04-28 20:41:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the North-Eastern states like Assam and Tripura can use the Chattogram seaport by strengthening the connectivity between the two neighbouring countries....

Officials in discussion on CEPA

Officials in discussion on CEPA

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-28 19:58:13

Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishangkar on Thursday said that Bangladesh and India are in talks about signing the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The issue is und...

Bangladesh, India should increase connectivity for mutual benefits: PM

Bangladesh, India should increase connectivity for mutual benefits: PM

-- 2022-04-28 19:42:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the initiative was taken to resume various cross-border routes, which were stopped in 1965, between Bangladesh and India. She also stressed the need for...

Five Dhaka College students on two-day remand over murder in New Market clash

Five Dhaka College students on two-day remand over murder in New Market clash

-- 2022-04-28 18:15:38

Detective police have received a two-day remand order to question five Dhaka College students who were arrested over the murder of Nahid Mia, a deliveryman who was fatally beaten and stabbed during th...

Land development tax could be paid directly with NID  

Land development tax could be paid directly with NID  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-28 17:56:30

Landowners will be able to pay land development tax digitally by using their NID number very soon, says a press release received on Thursday. The Land Development Tax system was resumed on April 25 a...

538 diarrhoea patients admitted at icddr,b in 15 hrs on Thursday

538 diarrhoea patients admitted at icddr,b in 15 hrs on Thursday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-28 17:45:57

As many as 538 more diarrhoea patients were admitted to the icddr,b, an international health research institute in Dhaka, in 15 hours till 3:00pm on Thursday. AKM Tariful Islam Khan, media manager of...

19 Covid-19 cases, no death reported in 24 hours

19 Covid-19 cases, no death reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-04-28 17:15:53

Bangladesh has registered 19 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,644. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

PM instructs police to move station from Tentultola ground

PM instructs police to move station from Tentultola ground

-- 2022-04-28 16:55:46

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the relocation of the police station that was to be built on the Tentultola ground in Dhaka's Kalabagan, allowing it to remain a playground for local children....

Jaishankar in Dhaka to meet PM Hasina

Jaishankar in Dhaka to meet PM Hasina

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-28 14:30:27

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon as the two countries eye Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi in July. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Mome...

Paturia pier teems with small vehicles amid Eid rush

Paturia pier teems with small vehicles amid Eid rush

-- 2022-04-28 13:59:44

The rush of homebound travellers and vehicles is growing at the Paturia ferry terminal in Manikganj ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, bdnews24.com reports. Mohiuddin Russell, manager of BIWTC's Patu...

Heatwave spell to continue

Heatwave spell to continue

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-28 13:37:08

Brace for warmer days ahead, as the weather department has predicted the heatwave spell to continue in Bangladesh. Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over Khulna division and the districts of Far...

New Market clash: 5 Dhaka College students held over Nahid's murder

New Market clash: 5 Dhaka College students held over Nahid's murder

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-28 12:49:45

Police arrested five Dhaka College students over the murder of Nahid Mia, a deliveryman who was fatally beaten and stabbed during the recent violence in the New Market area. The arrestees were identi...

Black cumin farming gets a boost in Magura

Black cumin farming gets a boost in Magura

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-28 11:19:36

MAGURA: Black cumin cultivation is gaining popularity in Magura. Soil and weather of this district is congenial for black cumin cultivation. On the other hand, price of black cumin is high in the m...

Perilous Eid holiday travel fears loom large

Perilous Eid holiday travel fears loom large

FE REPORT 2022-04-28 11:15:36

The government is bracing for a series of measures to ease the suffering of travellers during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays as a huge exodus from Dhaka is expected with the rapid fall in coronavirus cases. B...

A brawl and a recount later, Dulal is declared secretary of SCBA

A brawl and a recount later, Dulal is declared secretary of SCBA

-- 2022-04-28 09:02:30

They kicked and engaged in a serious fistfight with each other on Wednesday at the Supreme Court premises centring the results of the elections that took place over a month ago, bdnews24.com reports....

Dhaka Eid exodus paces up today

Dhaka Eid exodus paces up today

-- 2022-04-28 08:22:54

The exodus of homebound people from the bustling capital, Dhaka, is expected to pace up today (Thursday) as it is the last workday of government, semi-government and many private offices before Eid-ul...

Shab-e-Qadr to be observed on Thursday night

Shab-e-Qadr to be observed on Thursday night

-- 2022-04-27 21:29:43

The Holy Shab-e-Qadr, also known as Lailatul Qadr (the Night of Decree) when the first verses of the holy Quran were revealed to Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), will be observed across the country on...

Lawyers engage in fistfight over Supreme Court Bar Association elections results

Lawyers engage in fistfight over Supreme Court Bar Association elections results

-- 2022-04-27 21:07:48

Lawyers from both sides of the political divide engaged in a fistfight with each other at the Supreme Court premises centring on the results of the Supreme Court Bar Association elections that t...