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Law enforcers seize 10 mounds of Hilsa fry

Law enforcers seize 10 mounds of Hilsa fry

FE Online Desk 2017-11-23 04:03:23

The coast guard members seized 10 mounds of Hilsa fry and three fishing boats from Meghna River as part of Hilsha fish conservation drive. Sunil Chandra Mazumdar, Senior Assistant Director of Lakhmip...

Gopalganj farmers make extra profit from sale of jute stalks

Gopalganj farmers make extra profit from sale of jute stalks

Our Correspondent 2017-11-23 01:20:14

GOPALGANJ, Nov 22: The jute growers of Gopalganj Sadar, Muksudpur and Kasiani upazilas in the district have been making an extra profit of Tk 200 million every year from the sale of jute stalks. Acco...

Khulna ‘gunfight’ leaves ‘robber’ dead

Khulna ‘gunfight’ leaves ‘robber’ dead

FE Online Desk 2017-11-22 10:31:50

An alleged member of a forest robber gang was killed during a 'gunfight' with Police in Vayrar Khal area in Koyra upazila of Khulna on Tuesday night. Officer-in-Charge of Koyra Police Station, Enamul...

BGB rescues 15 while being trafficked to India

BGB rescues 15 while being trafficked to India

-- 2017-11-22 10:09:30

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives rescued 15 people, including six males, six females and three children from Shadipur and Gathipara bordering areas at Benapole on Tuesday wh...

Rangpur farmers attaining financial solvency through  ginger cultivation

Rangpur farmers attaining financial solvency through ginger cultivation

Our Correspondent 2017-11-22 01:06:33

RANGPUR, Nov 21: The farmers of different areas under Rangpur division are attaining financial solvency by cultivating ginger on their lands in recent years. Due to good profit its farming is on the...

Bogra peasants cashing in on jute leaves as vegetables

Bogra peasants cashing in on jute leaves as vegetables

Our Correspondent 2017-11-22 01:05:32

BOGRA, Nov 21: A good number of peasants across the district have been growing jute leaves as a vegetable on commercial basis. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office source...

Ultra-poor family members attain self-reliance by cultivating  malta in C'nawabganj

Ultra-poor family members attain self-reliance by cultivating malta in C'nawabganj

Roving Correspondent 2017-11-21 12:21:43

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Nov 20: Hundreds of people from ultra-poor families in the district have attained self-reliance by cultivating malta. The farming of the citrus fruit is gaining popularity in the v...

Success story of Phul Rani, a farmer of Magura

Success story of Phul Rani, a farmer of Magura

Our Correspondent 2017-11-21 12:20:44

MAGURA, Nov 20: The story is about a successful female farmer 'Phul Rani' of Katakhali village under Magura Sadar. After taking training on vegetable farming from a local NGO, Phul Rani started far...

Meherpur road accident leaves one dead

Meherpur road accident leaves one dead

-- 2017-11-21 12:00:00

A man was killed as a truck hit his locally made vehicle in Jadovpur road area in Meherpur district town on Tuesday noon. The deceased was identified as Akbar Ali (46), hailing from Govipur village i...

Noakhali gunfight leaves two ‘pirates’ dead

Noakhali gunfight leaves two ‘pirates’ dead

FE Online Desk 2017-11-21 10:44:01

Two alleged members of a pirate gang, including its ringleader, were killed during a ‘gunfight’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Sutlar Ghat area in Hatia upazila of Noa...

Police arrest 60 in Jessore

Police arrest 60 in Jessore

-- 2017-11-21 06:08:28

Police have arrested 60 people in Jessore district in separate drives from Monday night to Tuesday morning. The Police Control Room here, the arrestees are accused of various criminal cases, includin...

Ctg worker dies from electrocution

Ctg worker dies from electrocution

FE Online Desk 2017-11-21 02:20:41

A worker died after being electrocuted while working in a project of Chittagong Wasa (Water Supply & Sewerage Authority) in the port city on early Tuesday. Mobarak Hossain (30), hailing from east...

Motorcycle crash kills three in Kurigram

Motorcycle crash kills three in Kurigram

FE Online Desk 2017-11-20 12:00:00

Three people were killed when their motorcycle crashed into a roadside tree in Amtoli area on Nageshwari-Bhurungamari road in Kurigram on Monday morning. The deceased were Motaleb (35), Sohel (32), a...

Couple rescues infant from Gazipur dustbin

Couple rescues infant from Gazipur dustbin

FE Online Desk 2017-11-20 12:00:00

A newborn child, rescued from a dustbin in Gazipur’s Laxmipura area under Joydebpur Police Station, is undergoing treatment at Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Medical College and Hospital. Hearing a we...

Police recover youth’s body in N’ganj

Police recover youth’s body in N’ganj

FE Online Desk 2017-11-20 11:40:23

Police recovered the blood-stained body of an unidentified young man from Nandalalpur area in Fatulla of Narayanganj on Sunday night. Locals spotted the youth's body on the road around 8 pm, said Kam...

Comilla cops recover youth’s throat-slit body

Comilla cops recover youth’s throat-slit body

FE Online Desk 2017-11-20 10:37:28

The throat-slit body of an unidentified youth, aged around 25, was recovered from New Chowdhury Para area in Comilla city on Sunday evening. Inspector (Investigation) at Kotwali Model Police Station,...

Shayestaganj becomes new upazila

Shayestaganj becomes new upazila

-- 2017-11-20 06:08:57

The government has decided to upgrade Shayestaganj thana under Habiganj district to a new upazila. Another new pourashava will be established at Tarash Upazila headquarter in Sirajganj district. The...

Ctg man gets death penalty for killing wife

Ctg man gets death penalty for killing wife

-- 2017-11-20 03:58:05

A Chittagong court on Monday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2010. The convict, Mohamamad Mostafa, a resident of South Pahartoli Natun Para in Hathazari upazila, strangled his wife R...

Boiler explosion kills Kushtia worker

Boiler explosion kills Kushtia worker

FE Online Desk 2017-11-20 01:25:34

Sabia Khatun (50), a worker of Daud Mandal Rice Mill, was killed when a boiler blasted with a big bang at the mill at Khwajanagar area of Kushtia on Sunday night Witnesses said the boiler explosion,...

Bus rams into human hauler, killing one

Bus rams into human hauler, killing one

FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00

A vegetable vendor was killed when a Bagerhat-bound passenger bus rammed into a human hauler on Bagerhat-Khulna road in Fulbari area of Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased, Akkas F...

Electrocution kills mother, daughter in Panchagarh

Electrocution kills mother, daughter in Panchagarh

FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00

Protima Rani (25), wife of Provat and her minor girl Khushi Rani (3) of Panchagarh’s Lalmohon Para village died after being electrocuted at their own residence in Debiganj upazila of the distric...

Chittagong sawmill worker dies from electrocution

Chittagong sawmill worker dies from electrocution

FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00

Mohammad Jakir (22), a sawmill worker died after being electrocuted while working at a mill in Wapda gate area in Chittagong’s Bakalia on Saturday night. Assistant Sub-Inpector of Chittagong Me...

Winter vegetables bring smiles on farmers’ faces

Winter vegetables bring smiles on farmers’ faces

-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00

Varieties of early winter vegetables have bring smiles on farmer's faces in Rajshahi, which started appearing in both retail and wholesale markets for the last couple of days. Farmers in the region...

BGB rescues 12 BD nationals at Benapole

BGB rescues 12 BD nationals at Benapole

-- 2017-11-18 11:06:06

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 12 Bangladeshi nationals, including five women and two children, from Sadipur bordering area at Benapole on Friday night while they were being traffick...

T-Aman harvest going on in full swing across Bogra

T-Aman harvest going on in full swing across Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-18 10:36:25

BOGRA, Nov 18: T-Aman harvest is going on in full swing across the district.Farmers are expecting 2.43 tonnes of yield from a hectare of land, said sub-assistance agriculture officer of the Departme...

Teenager from Savar remains missing

Teenager from Savar remains missing

-- 2017-11-18 10:04:20

A teenager is missing for seven days in Chapain Laltek area of the upazila. The missing is Emon Hossain, 14, a madrassa student, son of late Yusuf Ali, hailing from Jamalpur. He used to live with hi...

Police arrest 2 doctors over patient's death

Police arrest 2 doctors over patient's death

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

A female patient have died reportedly for wrong treatment at a hospital in in Lakshmipur district on Friday. Family members of the deceased, Fatema Begum,  said she died due to 'wrong treatment'...

Three die in Rajshahi road crash

Three die in Rajshahi road crash

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

Three people, including a couple, have died in a road accident at Poba Upazila in Rajshahi on Friday afternoon. The accident occurred when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch after hitting a motorcyc...

Fire burns 20 shops in Comilla

Fire burns 20 shops in Comilla

-- 2017-11-17 09:25:11

At least 20 shops were gutted in a fire at Kongso Nagar Bazar in Burichang upazila of Comilla on Friday afternoon. Deputy Assistant Director of Comilla Fire Service Farid Ahmed said the fire broke ou...

One dies in train-covered van collision

One dies in train-covered van collision

-- 2017-11-16 12:03:33

A man was killed as a train collided with a covered-van at Baropukuria coalmine level crossing in Dinajpur district early Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Biplob, 22, helper of the cover...