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Body recovered from pond in Pabna’s Ishwardi

Body recovered from pond in Pabna’s Ishwardi

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-12 10:20:29

Police on Wednesday recovered the body of a man from a pond after he went missing for five days in Pabna’s Ishwardi. The deceased was identified as Sumon Ali, 30, reports UNB. According to pol...

Half of govt pry schools in Chandpur sans playground

Half of govt pry schools in Chandpur sans playground

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHANDPUR 2023-01-11 11:03:48

In the absence of playgrounds in many government primary schools in Chandpur district, thousands of little students can't play in their leisure time for many years. Most students feel bored and monot...

Plastic wastes dumped in Barishal river hamper dredging

Plastic wastes dumped in Barishal river hamper dredging

-- 2023-01-10 19:49:33

The bottom of the Kirtankhola River in Barishal is so filled with plastic wastes that the authorities are facing difficulties in dredging in the port area. Officials fear the river may lose navigabil...

BGB seizes gold bars worth Tk 26m from Benapole

BGB seizes gold bars worth Tk 26m from Benapole

-- 2023-01-10 17:40:05

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday seized six gold bars worth Tk 26 million at Daulatpur border area in Benapole. Lt. Col. Tanvir Rahman, commander of the Khulna BGB-21 battalion, sa...

Indian citizen held with 132 mobile phones at Sonamasjid land port

Indian citizen held with 132 mobile phones at Sonamasjid land port

-- 2023-01-08 17:41:23

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an Indian truck driver with 132 mobile phones from the Sonamasjid frontier on Saturday afternoon. According to BSS, the arrested Indian citizen is Md...

Rampant Screwpine deforestation on Saint Martin's Island, authorities silent

Rampant Screwpine deforestation on Saint Martin's Island, authorities silent

Rassiq Aziz Kabir  2023-01-08 15:40:58

Screwpine trees (known in Bangla as Keya) often act as a defensive wall for Saint Martin's island when it comes to protection against different types of natural calamities.  Even five years ago,...

Army distributes blankets among poor people in Khulna

Army distributes blankets among poor people in Khulna

-- 2023-01-07 20:18:22

Bangladesh Army on Saturday distributed 4,000 blankets among the poor and distressed people of the Khulna. General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 55 Infantry Division of Bangladesh Army Major General Mo...

Kishoreganj mosque gets donations of 20 sacks of cash, gold jewellery

Kishoreganj mosque gets donations of 20 sacks of cash, gold jewellery

-- 2023-01-07 19:35:53

The trustees of a 250-year-old mosque in Kishoreganj and the local authorities have started counting mountains of cash in local and foreign currencies and gold jewellery donated by devotees. The mosq...

Scrap warehouse catches fire in Khulna

Scrap warehouse catches fire in Khulna

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-07 15:56:44

A fire broke out in a warehouse of jute scrap in Aronghata area in the district on Saturday noon. Tanharul Islam, deputy director at Khulna divisional Fire Service and Civil Defence department, said...

One dead, 7 injured as tourist vehicle overturns on Cox’s Bazar Marine Drive

One dead, 7 injured as tourist vehicle overturns on Cox’s Bazar Marine Drive

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-07 10:46:04

Cox’s Bazar, Jan, 7 (UNB)- One person was dead and seven were injured when a vehicle carrying tourists overturned on Cox’s Bazar Marine Drive around 10 pm on Friday.The deceased was identi...

Chuadanga shivers at 9-degree Celsius

Chuadanga shivers at 9-degree Celsius

-- 2023-01-06 18:06:33

Biting cold gripped Chuadanga as the lowest temperature in the country on Friday was recorded at 9.0 degrees Celsius in the district. Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild...

16 fishermen held for catching Parshe fries in Sundarbans

16 fishermen held for catching Parshe fries in Sundarbans

-- 2023-01-06 17:16:53

The Forest Department has detained 16 fishermen from the Sundarbans for catching Parshe (mullet) fries, during its breeding period from November-January, from the river and canals defying a ban. A te...

Caretaker couple found dead at Dinajpur house

Caretaker couple found dead at Dinajpur house

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-06 13:54:40

A couple was found dead in a house in Dinajpur town early Friday, police said. The deceased were identified as Mojibor Rahman and his wife Suraiya Begum, 55, from the town. They used to work as caret...

A turtle lays 125 eggs on Cox's Bazar beach

A turtle lays 125 eggs on Cox's Bazar beach

OUR CORRESPONDENT, COX'S BAZAR 2023-01-06 10:14:47

After almost a year, a sea turtle laid 125 eggs on a deserted beach in Cox's Bazar again. On Tuesday evening, the turtle laid its eggs and returned to the sea at Pechar Dweep beach adjacent to the Ban...

Mymensingh district Jamaat chief arrested

Mymensingh district Jamaat chief arrested

-- 2023-01-05 18:15:10

Police in a drive arrested Mymensingh district Jamaat ameer Abdul Karim in connection with a subversive case filed under Special Power Act. Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Model Thana Shah Kamal Akand sai...

Mercury dips to 9C in Sreemangal

Mercury dips to 9C in Sreemangal

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 15:50:35

Half of the day had already passed without the faintest glimmer of sunshine on the horizon. Vast swaths of Bangladesh were cloaked in dense fog accompanied by biting cold, heralding the onset of...

Boro farming starts in Sylhet region amid high cost of inputs

Boro farming starts in Sylhet region amid high cost of inputs

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2023-01-04 10:43:55

Farmers in Sylhet region started Boro farming in many areas of all the four districts. Many of them alleged that due to lack of irrigation facilities a good tracts of land would remain fallow while ot...

Khulna, Magura road accidents leave three dead

Khulna, Magura road accidents leave three dead

-- 2023-01-03 17:15:38

Three people were killed in road accidents in Khulna and Magura districts on Tuesday morning. In Khulna, two people died in separate accidents that took place at Parchalna village of Chalna municipal...

Man’s wrist slit over land dispute in Sylhet

Man’s wrist slit over land dispute in Sylhet

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 12:10:39

One of the wrists of a 35-year-old man was slit allegedly by his cousins in Sylhet's Companiganj upazila over a land dispute on Monday. The victim was identified as Helal Ahmed, of East Kathalbari vi...

Normal life disrupted by severe chilling cold in Panchagarh

Normal life disrupted by severe chilling cold in Panchagarh

-- 2023-01-01 17:21:22

The people of Panchagarh district have been experiencing bone-chilling cold for the last three days that disrupted their normal activities. The minimum temperature was recorded at 10 degrees Celsius...

Cattle trader shot dead ‘by BSF’ along Lalmonirhat border

Cattle trader shot dead ‘by BSF’ along Lalmonirhat border

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-01 15:26:52

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members along Burimari border in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat early Sunday. The deceased was identified as...

Cox's Bazar tourists witness final sunset of 2022

Cox's Bazar tourists witness final sunset of 2022

-- 2022-12-31 21:37:46

Cox's Bazar is now buzzing with tourists who have flocked to the beach town to witness 2022's final sunset and welcome the New Year. Tourists and locals enjoyed the last sunset of 2022 on the beach a...

Chitra erosion threatens mass grave of 1971 in Magura

Chitra erosion threatens mass grave of 1971 in Magura

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 15:14:33

A mass grave where eight freedom fighters were buried in 1971 at Hajrahati village in Magura’s Shalikha upazila is currently under threat of erosion by the Chitra river. On December 7, 1971, ei...

Three crushed under wheels of train in Natore

Three crushed under wheels of train in Natore

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 15:04:12

Three people were crushed under the wheels of a train while crossing the rail tracks at Narayanpur near Gopalpur rail station in Lalpur upazila of Natore district on Saturday. The deceased were ident...

Mother, daughter among three killed in Faridpur road crash

Mother, daughter among three killed in Faridpur road crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 14:43:44

Three people including a woman and her minor daughter were killed and three others injured when a car crashed into a truck amid dense fog on Dhaka-Bhanga highway at Salildia in Bhanga upazila  he...

Two Bangladeshis shot dead in BSF firing

Two Bangladeshis shot dead in BSF firing

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 10:33:24

Two Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead allegedly by members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Dolpara border in Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat district early Thursday, a Bangladeshi...

Tourist dies on Cox's Bazar sea beach

Tourist dies on Cox's Bazar sea beach

-- 2022-12-26 20:52:28

A tourist has died after being pulled unresponsive from the water while taking a bath at Cox's Bazar sea beach. The incident occurred at Sugandha Point on the beach around 12:30pm on Monday, said Cho...

Wife of expatriate killed in road crash after receiving him at airport

Wife of expatriate killed in road crash after receiving him at airport

-- 2022-12-24 20:24:38

Two people were killed and six others critically injured as their microbus crashed into a roadside tree after losing control on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Feni Sadar upazila on Saturday morning....

Chandpur Swimming Pool sans water lies unused for years

Chandpur Swimming Pool sans water lies unused for years

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHANDPUR 2022-12-22 12:33:56

The swimming pool in Chandpur Outer Stadium has been lying useless and abandoned for over three years, depriving the boys and girls of practicing and learning swimming. The swimming pool was built at...

Chuadanga records lowest temperature for third consecutive day

Chuadanga records lowest temperature for third consecutive day

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-17 13:53:04

The lowest temperature in the country this morning was recorded at 9.3 degree Celsius in Chuadanga. The northern district has been recording the lowest temperature for three days in a row. Cold weath...