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Electrocution kills two minor brothers in Bhola

Electrocution kills two minor brothers in Bhola

-- 2018-05-14 15:44:44

Two brothers have died from electrocution in Pangasia area under Lalmohon upazila of Bhola district on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin (6), and his brother M Siam (4), sons of...

RAB detains four suspected militants in raids

RAB detains four suspected militants in raids

-- 2018-05-14 15:33:41

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested four suspected militants in Rajshahi on Monday. The arrestees are: Naimul Islam, Piarul, hailing from Godagari upazila, Jewell, hai...

Quota protests bring Shahbagh to halt

Quota protests bring Shahbagh to halt

FE Online Desk 2018-05-14 15:19:38

Quota protesters have gathered at Shahbagh in Dhaka city blocking one of the main thoroughfares to press home their demand that a gazette be issued on the quota abolition immediately. They gathered t...

11 die in Chattogram stampede

11 die in Chattogram stampede

-- 2018-05-14 14:18:19

At least 11 people were killed and 50 others injured as they scrambled to collect iftar items distributed by the management of Kabir Steel and Re-Rolling Mills (KSRM) at Nolua union in Satkania upazil...

Quota gazette: Non-stop class boycott underway countrywide

Quota gazette: Non-stop class boycott underway countrywide

Agencies 2018-05-14 13:26:20

Quota protesters have started an indefinite class and exam boycott programme at all educational institutions across the country demanding the immediate issuance of a gazette abolishing the existing qu...

‘Drug-addict’ man hacks uncle to death in Gopalganj

‘Drug-addict’ man hacks uncle to death in Gopalganj

-- 2018-05-14 12:19:49

A 60-year-old man was hacked to death allegedly by his drug-addict nephew at Ulpur village in Gopalganj Sadar upazila on Monday morning. Officer-in-Charge (operational) of Sadar Police Station Moktar...

Torun League leader dies in Jessore bomb attack

Torun League leader dies in Jessore bomb attack

-- 2018-05-14 12:11:06

A local leader of an Awami League-allied group has been killed in a bomb attack in Jessore. Another person was seriously injured in the incident, which occurred at the town’s Palbari Statue int...

Two die in cement factory accident

Two die in cement factory accident

-- 2018-05-14 11:33:18

Two workers were killed as a chunk of cement collapsed on them at a cement factory at Paschim Muktarpur in the Munshiganj district town on Monday morning. The deceased have been identified as Md Shah...

Cops recover bodies of expat’s mother, wife in Habiganj

Cops recover bodies of expat’s mother, wife in Habiganj

-- 2018-05-14 11:25:06

Police recovered bodies of a woman and her daughter-in-law from their house at Sadullapur village in Kurshi union of Nabiganj upazila in Sylhet’s Habiganj on Sunday night. The deceased were Mal...

Murder suspect dies in Mymensingh shootout

Murder suspect dies in Mymensingh shootout

-- 2018-05-14 11:23:32

A suspect in five cases has been killed in an alleged shootout involving police in Mymensingh after he was arrested in Dhaka. The deceased has been identified as Sarfan Islam aka Babu, 28. Police ha...

BEZA learning from Asian zoning experience

BEZA learning from Asian zoning experience

Jasim Uddin Haroon and Jubair Hasan 2018-05-14 10:43:27

The concept of economic zone is now considered one of the best investment and employment generation models across the world in this age of globalisation, analysts said. Economic zone (EZ) is a cluste...

Dhk-Ctg highway: Unfinished work to blame for gridlock

Dhk-Ctg highway: Unfinished work to blame for gridlock

Munima Sultana 2018-05-14 10:32:40

Unfinished work of the Dhaka-Chattogram four-lane project is partly responsible for the nagging traffic congestion on the country's prime highway, sources said. Though the project was officially an...

Miscreants gang-rape mother, daughter in Gaibandha

Miscreants gang-rape mother, daughter in Gaibandha

-- 2018-05-13 21:23:49

A woman and her daughter were allegedly gang-raped by some members of a fraud gang named ‘Jiner Badhsa’ at Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha. The victims were residents of the capital&rsqu...

Prisoner dies at Keraniganj jail

Prisoner dies at Keraniganj jail

-- 2018-05-13 20:59:53

An under-trial prisoner died at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Khokon Miah, 45, son of Suva Miah of Bangshal Sayeed Hazi Sarker Lane in old Dhaka, reports...

Growers fail to harvest paddy on 5,000 hectares of land

Growers fail to harvest paddy on 5,000 hectares of land

Our Correspondent 2018-05-13 20:58:47

SYLHET, May 13: Farmers of Sunamganj district are in trouble as they could not able to harvest paddy on 5,000 hectares of land. Sources said about 70 per cent of crop have already been harvested and...

Fatehpur overpass will be completed in 25 days: Quader

Fatehpur overpass will be completed in 25 days: Quader

-- 2018-05-13 20:55:31

Work on a railway overpass at Fathepur in Feni will be completed in 25 days, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said. He came up with the disclosure while speaking at a press brie...

No prior appointment for Indian tourist visa

No prior appointment for Indian tourist visa

-- 2018-05-13 20:36:45

The Indian High Commission has decided to accept visa applications of Bangladeshi nationals without prior appointment at Sylhet, Mymensingh and Barishal centres. The move, to be effective from May 20...

Satellite launching: PM pays homage to Bangabandhu

Satellite launching: PM pays homage to Bangabandhu

-- 2018-05-13 19:55:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after successful launching of the country's first communication satellite into the space. The...

Barapukuria coalmine workers start indefinite strike

Barapukuria coalmine workers start indefinite strike

-- 2018-05-13 19:50:10

The workers of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company went on an indefinite strike on Sunday to press home their 13-point demand, including payment of dues. The workers stopped working from 6 in the morning...

Four JMB female members get 5-year jail in Sirajganj

Four JMB female members get 5-year jail in Sirajganj

-- 2018-05-13 18:42:14

A special tribunal Sirajhanj on Sunday sentenced four female members of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to five years in prison in a case filed under the Explosive Substanc...

Govt rolls out project for farmers to get better access to finance, mkt

Govt rolls out project for farmers to get better access to finance, mkt

-- 2018-05-13 18:38:12

The government on Sunday rolled out a $2.48 million project which will involve up to 10,000 farmers and 55 farmer organisations (FOs) in developing their capacity to establish market linkage and acces...

Hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case deferred

Hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case deferred

-- 2018-05-13 18:13:04

A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the hearing until June 25 on charge framing against BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia in Niko graft case on health ground. Judge Mahmudul Kabir of Dhaka Special Judge's Cou...

Gazipur City Corporation polls on June 26

Gazipur City Corporation polls on June 26

-- 2018-05-13 17:48:45

The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday has declared June 26 as the fresh date for holding Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections, reports BSS. The date was fixed at a meeting of the EC with Chief E...

Moudud wants to know total cost of satellite project

Moudud wants to know total cost of satellite project

-- 2018-05-13 17:10:04

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed wants to know the total cost of Bangabandhu Satellite-1 launching project. The BNP leader made the demand on Sunday while addressing a discussion in Dhaka, reports UNB....

USAID administrator to visit Rohingya camps Tuesday

USAID administrator to visit Rohingya camps Tuesday

-- 2018-05-13 16:55:54

Administrator of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mark Green will visit Rohingya camps on Tuesday. Mark Green will arrive in Dhaka on Monday before his journey to Cox's Baza...

Move to install lightning forecast system

Move to install lightning forecast system

-- 2018-05-13 16:26:58

The government plans to launch lightning forecast system for the first time in the country aiming to reduce the loss of lives. Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has set up US-made eight sens...

Bus strike on Dhaka-Chattogram route underway

Bus strike on Dhaka-Chattogram route underway

-- 2018-05-13 16:12:54

Bus transport workers and owners have called in a strike on the Dhaka-Chattogram route from morning to evening on Monday to protest the intense traffic congestion all over the highway. The Bus Owners...

BSF picks up three Bangladeshis from Thakurgaon border

BSF picks up three Bangladeshis from Thakurgaon border

-- 2018-05-13 15:29:11

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have picked-up three Bangladesh nationals from Paria border in Baliadangi upazila of the district early Sunday. The detainees are: Shah Alam, 35, son of...

Muggers shoot bKash agents snatching Tk 1.1m

Muggers shoot bKash agents snatching Tk 1.1m

-- 2018-05-13 15:17:43

A gang of muggers attacked two ‘bKash’ agents and snatched away Tk 1.1 million after shooting them at Chandana intersection area of Sadar upazila in Gazipur on Sunday.   The injured...

Quota protesters give ultimatum to publish gazette by afternoon

Quota protesters give ultimatum to publish gazette by afternoon

-- 2018-05-13 14:32:49

Quota reform activists have given the government an ultimatum to publish a gazette notification by Sunday afternoon abolishing the existing quota system in government jobs as per the Prime Minister's...