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Army to be with people, govt: PM

Army to be with people, govt: PM

FE 2018-05-13 14:04:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she firmly believes that the army will stand by the people and help the government manage state affairs when necessary. “Whenever the current governme...

KCC electioneering gains momentum on final day

KCC electioneering gains momentum on final day

-- 2018-05-13 13:34:03

The Khulna City Corporation election aspirants and their agents were seen to be working relentlessly in electioneering as the last day of campaign approaches on Sunday. All the mayoral and councillor...

Bus crushes elderly woman in Rajshahi

Bus crushes elderly woman in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-13 13:00:41

An elderly woman was killed as a bus crushed her on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway at Godagari municipal area in Rajshahi on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Rasheda Begum, 60, wife o...

RAB detains two with 9,920 Yaba pills

RAB detains two with 9,920 Yaba pills

-- 2018-05-13 10:59:13

In a drive by the members of Members of Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, a duo was arrested along with 9,920 Yaba tablets from Khuniapalong area in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar on Saturday. The suspecte...

Cops arrest 40 Jamaat men in Mirpur

Cops arrest 40 Jamaat men in Mirpur

-- 2018-05-13 10:49:17

Police in a drive arrested 40 leaders and activists of Islamic terrorist organisation - Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen after a drive on a flat in city’s Mirpur area on charges of plotting sabotage and pla...

Padma Bridge now more visible with fourth span

Padma Bridge now more visible with fourth span

-- 2018-05-13 10:34:56

Around 600 metres of the long-awaited Padma Bridge is now visible following the installation of fourth span on pillar no 40 and 41 on Sunday. The span has been installed in the Jajira point this morn...

Police recover two bodies in Savar

Police recover two bodies in Savar

-- 2018-05-13 10:19:30

Police recovered the bodies of two men from Kamalapur and Kaundia areas of Birulia of Savar on Sunday morning. A 42-year-old rickshaw puller Chand Miah reportedly committed suicide by taking poison a...

Location makes Mirsarai hot cake for investors

Location makes Mirsarai hot cake for investors

Jasim Uddin Haroon and Jubair Hasan 2018-05-13 10:04:31

Just 20 years back, land-starved Bangladesh was blessed with a considerable volume of land reclaimed from the Bay of Bengal at the Mirsarai point of Chattogram. And local people say the vast char lan...

WB, ADB likely to give Rohingya grants after government push

WB, ADB likely to give Rohingya grants after government push

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-05-12 22:56:34

The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development (ADB) are likely to provide grants for Rohingya rehabilitation as they have given second-thought to their lending decisions, officials said Saturday.Off...

Consumers reluctant to buy TCB essentials for ‘overpricing’  

Consumers reluctant to buy TCB essentials for ‘overpricing’  

-- 2018-05-12 22:03:43

The state-owned trading house Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB)’s move to sell daily essentials before Ramadan for keeping the market under control has failed for various reasons, includin...

Aus seedbeds on 8,828 hectares of land in Sylhet division

Aus seedbeds on 8,828 hectares of land in Sylhet division

Our Correspondent 2018-05-12 21:08:18

SYLHET, May 12: With a target to bring larger areas under Aus farming in Sylhet division in the Kharif season, the farmers in many areas are busy in preparing seedbeds. It would be completed in weeks...

Housewife, teenager commit suicide in Sherpur, Panchagarh

Housewife, teenager commit suicide in Sherpur, Panchagarh

-- 2018-05-12 21:02:57

Two people, including a teenager, committed suicide at Sadar Upazila in Sherpur and Boda upazila of Panchagarh on Friday night and Saturday. In Sherpur, a housewife committed suicide after her husban...

Demo against move to hike gas price Monday

Demo against move to hike gas price Monday

-- 2018-05-12 20:43:55

National Committee to Protect Oil Gas Mineral Resources Power and Ports will stage demonstration on May 14 (Monday) across the country protesting the government's move to raise gas prices and also all...

BSTI destroys 2,100 water jars in anti-adulteration drive

BSTI destroys 2,100 water jars in anti-adulteration drive

-- 2018-05-12 20:16:26

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) in an anti-adulteration drive on Saturday destroyed a total of 2,100 water jars in the city's Mohammadpur area. Executive Magistrate Sarowar Al...

BNP questions ownership of Bangabandhu satellite

BNP questions ownership of Bangabandhu satellite

-- 2018-05-12 19:29:42

BNP on Saturday alleged that the ownership of the country's first communication satellite, Bangabandhu-1, has gone to the hands of two persons. "This is fine that they've launched the satellite. Now...

DMP files 2,419 cases over traffic rule violations

DMP files 2,419 cases over traffic rule violations

-- 2018-05-12 19:16:16

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Friday filed 2,419 cases on charges of traffic rule violation. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on the city streets also realised o...

Hundreds flock at Cumilla human haats to sell labour

Hundreds flock at Cumilla human haats to sell labour

-- 2018-05-12 18:48:32

Selling labour is a common scenario at different 'human haats' in Cumilla during the harvesting season. People from different impoverished areas parts of the country usually throng human haats, the p...

DSCC staff rescue newborn girl from dustbin

DSCC staff rescue newborn girl from dustbin

-- 2018-05-12 18:38:19

A newborn baby girl was rescued from a dustbin near Janata Housing in the capital's Mohammadpur area early Saturday. Cleaning staffs of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) found the infant inside a d...

Thrust on proper orientation with idea of zakat

Thrust on proper orientation with idea of zakat

FE Online Report 2018-05-12 18:16:15

Speakers at a function have underscored the need for social campaign to give the proper idea of zakat and its distribution system as it is one of the five pillars of Islam. “The well-off sectio...

Five policemen withdrawn in Chattogram  

Five policemen withdrawn in Chattogram  

-- 2018-05-12 18:14:57

Five policemen, including two sub-inspectors of Sitakundu highway police, were closed to Chattogram police lines for releasing a drug trader after embezzling Yaba seized from his possession. They are...

Quota protesters to observe strike on Sunday

Quota protesters to observe strike on Sunday

-- 2018-05-12 17:56:05

Quota protestors will observe a two-hour strike in all colleges and universities across the country on Sunday. They made the announcement on Saturday as their 24-hour ultimatum to the government for...

Myanmar verifies 1,100 Rohingyas, says report

Myanmar verifies 1,100 Rohingyas, says report

FE Report 2018-05-12 16:59:35

Myanmar has so far verified some 1,100 Rogingya people out of the list of 8,000, which was given to them by Bangladesh. Myanmar will repatriate these refugees who have fled northern Rakhine state for...

Satellite brings prestigious position for Bangladesh: PM

Satellite brings prestigious position for Bangladesh: PM

-- 2018-05-12 16:43:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh earned the prestigious position in the world by sending its first artificial satellite into orbit. “We have received the highest respect of the...

Man kills wife in Keraniganj

Man kills wife in Keraniganj

-- 2018-05-12 16:20:31

A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband at Muktirbag in Dakkhin Keraniganj early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sharmin, 23, second wife of Nasiruddin. Quoting local...

DIG Sohrab Hossain passes away

DIG Sohrab Hossain passes away

-- 2018-05-12 16:11:49

Deputy Inspector General of Tourist Police Md Sohrab Hossain died at a city hospital on Saturday at the age of 56. He breathed his last at Monowara Hospital around 10:15 am following a stroke, repo...

Truck driver murdered in Khagrachhari

Truck driver murdered in Khagrachhari

FE Online Desk 2018-05-12 14:56:40

Police have recovered the body of a truck driver inside the vehicle itself near the police station of Matiranga upazila in Khagrachhari. It follows the finding by truck owner Nurul Amin only after he...

BNP to hold nationwide demo Monday

BNP to hold nationwide demo Monday

-- 2018-05-12 13:31:34

BNP will stage demonstrations across the country, including in Dhaka, demanding better treatment of its chairperson Khaleda Zia and her release from jail. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kab...

Shoe manufacturing a boon for Rajshahi villagers

Shoe manufacturing a boon for Rajshahi villagers

-- 2018-05-12 11:59:39

Many people, both males and females, have become financially solvent over manufacturing shoes at Kaluhati village under Charghat upazila in Rajshahi district. The successful villagers are contributin...

Cops kill two in Mymensingh ‘gunfights’

Cops kill two in Mymensingh ‘gunfights’

-- 2018-05-12 11:17:37

Two arrested suspects have allegedly been killed in separate police ‘shootouts’ in Mymensingh region. The incidents occurred in the Sadar Upazila’s Poranganj Road and the Sankipara...

Two hurt as cargo vessel sinks in Meghna

Two hurt as cargo vessel sinks in Meghna

-- 2018-05-12 11:02:07

A cargo vessel carrying 1000 tonnes of clinker capsized in the middle of the Meghna River at Katakhali Majherchar area in Haimchar upazila in Chandpur on Friday evening. The vessel 'MV Millennium-1 w...