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Bangladesh hopeful of winning OIC assistant secy gen post

Bangladesh hopeful of winning OIC assistant secy gen post

-- 2018-05-04 20:51:47

Bangladesh is hopeful of winning the Assistant Secretary General post of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The country has nominated Kamrul Ahsan, secretary (bilateral and consular) at t...

OIC seeks stronger UNSC role to resolve Rohingya crisis

OIC seeks stronger UNSC role to resolve Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-05-04 20:24:34

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council has urged the UN Security Council to play a stronger role to resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis. “The UNSC powerful members had enough room to p...

Police arrest two with 1.3m yaba tablets in Chattogram

Police arrest two with 1.3m yaba tablets in Chattogram

-- 2018-05-04 19:11:37

The Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram  Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive arrested two brothers along with 1.3 million contraband yaba tablets from Shyamoli residential area under city's Hali...

Group theatre federation’s conference begins at Shilpakala

Group theatre federation’s conference begins at Shilpakala

-- 2018-05-04 18:54:05

The two-day 3rd annual national conference of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation (BGTF) began at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) on Friday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury inaugurated the co...

0.12m children in CHT to get free pre-primary education

0.12m children in CHT to get free pre-primary education

-- 2018-05-04 18:42:08

Over 120,000 children of 26 upazilas in three districts in Chattogram Hill Tracks (CHT) will be given pre-primary education for free in order to get them enrolled into primary education. "The childr...

13 injured as human hauler hits wrecker in capital

13 injured as human hauler hits wrecker in capital

FE Online Report 2018-05-04 18:21:19

At least 13 people were injured when a passenger-carrying human hauler hit a roadside wrecker in the capital’s Jatrabari area on Friday.   Fire Service and Civil Defence con...

BNP senior leaders discuss next course of action

BNP senior leaders discuss next course of action

-- 2018-05-04 17:40:18

BNP standing committee members on Friday sat in a meeting with party senior and mid-level leaders to discuss the country's latest political situation and work out its next course of action. The meeti...

Child education panning out in hilly region

Child education panning out in hilly region

-- 2018-05-04 17:25:55

Chayan Baisnab Tripura, 8, a class three student of Ramgarh Model Government High School, said "I enjoy when I am in School, all of my friends play together, sirs and madams teach us with love and car...

OIC council of FMs starts in city Saturday

OIC council of FMs starts in city Saturday

FE Report 2018-05-04 16:35:50

The Rohingya issue will figure prominently in the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which starts in the city tomorrow (Saturday). More than 5...

Construction of maiden concrete boring complete

Construction of maiden concrete boring complete

M Azizur Rahman 2018-05-04 16:32:48

The construction of first concrete boring for the first unit of the country's maiden nuclear power plant at Rooppur in northern Pabna district was completed recently. The main structure of the nucle...

Persistent rain might cause severe flooding

Persistent rain might cause severe flooding

FE Report 2018-05-04 16:29:02

Meteorologists have predicted that heavy rainfall might persist resulting in more events of severe flooding this year. On the other hand, agronomists and disaster experts have stressed adequate prepa...

Met predicts rain with squally wind

Met predicts rain with squally wind

-- 2018-05-04 16:05:49

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions. Moreover, a...

Five shot dead on way to Shaktiman's funeral

Five shot dead on way to Shaktiman's funeral

FE Online Desk 2018-05-04 15:57:11

Unidentified gunmen shot five people to death in Rangamati on Friday while they were on way to attend the funeral of Shaktimaan Chakma, slain chairman of Naniarchar upazila. One of the five deceased...

DB detain three drug traders in Satkhira

DB detain three drug traders in Satkhira

-- 2018-05-04 14:56:07

A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested three suspected drug traders along with 20,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from a courier service office in Satkhira district town early Friday. The ar...

Juicy litchi on display at Rajshahi markets

Juicy litchi on display at Rajshahi markets

-- 2018-05-04 14:55:00

With ten more days to appear the Bangla month of Jyestha, commonly known as 'Modhumash', the juicy fruit litchi has started appearing in the local markets including Rajshahi city in limited scale. B...

Lightning kills farmer in Sunamganj 

Lightning kills farmer in Sunamganj 

-- 2018-05-04 14:46:35

A farmer was killed when a thunderbolt struck him at Gorkati village in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Zafar Ali, 45, reports UNB. Ali met the trag...

LGD installs 2,186 tube-wells in Jamalpur

LGD installs 2,186 tube-wells in Jamalpur

-- 2018-05-04 13:58:28

The Local Government Division (LGD) installed 2,186 arsenic-free tube-wells in seven upazilas of Jamalpur district in fiscal 2017-2018. The tube-wells were set up spending Tk 32.80 million under the...

Nine tips to avoid lightning strikes

Nine tips to avoid lightning strikes

-- 2018-05-04 13:44:49

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has advised nine tips to avoid lightning strikes as the number of deaths from the lightning is being increasing. It recently posted the tips on its official...

OIC delegation visiting Rohingya camps

OIC delegation visiting Rohingya camps

-- 2018-05-04 13:20:53

A high-profile delegation of representatives of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is visiting Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar today. A 53-member delegation of representatives of OIC-member...

'Mentally challenged' son kills mother in Keraniganj

'Mentally challenged' son kills mother in Keraniganj

-- 2018-05-04 11:53:52

A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her mentally challenged son in Keraniganj Model Town area early Friday. The deceased has been identified as Shahida Haq, 54, wife of Fazlul Haque, a resident...

Pick-up van runs over, kills youth in city

Pick-up van runs over, kills youth in city

-- 2018-05-04 11:48:21

A youth was killed when a pick-up van hit him in the city's Arambagh area early Friday. Bacchu Mia, sub-inspector of Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police camp, said Shaon, 18, a mineral water suppli...

Afzal making a fortune rearing foreign pigeons

Afzal making a fortune rearing foreign pigeons

-- 2018-05-04 11:27:10

Sheikh Afzal Hossain, a resident of Bishwanath upazila under Sylhet division, has become self-reliant by setting up a pigeon farm at his residence where he usually rears foreign species. At the very...

Youth sent to jail for killing schoolgirl in Chattogram

Youth sent to jail for killing schoolgirl in Chattogram

-- 2018-05-04 10:38:53

A court in Chattogram on Thursday sent Adnan Mirza, who was arrested in connection with the murder of a schoolgirl Tashfia, to jail. Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Salem Mohammad Noman sent A...

Police detain four ‘criminals’ with arms in M’singh

Police detain four ‘criminals’ with arms in M’singh

-- 2018-05-04 10:28:59

Police in a drive arrested four suspected criminals along with arms at Charkalibari Moylakanda in Sadar upazila on Thursday. The arrestees were identified as Mostafizur Rahman, 30, Saifur Rahman, 27,...

ACC grills DIG Mizan

ACC grills DIG Mizan

-- 2018-05-03 21:14:47

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated on Thursday the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman in connection with alleged accumulation of wealth illegally. ACC's spokesman Pranab Kumar B...

Researchers detect sporadic pest attacks on litchi trees

Researchers detect sporadic pest attacks on litchi trees

Our Correspondent 2018-05-03 20:48:42

SYLHET, May 03: A team of researchers have detected sporadic attack of insect of Hemiptera family on litchi trees at places in Sylhet although it was almost non-existent in the country years ago. It w...

Easy bikes dominating Rajshahi streets

Easy bikes dominating Rajshahi streets

Our Correspondent 2018-05-03 20:47:39

RAJSHAHI, May 03:  Battery-driven auto-rickshaws (easy bikes) and two-seated rickshaws have become the main reasons of city traffic jam. Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) was issuing those ricksha...

Trump’s letter to PM assures of continued US pressure on Rohingya repatriation

Trump’s letter to PM assures of continued US pressure on Rohingya repatriation

-- 2018-05-03 20:44:59

US President Donald Trump has assured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of continuing his country's pressure for the safe and voluntary return of the Rohingya people to their homeland as he sent a letter t...

BGB arrests hundi trader with Tk 1m

BGB arrests hundi trader with Tk 1m

-- 2018-05-03 20:42:35

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a Hundi trader along with Tk one million from Benapole Bazar area of Sadar Upazila on Thursday afternoon. The arrestee was identified as Limon Hossai...

CNG stations to remain closed from 5 to 11pm during Ramadan

CNG stations to remain closed from 5 to 11pm during Ramadan

-- 2018-05-03 20:22:00

CNG filling stations will remain closed for two more hours during the month of Ramadan, which means a six-hour stoppage a day, aiming to boost supply to power plants. The decision was taken at a meet...