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'Panta-ilish has no root in Pahela Baishakh tradition'

'Panta-ilish has no root in Pahela Baishakh tradition'

FE Online Desk 2018-04-06 17:15:48

Keeping delicious hilsa on Pahela Baishakh's morning menu as an essential item has no root in the old tradition of celebrating the Bangla New Year. Prominent academic and writer Professor Emeritus Se...

Missing schoolboy found dead in Lakshmipur

Missing schoolboy found dead in Lakshmipur

-- 2018-04-06 16:32:59

A missing schoolboy was found dead at a cropland at Charfalkan in Kamalnagar upazila of Lakshmipur  on Thursday. The deceased, Sharif Hossain, went missing on Saturday. He was a student of a lo...

Cops arrest 82 in Jhenidah

Cops arrest 82 in Jhenidah

-- 2018-04-06 15:44:39

District police in special drives arrested 82 people in various charges from the different upazilas of the district from last night to Friday morning. Additional Police Super of Jhenidah Ajbahar Ali...

Motorcycle accidents claim six lives

Motorcycle accidents claim six lives

-- 2018-04-06 15:26:16

At least six motorcyclists were killed in two separate accidents in Narsingdi and Sherpur districts on Friday.    In Narsingdi, four people were killed when a Dhaka-bound bus from Bhairab...

Rain with thundershowers likely

Rain with thundershowers likely

-- 2018-04-06 15:18:38

Rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rajshahi and Khulna divisions, at a few places over Rangpur, Dhaka and Barisal and at one or two plac...

City gunfight leaves ‘robber’ dead

City gunfight leaves ‘robber’ dead

-- 2018-04-06 15:01:07

A suspected robber was killed in a 'gunfight' with police near Joy Kali Temple in Wari area of the capital city on Friday. The identity of the deceased could not be known yet, reports UNB. Abdul K...

Rohingya issue to dominate OIC ministers’ meet in city

Rohingya issue to dominate OIC ministers’ meet in city

FE Report 2018-04-06 11:47:47

Rohingya crisis will get prominence as foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries descend on the capital in early next month for talks. The Conference of Foreign M...

Barind farmers happy over high chickpea yield

Barind farmers happy over high chickpea yield

-- 2018-04-06 11:32:47

Farmers are happy with the satisfactory yield of newly harvested chickpea in the region, including its vast Barind tract, in the current season. Abdus Samad, a farmer of Laxmipur village under Godaga...

Miscreants stab youth to death in Natore

Miscreants stab youth to death in Natore

-- 2018-04-06 11:15:23

A young man was stabbed to death by his rivals over a trifling matter at Kholabaria Khamarpara in Sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Raihan , 14, son of Hashem Mia of Kha...

Two get life for killing Natore teacher

Two get life for killing Natore teacher

-- 2018-04-06 10:57:39

A court in Natore on Thursday convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a college teacher in 2009. The convicts were identified as Habibur Rahman and Amirul Islam...

BCL nat'l council on May 11-12

BCL nat'l council on May 11-12

-- 2018-04-05 21:10:45

The two-day 29th national council of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) will be held on May 11-12 next. Before the national council, its Dhaka south city, north city and Dhaka University units' councils...

Maize farming expanding in Rajshahi due to high demand

Maize farming expanding in Rajshahi due to high demand

Our Correspondent 2018-04-05 20:35:20

RAJSHAHI, Apr 05: The cultivation of maize in increasing in Rajshahi district as it is more profitable than cultivation of other crops. According to the farmers and agriculturists in Rajshahi, the ma...

India willing to work in BD’s solid waste management

India willing to work in BD’s solid waste management

-- 2018-04-05 20:32:06

Indian has expressed its interest to work for the solid waste management in Bangladesh's city corporations and supply machinery to the corporations. Indian High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla sh...

BB governor stresses flourishing students’ knowledge

BB governor stresses flourishing students’ knowledge

-- 2018-04-05 19:50:13

Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Fazle Kabir on Thursday underscored flourishing the knowledge of students properly as they can contribute to building the country. "Today's students will be the driving...

Cost guard seizes 0.4m Yabas in Teknaf

Cost guard seizes 0.4m Yabas in Teknaf

-- 2018-04-05 19:07:00

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have seized 400,000 Yaba tablets from a boat in the Naf River in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Coast Guard East Zone chased a boat in...

Life expectancy now 72 years: Zahid Malique

Life expectancy now 72 years: Zahid Malique

-- 2018-04-05 18:49:57

The average life expectancy of the Bangladeshi people has now reached nearly 72 years. State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Malique made the disclosure at a press conference at the mini...

Thrust on empowering women with autism

Thrust on empowering women with autism

-- 2018-04-05 18:13:58

A seminar and cultural programme on World Autism Awareness Day was held on Thursday in Dhaka. The theme of the programme was 'Empowering Women and Girls with Autism', reports UNB. Bangladesh Protib...

Mahmood briefs foreign diplomats ahead of OIC meeting

Mahmood briefs foreign diplomats ahead of OIC meeting

-- 2018-04-05 17:59:52

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Thursday briefed foreign diplomats who are currently staying in the city for the 45th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) meeting of the Organization of Islamic Coope...

Almost no progress made in Rohingya repatriation: PM

Almost no progress made in Rohingya repatriation: PM

-- 2018-04-05 16:43:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said although Bangladesh and Myanmar have been making various efforts, including signing a deal to repatriate over a million Rohingyas from Bangladesh, there has been...

Convict escapes from Satkhira court after death penalty

Convict escapes from Satkhira court after death penalty

-- 2018-04-05 16:06:12

A man found guilty of killing his wife for dowry fled from a Satkhira court after a judge announced a death sentence for him. Judge Hosne Ara Akter of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribuna...

Satkhira man gets death penalty for killing wife

Satkhira man gets death penalty for killing wife

-- 2018-04-05 15:33:44

A tribunal has sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife in 2009 in Satkhira. Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Hosne Ara Akter handed down the verdict on Thursday, acquittin...

Khaleda again gets bail extension in graft case

Khaleda again gets bail extension in graft case

-- 2018-04-05 13:38:24

A Dhaka court on Thursday again extended until April 22 the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge Md Akhteruzzaman of the Special Judge Court-5 passed the...

Biman Bangladesh flight misses arrival schedule at Dhaka airport

Biman Bangladesh flight misses arrival schedule at Dhaka airport

FE Online Report 2018-04-05 12:54:52

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. BG 128 from Abu Dhabi was scheduled to arrive at the airpor...

School teacher dies in Jessore road mishap

School teacher dies in Jessore road mishap

-- 2018-04-05 12:43:05

A school teacher was killed as a motorbike hit him while crossing the road at Rajganj Bazar in Manirampur upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased Saju Khan, 40 was a teacher of Gupikantapur High Sch...

Farmers see bumper chilli production in Jamalpur

Farmers see bumper chilli production in Jamalpur

-- 2018-04-05 12:32:21

Farmers in this district have achieved a bumper production of Balizuri green chilli, a local variety, in the current season. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said a favoura...

Schoolgirl found hanging in Netrokona

Schoolgirl found hanging in Netrokona

-- 2018-04-05 12:01:02

A schoolgirl, who went missing since Tuesday, was found hanging from a tree at Satpai in the municipality area on Wednesday morning. Being informed by locals, police recovered the body of Mursalina D...

RAB kills ‘outlawed party leader’ in ‘gunfight’

RAB kills ‘outlawed party leader’ in ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-04-05 11:48:29

A suspected regional leader of an outlawed party 'Lal Pataka' was killed in a reported gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Kumarkhali upazila early Thursday. The deceased was...

Premier Bank recommends 15pc stock dividend

Premier Bank recommends 15pc stock dividend

FE Online Report 2018-04-05 10:47:59

The board of directors of Premier Bank Limited has recommended 15 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2017. The final approval of the dividend will come during the annual gener...

Police recover hanging body of BCL leader

Police recover hanging body of BCL leader

-- 2018-04-05 10:37:52

Police recovered the hanging body of a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader from his house near Satpai Eye Hospital in Netrokona city on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Adnan Khan...

HC stays Indo-Bangla Pharma IPO for six months

HC stays Indo-Bangla Pharma IPO for six months

FE Report 2018-04-05 10:27:38

The High Court (HC) has stayed the IPO (initial public offering) process of Indo-Bangla Pharmaceuticals Limited for six months as four directors of the company are 'loan defaulters' as guarantors, a j...