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RAB arrests three ‘robbers’ with arms in Cox’s Bazar

RAB arrests three ‘robbers’ with arms in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-03-25 18:07:23

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested three suspected robbers and seized arms from Madhurchora area under Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar early Sunday. The arrestees are Anwa...

Drug addict youth severs mother's fingers

Drug addict youth severs mother's fingers

-- 2018-03-25 17:42:35

'A drug addict youth' cut off his mother's fingers at Reshom Potti in Rajshahi on Sunday morning. The injured woman is Habiba Khatun, 75, wife of Lutfar Rahman. Sources at Rajshahi Medical College a...

Nation to observe one-minute blackout remembering black night

Nation to observe one-minute blackout remembering black night

-- 2018-03-25 17:30:20

The country is set to observe one-minute blackout commemorating the black night of March 25 in 1971. Pakistani occupation forces carried out brutalities and cowardly attacks on the unarmed people in...

Bangladesh to move forward with Liberation War spirit: PM

Bangladesh to move forward with Liberation War spirit: PM

-- 2018-03-25 17:02:56

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her determination to take Bangladesh forward with the spirit of Liberation War. Sheikh Hasina also urged all to work together in a planned way to continue t...

Couple gets life for murdering housemaid after rape

Couple gets life for murdering housemaid after rape

-- 2018-03-25 16:39:18

A court in Rangpur on Sunday sentenced a retired assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police and his wife to life term rigorous imprisonment for murdering their housemaid after rape about 15 years back....

HSC questions to be set 25 minutes before examinations

HSC questions to be set 25 minutes before examinations

-- 2018-03-25 16:37:01

Question sets for the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be decided by lottery 25 minutes prior to the examinations in an effort to curb leaks. Secondary and...

BGMEA seeks more time to demolish building

BGMEA seeks more time to demolish building

-- 2018-03-25 15:54:30

The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division will decide whether garment exporters’ organisation BGMEA will receive more time to demolish the illegally constructed 16-storey building in the Hati...

Bangladesh, Egypt discuss Rohingya issue

Bangladesh, Egypt discuss Rohingya issue

-- 2018-03-25 15:33:51

The first Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) meeting between Bangladesh and Egypt was held at the state guest house 'Meghna' in Dhaka city on Sunday. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and Egypt Assi...

ACC seeks tougher punishment for Khaleda

ACC seeks tougher punishment for Khaleda

-- 2018-03-25 15:07:09

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed an appeal seeking harsher punishment of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case in which she was earlier sentenced to five years&rs...

Cops recover Jubo League activist's body from drain

Cops recover Jubo League activist's body from drain

-- 2018-03-25 14:41:56

A Jubo League activist was shot to death by miscreants at Purbobhujpur Mirerkhilbari in Fatikchhari upazila in Chittagong early Sunday. The deceased has identified as Mohammad Harun, 35, son of late...

Boro growers expect bumper yield in Panchagarh

Boro growers expect bumper yield in Panchagarh

-- 2018-03-25 13:51:49

A large number of farmers in Panchagarh are expecting a bumper yield of Boro paddy during the current season. Availability of agricultural inputs such as fertilisers, pesticides and favourable weathe...

Speeding truck kills minor in city

Speeding truck kills minor in city

-- 2018-03-25 13:35:48

A four-year-old child has died after he was struck by a truck at Nawabganj Upazila in Dhaka. The accident took place at Baruakhali neighbourhood on Saturday night, said local police Sub-Inspector Kam...

Rivals stab Khagrachhari BCL man to death

Rivals stab Khagrachhari BCL man to death

-- 2018-03-25 12:08:35

A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals at PDB area in the district town on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Md Rasel, 18, son of Md Nur...

PM hands over Independence Award

PM hands over Independence Award

FE Online Desk 2018-03-25 11:59:49

Eighteen distinguished personalities have received this year’s Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award), the highest civilian honour in the country. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the a...

Biman flight misses arrival schedule at HSIA

Biman flight misses arrival schedule at HSIA

FE Online Report 2018-03-25 11:58:11

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to meet its arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Sunday. BG 087 from Malaysia was scheduled to arrive at the airport...

Drug peddler held with 11,000 Yaba pills

Drug peddler held with 11,000 Yaba pills

-- 2018-03-25 11:37:55

Detective Branch of Khulna Metropolitan Police in a bust arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 11,000 pieces of contraband Yaba pills from Sonadanga bus stand area in Khulna city on Sunday night...

Shitalakkhya boat capsize: Five bodies recovered

Shitalakkhya boat capsize: Five bodies recovered

-- 2018-03-25 11:32:06

Bodies of five young men have been recovered two days after a boat, carrying 14 passengers, sank in the Shitalakkhya River following a collision with a cargo vessel in Rupganj upazila on Friday. The...

Cops recover man’s throat-slit body in Pabna

Cops recover man’s throat-slit body in Pabna

-- 2018-03-25 10:57:47

Throat-slit body of a man has been recovered in Kuladi village of Bharara union in Pabna Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. Abdur Raja Bahadur, Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Police Station said informed b...

Miscreants shoot dead local AL leader in Comilla

Miscreants shoot dead local AL leader in Comilla

-- 2018-03-25 10:38:36

Some unidentified miscreants shot a local leader of ruling Awami League (AL) dead in Titas upazila of Comilla on Saturday night. The AL activist was identified as Mohammad Monir (48), former presiden...

Blast in Mymensingh leaves  one dead, three injured

Blast in Mymensingh leaves one dead, three injured

-- 2018-03-25 10:27:20

A student of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) was killed and three others sustained burn injuries in a blast at a building of Masterbari area under Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh...

Unplanned urbanisation in rural areas frets planners

Unplanned urbanisation in rural areas frets planners

FE Report 2018-03-25 10:23:38

Unplanned urbanisation has been taking place in the rural areas where land use is not maintained properly, speakers said Saturday. If the practice is not reversed, it will not only shrink agricultura...

Banking sector powers Visa's business

Banking sector powers Visa's business

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-03-25 10:08:50

Global payment technology titan Visa is planning to introduce its new solution option in Bangladesh this year, a senior company official has said. The company looks to launch the contactless payment...

Dhaka likely to solve fresh water challenge despite groundwater depletion: Experts

Dhaka likely to solve fresh water challenge despite groundwater depletion: Experts

-- 2018-03-24 22:55:33

The capital can be expected to cope with the challenge of supplying adequate fresh water for its residents in the foreseeable future even as it reduces its use of ground water, according to a World Ba...

President hopeful about Swarna Dweep’s economic prospect

President hopeful about Swarna Dweep’s economic prospect

-- 2018-03-24 21:57:43

President Abdul Hamid on Saturday said the island Swarna Dweep holds prospect of being developed as ‘Singapore’ one day. He said the island, whose land area is nearly same to Singapore, h...

Don't involve in evil activities, home minister urges BCL men

Don't involve in evil activities, home minister urges BCL men

-- 2018-03-24 21:24:11

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has urged Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders and activists not to involve in evil activities. The minister made the call while addressing an exhibition at Sh...

Housewife killed over family feud in Narsingdi

Housewife killed over family feud in Narsingdi

-- 2018-03-24 21:08:38

A housewife was hacked to death allegedly by her husband over family feud at a village in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Nargis Akhter, 20, wife of Lokman Mi...

Nation set to observe 'Genocide Day' Sunday

Nation set to observe 'Genocide Day' Sunday

-- 2018-03-24 21:03:24

The nation is set to observe the 'Genocide Day' on Sunday in remembrance of the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25 in 1971. The Jatiya Sang...

US court convicts NY man over killing two Bangladeshis

US court convicts NY man over killing two Bangladeshis

-- 2018-03-24 20:59:24

A US court has convicted a New York City man in the case filed over the broad daylight killings of a Muslim Bangladeshi cleric and his assistant. A state supreme court jury convicted Oscar Morel, 37,...

Rajshahi college teacher goes missing

Rajshahi college teacher goes missing

-- 2018-03-24 20:44:09

A teacher of a Rajshahi college reportedly went missing from Charghat upazila of the district on Saturday morning. The missing teacher was identified as Shafiqur Rahman, a teacher of Dakra Degree Col...

Simultaneous rendition of national anthem on Mar 26

Simultaneous rendition of national anthem on Mar 26

-- 2018-03-24 20:37:20

The government has taken a programme to render the national anthem 'Amar Sonar Bangla' in correct form at 8am across the country and Bangladesh missions abroad on the Independence Day. Prime Minister...