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City gridlock causes Tk 555b loss per year: Study

City gridlock causes Tk 555b loss per year: Study

-- 2018-03-24 19:54:42

Five million man-hours are lost daily and the country counts a yearly economic loss of up to Tk 555 billion (Tk 55,500 crore) due to Dhaka's worsening gridlock where traffic speed is reduced to five k...

CEC leaves for Fiji Sunday to join A-WEB meeting

CEC leaves for Fiji Sunday to join A-WEB meeting

-- 2018-03-24 18:55:38

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda will leave Dhaka for Fiji on Sunday to join the Executive Board Meeting of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB). The CEC will lead a two-member deleg...

Fish production up by 1.24m tonnes in eight years

Fish production up by 1.24m tonnes in eight years

-- 2018-03-24 18:44:41

Fish production in the country increased by 1.24 million tonnes in eight years as a result of various programmes taken by the present government. "We are getting 60 per cent animal protein from the f...

Call to reform land and property rights of BD women

Call to reform land and property rights of BD women

FE Online Report 2018-03-24 18:20:53

Women have been subservient to men socially, economically and culturally for a long time due to traditional and religious laws and male-dominated society, speakers at a discussion have said. They cal...

UIU teacher, friend drown in Sangu River

UIU teacher, friend drown in Sangu River

-- 2018-03-24 18:17:31

Two people, including a teacher of United International University (UIU), drowned in the Sangu River of Rumaupazila in Bandarban on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Santanu Sarkar, 25, teach...

Woman’s body recovered in Sylhet

Woman’s body recovered in Sylhet

-- 2018-03-24 18:03:29

Police recovered decomposed body of an unidentified woman from a water body (haor) at Osmani Nagar upazila in Sylhet on Saturday afternoon. Officer-in-charge of Osmani Nagar Police Station Md Sahid U...

BNP shameful of German report on BD: Fakhrul

BNP shameful of German report on BD: Fakhrul

-- 2018-03-24 16:23:13

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir their party feels ashamed of seeing Bangladesh in the list of autocratic countries in a recent study. "BBC online has published a report based on the...

Obaidul Quader rejects any possibility of PM's resignation

Obaidul Quader rejects any possibility of PM's resignation

-- 2018-03-24 16:06:38

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has rejected any possibility of the Prime Minister's resignation before the next general election. The road transport and bridges minister also said ther...

Plane crash survivor Kabir to be taken to Singapore for treatment

Plane crash survivor Kabir to be taken to Singapore for treatment

-- 2018-03-24 15:19:10

US-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain, who is now on life support at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), will be taken to Singapore. A 17-member board of doctors made...

Sylhet clash leaves two dead, several injured

Sylhet clash leaves two dead, several injured

-- 2018-03-24 15:05:35

Two youths were shot dead and 10 others were injured in a clash between residents of two villages over a disputed land at Shahutikar village in Goainghat upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased wer...

Biman flight misses arrival schedule at Dhaka airport

Biman flight misses arrival schedule at Dhaka airport

FE Online Report 2018-03-24 14:47:35

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

US-Bangla plane makes emergency landing

US-Bangla plane makes emergency landing

FE Online Desk 2018-03-24 14:02:49

A flight of US-Bangla Airlines has made an emergency landing at at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka city. It happened on Saturday barely two weeks into the plane crash of the same air...

Fire guts 38 shops in Chittagong

Fire guts 38 shops in Chittagong

-- 2018-03-24 13:40:52

A massive fire that originated from an electric short-circuit, gutted at least 38 shops of a market in Nayabazar area under Patenga Police Station in Chittagong on early Saturday. The fire broke out...

Cattle trader murder follows mosque dispute

Cattle trader murder follows mosque dispute

-- 2018-03-24 12:40:51

A cattle trader was hacked to death in Doulatpur upazila in Kushtia on Friday night. The dead has been identified as 45-year-old Enamul Kazi, son of Shomsher Kazi and resident of Moubariya village un...

Police detain 13 in Habiganj

Police detain 13 in Habiganj

-- 2018-03-24 12:24:44

Police, in regular drives arrested thirteen people including seven wanted accused from different areas of Habiganj district in last 12-hour ending at 9 am Saturday morning. Assistant Superintendent...

Man dies in Nilphamari road crash

Man dies in Nilphamari road crash

-- 2018-03-24 12:16:13

A human hauler driver was killed as a truck hit his vehicle on Domar-Dimla road at Tinbat village in Dimla upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, 55, of the village,...

Two condemned prisoners die at Khulna hospital

Two condemned prisoners die at Khulna hospital

-- 2018-03-24 12:03:45

Two condemned prisoners, who were undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College and Hospital, died on Friday night. They are Abul Hossain, 60, of Tala upazila in Satkhira and Fazlur Rahman, 70, of M...

Five missing as boat capsizes in Shitalakkhya

Five missing as boat capsizes in Shitalakkhya

-- 2018-03-24 11:38:57

Five young men went missing as a boat sank in the Shitalakkhuya River after being hit by a cargo vessel in Rupganj Upazila under Narayanganj district on Friday night. One of the missing youths was id...

Plane crash survivor Kabir on life support

Plane crash survivor Kabir on life support

FE Online Desk 2018-03-24 10:54:36

US-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain has been put on life support. His condition was very critical and so he was put on life support in the early hours of Saturday, said Dr Samanta Lal Sen,...

Weekly analysis: Stocks keep losing streak for fifth week

Weekly analysis: Stocks keep losing streak for fifth week

Babul Barman 2018-03-24 09:44:00

Stocks witnessed yet another bearish week, extending the losing streak for the fifth consecutive week that ended Thursday as shaky investors continued their selling spree amid persistent liquidity cri...

Work begins on new PSC to entice IOCs

Work begins on new PSC to entice IOCs

M Azizur Rahman 2018-03-24 09:36:08

The government is working on launch of a new bidding round to lure international oil companies (IOCs) into oil and gas exploration in both onshore and offshore blocks. Discovery of new hydrocarbon re...

CCC won't allow unregistered  ambulances from April 02

CCC won't allow unregistered ambulances from April 02

Our Correspondent 2018-03-24 00:34:54

Ambulances carrying patients and dead-bodies have been brought under hospital registration system, and unregistered ambulances will not be allowed to operate in the port-city from April 2. The steps...

Pro-BNP panel sweeps SCBA polls

Pro-BNP panel sweeps SCBA polls

-- 2018-03-24 00:33:14

Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel backed by the BNP-Jamaat alliance has won the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election defeating the Awami League-led alliance Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parisad,...

Madrassa teacher rapes minor girl

Madrassa teacher rapes minor girl

-- 2018-03-23 23:09:29

A case has been filed against a madrasah teacher for violating a Class-III girl in Khulna. Victim's father filed the case against Ala-Alamin, a teacher of Fatematujjohra Talimul Quran Madrasah at Bur...

AL, UP members’ clash in Narsingdi leaves 20 injured

AL, UP members’ clash in Narsingdi leaves 20 injured

-- 2018-03-23 23:02:25

At least 20 people were injured in a clash between the supporters of a ward-level Awami League (AL) leader and a Union Parishad (UP) member over establishing supremacy at Bogargout village in sadar up...

Police arrest 26 fishermen with current nets

Police arrest 26 fishermen with current nets

-- 2018-03-23 22:47:20

In separate drives, police and members of Coast Guard arrested 26 fishermen and seized a total of 830,000 metres of banned current nets and six boats from Meghna river on Thursday night. The team, in...

Next election to protect country's existence: Nasim

Next election to protect country's existence: Nasim

-- 2018-03-23 21:52:54

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim has said the next general election will be like that of 1970 to protect the existence of independent Bangladesh. "The next election will be like of the 1970 one. It'll...

No trace of UPDF leaders went ‘missing’ five days ago

No trace of UPDF leaders went ‘missing’ five days ago

-- 2018-03-23 20:43:58

Two female leaders of United Peoples Democratic Front or UPDF have been reported missing for five days since their abduction in Rangamati. “We and other law enforcing agencies are conducting an...

Rain likely

Rain likely

-- 2018-03-23 20:23:57

Rain and thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Dhaka and Khulna divisions and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly c...

Woman gets life in prison for killing infant daughter

Woman gets life in prison for killing infant daughter

-- 2018-03-23 18:52:34

A Khulna court has sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for killing her infant daughter in the city on August 25, 2015. The convict is Sharmin, 20, hailing from Senahati village in Dighalia upazila...