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BNP plans huge gathering at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday

BNP plans huge gathering at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday

-- 2018-03-10 18:53:01

BNP has taken all out measures to ensure a huge gathering at their rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday. The party’s Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said this to reporters on Saturday at a press conference at...

Miscreants stab cattle trader to death in Kurigram

Miscreants stab cattle trader to death in Kurigram

-- 2018-03-10 18:32:40

A cattle trader was stabbed to death at Dharmapur village in Rowmari upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Mannan, 40, son of late Jalil, a resident of the same village in the...

AL has no dependency on foreign states: Shajahan Khan

AL has no dependency on foreign states: Shajahan Khan

-- 2018-03-10 18:28:39

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has said the Awami League never relies on foreign states to stay in power. "The AL only maintains friendly relations with other countries," the minister said. Shajaha...

EC seeks govt's opinions on five city polls

EC seeks govt's opinions on five city polls

-- 2018-03-10 18:13:27

The Election Commission has sought government's opinions to hold polls in five city corporations before the eleventh national parliamentary elections An ‘emergency’ request letter signed...

Customs officials seize 48 gold bars   

Customs officials seize 48 gold bars  

-- 2018-03-10 18:08:57

Customs officials arrested six people and seized 48 gold bars worth Tk 25 million (Tk 2.5 crore) at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Saturday. ABM Sarwar-e-Jahan, manager of Shah Am...

BNP looking for excuses to boycott election: Inu

BNP looking for excuses to boycott election: Inu

-- 2018-03-10 17:22:31

Referring to BNP's various demands, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said the party is looking for excuses to boycott next parliamentary election. The minister made the remarks while distribu...

Quader a desperate liar, Rizvi says

Quader a desperate liar, Rizvi says

-- 2018-03-10 16:19:26

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday blasted Obaidul Quader for his comment that BNP staged its sit-in in the city illegally. He said, "Awami League general secretary Oba...

Quader suggests BNP to shun movement, get ready for polls

Quader suggests BNP to shun movement, get ready for polls

-- 2018-03-10 15:55:23

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday suggested BNP to shun their movement demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia and get ready for upcoming election. Quader, a...

28 Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia

28 Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia

FE Report 2018-03-10 14:14:11

Some 28 Bangladesh nationals have been arrested after they were found to be running an illegal homestay business in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, reported The Star Online Friday. Immigration Department...

RAB detains three in Narayanganj

RAB detains three in Narayanganj

-- 2018-03-10 14:04:59

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested three members of a robber gang while they were committing robbery in a bus on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in the port city on Thursday night. The arreste...

Two road accidents leave 11 dead in Gaibandha

Two road accidents leave 11 dead in Gaibandha

FE Online Desk 2018-03-10 13:49:00

Eleven people were killed and 19 others were injured in two separate accidents in Palashbari upazila of Gaibandha on Saturday. The two accidents occurred in Nuniagari and Jundaha areas of the upazila...

26 Int'l flights miss departure schedule at HSIA

26 Int'l flights miss departure schedule at HSIA

FE Online Report 2018-03-10 12:56:42

Some of twenty six international flights missed their departure schedules from 12:00am to 12:00pm at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital on Saturday. The flights failed to me...

Two schoolgirls die in Jessore road crash

Two schoolgirls die in Jessore road crash

-- 2018-03-10 11:48:00

Two schoolgirls were killed in a road accident at Bagachra market in Sharsha upazila on Saturday morning. Humayun Kabir, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bagachra Police outpost said, the accident took plac...

Minor boy dies in C’nawabganj fire

Minor boy dies in C’nawabganj fire

-- 2018-03-10 11:41:51

A minor boy was burnt to death in a fire at Hathatpara village in Shibganj upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Nabi, 9, son of Sumon Ali of the village. Officer-in-charge of Shib...

Two men shot, hacked dead

Two men shot, hacked dead

-- 2018-03-10 10:38:27

Two men have been shot and hacked to death by a mob in Noakhali’s Begumganj Upazila. The incident occurred early on Saturday in Eklashpur village. The dead have been identified as Md Ali and R...

Weekly analysis: Stocks extend losses for third straight week

Weekly analysis: Stocks extend losses for third straight week

Babul Barman 2018-03-10 10:22:23

Stocks saw yet another bearish week, extending the losing streak for the third straight week, as investors remained mostly inactive to make fresh investment in stocks. Analysts said the bearish trend...

BCIC incurs Tk 3.9b in loss for gas shortage

BCIC incurs Tk 3.9b in loss for gas shortage

Jubair Hasan 2018-03-10 10:12:57

Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) is in a fix for witnessing a massive loss to the tune of Tk 3.9 billion after making profits in the recent years, said officials concerned. The offic...

Local airlines in trouble with high jet fuel price

Local airlines in trouble with high jet fuel price

Kamrun Nahar 2018-03-10 09:56:27

Local airlines, including the state-owned Biman, are facing a severe blow and losing their competitiveness globally due to exorbitant price of jet A-1 fuel, fixed by Padma Oil Company Limited, a subsi...

Minor boy drowns in Adabor canal   

Minor boy drowns in Adabor canal  

FE Online Report   2018-03-09 23:30:41

Rescuers have found the dead body of a minor boy who drowned in a canal at Adabor in Dhaka on Friday night. The Fire Service declined to describe the condition of the five year old boy on spot. Ho...

March 7 speech now model for all countries: PM

March 7 speech now model for all countries: PM

-- 2018-03-09 20:50:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is now a model for all countries. The Prime Minister made the remarks in her speech at a semin...

Coast Guard seizes shrimp fries, detains 6

Coast Guard seizes shrimp fries, detains 6

-- 2018-03-09 20:34:04

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized some 600,000 shrimp fries from Nahalganj Ferrighat area of Barisal on Friday. Six people were also fined over the seizure of the fries. Upazila Fi...

President recollects memories of 1971 at Meghalaya village

President recollects memories of 1971 at Meghalaya village

-- 2018-03-09 20:24:29

President Md Abdul Hamid has visited Balat village in Meghalaya of India, where he stayed during the 1971 Liberation War, and recollected the memories of those days. During the Liberation War, Abdul...

UN peacekeeping exercise underway in Bangladesh

UN peacekeeping exercise underway in Bangladesh

-- 2018-03-09 19:14:19

Shanti Doot 4 (Ambassador of Peace 4), a multinational United Nations peacekeeping exercise, is currently underway in Bangladesh. Some 1,300 participants from around the world is taking part in the e...

Six bodies recovered from Kirtankhola

Six bodies recovered from Kirtankhola

-- 2018-03-09 18:52:34

Naval police recovered six bodies from the Kirtankhola in Barisal two days after a trawler capsized in the river. Barisal naval police OC Belal Hossain said the bodies came to the surface of water at...

Police arrests Madrasa principal for raping nine-year old student

Police arrests Madrasa principal for raping nine-year old student

-- 2018-03-09 18:40:18

Police arrested the principal of a madrassa for raping a nine-year-old female student in Dhaka’s Kodomtoli neighbourhood. Mufti Alauddin, 39, was the principal of a madrasa at Saddam Market in...

AL plans to retain power without competitive election: Fakhrul

AL plans to retain power without competitive election: Fakhrul

-- 2018-03-09 18:35:47

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that main motive of ruling Awami League is to retain power without a competitive election. The BNP leader also alleged that their chairperson...

Inu calls Khaleda Pak proxy player

Inu calls Khaleda Pak proxy player

-- 2018-03-09 18:23:31

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said the government only wants to throw 'criminals and Pakistani collaborators' out of politics. "And it has repeatedly been proved that BNP and its chief Kha...

Bangladesh signs deal on climate financing

Bangladesh signs deal on climate financing

-- 2018-03-09 17:39:42

Bangladesh has signed an agreement with a German development bank over around Tk 3.24 billion funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for a project to fight climate change effects. The agreement wi...

Tripura's new CM phones Hasina, seeks cooperation

Tripura's new CM phones Hasina, seeks cooperation

-- 2018-03-09 16:37:50

Newly elected Chief Minister of Indian state of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb has sought Bangladesh's cooperation for the development of Tripura. Biplab Kumar talked with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on F...

Three Int'l flight missed departure schedule at HSIA

Three Int'l flight missed departure schedule at HSIA

FE Online Report 2018-03-09 16:03:21

Three international flights failed to meet their departure schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital on Friday. BG 001 was scheduled to go to London at 10:15 am, but i...