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RAB seizes 90mt of KaBiKha rice, nabs three

RAB seizes 90mt of KaBiKha rice, nabs three

-- 2018-03-09 15:56:45

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have seized 90 metric tons rice of KaBiKha (Food for Work) programme of the government from a rice mill in Chapainawabganj. They also arrested food godown offic...

BGB, BSF announce 8.3km crime free zone

BGB, BSF announce 8.3km crime free zone

-- 2018-03-09 15:31:05

Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) have announced 8.3 kilometre of their common border area as a "Crime Free Zone". The 8.3 kilometre crime free zone covers the areas un...

Fire at Baitul Mukarram Mosque

Fire at Baitul Mukarram Mosque

FE Online Report 2018-03-09 14:28:46

A fire broke out at the godowns on the eastern side of the Baitul Mukarram Mosque, the national mosque of the country, in Dhaka city as devotees were set to say Jumma prayers on Friday. No casualtie...

Eight injured in RUET Chhatra League clashes

Eight injured in RUET Chhatra League clashes

-- 2018-03-09 13:50:55

Eight people were injured in clashes between factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League’s student wing, at the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology. The groups...

South Korea eager to help Bangladesh build a model city

South Korea eager to help Bangladesh build a model city

-- 2018-03-09 12:23:47

South Korea is willing to share its ideas and experiences with Bangladesh to build a model city, blending the nature and modern technologies so that everyone could live there in peace and happiness....

Truck driver dies in Pabna road mishap

Truck driver dies in Pabna road mishap

-- 2018-03-09 12:10:39

A truck driver was killed and two other people were injured in a head-on collision between two trucks at Shoroi Kandi in Ishwardi upazila on Friday morning. Police are working to trace the identity o...

Case starts over Bangla Motor sexual assault

Case starts over Bangla Motor sexual assault

-- 2018-03-09 11:54:04

The father of the college girl who was sexually assaulted at Bangla Motor in Dhaka on March 7 has started a case against unidentified people under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. Th...

Suspected robber dies in 'gunfight' with police

Suspected robber dies in 'gunfight' with police

-- 2018-03-09 10:10:43

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and DB police at Tongabari in Ashulia early Friday. The deceased has been identified as Rubel, 26. Police suspected that the...

Proper gender literacy key to reducing sexual harassment

Proper gender literacy key to reducing sexual harassment

-- 2018-03-08 22:22:32

At least 12 women in Bangladesh took their own lives after being sexually harassed in 2017, says an Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) report that kept track on 255 cases of female sexual harassment that year....

Victim’s brother sues 800 over Sylhet clash

Victim’s brother sues 800 over Sylhet clash

-- 2018-03-08 21:30:31

A case was filed against some 800 people on Thursday in connection with a clash that killed two people, including a local Sramik League leader, at Baroikandi of the city on Tuesday. Sebul Ahmed, brot...

BGB arrests one with gold in Satkhira

BGB arrests one with gold in Satkhira

-- 2018-03-08 21:13:31

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an alleged smuggler along with 2.183 kg gold from Badamtala near Bhomra land port in Sadar upazila on Thursday evening. The arrestee is Aziz Hasan, son of Golam...

Banglalink brings Sylhet under 4G

Banglalink brings Sylhet under 4G

-- 2018-03-08 21:06:03

Banglalink, one of the leading mobile phone operators in Bangladesh, on Thursday officially launched 4G in Sylhet. Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury inaugurated the service at a pr...

Probe into sexual harassment on girls during AL rally

Probe into sexual harassment on girls during AL rally

-- 2018-03-08 20:51:55

Law enforcers have launched investigations into sexual assaults on women at several locations in the capital by men heading to Wednesday’s Awami League-organised rally. Home Minister Asaduzzama...

Multi-storeyed buildings for insolvent FEs

Multi-storeyed buildings for insolvent FEs

-- 2018-03-08 20:04:32

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Thursday approved six projects, including one to construct multi-storeyed buildings for insolvent freedom fighters in every district...

Three MPs to face ACC’s investigation over illegal wealth

Three MPs to face ACC’s investigation over illegal wealth

-- 2018-03-08 19:55:12

The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to launch investigation against three members of the parliament over allegation of acquiring illegal wealth.  The three are Awami League MP Mizan...

HC to decide on Khaleda’s bail appeal Sunday

HC to decide on Khaleda’s bail appeal Sunday

-- 2018-03-08 18:57:41

The High Court will decide Sunday whether to grant bail to BNP chief and former prime minister Khaleda Zia in a graft case. On Thursday, Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim put it on...

Ferdousi Priyabhashini in eternal rest

Ferdousi Priyabhashini in eternal rest

-- 2018-03-08 18:47:55

Noted sculptor and freedom fighter Ferdousi Priyabhashini was laid to eternal rest in the capital on Thursday afternoon. She was buried beside the grave of "Shaheed Janani" Jahanara Imam at Mirpur Ma...

PM eyes self-reliant women, contribution in development

PM eyes self-reliant women, contribution in development

FE Online Desk 2018-03-08 18:42:46

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged parents to guide their daughters to become self reliant and also ensure that they work and continue their studies at the same time.  "The economic freedom...

HC marks Int’l Women’s Day, grants bail to a woman lifer

HC marks Int’l Women’s Day, grants bail to a woman lifer

-- 2018-03-08 18:21:25

Marking the International Women's Day, the High Court (HC) on Thursday granted bail to a woman who had been serving life imprisonment over a child abduction case. A HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rah...

Zafar Iqbal’s attacker Foyzur on 10-day remand

Zafar Iqbal’s attacker Foyzur on 10-day remand

-- 2018-03-08 18:02:15

A Sylhet court on Thursday placed Foyzur Rahman alias Foyezul on a 10-day remand in a case filed over the attack on eminent writer Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal. Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Haridas Ku...

Police arrest woman with 10,000 yaba tablets

Police arrest woman with 10,000 yaba tablets

-- 2018-03-08 17:53:59

Police arrested a woman and seized over 10,000 methamphetamine-based yaba tablets from Rahman Nagar area in Bogra on Thursday. Law enforcers raided a house around 10:00am and arrested Badhan Akter, 2...

BGB chief Abul Hossain back to army

BGB chief Abul Hossain back to army

-- 2018-03-08 17:39:24

Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Abul Hossain has been brought back to the armed forces. According to a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Public Admin...

BNP's demo Saturday as cops foil 'peaceful' sit-in

BNP's demo Saturday as cops foil 'peaceful' sit-in

-- 2018-03-08 15:48:00

BNP will stage demonstration at all thanas across capital Dhaka on Saturday protesting law enforcers' attack on its sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club on Thursday. Party secretary g...

Women workers face discrimination

Women workers face discrimination

Monira Munni 2018-03-08 14:31:17

Though women workers are dominating the country's readymade garment sector, their scope to go up the ladder is very limited. Women workers generally do not get the equal chance for promotion in upper...

BNP stages sit-in protesting Khaleda's jailing

BNP stages sit-in protesting Khaleda's jailing

-- 2018-03-08 12:54:59

As part of its countrywide scheduled programme, BNP leaders and activists staged their sit-in programme in the city on Thursday, demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. Severa...

ACC grilling ex-BASIC Bank chief Bachchu

ACC grilling ex-BASIC Bank chief Bachchu

FE Report 2018-03-08 12:39:31

The anti-graft body has started interrogating former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu for the fourth time over a Tk 35 billion loan fraud. Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director Syed...

‘Robber’ dies in Teknaf ‘gunfight’

‘Robber’ dies in Teknaf ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-03-08 12:28:30

A suspected robber died in an alleged gunfight between two groups of them near a Rohingya refugee camp at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. The deceased was identified as 32-year-old H...

Habiganj sees 21 arrests in 12 hours

Habiganj sees 21 arrests in 12 hours

-- 2018-03-08 11:47:06

Police, in regular drives, arrested 21 people, including 18 wanted accused, from different areas of Habiganj district in the last 12 hours ended at 9 am on Thursday. Assistant Superintendent of Poli...

Chinese co set to win 48km Dhaka bypass road project

Chinese co set to win 48km Dhaka bypass road project

FE Report 2018-03-08 10:40:21

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has finally selected a Chinese joint venture company for construction of Dhaka bypass road under public private partnership (PPP) initiative. Sources said the comp...

Fire hits Gazipur spinning mill

Fire hits Gazipur spinning mill

-- 2018-03-08 10:35:21

A fire broke out at a cotton godown of a spinning mill at Bagher Bazar in Gazipur city on Thursday. Aktaruzzaman Liton, deputy assistant director of Gazipur Fire Service, said the fire broke out at t...