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Bountiful yield delights Rangpur radish cultivators this season

Bountiful yield delights Rangpur radish cultivators this season

Our Correspondent 2017-11-09 08:54:37

RANGPUR, Nov 09: The radish growers of different areas in Rangpur district are delighted as they are getting bountiful production this season. According to sources harvesting of the early variety of...

BNP may get permission for rally: Quader

BNP may get permission for rally: Quader

-- 2017-11-09 07:59:40

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that BNP is likely to get permission for holding its rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Sunday next (November 12). He came up with the remarks while a...

Land dispute leaves five dead in Kishoreganj

Land dispute leaves five dead in Kishoreganj

-- 2017-11-09 07:55:38

Clashes between local factions of Awami League and BNP over a piece of land killed five people, including three siblings, in Charigram of Mithamoin Upazila in Kishoreganj. The violence that broke out...

No trace yet of missing NSU teacher

No trace yet of missing NSU teacher

-- 2017-11-09 07:34:24

Police are yet to trace North South University (NSU) teacher Dr Mobashwer Hossain who went missing on Tuesday. Anwar Hossain, Deputy Commissioner (Motijheel Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, on...

‘Bangldesh Delta Plan 2100’ favours sustainable development

‘Bangldesh Delta Plan 2100’ favours sustainable development

-- 2017-11-09 07:10:34

Incorporating all developments aspects, the process for preparing Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP) is progressing to make development sustainable, experts has said in a seminar. Bangladesh Delta Plan sho...

NGOs for relocating Rohingys to save ecosystem

NGOs for relocating Rohingys to save ecosystem

-- 2017-11-09 06:28:49

Local Non Government Organisations (NGO) and voluntary groups Thursday suggested immediate relocation of Rohingyas saying it would damage the ecosystem and tourism in the district. Cox's Bazar's Civ...

Gopalganj housewife dies from electrocution

Gopalganj housewife dies from electrocution

FE Online Desk 2017-11-09 03:05:00

A housewife died after being electrocuted at her own residence at Ulpur village in Gopalganj Sadar upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased, Archana Mandal (35) was the wife of Subal Mandal of the...

BTRC to seek explanation from Teletalk about SIM fraud

BTRC to seek explanation from Teletalk about SIM fraud

FE Report 2017-11-09 02:58:58

Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is going to seek explanation from the state-owned mobile operator Teletalk of its alleged sales of pre-activated SIM at Rangpur customer care...

HIV patients ‘at high risk of’ heart attack

HIV patients ‘at high risk of’ heart attack

-- 2017-11-09 01:44:56

HIV patients are at greater risk for a heart attack or stroke and are also at risk for chronic kidney disease, according to a study. More than 1400 people in the study being treated for HIV had been...

Hundreds of ultra-poor people attain solvency by setting up poultry farms in Bogra

Hundreds of ultra-poor people attain solvency by setting up poultry farms in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-08 12:45:02

BOGRA, Nov 07: Hundreds of ultra-poor people have brought financial solvency by setting up poultry farms across the district. The district livestock office sources said over 4,500 small and large pou...

Tangail bottle gourd cultivators making good profit this season

Tangail bottle gourd cultivators making good profit this season

Our Correspondent 2017-11-08 12:43:49

TANGAIL, Nov 07:  Bottle gourd cultivators of the district are making a good profit this season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail sources said bottle gourd cultivation is i...

Farmers of Sirajganj rearing brahma species of cow

Farmers of Sirajganj rearing brahma species of cow

Roving Correspondent 2017-11-08 12:41:41

SIRAJGANJ, Nov 07: Farmers of Sirajganj district have become self-reliant rearing brahma variety cow with assistance of local livestock offices from last few years. Department of District Livestock (...

Keraniganj husband ‘burns wife to death’

Keraniganj husband ‘burns wife to death’

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:07:14

A housewife, who was allegedly set afire by her husband, succumbed to burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mitu (26), wife of Jahangir A...

Call to formulate legal framework for e-commerce

Call to formulate legal framework for e-commerce

FE Report 2017-11-08 12:00:33

Speakers at a programme on Tuesday called for framing necessary legal framework for the sake of sustainable growth of e-commerce in the country. Keeping this in view, they suggested immediate enactme...

Tremor rattles Dhaka buildings

Tremor rattles Dhaka buildings

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

A mild tremor jolted different parts of the country including the capital Dhaka on Wednesday morning. The tremor, measuring 4.7 magnitude, was felt around 10:50am in the country, said Maminul Islam,...

Two industrial policemen caught extorting in Ashulia

Two industrial policemen caught extorting in Ashulia

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Police have arrested two members, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), of the industrial branch on charges of holding hostage people for extortion at Ashulia in Savar, an outskirt Dhaka upazila...

Shahbazpur gas may remain unutilised for poor demand

Shahbazpur gas may remain unutilised for poor demand

M Azizur Rahman 2017-11-08 12:00:00

The new-found natural gas in a well at Shahbazpur of Bhola gas field might remain unutilised for a long period due to a very limited demand in the island that is not connected to the national gas grid...

Police detain youth for ‘raping’ minor girl

Police detain youth for ‘raping’ minor girl

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Police detained a young man on charge of raping a 10-year-old schoolgirl at Boro Mandartola village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore on Tuesday night. The alleged rapist Sukur Ali, 20, son of Ebrahim Al...

Police nab two drug peddlers

Police nab two drug peddlers

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Police arrested two drug peddlers from the campus of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Mustafizur Rahman (25), son of Nur Muhammad, a resident of Vazonda...

Satkhira bus plunge kills one, injures 20

Satkhira bus plunge kills one, injures 20

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:00:00

A pedestrian was killed and 20 passengers were injured when the bus in which they were travelling, hit a tree before plunging into a roadside ditch in Kolaroa upazila on Satkhira-Jessore highway on We...

Paradise Papers leak: Amitabh Bachchan seeks peace

Paradise Papers leak: Amitabh Bachchan seeks peace

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Actor Amitabh Bachchan has spoken at length about his name featuring in the Panama papers and Bofors scandal, explaining that he has always cooperated with the "system" but wishes to be left alone at...

NSU teacher goes missing

NSU teacher goes missing

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:00:00

A North South University (NSU) teacher has gone missing, according to a general diary filed with Khilgaon police in Dhaka city on Wednesday. Motahar Hossain is an assistant professor of the Faculty...

PM okays third phase of Swadhinata Stambha

PM okays third phase of Swadhinata Stambha

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the third phase design of the Master Plan of Swadhinata Stambha. The design, approved on Wednesday, is being constructed at Suhrawardy Uddyan in the capital....

HC reduces Nazmul Huda's jail term

HC reduces Nazmul Huda's jail term

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

The High Court has reduced jail term of former minister of BNP led government Nazmul Huda in a bribery case. Nazmul Huda has to serve a four-year imprisonment from seven years term awarded by a trial...

President stresses use of maritime resources

President stresses use of maritime resources

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

President Abdul Hamid has said there is no alternative to using the maritime resources for further development of the nation. "The country has a 710-kilometre coastal area, and about 30 million peopl...

Man gets 40-year jail for raping child

Man gets 40-year jail for raping child

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

A Chittagong court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 40 years of imprisonment in a case over raping a 9 years old girl in Lohagora upazila in the district in 2003. The convict is Jasim Uddin, son of Ab...

China to construct Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway

China to construct Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

The government has approved a proposal to award a Tk 125.66 billion contract to a Chinese company to construct the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway (DAEE).  The 24-kilometre expressway will be...

Cutting back on alcohol ‘can prevent cancers’

Cutting back on alcohol ‘can prevent cancers’

Reuters 2017-11-08 11:33:21

A large organization of cancer doctors has issued a call to action to minimize alcohol consumption. With a newly released position paper, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) hopes to dra...

Comilla road crash kills JSC examinee

Comilla road crash kills JSC examinee

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 10:57:21

Sumaiya Akter Laizu, a Junior School Certificate (JSC) examinee from Raushan Ashraf High School, was killed and five other students wounded in a road accident in Comilla’s Sadar Dakshin upazila...

Twitter expands character limit to 280

Twitter expands character limit to 280

AP 2017-11-08 10:55:58

Twitter says it’s ending its iconic 140-character limit and giving nearly everyone 280 characters. Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That’...