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Tunnel under Jamuna river on cards

Tunnel under Jamuna river on cards

-- 2017-10-25 06:45:03

The government, following a tunnel under Karnaphuli river, is now working on a plan to construct a tunnel under the mighty Jamuna river. The plan has been chalked out with an aim to facilitate improv...

Man commits suicide over family feud

Man commits suicide over family feud

FE Online Desk 2017-10-25 03:25:10

A man has allegedly committed suicide by drinking poison at his own residence in Bayazid Bostami thana road in Chittagong on early Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Md Aziz (45), son of...

Eminem wins copyright case against NZ political party

Eminem wins copyright case against NZ political party

BBC 2017-10-25 03:04:51

A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay NZ$600,000 ($412,000) in compensation in a breach of copyright suit filed by US rapper Eminem. The National Party used a track with a similar mel...

Four BNP men held over attack on police

Four BNP men held over attack on police

-- 2017-10-25 02:54:05

Comilla police arrested four leaders of district unit of BNP and its associate bodies on Tuesday night in a case filed for 'carrying out attack on the law enforcers'. The arrestees are -- Amiruzzaman...

Customs nabs one with eight gold bars

Customs nabs one with eight gold bars

-- 2017-10-25 02:40:02

Members of customs intelligence seized eight gold bars from a passenger at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday. On information, customs officials stopped the man while he wa...

Faridpur sadar upazila vice chairman arrested

Faridpur sadar upazila vice chairman arrested

-- 2017-10-25 02:21:21

Faridpur Sadar Upazila vice chairman Benjir Ahmed Tabrij has been arrested on charge of attack on police during a protest programme on Tuesday night.  A team of police arrested Tabrij, also the...

BNP leader MK Anwar passes away

BNP leader MK Anwar passes away

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

BNP standing committee member and former minister MK Anwar has died at his Elephant Road residence in the capital Dhaka. He was 85. Anwar, a bureaucrat-turned politician, breathed his last around 1:...

Bumpy start for Google Pixel

Bumpy start for Google Pixel

Reuters 2017-10-24 12:00:00

The launch of Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) second-generation Google Pixel smartphones has been hampered by display screen problems and pricing and shipping issues, prompting the company to open an i...

Khaleda 'to visit' Rohingya camps Sunday

Khaleda 'to visit' Rohingya camps Sunday

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to visit the Rohingyas  in Cox's Bazar on Sunday, according to a member of its top policymaking body. The decision was taken at the standing committee meetin...

Canadian man fined for singing 'too loud'

Canadian man fined for singing 'too loud'

BBC 2017-10-24 12:00:00

A Canadian man is contesting a C$149 (US$118) ticket for "screaming in a public place" after being caught singing in his car. The tune that got him grooving - and in trouble - was C+C Music Factory's...

Courts send Apan Jewellers owners to jail

Courts send Apan Jewellers owners to jail

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

Separate courts in Dhaka sent three owners of Apan Jewellers to jail on Tuesday in five cases filed for laundering money and dodging tax. The courts of four Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates; Nurunnahar...

18th parliament session begins Nov 12

18th parliament session begins Nov 12

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

18th session of current parliament will start from November 12 after a 59-day recess. President M Abdul Hamid convened the session exercising his power bestowed upon him by article 72 (1) of the cons...

Move to check question leaks

Move to check question leaks

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

The intending participants in the Junior School Certificate (JSC) examinations will have to enter the exam centres 30 minutes before the scheduled time. The examinees will not be allowed to attend ex...

Tk 83m 'undisclosed money' in SP's account!

Tk 83m 'undisclosed money' in SP's account!

FE Online Desk 2017-10-24 12:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found Tk 83 million 'undisclosed money' in three accounts of a superintendant of police (SP) and his wife. ACC alleged that the police official, Faridpur dist...

Trudeau writes to Hasina

Trudeau writes to Hasina

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recognised strong and important leadership of Bangladesh to face the Rohingya crisis. He has written to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conveying his support t...

Myanmar agrees to ‘take back Rohingyas’

Myanmar agrees to ‘take back Rohingyas’

-- 2017-10-24 12:00:00

Myanmar has agreed to take back the Rohingya people who have crossed into Bangladesh leaving behind their homeland. The Muslim-majority Rohingyas fled the scene in Rakhine State of Myanmar in the fac...

Rangamati fire engulfs 50 shops, houses

Rangamati fire engulfs 50 shops, houses

-- 2017-10-24 11:48:15

A fierce fire gutted around 58 shops and houses out at Korolyachhari Bazar in Langadu upazila of Rangamati on early Tuesday. According to fire service sources, the fire originated from an electric sh...

Housewife stabbed dead in Moulvibazar

Housewife stabbed dead in Moulvibazar

-- 2017-10-24 11:37:00

A housewife was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband at Adampur village in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district on Monday night over family feud. The deceased was identified as Nasima Akhtar...

Police arrest 'Neo-JMB organiser' in Jessore

Police arrest 'Neo-JMB organiser' in Jessore

-- 2017-10-24 06:06:43

Police arrested regional organiser of militant outfit Neo-JMB in a drive at an alleged terror den in Jessore on Monday night. The law enforcers also recovered huge stash of arms and ammunitions from...

EC sits with ex-CECs

EC sits with ex-CECs

-- 2017-10-24 02:36:06

As part of dialogue with different stake holders, the Election Commission (EC) held talks with election experts, including former chief election commissioners and election commissioners, on Tuesday....

Child's body found near missing Texas girl's home

Child's body found near missing Texas girl's home

Reuters 2017-10-24 01:48:05

The body of a toddler found in a culvert beneath a Texas road was likely that of a 3-year-old girl reported missing after her father said he punished her for not drinking her milk by making her stand...

Two workers injured in Gazipur RMG factory fire

Two workers injured in Gazipur RMG factory fire

-- 2017-10-24 01:19:04

Two workers of Hope Lane Garments factory received severe burn injuries as fire broke out from coil in Khanpara area of Tongi in Gazipur on early Tuesday. The victims were Jahirul Islam (24), son of...

348g of gold seized at Dhaka airport

348g of gold seized at Dhaka airport

-- 2017-10-23 12:04:05

Customs officials have seized 348g of gold hidden in the shoes of a passenger at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, a news agency reported. Milon Pramanik, a Biman Bangladesh passe...

BB headquarters catches fire again

BB headquarters catches fire again

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

A fire broke out at the Bangladesh Bank headquarters in the capital city on Monday afternoon. But fire fighters managed to douse the blaze within a few minutes. A central bank official said to BSS,...

Sushma Swaraj leaves Dhaka

Sushma Swaraj leaves Dhaka

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has left Dhaka after a two-day official visit. She headed back home around 2:00pm on Monday when Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque saw her off at Hazrat...

8 of a Dhaka family suffer burns

8 of a Dhaka family suffer burns

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Eight people, including two minor boys, of a family sustained burn injuries in a reported gas line explosion at a house on Alamin Road in Konapara area in Dhaka's Demra early Monday. The injured have...

Returning Rohingyas may lose land

Returning Rohingyas may lose land

Reuters 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to...

Faridpur bus plunge leaves minor dead

Faridpur bus plunge leaves minor dead

FE Online Desk 2017-10-23 12:00:00

A minor girl died and 17 other people sustained injuries when a bus fell into a ditch on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Joybangla-Kanfordi area of Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila on early Monday. The te...

More Bangladeshi found as landslide toll rises

More Bangladeshi found as landslide toll rises

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Death toll in Malaysian landslide incident has risen to 11, including Bangladeshi nationals, as the rescue workers have spotted two more bodies there. An Associated Press report said the two were bur...

ICT verdict on 6 ‘Razakars’ any day

ICT verdict on 6 ‘Razakars’ any day

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday concluded the hearing of arguments from both sides on the trial of six alleged war criminals for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of...