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President Hamid wants UN-backed ‘safe zone’ for Rohingyas

-- 2017-09-10 07:45:52

President Md Abdul Hamid urged international community to form a UN-backed ‘safe zone’ near the border of Bangladesh to protect the Rohingya minority fleeing the military crackdown in Myan...

Budget session prorogued

-- 2017-09-10 07:23:54

With passing 7 bills out of the total 15 in 24 working days, the budget session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) was prorogued on Sunday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the proro...

We don't negotiate with terrorists: Myanmar

-- 2017-09-10 07:04:47

Myanmar on Sunday declared that it will not negotiate with terrorists, rejecting a ceasefire declared by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a Rohingya insurgent group.   Myanmar says it...

PM urges to exercise austerity in electricity use

-- 2017-09-10 06:36:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday renewed her call to the country’s people to exercise austerity in the use of electricity considering it as a national asset.   "It's my request to a...

District admin building shelters for new refugees in Balukhali

-- 2017-09-10 06:00:29

Cox’s Bazar district administration is building shelters at Balukhali to accommodate around 200,000 Rohingyas and bring them in one place, as per a report on bdnews24.com.     ...

PM to visit Rohingya refugee camps

-- 2017-09-10 03:57:00

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the refugee camps in the southeastern part of the country on Tuesday amid the influx of Rohingyas since fresh violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine s...

Abducted child rescued in Narayanganj, four held

FE Online Desk 2017-09-10 03:12:42

  Police have rescued a two and a half years old boy from Narayanganj within a few hours of his abduction from a Dhaka hospital on Saturday.   They also arrested four people who were invo...

Floating seedbeds gaining popularity in Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2017-09-10 01:30:04

SIRAJGANJ, Sept 09: Floating seedbed is gaining popularity in the district. Hundreds of trained peasants of the flood prone area have set up seedbeds on some hectares of inundated lands during the sea...

Police find youth’s body in Bagerhat

-- 2017-09-09 12:57:44

Police recovered an unidentified body of a young man from Rampal river near Mongla-Ghoshiakhali channel in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat district on Friday night.   Belayet Hossain, officer-in-cha...

Denmark donates Tk 256m for Rohingyas

UNB 2017-09-09 12:44:15

The Danish government has allocated Tk 256 million to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as relief efforts for the newly-arrived Rohingya refugees coming to Bangladesh from Myanmar.   Ul...

Resolve Rohingya crisis thru diplomatic process

-- 2017-09-09 12:19:40

BNP secretary general Mirza FakhrulIslam Alamgir demanded on Friday the government make effective diplomatic efforts to force Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis, reports UNB. "Our demand is very c...

26 injured in Narail bus plunge

FE Online Desk 2017-09-09 12:00:00

At least 26 people were injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch after the driver lost control of the bus at Dhunda, an area in Narail Sadar upazila, on Saturday morning.   They were adm...

Dhaka wants 'safe zones' to ease Rohingya crisis

-- 2017-09-09 12:00:00

Bangladesh has proposed creating "safe zones" run by aid groups for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state to stop hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing into its territory following a milita...

270,000 Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh: UNHCR

Reuters 2017-09-09 12:00:00

  An estimated 270,000 Rohingyas have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, announcing a dramatic jump in numbers fleeing violence in neighbo...

One killed in Gazipur road mishap  

-- 2017-09-09 12:00:00

A bus helper was killed in a road crash between a truck and bus at Sreepur Upazila of Gazipur District on Saturday morning.    The deceased was identified as Sakhawat Hossain (38), son...

PM undergoes routine health check-ups

-- 2017-09-09 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again visited the Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialized Hospital in Gazipur and had routine check-ups, in a gesture showing her trust to the treatme...

'Rohingya crisis deeply concerns India'

-- 2017-09-09 11:01:40

India says it remains ‘deeply concerned’ about the situation in Rakhine State and the outflow of refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh. In a statement on Saturday, the Indian government s...

Six die in Gopalganj road crash

-- 2017-09-09 10:44:39

Six people died and at least 25 were injured after a truck and a Pirojpur-bound bus collided head-on in Gopalganj, police have said.   Two women were among the dead in the accident that occurr...

Govt sets ambitious soft aid flow target this fiscal

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-09-09 10:07:59

The government eyes disbursement of nearly US$7.0-billion concessional foreign assistance this financial year, an ambitious 35 per cent rise over last fiscal, to meet huge fund needs. Even, officia...

Amu says Myanmar needs to face int’l court for crime against humanity

-- 2017-09-09 08:19:05

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Saturday said the Myanmar government would have to face the international court for killing Rohingya population.   "They (Myanmar government) have been comm...

Rohingya refugees ‘tripled in two weeks’

-- 2017-09-09 08:05:52

Humanitarian agencies operating in Cox’s Bazar urgently need US$77 million to assist people who have fled violence in Rakhine, Myanmar as Rohingya refugees in the district tripled in the last tw...

11,933 hajj pilgrims return home in last 3 days

-- 2017-09-09 07:32:42

A total of 11,933 pilgrims returned home in 30 return hajj flights in the last three days after performing hajj in Saudi Arabia.   According to a bulletin issued by the Ministry of Religious Af...

'BNP hatching conspiracies over Rohingya issue'

-- 2017-09-09 07:28:20

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged BNP to stop hatching ‘conspiracies’ over Rohingya issue.   “BNP has been engaged in a dirty game. They don&rsqu...

Mayor Anisul Haque recovering gradually

-- 2017-09-09 06:12:17

The physical condition of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Anisul Haque, who is now staying in London, is recovering gradually, reports BSS.   "We were informed that the physical condi...

17th JS session begins Sunday

-- 2017-09-09 06:03:35

The 17th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin at 5pm tomorrow (Sunday). President Abdul Hamid summoned the session exercising the power bestowed upon him according to clause (1) of the a...

20km tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway

-- 2017-09-09 05:50:39

Passengers were suffering immensely on Dhaka-Tangail highway as vehicles are moving slowly due to 20-km tailback stretching from Mirzapur of Tangail to Chandra of Gazipur.     The tailbac...

Schoolboy found dead in Chandpur

-- 2017-09-09 05:22:08

A schoolboy was found dead in a farmland at Gulisha village in Chandpur district on Friday night, a day after going missing.   The deceased was identified as Fahim, 13, son of Dulal Gazi, and a...

Police recover two bodies in Laxmipur

-- 2017-09-09 03:33:28

Police recovered a hanging body of a young man and a floating body of an unidentified youth from two spots of Raipur and Sadar upazilas of Laxmipur district on Saturday.   In Raipur upazila, po...

RAB arrest Hizb-ut-Tahrir man in city

-- 2017-09-09 03:06:32

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive arrested an activist of the banned Islamic outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir from Mohammadpur area of Dhaka city on Friday afternoon.   The arrestee was id...

CTTC nab two Neo-JMB men in city

-- 2017-09-09 02:03:13

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested two members of Neo-JMB from Nikunjo in Khilkhet area of Dhaka city on Friday night.   The a...