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Fire breaks out at Gazipur apparel factory

Fire breaks out at Gazipur apparel factory

-- 2020-01-10 18:12:22

A fire has erupted at a garment factory in Gazipur city, according to bdnews24.com. The fire broke out on the fourth and fifth floors of Islam Garments in the city's Konabari area around 2:15 pm on F...

PM opens countdown to Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebration

PM opens countdown to Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebration

UNB 2020-01-10 17:55:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the nationwide countdown to the birth centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Friday. A gala ceremony was...

Fifty dengue patients being treated at hospitals

Fifty dengue patients being treated at hospitals

-- 2020-01-10 15:00:01

Fifty dengue patients, including 43 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals across the country. Six new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am in the capital on Fri...

Missing college girl found dead in Satkhira

Missing college girl found dead in Satkhira

-- 2020-01-10 14:58:24

Police on Friday recovered the body of a college student from a paddy field in Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira district three days after she had gone missing. The deceased was identified as Mariam Kha...

5,863 affected in cold-related disease in 24 hrs

5,863 affected in cold-related disease in 24 hrs

-- 2020-01-10 14:54:42

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,863 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Friday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control ro...

DNCC, DSCC polls: Symbols allocated among mayoral aspirants

DNCC, DSCC polls: Symbols allocated among mayoral aspirants

-- 2020-01-10 14:10:16

The Election Commission (EC) on Friday allocated symbols among the mayoral candidates of the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections scheduled to...

Two devotees die at Ijtema venue

Two devotees die at Ijtema venue

-- 2020-01-10 14:04:41

Two devotees died at the Ijtema venue in Tongi area of Gazipur district on Thursday night and early Friday. The deceased were identified as Khoka Mila, 60, of Kazipur upazila in Sirajganj district an...

Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign on Saturday

Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign on Saturday

-- 2020-01-10 12:19:17

The national Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign will be observed across Bangladesh on Saturday, aiming to feed Vitamin A plus capsules to 21 million (2.10 crore) children aged between six to 59 mon...

Bagerhat-4 MP Mozammel Hossain passes away

Bagerhat-4 MP Mozammel Hossain passes away

-- 2020-01-10 11:47:28

Mozammel Hossain, a lawmaker from Bagerhat-4 and a former state minister, has died at a hospital in Dhaka at the age of 80. He passed away at 12:40am on Friday while undergoing treatment at Bangaband...

Homecoming Day: PM pays homage to Bangabandhu

Homecoming Day: PM pays homage to Bangabandhu

-- 2020-01-10 10:48:06

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the Homecoming Day of the great leader. The premier paid the homage by...

BGMEA stops UD issuance to 84 non-compliant units

BGMEA stops UD issuance to 84 non-compliant units

Monira Munni 2020-01-10 10:38:14

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has temporarily suspended issuing utilisation declaration (UD) certificates to 84 non-compliant factories, said industry insiders...

First phase of Biswa Ijtema begins

First phase of Biswa Ijtema begins

-- 2020-01-10 10:32:08

The first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, began on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi after Fazr prayers on Friday. The Ijtema began with "a'm bayan"...

The interesting history behind  sweetmeat ‘Monda’

The interesting history behind sweetmeat ‘Monda’

A CORRESPONDENT 2020-01-10 00:29:36

MYMENSINGH, Jan 09: Sweetmeat 'Monda' has an interesting history. Descendants say, about two centuries ago Gopal Pal dreamt that a sage was ordering him to make sweetmeat. The next day, Gopal starte...

20 died of acute respiratory infection this winter: DGHS

20 died of acute respiratory infection this winter: DGHS

FE Online Report 2020-01-09 20:42:30

At least 20 people died of cold-related Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) disease, while some 34 others lost their lives due to other diseases across the country in this winter since November 2019 til...

Writ seeks injunction of EVM in city polls

Writ seeks injunction of EVM in city polls

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-09 20:39:50

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court (HC) on Thursday challenging the legality of Election Commission’s decision to use electronic voting machine (EVM) at the Dhaka City Corporatio...

Fire at int’l trade fair under control

Fire at int’l trade fair under control

-- 2020-01-09 20:13:37

A fire that broke out at the venue of Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the city on Thursday evening has been brought under control. Lima Khanom, duty office of Fire Serv...

Govt okays proposal for additional Tk 30b for Bangabandhu railway bridge

Govt okays proposal for additional Tk 30b for Bangabandhu railway bridge

-- 2020-01-09 20:07:46

The government has approved a proposal to pump around Tk 30 billion in additional funding into the project to build the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge on the Jamuna River. The Cabinet Commit...

Fire at int'l trade fair

Fire at int'l trade fair

-- 2020-01-09 20:00:13

A fire broke out at the venue of Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the city on Thursday evening. Sources at the Fire Service and Civil Defence control room said the fire...

Cabinet shuffle unlikely before city polls: Quader

Cabinet shuffle unlikely before city polls: Quader

bdnews24.com 2020-01-09 18:49:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is unlikely to expand or shuffle cabinet before the upcoming elections to the two Dhaka city corporations, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader. The road tr...

Countdown to Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebration begins Friday

Countdown to Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebration begins Friday

-- 2020-01-09 18:34:47

The countdown to the observance of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary will begin tomorrow (Friday) at the Tejgaon Old Airport in the city where Bangabandhu...

Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day Friday

Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day Friday

-- 2020-01-09 18:19:32

The historic Homecoming Day of the greatest Bangalee of all the times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be observed tomorrow (Friday) in a befitting manner. Bangabandhu, the...

ACC sues Nazmul Huda's wife, daughter

ACC sues Nazmul Huda's wife, daughter

-- 2020-01-09 16:43:30

The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has filed two separate cases against the wife and two daughters of former BNP minister Nazmul Huda for allegedly laundering nearly Tk 64.5 million to buy flats in...

DU student rape: Majnu put on seven-day remand

DU student rape: Majnu put on seven-day remand

-- 2020-01-09 15:23:36

A suspect was put on a seven-day remand by a Dhaka court on Thursday for allegedly raping and torturing a Dhaka University student. Majnu, described as a serial rapist, drug addict and mugger by RAB,...

Migrant worker's wife, son 'murdered' in Manikganj

Migrant worker's wife, son 'murdered' in Manikganj

-- 2020-01-09 15:10:16

Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her minor son, presumed murdered, from a home in Manikganj's Saturia Upazila. Parveen Akhter, 26, the wife of Monjur Rahman, a migrant worker in Saudi...

First phase of Biswa Ijtema begins Friday

First phase of Biswa Ijtema begins Friday

-- 2020-01-09 13:38:08

The first phase of the Biswa Ijtema, billed as the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, will begin Friday in Tongi. The two-day first phase will take place at the Ijtema ground in Tongi...

Sixth population census from Jan 2 next year

Sixth population census from Jan 2 next year

FE Online Report 2020-01-09 13:20:44

The country is going to conduct the sixth 'Population Census and Household Listing 2021' aiming to get most authentic data. For the first time, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will carryout...

Violence along borders increased drastically in 2019: ASK

Violence along borders increased drastically in 2019: ASK

FE Online Report 2020-01-09 13:01:18

Incidents of violence along the country's borders increased drastically in 2019 compared to that of 2018, according to a report of a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) repor...

PM for diversifying products to boost textile export

PM for diversifying products to boost textile export

-- 2020-01-09 12:54:04

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all concerned, including the textile sector entrepreneurs, to diversify products and expand markets to boost the country’s export income. “I t...

Temperature may drop further as rain likely: Met office

Temperature may drop further as rain likely: Met office

-- 2020-01-09 11:56:11

Temperature may drop further as a light rain or drizzle are likely in parts of the country today (Thursday), according to a Met office forecast. Moderate to thick fog may appear between midnight and...

Three killed in Chattogram road accidents

Three killed in Chattogram road accidents

-- 2020-01-09 10:47:19

Three people, including a woman, were killed and three others were injured in separate road accidents on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Kumira and Salimpur area of Sitakunda upazila on Wednesday night....