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Hasan Mahmud describes BNP as main patron of dynastic politics

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP as main patron of dynastic politics

UNB 2020-01-05 17:25:53

Sharply reacting to BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s  remarks over ‘dynastic politics’ in Awami League, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP is the main...

Two arrested with 28,755 Yaba tablets in city

Two arrested with 28,755 Yaba tablets in city

-- 2020-01-05 17:10:17

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-1) in separate drives arrested two drug peddlers along with 28,755 pieces of Yaba tablets at city’s Banani and Badda areas on Saturday evening. The detain...

Couple held with ‘firearm, Yaba’ in Dinajpur

Couple held with ‘firearm, Yaba’ in Dinajpur

-- 2020-01-05 17:04:57

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Saturday evening arrested a couple reportedly along with a shooter gun and 100 Yaba tablets at Katla village of bordering Birampur upazila in Dinajpur. The...

Publish advertisement on four fugitives, court orders police

Publish advertisement on four fugitives, court orders police

-- 2020-01-05 16:07:07

A Dhaka court has ordered the police to publish an advertisement in newspapers asking the four fugitives in the Abrar Fahad murder case to appear in court. Dhaka's Additional Metropolitan Magistrate...

Man crushed under train in city

Man crushed under train in city

-- 2020-01-05 14:09:31

An unknown man was crushed to death by a train in Jurain Rail Gate area in the capital on Sunday morning. Anwar, a witness, said the Dhaka-bound train from Narayanganj hit the man around 11:30am when...

Female ‘drug pedlar’ found dead in Cox’s Bazar

Female ‘drug pedlar’ found dead in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2020-01-05 13:27:31

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a suspected female drug pedlar in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Samuda Begum, 40, wife of late Salam of S...

Dhaka court issues arrest order for SK Sinha

Dhaka court issues arrest order for SK Sinha

-- 2020-01-05 13:10:12

A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant for former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others in a case that involves Tk 40 million in suspicious loans from the then Farmers Bank. The court...

Another crude bomb explodes near Madhur Canteen

Another crude bomb explodes near Madhur Canteen

-- 2020-01-05 12:37:12

Another crude bomb exploded near the Madhur Canteen on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday morning. The blast took place when a rally of Jatiyatabadi Chhtra Dal (JCD), the student wing of BNP, was...

Be a people-friendly force, PM asks police

Be a people-friendly force, PM asks police

-- 2020-01-05 12:31:40

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked police members to establish themselves as the 'police of people’, saying it is very easy to eliminate any crime through gaining people's confidence a...

Woman burned while basking in fire dies

Woman burned while basking in fire dies

-- 2020-01-05 10:55:49

An elderly woman who suffered burns while basking in fire died at the General Hospital in Jashore on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Shukurunnesa, 60, wife of late Samsuddin of Raypara...

Active BO accounts down 7.25pc in 2019

Active BO accounts down 7.25pc in 2019

Mohammad Mufazzal 2020-01-05 10:43:10

The number of active BO (beneficiary owner's) accounts declined 7.25 per cent in the just concluded calendar year from the number of accounts observed at the end of previous year. The officials famil...

Concrete covers four-fifths of Dhaka city

Concrete covers four-fifths of Dhaka city

FE REPORT 2020-01-05 10:19:55

Concrete areas in Dhaka have increased to around 82 per cent while water bodies and open space have shrunk by more than two-thirds during the last two decades, according to a study. The study showed...

Barbel fish farming receives a boost

Barbel fish farming receives a boost

A Correspondent 2020-01-04 23:52:12

MYMENSINGH, Jan 04: Barbel (shing) fish farming in Madihati Para village of Mymensingh Sadar Upazila has received a boost following implementation of the intensive cultivation technique that is set...

Itakhola, Rupban Mura  open to tourists

Itakhola, Rupban Mura open to tourists

Our Correspondent 2020-01-04 23:51:31

CUMILLA, Jan 04: Cumilla has long been known as a district with a rich history and heritage. The tourist attractions of this district, rich in tourism sector, attract everyone. This time, Cumilla'...

PM urges BCL leaders to dignify their organisation

PM urges BCL leaders to dignify their organisation

BSS 2020-01-04 20:43:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged leaders and activists of Chhatra League to dignify their organisation through gaining confidence and trust of the countrymen. Sheikh Hasina made the remarks whi...

PM removes “acting” tag from Nahean, Lekhak’s BCL posts

PM removes “acting” tag from Nahean, Lekhak’s BCL posts

-- 2020-01-04 18:38:15

Awami League chief and Prime Mnister Sheikh Hasina has named Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee as the president and the general secretary of its student affiliate Bangladesh Chhatra League (...

Rules candidates must obey

Rules candidates must obey

-- 2020-01-04 18:25:41

The Election Commission (EC) has chalked out a series of plans to ensure that the city corporation polls are conducted in an orderly manner and has urged the candidates to abide by its electoral code...

Road accidents claim 5,227 lives in 2019

Road accidents claim 5,227 lives in 2019

FE Online Report 2020-01-04 17:20:13

At least 5,227 people were killed and some 6,953 others were injured in 4,702 road accidents across the country in 2019, multiplying the number of victims compared to last two years. Nirapad Sarak Ch...

Conviction rate in graft cases increases slightly in 2019

Conviction rate in graft cases increases slightly in 2019

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-01-04 16:58:53

The conviction rate in corruption cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) increased slightly in 11 months from January to November in 2019 compared to the corresponding period of the previ...

78 Bangladeshis detained in illegal immigrants drive in Malaysia

78 Bangladeshis detained in illegal immigrants drive in Malaysia

-- 2020-01-04 16:51:06

Malaysian police have detained 474 illegal immigrants, including 78 Bangladeshis, in New Year campaigns across the country. The immigration police carried out 124 raids in the first two days of the N...

Robbers beat elderly woman to death in Khulna

Robbers beat elderly woman to death in Khulna

-- 2020-01-04 16:48:16

Robbers looted gold ornaments from a house killing an elderly woman at Navy-gate area in Khulna on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Kali Rani Sen, 70. The incident took place around...

43 dengue patients being treated at hospitals

43 dengue patients being treated at hospitals

-- 2020-01-04 15:37:08

Forty-three dengue patients, including 36 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals across the country for dengue. Twenty-one new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00...

5,432 affected by cold-related diseases in 24 hrs

5,432 affected by cold-related diseases in 24 hrs

-- 2020-01-04 15:33:50

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,432 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Saturday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...

Three cleaning staff arrested with gold at Dhaka airport

Three cleaning staff arrested with gold at Dhaka airport

-- 2020-01-04 15:21:37

The Armed Police Battalion arrested three cleaning staff with gold weighing around 2.3 kilograms from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday.  The arrestees were identified as Md Sum...

4,356 people killed in road accidents last year: NISCHA

4,356 people killed in road accidents last year: NISCHA

-- 2020-01-04 13:24:06

As many as 4,356 people were killed and more than 5,000 others injured in road accidents across the country last year, according to a road safety advocacy group. Apart from them, 198 others were kill...

Satkhira’s ‘mele’ mat industry faces extinction

Satkhira’s ‘mele’ mat industry faces extinction

-- 2020-01-04 12:49:29

Shortages of raw materials , low prices of finished goods and availability of cheaper alternatives are pushing the once-thriving ‘mele’ mat industry of Satkhira towards extinction. &ldquo...

Jute mill workers return to factories

Jute mill workers return to factories

-- 2020-01-04 12:32:05

Workers of state-owned jute mills in Khulna returned to factories on Saturday after halting their five days of continuous protests that cost the government millions of taka. They resumed work followi...

Dhaka ranks 13th worst city in AQI

Dhaka ranks 13th worst city in AQI

-- 2020-01-04 11:34:58

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka was ranked 13th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. It had an AQI score of 172 at 8:43am. The air quality was classified as ‘unhealthy&rsq...

BCL’s 72nd founding anniv being celebrated

BCL’s 72nd founding anniv being celebrated

-- 2020-01-04 11:23:27

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is celebrating its 72nd founding anniversary today (Saturday). The ruling Awami League-affiliated student wing was founded by Bangladesh’s independence hero Bang...

Bangladeshi expatriates in Iraq asked to maintain caution

Bangladeshi expatriates in Iraq asked to maintain caution

-- 2020-01-04 10:47:35

The Bangladesh Embassy in Baghdad has requested Bangladeshi expatriates in Iraq to stay alert and maintain caution considering the current security situation in the Middle-Eastern country. In a state...