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Cold wave likely to linger another day

Cold wave likely to linger another day

-- 2019-12-21 14:12:45

A cold wave sweeping over the country is likely to linger at least another day. “The situation will start improving from Sunday,” Kawser Parvin, deputy director of Bangladesh Meteorologic...

Hasina, Quader re-elected AL president, general secretary

Hasina, Quader re-elected AL president, general secretary

BSS 2019-12-21 13:36:02

The Awami League on Saturday re-elected Sheikh Hasina as the president and Obaidul Quader as the general secretary to lead the ruling party for next three years. The councillors of the party took the...

Work to gain people’s confidence: PM to AL councillors

Work to gain people’s confidence: PM to AL councillors

-- 2019-12-21 13:25:55

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged councillors of the party to work for gaining public trust and confidence so that the party can continue serving the people getting their mandate....

Biman’s Dreamliner ‘Sonar Tori’ starts for Dhaka

Biman’s Dreamliner ‘Sonar Tori’ starts for Dhaka

-- 2019-12-21 12:02:58

Biman’s brand new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner ‘Sonar Tori’ has started its journey for Dhaka from Seattle, USA. It left Boeing Everett Delivery Center at 12.30pm (local time) on Friday...

Shelter home to be set up for women workers near airport

Shelter home to be set up for women workers near airport

Arafat Ara 2019-12-21 11:00:55

The government is going to set up a shelter home for returnee women migrant workers near the Dhaka airport to provide them with emergency support, officials said. To this end, the Wage Earners' Welfa...

Rajuk's Jhilmil housing uncertain

Rajuk's Jhilmil housing uncertain

JUBAIR HASAN 2019-12-21 10:55:43

Jhilmil, one of the largest housing projects for lower and middle-income groups, is yet to make any tangible progress even after two years into a construction deal. Even the government authorities ar...

Dense fog disrupts flights in Dhaka airport

Dense fog disrupts flights in Dhaka airport

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-21 10:55:31

Flight operations were disrupted as a severely dense fog overcast the sky of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for five and a half hours on Saturday. It resumed around 9:30am after visibilit...

Weather likely to improve from Sunday

Weather likely to improve from Sunday

FE REPORT 2019-12-21 10:53:34

A mild cold wave sweeping over the northwestern regions of the country is likely to continue till Saturday, according to a meteorologist at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). The weather is...

AL set to elect new committee as council rolls into second day

AL set to elect new committee as council rolls into second day

-- 2019-12-21 10:19:58

Councillors of the ruling Awami League will gather at The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) on Saturday morning to elect the next committee of the party for three years. The second day of th...

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed no more

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed no more

FE Online Desk 2019-12-20 21:17:25

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of chair emeritus of world’s largest non-government development organisation Brac, passed away on Friday night at the age of 83. He breathed his last at 8:28pm at...

Onion prices spike up due to supply shortage

Onion prices spike up due to supply shortage

-- 2019-12-20 21:03:24

After a brief respite, onion prices have once again begun soaring in the markets due to a supply shortage for the key kitchen staple, traders say. The spike in the prices during the ongoing season ha...

Navy rescues five fishermen from Bay of Bengal

Navy rescues five fishermen from Bay of Bengal

BSS 2019-12-20 20:28:47

Bangladesh Navy personnel have rescued five fishermen from the Bay of Bengal, after three days the fishing boat become out of work. The rescued fishermen are: M Yasin, 18, Omar Faruk, 16, Mattul Hoss...

PM describes Awami League as largest, strongest party

PM describes Awami League as largest, strongest party

-- 2019-12-20 19:51:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described Awami League as the largest and strongest political party of the country Sheikh Hasina, the president of Awami League, made the remarks while addressing the...

People throng roadside pitha shops as winter bites

People throng roadside pitha shops as winter bites

UNB 2019-12-20 18:34:03

With the onset of winter, the roadside pitha shops in Lalmonirhat not only give people something warm and delicious to nibble on but also provide seasonal labourers a much-needed livelihood. People t...

RAB detains drug peddler with 11,600 yaba tablets

RAB detains drug peddler with 11,600 yaba tablets

BSS 2019-12-20 18:22:53

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday arrested alleged drug peddler and recovered 11,600 Yaba tablets from his possession fin the city. “ A team of the RAB recovered 11,600 yaba tablets and ar...

PM inaugurates Awami League’s national council

PM inaugurates Awami League’s national council

BSS 2019-12-20 17:34:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 21st National Council of ruling Awami League at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, opened the two-da...

Police nab 26 gamblers in Sylhet

Police nab 26 gamblers in Sylhet

-- 2019-12-20 14:25:22

Police nabbed 26 gamblers and recovered Yaba tablets from their possession in the last 19 days of the current month in Sylhet district. Jedan Al Musa, additional deputy commissioner, Sylhet Metropoli...

Police detain youth with 1200 Yaba

Police detain youth with 1200 Yaba

-- 2019-12-20 14:22:29

Police arrested a young man along with 1,200 contraband Yaba pills from Belal Bazar area in Gomostapur upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Friday. The arrestee is Rubel Islam, 29, son of Enamul Ha...

Police arrest teen for killing schoolgirl

Police arrest teen for killing schoolgirl

-- 2019-12-20 14:19:50

Police arrested a teenage boy after the body of a schoolgirl, who remained missing for four days, was recovered from his house in Goalpara area of Thakurgaon district town on Thursday night. The dece...

Police recover throat-slit body of human hauler driver

Police recover throat-slit body of human hauler driver

-- 2019-12-20 14:09:55

Police have recovered the throat-slit body of a human hauler driver from Harishpur in Salikha upazila of Magura district. The deceased was identified as Antar, 26, human hauler driver, son of Taijal...

Miscreants stab youth to death in Jashore

Miscreants stab youth to death in Jashore

-- 2019-12-20 14:06:00

A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants in Bezpara Graveyard area of Jashore district town on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Romzan Ali, son of Badshah Mia of Taltola in the to...

Father dies, daughter injured in Jashore road crash

Father dies, daughter injured in Jashore road crash

-- 2019-12-20 14:02:47

A man has been killed and his daughter critically injured after being run over by a bus in Satmile Gohata area on Jashore-Jhenaidah road in Sadar upazila of Jashore district. The deceased was identif...

Student ‘raped’ after promise of marriage

Student ‘raped’ after promise of marriage

-- 2019-12-20 13:56:21

A college student has been allegedly raped at Bagachra of Sharsha upazila of Jashore district after being led on with the lure of marriage. Locals and police informed that the alleged rapist Munaem H...

Cold wave to linger for two more days

Cold wave to linger for two more days

-- 2019-12-20 13:22:57

A cold wave that has gripped the north-western part of the country is set to persist for two more days, according to the Meteorological Department. The northern wind has caused temperatures to drop i...

Delay in Ghorashal power plant upgrade to cost govt extra Tk 4.39b

Delay in Ghorashal power plant upgrade to cost govt extra Tk 4.39b

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-12-20 10:52:51

The government will have to spend extra Tk 4.39 billion funds for paying interest against loan as well as consultancy and other fees following delay in implementing a power plant project, insiders s...

Awami League’s 21st National Council today

Awami League’s 21st National Council today

-- 2019-12-20 10:25:53

Bangladesh Awami League, the party which waged the Bengali nationalist movement nearly seven decades ago and subsequently steered the country’s 1971 Liberation War, is set to stage its 21st Nati...

Minister blasts RHD for poor quality of road network

Minister blasts RHD for poor quality of road network

FE REPORT 2019-12-20 09:59:16

Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal came down heavily on the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) for deplorable condition of road networks, and warned the agency of reviewing its yearly fund allocati...

Khulna, Tangail people feel the chill of winter

Khulna, Tangail people feel the chill of winter

A Correspondent 2019-12-20 01:00:21

KHULNA, Dec 19: With the beginning of Bangla month of Poush, Khulna district is suddenly facing bone shaking cold. In the southwestern part of the country, cold wave and dense fog have led normal lif...

Tomato farming creates hope among marginal farmers

Tomato farming creates hope among marginal farmers

Our Correspondent 2019-12-20 00:59:34

GOPALGANJ, Dec 19: Grassroot farmers of Sadar upazila in the district are delighted over the present market price of tomato. According to Gopalganj Sadar Upazila Agriculture Office sources, a total o...

Construction of most Boro crop  protection structures yet to start

Construction of most Boro crop protection structures yet to start

Our Correspondent 2019-12-20 00:58:39

SYLHET, Dec 19: Construction of most of the structures for Boro crop protection could not be started in Sylhet region although it was reset for December 17 by the Water Development Board (WDB), offici...