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Dusty weather aggravates air pollution in Chattogram

Dusty weather aggravates air pollution in Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2019-11-30 11:42:27

Dust-induced air pollution has become a big concern for the port city dwellers with the advent of winter. Aggravation of air pollution due to the dusty weather has caused outbreak of different dise...

Two ‘robbers’ die in Satkhira 'gunfight’

Two ‘robbers’ die in Satkhira 'gunfight’

-- 2019-11-30 11:17:33

Two men with alleged ties to a series of crimes have been killed in a so-called gunfight with police at Bokchora intersection area in Satkhira district town. The incident took place in the early hour...

BGB detains three ‘smugglers’ in Jhenaidah

BGB detains three ‘smugglers’ in Jhenaidah

-- 2019-11-30 11:11:02

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained three suspected smugglers with 48 bottles of phensedyl from Kushumpur area of Moheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah district on Friday night. The arrestees are Md Russ...

Bar Council elections held in Bogura, Jashore

Bar Council elections held in Bogura, Jashore

-- 2019-11-30 11:08:26

The annual election of Bogura and Jashore district bar associations were held on Friday. In Bogura, Md Golam Faruk was elected president of the District Bar Association from Bangabandhu Awami Ainjibi...

River transport workers call strike

River transport workers call strike

TALHA BIN HABIB 2019-11-30 10:39:29

Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation (BNSF) Friday said it would go on work abstention for an indefinite period from early Saturday to press home their 11-point demand. The federation leaders took the...

Onion price manipulation: NSI identifies 16 traders, 13 commission agents

Onion price manipulation: NSI identifies 16 traders, 13 commission agents

REZAUL KARIM 2019-11-30 10:29:15

The National Security Intelligence (NSI), the country's major civilian intelligence agency, has identified some 29 businesses who were allegedly behind the recent rise in onion prices in the country....

12 injured in infighting during Sitakunda AL triennial conference

12 injured in infighting during Sitakunda AL triennial conference

-- 2019-11-29 20:15:09

At least 12 members of Sitakunda Upazila Awami League unit were injured in a clash during its triennial conference on Friday. Firoz Alam Molla, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, said th...

Water transport workers call strike

Water transport workers call strike

-- 2019-11-29 19:23:56

The water transport workers have enforced a country-wide strike to press home for an 11-point charter of demand, including appointment letter and food allowance, from 12:01am on Saturday. The strike...

Over 0.1m dengue patients hospitalised in 11 months

Over 0.1m dengue patients hospitalised in 11 months

-- 2019-11-29 17:25:15

Over 0.1 million dengue-infected people received treatment at different hospitals across the country since January this year, said the Directorate General of Health Services in a regular update. Mean...

RAB detains three militants

RAB detains three militants

-- 2019-11-29 14:40:21

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Allahr Dal’ from Zafarpur Government Primary School premises in Chuadanga sadar upazila...

Three more BNP leaders held in city

Three more BNP leaders held in city

-- 2019-11-29 14:09:46

Police arrested three leaders of BNP including its Training Affairs Secretary ABM Mosharraf Hossain, from the Jatiya Press Club premises in the city on Friday. They were shown arrested in a case file...

Indian national held with two gold bars in Ctg

Indian national held with two gold bars in Ctg

-- 2019-11-29 11:08:16

Police arrested an 'Indian national' along with two gold bars in City Gate area of Chattogram on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Ranjit Acharya, 52. Acting on a tip off, a team of police arr...

Prime Minister flies to Madrid Sunday

Prime Minister flies to Madrid Sunday

-- 2019-11-29 11:01:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is due to leave Dhaka on Sunday morning to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid, Spain. The Conference will be held from December 2-...

BERC's public hearing on power price hike begins

BERC's public hearing on power price hike begins

FE REPORT 2019-11-29 10:40:23

Rights groups and political parties strongly protested on Thursday electricity tariff hike proposals and criticised installation of 'more than required' expensive oil-fired power plants. They also op...

Provisions shortfall soars in nine months

Provisions shortfall soars in nine months

Siddique Islam 2019-11-29 10:15:16

The provisions shortfall against classified loans in the country's banking system swelled by nearly 23 per cent or Tk 15.15 billion during the first nine months of the calendar year. The total shortf...

Another week of soaring prices

Another week of soaring prices

FE REPORT 2019-11-29 10:06:11

Most of the key kitchen commodities, including onion, fish, flour, garlic, sugar and cardamom, witnessed a further price hike at retail outlets last week. Vegetable prices showed a mixed trend. The o...

Sugarcane farmers get good prices

Sugarcane farmers get good prices

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2019-11-28 21:22:22

BOGURA, Nov 28: Bumper sugarcane production as well as fair market price have brought smile on the faces of farmers in the district this season. According to the Department of Agricultural Extension...

'Workers should get equitable share of wealth they create'

'Workers should get equitable share of wealth they create'

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-11-28 21:12:47

Professor Dr Gowher Rizvi on Thursday said workers should be equal partners and they must be given equitable share of the wealth they create. The International Relation Affairs Adviser to the Prime M...

Extremely tough to set a timeline for Rohingya return: UNHCR

Extremely tough to set a timeline for Rohingya return: UNHCR

-- 2019-11-28 19:40:51

The UN Refugee Agency on Thursday said it is extremely difficult to set a timeline when the conducive environment for the return of Rohingyas will be created. The UNHCR called on the international co...

'Pollution a challenge to sustainable maritime development'

'Pollution a challenge to sustainable maritime development'

-- 2019-11-28 19:30:59

Planning Minister MA Mannan on Thursday said manmade pollution, contamination, and natural disasters pose challenges to sustainable maritime development. "We’ve maritime resources but there are...

Marshall Islands President exchanges pleasantries with Hasina

Marshall Islands President exchanges pleasantries with Hasina

-- 2019-11-28 19:25:31

President of the Marshall Islands Hilda C Heine on Thursday phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and exchanged pleasantries. Hilda Heine made the phone call to the Prime Minister at noon and exchanged...

‘Onion prices still beyond control due to inadequate imports’

‘Onion prices still beyond control due to inadequate imports’

-- 2019-11-28 19:13:59

Agriculture Minister Mohammad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday said onion prices still remain beyond control due to inadequate import and lack of stock. He came up with the remarks while talking to reporte...

PDB proposes 23pc hike in bulk power prices

PDB proposes 23pc hike in bulk power prices

-- 2019-11-28 18:07:56

The Bangladesh Power Development Board or BPDB has proposed to the energy regulator to increase bulk electricity tariff by 23.27 per cent per unit to trim its losses. The state-owned agency made the...

'Onion prices still beyond control'

'Onion prices still beyond control'

-- 2019-11-28 17:19:04

Agriculture Minister Mohammad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday said onion prices still remain beyond control due to inadequate import and lack of stock. He came up with the remarks while talking to reporte...

Nusrat video: Ex-OC Moazzem jailed for eight years

Nusrat video: Ex-OC Moazzem jailed for eight years

-- 2019-11-28 16:16:16

A tribunal dealing with cybercrimes has jailed Moazzem Hossain, former OC of Sonagazi Police Station in Feni, for a total of eight years for unlawfully releasing a video of a statement from madrasa st...

Children, the elderly crowd hospitals as Dhaka's air quality keeps worsening

Children, the elderly crowd hospitals as Dhaka's air quality keeps worsening

-- 2019-11-28 15:02:20

Children and elderly people have been facing nasal, ophthalmological, and respiratory diseases due to air pollution made worse by the construction of flyovers, roads, and the metro rail. The diseases...

Police arrest BNP leader Khairul Kabir

Police arrest BNP leader Khairul Kabir

-- 2019-11-28 13:50:40

Police have arrested BNP Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon near the Supreme Court on Thursday. Khokon was taken into custody at 10:00am, Shahbagh Police Station chief Abul Hasan said. &ld...

PM inaugurates four development schemes

PM inaugurates four development schemes

-- 2019-11-28 13:42:04

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated four development projects including installation of solar panels in the remote areas of the Parbatya Chattogram to distribute power. The prime minister op...

152 Bangladeshis return home from Libya

152 Bangladeshis return home from Libya

-- 2019-11-28 13:29:16

The government brought back 152 Bangladeshis and the bodies of three workers from war-torn Libya on Thursday. A chartered flight carrying the workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport...

Dhaka's rail link with north dists snapped

Dhaka's rail link with north dists snapped

-- 2019-11-28 13:05:26

Dhaka’s train communication with the northern part of the country was disrupted after the engine of a local train broke down near Jhaoil overbridge in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj district o...