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-- 2019-11-16 12:18:00
“They pounced on me almost every single night. I fainted at times but they didn’t stop. They’d beat me up if I protested” – this is how Bangladeshi worker Sumi Akter, who...
-- 2019-11-16 12:11:25
Arab film and TV star and World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador Hend Sabry wanted to visit the Rohingya families in the Rohingya camps, what she says, to show that suffering has no borders an...
-- 2019-11-16 11:17:19
‘Nabanna Utsab’, a Bengali festival of harvesting new crops, is being observed amid festivity and fervour across the country. This day is very significant for farmers of the country as th...
-- 2019-11-16 11:07:26
A fire broke out at a cotton warehouse of NR Textile Mill in Porabari area of Gazipur district on Saturday morning. Locals and workers said the fire broke out at 6:30am just after they had arrived t...
FE REPORT 2019-11-16 10:43:40
Female workers' participation in workplaces in the country's different sectors has declined for want of necessary support from the stakeholders, observed women rights activists. And, lack of necessar...
KAMRUN NAHAR 2019-11-16 10:36:26
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is set to install escalators in 15 footbridges at key points under its 'Infrastructure Development and Road Safety' project by mid-2022, an official said. A senior...
JUBAIR HASAN 2019-11-16 10:32:29
The government plans to build a power tiller assembly-cum-manufacturing plant in the country at an initial cost of around Tk 5.0 billion. The object behind building the plant is to further facilitate...
BSS 2019-11-15 21:33:28
President M Abdul Hamid returned home on Friday evening wrapping up his four-day official visit to Nepal. A regular aircraft (flight no BG 0070) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited carrying the Pres...
-- 2019-11-15 21:29:49
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Dubai on Saturday on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes. The premier will...
-- 2019-11-15 19:26:08
A rickshaw puller set an example of honesty by returning Tk 2.0 million to its owner after finding it in Satmatha area Bogura town on Friday. Fertiliser trader Rajib Prosad of Nandigram upazila was o...
-- 2019-11-15 18:10:48
Saudi Arabia has sent back 87 more Bangladeshis on Thursday night and Friday, taking the number of deportees to 1,647 in the last two weeks. A Saudi Airlines flight carrying 86 deportees landed at H...
-- 2019-11-15 18:03:24
As winter sets in, the quality of air in Dhaka poses major health risks to citizens with pollution reaching severe levels. The prevalence of particulate matter in the air has multiplied beyond the to...
-- 2019-11-15 17:04:04
The cyclone Bulbul that wreaked havoc in the country’s coastal districts in the early hours of Sunday damaged 4,589 trees, including Sundari, in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove fore...
-- 2019-11-15 16:57:53
A total of 97 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday. Thirty-four of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate Gener...
-- 2019-11-15 14:52:56
About 250,000 customers of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) are languishing without electricity, five days after a powerful cyclone lashed the country's southern coast. According to...
-- 2019-11-15 14:46:22
A resolution on situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has been adopted at the Unites Nations (UN). The resolution received 140 votes in its favour, 9 votes aga...
-- 2019-11-15 11:59:53
Narcotics and contraband items worth over Tk 27.40 million were seized during 8,523 drives conducted by various agencies in the district during the month of October. The information was revealed duri...
-- 2019-11-15 11:57:22
Twelve years ago, another much stronger cyclone, 'Sidr', took a similar path to ‘Bulbul’ that ripped through the coastal districts, including Bagerhat. On November 15, 2007, t...
-- 2019-11-15 11:53:22
A mobile court in Chandpur on Thursday fined four grocery shop owners Tk 14000 for selling onion at higher price in Shahrasti upazila of the district. A mobile court led by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (U...
FE Report 2019-11-15 10:56:54
The government is all set to conduct a study on the fixing of rawhide prices and the skin buy-and-sale process to ensure rational rates during Eid-ul-Azha. The mechanism is aimed at avoiding the repe...
-- 2019-11-15 10:55:51
Police say they have cracked the Sagira Morshed Salam murder case, three decades after the incident on Bailey Road in Dhaka. The law enforcement arrested Hasan Ali Chowdhury, 70, the brother of Sagir...
A CORRESPONDENT 2019-11-14 21:51:08
NETRAKONA, Nov 14: Durgapur upazila on the mountainous border of Netrakona district originally carried the name Susan. The 'good king' used to live in Durgapur. From that point, it is known as Susang...
-- 2019-11-14 20:19:02
Members of both the treasury and opposition benches in parliament on Thursday shared their concerns over the exorbitant prices of onion in the domestic market while an opposition MP demanded that its...
-- 2019-11-14 20:13:46
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday approved a prosecution request to investigate crimes against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, the court said in a statement, reports Reuters. "...
-- 2019-11-14 19:59:21
The High Court on Thursday observed that the success of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will fade if it fails to debunk the mystery behind the murder of journalist couple Sagar and Runi. The bench of...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-11-14 18:04:27
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) conducted a drive in the city’s Mohammadpur area on Thursday and evicted around 200 illegal establishments. A mobile court led by the DNCC’s Executive...
FE Online Report 2019-11-14 17:27:30
At least 1,253 women were raped and in the first ten months of current calendar year across the country, according to report of an independent rights body. Besides, 62 others were murdered after rape...
-- 2019-11-14 17:17:33
Some 215 more Bangladeshi workers were deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Wednesday night. A Saudi Airlines flight (SV804) carrying 86 deportees landed at Hazrat Shahjalal Internation...
FE Online Desk 2019-11-14 17:03:20
Local onion price soared to an all time high at Tk 200 to Tk 220 per kg in different retail markets across the capital on Thursday, according to traders and consumers. Imported onion was being sold a...
-- 2019-11-14 15:41:48
Rail services between Dhaka and the northern regions have been suspended after a train derailed in Sirajganj. A Dhaka-bound Rangpur Express train went off the tracks near the Ullapara Railway Station...
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