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Two die in Cumilla road crash

Two die in Cumilla road crash

-- 2019-11-13 10:52:53

Two people were killed after a pick-up van plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Korpai in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on early Wednesday. One of the deceased was identified a...

Tax fair starts Thursday

Tax fair starts Thursday

FE Report 2019-11-13 10:43:04

The countrywide tax fair is going to start from tomorrow (Thursday). In the fair, taxpayers will be able to pay their tax using the mobile financial services (MFS) for the first time. They will be ab...

All deceased in Brahmanbaria train crash identified

All deceased in Brahmanbaria train crash identified

-- 2019-11-12 22:47:04

The authorities have released a list identifying all 16 who have died in a head-on collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba. The bodies had been handed to their families, Brahmanbar...

HC orders judicial inquiry into ‘failure’ to control dengue outbreak

HC orders judicial inquiry into ‘failure’ to control dengue outbreak

-- 2019-11-12 20:44:12

The High Court has ordered a judicial investigation into the causes that the authorities to “fail’ to control the outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases dengue and chikungunya fevers. A two-...

Industries Minister claims onion prices now under control

Industries Minister claims onion prices now under control

-- 2019-11-12 20:20:12

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun on Tuesday claimed that the onion price, which had skyrocketed, is now under control. “I believe the onion market that had gone beyond control is...

Conference of JU BCS Officers’ Forum Jan 31

Conference of JU BCS Officers’ Forum Jan 31

FE Online Report 2019-11-12 18:23:42

The first conference of the Jahangirnagar University BCS Officers’ Forum will be held on January 31, 2020 in Dhaka, according to a media release sent by its president Monowar Ahmed, secretary of...

PM emphasises making railway staff better prepared

PM emphasises making railway staff better prepared

-- 2019-11-12 18:01:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for making the railway staff better prepared and alert to prevent train accidents, particularly during winter. “I don’t know exac...

Dhaka-Chattogram rail services resume eight hours

Dhaka-Chattogram rail services resume eight hours

-- 2019-11-12 17:37:05

Rail services have been restored to the Dhaka-Chattogram and Chattogram-Sylhet routes eight hours after a collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba, reports bdnews24.com. The damaged...

Indictment hearing in Barapukuria graft case on Jan 15

Indictment hearing in Barapukuria graft case on Jan 15

-- 2019-11-12 17:21:45

A Dhaka court on Tuesday set January 15 to hold hearing on charge framing in Barapukuria coalmine graft case against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Today (Tuesday) was fixed for holdin...

157 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

157 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

-- 2019-11-12 17:17:22

Some 157 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning. Fifty-eight of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General...

Train collision: Turna Nishita loco master, two others suspended

Train collision: Turna Nishita loco master, two others suspended

-- 2019-11-12 15:34:57

The loco master of Turna Nishitha train and two other staff of Bangladesh Railway have been suspended after the fatal train crash at Mandbagh of Brahmanbaria that left 16 people dead and over 100 othe...

Cyclone destroyed crops worth Tk 2.63b: Minister

Cyclone destroyed crops worth Tk 2.63b: Minister

-- 2019-11-12 15:17:39

The government has estimated crop losses from Cyclone Bulbul at Tk 2.63 billion, says Agriculture Muhammad Abdur Razzaque. “At least 72,212 tonnes of crops have been destroyed and 289,006 hecta...

Nusrat murder: 12 condemned convicts shifted to Cumilla central jail

Nusrat murder: 12 condemned convicts shifted to Cumilla central jail

-- 2019-11-12 14:01:09

Twelve of the 16 condemned convicts in Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case were shifted to Cumilla central jail from Feni distirct jail on Tuesday. They were shifted to Cumilla as per the directive from In...

President off to Kathmandu

President off to Kathmandu

-- 2019-11-12 13:08:44

President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for Kathmandu on Tuesday on a four-day visit to Nepal at the invitation of Nepalese President Bidhya Devi Bhandari. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the...

Minister says Turna Nishita loco master responsible for Brahmanbaria accident

Minister says Turna Nishita loco master responsible for Brahmanbaria accident

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-12 12:56:58

The loco master of Dhaka-bound Turna Nishita from Chattogram was responsible for the accident in Brahmanbaria in the early hours of Monday, railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan has said. It was his 'm...

Gold stolen from Benapole customs house vault, five officials suspended

Gold stolen from Benapole customs house vault, five officials suspended

-- 2019-11-12 12:55:04

Unidentified miscreants have stolen 19.38 kg gold from Benapole customs house after breaking its vault. “When the office reopened after Eid-Miladunnabi vacation, the authorities found the vault...

China-BD joint venture to implement Purbachal water project

China-BD joint venture to implement Purbachal water project

-- 2019-11-12 12:26:20

A Chinese and Bangladeshi joint venture has signed a deal with the Bangladeshi government to implement a mega water project in Dhaka's mega Purbachal new township under the country's Public Private Pa...

Bhola trawler capsize: Bodies of nine fishermen found in Barishal

Bhola trawler capsize: Bodies of nine fishermen found in Barishal

-- 2019-11-12 12:01:31

The bodies of nine fishermen, who went missing in a trawler capsize in the Meghna River in Charfasson upazila of Bhola on Sunday, were recovered from the Machhkata River in Mehendiganj upazila here on...

Extend all-out support to Brahmanbaria train crash victims: PM

Extend all-out support to Brahmanbaria train crash victims: PM

-- 2019-11-12 10:38:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the local administration and public representatives to extend all-out support to the victims of Brahmanbaria train crash. The Prime Minister on Tuesday also exp...

RTA execution: Cry for coordination to sensitise public

RTA execution: Cry for coordination to sensitise public

MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-11-12 10:13:28

Some agencies are making people aware of the Road Transport Act (RTA) now in force, but two city corporations and Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) are still in inertia. For a lack of coordinatio...

Brahmanbaria train crash leaves 16 dead, 100 injured

Brahmanbaria train crash leaves 16 dead, 100 injured

-- 2019-11-12 09:49:41

At least 16 passengers were killed and over 100 others injured in a fatal head-on collision of two trains on Dhaka-Chattogram route in Mandbagh area here early Tuesday. The deadly collision between D...

‘Entire country to come under electricity coverage in 3-4 yrs’

‘Entire country to come under electricity coverage in 3-4 yrs’

-- 2019-11-11 19:31:50

The entire country will come under full electricity coverage within the next three to four years, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Monday. “The electr...

Govt set to implement G2G projects under PPP

Govt set to implement G2G projects under PPP

-- 2019-11-11 18:54:50

The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of the ‘Bangladesh Public-Private Partnership (PPP-Amendment) Bill, 2019’ to pave the path for undertaking and implementing the G2G (g...

Muhammad Imran new BD envoy to India 

Muhammad Imran new BD envoy to India 

-- 2019-11-11 17:00:14

The government has appointed Muhammad Imran, currently serving as Bangladesh Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India. High Commissioner designate I...

Hilsas full of eggs flood Chandpur, Khulna markets

Hilsas full of eggs flood Chandpur, Khulna markets

-- 2019-11-11 16:31:24

About 90 per cent Hilsa available in Khulna and Chandpur markets after a 22-day fishing embargo are full of eggs, triggering fears of poor production in the next season and prompting calls for extendi...

Digital centres to transform villages into cities: LGRD Minister

Digital centres to transform villages into cities: LGRD Minister

-- 2019-11-11 15:14:17

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam on Monday said the government is willing to transform villages into cities through digital centres. “We’re...

Barrister Tureen Afroz removed from ICT prosecution team

Barrister Tureen Afroz removed from ICT prosecution team

-- 2019-11-11 14:08:30

The government on Monday removed Barrister Tureen Afroz from the post of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prosecutor for breaching discipline and professional misconduct. The Solicitor Wing under...

Rohingyas threat to national, regional security: PM

Rohingyas threat to national, regional security: PM

-- 2019-11-11 11:53:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said 1.1 million Rohingya, citizens of Myanmar who fled here in the face of persecution, are not only a threat to the security for Bangladesh but also for the re...

Launch services resume after 36 hours

Launch services resume after 36 hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-11 11:46:13

Launch services have resumed as Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) reopened all the routes across the country after 36 hours of suspensions due to the cyclone Bulbul today (Monday)....

Ex-minister Latif Siddiqui’s bail stayed

Ex-minister Latif Siddiqui’s bail stayed

-- 2019-11-11 11:29:49

The top court on Monday stayed a six-month interim bail granted by the High Court to former minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui in a corruption case. A four-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Jus...