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Housemaid ‘admits’ killing Dhanmondi woman, police say

Housemaid ‘admits’ killing Dhanmondi woman, police say

-- 2019-11-07 19:04:29

The housemaid accused of killing a businessman’s mother-in-law and a house help at their home in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi has made a confessional statement in court, police say. Surobhi Akter Na...

14,291 cars get BRTA registration in 10 months

14,291 cars get BRTA registration in 10 months

FE Online Report 2019-11-07 16:43:41

Car registration in the country stood at 14,291 in the first ten months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total, 12,827 cars got registration in Dhaka from January t...

Govt to deport 11,000 illegal foreigners

Govt to deport 11,000 illegal foreigners

-- 2019-11-07 16:38:55

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said the government has taken an initiative to deport around 11,000 foreigners staying in Bangladesh without valid documents. The minister came up wit...

Uncertainty grips BGMEA building demolition

Uncertainty grips BGMEA building demolition

-- 2019-11-07 15:04:25

The demolition of BGMEA Bhaban is once again mired in uncertainty after the contractor asked the authorities to revise the cost of the project. Manager Nasrullah Khan Rashed of Four Star Enterprise s...

198 more dengue cases recorded in 24 hours

198 more dengue cases recorded in 24 hours

-- 2019-11-07 15:03:57

In the last 24 hours until Thursday morning, 198 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country. Fifty-seven of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General o...

People bid adieu to ex-Dhaka mayor, freedom fighter Khoka

People bid adieu to ex-Dhaka mayor, freedom fighter Khoka

-- 2019-11-07 15:02:51

People from all walks of life thronged the Central Shaheed Minar on Thursday to pay tribute to gallant freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the last mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation. The m...

Ex-Satkhira municipality mayor Ashraful dies

Ex-Satkhira municipality mayor Ashraful dies

-- 2019-11-07 13:47:04

Sheikh Ashraful Haque, the former mayor of Satkhira municipality, passed away on Thursday at his Sultanpur residence in the district town at the age of 90. He breathed his last around 7:15am, reports...

Govt defers implementation of road transport act by another week

Govt defers implementation of road transport act by another week

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-11-07 13:33:53

The government will take another week before starting implementing the new road transport act (RTA) 2018 for the sake of completing its necessary preparations and raising further awareness among the p...

Prove allegations or face punishment: PM to JU protesters

Prove allegations or face punishment: PM to JU protesters

-- 2019-11-07 13:28:13

Coming down heavily on those demonstrators demanding the removal of the Vice Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said they will have to face punishment if...

Khoka’s janaza held on parliament premises

Khoka’s janaza held on parliament premises

-- 2019-11-07 12:45:33

The namaz-e-janaza of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka was held at the South Plaza of National Parliament on Thursday. Current and former M...

Class-II student thrashed in Madaripur, dies

Class-II student thrashed in Madaripur, dies

-- 2019-11-07 12:08:07

A madrasa student, who was injured after being beaten by his teacher, died at the Madaripur Sadar hospital on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Asif Matabbar, 12, a second grader at Q...

‘Robber’ dies in city ‘gunfight’

‘Robber’ dies in city ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-11-07 11:57:31

A suspected robber was killed and two others suffered gunshot wounds in a reported gunfight with police’s Detective Branch (DB) in Bhatara area of Dhaka city early Thursday. Mashiur Rahman, d...

Cyclone Bulbul: Maritime ports asked to hoist signal No 2

Cyclone Bulbul: Maritime ports asked to hoist signal No 2

-- 2019-11-07 11:53:44

Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra to keep hoisting distant warning signal number two. Cyclonic storm &l...

Body of ex-Dhaka mayor Khoka reaches home

Body of ex-Dhaka mayor Khoka reaches home

-- 2019-11-07 11:02:47

Sadeque Hossain Khoka lost his battle with cancer on Monday at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. File photo The body of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP...

MP Moinuddin Khan Badal passes away

MP Moinuddin Khan Badal passes away

-- 2019-11-07 10:51:41

Freedom fighter and Member of Parliament Moinuddin Khan Badal passed away on Thursday morning. He was 67. The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader was undergoing treatment at a hospital in India. Pa...

Will restart hiring BD workers soon: Malaysia

Will restart hiring BD workers soon: Malaysia

FE Report 2019-11-07 10:24:31

Malaysia has expressed its willingness to resume recruitment of Bangladeshi workers shortly. The assurance came at a bilateral meeting between Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Im...

'Coal-fired power plants to invite disasters'   

'Coal-fired power plants to invite disasters'   

-- 2019-11-06 22:16:17

Bangladesh is going to face a great environmental disaster due to the government’s move to set up 29 coal-fired power plants across the country in the next few years, feared a number of organisa...

JU protesters refuse to leave campus

JU protesters refuse to leave campus

UNB 2019-11-06 20:04:25

Defying authorities’ directives to leave the campus following the shutdown of Jahangirnagar University (JU) for an indefinite period, a group of teachers and students continued their demonstrati...

BD enjoys internet freedom partly, survey reveals

BD enjoys internet freedom partly, survey reveals

FE Online Report 2019-11-06 20:04:18

Bangladesh has scored 44 points in ‘Freedom on the Net 2019’ survey, indicating the country partly enjoys internet and digital media freedom. Freedom House, an independent watchdog which...

Aviation Consortium Dhaka set to get HSIA expansion work

Aviation Consortium Dhaka set to get HSIA expansion work

-- 2019-11-06 18:24:29

A consortium of Japanese and South Korean firms is going to get the job for constructing the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at a much higher cost than the initial esti...

184 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24hr

184 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24hr

-- 2019-11-06 18:00:44

Some 184 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Wednesday. Sixty-five of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate General...

Four yaba traders sentenced to 15 years in prison

Four yaba traders sentenced to 15 years in prison

-- 2019-11-06 17:41:37

A court has handed down 15-year jail sentences to four people who were nabbed with 600,000 yaba tablets in Dhaka's Jatrabari three years ago. Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Robiul Al...

Student’s death: Father sues Prothom Alo editor

Student’s death: Father sues Prothom Alo editor

BSS 2019-11-06 17:22:45

A case was filed on Wednesday against Motiur Rahman, editor and publisher of the daily Prothom Alo, over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar Rahat at a programme recent...

Won’t leave behind farmers, agriculture: PM

Won’t leave behind farmers, agriculture: PM

-- 2019-11-06 15:10:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will not desert agriculture and farmers on its way to make Bangladesh a developed and industrialised nation. "We’ll be developed, w...

Pension amount should be set realistically: Minister

Pension amount should be set realistically: Minister

-- 2019-11-06 14:50:56

Highlighting the government's effort for supporting senior citizens, Planning Minister MA Mannan on Wednesday said the amount of pension should not be set too high. "We can’t set the amount of...

JU students continue protest demanding VC’s ouster

JU students continue protest demanding VC’s ouster

-- 2019-11-06 14:07:33

A section of students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) continued their demonstration on the campus on Wednesday morning demanding removal of Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Farzana Islam. They brought out a...

Morshed Khan quits BNP

Morshed Khan quits BNP

-- 2019-11-06 13:23:27

Former foreign minister M Morshed Khan has resigned from the BNP citing personal reasons. The vice-chairman of BNP handed in his resignation to the party's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamg...

PM inaugurates national council of Krishak League

PM inaugurates national council of Krishak League

-- 2019-11-06 12:32:04

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the 10th national council of Bangladesh Krishak League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League (AL), amid fanfare and festivity. The premier on Wedn...

Section 144 imposed in Thakurgaon’s Haripur

Section 144 imposed in Thakurgaon’s Haripur

-- 2019-11-06 12:23:55

The local administration imposed section 144 in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon district on Wednesday as two groups of ruling Awami League called meetings at the same venue. Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UN...

RAB charges Samrat in arms case

RAB charges Samrat in arms case

-- 2019-11-06 12:17:05

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) pressed charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat in an arms case on Wednesday. Shekhar Chandra Mallik, sub-inspector of RAB-1, submitted the...