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Rain likely on Pahela Baishakh

Rain likely on Pahela Baishakh

-- 2019-04-13 20:33:53

Rain/thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places in Rangpur, Mymensingh, Barishal, Sylhet and Chattogram divisions with hails at isolated places...

Police detain five rape suspects in Tangail

Police detain five rape suspects in Tangail

-- 2019-04-13 20:13:21

Police have detained five people on charges of raping a woman in Tangail town. The law enforcers detained the suspects from New Bus Terminal area, Sadar Police Station OC Sayedur Rahman said on Satur...

Sheikh Hasina Int'l Cricket Stadium within two years

Sheikh Hasina Int'l Cricket Stadium within two years

-- 2019-04-13 19:45:29

The Project Implementation Committee (PIC) to build Sheikh Hasina International Cricket Stadium held its first meeting on Saturday. The much-awaited cricket stadium will be built within two years, th...

Bhutan keen to import more medicines

Bhutan keen to import more medicines

-- 2019-04-13 19:22:18

Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering has expressed keen interest to import more pharmaceuticals from Bangladesh as well as taking more expert physicians. The visiting prime minister of Bhutan e...

DMP arrests 89 in the city

DMP arrests 89 in the city

FE Online Report 2019-04-13 18:55:02

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 89 from the city in a regular anti-narcotics drive for selling and consuming contraband substance. DMP teams conducted the drives and arrested the suspec...

Govt to announce Shab-e-Barat date on Wednesday

Govt to announce Shab-e-Barat date on Wednesday

-- 2019-04-13 18:32:58

The government will announce a date for Shab-e-Barat on April 17 as the previously fixed date, April 21, created confusion. A ten-member panel was formed to end the confusion over the date of Shab-e-...

Hearing on appeals in Ramna blast case soon

Hearing on appeals in Ramna blast case soon

-- 2019-04-13 17:49:56

Hearing on death reference and jail appeals filed by the convicts in the murder case lodged over bomb blasts in Ramna Batamul in 2001, is scheduled to be held soon as the matter came on the High Court...

DU Baishakhi concert stage set on fire

DU Baishakhi concert stage set on fire

-- 2019-04-13 17:44:54

Some miscreants set fire to a stage made for a concert to celebrate Pahela Baishakh at Mal Chhattaron of Dhaka University (DU) campus early Saturday. They also vandalised 17 refrigerators of a compan...

UZ chairmen, vice-chairmen take oath in Rajshahi

UZ chairmen, vice-chairmen take oath in Rajshahi

-- 2019-04-13 17:42:51

Chairmen, vice-chairmen and vice-chairmen in women reserved seats elected through the fifth upazila parishad election in Rajshahi district took oath on Saturday with a vow to serving their respective...

Nation awaits Pahela Baishakh celebration

Nation awaits Pahela Baishakh celebration

-- 2019-04-13 17:16:24

The country is set to celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year, on Sunday upholding the rich cultural values and rituals of the Bangalis. Tens of thousands of people are expected...

Drug administration monitored over 57,000 pharmacies in FY18

Drug administration monitored over 57,000 pharmacies in FY18

FE Online Report 2019-04-13 17:05:14

Officials of Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) visited 57,175 pharmacies in the fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18) across the country as part its regular duty to monitor them. The DGDA also v...

'No security threat surrounding Pahela Baishakh celebrations'

'No security threat surrounding Pahela Baishakh celebrations'

-- 2019-04-13 16:44:06

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said there is no specific security threat centring the celebrations of Pahela Baishakh. "There is no specific threat. Besides, detectives' surveillance is on....

Maitree Express train hits vehicle in Sirajganj, three dead

Maitree Express train hits vehicle in Sirajganj, three dead

-- 2019-04-13 16:33:50

A Dhaka-bound Maitree Express train, which runs between India and Bangladesh, has rammed a vehicle in Sirajganj, killing three people. Nazir Hossain, a fire fighter at Ullapara Fire Service Station,...

14 women tortured to death for dowry in Jan-Feb

14 women tortured to death for dowry in Jan-Feb

FE Online Report 2019-04-13 16:30:37

At least 14 women were tortured to death and one committed suicide for dowry alone in January -February across the country, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)...

CPB calls for resistance against repression of women

CPB calls for resistance against repression of women

-- 2019-04-13 16:29:33

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) has formed human chains from Ganabhaban to Bangabhaban in Dhaka to protest the killing of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The party also called for res...

'13 directly involved in arson attack on Nusrat'

'13 directly involved in arson attack on Nusrat'

-- 2019-04-13 16:21:48

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have found the direct involvement of 13 people, including two girls, in setting fire to Nusrat Jahan Rafi, a madrasa student of Feni. The PBI also said the Al...

Seven premature babies of a  woman die in Lakshmipur

Seven premature babies of a woman die in Lakshmipur

FE Online Desk 2019-04-13 15:26:43

Seven premature babies - four girls and three boys - were born of a 18-year-old woman at a hospital in Lakshmipur on Friday night only to die several hours later. The mother is doing fine, according...

BD, Bhutan primarily agree on duty-free access of few goods

BD, Bhutan primarily agree on duty-free access of few goods

-- 2019-04-13 15:20:56

Bangladesh and Bhutan on Saturday agreed in principle to work on duty- and quota-free access of a number of goods of the two counties to each other's market for mutual benefits. The issue was discuss...

Bodies of five Malaysia road crash victims arrive

Bodies of five Malaysia road crash victims arrive

-- 2019-04-13 13:38:44

The bodies of five Bangladeshi nationals, who lost their lives in a bus accident in Malaysia, arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the early hours of Saturday. Malaysia Airlines fligh...

AL expels Feni leader over Nusrat murder

AL expels Feni leader over Nusrat murder

-- 2019-04-13 13:14:05

The Awami League (AL) has expelled a local leader in Feni for his alleged involvement in the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The ruling party’s Sonagazi upazila unit General Secret...

Shocked at Nusrat’s death, ailing brother hospitalised

Shocked at Nusrat’s death, ailing brother hospitalised

-- 2019-04-13 12:57:46

After being shocked over the death of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, his younger brother Rashedul Hasan Raihan, was admitted to a hospital in Feni on Friday night. Raihan, a class X student of So...

Met office predicts rain over country

Met office predicts rain over country

-- 2019-04-13 12:44:49

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind with hails at isolated places in next 24 hours, according to a Met Office bulletin. The bulletin, issued Saturday morning, said t...

Three ‘robbers’ die in Feni lynch-mob attack

Three ‘robbers’ die in Feni lynch-mob attack

-- 2019-04-13 12:30:21

Three suspected robbers were killed in a lynch-mob attack at Uttar Alipur village in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni in the early hours of Saturday. Two of the deceased were identified as Monir Hossain,...

Feni girl murder: Police arrest two more suspects

Feni girl murder: Police arrest two more suspects

-- 2019-04-13 11:30:40

A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has arrested two more close aides of madrasa principal Siraj ud-Daulah in a case filed for sexually assaulting Alim examinee Nusrat Jahan Rafi. Shahadat...

Police arrest two for ‘killing driver during carjacking’ in Ctg

Police arrest two for ‘killing driver during carjacking’ in Ctg

-- 2019-04-13 11:11:52

Police arrested two young men from Kattoli area in the port city early Saturday allegedly for attempting to carjack after killing its driver. The details about the deceased and detainees could not be...

Fish, meat, vegetable prices rise further

Fish, meat, vegetable prices rise further

FE Report 2019-04-13 10:17:50

Prices of hilsa and other fishes, meat and vegetables in the city markets witnessed a fresh hike last week, raising woes of the common consumers. Traders attributed the skyrocketing trend of hilsa pr...

‘No-deal’ Brexit likely to up BD export to UK by 10pc

‘No-deal’ Brexit likely to up BD export to UK by 10pc

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2019-04-13 10:11:34

Bangladesh is one of the countries that are likely to gain from a 'no-deal' Brexit, according to a report of the United Nations (UN) that came out on Tuesday. The country's export to the United Kingd...

Dutch sweets giant probes 'attack' on Bangladesh factory workers

Dutch sweets giant probes 'attack' on Bangladesh factory workers

-- 2019-04-12 20:59:34

The Dutch sweets giant behind the Mentos and Alpenliebe brands has pledged to investigate after its workers in Bangladesh said they were attacked, just weeks after setting up a union. The new trade u...

Bhutan to hire specialised doctors from Bangladesh

Bhutan to hire specialised doctors from Bangladesh

-- 2019-04-12 20:55:49

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has said his country will offer a special package to hire Bangladeshi specialised doctors to work in Bhutan. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen gave the inform...

Construction worker dies falling off Sunamganj building

Construction worker dies falling off Sunamganj building

-- 2019-04-12 20:33:21

A construction worker died after falling from an under-construction building in Court Chattar area of Sunamganj district town on Friday. The deceased was identified as Md Mostafa Mia, 55, son of Gaus...