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UN appeals for $877m for Rohingya refugee response in BD

UN appeals for $877m for Rohingya refugee response in BD

-- 2020-03-03 12:58:00

United Nations agencies and NGO partners on Tuesday launched the 2020 Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis and sought $877 million. Building on the efforts and success of pr...

Four prisoners died behind bars in January: Report

Four prisoners died behind bars in January: Report

FE Online Report 2020-03-03 12:23:19

A total of four prisoners died in different jails across the country in January 2020, according to an independent rights body. Of them, two were undertrials while as many others were convicts, accord...

Dhaka’s air quality improves after morning rain

Dhaka’s air quality improves after morning rain

-- 2020-03-03 12:07:57

The air quality in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka improved drastically after rain on Tuesday morning. The city ranked 17 worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) at 10:50am. Dhaka recorded 13.6mm rain...

Wheat farming on the decline in Rangpur

Wheat farming on the decline in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2020-03-03 11:21:39

The cultivation of wheat is on the decline in Rangpur agriculture region during this current season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Rangpur official sources said wheat has been cult...

Naogaon sees gradual rise in Malta production

Naogaon sees gradual rise in Malta production

Our Correspondent 2020-03-03 11:16:57

Naogaon district has seen gradual increase of Malta cultivation for the last few years due to profitable price and good demand of the citrus fruit round the year. Malta orchards have been set up on...

Onion cultivation up in Rajshahi, Faridpur dists

Onion cultivation up in Rajshahi, Faridpur dists

Our Correspondents 2020-03-03 00:45:32

RAJSHAHI, Mar 02: Getting a satisfactory price, onion cultivation has increased in Rajshahi region this year. Sources said, due to exorbitant price of onion during the current season, the farmers o...

Indian FS Shringla meets PM

Indian FS Shringla meets PM

-- 2020-03-02 22:12:08

Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday at Ganabhaban in Dhaka. Briefing the media, PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim...

Coronavirus has no relation with mercury level

Coronavirus has no relation with mercury level

-- 2020-03-02 20:41:02

Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Director Professor Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora has said the coronavirus has no relation with the mercury level. “We should not sit...

Bangladesh has 109.82m voters

Bangladesh has 109.82m voters

-- 2020-03-02 20:19:21

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said the number of total voters now in Bangladesh is more than 109.82 million. “Among the total 109,819112 voters, 554,82,530 are male, 543,3...

'No unnecessary big-budget programme over Mujib Year'

'No unnecessary big-budget programme over Mujib Year'

-- 2020-03-02 19:32:35

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed all the ministries and divisions not to take any unnecessary programme with big budgets on the occasion of Mujib Year. The Prime Minister came up with the di...

India expects to finalise deals on 7 common rivers by 2020

India expects to finalise deals on 7 common rivers by 2020

-- 2020-03-02 18:37:45

India expects to finalise proposed deals with Bangladesh on seven common rivers, excepting the Teesta, by this year. Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla came up with the statemen...

Man sentenced to death for killing wife over dowry

Man sentenced to death for killing wife over dowry

-- 2020-03-02 17:25:12

A Tangail court has sentenced a man to death on charges of beating his wife to death over demand for dowry in 2012. Judge Khaleda Yasmin of Tangail Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal p...

Road accidents claimed 534 lives in February: Report

Road accidents claimed 534 lives in February: Report

FE Online Report 2020-03-02 17:03:26

A total of 534 people were killed in 504 road accidents across the country in February this year. Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity revealed the data on Monday. Besides, some 48 people were killed whil...

Moghbazar fire death toll rises to five

Moghbazar fire death toll rises to five

-- 2020-03-02 16:38:31

Another man, who suffered burn injures in a fire at a multi-story building in Moghbazar, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday  morning, raising the death toll to five. The deceased w...

35 Rohingyas held while attempting to go to Malaysia illegally

35 Rohingyas held while attempting to go to Malaysia illegally

-- 2020-03-02 15:41:41

Police on Monday detained 35 Rohingyas, including women and children, while they were preparing to go to Malaysia illegally from Rejukhal area of Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar. Officer-in-charg...

Gulshan Society organises book fair

Gulshan Society organises book fair

FE Online Desk 2020-03-02 14:37:12

Gulshan Society has hosted the neighbourhood's first book fair (boi mela), for the first time such event in the area, at Lake Park in Gulshan area of Dhaka. The organisation arranged the event on Fri...

Tabith files case seeking cancellation of city polls

Tabith files case seeking cancellation of city polls

-- 2020-03-02 14:25:50

BNP leader Tabith Awal, who contested the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) election, has filed a case with a court here seeking cancellation of the gazette on Dhaka City Corporation polls held on F...

NRC, CAA won’t affect Bangladesh: Shringla

NRC, CAA won’t affect Bangladesh: Shringla

-- 2020-03-02 13:55:32

Highlighting the "most extensive and integrated" relationship between the two countries, Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday reiterated that the NRC and Citizenship Amendment Act...

Work on none of 744 crop protection schemes completed in Sunamganj

Work on none of 744 crop protection schemes completed in Sunamganj

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2020-03-02 12:21:23

Works on none of the 744 crop protection schemes worth Tk 1.32 billion in Sunamagnj district could be completed within the deadline, which ended on February 28, sources informed. However, the Water D...

Man burnt in Eskaton fire loses battle for life; death toll hits five

Man burnt in Eskaton fire loses battle for life; death toll hits five

-- 2020-03-02 11:38:42

A 39-year-old man burnt in the Dilu Road garage fire has succumbed to his injuries after the deaths of his wife and son in the same blaze. Shahidul Kirmani Roni passed away while undergoing treatment...

Seven ‘Rohingya robbers’ die in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

Seven ‘Rohingya robbers’ die in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

-- 2020-03-02 11:23:09

Seven suspected members of a Rohingya robber gang were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on a hill in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Mond...

Indian foreign secretary Shringla in city

Indian foreign secretary Shringla in city

-- 2020-03-02 11:10:19

Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived in Dhaka on Monday morning to finalise things ahead of prime minister Narendra Modi's visit this month. Foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen recei...

Shariatpur cultivators achieves success in growing apple jujube

Shariatpur cultivators achieves success in growing apple jujube

Our Correspondent 2020-03-02 10:55:56

Kashmiri apple jujube production has got success for the first time in Shariatpur. Awlad Hossain, a farmer is the pioneer in this regard. He said although apple jujube was cultivated earlier in the...

Smog from traffic, kilns key reasons

Smog from traffic, kilns key reasons

FE REPORT 2020-03-02 10:55:13

Smoke from outdated vehicles, brick kilns and industries, and dust from building work are key reasons of Dhaka's poor air quality, according to a new survey. Besides, fume from garbage burning and tr...

'No network' for illegal handsets after July

'No network' for illegal handsets after July

FE REPORT 2020-03-02 10:51:09

Mobile handsets, imported illegally or having fake International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers and operating since last August, will not be able to use the country's mobile networks. Bangl...

Farm mechanisation: Incentive scheme stuck on fund crisis

Farm mechanisation: Incentive scheme stuck on fund crisis

FE REPORT 2020-03-02 10:51:02

The government's programme to provide incentive to farmers for purchasing farm machinery has become stagnant due to lack of fund, said officials at the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA). To boost farm pr...

Saint Martin's Island: Concerns grow about sea ecology as turtles dying

Saint Martin's Island: Concerns grow about sea ecology as turtles dying

ABDUL MONAYEM KHAN 2020-03-02 10:33:25

Local residents have found around 40 dead sea-turtles washed up on the Saint Martin's Island beach under Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar over the past one week, indicating that such a large number of de...

'OIC Youth Capital' website launched

'OIC Youth Capital' website launched

-- 2020-03-01 20:15:00

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahasan Russel on Sunday jointly launched the 'OIC Youth Capital' website as Dhaka plans mega events round the year over...

Five die in car cylinder blast in Gopalganj

Five die in car cylinder blast in Gopalganj

-- 2020-03-01 18:11:34

Five people have died in a car cylinder explosion after the vehicle crashed into a roadside tree in Gopalganj’s Maksudpur Upazila. The incident took place on the Dhaka-Barishal Highway in Upazi...

Woman burnt in Eskaton fire succumbs to injuries

Woman burnt in Eskaton fire succumbs to injuries

-- 2020-03-01 17:34:27

A woman who suffered burns in a garage fire in the capital's Eskaton area has succumbed to her injuries in hospital after losing her son in the tragedy. It takes the death toll from the incident to fo...