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14 Indian fishermen held in Bay

14 Indian fishermen held in Bay

-- 2019-10-22 20:28:10

Members of Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday detained 14 Indian fishermen along with a trawler from the Fairway Buoy area of the Bay of Bengal in Bagerhat for intruding into the Bangladesh maritime territory...

FICA support cricketers’ strike for ‘fair conditions’

FICA support cricketers’ strike for ‘fair conditions’

-- 2019-10-22 20:24:49

The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) has expressed concern over the conditions that led Bangladeshi players to go on strike. Players in Bangladesh do not feel heard o...

PM flies to Azerbaijan Thursday

PM flies to Azerbaijan Thursday

-- 2019-10-22 20:08:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Baku on Thursday on a four-day official visit to Azerbaijan to attend the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The two-day summit of NAM, a foru...

BSTI files cases against petrol pumps for measurement manipulation

BSTI files cases against petrol pumps for measurement manipulation

FE Online Report 2019-10-22 18:37:47

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) filed cases against 10 petrol pumps over three days till Tuesday for alleged weight and measurement manipulation of different types of fuel. Differ...

2,250 metres of Padma Bridge visible as 15th span installed

2,250 metres of Padma Bridge visible as 15th span installed

-- 2019-10-22 18:32:33

The 15th span of the Padma multipurpose bridge was installed at the Zajira point on Tuesday after a long four-months break due to inclement weather and rainy season. “With the installation of 1...

Nordic countries keen to work with Bangladesh to combat marine litter

Nordic countries keen to work with Bangladesh to combat marine litter

-- 2019-10-22 18:20:20

Norwegian Ambassador to Bangladesh Sidsel Bleken has said the Nordic countries hope to work with Bangladesh to reach a global agreement to combat marine plastic litter and microplastics. “We ne...

Palak stresses need for road safety

Palak stresses need for road safety

FE Online Report 2019-10-22 15:16:24

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak has stressed the need for ensuring road safety for every single day in a year. To this effect, the minister also u...

Seven to die for rape and murder of Joypurhat housewife

Seven to die for rape and murder of Joypurhat housewife

-- 2019-10-22 14:31:38

A Joypurhat court has sentenced seven people to death for raping and murdering a housewife in 2017. A judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal passed the verdict on Tuesday, bdnews2...

Kushtia road crash kills two motorcyclists

Kushtia road crash kills two motorcyclists

-- 2019-10-22 13:52:04

Two motorcyclists were killed and another was injured as the motorbike they were riding fell into a pond at Kuthipara intersection in Khoksha upazila of Kushtia on Monday night. The deceased were ide...

Stop plying unfit vehicles on roads: PM

Stop plying unfit vehicles on roads: PM

-- 2019-10-22 13:32:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to stop plying unfit vehicles and their unhealthily race on the roads to avert road accidents. “Plying of unfit vehicles and the...

Bhola police super files GD over 'hacked' Facebook account

Bhola police super files GD over 'hacked' Facebook account

-- 2019-10-22 12:23:32

The Facebook account of Police Superintendent of the district has allegedly been hacked.  “My Facebook ID was lost in the morning. I think my ID has been hacked by someone,” police s...

Ctg youth held for sharing provocative Facebook post

Ctg youth held for sharing provocative Facebook post

-- 2019-10-22 11:52:08

Police arrested a youth from a hotel at Laldighi in Chattogram on Monday night for reportedly sharing a provocative status on his Facebook wall against the Chattogram Police Commissioner. The arreste...

PDB seeks energy regulator’s guidance to trim losses

PDB seeks energy regulator’s guidance to trim losses

-- 2019-10-22 10:58:30

The Power Development Board has estimated a loss of Tk 86 billion next year and taken the issue to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission seeking its guidance. Though it is deemed by many as a w...

1.9m BD children at front line of climate change disasters: UN

1.9m BD children at front line of climate change disasters: UN

-- 2019-10-22 10:52:44

Over 19 million children -- a quarter of them under 5 -- spread across Bangladesh are at the front line of climate change disasters, a UN report says mentioning that climate change threatens child nut...

Foam factory catches fire in Gazipur

Foam factory catches fire in Gazipur

-- 2019-10-22 10:49:15

A fire broke out at a foam factory in Mirerbazar are of Pubail under Gazipur district on Tuesday. Mamunur Rashid, deputy assistant director of Gazipur Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the fire br...

Road crashes, fatalities surge in three years

Road crashes, fatalities surge in three years

MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-10-22 09:58:20

There has been witnessed an upward trend in road accidents and fatalities in the past three years, since when the country has been observing the Road Safety Day. Like the two previous years, the day...

Bhola Violence: ‘Police fired in self-defence’  

Bhola Violence: ‘Police fired in self-defence’  

-- 2019-10-21 22:53:12

Mentioning that prima facie evidence suggest that police opened fire on the demonstrators in Bhola in self-defence, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said they were investigating whether there...

BD, EU start post-2020 agenda discussion

BD, EU start post-2020 agenda discussion

-- 2019-10-21 21:18:59

Bangladesh and the European Union (EU) have launched the discussions on “key priorities” for the post-2020 cooperation agenda though the joint commission meeting held on Monday in Dhaka....

Bola protesters demand removal of SP, OC in 72 hrs

Bola protesters demand removal of SP, OC in 72 hrs

-- 2019-10-21 20:08:37

Protesters on Monday sought removal of the Bhola’s police chief and officer-in-charge of Borhanuddin Police Station within 72 hours over Sunday’s clashes that left four people dead. All P...

ACC sues Shamim, Khaled Mahmud

ACC sues Shamim, Khaled Mahmud

-- 2019-10-21 18:41:40

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed two cases against Jubo League leader Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim and expelled organising secretary of Jubo League’s Dhaka south city unit...

Govt moves to construct chancery complex in Jeddah by 2023

Govt moves to construct chancery complex in Jeddah by 2023

BSS 2019-10-21 18:41:09

The government has initiated a move to set up a chancery complex at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia by September 2023 in a bid to facilitate the operations of the Bangladesh mission at the Saudi Arabian port c...

BNP MP Harun gets five years in jail for dodging tax

BNP MP Harun gets five years in jail for dodging tax

-- 2019-10-21 17:18:53

A Dhaka court has jailed BNP leader Harunur Rashid for five years for enjoying the privilege of importing a car without tax as a member of parliament and selling the vehicle later. A tax dodging case...

Formation of Faridpur City Corporation gets conditional approval

Formation of Faridpur City Corporation gets conditional approval

BSS 2019-10-21 17:12:06

National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reform (NICAR) has conditionally approved formation of Faridpur City Corporation (FCC) in its meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chai...

15 fishermen jailed for netting Hilsa defying ban

15 fishermen jailed for netting Hilsa defying ban

-- 2019-10-21 17:04:39

A mobile court in Manikganj on Monday jailed 15 fishermen for catching Hilsa from the Padma and the Jamuna River defying a government ban in Shibaloy upazila of Manikganj. Shibaloy upazila assistant...

12 to die for killing law chamber clerk in Kishoreganj

12 to die for killing law chamber clerk in Kishoreganj

-- 2019-10-21 14:22:22

A Dhaka court has sentenced 12 people to death for killing Mubarak Hossain Bhuiyan, a law chamber clerk, over a land dispute in Kishoreganj four years ago. Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 Judge Monir K...

Fire at spinning mills in Gazipur

Fire at spinning mills in Gazipur

-- 2019-10-21 13:31:05

A fire broke out at the Keya Spinning Mills Ltd at Konabari area of Gazipur city on Monday. Mamunur Rashid, deputy assistant director of Gazipur Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the fire broke ou...

5,000 unidentified people sued over Bhola violence

5,000 unidentified people sued over Bhola violence

-- 2019-10-21 13:16:45

Police have sued 5,000 unidentified people for their alleged links to the clashes that left four people dead and about 100 others injured in Bhola's Borhanuddin Upazila after a blasphemous Facebook po...

Nine new additional judges take oath

Nine new additional judges take oath

-- 2019-10-21 12:32:45

Nine newly-appointed additional judges to the High Court were sworn in on Monday morning. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain administered the oath at 10:30am at the Supreme Court Judges Lounge. The j...

Public gathering banned in Bhola after clashes

Public gathering banned in Bhola after clashes

-- 2019-10-21 12:03:59

The local administration in Bhola imposed an indefinite ban on public gathering in the district on Monday, a day after clashes between protesters and police left four people dead. Deputy Commissioner...

Rajshahi teacher held for rape attempt

Rajshahi teacher held for rape attempt

-- 2019-10-21 12:02:16

A lecturer of Rajshahi University School and College was arrested on Sunday for rape attempt on a sixth grader girl. Police said they arrested the Lecturer Durul Huda from Kajla area of the city, re...