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Journo Dil Monowara Monu passes away

Journo Dil Monowara Monu passes away

-- 2019-10-14 11:19:07

Senior journalist Dil Monowara Monu passed away on early Monday at BIRDEM General Hospital. She was 68. Family sources said she was taken to the hospital around 1:30am with breathing complications. D...

Bomb attack on police: Two ‘Neo JMB members’ held

Bomb attack on police: Two ‘Neo JMB members’ held

-- 2019-10-14 11:11:53

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested two suspected members of ‘Neo JMB’ from Mohammadpur on Sunday over attacks targeting police at Science Lab and Gulistan.&...

Cancer patients rising amid inadequate treatment

Cancer patients rising amid inadequate treatment

FE REPORT 2019-10-14 11:03:52

The rate of cancer has been rising alarmingly in Bangladesh largely due to adulterated food, chemical, arsenic, environment pollution, lifestyle and genetic factors, oncologists said on Sunday. Even...

66pc manufacturing units lack waste management system: Survey

66pc manufacturing units lack waste management system: Survey

YASIR WARDAD 2019-10-14 10:54:48

Sixty-six per cent of country's manufacturing industries have no waste management systems of their own, posing serious threat to the environment and sustainable business, a government survey reveals....

Sonargaon gets recognition  as ‘World Craft City’

Sonargaon gets recognition as ‘World Craft City’

-- 2019-10-13 21:21:10

NARAYANGANJ, Oct 13 (UNB): Sonargaon, one of the old capitals of the historic region of Bengal, has been recognised as the 'World Craft City' for being the birthplace of Jamdani, opening the door of c...

Task force evicts 50 stone crushers set on Forest land

Task force evicts 50 stone crushers set on Forest land

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2019-10-13 21:20:31

SYLHET, Oct 13: A task force evicted on Saturday over 50 stone crushers set on the land belonging to the Forest Department under Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet. Besides, the structures were demolishe...

Khandakar Anwarul Islam becomes cabinet secretary

Khandakar Anwarul Islam becomes cabinet secretary

-- 2019-10-13 21:16:40

Senior Secretary of Bridges Division Khandakar Anwarul Islam was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary on Sunday. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette in this regard saying the ord...

Coaching centres to remain closed from Oct 25 to Nov 15

Coaching centres to remain closed from Oct 25 to Nov 15

-- 2019-10-13 20:56:29

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Sunday said all the coaching centres would remain closed from October 25 till November 15 because of Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (J...

AL not in favour of banning student politics: Quader

AL not in favour of banning student politics: Quader

-- 2019-10-13 20:15:23

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Awami League (AL) does not back the idea of banning student politics but legal action will be taken if anyone commits any misdeed in the na...

BNP leader Hafiz gets bail

BNP leader Hafiz gets bail

-- 2019-10-13 19:28:24

BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed secured bail from a court in Dhaka on Sunday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqul Islam granted the ba...

‘World Standards Day’ to be observed on Monday

‘World Standards Day’ to be observed on Monday

FE Online Report 2019-10-13 19:02:14

Bangladesh, like elsewhere in the world, will observe the 50th ‘World Standards Day’ on Monday with the theme ‘Video standards create a global stage’. On the occasion, Presid...

3,041 PBRLP affected people get Tk 776.95m as compensation

3,041 PBRLP affected people get Tk 776.95m as compensation

FE Online Report 2019-10-13 18:59:49

Some 3041 out of 7,700 affected people by Padma bridge project have received compensation under a resettlement programme. The affected populace received Tk 776.95 million as compensation. The proces...

Buddhists celebrate Prabarana Purnima

Buddhists celebrate Prabarana Purnima

BSS 2019-10-13 18:34:43

The Buddhist community on Sunday celebrated their second largest religious festival, Prabarana Purnima, across the country with due solemnity. The festival is also known as Ashwini Purnima that marks...

UN chief calls for more investment to reduce disaster risk  

UN chief calls for more investment to reduce disaster risk  

-- 2019-10-13 18:21:45

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called on the world to step up their investments by 2020 and ensure that disaster risk reduction is at the heart of the ‘Decade of Action’....

Trial over Dipan murder begins

Trial over Dipan murder begins

-- 2019-10-13 17:49:21

A Dhaka court has opened the trial of sacked army officer Syed Ziaul Haq and seven others over the murder of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan four years ago. Judge Md Mujibur Rahman of the Anti-Terroris...

Girl raped by ‘Jubo League leader’ in Jashore

Girl raped by ‘Jubo League leader’ in Jashore

-- 2019-10-13 17:45:59

A local Jubo League leader allegedly raped a young girl on the false promise of marriage at Sonatala under Abhaynagar upazila in Jashore. The accused is Nazim Mollah, 35, son of late Nawsher Mollah o...

Salim Prodhan, two associates put on five-day remand

Salim Prodhan, two associates put on five-day remand

-- 2019-10-13 17:33:26

Police have been given five days to grill Salim Prodhan, suspected of running an online casino, and two of his associates - Akhteruzzaman and ‘Roman’ -- in a money laundering case. Dhaka...

Two die ‘inhaling toxic gas’ in Savar

Two die ‘inhaling toxic gas’ in Savar

-- 2019-10-13 14:36:37

Two workers died after ‘inhaling toxic gas’ in a water tank of a tannery at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate on Sunday morning. One of the deceased was identified as Bappy, a tannery worke...

Writ filed seeking ban on student politics at universities

Writ filed seeking ban on student politics at universities

-- 2019-10-13 13:29:22

A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday seeking its directives to ban the student politics and stop ragging at all universities across the country.  The writ also sought proper c...

Daraz holds seller summit in Chattogram

Daraz holds seller summit in Chattogram

FE Online Desk 2019-10-13 13:18:34

Country’s largest online shopping platform Daraz Bangladesh (daraz.com.bd), for the second time, organised a seller summit in Chattogram. The main purpose of the event was to inform all the mer...

Govt summons UN chief in Dhaka over Abrar remarks

Govt summons UN chief in Dhaka over Abrar remarks

-- 2019-10-13 12:58:34

The Foreign Ministry has summoned UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo to explain the intergovernmental organisation's statement on the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad. She met with the...

Want to get Bangladesh ready to face any calamity: PM

Want to get Bangladesh ready to face any calamity: PM

-- 2019-10-13 12:32:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she wants to prepare Bangladesh in such a way so that it can face any sort of disaster whether it is a manmade or natural one. "Whether a manmade or natural disa...

Satkhira road crash kills motorcyclist

Satkhira road crash kills motorcyclist

-- 2019-10-13 11:48:06

A motorcyclist was killed and another injured when a pickup van crashed into their bike on the Bypass in Satkhira Sadar upazila early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Hazrat Ali, 45, son of Jab...

Pay Tk 1m to Rajib’s family: SC to Swajan Paribahan

Pay Tk 1m to Rajib’s family: SC to Swajan Paribahan

-- 2019-10-13 11:15:45

The top court has ordered Swajan Paribahan to pay Tk 1 million in compensation to the family of accident victim Rajib Hassan within a month. A four-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justic...

‘Krishi Utshab’ opens new avenue for farmers in Khulna, Jashore

‘Krishi Utshab’ opens new avenue for farmers in Khulna, Jashore

FE Online Report 2019-10-12 21:37:31

A ‘Krishi Utshab’ was launched in Khulna and Jashore recently, aimed at  addressing the growing needs and challenges that farmers facing. NeoSTAR Innovation in association with Solid...

BD embassy in Tokyo opens helpline as typhoon hits

BD embassy in Tokyo opens helpline as typhoon hits

-- 2019-10-12 21:13:12

The Bangladesh Embassy in Tokyo opened a helpline to provide assistance to Bangladesh expatriates  in Japan as Typhoon Hagibis made a landfall on Izu Peninsula, southwest of Tokyo. All Banglades...

BUET seals off BCL leaders’ rooms, office on campus

BUET seals off BCL leaders’ rooms, office on campus

-- 2019-10-12 20:17:32

The authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on Saturday sealed off the two rooms and an office that were used by BUET unit BCL leaders. Officials, led by Directorate...

Implement development projects maintaining quality: President

Implement development projects maintaining quality: President

BSS 2019-10-12 20:01:10

President M Abdul Hamid has asked all concerned to implement development projects maintaining quality and standard. The head of the State came up with the statement while witnessing the progress of d...

Another arrested BCL leader confesses to killing Abrar

Another arrested BCL leader confesses to killing Abrar

-- 2019-10-12 18:11:25

Anik Sarkar, remanded for his alleged involvement in the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad, has given a confessional statement to court. Anik, a student of mechanical engineering in BUET and the inf...

‘Banning on-campus politics universities’ decision’

‘Banning on-campus politics universities’ decision’

-- 2019-10-12 17:56:48

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Saturday said university authorities will decide whether they will permit organisational student politics on their campuses or not. “It’s up to them,&rd...