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BD progresses remarkably in reducing poverty: WB

BD progresses remarkably in reducing poverty: WB

FE Online Desk 2019-10-07 14:14:19

Bangladesh has progressed significantly in reducing poverty and improving living conditions, mostly driven by labour income, according to a World Bank report. "Between 2010-2016, about 8 million Bang...

Two BCL leaders held over BUET student murder

Two BCL leaders held over BUET student murder

FE Online Desk 2019-10-07 13:28:22

Police have detained two leaders of BCL's BUET chapter in connection with the murder of a student in the early hours of today (Monday). They are now being questioned, Lalbagh Police Station's officer...

PM is back home from India

PM is back home from India

-- 2019-10-07 12:50:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home tonight after wrapping up her four-day official tour to India. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and her entourage members lan...

Lightning strikes kill three in Madaripur

Lightning strikes kill three in Madaripur

-- 2019-10-07 11:18:37

Three people died after being struck by lightning at Kulpaddi village in Madaripur sadar upazila on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Billal Hossain 27, Sattar Akon, 30, and Hasina, 24. Quotin...

Dhaka gets a raw deal from Delhi: Analysts

Dhaka gets a raw deal from Delhi: Analysts

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-10-07 11:18:36

India has failed to reciprocate the generosity shown by Bangladesh, with the prime minister's visit to the neighbouring country yielding little in Dhaka's favour, foreign affairs analysts said on Sund...

Goods export earnings drop in July-Sept

Goods export earnings drop in July-Sept

FE Report 2019-10-07 10:57:17

The country's export earnings from goods during the first three months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, fell by nearly 3.0 per cent to $9.64 billion, compared to the same period of last fisca...

BUET student found dead in residence hall

BUET student found dead in residence hall

-- 2019-10-07 10:31:52

Police have recovered the body of a student from a dormitory of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Abrar Fahad, a second-year student of electrical and electronic engineering...

Train journey a chilling tale for two shaky bridges in Sirajganj

Train journey a chilling tale for two shaky bridges in Sirajganj

EMDADUL HAQUE 2019-10-07 00:00:00

SIRAJGANJ, Oct 06: Passengers inevitably have to undergo a frightful experience while making train journey along a particular stretch in Ullapara upazila of the district because of two bridges lying...

BNP losing its existence, says Obaidul Quader

BNP losing its existence, says Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-10-06 20:48:49

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP is gradually losing its popularity and existence as they always react negatively to any initiative taken by the government. The road t...

Rizvi demands cancellation of documents signed with India

Rizvi demands cancellation of documents signed with India

UNB 2019-10-06 20:46:14

Accusing the government of violating the constitution by signing ‘anti-state’ bilateral documents with India, BNP's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday demanded the...

Rajshahi jute growers happy with prices

Rajshahi jute growers happy with prices

-- 2019-10-06 19:57:04

Selling price of the newly harvested jute in the village-markets and other growth centres is now on the upward trend making the farmers happy everywhere in Rajshahi region. According to the sources c...

Samrat, Arman jailed for wildlife law violations, drunkenness

Samrat, Arman jailed for wildlife law violations, drunkenness

-- 2019-10-06 19:51:29

A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has sentenced two expelled Jubo League leaders --- Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat and Enamul Hoque Arman --- to six months in prison for wildlife la...

99pc people happy with prime minister: RI

99pc people happy with prime minister: RI

-- 2019-10-06 19:25:05

Around 99 per cent people of the country are satisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as her government is running the country for the third consecutive term, according to a surv...

Lightning kills six in two districts

Lightning kills six in two districts

-- 2019-10-06 19:12:44

Six people, including four of a family, were killed by lightning in Chandpur and Magura districts on Sunday. In Chandpur, four members of a family, including two children, were killed when a thunderb...

Jubo League expels Samrat, Arman

Jubo League expels Samrat, Arman

-- 2019-10-06 18:01:51

Jubo League expelled Dhaka South unit President Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat and Vice President Enamul Hoque Arman following their arrests in Cumilla over alleged links to the illegal casino busine...

Indian Congress leaders meet PM

Indian Congress leaders meet PM

UNB 2019-10-06 17:53:55

Leaders of Indian National Congress on Sunday met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi. Congress President Sonia Gandhi Sonia, former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia's daughter Pr...

UNICEF, EU launches peace-building project for youth in Cox’s Bazar

UNICEF, EU launches peace-building project for youth in Cox’s Bazar

FE Online Report 2019-10-06 17:39:46

UNICEF and the European Union (EU) launched a peace-building programme for 20,500 adolescents and youth from Bangladeshi and Rohingya communities aimed at strengthening social cohesion in Cox’s...

Sexual violence against children witness alarming rise

Sexual violence against children witness alarming rise

FE Online Report 2019-10-06 17:39:24

Sexual violence against children witnessed an alarming rise in the first nine months of current calendar year, according to a report by children rights body. The report, prepared by the Bangladesh Sh...

Ctg medical univ: Project proposal full of errors, sent back

Ctg medical univ: Project proposal full of errors, sent back

KAMRUN NAHAR 2019-10-06 15:40:13

A development project proposal on setting up Chattogram Medical University was rife with mistakes and inconsistencies. The minutes of a meeting of the Planning Commission held on September 2 suggest...

10 go missing as passenger boat sinks in Teesta River

10 go missing as passenger boat sinks in Teesta River

-- 2019-10-06 15:31:22

Ten people went missing when a passenger boat sank in the Teesta River in Burirhat area under Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila on Sunday noon. Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Rashedul Haque said the boat from...

RAB raids Samrat's office in Kakrail

RAB raids Samrat's office in Kakrail

-- 2019-10-06 15:07:33

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is conducting a raid on Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat's office in Dhaka's Kakrail. An executive magistrate of the elite police unit is leading the drive at Samrat's...

Court defers verdict in Risha murder case

Court defers verdict in Risha murder case

-- 2019-10-06 14:48:29

A Dhaka court has deferred the verdict in the murder case of Willes Little Flower School student Suraiya Akter Risha after police failed to produce the accused. Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge KM I...

Passenger boat sinks in Teesta River

Passenger boat sinks in Teesta River

-- 2019-10-06 14:03:04

A passenger boat believed to be carrying up to 40 passengers sank in the Teesta River in Burirhat area under Rajarhat upazila on Sunday morning. The boat, bound for Sitabkhan from Burirhat, sank arou...

RMG official dies in Savar road crash

RMG official dies in Savar road crash

-- 2019-10-06 13:20:45

An official of a readymade garment factory was killed after a covered van hit a private car on Baipail-Abdullahpur road in Moragang area of Ashulia on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Tajimul I...

RMG export to US grows 11.8pc in Jan-Aug period

RMG export to US grows 11.8pc in Jan-Aug period

FE REPORT 2019-10-06 11:14:56

The country's readymade garment (RMG) export to the US during first eight months of 2019 registered 11.81 per cent growth to $4.08 billion compared to that of 2018, according to official data. Bangla...

Jubo League leader Samrat arrested

Jubo League leader Samrat arrested

-- 2019-10-06 10:19:47

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat, who went into hiding amid allegations of running illegal casinos in the capital. He was apprehended along with...

No mention of Assam NRC in India-Bangladesh joint statement

No mention of Assam NRC in India-Bangladesh joint statement

-- 2019-10-05 21:18:55

The much-talked-about Assam’s citizenship exercise has not been mentioned in the 53-point joint statement issued after the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian c...

Hasina, Modi for expediting efforts for sustainable Rohingya repatriation

Hasina, Modi for expediting efforts for sustainable Rohingya repatriation

-- 2019-10-05 20:14:33

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Saturday agreed on the need to expedite “safe, speedy and sustainable” repatriation of Rohingyas. They agreed on t...

Shad Ershad wins by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency

Shad Ershad wins by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency

-- 2019-10-05 20:06:10

Jatiya Party candidate Rahgir Al Mahi Shad alias Shad Ershad, also a son of party's late chairman HM Ershad, has won the parliamentary by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency. Returning Officer Shahtab...

Biman to launch direct Dhaka-Manchester flight from January

Biman to launch direct Dhaka-Manchester flight from January

-- 2019-10-05 19:56:41

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines will launch direct flight on Dhaka-Manchester route by January next, considering huge demand of expatriate Bangladeshis living in northern part of England. The informati...