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Illegal Casinos: BB seeks Jubo League chief’s bank statements

Illegal Casinos: BB seeks Jubo League chief’s bank statements

-- 2019-10-03 22:29:47

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the banks to provide information on Jubo League Chairman Omar Faruk Chowdhury’s accounts as several leaders of the organisations have been named in the investigati...

Govt to release probe report on two foreign vessels

Govt to release probe report on two foreign vessels

FE Online Report 2019-10-03 19:33:58

The government will soon release the report of a probe body on two foreign fishing vessels, said State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Md Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru to Thursday. The two vessels &nda...

BJKS demands withdrawal of increased toll

BJKS demands withdrawal of increased toll

-- 2019-10-03 19:23:19

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity on Thursday demanded withdrawal of recently increased toll and tax on the country’s water routes. The consumers’ rights body in a media statement protested...

One dead, several injured in Rangpur train accident

One dead, several injured in Rangpur train accident

-- 2019-10-03 18:30:16

At least one person has died in an accident during a change of a train’s engine in Rangpur’s Kaunia Railway Juncture. Several others were injured in the incident which occurred around 4:0...

Invest in non-conventional areas: PM to global investors

Invest in non-conventional areas: PM to global investors

UNB 2019-10-03 18:28:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged global investors, particularly the Indian entrepreneurs, to invest in non-conventional potential areas. “It’s time for global investors, par...

New HuJi leader arrested

New HuJi leader arrested

-- 2019-10-03 16:54:14

Police have arrested the ‘top leader’ of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh or HuJi-B along with two others in the capital. Md Atiqullah alias Zulfikar, 49, w...

361 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

361 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2019-10-03 15:08:37

A total of 361 people were hospitalised across the country with dengue in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Thursday. Of them, 100 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and 261 in other parts of the cou...

18 chars flooded in Natore as Padma continues to rise

18 chars flooded in Natore as Padma continues to rise

-- 2019-10-03 15:00:11

Eighteen chars in three unions of Lalpur upazila of Natore were submerged as Padma River continued to swell, causing immense sufferings to the residents of the areas. Farmers in the affected areas ar...

‘Robber’ dies in Mymensingh gunfight

‘Robber’ dies in Mymensingh gunfight

-- 2019-10-03 14:12:31

A man with alleged links to a series of crimes has been killed in a so-called shootout with police in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district. Saddam Hossain, 28, described as a bandit by law enforcem...

RAB officer dies in city road crash

RAB officer dies in city road crash

-- 2019-10-03 14:08:00

A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), officer has died in Kakrail intersection in Dhaka after a truck ploughed into his motorcycle from behind. The accident occurred at 11:30 pm on Wednesday, said Ramna Po...

No one’s mercy is needed to have Khaleda freed: BNP

No one’s mercy is needed to have Khaleda freed: BNP

-- 2019-10-03 13:53:30

A day after a call by the party MPs to the Prime Minister for taking steps for releasing their chairperson on bail, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said Khaleda Zia will...

Four-day remand for Salim Prodhan

Four-day remand for Salim Prodhan

-- 2019-10-03 13:47:18

A Dhaka court has put Salim Prodhan and two others on four-day remand in a drug-related case. The other two are – Roman and Akteruzzaman, reports UNB. Investigation officer Inspector Aminul Is...

Saima Wazed among 100 innovative women leaders

Saima Wazed among 100 innovative women leaders

-- 2019-10-03 13:24:10

Saima Wazed Hossain has been named among the 100 ‘Innovative Women Leaders in Global Mental Health’ by ‘Five on Friday’ publication blog of Columbia University’s Global M...

Red carpet rolled out as PM reaches New Delhi

Red carpet rolled out as PM reaches New Delhi

-- 2019-10-03 12:41:22

A red carpet was rolled out as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in New Delhi on Thursday morning on a four-day official visit to attend the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF)....

Fire guts eight Jhut warehouses in Gazipur

Fire guts eight Jhut warehouses in Gazipur

-- 2019-10-03 12:02:37

Eight warehouses of jhut (waste fabric from woven and knit garments) were gutted in a fire at Ambag in Konabari area of Gazipur district on early Thursday. Mirajul Islam, an official of local Fire Se...

Ban import, release of casino products immediately

Ban import, release of casino products immediately

FE Report 2019-10-03 10:30:00

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Wednesday requested the commerce ministry to impose an immediate ban on the import and release of casino and other gambling products. It also urged the minist...

Dhaka ranks worst in Air Quality Index Thursday

Dhaka ranks worst in Air Quality Index Thursday

-- 2019-10-03 10:21:23

Bangladesh’s capital was ranked worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday morning. Dhaka had a score of 245 at 8:25am, indicating that the air quality was ‘very unhealthy’....

PM flies to New Delhi

PM flies to New Delhi

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

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for New Delhi on Thursday on a four-day official visit. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage departed from...

Imran Khan phones Sheikh Hasina

Imran Khan phones Sheikh Hasina

UNB 2019-10-02 19:01:41

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan made a phone call to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday afternoon. PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said, Imran Khan made the phone call to S...

Bangladesh to raise issues of Teesta, NRC, border killings

Bangladesh to raise issues of Teesta, NRC, border killings

-- 2019-10-02 18:31:30

Bangladesh will raise the issues of Teesta river water-sharing, Assam’s citizenship exercise and border killings along with other ones during a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh H...

RAB chief for bringing imams on govt payroll

RAB chief for bringing imams on govt payroll

-- 2019-10-02 16:38:03

The chief of the Rapid Action Battalion suggests the government should bring all imams and muezzins of mosques on its payroll to make the fight against terrorism “easy”. The anti-terroris...

Anti-graft drive to end disparity: PM

Anti-graft drive to end disparity: PM

-- 2019-10-02 16:31:24

Prime Mnister Sheikh Hasina has said she flagged off the government's ongoing crackdown on corruption and irregularities in order to eliminate social inequality, reports bdnews24.com. Explaining her...

45 Rohingyas arrested in Chattogram

45 Rohingyas arrested in Chattogram

-- 2019-10-02 14:08:06

A good number of Rohingyas, who had escaped from the camp in Cox’s Bazar, were arrested from a house at Keshabpur Molla area in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram around Tuesday midnight. Police r...

JU protesters on strike demanding VC’s resignation

JU protesters on strike demanding VC’s resignation

-- 2019-10-02 13:31:11

A faction of students and teachers of Jahangirnagar University went on strike from Wednesday demanding the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Farzana Islam. The protesters, united under the banne...

Myanmar to issue NIDs to Rohingyas after verification

Myanmar to issue NIDs to Rohingyas after verification

-- 2019-10-02 13:07:03

Myanmar has agreed to issue national identity cards (NIDs) to all Rohingyas after verifying their credentials, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said, hailing it as an “achievement” of B...

PM opens TV channels’ commercial transmission using BS-1

PM opens TV channels’ commercial transmission using BS-1

-- 2019-10-02 12:48:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the commercial transmission of all local private television channels using the feed of country’s first communication satellite Bangabandhu-I (BS-I)....

Police seize Tk 12.5m in cash stashed in trunk; three held

Police seize Tk 12.5m in cash stashed in trunk; three held

-- 2019-10-02 12:21:37

Police have recovered Tk 12.5 million and 2,000 Yaba tablets from a house in Narayanganj’s Rupganj Upazila during a raid and arrested three people in connection with the incident. The drive was...

Farmer dies from dengue in Magura

Farmer dies from dengue in Magura

-- 2019-10-02 12:09:10

A farmer died of dengue at Magura sadar upazila on Tuesday night while being taken to Faridpur Medical College Hospital. The deceased was identified as Nazmul Hossain, 30, son of Abdur Rashid of Baru...

Water level rises in Padma; 10,000 people stranded

Water level rises in Padma; 10,000 people stranded

-- 2019-10-02 11:31:24

At least 10,000 people were stranded in parts of the Sadar and Shibganj upazilas of Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday as the water level of Padma and Mahananda rivers increased further. Locals sa...

Youth dies of ‘drug overdose’ in Kurigram

Youth dies of ‘drug overdose’ in Kurigram

-- 2019-10-02 11:22:11

A young man died of suspected drug overdose in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Faruk Mia, 25, son of Abdul Karim of Mogolhat in Lalmonirhat dist...