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Nischa launches road safety prog

Nischa launches road safety prog

-- 2019-10-02 11:01:14

Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa) HAS launched a-month-long programme demanding safer roads. Ilias Kanchan, founder and chairman of Nischa, inaugurated the programme at a press conference at the Jatiya Pre...

More areas go under water in  C’nawabganj, Kushtia, Rajbari

More areas go under water in C’nawabganj, Kushtia, Rajbari

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2019-10-01 20:30:50

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 01: Thousands of flood affected people in Chapainawabganj and Kushtia districts have been suffering for pure drinking water. Due to the increase in water, around 5,000 people h...

'Khaleda will go abroad for treatment if she gets bail'

'Khaleda will go abroad for treatment if she gets bail'

-- 2019-10-01 20:27:23

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is 'willing to travel abroad to receive advanced medical treatment if she gets bail'. BNP's Joint Secretary General Md Harunur Rashid, also a lawmaker, gave the informatio...

Preparations for Durga Puja at final stage

Preparations for Durga Puja at final stage

BSS 2019-10-01 19:42:08

Preparations for Durga Puja are at the final stage as the celebration of the biggest religious festival of Hindu community will begin on October 4. Ahead of the festival, preparations in all puja pan...

PKSF launches new project to pull 1.0m people out of extreme poverty

PKSF launches new project to pull 1.0m people out of extreme poverty

FE Online Report 2019-10-01 18:40:39

The Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) is set to implement a new project targeting some of the extreme poor of the country. The project will be implemented through 20 partner organisations for the...

DNCC evicts 4,000 illegal establishments

DNCC evicts 4,000 illegal establishments

FE Online Report 2019-10-01 18:39:19

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) evicted some 4,000 illegal establishments in the city, fined Tk 1.27 million and jailed three persons since September 22 to October 1. On Tuesday, a mobile court o...

Over 1,100 women raped in Jan-Aug 2019

Over 1,100 women raped in Jan-Aug 2019

FE Online Report 2019-10-01 18:32:51

At least 1,115 women were victims of rape in the first nine months of the current calendar year across the country, according to report of an independent rights and legal aid body. Of them, 57 were m...

Eight OCs transferred amid anti-gambling crackdown

Eight OCs transferred amid anti-gambling crackdown

-- 2019-10-01 18:00:17

The police administration has transferred officers-in-charge of eight police stations in Dhaka amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal gambling facilities, reports bdnews24.com. The chief of Motijheel P...

Wrongdoers under surveillance: Quader

Wrongdoers under surveillance: Quader

-- 2019-10-01 17:55:16

Mentioning that the ongoing anticrime drive will also be conducted across the country, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said many of those involved in various misdeeds are...

Heavy rain, not Farakka, causing floods: Official

Heavy rain, not Farakka, causing floods: Official

-- 2019-10-01 17:34:03

Heavy rain and not Farakka barrage is causing the overflow of rivers resulting in floods in the northwestern part of Bangladesh, according to the Water Development Board. “The Indian part of Fa...

Hasina-Modi talks: Rohingya, Teesta issues to get priority

Hasina-Modi talks: Rohingya, Teesta issues to get priority

BSS 2019-10-01 17:13:21

Bangladesh and India are expected to review the Rohingya and Teesta issues during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming India visit, officials familiar with the visit process said on Tuesday....

City roads go under rainwater, commuters suffer

City roads go under rainwater, commuters suffer

UNB 2019-10-01 16:35:29

City dwellers witnessed heavy rains for about two hours on Tuesday that inundated roads and lanes in many parts of the capital triggered huge traffic tailbacks. Some 45.2 millimetres of rainfall were...

Australia to work with BD on all fronts: Julia Niblett

Australia to work with BD on all fronts: Julia Niblett

-- 2019-10-01 15:05:13

Australia will continue to "energetically work" with Bangladesh bilaterally, regionally and internationally, said Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Julia Niblett. “There is huge potent...

RAB arrests three with five geckos

RAB arrests three with five geckos

-- 2019-10-01 14:21:35

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have arrested three people along with five geckos from Barduaripara area in Sherpur upazila of Bogura district. The arrestees were identified as Md Shamsuzzoha Bi...

Two ‘drug traders’ die in Teknaf ‘gunfight’

Two ‘drug traders’ die in Teknaf ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-10-01 14:15:42

Two alleged drug traders were killed in a reported gunfight with police at hilly Shilkhali Sapmara in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Mohammad...

Two minor girls found dead in Joypurhat pond

Two minor girls found dead in Joypurhat pond

-- 2019-10-01 13:40:38

Two minor girls, who went missing on Monday evening, were found dead in a pond of Purbo Uchna village in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Mariam Akh...

Padma continues to swell as India opens all Farakka gates

Padma continues to swell as India opens all Farakka gates

-- 2019-10-01 13:05:46

The Padma River continued to swell in Natore after India opened all the 119 gates of Farakka barrage to ensure speedy discharge of the Ganges water following flood in Patna and 12 other districts, inu...

Fire hits Saudi Airline office at Sonargaon Hotel

Fire hits Saudi Airline office at Sonargaon Hotel

-- 2019-10-01 11:46:11

A fire broke out in Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday. The flame burned down Saudi Arabian Airlines’ office, but no casualties were reported. The blaze originated from the ground...

PM returns home from New York

PM returns home from New York

-- 2019-10-01 10:14:55

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina today (Tuesday) returned home from New York wrapping up her eight-day visit to the USA when she joined the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A V...

SCC dwellers suffering  from acute water crisis

SCC dwellers suffering from acute water crisis

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2019-09-30 21:45:31

SYLHET, Sept 30: Dwellers in the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) area have been suffering much due to inadequate supply of pure drinking water as the authority concerned supply 45 million litres against...

Crops on 10,570 hectares under water as rivers swell in C'nawabganj, Natore

Crops on 10,570 hectares under water as rivers swell in C'nawabganj, Natore

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2019-09-30 21:44:27

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Sept 30: With the water levels of the rivers Padma, Mahananda, Pagla and Punarbhaba rising in Chapainawabganj and Natore districts, over 10,570 hectares of cropland have gone under wa...

Marooned people of Bagha yet to get relief

Marooned people of Bagha yet to get relief

Our Correspondent 2019-09-30 21:43:22

RAJSHAHI, Sept 30: Nearly 1,800 families of 15 char villages under Bagha upazila remained marooned for the last one week. Till Saturday afternoon, no relief materials have been distributed among the s...

Road repairing work in Netrakona progressing  at a snail’s pace

Road repairing work in Netrakona progressing at a snail’s pace

A Correspondent 2019-09-30 21:42:23

NETRAKONA, Sept 30: The slow progress in the repair work of Mymensingh Road's Netrakona section has increased sufferings of the locals. A good number of locals said they are dissatisfied over the del...

Numerous illegal establishment ousted in DNCC drive

Numerous illegal establishment ousted in DNCC drive

FE Online Report 2019-09-30 20:18:53

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) continued its eviction drive against illegal establishments in the city on Monday. Officials of the DNCC conducted drives at the city’s Karwan Bazar, Far...

Gopalganj university VC resigns

Gopalganj university VC resigns

UNB 2019-09-30 18:28:08

Vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) Prof Khondoker Nasiruddin has finally resigned from his post. He submitted his resignation to the Mini...

PM leaves NY for Dhaka

PM leaves NY for Dhaka

-- 2019-09-30 18:23:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left New York for Dhaka, ending her-eight day official visit to the Unites States. A flight of the Etihad Airways carrying the prime minister and her entourage left J...

Nusrat murder verdict on October 24

Nusrat murder verdict on October 24

-- 2019-09-30 16:26:54

A tribunal will deliver its verdict in a case filed over the much-talked-about murder of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on October 24. Feni's Women and Children’s Repression Prevention...

Govt to set up 45 terminal pontoons by Dec 2020

Govt to set up 45 terminal pontoons by Dec 2020

FE REPORT 2019-09-30 16:10:08

The government will spend Tk 980 million for building 45 terminal pontoons to facilitate the passengers at different river ports in the country, officials said. Under the move, the Bangladesh Inland...

Myanmar should comply with Rohingya deals: PM

Myanmar should comply with Rohingya deals: PM

BSS 2019-09-30 14:37:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon Myanmar to take action to ensure the Rohingyas’ safety and security and live-up to previous agreements made with Bangladesh over the return of the refuge...

RAB arrests two with 50 wild birds in Jashore

RAB arrests two with 50 wild birds in Jashore

-- 2019-09-30 13:44:15

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested two people from a bus along with 50 wild birds at Kotwali Police Station area in Jashore district on Sunday night. The arrestees are Ariful Islam, 25, so...