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Political violence killed 32 in Jan-Aug: ASK

Political violence killed 32 in Jan-Aug: ASK

 FE Online Report 2019-09-21 17:32:15

Some 32 people were killed and 1,709 injured in 144 incidents of political violence in the first eight months of current calendar year, according to a local independent rights body. Out of the incide...

RAB files three cases against GK Shamim

RAB files three cases against GK Shamim

-- 2019-09-21 17:12:54

The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has started three cases against SM Golam Kibria Shamim, who has made a fortune as a contractor and identifies himself as a Jubo League leader, following his arrest in...

Marriage registrar held in Lalmonirhat 

Marriage registrar held in Lalmonirhat 

-- 2019-09-21 17:09:38

Police arrested a marriage registrar for allegedly conducting  the marriage of a rape victim with the rapist from Buzir Bazar area under sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat on Friday night. The arreste...

Life of Biharis in Mirpur

Life of Biharis in Mirpur

-- 2019-09-21 17:08:41

A single room with damp and cracked walls for a family of six to ten; inadequate water supply; unhygienic sanitation and cramped passageways -- this scenario is replicated in every other ‘camp&r...

BSMRSTU students defy order to vacate halls

BSMRSTU students defy order to vacate halls

-- 2019-09-21 14:31:35

Students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj continued demonstration on Saturday, defying an order to vacate the residential halls. A notice...

Sonagazi ASI closed over rape allegations

Sonagazi ASI closed over rape allegations

-- 2019-09-21 14:19:25

A policeman has been withdrawn from duty after allegations tying him to the rape of a widow emerged in Sonagazi upazila of Feni district. Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sujon Kumar Das was closed to t...

Woman dies of dengue in Mymensingh

Woman dies of dengue in Mymensingh

-- 2019-09-21 14:10:08

A woman diagnosed with the mosquito-borne dengue virus has died in Mymensingh. Fatema Akhter, 65, passed away during treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) early on Saturday morning,...

Two cases filed against Kalabagan Krira Chakra president

Two cases filed against Kalabagan Krira Chakra president

-- 2019-09-21 14:05:13

Two cases under narcotics control and arms acts were filed against Kalabagan Krira Chakra President Safiqul Alam Firoz and four of his office staff on Saturday. Md Abdul Latif, officer-in-charge of D...

408 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

408 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

-- 2019-09-21 13:57:28

A total of 408 new dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country in 24 hours till Saturday morning. Of them, 135 were hospitalised in Dhaka and 273 in other parts of the country, acc...

JICA pledges to continue support for Bangladesh

JICA pledges to continue support for Bangladesh

-- 2019-09-21 12:27:37

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will continue its support towards infrastructure and social development sectors in Bangladesh, says Director of JICA South Asia Division Takahashi Aki...

Two Kushtia Jubo League leaders held for extortion

Two Kushtia Jubo League leaders held for extortion

-- 2019-09-21 11:45:54

Police arrested two leaders of Jubo League’s Kushtia Sadar upazila unit in an extortion case on Friday night. The men were identified as Jubo League General Secretary Mijanur Rahman Miju, 36,...

Robber dies in ‘infighting’ in Laxmipur

Robber dies in ‘infighting’ in Laxmipur

-- 2019-09-21 11:09:38

A suspected robber was killed in an alleged infighting between two gangs at Shakchar in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on early Saturday. The identity of the deceased could not be known yet, reports UNB. AK...

Police arrest club owner, son in Ctg

Police arrest club owner, son in Ctg

-- 2019-09-21 10:50:48

Police arrested the owner of a club, suspected of running illegal gambling operations, and his son from Kazir Deuri area of Chattogram city on Friday night for interrogation. The man was identified a...

Four die as bus crashes into truck in Gopalganj

Four die as bus crashes into truck in Gopalganj

-- 2019-09-21 10:28:09

A bus has slammed into a parked truck in Gopalganj, killing four passengers, including a policeman. The crash on the Dhaka-Khulna highway early Saturday left another 15 people injured, police said....

Jute exporters at EPZs seek cash incentive

Jute exporters at EPZs seek cash incentive

FE Report 2019-09-21 10:19:41

The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) seeks to incentivise jute goods exporters operating at export processing zones (EPZs) to encourage export trade, officials said. To ensure...

Shipping corp to buy six more Chinese vessels

Shipping corp to buy six more Chinese vessels

Talha Bin Habib 2019-09-21 10:13:52

The government is set to buy six more ocean-going ships from China to expand the fleet of state-run Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, officials said. The purchase is intended to meet the growing deman...

Onion market: Unholy alliance still at play

Onion market: Unholy alliance still at play

Yasir Wardad 2019-09-21 10:02:06

Despite increased onion output locally, importers and allied traders are swallowing all benefits depriving consumers and farmers alike, said market observers. Domestic yield has registered a 40-per...

RAB detains Kalabagan Krira Chakra president over casino links

RAB detains Kalabagan Krira Chakra president over casino links

-- 2019-09-20 21:34:31

Kalabagan Krira Chakra President Safiqul Alam Firoz was arrested from the city’s Kalabagan area on Friday afternoon. Aziz Uddin, general member of the club, said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) de...

PM reaches Abu Dhabi on way to NY for UNGA

PM reaches Abu Dhabi on way to NY for UNGA

-- 2019-09-20 20:59:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday reached Abu Dhabi on her way to New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines that departed Hazrat Shahjalal In...

Youth march Dhaka streets demanding measures against climate change

Youth march Dhaka streets demanding measures against climate change

FE Online Report 2019-09-20 20:22:07

Hundreds of students marched Dhaka streets on Friday with demand of taking effective measures to check global climate change and its impacts on world. Marking the global climate week, students of dif...

Bangladesh made “substantial progress” in cutting child, maternal mortality

Bangladesh made “substantial progress” in cutting child, maternal mortality

-- 2019-09-20 20:10:09

Bangladesh is among the countries that showed “substantial progress” in reducing child or maternal mortality, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Besides Bangladesh, Belarus...

'76 journalists face harassment in eight months'

'76 journalists face harassment in eight months'

-- 2019-09-20 19:30:42

At least 76 journalists were harassed across country in the first eight months this year, according to a report by an independent legal aid and rights body. Among them, eleven journalists received de...

RAB preparing to raid Kalabagan Krira Chakra

RAB preparing to raid Kalabagan Krira Chakra

-- 2019-09-20 19:24:47

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is preparing for a raid on Kalabagan Krira Chakra club at Dhanmondi in Dhaka after finding illegal casinos at two other clubs. A RAB team took position next to the cl...

RAB detains Jubo League leader Shamim

RAB detains Jubo League leader Shamim

-- 2019-09-20 18:04:48

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Jubo League leader Golam Kibriya Shamim alias GK Shamim with illegal firearms and a huge amount of money in the city’s Niketan area. Seven...

Jubo League expels Khaled over casino links

Jubo League expels Khaled over casino links

-- 2019-09-20 17:44:17

Jubo League, the youth front of the ruling Awami League (AL), has expelled its leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, two days after his arrest over illegal casino business inside a club in Dhaka. "The centra...

PM flies to NY to attend UNGA

PM flies to NY to attend UNGA

-- 2019-09-20 17:24:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left for New York on Friday to attend the 74th UN General Assembly where she may place new proposals to find a solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as it is affectin...

Drive against graft to be continued everywhere: Quader

Drive against graft to be continued everywhere: Quader

-- 2019-09-20 15:37:34

Awami League General Secretary Obidul Quader has said the drive against corruption and irregularities will be conducted across the country. “Everywhere in the country where there’re irreg...

508 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

508 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2019-09-20 15:31:41

A total of 508 new dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Friday morning. Of the new patients, 165 were hospitalised in Dhaka while 343 in other parts of the country, a...

RAB raids Jubo League leader GK Shamim’s business

RAB raids Jubo League leader GK Shamim’s business

-- 2019-09-20 15:27:08

The Rapid Action Battalion has raided a business owned by Jubo League leader Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim, two days after the arrest of Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, another leader of the organisation...

Rising sea levels to displace a third of Bangladeshis: IMF

Rising sea levels to displace a third of Bangladeshis: IMF

-- 2019-09-20 14:28:58

International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Bangladesh is considered especially vulnerable to climate change with one-third of its population at risk of displacement because of rising sea levels. Acco...