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Children in Dhaka join global climate strike

Children in Dhaka join global climate strike

FE Online Desk 2019-09-20 14:09:49

Thousands of children in Dhaka today (Friday) joined a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action to guard against climate change ahead a UN summit in New York. Gathering at the Manik Mia Ave...

Bangladeshi youth 'beaten dead by BSF'

Bangladeshi youth 'beaten dead by BSF'

-- 2019-09-20 13:27:41

A Bangladeshi youth was beaten to death allegedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Khathaldangi border in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon district early Friday. The deceased has b...

Four bodies found floating in Baral River in Rajshahi

Four bodies found floating in Baral River in Rajshahi

-- 2019-09-20 13:16:39

Four bodies were found floating in the Baral River in Sluice Gate area in Charghat upazila of Rajshahi district on Friday. Samit Kumar Kundu, officer-in-charge of Charghat Police Station, said local...

NGO worker hacked to death

NGO worker hacked to death

-- 2019-09-20 11:49:31

An NGO worker was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants at Haldiapalong union in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Mazharul Islam of P...

Bholaganj 24th land port

Bholaganj 24th land port

FE Report 2019-09-20 11:38:52

The government has declared Bholaganj as the country's 24th land port to facilitate import and export activities, officials said. With this end in view, the Ministry of Shipping (MoS) has issued a ga...

First coal cargo reaches Payra

First coal cargo reaches Payra

FE Report 2019-09-20 11:04:45

The first cargo of coal to be used for generating electricity at the 1,320-megawatt Payra coal-fired thermal power plant reached newly built Payra jetty on Thursday afternoon. Chinese vessel Xin Hai...

Casual approach to an unusual project triggers trouble

Casual approach to an unusual project triggers trouble

Munima Sultana 2019-09-20 10:53:29

The beautification of both sides of the city's airport road has remained almost stalled for the past few months because of 'procedural complexities'. All the parties, both private and public, involve...

Jubo League leader Khaled remanded for seven days

Jubo League leader Khaled remanded for seven days

-- 2019-09-19 21:47:19

Police have been granted seven days to grill Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan in connection with two cases relating to arms and drugs, reports bdnews24.com. Gulshan Police sought seven days'...

Rangpur Tajhat Palace-an epitome of historic magnificence

Rangpur Tajhat Palace-an epitome of historic magnificence

Sayed Mofidul Babu 2019-09-19 21:43:17

RANGPUR, Sept 19: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever", a famous quote of English romantic poet John Keats, is pretty well pertinent to Tajhat Palace in Rangpur as the historic site still leaves the v...

No progress in Kulaura-Shahbajpur  railway track rehabilitation work

No progress in Kulaura-Shahbajpur railway track rehabilitation work

Our Correspondent 2019-09-19 21:42:20

SYLHET, Sept 19: There has been no major progress in the much-talked-about rehabilitation of Kulaura-Shahbajpur railway track in Moulvibazar district. Sources said, rail tracks had been brought to th...

Govt working on Sustainable Dev Cooperation Framework

Govt working on Sustainable Dev Cooperation Framework

FE Report 2019-09-19 19:08:16

The government is formulating the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework aligned with the 8th Five Year Plan. Foreign Minister Dr AK Momen said this while addressing a conference on 'SDGs a...

491 dengue patients admitted in last 24hrs

491 dengue patients admitted in last 24hrs

FE Online Report 2019-09-19 18:51:48

As many as 491 dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Thursday, according to government sources.   Among them, 159 were admitted in Dhaka and 332 were admit...

Cases filed against Jubo League leader over Casino

Cases filed against Jubo League leader over Casino

-- 2019-09-19 18:41:21

The Rapid Action Battalion has filed three cases against Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan on charges of running a casino at the Young Men’s Club in Dhaka’s Fakirapool, reports bdne...

DMP realises Tk 3.0m as fines from traffic offenders

DMP realises Tk 3.0m as fines from traffic offenders

FE Online Report 2019-09-19 18:30:33

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) realised Tk 3.0 million as fines from different people for violating traffic rules on Wednesday. Besides, a total of 6,804 cases were also file...

DMP arrests 72 in anti-narcotics drive

DMP arrests 72 in anti-narcotics drive

FE Online Report 2019-09-19 17:54:47

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 72 people in the city in a regular anti-narcotics drive for selling and consuming illegal drugs. Different police stations under DMP conducted the drive...

Crackdown on illegal clubs, businesses to continue

Crackdown on illegal clubs, businesses to continue

-- 2019-09-19 17:37:16

The crackdown on unauthorised casinos in the city will continue. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said this while talking to reporters at the Bangladesh Secretariat in the afternoon. "We d...

Woman, two daughters found dead in Narayanganj

Woman, two daughters found dead in Narayanganj

-- 2019-09-19 16:17:52

Police have found a housewife and her two daughters dead with throats slit in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj. The incident took place around 10am on Thursday in the Upazila’s CI Khola neighbou...

Maldives bans hiring unskilled Bangladeshi labour for one year

Maldives bans hiring unskilled Bangladeshi labour for one year

FE Online Desk 2019-09-19 14:46:28

The Maldives government has banned recruiting unskilled Bangladeshi labourers for a period of one year, starting from September 18, in a bid to solve a longstanding problem of undocumented migrant wor...

US support in tackling money laundering to continue: Miller

US support in tackling money laundering to continue: Miller

-- 2019-09-19 14:10:33

US Ambassador Earl Miller on Thursday said his country is committed to supporting Bangladesh in its efforts to tackle money laundering, terrorism financing, and strengthening the rule of law. “...

Chhatra Dal gets new leadership

Chhatra Dal gets new leadership

-- 2019-09-19 13:54:41

Fazlur Rahman Khokon has been elected president and Iqbal Hossain Shyamol general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of BNP. BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas announced t...

Munshiganj road crash kills two

Munshiganj road crash kills two

-- 2019-09-19 13:47:05

Two motorcyclists were killed in an accident on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Zakir Hossain, 24, son of Mostafa; and Mohammad Miraz, 18, son of Man...

Woman, two daughters hacked to death in Narayanganj

Woman, two daughters hacked to death in Narayanganj

-- 2019-09-19 13:40:01

A woman and her two daughters were hacked to death by miscreants at Siaikhoa in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Nasrin, 28, wife of Sumon Mia;...

Two Rohingyas among three ‘criminals’ die in ‘gunfight’

Two Rohingyas among three ‘criminals’ die in ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-09-19 12:29:20

Three suspected criminals, including two Rohingyas, were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Baharchhara in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Thursday. The deceased were identi...

Biman flight makes emergency landing at Dhaka airport

Biman flight makes emergency landing at Dhaka airport

FE Online Desk 2019-09-19 12:08:03

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight with 143 passengers aboard this morning (Thursday) made an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The Sing...

25,000 Bangladeshi workers deported in 9 months

25,000 Bangladeshi workers deported in 9 months

Arafat Ara 2019-09-19 10:54:29

About 25,000 Bangladeshi workers were deported from different countries, about 50 per cent from Saudi Arabia, in almost nine months period of this year due to various factors like overstaying and lack...

City buses to come under counter-based ticketing system

City buses to come under counter-based ticketing system

FE Report 2019-09-19 10:39:51

Public buses running in the capital would gradually be brought under counter-based ticketing system to stop operating such transport on contract basis, transport owners decided on Wednesday. The...

Dhaka wins court battle on Noor Chowdhury

Dhaka wins court battle on Noor Chowdhury

-- 2019-09-19 10:24:19

Bangladesh has won a round in its court battle with Canada about a man convicted of taking part in the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. In a ruling released on Wednesday, the Fed...

Eviction drive at Shahjahanpur railway colony continues

Eviction drive at Shahjahanpur railway colony continues

-- 2019-09-18 21:11:02

The eviction drive for the second day in the city’s Shahjahanpur railway colony began Wednesday in order to remove illegal occupation. The Bangladesh Railway (BR) officials started the eviction...

RAB detains Jubo League leader Khalid for running illegal casino

RAB detains Jubo League leader Khalid for running illegal casino

-- 2019-09-18 20:23:05

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have detained a city Jubo League leader from Gulshan area for reportedly running an illegal casino. The arrestee is Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan, organising secretary of...

EC employee, two others remanded over NID forgery

EC employee, two others remanded over NID forgery

-- 2019-09-18 18:52:25

A Chattogram court on Wednesday placed three people, including an Election Commission (EC) employee, on remand of different terms for allegedly helping Rohingyas get national identity (NID) cards of B...