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Foreign engineer electrocuted at DPDC power station

Foreign engineer electrocuted at DPDC power station

-- 2019-09-17 12:52:18

An Indonesian engineer was electrocuted while working at a power station of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) on the Dhaka University campus on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified...

Three die in Gazipur, Panchagarh road crashes

Three die in Gazipur, Panchagarh road crashes

-- 2019-09-17 12:32:24

Two motorcyclists and an NGO worker have been killed in road accidents in Gazipur and Panchagarh districts. In Gazipur, a bus crashed into a motorcycle in Sreepur upazila on Monday night, killing its...

Train derails in Mymensingh

Train derails in Mymensingh

-- 2019-09-17 12:28:40

Train communications of Mymensingh with other parts of the country remained suspended since Tuesday morning following the derailment of a train in Sadar upazila. A bogie of Dewanganj-bound Teesta Exp...

Rohingya in Bangladesh: Welcome turns to fear

Rohingya in Bangladesh: Welcome turns to fear

Reuters 2019-09-17 12:13:05

When more than 730,000 Rohingya fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017, Bangladeshi journalist Sharif Azad was sympathetic to the plight of his fellow Muslims, survivors of a military-led crackdown...

Quader asks BRTC to probe import of faulty Indian buses

Quader asks BRTC to probe import of faulty Indian buses

FE Report 2019-09-17 11:00:43

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday directed the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) to investigate the import of substandard buses from India and take...

Credit flow to new SMEs dries up

Credit flow to new SMEs dries up

Siddique Islam 2019-09-17 10:52:34

Credit flowing to new small entrepreneurs fell significantly in the first-half of the year as risk-averse bankers were unwilling to offer such loans. The total lending to the fresh small and medium...

New video of Minny and Refat goes viral on social media

New video of Minny and Refat goes viral on social media

-- 2019-09-17 10:44:30

A video of Aysha Siddika Minny taking her blood-soaked husband Refat Shorif to a hospital on a rickshaw has surfaced on social media, months after footage of the grisly attack on the youth in Barguna...

Election official among three arrested over Rohingya NIDs

Election official among three arrested over Rohingya NIDs

-- 2019-09-17 10:20:12

Three people, including a staff of the Chattogram election office, were held in the port city on Monday night for allegedly helping Rohingyas in acquiring National Identity Cards (NIDs) of Bangladesh....

Bangladesh, Sweden discuss ‘broader relationship’

Bangladesh, Sweden discuss ‘broader relationship’

-- 2019-09-16 21:43:36

Bangladesh and Sweden have agreed to work together to upgrade their cooperation to a ‘broader relationship’, the foreign ministry said. Ways and means to that effect was “extensivel...

UN urges govt to investigate alleged killing of Rohingyas at camps

UN urges govt to investigate alleged killing of Rohingyas at camps

FE Online Report 2019-09-16 21:31:26

UN human rights experts on Monday urged the government to look into the alleged killing of Rohingya refugees at their camps in Cox’s Bazar. The experts also expressed their deep concerns over...

Commerce ministry gets new secretary

Commerce ministry gets new secretary

-- 2019-09-16 21:21:13

The government has appointed Dr Jafar Uddin as the secretary of commerce ministry. Jafar, who was serving as the youth and sports secretary before new appointment, will replace Md Mofizul Islam, said...

DNCC’s second phase of combing operation continues

DNCC’s second phase of combing operation continues

FE Online Report 2019-09-16 21:06:05

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) identified Aedes mosquito larvae in 26 more houses and establishments as it continued the final phase of its combing operation for the second consecutive day on...

PM receives Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award

PM receives Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award

-- 2019-09-16 20:44:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award-2019, introduced in the memory of eminent scientist and former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Chief...

Open market sales of onions to begin Tuesday

Open market sales of onions to begin Tuesday

-- 2019-09-16 19:50:24

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start open market sales of onions in a subsidised price from Tuesday in the capital for enabling the consumers to heave a sigh of relief in the wake of...

Pressurise Myanmar to take back Rohingyas: FM to UK MPs

Pressurise Myanmar to take back Rohingyas: FM to UK MPs

FE Online Report 2019-09-16 19:01:50

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday urged the United Kingdom (UK) to continue supporting Bangladesh in international forum especially in the United Nations (UN) for creating pressure on Myanm...

132 women killed by their husbands in Jan-Aug

132 women killed by their husbands in Jan-Aug

FE Online Report 2019-09-16 18:56:42

As many as 132 women were killed by their husbands in the first eight months of the current calendar year, according to a local independent rights and legal aid body. The Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) re...

AL candidate withdraws nomination to support Jatiya Party

AL candidate withdraws nomination to support Jatiya Party

-- 2019-09-16 17:42:12

Awami League candidate Rezaul Karim Razu has withdrawn his candidature from the by-polls to the Rangpur-3 seat, which fell vacant after the death of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad. Razu, general sec...

Two bullet-hit bodies recovered in Cox’s Bazar

Two bullet-hit bodies recovered in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2019-09-16 17:13:27

Police recovered the bullet-hit bodies of two youths from Kata Pahar and Kabita Chattar areas in in Cox’s Bazar on Monday. One of the deceased was identified as Rifat (25), of Baharchara area o...

Child dies of dengue in Khulna

Child dies of dengue in Khulna

-- 2019-09-16 17:05:22

An eight-month-old child died of dengue at Khulna Medical College and Hospital while 619 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in 24 hours till Monday morning. T...

BNP demands JU VC’s removal 

BNP demands JU VC’s removal 

-- 2019-09-16 15:28:15

BNP on Monday demanded the government sack Jahangirnagar University (JU) Vice Chancellor Farzana Islam immediately for reportedly bribing Chhatra League leaders. “There’s an interesting...

Miscreants kill youth for extortion in Ctg

Miscreants kill youth for extortion in Ctg

-- 2019-09-16 15:20:21

A young man was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Pathania Goda in Chandgaon area in Chattogram city on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ziad, 23, son of Mohammad Selim, rep...

PM orders separate police unit for metrorail safety

PM orders separate police unit for metrorail safety

-- 2019-09-16 15:10:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the authorities to form a separate police unit for the safety of the ongoing Dhaka metrorail project. The directive came from a meeting on the progress of the...

Breaching party discipline to invite legal action, warns Quader

Breaching party discipline to invite legal action, warns Quader

-- 2019-09-16 14:58:27

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said legal action will be taken against those who have breached party discipline. “Not only organisational action but administrative and...

Mother, minor daughter killed after being hit by train

Mother, minor daughter killed after being hit by train

-- 2019-09-16 13:47:01

A woman and her minor daughter were killed when a train hit a van on an unauthorised level crossing at Belaichandi in Syedpur upazila of Nilphamari district on Monday. The deceased were identified as...

Indigo-the colour of colonial rule in Rangpur

Indigo-the colour of colonial rule in Rangpur

Sayed Mofidul Babu 2019-09-16 13:13:08

RANGPUR: While a peasant being oppressed by the British rulers for his aversion to planting a single sapling of indigo was a scene of bygone era, farmers of Rangpur are now cultivating the item amid g...

Indian Coast Guard DG arrives in city

Indian Coast Guard DG arrives in city

FE Online Desk 2019-09-16 12:54:49

The Director General (DG) of Indian Coast Guard Krishnaswamy Natarajan arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit. The Director General is accompanied by two delegation members, says a media...

175 Bangladeshi workers return from S Arabia

175 Bangladeshi workers return from S Arabia

-- 2019-09-16 12:08:57

Some 175 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Sunday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers there. A flight of Saudi Airlines SV-804 carrying the Bangladeshi workers landed...

Use modern ‘fintech’ to protect transactions from cyber attacks: Speakers

Use modern ‘fintech’ to protect transactions from cyber attacks: Speakers

FE Report 2019-09-16 11:15:03

Speakers at a programme on Sunday suggested applying state-of-the-art financial technology (fintech) to help protect financial transactions from possible cyber attacks. They also stressed the nee...

DGHS to launch survey on aedes mosquito

DGHS to launch survey on aedes mosquito

FE Report 2019-09-16 10:44:07

The Communicable Disease Control (CDC) unit of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will launch a countrywide survey by the end of this month to indentify different species of mosquitoes...

PKSF project elevated 183,000 families from ultra-poor status

PKSF project elevated 183,000 families from ultra-poor status

FE Online Report 2019-09-15 20:47:54

Some 183,000 families have improved their condition from ultra-poor status with support of a project conducted by Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF). The information came at a paper presentation p...