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Govt won’t spare culprits involved in MC college incident: Quader

Govt won’t spare culprits involved in MC college incident: Quader

-- 2020-09-27 17:49:17

Taking serious note of the rape incident in Sylhet MC College, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the culprits involved in such a heinous crime would not be spared. The gove...

Leftist parties to besiege PMO on Oct 15 over jute-mill closure

Leftist parties to besiege PMO on Oct 15 over jute-mill closure

-- 2020-09-27 17:05:11

The Left Democratic Alliance (LDA), a coalition of eight leftist parties, has announced plans to besiege the prime minister’s office on October 5 in protest against the shutdown of state-owned j...

PM stresses better cooperation with neighbours

PM stresses better cooperation with neighbours

-- 2020-09-27 16:39:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for better cooperation with the neighbouring countries for the development of the people of the region. “Our foreign policy is ‘friendsh...

US-Bangla resumes Muscat flights from Oct 1

US-Bangla resumes Muscat flights from Oct 1

-- 2020-09-27 16:33:55

The US-Bangla Airlines has decided to operate two weekly flights on the Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from the beginning of the next month. Health protocols will be followed properly during the flights on...

SC suspends lawyer over ‘disparaging remarks’ on judiciary

SC suspends lawyer over ‘disparaging remarks’ on judiciary

-- 2020-09-27 16:32:42

The Supreme Court has barred lawyer Yunus Ali Akhand from practising in the High Court and the Appellate Division for two weeks for making 'disparaging remarks' about the judiciary on social media. I...

Verdict in arms case against Papia, husband on Oct 12

Verdict in arms case against Papia, husband on Oct 12

-- 2020-09-27 16:30:28

A Dhaka court is set to deliver a verdict in the illegal arms case against Shamima Noor Papia, an expelled leader of Jubo Mahila League, and her husband Mofizur Rahman, alias Sumon Chowdhury, on Oct 1...

Lawyer Yunus Ali suspended for ‘disparaging remarks’ on judiciary

Lawyer Yunus Ali suspended for ‘disparaging remarks’ on judiciary

-- 2020-09-27 16:26:21

The Supreme Court has barred lawyer Yunus Ali Akhand from practising in the High Court and the Appellate Division for two weeks for making 'disparaging remarks' about the judiciary on social media, re...

MC College rape: Court records victim’s statement

MC College rape: Court records victim’s statement

-- 2020-09-27 16:24:04

A Sylhet court on Sunday recorded statement of the victim who was gang raped in MC College on Friday. She was produced before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Court No-3 around 1:30pm where she g...

Saudi Airlines selling tickets for fourth day

Saudi Airlines selling tickets for fourth day

-- 2020-09-27 15:16:49

Saudi Airlines is selling tickets for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday to help expatriate Bangladeshis return to their workplaces in the kingdom. People who have already gotten their tokens are c...

Top court rejects Destiny Group MD’s bail pleas

Top court rejects Destiny Group MD’s bail pleas

-- 2020-09-27 15:12:50

The Appellate Division on Sunday rejected bail petitions of Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin in two money laundering cases. A four-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossai...

Even as coronavirus rages, Bangladesh Secretariat lets down the guard

Even as coronavirus rages, Bangladesh Secretariat lets down the guard

-- 2020-09-27 15:05:41

Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a heavy toll on the lives of Bangladeshis, neglect of health and safety protocols is rife across the country, not least the Secretariat in Dhaka, the...

Rights group calls for introducing online voting in pandemic

Rights group calls for introducing online voting in pandemic

FE Online Report 2020-09-27 14:58:10

A consumers’ welfare association called for introducing ‘online voting’ apart from the country’s existing manual or physical voting system in the pandemic. Bangladesh Mobile P...

DMP arrests 45 for selling, consuming drugs

DMP arrests 45 for selling, consuming drugs

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-27 14:47:25

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 46 people in Dhaka in a regular anti-narcotic drive on the charges of selling and consuming illegal drugs. Different police stations under the DMP conduct...

Police so far arrest two suspects in MC College gang-rape case

Police so far arrest two suspects in MC College gang-rape case

-- 2020-09-27 14:18:22

Police have arrested two accused, including key suspect Saifur Rahman, in the gang-rape case of a newly married woman in Sylhet’s MC College, UNB reports. Saifur was arrested from Noarai Ghat i...

Website on children launched

Website on children launched

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-27 13:43:26

Shishuraishob.com, a website on children, has recently been launched with a view to building a children-sensitive society and establishing their rights. The launching ceremony took place at the CBCB...

Flood inundates 15,000 hectares of croplands in Kurigram

Flood inundates 15,000 hectares of croplands in Kurigram

-- 2020-09-27 13:35:06

About 15,000 hectares of cropland has gone under water in nine upazilas of Kurigram district during the fifth phase flooding triggered by onrush of upstream water and heavy downpours. The amount of d...

US-Bangla decides to resume Muscat flights from Oct 1

US-Bangla decides to resume Muscat flights from Oct 1

-- 2020-09-27 12:14:01

The US-Bangla Airlines has decided to operate two weekly flights on the Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from the beginning of the next month. Health protocols will be followed properly during the flights on...

Police arrest key suspect in rape of newlywed at Sylhet’s MC College

Police arrest key suspect in rape of newlywed at Sylhet’s MC College

-- 2020-09-27 12:02:49

Police have arrested Bangladesh Chhatra League activist Saifur Rahman, the main suspect in the rape of a newly-married woman in Sylhet's MC College, bdnews24.com reports. Saifur was apprehended from...

Mud-wall collapse kills four members of a family in Dinajpur

Mud-wall collapse kills four members of a family in Dinajpur

-- 2020-09-27 11:30:05

Four members of a family, including two children, were killed as part of a mud-wall of their house collapsed on them at Jhaupara in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur district on early Sunday. The victim...

Ex-CU VC dies of Covid-19

Ex-CU VC dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-09-27 11:24:48

Prof AJM Nuruddin Chowdhury, former Vice Chancellor of Chittagong University (CU), died of coronavirus infection at a hospital in Dhaka on Saturday. He was 70. Prof Nuruddin breathed his last around...

Floods worsen in northern, central parts

Floods worsen in northern, central parts

FE REPORT 2020-09-27 10:58:20

Flood situation deteriorated further in northern, north-eastern and few central districts of Bangladesh on Saturday amid continued rainfall and the onrush of upstream waters from the neighbouring Indi...

Experiment yields encouraging results

Experiment yields encouraging results

TALHA BIN HABIB 2020-09-27 10:40:12

Community-based mechanised farming reduces production cost by nearly 38 per cent from the level of expenditure witnessed in conventional labor-intensive cultivation. Besides, it also helps produce...

Jeddah-bound flight: Biman passengers asked to contact sales office

Jeddah-bound flight: Biman passengers asked to contact sales office

FE REPORT 2020-09-27 10:38:49

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Saturday requested the Jeddah-bound passengers who previously bought tickets for the March 21 flight to contact its sales office today (Sunday) to confirm their ticket...

Tourism Day today: No visible progress in tourism industry

Tourism Day today: No visible progress in tourism industry

FE REPORT 2020-09-27 10:26:44

Speakers at a programme on Saturday observed that Bangladesh tourism industry has been stuck up in plan, master plan, discussion, policy and law formulation and workshop, except for any visible progre...

Migrants still battle to get air tickets

Migrants still battle to get air tickets

ARAFAT ARA 2020-09-27 10:17:05

Many Saudi-bound migrant workers were still facing troubles in obtaining air tickets and mandatory Covid-19 test certificates on Saturday. The stranded workers, desperate to go to their workplaces in...

COVID-19 vaccine is a ‘global public good’, Hasina tells UNGA

COVID-19 vaccine is a ‘global public good’, Hasina tells UNGA

-- 2020-09-26 21:05:36

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reminded the international community that the fates of people across the globe are intertwined amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as she called on world leaders to ensure tha...

23,617 cases pending with Appellate Division of SC in 2019   

23,617 cases pending with Appellate Division of SC in 2019  

FE Online Report 2020-09-26 19:21:10

A total of 23,617 cases were pending with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) in 2019, according to a SC statement issued on Saturday. Of the total, 6,303 cases were settled by the apex...

President, PM for NGOs’ efforts to flourish tourism sector

President, PM for NGOs’ efforts to flourish tourism sector

-- 2020-09-26 18:57:17

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged private entrepreneurs and non-government organisations to work together with the government for development of the tourism in...

Covid test report not mandatory for Bangladeshis to go to Singapore

Covid test report not mandatory for Bangladeshis to go to Singapore

-- 2020-09-26 18:47:14

Covid-19 test report is not mandatory for Bangladeshi passengers to go to Singapore from their homeland as Singapore has announced a new set of rules and restrictions for travellers. But they are req...

BD, KSA FMs to discuss bilateral issues Sunday

BD, KSA FMs to discuss bilateral issues Sunday

-- 2020-09-26 18:26:16

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud will discuss bilateral and current issues over phone on Sunday. The telephone conversation is scheduled t...