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PM sets example by making homestead farming at Ganabhaban

PM sets example by making homestead farming at Ganabhaban

-- 2023-02-19 19:58:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has not only urged the people to grow food in every inch of land to face the global food crisis but also she herself utilised fallow lands of her official residence Ganabh...

Route map finalised for going to Shaheed Minar on Feb 21

Route map finalised for going to Shaheed Minar on Feb 21

-- 2023-02-19 19:36:12

A route map has been finalised for going to the Central Shaheed Minar on February 21 to pay respect to language martyrs. Dhaka University's Central Coordination Committee finalised the route map whic...

DMP does not anticipate any militant threat to Feb 21 events

DMP does not anticipate any militant threat to Feb 21 events

-- 2023-02-19 18:01:03

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq says they do not anticipate any militant threat to the Central Shaheed Minar during the events commemorating International Mother Language D...

Four-day BASIS Softexpo 2023 will kick off on Thursday

Four-day BASIS Softexpo 2023 will kick off on Thursday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-19 17:45:59

A four-day software exposition, titled BASIS Softexpo 2023, will kick off in Dhaka on Thursday aiming at highlighting the latest technological innovations and ICT capabilities of Bangladesh to the wor...

Khaleda can do politics, but not participate in next general election: Anisul

Khaleda can do politics, but not participate in next general election: Anisul

-- 2023-02-19 16:57:50

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia can take part in politics, but she is barred from contesting in the next general election because of her conviction for corruption, Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Sunday....

Seven Covid-19 cases reported in a day

Seven Covid-19 cases reported in a day

-- 2023-02-19 16:42:03

Bangladesh has recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,750. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,445 over the 24-hour period,...

BNP chalks out two-day programme to observe Ekushey February

BNP chalks out two-day programme to observe Ekushey February

-- 2023-02-19 14:50:06

BNP  on Sunday announced a two-day programme to observe the  Shaheed Day and International Mother Language Day with due respect on February 21. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Ala...

Robbers stab 9 fishermen on trawler in Bay of Bengal, throw them into sea

Robbers stab 9 fishermen on trawler in Bay of Bengal, throw them into sea

bdnews24.com 2023-02-19 14:33:53

Robbers have attacked nine fishermen, including the driver of a fishing trawler in the Bay of Bengal, by stabbing and shooting them. They then threw them into the sea. The incident occurred abo...

PM inaugurates Kalshi flyover

PM inaugurates Kalshi flyover

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-19 12:25:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Kalshi flyover in Mirpur on Sunday, improving connectivity in Dhaka’s north. Hasina also inaugurated a six-lane expansion project at around 10:45am,...

Three hackers among five held over fake birth certificates

Three hackers among five held over fake birth certificates

bdnews24.com 2023-02-19 09:33:57

Police have arrested five suspects, including three alleged hackers, in an investigation into fake birth certificates issued in Chattogram. Police’s Counter Terorism and Transnational Cri...

Temporary route permit a must for bus before picnic trip: DMP

Temporary route permit a must for bus before picnic trip: DMP

bdnews24.com 2023-02-19 09:29:33

Bus operators will need temporary route permits before renting out vehicles for picnic trips, educational tours or any celebration from Dhaka. In an order dated Thursday, Dhaka Metropolitan Pol...

Obaidul Quader for building ‘bridge of amity’ in country’s politics

Obaidul Quader for building ‘bridge of amity’ in country’s politics

-- 2023-02-18 20:29:02

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said a ‘bridge of amity’ will have to be built breaking the barrier that is getting h...

BNP, like-minded parties to hold march programme in districts on Feb 25

BNP, like-minded parties to hold march programme in districts on Feb 25

-- 2023-02-18 20:24:18

After their latest coordinated programme in all cities and unions, BNP and like-minded parties will next march in all 64 districts on February 25 (next Saturday) to press home their 10-point demand, i...

PM to open Mirpur-Kalshi flyover Sunday

PM to open Mirpur-Kalshi flyover Sunday

-- 2023-02-18 20:14:29

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Mirpur-Kalshi flyover on Sunday for vehicular movement to ease travel in Mirpur, Mirpur DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Banani, Uttara and airport ar...

Full list of wartime collaborators to be published in 2024

Full list of wartime collaborators to be published in 2024

-- 2023-02-18 20:01:52

The government will publish by March 2024 a list of Bangladeshis who collaborated with the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Liberation War. Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said that t...

Man arrested over killing wife at Cox’s Bazar hotel

Man arrested over killing wife at Cox’s Bazar hotel

-- 2023-02-18 18:08:00

A man suspected of killing his wife has alleged to police that he committed the murder after discovering that his wife's negligence led to the death of their youngest daughter, who drowned in a bucket...

'Foreign envoys were impressed with facilities for Rohingya refugees at Bhasan Char'

'Foreign envoys were impressed with facilities for Rohingya refugees at Bhasan Char'

-- 2023-02-18 18:01:58

Foreign envoys who visited Bhasan Char on Friday were impressed with facilities and scopes for Rohingyas available there, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin...

Chhatra League expels two leaders over allegation of extortion

Chhatra League expels two leaders over allegation of extortion

-- 2023-02-18 16:59:36

The Dhaka University branch of the Chhatra League has expelled two of its leaders after they were caught red-handed extorting money from four people while posing as policemen at the Ekushey Book Fair....

Metro rail adds another stop as Uttara Centre station opens

Metro rail adds another stop as Uttara Centre station opens

-- 2023-02-18 15:23:46

Dhaka’s metro rail has added another stop as the Uttara Centre station opened on Saturday. “The Uttara Centre station was opened to passengers at 8 am on Saturday,” said DMTCL Manag...

Rangs Group founding chairman Rouf Chowdhury dies

Rangs Group founding chairman Rouf Chowdhury dies

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-18 13:50:55

Founding chairman of Rangs Group A Rauf Chowdhury has passed away due to prolonged illness. He died at his residence in Dhaka around 12 noon on Saturday, The Daily Star reported citing his family sou...

Train communication between Dhaka, northern districts cut off as Jamuna Express’ engine goes out of order in Gazipur

Train communication between Dhaka, northern districts cut off as Jamuna Express’ engine goes out of order in Gazipur

UNB 2023-02-18 11:03:48

Train operation between Dhaka and the country’s northern districts has been suspended since 8 am today, after Jamuna Express’ engine went out of order at Joydebpur Station of Gazipur distr...

Hajj cost increases by Tk 338,015 than 2019

Hajj cost increases by Tk 338,015 than 2019

FE REPORT 2023-02-18 09:10:32

The cost for each hajj pilgrim has increased by Tk 338,015 this year in comparison with that of 2019, taking into account the amount set by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The Association of Tra...

Obaidul Quader says BNP is unhappy over govt's development works

Obaidul Quader says BNP is unhappy over govt's development works

-- 2023-02-17 21:15:33

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said because of various development activities being carried out by the ruling AL government, the country's people are happy but BNP is unhappy. "Eve...

Mother, daughter found dead in Cox's Bazar hotel room

Mother, daughter found dead in Cox's Bazar hotel room

-- 2023-02-17 20:47:30

Police recovered the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter from a residential hotel in Cox’s Bazar on Friday afternoon. According to the hotel register book, the mother wa...

Holy Shab-e-Meraj on Saturday

Holy Shab-e-Meraj on Saturday

-- 2023-02-17 20:32:17

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed on the night of February 18 (tomorrow) with religious fervor. Every year, on the night of Rajab 26, Muslims observe Shab-e-Meraj when Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (p...

Bangladesh reports zero dengue cases, deaths

Bangladesh reports zero dengue cases, deaths

-- 2023-02-17 19:43:34

No fresh case or death due to dengue was reported in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Friday morning. Thirty-six dengue patients, including 16 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals ac...

Reconsider power purchase agreement with Adani Group, TIB asks government

Reconsider power purchase agreement with Adani Group, TIB asks government

-- 2023-02-17 18:41:56

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Friday asked the Bangladesh government to reconsider and if necessary cancel what it calls the vague and inequitable power purchase agreement with Adani...

20 Chhatra Odhikar Parishad members injured in ‘attack’ at DU

20 Chhatra Odhikar Parishad members injured in ‘attack’ at DU

-- 2023-02-17 18:23:27

The Dhaka University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad has said that an attack on its members during a programme of the network’s fifth anniversary left at least 20 people injured. Th...

Bangladesh to send more tents, offers additional help to Turkey

Bangladesh to send more tents, offers additional help to Turkey

-- 2023-02-17 18:14:04

Bangladesh will send another 10,000 tents to Turkey in addition to the 2,000 tents dispatched earlier to help the people made homeless by a massive earthquake, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said. M...

BNP stage marches in Motijheel, Uttara

BNP stage marches in Motijheel, Uttara

-- 2023-02-17 17:52:46

The leaders and activists of BNP's Dhaka south and north city units on Friday brought out separate silent processions in the capital to press home the party's 20-point demand, including holding the ne...