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Casino crackdown: Enamul, Rupon indicted for money laundering

Casino crackdown: Enamul, Rupon indicted for money laundering

-- 2020-09-24 23:18:12

A Dhaka court on Thursday accepted charge sheet against brothers Enamul Haque Enu, Rupon Bhuiyan and 10 others in a money laundering case filed at Gendaria Police Station. Dhaka's Senior Special Cour...

Access to livestock services, incentives, expansion of e-commerce crucial for livestock: Experts

Access to livestock services, incentives, expansion of e-commerce crucial for livestock: Experts

-- 2020-09-24 22:04:01

Agriculture, the lifeline of Bangladesh economy has been affected by Covid-19 pandemic and livestock sector was badly hit. Coordinated efforts from public, private and non-government entities made it...

Stranded migrant workers happy as they get tickets to Saudi Arabia

Stranded migrant workers happy as they get tickets to Saudi Arabia

-- 2020-09-24 21:33:39

Saudia has begun selling tickets in Dhaka, ending days of wait and demonstration by stranded Bangladeshi migrant workers, reports bdnews24.com. Biman Bangladesh Airlines has also announced two more s...

Biman, Saudia Airlines to operate 10 chartered flights to KSA by Sept 30

Biman, Saudia Airlines to operate 10 chartered flights to KSA by Sept 30

-- 2020-09-24 20:36:36

Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudia Airlines will operate 10 chartered flights to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) within Sept 30 to carry back stranded Bangladeshi expatriates to this middle easter...

TIB for adequate adaptation fund for LDCs

TIB for adequate adaptation fund for LDCs

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-24 20:19:16

The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) demanded the grant-based funding pledged by industrialised nations to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change to the affected countries. The...

Expats throng Biman, Saudi Airlines offices for tickets

Expats throng Biman, Saudi Airlines offices for tickets

-- 2020-09-24 17:29:58

Saudi expatriates gathered in front of Biman and Saudi Airline offices in the city on Thursday for having their air tickets confirmed to go back to Saudi Arabia, reports UNB. Saudi Arabian Airlines...

PM donates Tk 17.5m to families of N’ganj blast victims

PM donates Tk 17.5m to families of N’ganj blast victims

-- 2020-09-24 17:24:09

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has provided a total of Tk 17.5 million as financial assistance for 35 families of the victims of Narayanganj mosque blasts. An amount of Tk 0.5 million was given as cas...

Donors iterate safe return of Rohingya to Myanmar

Donors iterate safe return of Rohingya to Myanmar

FE Online Report 2020-09-24 17:17:39

Representatives of the international community supporting the Rohingya in Bangladesh on Thursday reiterated certain reservation about shifting the Myanmar nationals to coastal land of Bhasan Char from...

Water level in Ganges basin remains steady

Water level in Ganges basin remains steady

-- 2020-09-24 16:45:11

Water level in many of the rivers and tributaries in the Ganges basin recorded a rising and falling trend in the past twenty-four hours ending this morning on Thursday like the previous couple of days...

Man sentenced to death for killing wife in Barishal

Man sentenced to death for killing wife in Barishal

-- 2020-09-24 16:35:21

A Barishal court on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Hijla upazila in 2013 over dowry. The condemned convict is Monir Hossain, son of Sofi Rari of Baushia v...

Bangladesh registers 1,540 virus cases, 28 deaths in a day

Bangladesh registers 1,540 virus cases, 28 deaths in a day

-- 2020-09-24 16:29:14

Bangladesh has posted 1,540 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 355,384. The death toll jumped to 5,072 after 28 new fatalities wer...

HC orders judicial probe into ‘murdered’ schoolgirl who returned home

HC orders judicial probe into ‘murdered’ schoolgirl who returned home

-- 2020-09-24 16:13:50

The High Court on Thursday ordered judicial inquiry into the alleged murder of a schoolgirl who later returned home alive in Narayanganj. Besides, the court also asked Narayanganj chief judicial magi...

Return of 'murdered' girl: HC orders judicial probe

Return of 'murdered' girl: HC orders judicial probe

-- 2020-09-24 16:13:21

The High Court has ordered judicial inquiry into the alleged murder of a schoolgirl who later returned home alive in Narayanganj. Besides, the court also asked Narayanganj chief judicial magistrate t...

RAB arrests teenage boy for ‘killing sister’ in Dhaka

RAB arrests teenage boy for ‘killing sister’ in Dhaka

-- 2020-09-24 15:47:55

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Thursday arrested a teenage boy from the city's Banani area for his suspected involvement in the killing his four-year-old sister. The arrestee is Al Amin a...

SC order on Destiny Group MD’s bail pleas Sunday

SC order on Destiny Group MD’s bail pleas Sunday

-- 2020-09-24 15:09:14

The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed September 27 (Sunday) for passing its order on two bail petitions filed by Destiny Group Managing Director Md Rafiqul Amin in two money laundering cases. A four-me...

Padma Bridge, rail link projects  may have faced human errors, says planning minister

Padma Bridge, rail link projects may have faced human errors, says planning minister

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-24 14:56:03

Planning Minister MA Mannan has said human errors may have triggered problems at Padma Bridge and rail link projects over vertical and horizontal clearances between the approach roads and the elevated...

Govt reappoints Syed Shahriyar Ahsan as SBC MD

Govt reappoints Syed Shahriyar Ahsan as SBC MD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-24 14:40:09

The Government has reappointed Syed Shahriyar Ahsan as Managing Director (MD) of Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) for next two years. Mr Syed Shahriyar Ahsan completed his Masters and MBA Degree from...

Number of mobile phone subscribers nearly doubled in eight years

Number of mobile phone subscribers nearly doubled in eight years

FE Online Report 2020-09-24 14:16:35

The total number of mobile phone subscribers nearly doubled in in the last eight years thanks to the government’s commitment and push to digitise the country. However, the number of mobile phon...

Oman lifts entry ban on Bangladeshis

Oman lifts entry ban on Bangladeshis

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-24 13:32:46

In a significant development, Oman on Thursday lifted restrictions on the entry of Bangladeshi workers into that country. “This is a very good news for us. We have just received their letter in...

Brig Gen Mamun new IG of prisons

Brig Gen Mamun new IG of prisons

-- 2020-09-23 22:41:48

The government has appointed Brig Gen Mominur Rahman Mamun as Inspector General of Prisons.Incumbent IG Prisons Brig Gen AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha will return to the army, the public administration mini...

Biman to run special flights to Saudi Arabia on Sep 26, 27

Biman to run special flights to Saudi Arabia on Sep 26, 27

-- 2020-09-23 22:05:35

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate special flights to Saudi Arabia on Sep 26 and 27 amid protests by Bangladeshi migrants for air tickets for a return to the Middle-Eastern country of their employ...

PM for ‘strong global partnership’ on digital cooperation

PM for ‘strong global partnership’ on digital cooperation

-- 2020-09-23 21:51:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for a ‘strong global partnership’ on digital cooperation for the future generation to achieve the common goals. “We look forward t...

Govt to appoint agricultural engineers for expediting farm mechanisation

Govt to appoint agricultural engineers for expediting farm mechanisation

-- 2020-09-23 21:40:59

The government will appoint agricultural engineers at the field-level after setting up a concerned wing at the department of agricultural extension for providing support to the growers and the local e...

‘BD keeps close contact with five companies for COVID-19 vaccine’

‘BD keeps close contact with five companies for COVID-19 vaccine’

-- 2020-09-23 19:44:57

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said Bangladesh is keeping constant communication with five companies to get effective COVID-19 vaccines at the quickest possible time. “Man...

FFWC forecasts another flash flood in north-eastern regions

FFWC forecasts another flash flood in north-eastern regions

FE Online Report 2020-09-23 19:39:05

A flash flood is approaching to the north-eastern regions amid heavy rain and onrush of upstream water from the neighbouring India, said the state-run Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) on We...

ACC sues Shahed, four DGHS officials over Tk 33.4m embezzlement

ACC sues Shahed, four DGHS officials over Tk 33.4m embezzlement

-- 2020-09-23 19:35:36

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against four officials of the health directorate along with Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed over the deal between the government and the Reg...

Saudi govt agrees to extend visas for Bangladeshis: FM

Saudi govt agrees to extend visas for Bangladeshis: FM

-- 2020-09-23 18:57:24

The Saudi government has agreed to extend visas for the Bangladeshis who want to return to their workplaces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), reports UNB.  "Our Ambassador [Bangladesh Ambass...

Migrant workers urged to wait until Monday for Saudi response

Migrant workers urged to wait until Monday for Saudi response

FE Online Report 2020-09-23 18:38:23

The expatriates’ welfare and overseas minister on Wednesday called upon the aggrieved migrants willing to go to Saudi Arabia to get an update from Riyadh about visa and iqama for Bangladeshi wor...

Quader opens two Covid hospitals for metro rail project workers

Quader opens two Covid hospitals for metro rail project workers

-- 2020-09-23 18:19:14

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today (Wednesday) opened two field hospitals for treatment of metro rain project’s engineers, workers and employees infected with coronavirus....

Vitamin A-plus campaign begins October 4

Vitamin A-plus campaign begins October 4

-- 2020-09-23 18:07:36

The national Vitamin A plus campaign will start across the country from October 4 and to be continued until October 17 for feeding vitamin A plus capsules to all children aged between six and 59 month...