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China allows entry of foreigners with valid residence permits in three categories

China allows entry of foreigners with valid residence permits in three categories

-- 2020-09-23 18:00:38

Foreigners with valid Chinese residence permits for work, personal matters and reunion will be allowed to enter the country from Sep 28 without applying for new visas, reports UNB. Adjustments were...

Sangram Editor Abul Asad gets interim bail

Sangram Editor Abul Asad gets interim bail

-- 2020-09-23 17:45:44

The High Court has granted a one-year interim bail to Sangram Editor Abul Asad in a digital security case started after the newspaper published a report describing a war crimes convict ‘a martyr...

HC orders BRTA to increase number of vehicle fitness testing centres

HC orders BRTA to increase number of vehicle fitness testing centres

-- 2020-09-23 17:45:22

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday ordered Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to increase the number of vehicle fitness testing centres in the country within the next two months, reports BSS....

DPDC to install 1.4m smart pre-payment meters

DPDC to install 1.4m smart pre-payment meters

-- 2020-09-23 16:49:40

As a part of the government’s plan to bring all consumers of power under smart prepayment metering system, a move is underway to install 1.4 million (1400,000) smart prepayment meters under juri...

BD seeks three-month extension of Saudi visa, iqama: FM

BD seeks three-month extension of Saudi visa, iqama: FM

-- 2020-09-23 16:36:28

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said Bangladesh has requested the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to extend the validity of visa and iqama, valid work permit, of Bangladeshi workers for anothe...

Beekeepers cheerful as Sundarbans sees honey boom

Beekeepers cheerful as Sundarbans sees honey boom

-- 2020-09-23 16:29:34

Honey production in the Sundarbans, a Unesco World Heritage site, has got a boost due to a favourable environment, according to the Forest Department. Muhammad Belayet Hossain, divisional forest offi...

Bangladesh logs 1,666 virus cases, 37 deaths in a day

Bangladesh logs 1,666 virus cases, 37 deaths in a day

-- 2020-09-23 16:21:55

Bangladesh has posted 1,666 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a 24-hour period, taking the tally to 352,287. The death toll jumped to 5,044 after 37 fatalities were registered until 8:0...

Nagad stands by CTTC unit of DMP

Nagad stands by CTTC unit of DMP

FE Online Desk 2020-09-23 16:04:37

Nagad has come forward to support an initiative to set up a bomb data centre by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. As part of its corporate so...

HC to deliver verdict on Jaha Alam’s compensation on Sept 29

HC to deliver verdict on Jaha Alam’s compensation on Sept 29

-- 2020-09-23 15:11:23

The High Court is set to deliver its judgment on September 29 on the rule over the compensation to Jaha Alam who had been in jail for three years instead of the real accused in a case filed by the Ant...

BMD forecasts light to moderate rain in next 24 hours

BMD forecasts light to moderate rain in next 24 hours

-- 2020-09-23 15:04:37

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Wednesday forecast light to moderate rain in the next 24 hours, commencing at 9:00 am. According to a regular bulletin of BMD, “Light to moderate r...

Rwanda wants to enhance trade relations with Bangladesh

Rwanda wants to enhance trade relations with Bangladesh

-- 2020-09-23 13:47:46

Rwanda wants to boost bilateral trade and commercial ties with Bangladesh identifying the areas of cooperation. Foreign Minister of the East African country Vincent Biruta phoned his Bangladesh count...

BGB seizes 0.35 million Yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar

BGB seizes 0.35 million Yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2020-09-23 12:27:25

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 0.35 million pieces of Yaba pill, worth Tk 105.0 million, at Leda Churikhal area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday night. Ti...

ACC keeping close eyes on 45 government health staffers

ACC keeping close eyes on 45 government health staffers

-- 2020-09-23 11:09:13

The Anti-Corruption Commission is looking into the sources of the ‘massive wealth’ gained by 45 government staffers who work under the Directorate General of Health Services. ACC Secretar...

Jamuna devours crops land, houses in Tangail

Jamuna devours crops land, houses in Tangail

Our correspondent 2020-09-23 09:46:40

The fresh erosion by the Jamuna has taken a serious turn in different places of Tangail sadar, Bhuapur and Kalihati upazilas of the district devouring many crops land and houses of Bhuapur upazila. F...

Govt devises battle plan on second Covid wave

Govt devises battle plan on second Covid wave

FE REPORT 2020-09-23 09:46:36

The government will tackle second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, if it occurs in the country, by keeping the economy vibrant, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam has said. Besides, the governmen...

Nationalised banks, FIs should go by own laws for payment of retirement benefits: SC

Nationalised banks, FIs should go by own laws for payment of retirement benefits: SC

FE REPORT 2020-09-23 09:41:53

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled in a verdict that all the semi government organisations, autonomous bodies, corporations, nationalised banks and financial institutions (FIs) shou...

Migrant workers: CAAB sounds liberal about Saudia flight frequency

Migrant workers: CAAB sounds liberal about Saudia flight frequency

FE REPORT 2020-09-23 09:27:11

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is ready to permit as many flights as the Saudia Airlines wants to carry Bangladeshi migrant workers to the kingdom without missing the deadline of vi...

Water sharing issue to figure in JCC meeting

Water sharing issue to figure in JCC meeting

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-09-23 09:26:21

Bangladesh is unlikely to go for inking any agreement with India on water sharing of the Feni River leaving the Teesta deal pending, officials concerned said. "In recent times, India has been pushi...

SC acquits death-row convict after 16 years

SC acquits death-row convict after 16 years

-- 2020-09-22 21:05:42

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was sentenced to death in a case over killing an eight-year-old girl in Laksham area of Cumilla district in 2006. A four-mem...

Legal notice seeks Hindu, Buddhist women's right to inherit property

Legal notice seeks Hindu, Buddhist women's right to inherit property

-- 2020-09-22 21:01:51

A legal notice has been issued to the government asking it to take necessary steps to ensure equal rights to inherit property for Hindu and Buddhist women. Supreme Court Lawyer Tanay Kumar Saha issue...

Court orders freezing two bank accounts of suspended DIG prison Bazlur

Court orders freezing two bank accounts of suspended DIG prison Bazlur

-- 2020-09-22 20:01:21

A Dhaka court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to freeze two bank accounts of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruptio...

HC issues rule over bail plea of former councillor Razib

HC issues rule over bail plea of former councillor Razib

-- 2020-09-22 19:43:23

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule seeking explanation as to why former ward councillor Tarekuzzaman Razib should not be granted bail in a case filed by the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC)...

Reasons patients fear seeking treatment at hospitals in Bangladesh

Reasons patients fear seeking treatment at hospitals in Bangladesh

UNB 2020-09-22 19:40:29

Hospitals are supposed to be a place where patients are to be treated in a comfortable home atmosphere as it is done in many countries of the world, no matter rich or poor, but in Bangladesh, patients...

Bangladesh sends medical supplies to Nepal under SAARC COVID fund

Bangladesh sends medical supplies to Nepal under SAARC COVID fund

-- 2020-09-22 19:30:33

Bangladesh on Tuesday sent medicine and other medical supplies to Nepal to help the South Asian nation combat the ongoing pandemic under the SAARC COVID-19 emergency fund as a gesture of friendship....

Chhatra Odhikar Parishad demands withdrawal of case against Nur

Chhatra Odhikar Parishad demands withdrawal of case against Nur

-- 2020-09-22 19:29:02

Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, a national student body, on Tuesday demanded the withdrawal of 'false case' filed against Dhaka University Central Student Union (Ducsu) former vice president (VP)...

‘Eight coal power plants may claim 30,000 lives in 30 years’

‘Eight coal power plants may claim 30,000 lives in 30 years’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-22 19:21:21

Some 30,000 people could die in air pollution in 30 years if the eight proposed coal-fired power plants in Matarbari and Maheshkhali in the Cox's Bazar are built, according to a study. The informatio...

A third of my country was just underwater, writes PM in The Guardian

A third of my country was just underwater, writes PM in The Guardian

-- 2020-09-22 17:24:08

The climate crisis and Covid-19 are crying out for international cooperation, writes Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in The Guardian. Here’s the republished article:  One-third of my country...

Primary schoolteachers to get pay in higher grade soon

Primary schoolteachers to get pay in higher grade soon

-- 2020-09-22 16:51:50

Government primary school assistant teachers will get their salaries in higher grade soon as the upgradation work of the ‘iBAS++’ software is at the final stage. “The Primary and Ma...

Bangladesh Bank fails to keep default loans at bay: TIB

Bangladesh Bank fails to keep default loans at bay: TIB

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-22 16:24:35

The country’s central bank has failed to play its role in controlling default loans in the banking sector, said Transparency International Bangladesh’s Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman o...

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death toll surpasses 5,000

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death toll surpasses 5,000

-- 2020-09-22 16:06:39

The coronavirus toll in the country has reached 5,007 with 28 people reported dead in 24 hours, according to government data released on Tuesday. Cases surged by 1,557 in the 24-hour count to 352,178...