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Local dev projects: Conflict of interest as MPs involved: TIB

Local dev projects: Conflict of interest as MPs involved: TIB

FE REPORT 2020-08-13 09:28:38

Local lawmakers are getting involved while being more attentive to planning and implementing infrastructure projects with block allocation in their constituencies, a latest TIB report said. The Trans...

HC resumes regular activities after 5 months

HC resumes regular activities after 5 months

-- 2020-08-12 23:03:32

The regular activities of the High Court division of the Supreme Court resumed on Wednesday after five months of suspension due to Covid-19 outbreak. Judges, lawyers and court staffers were seen usin...

Businessman sues Rajshahi SP on charge of ‘extortion’

Businessman sues Rajshahi SP on charge of ‘extortion’

-- 2020-08-12 22:57:29

A businessman has filed a case against Md Belayet Hossain, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Rajshahi range, on charge of extortion. The businessman, Golam Mostofa, 29, filed the case with Dhaka Metro...

Environment minister tests positive for Covid-19

Environment minister tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2020-08-12 22:39:14

Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin has tested positive for coronavirus. The minister underwent Covid-19 test and received the test report on Wednesday, said Dipangkar Bo...

Rich, poor people should get vaccine equally: President

Rich, poor people should get vaccine equally: President

-- 2020-08-12 22:33:12

President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday urged the multinational organisations and developed nations to come forward so that both rich and poor people get coronavirus vaccine equally. He made the call when...

No final decision over JSC, HSC examinations yet

No final decision over JSC, HSC examinations yet

-- 2020-08-12 22:09:07

The government has not taken final decision over the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations. The Ministry of Education issued a press release on Wedne...

Mercury climbs to 33.80 degree Celsius in city

Mercury climbs to 33.80 degree Celsius in city

FE Online Report 2020-08-12 20:44:01

Hot weather continued in the city on Wednesday amid high temperature and lack of rain. For partly cloudy sky with a humidity ranged between 76 and 71 per cent in the air, people experienced a boili...

Bangladesh in no hurry to trial Chinese vaccine

Bangladesh in no hurry to trial Chinese vaccine

-- 2020-08-12 19:54:05

Bangladesh is in no hurry to start a late-stage human trial of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, according to the country's top health officials. Th...

New Swiss Ambassador to BD presents her credentials to president

New Swiss Ambassador to BD presents her credentials to president

FE Online Report 2020-08-12 19:47:49

Ms Nathalie Chuard, newly appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh, presented her credentials to President Md Abdul Hamid on Wednesday, said a spokesperson of the Swiss Embassy. “The...

BD worker killed in Brunei road accident

BD worker killed in Brunei road accident

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-12 19:30:20

A Bangladeshi worker was killed in road accident during doing repairing works on a bridge in Temburong district in Brunei on Saturday last. The worker has been identified as Rezaul Karim Sardar (35),...

Don’t stop airing COVID-19 bulletin: Quader

Don’t stop airing COVID-19 bulletin: Quader

-- 2020-08-12 19:02:48

Awami League leader Obaidul Quader has urged the health directorate to hold at least two online briefings a week on the COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh instead of completely discontinuing the program...

126,000 people die in BD every year in tobacco-related diseases

126,000 people die in BD every year in tobacco-related diseases

-- 2020-08-12 18:48:45

Some 126,000 people die in Bangladesh every year because of diseases sprouting due to tobacco use, said anti-tobacco organisation PROGGA on Wednesday. It stressed the need for protecting the young ge...

USAID promotes livestock production for improved food security in BD

USAID promotes livestock production for improved food security in BD

-- 2020-08-12 18:42:59

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday said it helped train 163,287 livestock farmers, including 143,577 women, over the past five years.  With a share of 13.46 percent...

Four policemen among seven placed on remand over Sinha killing

Four policemen among seven placed on remand over Sinha killing

-- 2020-08-12 14:54:40

A Cox's Bazar court has granted permission to the Rapid Action Battalion to interrogate in custody seven people, including four policemen, over the murder of retired major Sinha Md Rashed Khan. The t...

Bomb, bomb-making materials recovered in Sylhet

Bomb, bomb-making materials recovered in Sylhet

-- 2020-08-12 13:57:54

Police recovered a powerful bomb and materials used to make bomb from the house of suspected Neo-JMB member Sanaul Islam Sadi in Sylhet city’s Jalalabad residential area on Tuesday night. A tea...

ACC grills ex-DGHS chief Azad on graft charges

ACC grills ex-DGHS chief Azad on graft charges

-- 2020-08-12 13:34:02

Abul Kalam Azad, the former DG of health services, has been interrogated by the Anti-Corruption Commission as part of an investigation into the allegations of graft levelled at the agency. Azad arriv...

UN to provide help to flood-hit Asian countries

UN to provide help to flood-hit Asian countries

-- 2020-08-12 11:56:44

Highlighting the severe flooding in Asia, including Bangladesh and India, the United Nations has expressed its willingness to help. In Bangladesh, people are experiencing the worst and longest monsoo...

Sylhet farmers start T-Aman farming

Sylhet farmers start T-Aman farming

Our Correspondent 2020-08-12 09:42:50

Farmers in the greater Sylhet region are busy in cultivation of Transplanted Aman (T Aman) paddy with a target to achieve the centrally set programme for yielding highest, officials and a number of...

Gonoshasthaya’s plasma centre to be opened Aug 15

Gonoshasthaya’s plasma centre to be opened Aug 15

-- 2020-08-11 20:55:50

The Plasma and Blood Donation Centre set up by Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be opened on August 15. Dr MA Khan, a professor of Dhaka Medical Colleg...

U-loop projects to be finished by Dec 31: DNCC Mayor

U-loop projects to be finished by Dec 31: DNCC Mayor

-- 2020-08-11 20:15:07

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Tuesday said the construction of 10 U-loop from Uttara to Tejgaon will be completed within this year, significantly cutting down travel tim...

229 people died in road accidents during Eid holidays

229 people died in road accidents during Eid holidays

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-11 18:47:13

At least 229 people were killed and 318 others injured in road accidents across the country during Eid-ul Azha holidays, according to a report released by Road Safety Foundation (RSF) on Tuesday. The...

City dwellers suffer as mercury rises

City dwellers suffer as mercury rises

FE Online Report 2020-08-11 18:33:26

Sufferings of the city dwellers increased further on Tuesday amid  rise in mercury with low rain. The maximum temperature of Dhaka city was recorded as 34.5 degrees Celsius on the day while the...

Sinha killing: RAB arrests three witnesses in police case

Sinha killing: RAB arrests three witnesses in police case

-- 2020-08-11 18:26:25

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested three men who were named as witnesses in a case started by police after the incident of killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Cox's Bazar'...

Fishing resumes in Kaptai Lake after 90-day ban

Fishing resumes in Kaptai Lake after 90-day ban

-- 2020-08-11 18:11:57

Fishermen started fishing in Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district on Tuesday after the end of a three-month ban, imposed by the local administration to boost fish production. Manager of Bangladesh Fishe...

BD shining example of communal harmony: Quader

BD shining example of communal harmony: Quader

-- 2020-08-11 17:44:09

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said Bangladesh is a shining example of communal harmony in the contemporary world, reports BSS. “For thousands of years, followers of...

Consumption jumps in FY20 despite Covid-19

Consumption jumps in FY20 despite Covid-19

FE Online Report 2020-08-11 16:24:34

Overall consumption spending in the country increased by 9.56 per cent in the last fiscal year (FY20), according to the provisional estimate of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The growth rate...

EU provides €1.65m for S Asian flood victims

EU provides €1.65m for S Asian flood victims

-- 2020-08-11 16:02:09

The European Union is providing 1.65 million euro in humanitarian aid funding in response to severe flooding that have affected South Asia — most notably Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The suppor...

Fire service finds bodies of two missing youths in Savar Beel

Fire service finds bodies of two missing youths in Savar Beel

-- 2020-08-11 15:44:53

The bodies of two young men were retrieved from a waterbody (beel) at Beraid Daspara area of Bongaon union of Savar upazila of Dhaka on Tuesday morning 16 hours after they had gone missing. The decea...

9.0pc of Dhaka residents infected with Covid-19: Study

9.0pc of Dhaka residents infected with Covid-19: Study

-- 2020-08-11 15:20:57

Nine per cent of the population within the jurisdictions of Dhaka's bifurcated city corporations have been infected with Covid-19, a study has found, bdnews24.com reports. The survey, which ran from...

Four new dengue cases reported in 24 hours

Four new dengue cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2020-08-11 14:58:39

The health authorities announced detection of four new dengue cases in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning. In a regular update, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said nine dengue...