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Bangladesh reports 21 Covid cases, no deaths

Bangladesh reports 21 Covid cases, no deaths

-- 2022-04-22 15:53:51

Bangladesh has recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,506. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from the...

Ctg speedboat capsize: Body of missing child found, raising death toll to 3

Ctg speedboat capsize: Body of missing child found, raising death toll to 3

-- 2022-04-22 15:11:23

Authorities have recovered the body of an eight-year-old girl two days after a speedboat capsized during a Nor’wester in Chattogram’s Sandwip Upazila, bdnews24.com reports. The body of th...

New Market clash: 150 people sued over death of Morsalin

New Market clash: 150 people sued over death of Morsalin

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-22 14:14:37

A fourth case has been started in connection with the violent clashes between Dhaka College students and shop workers in Dhaka's New Market area that left two people dead. Nur Mohammad, the elder bro...

Sustainable agri tech vital for food security: Experts

Sustainable agri tech vital for food security: Experts

-- 2022-04-22 09:53:38

LALMONIRHAT: Experts at a 'Research follow-up and progress sharing meeting' have said adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies at farmers' levels have become crucial for achieving food and nu...

Owner of shops at the heart of dispute that led to New Market mayhem is sued

Owner of shops at the heart of dispute that led to New Market mayhem is sued

-- 2022-04-21 23:00:00

Police have charged a local BNP leader, who owns the shops at the heart of a dispute that led to the deadly clashes between Dhaka College students and shopkeepers in the New Market area. The accused,...

Police get until June 7 to probe three cases against 1,400 over New Market mayhem

Police get until June 7 to probe three cases against 1,400 over New Market mayhem

-- 2022-04-21 21:15:16

A Dhaka court has given police one and a half months to submit investigation reports in three cases against nearly 1,400 people, including Dhaka College students and shop owners, in connection with th...

Govt withdraws decision on 4-hour gas rationing in industries

Govt withdraws decision on 4-hour gas rationing in industries

-- 2022-04-21 20:17:14

The government has withdrawn its decision to suspend gas supply to industries for four hours every day. State-owned Petrobangla in a press release on Thursday announced the new decision saying that i...

11 Nigerians arrested over Facebook scam

11 Nigerians arrested over Facebook scam

-- 2022-04-21 19:48:43

The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested 11 Nigerian nationals and one Bangladeshi on charges of embezzling money from people by promising to turn their Bangladesh Taka into US d...

Selection body for ‘Chief Justice Medal’ formed     

Selection body for ‘Chief Justice Medal’ formed    

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-04-21 19:19:22

A six-member judges’ committee has been constituted comprising of judges of both the divisions of the Supreme Court to conduct the selection process including formulation of policy over ‘C...

FM questions quality of US HR report on Bangladesh

FM questions quality of US HR report on Bangladesh

-- 2022-04-21 19:02:43

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has questioned the quality of the US human rights report on Bangladesh, noting that Bangladeshi officials at the US Embassy in Dhaka prepared the initial draft by co...

Evaly's Rassel granted bail in nine cases of cheque fraud

Evaly's Rassel granted bail in nine cases of cheque fraud

-- 2022-04-21 18:02:07

Mohammad Rassel, the founder of the e-commerce platform Evaly, has been granted bail in nine cases related to cheque fraud. However, Rassel will not be released from jail yet as there are still a few...

41pc boro paddy harvesting in haor areas completed 

41pc boro paddy harvesting in haor areas completed 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-21 17:44:02

Some 41 per cent paddy harvesting in haor areas was completed as of April 20, according to data of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). Of them, 38 per cent harvesting of paddy already was...

As students, traders end hostilities, calm descends on Dhaka College

As students, traders end hostilities, calm descends on Dhaka College

-- 2022-04-21 16:41:29

Two days on from the bloody clashes between students and shopkeepers in the New Market area, the tension pervading the air at Dhaka College has calmed after the two conflicting camps announced a truce...

45 Covid cases, no deaths reported in 24 hours

45 Covid cases, no deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-04-21 16:29:51

Bangladesh has recorded 45 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,485. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from the...

Primary school teacher recruitment test begins Friday

Primary school teacher recruitment test begins Friday

-- 2022-04-21 16:25:21

The first phase of examination for the recruitment of 45,000 assistant teachers in government primary schools will begin on Friday. In the first phase, the test will be held in 22 districts, said Sta...

Transport workers go on indefinite strike in Dinajpur

Transport workers go on indefinite strike in Dinajpur

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-21 15:18:00

Transport workers went on an indefinite strike on all routes of Dinajpur Thursday morning protesting the arrest of eight fellow workers and the attack on a transport leader. Locals said transport wor...

Three of a family burnt in fire in Jatrabari

Three of a family burnt in fire in Jatrabari

-- 2022-04-21 15:15:06

Three members of a family have been burnt in a fire sparked by the explosion of a refrigerator's compressor in Dhaka’s Jatrabari, police said. The victims were admitted to the Sheikh Hasina N...

New Market reopens after two days

New Market reopens after two days

-- 2022-04-21 13:46:16

Dhaka’s New Market has reopened for business two days after bloody skirmishes between shopkeepers and Dhaka College students turned one of the capital’s largest and best-known commercial a...

New Market mayhem: Around 1,400 people sued in three cases

New Market mayhem: Around 1,400 people sued in three cases

-- 2022-04-21 12:18:52

Three cases have been recorded against almost 1,400 people, including Dhaka College students and shop owners, in connection with the violent clashes that roiled the capital's New Market area....

Another New Market mayhem victim dies

Another New Market mayhem victim dies

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-21 10:46:43

A shop assistant, who was seriously injured in the clashes between Dhaka College students and traders from New Market, died in hospital care. The death toll from the incident now stands at two. The 2...

Mirza Fakhrul questions ‘police inaction’ in tackling New Market clashes

Mirza Fakhrul questions ‘police inaction’ in tackling New Market clashes

-- 2022-04-20 23:11:18

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday questioned the 'inactive role’ of police in stopping the day-long clashes between shopkeepers and Dhaka College students in the cit...

Seven people get life term for murder in Chattogram

Seven people get life term for murder in Chattogram

-- 2022-04-20 22:53:00

A Chattogram court on Wednesday sentenced seven people to life imprisonment for killing a youth and hacking another in Karnafuli Upazila of Chattogram. The lifers are- Md Azam, Faruq, Ali Azgar, Shaw...

Commerce minister meets West Bengal’s chief minister

Commerce minister meets West Bengal’s chief minister

-- 2022-04-20 22:47:27

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi met Chief Minister (CM) of India’s West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Tuesday and discussed the issues of common interest in the area of trade and inve...

Five killed during Nor’wester in four districts

Five killed during Nor’wester in four districts

-- 2022-04-20 22:00:32

Five people were killed in separate incidents as a nor’wester swept over different parts of the country on Wednesday. The deaths were reported from Barishal, Chattogram, Bogura and Manikganj di...

Dhaka University Teachers’ Association chief suspended over Mushtaque tribute

Dhaka University Teachers’ Association chief suspended over Mushtaque tribute

-- 2022-04-20 21:46:33

Dhaka University Teachers’ Association President Prof Md Rahmat Ullah has been suspended from academic and administrative duties after he paid tribute to Khandakar Mushtaque Ahmed during an even...

Five ferries being overhauled to ease Eid travel on Paturia-Daulatdia route

Five ferries being overhauled to ease Eid travel on Paturia-Daulatdia route

-- 2022-04-20 20:06:43

The Paturia-Daulatdia river route is one of the main ways people can travel from Dhaka to the 21 districts of southern Bangladesh. At least five ferries are now being overhauled to ease travel on the...

Some political parties conspiring to oust government, says PM

Some political parties conspiring to oust government, says PM

-- 2022-04-20 19:36:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said a group of political parties in patronisation of the BNP-Jamaat alliance is engaged in a conspiracy to oust the Awami League government only to take the...

HC bench passes order on 1501 cases in a single day

HC bench passes order on 1501 cases in a single day

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-20 19:13:35

A High Court division bench of the Supreme Court has disposed of a total of 1501 cases, a significant number in disposing of cases in a single day, related to bail prayer and filed from 2016 to 2019...

Blasts in front of Dhaka College halt traffic, stores closed

Blasts in front of Dhaka College halt traffic, stores closed

-- 2022-04-20 17:48:39

At least a dozen cocktail bombs have been detonated in front of Dhaka College, bringing traffic on either side of the road to a halt.The explosions came late on Wednesday afternoon as stores began to...

German envoy ‘unhappy’ over BNP misquoting him

German envoy ‘unhappy’ over BNP misquoting him

-- 2022-04-20 17:46:21

German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster has expressed displeasure over what he says BNP misquoted him on Bangladesh’s democracy and human rights issues after his meeting with the party&rsq...