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Bangladesh will not fall into Chinese debt trap

Bangladesh will not fall into Chinese debt trap

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-05 18:55:54

Bangladesh will not fall into the so called Chinese debt trap as the volume of its loan from China is not that big, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday. He said it while responding to...

Implement development projects without affecting environment, says Minister

Implement development projects without affecting environment, says Minister

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-05 18:31:38

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim directed the stakeholders to implement development projects of his ministry, ensuring the works do not have any negative impacts on the environment....

Journalist Pir Habibur Rahman dies

Journalist Pir Habibur Rahman dies

-- 2022-02-05 18:06:15

Journalist Pir Habibur Rahman has died at the age of 57. He passed away around 4 pm on Saturday at Dhaka’s Labaid Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital with a combination of health complic...

Saraswati Puja celebrated with prayers for Covid recovery

Saraswati Puja celebrated with prayers for Covid recovery

-- 2022-02-05 17:41:14

Hindus in Bangladesh are celebrating Saraswati Puja, paying their obeisance to the goddess of wisdom, learning, fine and performing arts, and seeking recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and a safe env...

Two Russian employees of Rooppur nuke plant die

Two Russian employees of Rooppur nuke plant die

-- 2022-02-05 17:30:07

Two Russian employees of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna died early Saturday. The deceased are Schukin Pavel,48, mechanical engineer of sub-contractor company Trest Rossem, a...

Bangladesh records 36 new Covid deaths, 8,359 infections

Bangladesh records 36 new Covid deaths, 8,359 infections

-- 2022-02-05 16:39:08

Bangladesh has registered 36 deaths from the coronavirus in a day, taking the total death toll from the disease to 28,560. It also recorded 8,359 new Covid-19 cases in a day, taking the total caseloa...

Attacks on female development workers in Teknaf: Coalition of NGOs issue ultimatum

Attacks on female development workers in Teknaf: Coalition of NGOs issue ultimatum

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 16:33:47

A network of 60 local and national NGOs operating in Cox's Bazar has condemned and protested against the assault on six workers including two women workers of an NGO, in Teknaf on Wednesday. At a v...

Bangladesh forms Election Commission search committee

Bangladesh forms Election Commission search committee

-- 2022-02-05 14:54:48

Former Election Commissioner Sohul Hussain and fiction writer Prof Anwara Syed Haq have been named to the search committee that will nominate candidates for the upcoming Election Commission, bdnews24....

Patients suffer as heavy rains flood Khulna hospital's COVID ward

Patients suffer as heavy rains flood Khulna hospital's COVID ward

-- 2022-02-05 14:08:49

The COVID-19 ward of Khulna Medical College Hospital has been flooded following heavy rainfall on Friday, bdnews24.com reports. Rainwater accumulated on the building roof and flowed down the stairs i...

Mild cold wave sweeping over Rajshahi, Rangpur divisions

Mild cold wave sweeping over Rajshahi, Rangpur divisions

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-05 13:55:36

A Light to moderate rain/thunder showers, accompanied by temporary gusty wind, is likely to occur at one or two places in Rangpur, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour, according to a m...

Malaysia busts gambling ring receiving RM 10,000 a day from Bangladesh

Malaysia busts gambling ring receiving RM 10,000 a day from Bangladesh

-- 2022-02-05 11:11:17

After arresting five Bangladeshis, police in Malaysia have said they are members of an online gambling ring that was receiving 10,000 Malaysian ringgit, or more than Tk 200,000 a day, from customers i...

Beauty shops face double whammy of tax rises, Covid

Beauty shops face double whammy of tax rises, Covid

FE REPORT 2022-02-05 09:46:30

Parlour operators seek a reduction in value-added tax (VAT) on services as the beauty salons have become a casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic, source say. The Beauty Service Owners Association of Bang...

BTRC to supervise social, OTT media

BTRC to supervise social, OTT media

FE REPORT 2022-02-05 09:37:20

The government makes a move to bring all digital platforms, including social media and over-the-top (OTT) services, under strict supervision. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (B...

Bangladesh Railway's slowest among fast-track projects on slow lane

Bangladesh Railway's slowest among fast-track projects on slow lane

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-02-05 09:33:54

Bangladesh Railway runs slowest among the fast-track projects moving on slow lanes as completion of its two megaprojects looks far behind extended timelines, insiders say. Three other projects are al...

Late winter shower brings chill in Dhaka

Late winter shower brings chill in Dhaka

FE REPORT 2022-02-05 08:45:02

The capital along with many other places in the country experienced light to moderate rainfall, accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind, on Friday. According to the Bangladesh Meteorological D...

Study shows hybrid rice acreage doubles in five years

Study shows hybrid rice acreage doubles in five years

Yasir Wardad 2022-02-05 08:42:52

The arable land under hybrid rice cultivation, especially in Boro season, almost doubled in last five years, with Mymensingh emerging as the top producer district, a latest study of the government rev...

Mercury set to drop as many parts of Bangladesh experiencing rains

Mercury set to drop as many parts of Bangladesh experiencing rains

-- 2022-02-04 20:22:40

With the end of winter on Bangla calendar only nine days away, mercury is set to slide as Dhaka and many other parts of the country are experiencing rains under the influence of a trough of westerly l...

My father-in-law had refused to stay with his children, says actor Riaz

My father-in-law had refused to stay with his children, says actor Riaz

-- 2022-02-04 19:15:02

Loneliness, floundering business and cancer appear to have pushed Abu Mohsin Khan to end his own life, but the 58-year-old had refused requests to leave his home and stay with his children, his son-in...

US group recognises 1971 genocide, asks UN to do same

US group recognises 1971 genocide, asks UN to do same

-- 2022-02-04 19:06:08

Genocide Watch, a US-based organisation that campaigns against all forms of mass murder, has recognised as genocide the crimes committed by the Pakistani forces during Bangladesh’s Liberation Wa...

Australia arrests Pakistani-origin man for killing Bangladesh-born wife

Australia arrests Pakistani-origin man for killing Bangladesh-born wife

-- 2022-02-04 19:00:45

Police in Australia have arrested a Pakistani-origin man on charges of murdering his wife, a Bangladesh-born medicine student, weeks after their marriage in Sydney. Police found the body of Arnima Ha...

Road crash claims four lives in Chandpur

Road crash claims four lives in Chandpur

-- 2022-02-04 18:49:51

At least four passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw have been killed and two others injured in a road accident on Baburhat-Matlab Road in Baradia area in Matlab Dakkhin upazila of Chandpur district....

Austria eyes greater economic relations with Bangladesh

Austria eyes greater economic relations with Bangladesh

-- 2022-02-04 18:46:18

Austria wants to become partner in Bangladesh's development and build up economic relations with the country. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer expressed his country's interest on Friday while he cal...

Family outcast for sending daughter abroad for studies

Family outcast for sending daughter abroad for studies

-- 2022-02-04 18:06:39

A family in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila has been declared an outcast by a local mosque committee for sending a daughter for education in the United States. Nurunnahar Chowdhury Jharna, daught...

British envoy describes Bangladesh as role model of positive transformation

British envoy describes Bangladesh as role model of positive transformation

-- 2022-02-04 17:49:52

Describing Bangladesh as a role model of positive transformation, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson has said the world admires Bangladesh’s achievements in the la...

Bangladesh reports 9,052 new Covid cases, 30 deaths

Bangladesh reports 9,052 new Covid cases, 30 deaths

-- 2022-02-04 17:00:07

Bangladesh has recorded 9,052 cases of Covid-19 in a daily count, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,844,828. The death toll climbed to 28,524 after 30 deaths were registered in the 24 hours...

76 foreigners complicit, 13 officials negligent in 2016 BB cyber heist

76 foreigners complicit, 13 officials negligent in 2016 BB cyber heist

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 16:51:45

At least 76 individuals of eight countries were involved in committing cyber robbery of Bangladesh Bank’s US$81 million in 2016, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police has reporte...

Road safety protesters stage demo again in Dhaka

Road safety protesters stage demo again in Dhaka

-- 2022-02-04 15:59:35

Student protesters, who had launched a movement in December for safer roads, have returned to the streets of Dhaka’s Rampura after the death of a Rajshahi University student in a road accident o...

Newborn 'sold' to pay hospital bill is reunited with mother

Newborn 'sold' to pay hospital bill is reunited with mother

-- 2022-02-04 13:09:31

A woman who was forced to give up her newborn for adoption has been reunited with her child in Chandpur, bdnews24.com reports. The local administration took the baby back from an expatriate couple no...

Light to moderate rain likely over Bangladesh

Light to moderate rain likely over Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-04 12:54:10

Light to moderate rain/thundershowers are likely to occur at many places in seven divisions across the country in the next 24 hours starting at 9am on Friday, according to a Met office bulletin. The...

Policy pause on freewheeling three-wheelers

Policy pause on freewheeling three-wheelers

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-02-04 11:12:56

A government move on finalising a policy drafted to regulate freewheeling three-wheelers halted in a prolonged pause as various stakeholders gave the cold shoulder to request for their opinions. Th...