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Newly elevated Appellate Division Justice Nazmul Ahasan dies

Newly elevated Appellate Division Justice Nazmul Ahasan dies

-- 2022-02-04 11:08:04

Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan, who was elevated to the Appellate Division from the High Court, has died from post-COVID complications before he could be sworn in as one of the top judges, bdnews24.com rep...

500 stone, lime-carrying boats run aground in Patlai River

500 stone, lime-carrying boats run aground in Patlai River

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-04 10:59:40

SYLHET: More than 500 steel body boats had run aground on the narrow river Patlai in remote Sunamganj due to fall in the water level for the last two weeks causing much suffering to the locals. Moreo...

European Investment Bank to provide €250m to Bangladesh for vaccine procurement

European Investment Bank to provide €250m to Bangladesh for vaccine procurement

FE REPORT 2022-02-04 10:28:31

European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide 250 million euros to Bangladesh to support procurement of safe and effective vaccines and country-wide immunisation against Covid-19. Vaccination efforts w...

Central public library to be demolished for modernisation

Central public library to be demolished for modernisation

FE REPORT 2022-02-04 09:50:29

The government is going to demolish the 64-year-old Sufia Kamal National Public Library, popularly known as central public library, at Shahbagh, in order to construct a multi-storey building there u...

Bangladesh preparing roadmap for increased rice output

Bangladesh preparing roadmap for increased rice output

FE REPORT 2022-02-04 08:48:05

The government is set to prepare a roadmap aiming to increase rice production amid a growing demand of the main staple in the country. Prices of rice increased recently despite record productions of...

Bangladesh to challenge US sanctions: State minister Shahriar

Bangladesh to challenge US sanctions: State minister Shahriar

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2022-02-04 08:43:32

Bangladesh plans to challenge diplomatically and legally the US decision to impose sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and some of its officials, foreign office high-ups said on Thursday. Dha...

Financial intel unit asks banks to submit e-com companies' account information

Financial intel unit asks banks to submit e-com companies' account information

FE REPORT 2022-02-04 08:39:33

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) asks banks to provide detailed information on accounts of 30 e-commerce companies, including Daraj, Evaly, Alesha Mart and e-Orange, some of whom sank int...

Bangladeshi shipbreakers grow to global prominence

Bangladeshi shipbreakers grow to global prominence

MONIRA MUNNI 2022-02-04 08:35:06

Bangladesh annually imports the highest number of scrap ships to provide vital backward linkage to booming steel and re-rolling industries, thus holding top global position. Such ranking as leading s...

Army officer killed in terror attack in Bandarban

Army officer killed in terror attack in Bandarban

-- 2022-02-03 20:44:57

A senior army warrant officer was killed and an army soldier injured when armed terrorists of JSS main group backed by Santu Larma opened fire on a patrol team in Ruma upazila of Bandarban district on...

Government preparing roadmap to increase rice production within two years

Government preparing roadmap to increase rice production within two years

-- 2022-02-03 20:34:59

The government is preparing a roadmap to boost rice production within two years to meet the increasing demand, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday. "This year aus, aman and...

EIB to provide Bangladesh €250m for buying Covid vaccines

EIB to provide Bangladesh €250m for buying Covid vaccines

-- 2022-02-03 20:27:56

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide €250 million to Bangladesh to support the procurement of safe and effective vaccines and country-wide immunisation against Covid-19. Vaccination...

Lioness dies at Gazipur Safari Park

Lioness dies at Gazipur Safari Park

-- 2022-02-03 20:20:29

An African lioness died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur on Thursday. The death was reported when mystery shrouded the deaths of 10 zebras in the park within a span of one month. T...

Consumers brace for a big hike in gas price

Consumers brace for a big hike in gas price

-- 2022-02-03 20:11:27

As gas pressure drops due to short supply, consumers in many areas in the city are feeling the pinch of the crisis. Many families just get an hour or so, usually early in the morning, to cook the en...

Germany terms Bangladesh important economic, political partner

Germany terms Bangladesh important economic, political partner

-- 2022-02-03 19:07:06

Germany has praised Bangladesh saying the economy of the "up-and-coming" country continues to grow rapidly, even during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the poverty rate has been halved since 2000. "In a r...

‘No possibility to expand US sanctions beyond existing individuals’  

‘No possibility to expand US sanctions beyond existing individuals’  

-- 2022-02-03 18:34:21

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Thursday said there is no possibility to expand the US sanctions beyond the existing individuals in Bangladesh, noting that it will not have any...

Gazipur Dhaka, Narayanganj have highest air pollution: Study

Gazipur Dhaka, Narayanganj have highest air pollution: Study

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-03 18:10:50

Air quality in Gazipur, Dhaka, and Narayanganj districts is twice as much worst than the country average and nearly five times higher than the standard means, revealed a study on Thursday. Meanwhil...

Covid kills 33 more, infects 11,596 in 24 hours

Covid kills 33 more, infects 11,596 in 24 hours

-- 2022-02-03 17:26:39

Bangladesh has registered 33 deaths from the coronavirus in a day, taking the total death toll from the disease to 28,494. It also recorded 11,596 new Covid-19 cases in a day, taking the total caselo...

24 civilians, including three rice scientists, win Ekushey Padak

24 civilians, including three rice scientists, win Ekushey Padak

-- 2022-02-03 16:05:20

Bangladesh has awarded the Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award in the country, to 24 recipients, including three scientists from the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. The scientists we...

HC directs authorities to remove Mohsin Khan’s 'suicide' video within six hours

HC directs authorities to remove Mohsin Khan’s 'suicide' video within six hours

-- 2022-02-03 15:46:46

The High Court on Thursday asked the Home Ministry and the country's telecom regulator to remove the video of actor Riaz Ahmed's father-in-law Abu Mohsin Khan committing suicide from all social media...

MV Abhijan fire: Govt orders action against officials for negligence

MV Abhijan fire: Govt orders action against officials for negligence

-- 2022-02-03 14:27:11

The government has directed authorities to take action against officials who were negligent of their duty regarding the deadly MV Abhijan-10 launch fire that killed 47 people and injured 80 last year....

Bangladesh extends pandemic restrictions to February 21

Bangladesh extends pandemic restrictions to February 21

-- 2022-02-03 12:46:09

The Bangladesh government has extended pandemic restrictions to Feb 21 as the recent rise in COVID-19 cases continues. The decision was taken in light of the current situation and the new omicron var...

Users get poor 4G data speed in Khulna as well

Users get poor 4G data speed in Khulna as well

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-03 12:38:49

The mobile phone operators have failed to ensure the fourth generation (4G) data speed in different districts of Khulna Division. They were providing poorer download speed as compared to the country'...

Army officer among four dead in Bandarban gunfight

Army officer among four dead in Bandarban gunfight

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-03 12:20:08

Four people, including an army officer, were killed in a shootout between the army and ‘criminals’ in Bandarban’s Ruma. Army officials said that a patrol was involved in a shootout...

Digital platform launched for risk-informed development

Digital platform launched for risk-informed development

FE REPORT 2022-02-03 08:37:13

A web-based platform kicked off on Wednesday to integrate disaster risk information into government's development planning, budgeting, policies and programmes. The platform under the Planning Commi...

Internet service providers demand revoking double taxation

Internet service providers demand revoking double taxation

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-02-03 08:35:15

Internet service providers (ISPs) have sought steps from the government to resolve the issue of double taxation in providing advertisements to Google, facebook and other social media platforms. Banks...

Bangladesh's foreign exchange spending far outstrips receipts

Bangladesh's foreign exchange spending far outstrips receipts

SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-02-03 08:27:43

Bangladesh's current-account balance gets under growing strains as import spending far outstrips the country's export earnings and remittance also slims, officials say. Such lower receipts of forei...

Shab-e-Meraj on February 28

Shab-e-Meraj on February 28

-- 2022-02-02 22:45:20

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed in the country on the night of February 28. The National Moon Sighting Committee took the decision at a meeting held at the Islamic Foundation office at Baitul...

Bangladesh initiates process to launch its second satellite

Bangladesh initiates process to launch its second satellite

-- 2022-02-02 22:29:37

Bangladesh has initiated a process of launching its second satellite, Bangabandhu-2, through signing a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with a Russian company, Glavkosmos. Bangladesh Satellite Company...

Bangladesh losing the deltaic character

Bangladesh losing the deltaic character

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2022-02-02 21:07:09

The wetlands that once covered two-thirds of the country’s land area have come down to less than a half, a decline which, environmentalists warn, has threatened agriculture, fisheries, navigatio...

Omicron sub-variant could be more contagious, warns DGHS

Omicron sub-variant could be more contagious, warns DGHS

-- 2022-02-02 19:54:22

The newly detected sub-variant of Omicron, the South African variant of coronavirus, can be even more contagious, warned the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). There is no alternative to...