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Padma Bridge to open to traffic in June, says Quader

Padma Bridge to open to traffic in June, says Quader

-- 2022-02-01 17:37:19

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the much-awaited Padma Multipurpose Bridge will be opened for vehicular movement next June. “Ninety-six per cent of bridge’s ma...

Covid claims 31 lives, infects 13,154 more

Covid claims 31 lives, infects 13,154 more

-- 2022-02-01 17:20:38

Bangladesh has recorded 13,154 new Covid-19 cases in a day, taking the total caseload to 1,811,987. It also registered 31 deaths from the coronavirus in a day, taking the total death toll from the...

‘Imposing sanctions on Bangladesh not on cards’

‘Imposing sanctions on Bangladesh not on cards’

-- 2022-02-01 17:03:29

Influential US Congressman and Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Gregory W Meeks has said they do not want to impose any sanctions on Bangladesh as there is an excellent relationship bet...

Publishers propose to hold Ekushey Book Fair from Feb 15 to Mar 17

Publishers propose to hold Ekushey Book Fair from Feb 15 to Mar 17

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-01 15:48:43

Publishers have called on authorities to hold the Amar Ekushey Book Fair from February 15 to March 17 after it was delayed due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Publishers tabled the proposal in a m...

Khaleda Zia set to return home after 81 days in hospital

Khaleda Zia set to return home after 81 days in hospital

-- 2022-02-01 14:08:25

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to return home on Tuesday after spending 81 days in a Dhaka hospital. A decision was taken by the Evercare Hospital medical board to send her home in view of the wi...

Ex-JU official Hafizur Rahman dies

Ex-JU official Hafizur Rahman dies

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-01 11:40:47

ATM Hafizur Rahman, a retired official of Jahangirnagar University and son of late AKM Abu Al Habib Tarun Biswas, has passed away. He was 77. He breathed his last at 11:45pm on Monday. He had been be...

Farmers' income can rise up to 36pc: Study

Farmers' income can rise up to 36pc: Study

FE REPORT 2022-02-01 09:46:21

Farmers can raise their income by up to 36 per cent through using validated weather forecasts, a government study revealed on Monday. The research said their income could be increased by avoiding l...

Government plans 20pc cuts in foreign funds

Government plans 20pc cuts in foreign funds

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-02-01 09:02:53

Sluggish project-implementation progress under different ministries makes the government mull over slashing foreign aid by 20 per cent in the revised development budget, officials say. The Economic...

Diesel likely to fuel all dual-fuel power plants

Diesel likely to fuel all dual-fuel power plants

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2022-02-01 08:55:46

The current gas-fired dual-fuel power plants are likely to be run by diesel in an expensive energy substitution for gas crunch principally for exploration dilemmas, officials indicate. To make do w...

Trial in Rana Plaza murder case begins five years after charge framing

Trial in Rana Plaza murder case begins five years after charge framing

-- 2022-01-31 22:46:45

Trial in the murder case filed over Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 began officially on Monday by recording statements of the witnesses. On July 18, 2016, Dhaka District and Session Court Judge SM Kuddus...

1,287 more Rohingyas reach Bhasan Char

1,287 more Rohingyas reach Bhasan Char

-- 2022-01-31 21:17:47

Another batch of 1,287 Rohingya refugees reached Bhasan Char in the tenth phase on Monday. Of them 65 came as visitors from Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps and 81 are residents of Bhasan Char returning af...

Two safari park officials withdrawn over death of 11 zebras

Two safari park officials withdrawn over death of 11 zebras

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-31 21:05:34

The government has withdrawn two officials of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur as part of measures to investigate recent deaths of deaths of 11 zebras at the park. The environment...

Bangladesh-Australia ties to reach a new height, Sheikh Hasina hopes

Bangladesh-Australia ties to reach a new height, Sheikh Hasina hopes

-- 2022-01-31 20:44:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh looks forward to elevating existing relations of Bangladesh and Australia to a new height for the benefit of the people and economies as well as to securin...

Foreign minister, his wife test positive for Covid-19

Foreign minister, his wife test positive for Covid-19

-- 2022-01-31 20:26:45

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and his wife Selina Momen have tested positive for Covid-19. “However, there're no complexities as they’re staying at home,” said a senior official a...

We'll be satisfied when verdict is executed, says Sinha's sister

We'll be satisfied when verdict is executed, says Sinha's sister

-- 2022-01-31 20:19:27

Although the two key suspects in the murder of Sinha Md Rashed Khan -- sacked police personnel Pradip Kumar Das and Liakat Ali -- have been given the death sentence, the family of the slain former arm...

Eight HC judges to monitor lower courts’ proceedings   

Eight HC judges to monitor lower courts’ proceedings  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-01-31 20:04:57

Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique has appointed eight judges of the High Court to monitor the proceedings and to reduce the case backlog of the subordinate courts across the country by speeding up the...

US donates 1.78m more Pfizer vaccines to Bangladesh

US donates 1.78m more Pfizer vaccines to Bangladesh

-- 2022-01-31 19:42:08

The United States has donated an additional 10 million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh as a gift from the American people.  Delivered via COVAX, these donations of Pfizer...

BNP gets derailed from mainstream politics, Obaidul Quader says

BNP gets derailed from mainstream politics, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2022-01-31 19:04:31

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said the BNP is getting derailed from the country’s mainstream politics day by day due to its patron and nurture of communalism, extremism...

Sisimpur launches new initiative to promote internet safety for children

Sisimpur launches new initiative to promote internet safety for children

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-31 18:51:21

Sesame Workshop Bangladesh, producer of favourite children’s programme Sisimpur, launched an initiative to promote a safe internet environment for young children by increasing access to and awar...

Detective police arrest eight robbers in city’s Mohammadpur

Detective police arrest eight robbers in city’s Mohammadpur

-- 2022-01-31 17:18:13

Detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested eight suspected robbers from the city's Mohammadpur area, including the ringleader of the metropolitan and inter-district robber gang, said...

Bangladesh logs 13,501 new Covid cases, 31 deaths

Bangladesh logs 13,501 new Covid cases, 31 deaths

-- 2022-01-31 17:01:45

Bangladesh has recorded 13,501 new COVID-19 cases in a day, taking the total caseload to 1,798,833. It also registered 31 deaths from the coronavirus in a day, taking the total death toll from the di...

Police officers Pradip, Liakat Ali sentenced to death over Major Sinha murder

Police officers Pradip, Liakat Ali sentenced to death over Major Sinha murder

-- 2022-01-31 16:49:54

A Cox’s Bazar court has sentenced two ex-police personnel former Teknaf OC Pradip Kumar Das and Liakat Ali to death for the murder of Major Sinha Md Rashed Khan. Six other suspects in the case...

Five workers killed as trawler sinks in Dakatia River

Five workers killed as trawler sinks in Dakatia River

-- 2022-01-31 16:34:19

Five workers drowned as a soil-laden trawler sank in the Dakatia River off the coast of Chandpur after hitting a bulkhead early Monday. The deceased were identified as Md Mubarak, 45, Md Awal, 50,...

Accused in Sinha murder in court as judge starts reading verdict

Accused in Sinha murder in court as judge starts reading verdict

-- 2022-01-31 14:53:08

Authorities have brought fifteen suspects, including former Teknaf police OC Pradip Kumar Das, to a Cox’s Bazar court to hear the verdict in the Major Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case, bdnews24....

Sinha murder: Protesters demand OC Pradip’s death sentence

Sinha murder: Protesters demand OC Pradip’s death sentence

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-31 13:46:13

The families of victims staged a demonstration in front of the Cox’s Bazar courthouse to demand the death penalty for former Teknaf police OC Pradip Kumar Das over the murder of retired army Maj...

Miraz ‘stays’ following a dramatic evening in Chattogram

Miraz ‘stays’ following a dramatic evening in Chattogram

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-01-31 12:31:42

Mehidy Hasan Miraz was talked out of leaving the Chattogram Challengers' team set up by the owner of the franchise, Rifatul Islam. Claiming the captaincy debacle was nothing more than a misunderstand...

Voting underway for sixth phase of UP polls in 22 districts

Voting underway for sixth phase of UP polls in 22 districts

-- 2022-01-31 12:12:30

The voting is underway for the sixth phase of local body elections to 218 Union Parishads (UPs) in 42 upazilas of 22 districts, UNB reports. The voting began at 8am at 2,186 polling stations and will...

Security beefed up near court ahead of Sinha murder verdict

Security beefed up near court ahead of Sinha murder verdict

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-31 11:49:53

Security has been heightened on the court premises in Cox’s Bazar ahead of the verdict in the widely discussed Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case. The judge will sit in court at 2 pm...

Court asks ACC to submit progress report on money launderers by March 6

Court asks ACC to submit progress report on money launderers by March 6

FE REPORT 2022-01-31 09:22:15

The High Court (HC) on Sunday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police to submit reports by March 6 on the progress of investigation into the...

Sinha murder verdict likely today

Sinha murder verdict likely today

-- 2022-01-31 09:19:06

A Cox's Bazar District and Sessions Judge's Court will deliver verdict in the Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan murder case today (Monday), according to reports by some TV channels. Judge Mohammad Ismai...