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Fire breaks out at BSMMU building

Fire breaks out at BSMMU building

-- 2022-01-24 19:29:36

A fire broke out at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital building in Dhaka on Monday. Mohammad Shahjahan Shikder, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defen...

BFIU seeks Dr Yunus's bank information

BFIU seeks Dr Yunus's bank information

-- 2022-01-24 19:21:27

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has sought bank account details from Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. The BFIU on Thursday sent letters to banks seeking information on all types...

Five get death for 2002 murder of Radha Rani in Madaripur

Five get death for 2002 murder of Radha Rani in Madaripur

-- 2022-01-24 18:12:00

A Madaripur court has sentenced five people to death for the 2002 murder of Radha Rani Baidya. Judge Lailatul Ferdous of the Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court announced the verdict...

Bangladesh sees 14,828 virus cases, highest in 25 weeks

Bangladesh sees 14,828 virus cases, highest in 25 weeks

-- 2022-01-24 18:09:08

Bangladesh has reported 14,828 new coronavirus cases, the highest in a day since Aug 3, taking the total caseload to 1,699,964. As many as 45,807 samples were tested across the country, for a positiv...

37m children’s education disrupted in Bangladesh in pandemic

37m children’s education disrupted in Bangladesh in pandemic

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-24 17:52:56

More than 635 million students remain affected by full or partial school closures, according to a UNICEF statement. On the International Day of Education and as the Covid-19 pandemic nears its two-ye...

Sagar-Runi murder case: Court defers probe report submission for 84th time

Sagar-Runi murder case: Court defers probe report submission for 84th time

-- 2022-01-24 17:39:37

A Dhaka court on Monday asked the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to submit by February 23 the probe report in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi. With latest decision,...

Half of bank employees to work from home until February 6

Half of bank employees to work from home until February 6

-- 2022-01-24 17:30:22

Bangladesh Bank has ordered all banks in the country to operate with only half of their employees physically present in the workplace until February 6. The other employees will have to work from home...

SUST hunger strike protester undergoes emergency surgery

SUST hunger strike protester undergoes emergency surgery

-- 2022-01-24 17:23:48

A Shahjalal University of Science and Technology student engaging in a hunger strike to call for the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed has undergone emergency surgery. Mahin Shahriar R...

HC directs BRTA to put bus fare charts on display

HC directs BRTA to put bus fare charts on display

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-24 17:16:01

The High Court on Monday directed concerned authorities to take steps for displaying the fare chart of public transports at all the bus and mini bus stands and make it visible public places and displa...

Woman found dead at victim support centre of Rangpur police

Woman found dead at victim support centre of Rangpur police

-- 2022-01-24 15:33:20

A woman was found dead at the victim support centre of Rangpur’s Kotowali Police Station. The body of the woman, identified as 19-year-old Ruhi, was recovered from the support centre on Sunday....

Bangladeshi youth fisher-led initiative cleaned sea beaches removing 12068kg pollutants in 2021

Bangladeshi youth fisher-led initiative cleaned sea beaches removing 12068kg pollutants in 2021

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-24 15:24:28

Blue Guards, a youth fisher-led beach cleaning initiative, removed 12,068kg non-decomposable pollutants from the sea beaches covering Cox's Bazar Sadar, Moheshkhali, Ramu, Teknaf, Ukhiya and Patuakhal...

DU  teachers, students rallying behind SUST

DU teachers, students rallying behind SUST

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-01-24 15:04:17

A group of teachers and students of Dhaka University are rallying behind the protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in the form of a symbolic hunger strike, human...

Three die as train collides with small truck in Chapainawabganj

Three die as train collides with small truck in Chapainawabganj

-- 2022-01-24 13:40:42

Three people have died after a train collided with a small truck at an unprotected rail crossing in Chapainawabganj, bdnews24.com reports. The incident took place in the Alinagar area around 8:30 am...

Lower courts and tribunals to run with half staff in person as Covid-19 surges

Lower courts and tribunals to run with half staff in person as Covid-19 surges

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-24 12:12:25

The Supreme Court has asked its all subordinate courts and tribunals to operate with 50 per cent officers and employees in person amid a surge in Covid-19 cases across the country. The order will com...

Rampura power station catches fire

Rampura power station catches fire

-- 2022-01-24 11:16:11

A fire has broken out at the Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited Power Ulan Power Substation near the Rampura Metropolitan Project area, bdnews24.com reports. The blaze at the 133/32 kV substati...

Padmachhara Lake can be a tourist hotspot

Padmachhara Lake can be a tourist hotspot

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-24 09:25:09

SYLHET: Padmachhara Lake in Moulvibazar has every potential to become a tourist hotspot if proper initiatives are taken to develop it as a vacationers' destination. Located in Kamalganj upazila, the...

8,516 killed, 9,751 injured in accidents in 2021: JKS

8,516 killed, 9,751 injured in accidents in 2021: JKS

FE REPORT 2022-01-24 09:15:19

At least 8,516 people were killed and 9,751 others injured in 6,213 accidents on roads, railways and waterways last year, said a report of Jatri Kalyan Samity (JKS) on Sunday. The organization reveal...

Dhaka's traffic signal automation suffers hiccup

Dhaka's traffic signal automation suffers hiccup

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-01-24 09:10:18

A move to upgrade the signal system in the city's four busy intersections has become unsuccessful as different government agencies damaged the existing underground cables and poles with cameras. Exce...

Govt orders physical presence of 50pc employees at workplaces from Monday

Govt orders physical presence of 50pc employees at workplaces from Monday

-- 2022-01-23 21:32:12

The government has ordered all offices to operate with the physical presence of 50 per cent of employees, starting on Monday, as part of its efforts to control rising coronavirus infections. The orde...

SUST students disconnect power supply to VC’s residence

SUST students disconnect power supply to VC’s residence

-- 2022-01-23 21:26:18

The unrest at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) deepened on Sunday evening as its protesting students disconnected electricity supply to the Vice-Chancellor’s residence a...

Bangla Academy awards: Rono, Panna named among 15 winners

Bangla Academy awards: Rono, Panna named among 15 winners

-- 2022-01-23 21:06:21

Veteran politician Haider Akbar Khan Rono and Panna Kaiser, wife of martyred intellectual Shahidullah Kaiser, have been named among 15 winners of this year’s Bangla Academy Literary Award. The...

Nasrul directs strengthening monitoring of energy sector project implementation

Nasrul directs strengthening monitoring of energy sector project implementation

-- 2022-01-23 20:58:31

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has directed the officials of the state-owned entities in the energy sector to strengthen the monitoring of their projects' implemen...

British parliamentary delegation visits Rohingya camps 

British parliamentary delegation visits Rohingya camps 

-- 2022-01-23 20:04:19

A British parliamentary delegation, comprising Tom Hunt, MP and Paul Bristow, MP, has travelled to Rohingya camps in Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char. They reaffirmed their support for the d...

Hunger strike: SUST teachers ‘threaten’ participating students

Hunger strike: SUST teachers ‘threaten’ participating students

-- 2022-01-23 19:42:27

Students demonstrating for the removal of Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology have alleged they have been threatened by their teachers. The autho...

SC clears way for administrator to operate Delta Life for more two weeks

SC clears way for administrator to operate Delta Life for more two weeks

Staff Reporter 2022-01-23 19:00:20

The Appellate Division on Sunday extended the stay order on the proceedings of a High Court verdict until February 06, which declared the appointment of an administrator to operate Delta Life Insuranc...

No prior notice to evict grabbers of illegal establishment, say Atiqul

No prior notice to evict grabbers of illegal establishment, say Atiqul

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-23 18:51:29

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Sunday said that no prior notice will be issued to evict the grabbers of illegal establishments in the capital. This was stated by the DNC...

Furniture store in Baridhara catches fire

Furniture store in Baridhara catches fire

-- 2022-01-23 18:17:38

A fire has broken out at a furniture store next to the Bhatara Police Station in the Baridhara area of Dhaka. The blaze started around 4:25 pm on Sunday, according to the Fire Service Control Room, r...

Telecoms directed to provide quality services like their TVCs, other advertisements

Telecoms directed to provide quality services like their TVCs, other advertisements

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-23 17:55:10

The High Court (HC) on Sunday directed mobile telecom operators of the country to ensure crystal clear voice call quality, fast internet service and stable network, as per their TVCs (television comme...

Many omicron patients report runny nose, headaches, tiredness, sneezing

Many omicron patients report runny nose, headaches, tiredness, sneezing

-- 2022-01-23 17:28:33

At least 73 per cent of patients who contracted the omicron variant of the coronavirus in Bangladesh have reported a runny nose. Many omicron patients also suffer from headaches, lethargy, tiredness...

Covid claims 14 lives, infects 10,906 more in 24hrs

Covid claims 14 lives, infects 10,906 more in 24hrs

-- 2022-01-23 17:23:06

Bangladesh has reported 10,906 new coronavirus cases in a day, the highest in a day since Aug 10, taking the total caseload to 1,685,136. As many as 34,854 samples were tested across the country, for...