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‘Water now seen as strategic asset’

‘Water now seen as strategic asset’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-21 18:51:13

Shahidul Haque, professorial fellow, NSU, and former foreign secretary of Bangladesh, said water is seen as a strategic asset nowadays, not only as a resource. River influences geopolitics in South A...

11,434 coronavirus cases, 12 deaths reported in 24 hours

11,434 coronavirus cases, 12 deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-01-21 18:51:05

Bangladesh has recorded 11,434 coronavirus cases in a daily count, the highest since Aug 9 last year, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,664,616. The death toll from Covid-19 rose by 12 to 2...

Dipu Moni speaks to agitating SUST students

Dipu Moni speaks to agitating SUST students

-- 2022-01-21 18:39:31

Education Minister Dipu Moni on Friday spoke to the agitating students of Sylhet’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) to try to end the impasse. She talked to the students ov...

Bangladesh calls for joint efforts of range countries to save tiger

Bangladesh calls for joint efforts of range countries to save tiger

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-21 18:31:11

Bangladesh has called for joint efforts of the 13 tiger range countries in the world to save tigers and nature. The Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin made the call at...

230 police, RAB members win BPM, PPM awards for outstanding performance

230 police, RAB members win BPM, PPM awards for outstanding performance

-- 2022-01-21 18:25:26

A total of 230 members of Bangladesh Police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have won the Bangladesh Police Medals (BPM) and President’s Police Medals (PPM) for their outstanding performance in...

Chinese man ‘apologised’ after throwing money at traffic policemen

Chinese man ‘apologised’ after throwing money at traffic policemen

-- 2022-01-21 17:53:15

A Chinese national has apologised for his behaviour after throwing cash in traffic policemen’s direction in Dhaka, police say. A video of the visibly angry man throwing cash indiscriminately af...

Bangladesh issues five-point fresh restrictions to tackle Covid-19 surge

Bangladesh issues five-point fresh restrictions to tackle Covid-19 surge

-- 2022-01-21 17:50:59

As the country witnessed a sharp rise of Covid-19 cases in the past few weeks, the Cabinet Division on Friday issued five-point fresh restrictions to contain the deadly virus. The restrictions are as...

Husband’s friend is the second killer of actress Shimu, reveals police

Husband’s friend is the second killer of actress Shimu, reveals police

-- 2022-01-21 17:33:19

Police have revealed new details about the murder of actress Raima Islam Shimu: she was killed by two men -- her husband Shakawat Alim Nobel and his friend SMY Abdullah Farhad. Earlier, police had sa...

Earthquake jolts Dhaka, other parts of Bangladesh

Earthquake jolts Dhaka, other parts of Bangladesh

-- 2022-01-21 17:30:33

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake shook Dhaka, Chattogram and some other parts of the country on Friday afternoon, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The tremor was felt around 4:12 pm, reports UNB. Acc...

RCC constructs STS for modern waste management

RCC constructs STS for modern waste management

-- 2022-01-21 16:22:10

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has a plan of constructing 30 Secondary Transfer Stations (STS) in each ward of the city in phases for removing and managing the household wastes and garbage in a moder...

Actress Shimu`s husband confesses to killing wife: Police

Actress Shimu`s husband confesses to killing wife: Police

-- 2022-01-21 16:00:01

Actress Raima Islam Shimu’s husband has admitted to killing his wife before a judicial magistrate in Dhaka, a senior police officer said Friday. Keraniganj Additional superintendent of police H...

SUST hunger strike day-3: Twelve students hospitalised

SUST hunger strike day-3: Twelve students hospitalised

-- 2022-01-21 15:44:17

Now twelve of the 24 students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on an indefinite hunger strike since Wednesday have been hospitalised till Friday. The 24 students embarked on f...

Govt shuts schools, colleges until Feb 6 as virus surges

Govt shuts schools, colleges until Feb 6 as virus surges

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-21 13:10:52

The government has shut all schools and colleges across the country for two weeks in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus infections. The Cabinet Division issued a notice on Friday, making th...

Three of a family killed as bus rams autorickshaw in city

Three of a family killed as bus rams autorickshaw in city

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-21 10:31:43

Three people of the same family died after a bus rammed into an autorickshaw in Dhaka's Matuail. The dead have been identified as Abdur Rahman, 65, his daughter Sharmin Akter, 38, and son-in-law Reaz...

Biden sends New Year greetings to Momen

Biden sends New Year greetings to Momen

-- 2022-01-21 10:27:49

President of the United States Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden extended New Year’s greetings to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his family, BSS reports. In a message, sent...

Illegal vehicles plying roads violating HC directive

Illegal vehicles plying roads violating HC directive

ADNAN HOSSAIN BHUIYAN 2022-01-21 09:18:46

Amid lax monitoring, the illegal battery-run rickshaws and easy bikes are plying unabated in different roads across the country despite a high court's directive to remove those vehicles from the roads...

Field-level officials asked to act to protect navigability of rivers

Field-level officials asked to act to protect navigability of rivers

FE REPORT 2022-01-21 09:06:35

The government has directed the deputy commissioners (DCs) to take tougher steps with an eye to preserving the navigability of rivers across the country. The DCs have also been asked to get tough w...

Deputy commissioners asked to discipline delinquents

Deputy commissioners asked to discipline delinquents

FE REPORT 2022-01-21 08:58:50

The government asks deputy commissioners (DCs) to punish violators of its 11-point directives on containment of a latest wave of Covid-19 transmission in Bangladesh as daily caseload overshot 10,000 m...

Law minister says digital security act to be amended if necessary

Law minister says digital security act to be amended if necessary

-- 2022-01-20 21:32:21

Admitting some misuses and abuses in implementing the digital security act (DSA), Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said the government will amend the act, if necessary to implement it properly. &l...

India’s unilateral withdrawal of Teesta waters unlawful: International conference   

India’s unilateral withdrawal of Teesta waters unlawful: International conference  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-01-20 21:01:15

India’s diversion of the Teesta waters without any sharing arrangement with co-riparian Bangladesh is unacceptable ethically and legally, water expert Professor Ainun Nishat observed on Thursday...

Awami League hires lobbyists with public money, alleges Mosharraf

Awami League hires lobbyists with public money, alleges Mosharraf

-- 2022-01-20 19:48:49

Turning down the allegation of hiring any lobbyist in the USA, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday alleged that Awami League spent huge public money by appointing lob...

Draft of ‘Land Crime Prevention and Redress Act, 2021’ opens to all for opinions

Draft of ‘Land Crime Prevention and Redress Act, 2021’ opens to all for opinions

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-20 19:33:47

The draft of ‘Land Crime Prevention and Redress Act, 2021’ has been published on the land ministry website for opinions from all stakeholders. Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury came up...

Three die in Brahmanbaria road crash

Three die in Brahmanbaria road crash

-- 2022-01-20 19:17:10

Three youths were killed as the motorbike carrying them collided with a pickup van on Wednesday night on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district. The deceased were Antar M...

Biman to start direct flights to Sharjah from Jan 25

Biman to start direct flights to Sharjah from Jan 25

-- 2022-01-20 18:46:57

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will start direct flight to United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Sharjah from January 25 for the convenience of expatriate Bangladeshis. Initially, the national flag carrier...

15,229 candidates pass 43rd BCS preliminary exams

15,229 candidates pass 43rd BCS preliminary exams

-- 2022-01-20 18:26:19

A total of 15,229 candidates have passed the 43rd Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary exams. The Bangladesh Public Service Commission published the results on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com.

DU faces acute problem of managing parking spaces

DU faces acute problem of managing parking spaces

-- 2022-01-20 18:19:04

The century-old Dhaka University has plenty of problems; shortage of dormitory rooms for students, houses for teachers, poor water supply and waste management. Add to the list the parking woes. Cars,...

IPTVs, YouTube channels shouldn’t air news, says Info Minister

IPTVs, YouTube channels shouldn’t air news, says Info Minister

-- 2022-01-20 18:11:23

Deputy Commissioners have been asked to strengthen monitoring to prevent the airing of news through IPTVs and YouTube channels as per the National Broadcast Policy, said the Information Minister. &ld...

Momen asks DCs to ensure quick services to expats

Momen asks DCs to ensure quick services to expats

-- 2022-01-20 18:11:04

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday urged the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to be "more sensitive" in ensuring hassle-free services to the expatriate Bangladeshis in an expeditious way as over...

Advisory panel recommends cutting Covid-19 isolation to 10 days

Advisory panel recommends cutting Covid-19 isolation to 10 days

-- 2022-01-20 18:03:17

The National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 has recommended cutting the period of isolation for COVID-19 patients to 10 days from 14 days after the symptoms show. The panel also recommended...

ACC following wrong way in Basic Bank loan scams investigation, observes HC         

ACC following wrong way in Basic Bank loan scams investigation, observes HC      

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-01-20 18:03:07

The High Court in a verdict observed that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is following a wrong path in investigating the cases filed in connection with the loan scams of the state-owned Basic B...