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Police file case against 200 to 300 SUST students over clash

Police file case against 200 to 300 SUST students over clash

-- 2022-01-18 18:07:58

A case has been filed against 200 to 300 unnamed students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on charges of obstructing police from performing their duties and attacking them. Md...

Husband killed actress Shimu over marital strife, say police

Husband killed actress Shimu over marital strife, say police

-- 2022-01-18 17:47:39

Police say actress Raima Islam Shimu was killed by her husband Khandaker Sakhawat Alim Nobel with assistance from his friend SM Wai Farhad over ‘marital strife’. The information was revea...

PM asks DCs to perform duties overcoming fear, greed

PM asks DCs to perform duties overcoming fear, greed

-- 2022-01-18 17:09:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) in the country to perform their duties for the welfare of the people, overcoming fear and greed. They should consider themselves...

Supreme Court to conduct trial proceedings virtually from Wednesday

Supreme Court to conduct trial proceedings virtually from Wednesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-18 16:48:42

Amid the sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear all the cases only in the virtual process from Wednesday. Two separate notifications have been issu...

Fire breaks out at shoe factory in Demra

Fire breaks out at shoe factory in Demra

-- 2022-01-18 16:33:16

A fire at a shoe factory next to the Rajmahal Cinema Hall in Dhaka’s Demra has been brought under control. The fire was reported at 1:05 pm on Tuesday, said Khaleda Yasmin, the on-duty officer...

Brother blames husband for actress Shimu’s murder

Brother blames husband for actress Shimu’s murder

-- 2022-01-18 15:46:13

Shahidul Islam Khokon, the elder brother of film actress Raima Islam Shimu, has blamed her husband Shakhawat Ali Nobel for her murder. “Nobel is a drug addict. He often argued with my sister,&r...

Niko graft case: Court fixes March 8 to frame charges against Khaleda Zia

Niko graft case: Court fixes March 8 to frame charges against Khaleda Zia

-- 2022-01-18 14:18:57

A Dhaka court has fixed Mar 8 to hold an indictment hearing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Niko corruption case. Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman set the date on Tuesday at a temporary court...

PM Hasina opens DC conference

PM Hasina opens DC conference

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-18 13:15:29

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Tuesday) inaugurated the long-awaited three-day annual conference of the Deputy Commissioners (DCs). The prime minister opened the conference as the chief guest jo...

CCC dismantles illegal structures in Chattogram

CCC dismantles illegal structures in Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-18 10:30:46

CHATTOGRAM: The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) conducted a mobile court and demolished establishments built illegally on footpaths and drains at Muradpur in the port city today (Monday). Executi...

Jobless to be higher this year

Jobless to be higher this year

MONIRA MUNNI 2022-01-18 10:26:22

Some 3.6 million people in Bangladesh would remain unemployed in 2022, surpassing the pre-pandemic level by 0.5 million, necessitating prudent government policy interventions. The International Labou...

BB to tighten exposure to single owner of large loans

BB to tighten exposure to single owner of large loans

-- 2022-01-18 09:32:15

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has fixed banks' single borrower and large exposure lending limit to within 25 per cent of its capital, reports UNB. The central bank issued the policy with a view to strengthe...

City households suffer severely

City households suffer severely

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2022-01-18 09:30:56

Most households in Dhaka city suffer from an acute gas supply shortage due to a technical fault at an LNG terminal recently, according to stakeholders. Seeking anonymity, officials at Titas Gas Tra...

AL proposes measures to make polls free, fair

AL proposes measures to make polls free, fair

-- 2022-01-18 09:25:37

Bangladesh Awami League placed a host of proposals, including enactment of a law on the formation of the Election Commission, during a dialogue with President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Monday, a...

Govt to stringently enforce health rules to contain Covid amid omicron surge

Govt to stringently enforce health rules to contain Covid amid omicron surge

-- 2022-01-17 22:52:06

The government is going to take act tough to make people follow the coronavirus restrictions amid a surge in infection and the spread of the omicron variant. “We will swing into action after wa...

Journalist Shakil gets interim bail in rape, feticide case

Journalist Shakil gets interim bail in rape, feticide case

-- 2022-01-17 21:50:07

A Dhaka court on Monday granted interim bail to Ekattor TV's head of news Shakil Ahmed in a case filed by a woman accusing him of having sexual relations with her and forcing her to abort the foetus.&...

Bangladesh approves draft to list wartime collaborators of Pakistan

Bangladesh approves draft to list wartime collaborators of Pakistan

-- 2022-01-17 21:48:18

The government has approved a revised draft of the Jatiya Muktijoddha Council Act with a provision to make lists of people, including members of Razakar, Al Badr, Al Shams and other paramilitary outfi...

BSF returns 29 Bangladeshis in last one year

BSF returns 29 Bangladeshis in last one year

-- 2022-01-17 20:56:26

Over the past one year, a total of 29 Bangladeshi nationals ‘inadvertently crossed’ the international border and all of them were handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh from India as a goo...

Awami League proposes increased use of EVMs in elections

Awami League proposes increased use of EVMs in elections

-- 2022-01-17 20:29:33

Awami League (AL) placed some proposals – including enacting new law for the formation of an election commission and increased use of technologies in elections – during its talks with Pres...

80pc Covid deaths in Bangladesh were unvaccinated people

80pc Covid deaths in Bangladesh were unvaccinated people

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-17 19:14:15

Almost 80 per cent of people who died in Covid-19 in Bangladesh did not take the coronavirus vaccine, according to the director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). DG of the...

Filing fictitious cases now a regular matter, says Fakhrul

Filing fictitious cases now a regular matter, says Fakhrul

-- 2022-01-17 19:06:28

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the filing of 'fictitious' cases against their party leaders and activists and arresting them by the government has now become...

Asaduzzaman Noor contracts Covid again

Asaduzzaman Noor contracts Covid again

-- 2022-01-17 18:18:59

Actor-politician Asaduzzaman Noor has contracted Covid-19 for the second time after giving a sample to join a parliament session. His test report came back positive on Sunday, said Ahkam Ullah, gener...

AL joins EC formation talks

AL joins EC formation talks

-- 2022-01-17 18:11:16

A 10-member Awami League delegation, led by party President Sheikh Hasina, has gone to the Bangabhaban to discuss the formation of an Election Commission with President Md Abdul Hamid. Prime Minister...

Bangladesh logs 6,676 new Covid cases, 10 deaths

Bangladesh logs 6,676 new Covid cases, 10 deaths

-- 2022-01-17 17:50:32

Bangladesh has reported 6,676 coronavirus cases in a day, taking the tally of infections to 1,624,387. The death toll from Covid-19 rose by 10 to 28,154 in the 24 hours to 8 am Monday, according to t...

Police using drones to monitor Rohingya camps amid rising crime

Police using drones to monitor Rohingya camps amid rising crime

-- 2022-01-17 17:43:21

Bangladeshi police have started using drones to monitor Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar after a spike in criminal activity, according to a report published by Arab News. Bangladesh hosts over 1.1...

SC suspends Monday’s judicial proceedings to mourn TH Khan’s death

SC suspends Monday’s judicial proceedings to mourn TH Khan’s death

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-17 17:27:55

Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique has suspended all the judicial proceedings of the High Court and the Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court to mourn the death of senior advocate Md Tafazzal Hossai...

22 lower court judges infected with Covid-19 during training

22 lower court judges infected with Covid-19 during training

-- 2022-01-17 17:24:24

At least 22 judges of lower courts were infected with Covid-19 during a training programme at Bangladesh Judicial Administration Training Institute, officials said on Monday. The infected judges were...

Sena Kalyan Sangstha gives inspirational scholarships to 306 students

Sena Kalyan Sangstha gives inspirational scholarships to 306 students

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-17 17:16:11

Sena Kalyan Sangstha (SKS), a welfare organisation of the Armed Forces of the country, has provided Tk 3.06 million to 306 higher secondary level students as inspirational scholarship. Each of the st...

Taimur urges all not to contest any election under AL govt

Taimur urges all not to contest any election under AL govt

-- 2022-01-17 17:05:27

Taimur Alam Khandaker, who lost the Narayanganj mayoral race, has alleged ‘election engineering’ by the government and ‘election fraud through Electronic Voting Machines’, urgi...

Omicron responsible for 69pc new Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh

Omicron responsible for 69pc new Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh

-- 2022-01-17 16:53:22

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said the omicron variant is responsible for nearly 69 per cent of new COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh. The discovery was made after testing sample...

Cabinet approves draft of EC formation law

Cabinet approves draft of EC formation law

-- 2022-01-17 16:46:57

The government has approved the draft of a new law for the formation of the election commission, which includes a provision regarding a search panel for appointments. The cabinet, led by Prime Minist...