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Bangladesh steps into 5G era today

Bangladesh steps into 5G era today

-- 2021-12-12 17:20:28

The country is going to enter the 5G technology regime today (Sunday). Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy is expected to launch the service virtually at Bangabandhu International C...

Bangladesh logs six new Covid deaths, 329 cases

Bangladesh logs six new Covid deaths, 329 cases

-- 2021-12-12 17:17:57

Bangladesh has registered six new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 28,028. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,579,325 as 329 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours...

BNP must wait for govt decision on Khaleda, law minister says

BNP must wait for govt decision on Khaleda, law minister says

-- 2021-12-12 16:38:14

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the BNP will have to wait for the government’s decision on whether it will allow party chief Khaleda Zia to go abroad for medical treatment. The law minister made t...

Metro rail train makes test run from Uttara to Agargaon

Metro rail train makes test run from Uttara to Agargaon

-- 2021-12-12 16:35:41

An electric metro rail train has made a test trip from its depot in Uttara to Agargaon, a stretch of 11.73 km. The journey marks another milestone in translating the dreams of Dhaka residents hoping f...

No new omicron cases detected in Bangladesh, health minister says

No new omicron cases detected in Bangladesh, health minister says

-- 2021-12-12 16:33:23

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says the two women cricketers who returned from Zimbabwe are doing well and no other cases of the omicron variant have been detected so far. There is no need to worry ab...

Bangladesh plans to produce 100m kg tea

Bangladesh plans to produce 100m kg tea

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-12 15:35:09

A record tea yield of 14.5 million kg in October has emboldened officials in Bangladesh for the first time to eye an annual production of 100 million kg this year. Low prices at auctions, however, ha...

PM asks new army officers to serve country with patriotism

PM asks new army officers to serve country with patriotism

-- 2021-12-12 13:17:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the new army officers to serve the country and uphold the spirit of War of Liberation being imbued with patriotism, saying Bangladesh has attained the capabili...

EC postpones polls in Pabna as UP chairman candidate killed

EC postpones polls in Pabna as UP chairman candidate killed

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-12 12:32:41

The Election Commission (EC) has postponed the election for the post of chairman at Bharara Union Parishad (UP) of Pabna Sadar Upazila following the death of a chairman candidate in a clash. Pabna Di...

Murad Hassan ‘returning’ home Sunday morning

Murad Hassan ‘returning’ home Sunday morning

-- 2021-12-11 23:30:37

Former State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murad Hassan is reportedly coming back home on Sunday morning, having failed to enter Canada and the UAE. An Emirates flight carrying Murad is e...

Covid-19: Booster vaccination likely to begin in seven to 10 days

Covid-19: Booster vaccination likely to begin in seven to 10 days

-- 2021-12-11 22:40:41

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the government is likely to start a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive in seven to 10 days. The authorities are waiting for the recommendation of the National Advis...

US itself is an extreme violator of human rights, says Hasan Mahmud

US itself is an extreme violator of human rights, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2021-12-11 22:24:38

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Saturday stated the sanctions of the US on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are one-sided and invalid, saying, “Human rights is extremely violat...

RAB terms them ‘human rights activist’

RAB terms them ‘human rights activist’

-- 2021-12-11 21:04:49

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has reacted to the sanctions imposed by the US amid allegations of serious human rights abuse, saying the protection of people’s rights is the agency’s &ld...

Easy technology transfer crucial for facing 4IR challenges, PM says

Easy technology transfer crucial for facing 4IR challenges, PM says

-- 2021-12-11 20:44:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for ensuring easy transfer of available technologies to developing nations as they face the toughest challenges of the 4th industrial revolution (4IR...

Fire at city’s RK Tower doused; three burnt

Fire at city’s RK Tower doused; three burnt

-- 2021-12-11 19:56:24

At least three people suffered burn injuries in a fire that broke out at RK Tower, a commercial high-rise building in the city's Bangla Motor, on Saturday. The injured are Mamun Khan, 31, office assi...

Nation to celebrate Digital Bangladesh Day Sunday

Nation to celebrate Digital Bangladesh Day Sunday

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-11 19:47:07

The 5th 'Digital Bangladesh Day-2021' will be celebrated through various programmes in the country and Bangladesh missions abroad tomorrow (Sunday). With the theme 'Digital Bangladesh-er Orjon, Upokr...

BNP terms US sanctions inevitable consequence, not a surprise

BNP terms US sanctions inevitable consequence, not a surprise

-- 2021-12-11 18:51:51

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday described the US sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and its seven current and former top officials as an inevitable consequence of...

Dhaka summons US Ambassador, expresses discontent

Dhaka summons US Ambassador, expresses discontent

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-11 17:37:03

The foreign ministry on Saturday summoned the US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller to convey Dhaka’s discontent over the designated sanctions imposed by the US Departments of Treasury and...

Govt trashes HR violation allegations against IGP, 6 others 

Govt trashes HR violation allegations against IGP, 6 others 

-- 2021-12-11 17:07:30

Turning down the allegations of human rights violation against seven present and former officials of RAB, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said every incident of HR violation is investigated...

Bangladesh registers 177 new COVID cases, five deaths

Bangladesh registers 177 new COVID cases, five deaths

-- 2021-12-11 16:45:29

Bangladesh has registered five new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the toll to 28,022. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,578,996 after 177 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours t...

Bangladesh confirms first two cases of Omicron variant

Bangladesh confirms first two cases of Omicron variant

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-11 15:48:35

Bangladesh on Saturday reported the first two cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus. “These two infected female patients (cricketers) returned from Zimbabwe recently,” ASM Alamgir, chie...

World Vision celebrates 50 years of its journey in Bangladesh

World Vision celebrates 50 years of its journey in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-12-11 15:30:17

World Vision Bangladesh celebrated its completion of 50 years of operations in the country with its former sponsored children on Saturday. The former sponsored children, who are now all involved in s...

JU to hold global conference on Bangabandhu

JU to hold global conference on Bangabandhu

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-11 14:17:44

A two-day international conference, titled 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and His Legacy' will begin at Jahangirnagar University (JU) Sunday. Leading researchers from Bangladesh, India, Canada, G...

Fire hits RK Tower in Bangla Motor

Fire hits RK Tower in Bangla Motor

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-11 13:17:59

A fire broke out at a building named RK Tower in the capital’s Bangla Motor area on Saturday noon, according to the fire service media cell. The blaze originated at about 12:20 pm on...

Canada refuses entry to Murad Hasan

Canada refuses entry to Murad Hasan

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-11 11:47:36

Canada has denied entry to disgraced Bangladesh politician and lawmaker Murad Hasan, who was last week made to step down as the state minister for information and broadcasting over his indecent remark...

Access to nutritious food crucial for food security in Bangladesh: Experts

Access to nutritious food crucial for food security in Bangladesh: Experts

FE REPORT 2021-12-11 10:10:10

Apart from availability, access to safe nutritious food is crucially important to ensure food security in the country, experts observed at a consultation workshop. They also stressed the importance o...

US slaps sanctions on RAB, seven officials for ‘human rights abuse’

US slaps sanctions on RAB, seven officials for ‘human rights abuse’

-- 2021-12-11 08:04:38

The United States has imposed sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion, its former chief Benazir Ahmed and six other officials in connection with “serious human rights abuse”, making the in...

Malaysia agrees to reopen labour market for Bangladeshis

Malaysia agrees to reopen labour market for Bangladeshis

-- 2021-12-10 23:05:16

Malaysia has agreed to reopen its labour market to Bangladesh, where the coronavirus pandemic situation has improved. The South-East Asian nation’s cabinet agreed that M Saravanan, the human re...

Three of four abducted students rescued, seven Rohingya men detained

Three of four abducted students rescued, seven Rohingya men detained

-- 2021-12-10 22:27:40

Three of the four abducted students of Ramu upazila in Cox's Bazar were rescued from the hilly areas adjoining the Shalbagan in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in separate drives of the Rapid Acti...

President urges guardians to remain vigilant against trap of teenage gangs

President urges guardians to remain vigilant against trap of teenage gangs

-- 2021-12-10 19:24:54

President M Abdul Hamid has called upon guardians to remain alert so that the teenaged students do not fall prey to human trafficking by stepping into the trap of teen gangs, TikTalk, or Likee. &ldqu...

Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die

Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die

-- 2021-12-10 18:53:50

A man and his daughter were killed and another one injured when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw in front of Dak Bungalow of Chasara in Narayanganj on Friday. The deceased were identified as Altaf Hossai...