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PM expresses shock at death of Narendra Modi's mother

PM expresses shock at death of Narendra Modi's mother

-- 2022-12-30 21:16:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Heeraben Modi, mother of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to BSS. In a condolence message sent to...

BNP, 32 parties stage huge showdowns in Dhaka

BNP, 32 parties stage huge showdowns in Dhaka

-- 2022-12-30 21:00:13

The BNP and 32 other like-minded opposition parties staged a procession of showdowns Friday in different parts of the capital, by way of the first joint programme in what is being billed as a collecti...

14 dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

14 dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2022-12-30 19:20:31

Fourteen people were hospitalised with dengue fever in 24 hours till Friday morning. The official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease remained unchanged at 281 as no death was recorded during...

DMP issues traffic directives for night of Dec 31

DMP issues traffic directives for night of Dec 31

-- 2022-12-30 18:49:34

The Traffic Division of Gulshan, under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Friday issued temporary traffic control measures in order to avoid any untoward incident in the capital on the night of Dec 31....

Quader urges AL leaders to remain alert against BNP’s anarchy

Quader urges AL leaders to remain alert against BNP’s anarchy

-- 2022-12-30 18:44:17

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said those, who do evil politics, cannot repair a state. "BNP had killed the country's democracy and de...

25 muggers held in Dhaka

25 muggers held in Dhaka

-- 2022-12-30 17:53:21

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said they arrested 25 members, including the mastermind, of an "organised mugging gang" during separate raids at different areas of Dhaka on Thursday night. Several t...

Gonotantra Moncho to stage sit-in Jan 11 demanding release of Fakhrul, Khaleda

Gonotantra Moncho to stage sit-in Jan 11 demanding release of Fakhrul, Khaleda

-- 2022-12-30 17:42:12

The Gonotantra Mancha, an alliance of anti-government political parties, is planning to stage a three-hour sit-in protest in Dhaka and the rest of the country as part of the opposition campaign to top...

Jamaat, Shibir men clash with police over holding mass procession in Malibagh

Jamaat, Shibir men clash with police over holding mass procession in Malibagh

-- 2022-12-30 17:31:20

A clash broke out between the law enforcers and activists and leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir in the capital's Malibagh as they tried to bring out a procession after...

Bangladesh logs 13 Covid cases, zero deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 13 Covid cases, zero deaths in 24 hours

-- 2022-12-30 17:01:51

Bangladesh has recorded 13 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,102. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,439 over the 24-hour period, accor...

8.7° C temperature recorded in Tetulia

8.7° C temperature recorded in Tetulia

-- 2022-12-30 16:53:30

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has recorded 8.7 degrees Celsius temperature in Tetulia upazila of Panchagarh. The BMD on Friday predicted dry weather with temporary partly cloudy sky over...

AL to 'stand guard' at key points of Dhaka during BNP march

AL to 'stand guard' at key points of Dhaka during BNP march

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 14:00:48

Awami League leaders and activists will 'vigilantly occupy' important roads and junctions across the capital when the BNP and its allies march through Dhaka in separate processions as part of an anti-...

Dhaka again tops list of cities with most polluted air

Dhaka again tops list of cities with most polluted air

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 11:59:33

Dhaka has once again topped the list of world cities, for the wrong reason, with the worst air quality on Friday morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 208 at 9am today, Dhaka ranked first...

Massive fire breaks out at city building

Massive fire breaks out at city building

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-29 20:41:27

A massive fire broke out at a multistoried building in the Khilkhet area of Dhaka on Thursday evening. The fire originated from the 9th floor of the 14-storey building at around 7:0 pm on the day,...

Fire sweeps through Rohingya camp

Fire sweeps through Rohingya camp

-- 2022-12-29 19:07:48

A fire has broken out at Chakmarkul Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar’s district. Firefighters managed to douse the blaze that erupted at camp No. 21 in Whykong Union...

Quader blames AL's organisational issues for Rangpur loss

Quader blames AL's organisational issues for Rangpur loss

-- 2022-12-29 18:52:45

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader believes ‘organisational issues’ were partially responsible for the Awami League’s terrible performance in the Rangpur City Corporation...

HC issues rule over quota system in recruitment of primary school teachers

HC issues rule over quota system in recruitment of primary school teachers

-- 2022-12-29 18:29:18

The High Court has questioned the quota system in recruiting teachers in government primary schools. It has issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain as to why Sections 8 (...

Bangladesh will one day play in World Cup football, hopes PM

Bangladesh will one day play in World Cup football, hopes PM

-- 2022-12-29 18:26:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the young players of the country to concentrate on sports sincerely so that in the near future Bangladesh can clinch the football World Cup. "I hope tha...

Women inspired by safe travel on Dhaka Metro Rail

Women inspired by safe travel on Dhaka Metro Rail

-- 2022-12-29 18:17:19

Residents of Dhaka heaved a great sigh of relief after the country's first metro rail service, billed as a panacea for the city's perennial traffic woes, finally opened to the public. Women, in partic...

65 more dengue cases recorded across country

65 more dengue cases recorded across country

-- 2022-12-29 18:10:37

Sixty-five more people were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning. The official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease remained unchanged at 281 as no death was recorded duri...

Bangladesh logs 22 new Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh logs 22 new Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2022-12-29 18:04:35

Bangladesh has recorded 22 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,089. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,439 over the 24-hour period, accor...

Shilpacharya’s 108th birth anniversary being observed

Shilpacharya’s 108th birth anniversary being observed

-- 2022-12-29 16:29:04

The 108th birth anniversary of the master painter and pioneering art educator Zainul Abedin, widely revered as the 'Shilpacharya' (great master of fine arts), is being observed on Thursday. Zainul Ab...

Bangladeshi Senjuti Saha among Lancet's top 10 scientists in the world

Bangladeshi Senjuti Saha among Lancet's top 10 scientists in the world

Rassiq Aziz Kabir  2022-12-29 16:22:52

Bangladeshi microbiologist Senjuti Saha makes it to the list of the top 10 scientists in the world, as published by the renowned scientific journal The Lancet.  One of the associates of Senjuti,...

Bangladesh plans to establish six more metro rail lines

Bangladesh plans to establish six more metro rail lines

-- 2022-12-29 16:09:27

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the government has an integrated action plan to establish six more metro rail lines in Dhaka by 2030. "There is an integrated actio...

Fares of metro rail are reasonable: Quader

Fares of metro rail are reasonable: Quader

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 15:37:51

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that the fares of metro rail  are within the reach of people. The Minister said this while replying to questions from  journalist...

Mother, daughter among three killed in Faridpur road crash

Mother, daughter among three killed in Faridpur road crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 14:43:44

Three people including a woman and her minor daughter were killed and three others injured when a car crashed into a truck amid dense fog on Dhaka-Bhanga highway at Salildia in Bhanga upazila  he...

Technical glitch mars first hours of Dhaka metro rail services

Technical glitch mars first hours of Dhaka metro rail services

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 12:46:08

Bangladesh's first urban rail service has opened to the public with much fanfare, but the first day of operations got off to a rocky start as customers at the Agargaon station complained of problems w...

Voting to five municipalities, 66 union parishads underway

Voting to five municipalities, 66 union parishads underway

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 12:27:08

Voting in five municipalities and 66 union parishads began on Thursday morning. The five municipalities are—Bagha in Rajshahi, Birol in Dinajpur, Boda in Panchagarh, Alfadanga in Faridpur and B...

Passengers gather at Dhaka metro stations at first light

Passengers gather at Dhaka metro stations at first light

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 11:07:18

People from parts of the capital Dhaka have gathered at the Agargaon rail station at dawn to board the first train of the day. Long queues of passengers stretched past the Agargaon passport office, a...

Dhaka's air quality still ‘very unhealthy'

Dhaka's air quality still ‘very unhealthy'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 10:41:36

Dhaka's air quality continued to be in the 'very unhealthy' zone on Thursday morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 2:18 at 08:45 am, the metropolis ranked second in the list of world citi...

Two Bangladeshis shot dead in BSF firing

Two Bangladeshis shot dead in BSF firing

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 10:33:24

Two Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead allegedly by members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Dolpara border in Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat district early Thursday, a Bangladeshi...