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FBCCI donates Tk 80m to prime minister’s two funds

FBCCI donates Tk 80m to prime minister’s two funds

-- 2021-05-18 22:16:31

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI), country's top business organisation, has donated Tk 50 million to prime minister's assistance fund and Tk 30 million to the Pr...

Chinese citizen stabbed to death  in Sylhet

Chinese citizen stabbed to death in Sylhet

-- 2021-05-18 22:05:21

A Chinese citizen was stabbed to death by his fellow countryman as they got into a fight in Pathantula area of Sylhet on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Wei Wentao, 40, a worker at the power...

Editors’ Council demands unconditional release of Rozina Islam

Editors’ Council demands unconditional release of Rozina Islam

-- 2021-05-18 21:55:36

Editors’ Council has expressed concern over the arrest of Prothom Alo's senior reporter Rozina Islam in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act of 1923 and said it will remain a black chapte...

33 Bangladeshi migrants rescued off Tunisia coast

33 Bangladeshi migrants rescued off Tunisia coast

-- 2021-05-18 21:32:28

More than 50 migrants have drowned or disappeared off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 Bangladeshi migrants were rescued by workers from an oil platform, the Tunisian defence ministry said on Tuesday....

Road accidents claim 249 lives during Eid holidays

Road accidents claim 249 lives during Eid holidays

UNB 2021-05-18 21:20:33

The number of deaths in road crashes during the Eid holiday rush increased in comparison to that of last Eid-ul-Azha, despite a ban on inter-district bus operations due to the Covid-19 pandemic, two c...

Prothom Alo demands release of reporter Rozina Islam, justice for ‘harassment’

Prothom Alo demands release of reporter Rozina Islam, justice for ‘harassment’

-- 2021-05-18 21:10:51

Journalist Rozina Islam’s colleagues at the daily Prothom Alo have demanded her “unconditional” release from jail, withdrawal of an official secrets law case against her, and justice...

Donors pledge $340m for 2021 Rohingya crisis response plan

Donors pledge $340m for 2021 Rohingya crisis response plan

REUTERS 2021-05-18 20:31:45

An appeal for nearly $1.0 billion to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is more than a third funded, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, as officials and refugees called o...

Lower courts grant bail to 40,851 accused through virtual hearing

Lower courts grant bail to 40,851 accused through virtual hearing

-- 2021-05-18 19:37:53

Lower courts and tribunals across the country in the last 23 working days, have granted bail to 40,851 accused after hearing their pleas virtually. Supreme Court spokesperson and High Court Division...

Bangladesh seeks 2.0m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Canada

Bangladesh seeks 2.0m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Canada

UNB 2021-05-18 19:31:25

Bangladesh has sought at least 2.0 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Canada on an emergency basis to meet the emergency need of 1.6 million doses of the vaccine to provide second doses. "This...

Lightning strikes kill seven during rainstorm in Netrokona

Lightning strikes kill seven during rainstorm in Netrokona

-- 2021-05-18 19:19:10

At least seven people have died after being hit by lightning strikes during rainstorm in Netrokona. The lightning strikes left three others injured in Kendua, Khaliajuri and Madan Upazilas on Tuesday...

Journalists announce boycott of health ministry briefing until Rozina’s release

Journalists announce boycott of health ministry briefing until Rozina’s release

-- 2021-05-18 19:05:41

Journalists covering the Bangladesh Secretariat beat have announced a boycott of the health ministry press conferences until the release of reporter Rozina Islam on bail over charges under official se...

US Jefferson Fellow journalists shocked at Rozina's arrest

US Jefferson Fellow journalists shocked at Rozina's arrest

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-18 19:00:34

US’s Jefferson Fellow journalists in Bangladesh expressed profound shock and strongly protested the assault, confinement and subsequent arrest of Rozina Islam, a senior award-winning journalist...

Fakhrul for unity among professionals to get rid of repression

Fakhrul for unity among professionals to get rid of repression

UNB 2021-05-18 18:38:44

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that fascism has spread in the country due to divisions among different professional groups, including that of journalists. "Fasci...

WASA needs nine more years to clean up Buriganga water

WASA needs nine more years to clean up Buriganga water

-- 2021-05-18 18:02:07

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) says it will take at least nine more years to make the dark water of the Buriganga sparkle by stopping the sewage from directly flowing into the river....

'Shameful and abominable': Bangladesh politicians condemn arrest of Rozina Islam

'Shameful and abominable': Bangladesh politicians condemn arrest of Rozina Islam

-- 2021-05-18 17:49:04

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says there is no press freedom left in Bangladesh, as he condemned the detention and harassment of Rozina Islam, a senior reporter for Prothom Alo, re...

85pc Boro paddy harvested in Rajshahi region

85pc Boro paddy harvested in Rajshahi region

-- 2021-05-18 17:46:03

Around 85 per cent Boro paddy has, so far, been harvested in the region including its vast barind tract on an average successfully amid mind-blowing yield attained by the farmers despite the Covid-19...

TIB strongly condemns arrest of reporter Rozina Islam

TIB strongly condemns arrest of reporter Rozina Islam

FE Online Report 2021-05-18 17:15:01

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has strongly condemned the arrest of Prothom Alo's Senior Reporter Rozina Islam. In a statement on Tuesday, the Berlin-based anti-graft watchdog called for...

NEC approves Tk 2.25324t original ADP for FY22

NEC approves Tk 2.25324t original ADP for FY22

-- 2021-05-18 17:08:57

The National Economic Council (NEC) today (Tuesday) approved a Tk 2.25324 trillion original Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year (FY22) putting the highest priority to the trans...

Bangladesh reports 1,272 virus cases, 30 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 1,272 virus cases, 30 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-18 16:43:24

Bangladesh has registered 1,272 new cases of coronavirus infection in a day, taking the tally to 782,129. The death toll from COVID-19 rose by 30 in a 24-hour count to 12,211, according to the latest...

70 houses, school gutted in Bandarban fire

70 houses, school gutted in Bandarban fire

-- 2021-05-18 16:39:27

At least 70 houses, a primary school and three shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Talukdarpara in Roangchhari upazila of Bandarban district early Tuesday. Chahai Marma, chairman of Roangc...

Two ‘muggers’ killed in city ‘gunfight’

Two ‘muggers’ killed in city ‘gunfight’

-- 2021-05-18 16:28:31

Two suspected muggers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) near Kuril Flyover of Khilkhet area in the capital early Tuesday....

Health minister claims reporter Rozina Islam was not ‘abused’

Health minister claims reporter Rozina Islam was not ‘abused’

এফই ডেস্ক 2021-05-18 15:14:31

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has claimed that Rozina Islam, the Prothom Alo senior reporter confined to a government office for five hours and later arrested under the Official Secrets Act, was &ldqu...

Khulna ASI suspended, sent to jail over rape at quarantine centre

Khulna ASI suspended, sent to jail over rape at quarantine centre

-- 2021-05-18 14:49:41

An assistant sub-inspector of police, arrested on charges of raping a 22-year-old woman at an institutional quarantine centre in Khulna, has been suspended and sent to jail. Khulna Metropolitan Magis...

Journalists boycott health ministry press conference

Journalists boycott health ministry press conference

-- 2021-05-18 13:02:17

The members of Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum (BSRF) have boycotted a press briefing of the Health Ministry protesting the harassment and arrest of Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam. T...

Court turns down police appeal to remand journalist Rozina Islam

Court turns down police appeal to remand journalist Rozina Islam

-- 2021-05-18 12:54:08

Prothom Alo’s senior reporter Rozina Islam has been brought to court on accusations of trying to “steal” government documents and taking photographs of them on her mobile phone. A D...

CPJ, Amnesty demand release of journalist Rozina Islam

CPJ, Amnesty demand release of journalist Rozina Islam

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-18 12:34:20

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Amnesty International have called on the Bangladesh authorities to release journalist Rozina Islam immediately. They came up with the call as Ms Roz...

Reporter Rozina Islam’s husband vows to file ‘harassment’ case

Reporter Rozina Islam’s husband vows to file ‘harassment’ case

-- 2021-05-18 10:23:04

Monirul Islam Mithu, husband of Prothom Alo reporter Rozina Islam arrested for ‘breaching’ the official secrets law, vowed to file a case against the officials who “harassed” h...

Police arrest Prothom Alo reporter for ‘breaching’ official secrets law

Police arrest Prothom Alo reporter for ‘breaching’ official secrets law

-- 2021-05-18 09:10:47

Police have arrested a reporter for what the authorities said was spiriting away “important” documents from a government office and taking photos of the papers at the Secretariat in Dhaka....

Minister wants long-haul buses, borders closed for some more days

Minister wants long-haul buses, borders closed for some more days

-- 2021-05-17 22:18:50

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said he wants the long-haul passenger transport system and the borders with India closed to avert the risk of an explosion of coronavirus infections. The ministry wi...

Four promoted to AIG

Four promoted to AIG

UNB 2021-05-17 22:06:56

Four senior police officials, in the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG), have been given promotion to the post of Additional IGP. The promotion order was issued on Monday in a circular signed by...