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50 years to take for Dhaka's 258km subway development: Study

50 years to take for Dhaka's 258km subway development: Study

FE REPORT 2021-03-25 10:33:39

The development of a 258-kilometre subway network on 11 routes in Dhaka city will take 50 years to address the growing traffic needs of 50-million residents. A draft feasibility study on the project,...

Mayor for shutting city shops, offices by 8pm

Mayor for shutting city shops, offices by 8pm

FE REPORT 2021-03-25 10:24:21

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Wednesday called upon the traders to shut their respective shops and business entities by 8:00 pm following the increase...

Villagers in Cumilla still unaware of vaccines

Villagers in Cumilla still unaware of vaccines

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-03-25 08:48:50

CUMILLA: In Cumilla, people have suddenly lost interest in getting vaccinated against the epidemic coronavirus. Although there was interest in the beginning, most of the people in the district are not...

Dhaka's gas crisis intensifies further

Dhaka's gas crisis intensifies further

FE REPORT 2021-03-25 08:34:50

The gas crisis in the capital aggravated further Wednesday as one of the two operational FSRUs (floating storage and regasification units) went in maintenance resulting in short supply of the fuel c...

Sonia Gandhi remembers Bangabandhu emerging as the leader of a free people

Sonia Gandhi remembers Bangabandhu emerging as the leader of a free people

-- 2021-03-24 22:14:12

Sonia Gandhi, president of India’s opposition Congress party, has paid a rich tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman recalling how he emerged as the leader of a free people. In a video me...

PM calls for building peaceful, united South Asia

PM calls for building peaceful, united South Asia

-- 2021-03-24 21:11:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged regional leaders to come together to build a peaceful and prosperous South Asia as Bangladesh celebrates the historic occasions of the birth centenary of Bangaba...

Bangladesh remembers Bangabandhu as pioneer of peace, freedom, humanity

Bangladesh remembers Bangabandhu as pioneer of peace, freedom, humanity

-- 2021-03-24 20:02:55

Bangladesh is remembering Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a pioneer of peace, freedom and humanity on the eighth day of 10-day programmes to celebrate his birth centenary and the golden jubilee o...

US-funded Lalbagh fort restoration project begins

US-funded Lalbagh fort restoration project begins

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-03-24 19:12:04

A project to restore one of three primary structures at the Lalbagh Fort complex in Dhaka was inaugurated on Wednesday. The one-year initiative, funded through the US government’s prestigious A...

Bangladesh, Bhutan agree to introduce direct rail link

Bangladesh, Bhutan agree to introduce direct rail link

-- 2021-03-24 18:50:01

Bangladesh and Bhutan have agreed to start a direct train service between the two countries in a bilateral meeting on Wednesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and visiting Bhutanese Prime Minister Lo...

Widow serving life term for money, convict not keeping promise

Widow serving life term for money, convict not keeping promise

-- 2021-03-24 17:55:03

A woman in Chattogram has claimed that she is serving the life term of a convict who had promised to look after her children but did not keep her word. Chattogram Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessi...

One minute blackout at 9 pm on March 25

One minute blackout at 9 pm on March 25

-- 2021-03-24 17:39:04

One-minute will be observed across the country from 9:00pm to 9:01pm on March 25, marking Genocide Day. But Key Point Installations (KPIs) and emergency establishments will remain out of the blackout...

Taposh urges owners to close their shops by 8 pm

Taposh urges owners to close their shops by 8 pm

-- 2021-03-24 17:29:12

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has urged the shopkeepers and owners of business establishments to close those by 8:00 pm every day to prevent the transmission of Co...

Thirteen rivers in Jhenidah about to die

Thirteen rivers in Jhenidah about to die

OUR CORRESPONDENT, JHENIDAH 2021-03-24 16:49:31

Severe pollution, encroachment, and sand and soil lifting have posed an existential threat to 13 rivers that flow through Jhenidah, environmentalists say. The rivers Nabaganga, Chitra, Kumar, Kali, B...

COVID-19: 3,567 get infected, 25 die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 3,567 get infected, 25 die in 24 hours

-- 2021-03-24 16:39:21

Bangladesh has logged 3,567 new cases of coronavirus infection, taking the tally of infections to 580,808. The death toll climbed to 8,763 after 25 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours till 8:0...

IOM seeks $20m to meet urgent needs after fire at Rohingya camp

IOM seeks $20m to meet urgent needs after fire at Rohingya camp

-- 2021-03-24 16:24:53

International Organization for Migration (IOM) has pledged US$ 1.0 million from its emergency fund to the relief efforts after a fire incident at a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar and it said furth...

No decision yet on fresh lockdown, health minister says

No decision yet on fresh lockdown, health minister says

-- 2021-03-24 15:54:15

The government has not yet decided to impose on a fresh lockdown, the health minister says, although coronavirus cases are rising rapidly. “We will let you know when the decision comes from the...

Bangladesh, Bhutan agree to activate river routes to expand business

Bangladesh, Bhutan agree to activate river routes to expand business

-- 2021-03-24 14:42:36

Bangladesh and Bhutan today agreed to activate the river routes to expand business between the two countries. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Bhutanese counterpart Dr. Lotay Tshering reached the...

Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by camp fire

Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by camp fire

Reuters 2021-03-24 13:46:10

Aid workers searched on Wednesday to reunite Rohingya Muslim families separated when a huge fire swept through the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, forcing about 45,000 people f...

Bhutanese PM pays courtesy visit to Hasina

Bhutanese PM pays courtesy visit to Hasina

-- 2021-03-24 13:04:18

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, who is in Dhaka to join the celebrations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence...

Transport leaders demand reduction in import duty on accessories

Transport leaders demand reduction in import duty on accessories

FE Report 2021-03-24 10:30:19

Transport sector leaders on Tuesday urged the government to reduce duties on the equipment and accessories used for vehicles in the upcoming budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 considering the dif...

Magura sees outstanding success in green banana production

Magura sees outstanding success in green banana production

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-03-24 10:27:26

MAGURA: Outstanding success has been achieved in Magura in producing 12- month long green banana. Akamat Mollah of village Shibrampur under Magura sadar upazila deserves this glorious credit. Akam...

Almost 12m Bangladesh may face climate-induced migration by 2031: Study

Almost 12m Bangladesh may face climate-induced migration by 2031: Study

FE REPORT 2021-03-24 10:22:22

With business as usual scenario, 11.8 million people will face internal migration due to climate change and associated impacts by 2031 and by 2041 it may rise to 21.3 million, speakers observed at a p...

Bodies of mother, son recovered from Korail slum

Bodies of mother, son recovered from Korail slum

-- 2021-03-23 21:22:07

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her son from Korail slum in Boubazar area of Dhaka on Tuesday. The deceased are Hashi Begum,24, wife of Rubel and her son eight-year old son Md Nirob Hossai...

March 7 speech defends universal values, freedom, says UNESCO director-general

March 7 speech defends universal values, freedom, says UNESCO director-general

-- 2021-03-23 20:42:37

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on Tuesday said the historic March 7 speech defended universal values, freedom, human rights and dignity. ” . . . it (March 7 speech) defended universal v...

Death toll in Rohingya camp fire rises to 11

Death toll in Rohingya camp fire rises to 11

-- 2021-03-23 20:00:57

At least 11 people have died in a massive fire that devastated thousands of homes at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, according to the disaster management and relief secretary. The massi...

City dwellers suffer gravely due to shortage of gas supply

City dwellers suffer gravely due to shortage of gas supply

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-03-23 19:39:18

Residents of different areas of the city suffered immensely on Tuesday as household gas crisis, caused due to the damage of the gas feeder pipeline in Savar, hit them acutely. Residents in Mohakhali,...

Bangladesh, Nepal agree to expand connectivity, Momen says

Bangladesh, Nepal agree to expand connectivity, Momen says

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-03-23 19:05:50

Nepal will get access to Bangladesh’s ports through road, rail, and waterways as both the countries are have agreed to expand the connectivity. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen came up with the...

Obaidul Quader urges all not to incite chaos over Modi’s visit

Obaidul Quader urges all not to incite chaos over Modi’s visit

-- 2021-03-23 18:46:45

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday urged all concerned not to incite any chaos centring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s forthcoming visit to Bangladesh. The road tra...

Fakhrul questions purpose of Modi’s upcoming visit

Fakhrul questions purpose of Modi’s upcoming visit

-- 2021-03-23 18:32:07

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has raised a question about the purpose of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Bangladesh. “Is the Indian Prime Minister co...

High Court rules on online registration of marriage, divorce

High Court rules on online registration of marriage, divorce

-- 2021-03-23 18:17:13

The High Court has issued a rule asking why an order should not be given to introduce a central website for digital registration of marriages and divorces, taking into account the security of family l...