-- 2021-03-10 19:43:04
President M Abdul Hamid and his wife Rashida Khanam received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon. “The President and his wife Rashida Kha...
-- 2021-03-10 18:57:06
The parliamentary standing committee on textiles and jute ministry on Wednesday recommended the government to run different textiles mills under public-private partnership (PPP). The recommendation c...
-- 2021-03-10 17:38:15
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore on Wednesday filed a complaint with a Dhaka court over alleged torture on him in custody after his arrest under the Digital Security Act (DSA). Kishore appeared before...
-- 2021-03-10 17:03:06
The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the railway authorities should not be directed to arrange separate compartment for women. The HC bench of Justice...
-- 2021-03-10 16:27:59
Moinuddin Abdullah, the former secretary to the agriculture ministry, has taken office as the new chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Md Jahurul Haque, former chairman of Bangladesh Tel...
-- 2021-03-10 16:00:43
Bangladesh has recorded 1,018 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest daily count in two months, taking the tally of infections to 553,105. The death toll climbed to 8,496 after seven fatalities we...
FE Online Report 2021-03-10 14:30:12
Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen urged his Finland counterpart to explore investment opportunities in Special Economic Zones and HI-TECH Parks in Bangladesh. The two ministers discussed the possib...
-- 2021-03-10 13:51:37
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam is in hospital care after contracting the coronavirus despite being vaccinated for the illness a month ago. He was admitted to Rajarbagh Centr...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-03-10 12:00:08
The farmers of Chandpur district are showing keen interest to grow sunflower in their fields, the officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in the district have told the FE correspon...
FE Report 2021-03-10 09:16:27
Health experts at a programme in the city on Tuesday observed that child tuberculosis (TB) and extrapulmonary TB are the two emerging challenges for a high TB burden country like Bangladesh. Besides,...
-- 2021-03-09 22:42:04
The government has taken initiatives for the socio-economic rehabilitation of the returnee migrant workers, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad said Tuesday. "Efforts to...
-- 2021-03-09 22:19:28
Advance railway tickets will be available five days before departure instead of 10 from now on. Moreover, passengers will get a full refund on tickets subject to deduction of service charge 48 hours...
-- 2021-03-09 21:28:34
Family members of school student Ifran Khan Rakib, who was killed in the city's Hatirjheel area in July 2019, demanded exemplary punishment of the killers by bringing them under justice. "My son SSC...
-- 2021-03-09 19:56:00
President Abdul Hamid will get his first jab of Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday. He will receive the shot at 5:00 pm, his Press Secretary Joynal Abedin said, reports UNB. Bangladesh reported its first...
-- 2021-03-09 19:40:49
The Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) on Tuesday urged the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to impose specific taxes and hike prices of all tobacco products to discourage people from consuming them....
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-03-09 18:33:35
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday refused to grant bail to Mohsin Talukder, an accused in a case filed under the Digital Security Act 2018, for threatening to kill cricketer Shakib Al Hasan on a social m...
-- 2021-03-09 17:59:12
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged all to follow three health safety protocols -- wearing face-mask, exercising maximum caution and keeping public gatherings limited -- in the fight against...
-- 2021-03-09 17:43:46
Lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim has got an order to surrender to the lower court as the High Court upheld a 10-year jail sentence given in a wealth case two decades ago. In another decision on Tuesday,...
-- 2021-03-09 16:55:33
Employment opportunities and food security of returnee migrant workers have improved while health and psychosocial challenges dropped in the months after the government lifted the nationwide shutdown....
-- 2021-03-09 16:39:15
The road transport and bridges ministry has applied for a two-year extension to complete the Padma Bridge project due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Bridges Division, under the roa...
-- 2021-03-09 16:28:39
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a bus driver and his assistant for shoving a speech-impaired woman off a vehicle in Dhaka’s Keraniganj after she “failed to pay the fare”. Th...
-- 2021-03-09 16:02:46
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have opened a bridge over the river Feni, a step in strengthening connectivity with India’s northeastern region. The bridge...
-- 2021-03-09 15:42:53
Bangladesh has recorded 912 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 552,087. The death toll climbed to 8,489 after 13 fatalities were registered in the 24 hou...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-03-09 12:20:35
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur in different regions of the country today (Tuesday) and it may continue until Wednesday, according to an offici...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-03-09 12:16:41
The women in Bangladesh are still kept away from a decision-making role at different levels, speakers have said at a seminar. They came up with the remark at the seminar organised by VOICE, a human r...
-- 2021-03-09 12:03:09
Bangladesh would like to see OIC as a strengthened and competent organisation to address the issues of Muslim Ummah, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Shahriar Alam. The minister comme...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2021-03-09 10:13:39
CHANDPUR: Though the potato farmers in the district are expecting a bumper yield of potato this year, they are afraid of getting it's real price in the haats and bazaars in near future. They think...
FE REPORT 2021-03-09 08:36:52
Health experts on Monday predicted a mild resurgence of Covid-19 infection in the country during the upcoming summer. The rate of infection has been rising for the last couple of weeks. They, howeve...
-- 2021-03-08 22:22:00
To commemorate International Women’s Day 2021, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are organising a number of events, including dial...
-- 2021-03-08 22:01:48
Kazi Shafiul Karim, former general manager of Marubeni Corporation Dhaka Office, passed away on Saturday (March 06, 2021) due to Covid-19 complications. He was laid to rest at his family grave in Ban...
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