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How  use of Bangladeshi children as camel jockeys stopped in Arab countries

How use of Bangladeshi children as camel jockeys stopped in Arab countries

UNB 2021-02-05 16:04:44

It was not many years ago when we saw Bangladeshi children being used as camel jockeys in the Gulf countries, far from their sweet homes. The doleful situation has changed over the years but there are...

Three killed in Chattogram road accident

Three killed in Chattogram road accident

-- 2021-02-05 14:51:40

At least three people were killed and four others injured as a truck collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Bakolia area in Chattogram city on Friday. The deceased were identified as auto-r...

Derailment snaps Sylhet rail link with Dhaka, Ctg

Derailment snaps Sylhet rail link with Dhaka, Ctg

FE Online Report 2021-02-05 12:44:33

An oil-laden train was derailed in Sylhet's Fenchuganj area leaving the rail communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chattogram suspended, police said on Friday. Confirming the matter, Md Safayet Hoss...

NESCO holds meet on installation of prepaid meters in Rajshahi city

NESCO holds meet on installation of prepaid meters in Rajshahi city

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-02-05 10:48:15

Jakiul Islam, Managing Director of Northern Electric Supply Company (NESCO) in an exchange of views meeting with journalists and local elite at NESCO office in Rajshahi on Thursday noon. The MD said...

Court asks authorities to sprinkle water in Dhaka city

Court asks authorities to sprinkle water in Dhaka city

FE REPORT 2021-02-05 10:42:16

The High Court on Thursday issued three-point directives to protect the dwellers of the capital city from the pollution of the dust. The court directed the Director General of the Fire Service and Ci...

Move to demolish iconic railway building on

Move to demolish iconic railway building on

MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-02-05 10:20:10

The demolition of iconic Kamalapur Rail Station building has been under discussion on request from the Japanese developer of a multi-modal transport hub on the site. Sources confirmed that the issue...

21 recipients of Ekushey Padak named

21 recipients of Ekushey Padak named

-- 2021-02-04 22:47:32

Twenty-one eminent personalities will get the country's second highest civilian award, the Ekushey Padak, this year in recognition of their contributions to various fields. The Cultural Affairs Minis...

Tk 75m financial irregularity found at DU

Tk 75m financial irregularity found at DU

-- 2021-02-04 20:40:55

Dhaka University (DU) has paid income tax of teachers and employees from its own funds in breach of rules. The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has made an audit objection over the Tk 17...

Govt to inoculate 3.5m doses instead of 6.0m

Govt to inoculate 3.5m doses instead of 6.0m

-- 2021-02-04 19:22:38

Bangladesh has decided to inoculate 3.5 million people, instead of 6.0 million, against COVID-19 in the first month of the nationwide vaccination programme The changes were brought to the plan for a...

Public apathy a big challenge for mass vaccination programme

Public apathy a big challenge for mass vaccination programme

UNB 2021-02-04 19:05:56

Though the government is set to launch the mass vaccination programme across the country on February 7, public apathy to get registered for it looks to be a major challenge to make the drive a success...

'Release detained Bangladeshi fishermen in Qatar'

'Release detained Bangladeshi fishermen in Qatar'

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-04 18:38:32

Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants (BCSM), a platform of 19 civil society organisations, on Thursday demanded immediate and unconditional release of detained Bangladeshi fishermen in Qatar. The pl...

Avijit murder verdict on Feb 16

Avijit murder verdict on Feb 16

-- 2021-02-04 18:33:09

The verdict against six extremists in a case over the murder of science writer-blogger Avijit Roy will be delivered on Feb 16, reports bdnews24.com. Judge Mojibur Rahman of Dhaka’s Anti-Terrori...

India’s Serum delays Covid vaccine for private sale in Bangladesh, Beximco says

India’s Serum delays Covid vaccine for private sale in Bangladesh, Beximco says

Reuters 2021-02-04 18:32:59

Bangladesh's Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd said on Thursday the Serum Institute of India (SII) had delayed the first supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine for private sale, instead prioritising government immu...

Govt announces six sectors free from child labour

Govt announces six sectors free from child labour

FE Online Report 2021-02-04 17:55:10

The government on Thursday formally declared six sectors child labour free as part of its move to eradicate child labour by 2025. State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian at a press briefing held at...

Woman crushed by train in Uttara

Woman crushed by train in Uttara

-- 2021-02-04 17:13:29

A woman was crushed under the wheels of a train near Joynal Market Rail crossing area in city’s Uttara this morning, reports BSS. However, identity of the victim could not be known immediately....

Cold wave to likely sweep over Bangladesh until Saturday

Cold wave to likely sweep over Bangladesh until Saturday

FE Online Report 2021-02-04 16:55:44

The sweeping cold wave may persist in some parts of Bangladesh until Saturday, according to an official at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Abdul Mannan, a meteorologist at BMD told The Fi...

PM for further research to expand market of agro products

PM for further research to expand market of agro products

UNB 2021-02-04 16:40:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked agricultural scientists to conduct further research over local fruits and agricultural items to expand the market for those. "It's essential to conduct...

Bangladesh reports 485 virus cases, 13 deaths in a day

Bangladesh reports 485 virus cases, 13 deaths in a day

-- 2021-02-04 16:09:04

Bangladesh has recorded 485 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 537,030. The death toll climbed to 8,175 after 13 fatalities were registered in the...

Al Jazeera report: BNP seeks explanation from govt

Al Jazeera report: BNP seeks explanation from govt

UNB 2021-02-04 15:54:06

Expressing deep concern over the report aired by Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera on Bangladesh, BNP has sought an ‘acceptable and credible’ explanation from the government over it. BN...

Rohingya repatriation: Next round of talks deferred

Rohingya repatriation: Next round of talks deferred

-- 2021-02-04 15:35:00

The long-awaited working committee meeting on Rohingya repatriation between Bangladesh and Myanmar has been deferred due to the changed situation in Myanmar. "Yes, it's deferred due to the current do...

Corruption, negligence alleged in repairing regional road

Corruption, negligence alleged in repairing regional road

OUR CORRESPONDENT, MOULVIBAZAR 2021-02-04 14:44:20

Even four years after it was badly damaged, a 34 km road connecting Moulvibazar town, Shamshernagar and Chatlapore remains unusable. On several appeals the authority concerned managed to do only 50 p...

Tarique gets two years' jail for defaming Bangabandhu

Tarique gets two years' jail for defaming Bangabandhu

-- 2021-02-04 14:38:24

A Narail court has sentenced BNP’s acting Chairman Tarique Rahman to two years in prison in a case filed over his disrespectful comments on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Judge Amatul Morsh...

Ex-BNP MP, two others get 10 years in jail over attack on Hasina’s convoy

Ex-BNP MP, two others get 10 years in jail over attack on Hasina’s convoy

-- 2021-02-04 12:03:14

A Satkhira court on Thursday sentenced former BNP MP Habibul Islam Habib and two others to 10 years imprisonment in a case filed over the 2002 attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's convoy in Ko...

Swadhinata Padak recipient Khashruzzaman’s 8th death anniversary today

Swadhinata Padak recipient Khashruzzaman’s 8th death anniversary today

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-02-04 09:06:01

The eigth death anniversary Dr Khashruzzaman Choudhury, a freedom fighter and Swadhinata Padak (Independence Medal) recipient, will be observed today (February 4). A member of the erstwhile Civil Ser...

Modi likely to visit Tungipara on March 26

Modi likely to visit Tungipara on March 26

-- 2021-02-03 20:06:59

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Tungipara in Gopalganj on March 26 to pay homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “It’s his (Modi) desire...

Life jackets distributed among fishing boat skippers in Cox's Bazar

Life jackets distributed among fishing boat skippers in Cox's Bazar

-- 2021-02-03 19:54:33

180 life jackets were distributed among the fishermen (skippers) in Cox's Bazar to save them from any drowning incidents on Tuesday in the conference room of the district fisheries officer, says a pre...

Bangladesh has no position on Su Kyi's freedom issue: FM

Bangladesh has no position on Su Kyi's freedom issue: FM

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-03 19:40:50

Bangladesh neither condemns the military rule in Myanmar nor it demands the release of Aung San Su Kyi, who has been detained by the military since Drifay’s coup. Explaining the reasons, Foreig...

PM orders action against those responsible for faulty project design

PM orders action against those responsible for faulty project design

UNB 2021-02-03 18:39:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to take action against those responsible for flawed project designs that lead to project revision, pushing up costs. &ldqu...

74,000 get registered for COVID-19 vaccine, DGHS says

74,000 get registered for COVID-19 vaccine, DGHS says

-- 2021-02-03 17:26:43

Some 74,000 people have got registered for COVID-19 vaccination until Wednesday, said ABM Khurshid Alam, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The number of people se...

Bangladesh may sue Al Jazeera for broadcasting 'false news', FM says

Bangladesh may sue Al Jazeera for broadcasting 'false news', FM says

-- 2021-02-03 16:27:18

The government will try to take legal action against the Al Jazeera for broadcasting ‘false and fabricated’ news against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as well as Bangladesh. Foreign Minist...