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School reopening may be delayed, PM hints

School reopening may be delayed, PM hints

-- 2021-01-30 16:50:14

Reiterating her call to countrymen to maintain health guidelines properly to contain the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government would reopen the educationa...

Bangladesh sees lowest virus cases in nine months

Bangladesh sees lowest virus cases in nine months

-- 2021-01-30 16:23:10

Bangladesh has logged 363 new coronavirus cases, the lowest daily count in over nine months, to take the tally of infections so far to 534,770. The death toll climbed to 8,111 after 17 fatalities wer...

'Water demand to go up by 50pc within 2050'

'Water demand to go up by 50pc within 2050'

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-30 15:58:47

The demand for water will go up by 50 per cent by 2050 and some 4.0 billion people in this world face water scarcity at least for a few months of a year. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, chairman of the parl...

1,464 more Rohingyas relocated to Bhasan Char

1,464 more Rohingyas relocated to Bhasan Char

-- 2021-01-30 14:41:29

A total of 1,464 Rohingyas on Saturday left for Bhasan Char, as part of the third batch, from camps of Cox's Bazar, as part of the government’s initiative to relocate the ethnic group to the isl...

Voting in 3rd phase municipality polls underway

Voting in 3rd phase municipality polls underway

-- 2021-01-30 14:02:43

Balloting at 62 municipalities in the third phase elections began on Saturday morning. Voting started at 8:00 am and will continue until 4:00 pm without any break, reports UNB. The 64 municipalities...

100pc pass rate in pandemic-hit HSC exams

100pc pass rate in pandemic-hit HSC exams

-- 2021-01-30 11:55:26

All students have passed the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent assessments of 2020, which were graded without holding the exams due to the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 161,807 achieved...

Call for better cybersecurity enforcement in Bangladesh

Call for better cybersecurity enforcement in Bangladesh

FE REPORT 2021-01-30 11:37:24

Speakers during a webinar on Friday stressed the need for a significant rise in cybersecurity enforcement capacity to ensure a virtual secure place for all. They urged the authorities concerned to ma...

Haor may see 10-km elevated road despite environmental concerns

Haor may see 10-km elevated road despite environmental concerns

MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-01-30 11:29:22

A move has been made for a 10-kilometre two-lane elevated road to connect Kishoreganj Sadar and Mithamoin upazila amid criticism over first such road having possible impacts on the ecosystem. The 30-...

Bodies of 3,000 Bangladeshi migrants brought home in 2020

Bodies of 3,000 Bangladeshi migrants brought home in 2020

ARAFAT ARA 2021-01-30 09:24:51

Bangladesh received nearly 3,000 dead bodies of migrant workers from different job destination countries in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the dead bodies were brought home from Saudi Ar...

Potential vaccine recipients face difficulties in accessing online platform

Potential vaccine recipients face difficulties in accessing online platform

Jubair Hasan 2021-01-30 08:55:39

People intending to be vaccinated have experienced immense difficulties in getting registered on the dedicated government website. The procedural tangle of the online platform (www.surokkha.gov.bd) c...

Bogura receives largest batch of vaccines on day 1

Bogura receives largest batch of vaccines on day 1

-- 2021-01-29 21:58:50

The first batch of coronavirus vaccine arrived in Bogura on Friday, according to a UNB report. Officials from the district civil surgeon office took in the packages of vaccine around 10 am on Friday...

Bangladesh, India to expedite LoC, renew air bubble

Bangladesh, India to expedite LoC, renew air bubble

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-29 19:05:33

Bangladesh and India agreed to renew the bilateral air bubble arrangement and to expedite implementation of the line of credit (LoC) projects. During the Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) meeting, he...

Govt’s graft gets 'global recognition' by Papul’s conviction, Rizvi says

Govt’s graft gets 'global recognition' by Papul’s conviction, Rizvi says

-- 2021-01-29 18:01:02

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged the current government’ corruption has got international recognition through the sentencing of Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shah...

COVID-19: Bangladesh reports lowest deaths in nine months

COVID-19: Bangladesh reports lowest deaths in nine months

-- 2021-01-29 16:14:18

Bangladesh has registered 7 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a daily count, the lowest in almost nine months, to take the death toll so far to 8,094. The caseload climbed to 534,407 after anoth...

HSC results to be published on Saturday

HSC results to be published on Saturday

FE Online Report 2021-01-29 14:10:28

Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examination 2020 will be published on Saturday, according to an education ministry statement. The results will be released at a progra...

Number of inmates in Bangladesh stands at 82,345

Number of inmates in Bangladesh stands at 82,345

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-29 14:00:15

The number of prisoners as of January 29, 2021, stood at 82,345, according to the Department of Prisons under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Of the prisoners, 17,128 are convicts and the rest 65,217 a...

Educational institutions to remain closed till February 14

Educational institutions to remain closed till February 14

FE Online Report 2021-01-29 13:22:31

The government has extended the closure of all educational institutions except Qawmi madrasas until February 14 due to Covid-19 situation in the country, according to an education ministry statement i...

Over 500 people get vaccine shots in five city hospitals

Over 500 people get vaccine shots in five city hospitals

-- 2021-01-28 22:11:18

As many as 541 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in five hospitals in Dhaka on Thursday after 26 people were inoculated on the first day of the mass immunisation campaign in Banglade...

VIPs get COVID vaccine as Bangladesh tries to encourage people for mass immunisation

VIPs get COVID vaccine as Bangladesh tries to encourage people for mass immunisation

bdnews24.com 2021-01-28 21:04:43

On the second day of coronavirus vaccination in Bangladesh, two state ministers along with several other VIPs of the country received shots. They said different quarters of society are spreading fear...

HC wants to know steps taken about corruption of 17 CBA leaders of Biman

HC wants to know steps taken about corruption of 17 CBA leaders of Biman

FE Online Report 2021-01-28 20:55:20

The High Court on Thursday wanted to know from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) what steps had been taken or whether any step had been taken against the 17 CBA leaders of Biman Bangladesh Airlines...

Kuwait jails MP Shahid for four years on human trafficking, money laundering charges

Kuwait jails MP Shahid for four years on human trafficking, money laundering charges

-- 2021-01-28 20:35:36

A criminal court in Kuwait has sentenced Bangladeshi MP Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul to four years in jail for trafficking human and laundering money. Judge Abdullah Al Osman delivered the verdict o...

PM hopes to resolve Rohingya crisis through talks with Myanmar

PM hopes to resolve Rohingya crisis through talks with Myanmar

-- 2021-01-28 18:58:06

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated Bangladesh's friendship-based foreign policy and renewed calls for the repatriation of the forcibly-displace Rohingya people through discussions with neighb...

Bangladesh urges India to ease visa regime

Bangladesh urges India to ease visa regime

FE Report 2021-01-28 18:57:05

Bangladesh on Thursday urged India to show flexibilities in the visa regime and address the difference in overstay fine structures applied by India. The request was made during the second Consular...

Govt to train 0.33m unemployed youth at upazila level

Govt to train 0.33m unemployed youth at upazila level

-- 2021-01-28 17:16:23

The government is going to take a project for providing skill training to 330,000 youth at upazila-level across the country, said State Minister for Youth and Sports Md Zahid Ahsan Russel at the parli...

509 new virus cases, 15 deaths recorded in 24 hours

509 new virus cases, 15 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-01-28 16:50:30

Bangladesh has logged 509 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 533,953. The death toll climbed to 8,087 after 15 fatalities were registered in the 2...

Bangladesh-India FOC in Delhi Friday

Bangladesh-India FOC in Delhi Friday

-- 2021-01-28 15:50:20

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen reached New Delhi on Thursday to attend Bangladesh and India foreign office consultations (FOC) on Friday. During his meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh V S...

HC scraps jail term of wrongly accused man

HC scraps jail term of wrongly accused man

-- 2021-01-28 15:32:29

The High Court has scrapped the sentence of Md Kamrul Islam, who was wrongly accused and sentenced to 15 years in prison for forgery of an SSC exam certificate on the basis of a probe by the Anti-...

55 more arrested at Hatirjheel

55 more arrested at Hatirjheel

-- 2021-01-28 13:20:39

Police have detained 55 more young people for harassing visitors to Hatirjheel, taking the total number of arrests to 71. Among them, 16 have been handed over to their parents, the remaining are in p...

Bangladesh’s position in corruption ranking declines

Bangladesh’s position in corruption ranking declines

FE Online Report 2021-01-28 13:07:38

Bangladesh has slipped two notches in global corruption perception index (CPI) in 2020 as it has been placed at the 12th from the bottom among 180 countries. However, the country’s position has...

Mujibnagar-Nadia cross-border road may be opened during Modi's visit

Mujibnagar-Nadia cross-border road may be opened during Modi's visit

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2021-01-28 11:04:58

The road connecting Mujibnagar in Meherpur to Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal may be inaugurated during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka, foreign ministry sources...