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Former minister Inu tests positive for coronavirus

Former minister Inu tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2021-01-18 23:09:47

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASOD) president and former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu has tested positive for the coronavirus after hospitalisation. Inu was taken to Bangladesh Specialised Hospit...

Bangladesh to receive 2.0m Oxford vaccine doses on Wednesday

Bangladesh to receive 2.0m Oxford vaccine doses on Wednesday

-- 2021-01-18 22:54:17

As many as 2.0 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Bangladesh from India as a gift on Wednesday, the health secretary says. The Serum Institute of India has manufactured the shots de...

Man, wife die as bus hits motorcycle near Dhaka airport

Man, wife die as bus hits motorcycle near Dhaka airport

-- 2021-01-18 22:49:49

A man and his wife have died in a road accident near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. Akash Iqbal and wife Maya Hazarika Mitu, residents of Mollartek, were riding to work by motorbike...

Sixth population census to begin on October 25

Sixth population census to begin on October 25

-- 2021-01-18 22:31:06

The sixth Housing and Population Census of the country will begin on October 25 and continue until October 31. The week-long sixth population and housing census, which was earlier scheduled to take p...

PM pays courtesy call on President

PM pays courtesy call on President

-- 2021-01-18 21:44:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at the President's Chamber in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Monday evening. "During the meeting, the Prime Minister briefed t...

‘Robber’ lynched in Sitakunda

‘Robber’ lynched in Sitakunda

-- 2021-01-18 21:25:46

A suspected robber died in a mob beating at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on early Monday. The identity of the deceased, aged about 63, could not be known immediately. Locals said there were 13 in...

10,000 policemen seek compensation for COVID-19 infection

10,000 policemen seek compensation for COVID-19 infection

-- 2021-01-18 20:37:17

Around 10,000 members of the police, who were infected with the coronavirus while working during the pandemic, have applied for the government-announced compensation. The home minister has sought the...

High Court orders formulation of draft OTT policy within three months

High Court orders formulation of draft OTT policy within three months

-- 2021-01-18 19:56:39

The High Court on Monday ordered authorities concerned to prepare a draft of the policy within three months to monitor and extract VAT from broadcasting and distributing contents on over-the-top (OTT)...

Schooldropouts, slum children to receive skills, education   

Schooldropouts, slum children to receive skills, education  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-01-18 19:27:01

As the pandemic has heightened the risks of dropping out from schools, many children from poor families in major cities and youths in Cox’s Bazar will be provided with learning opportunities and...

Law for speedy compensation for victims of land fraudulence on cards

Law for speedy compensation for victims of land fraudulence on cards

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-18 18:33:19

Land ministry is preparing to draft a new law to provide speedy compensation to real land owners who have been harassed by land and real estate frauds. To this effect, the ministry organised a worksh...

Over half of Padma bridge annual allocation returned

Over half of Padma bridge annual allocation returned

MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-01-18 18:21:00

The Padma bridge project office has surrendered almost 60 per cent of its budget for the current (2020-21) fiscal year as, authorities say, utilisation of the entire amount will not be possible by nex...

President calls for unity for continuation of democracy

President calls for unity for continuation of democracy

-- 2021-01-18 18:03:48

Terming Jatiya Sangsad as the centrepiece of people's hope and aspirations, President Abdul Hamid called for making united efforts to create unity among all irrespective of political affiliations, cla...

Bangladesh will get some COVID vaccine doses as ‘gift’ from India, minister says

Bangladesh will get some COVID vaccine doses as ‘gift’ from India, minister says

-- 2021-01-18 16:44:24

Bangladesh will receive an unspecified quantity of novel coronavirus vaccine doses as a “gift” from India, according to Health Minister Zahid Maleque. Maleque said India may ship these do...

2,208 people with Covid-like symptoms die in nine months

2,208 people with Covid-like symptoms die in nine months

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-18 16:28:01

A total of 2,208 people with coronavirus (Covid-19) symptoms died in the last nine and a half months from March 22, 2020 to January 9, 2021 across the country, according to a report. Of them, 1,772 w...

Bangladesh reports 697 new virus cases, 16 deaths

Bangladesh reports 697 new virus cases, 16 deaths

-- 2021-01-18 16:18:22

Bangladesh has recorded 697 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 528,329. The death toll climbed to 7,922 after 16 fatalities were registered in 24...

Dhaka conveys willingness to bring in Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines as well

Dhaka conveys willingness to bring in Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines as well

SM Najmus Sakib 2021-01-18 15:43:26

Bangladesh has officially expressed interest in procuring the vaccines developed by the US-based Pfizer and German company BioNTech, officials concerned said on Monday. Bangladesh’s willingness...

Bangladesh's surface water irrigation increases 6.0pc in a decade: Minister

Bangladesh's surface water irrigation increases 6.0pc in a decade: Minister

FE REPORT 2021-01-18 09:01:32

The country's surface water irrigation, which increased to 27 per cent from 21 per cent a decade ago, helps in reducing pressure on ground water, Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said S...

Ekushey book fair likely to be held before Ramadan

Ekushey book fair likely to be held before Ramadan

-- 2021-01-17 20:55:46

The authorities concerned have finalised a plan to arrange the month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela of this year before the holy month of Ramadan, expected to begin from April 12. “We have been...

AL approves int'l affairs subcommittee for 2019-22 

AL approves int'l affairs subcommittee for 2019-22 

-- 2021-01-17 20:37:25

Bangladesh Awami League on Sunday named the members of its International Affairs Subcommittee for2019-2022. AL General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader approved the s...

Municipal councils to face dissolution for failure in increasing income, minister says

Municipal councils to face dissolution for failure in increasing income, minister says

-- 2021-01-17 19:42:10

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said the municipal councils would face dissolution for failure in increasing income as the government plans to ch...

Trial in Sylhet MC College gang rape case begins

Trial in Sylhet MC College gang rape case begins

-- 2021-01-17 19:36:21

A Sylhet tribunal on Sunday framed charges against all the eight accused in a case filed over the gang-rape of a newly-wed woman at Sylhet's MC College hostel in September last year. Also, the tribun...

Awami League turned Bangladesh into 'death valley', BNP alleges

Awami League turned Bangladesh into 'death valley', BNP alleges

UNB 2021-01-17 19:23:04

Denouncing the killing of its councillor-elect in Saturday’s Sirajganj municipal polls, BNP on Sunday alleged that the Awami League has turned Bangladesh into a "death valley" as justice has dis...

Woman allegedly stripped naked, tortured in Noakhali   

Woman allegedly stripped naked, tortured in Noakhali  

-- 2021-01-17 17:52:44

A case has been started in Noakhali over another incident in Noakhali in which a group of men stripped a woman naked and assaulted her after breaking into her home, reports bdnews24.com . The 32-ye...

Cancer incidence appalling with surging fatalities, cases, shows IARC report

Cancer incidence appalling with surging fatalities, cases, shows IARC report

Sajibur Rahman 2021-01-17 17:46:18

Bangladesh witnessed an alarmingly high incidence of cancer with a massive rise in both deaths and cases in 2020. At least 108,990 cancer deaths were recorded in the year while the total caseload was...

Hearing on e-mutation and miss cases via video conference soon: Land secretary

Hearing on e-mutation and miss cases via video conference soon: Land secretary

-- 2021-01-17 17:36:22

Land Secretary Md Mustafizur Rahman said that the hearing of e-mutation and miss cases through video conference will start soon, according to a press release. This will make it easier for people to g...

'Rohingya with Bangladeshi passport in Saudi Arabia considered as Bangladeshi'

'Rohingya with Bangladeshi passport in Saudi Arabia considered as Bangladeshi'

-- 2021-01-17 17:34:05

Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan on Sunday said the government of Saudi Arabia is considering those Rohingya people are living in Saudi Arabia with Bangladeshi passports as...

PM calls for making more films on Liberation War

PM calls for making more films on Liberation War

-- 2021-01-17 17:02:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all concerned to make more films on the Liberation War as generation after generation could know the real history of Bangladesh’s emergence as an ind...

Bangladesh reports 23 Covid deaths, 569 new cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 23 Covid deaths, 569 new cases in 24 hours

-- 2021-01-17 17:00:56

Bangladesh has recorded 23 deaths and 569 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 527,632. The death toll climbed to 7,906 till 8:00am Sunday, accordin...

Kakrail murder: Three get death for killing woman, her son

Kakrail murder: Three get death for killing woman, her son

-- 2021-01-17 16:20:38

A Dhaka court has sentenced three people to death for killing a woman and her son in Kakrail in 2017. Dhaka's Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Rabiul Alam pronounced the verdict in the pr...

Dirty fuel use in sight: Environment may be at stake

Dirty fuel use in sight: Environment may be at stake

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2021-01-17 15:37:09

Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution, or BSTI, has moved to lower the specification of petrol allowing local use of dirtier fuel that threatens environment and engines of motor vehicles. The s...