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Ayesha dreams of becoming a kazi, but her gender stands in the way

Ayesha dreams of becoming a kazi, but her gender stands in the way

-- 2021-01-14 15:45:01

Since her childhood days, Ayesha Siddiqua has watched absolute male dominance in solemnising Muslim marriages. She always nurtured the dream of breaking into the men’s domain by becoming a femal...

PM urges all to work for people’s socio-economic development

PM urges all to work for people’s socio-economic development

-- 2021-01-14 15:02:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged all to work from their respective positions alongside the government for the socio-economic development of people to build the country as golden Banglade...

Huge silt on Sunamganj haor lands affects Boro cultivation

Huge silt on Sunamganj haor lands affects Boro cultivation

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2021-01-14 13:28:00

Farmers in Sunamganj haor areas are counting the labour cost of huge silt on their lands while preparing them for Boro cultivation this year. They are already in trouble due to late and slow recessio...

40 tonnes of illegally imported fabrics seized at Ctg Port

40 tonnes of illegally imported fabrics seized at Ctg Port

-- 2021-01-14 12:33:16

About 40 tonnes of fabrics imported under false declaration were seized at the Chattogram Port by the Customs House on Wednesday. Customs officials say the seized fabrics has an estimated market valu...

Garment owners seek 10,000 doses of vaccine for families on priority basis

Garment owners seek 10,000 doses of vaccine for families on priority basis

FE Report 2021-01-14 10:27:24

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has sought Covid-19 vaccine for its members and their families on priority basis. The trade body in a letter on Tuesday to Beximco...

Bangasafe spray proves to be effective against Covid-19 cases: Researchers

Bangasafe spray proves to be effective against Covid-19 cases: Researchers

FE REPORT 2021-01-14 10:18:02

Bangasafe Oro-Nasal Spray, an under-trial drug to treat Covid-19, was found effective in reducing virus load among patients with mild symptoms, researchers and scientists claimed. The spray, the fi...

Bangladesh to opt for cheaper vaccine if Indian antidote is costly, says finance minister

Bangladesh to opt for cheaper vaccine if Indian antidote is costly, says finance minister

FE REPORT 2021-01-14 09:39:27

The government will look for alternative sources for procuring Covid-19 vaccine if the Indian antidote is found costly, says finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. "We will check the price of vaccine in...

Bangladesh dismisses Pompeo's al-Qaeda remark  as  baseless

Bangladesh dismisses Pompeo's al-Qaeda remark as baseless

UNB 2021-01-14 09:14:33

Bangladesh has strongly protested against "baseless remarks and falsification" by US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo tagging Bangladesh with terrorist group al-Qaeda. In his recent statement, P...

Jhenaidah road accident claims seven lives

Jhenaidah road accident claims seven lives

-- 2021-01-13 20:07:36

At least seven people have died after a truck rammed into a locally made small passenger vehicle in Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah. The accident occurred at Madandanga on the Jhenaidah-Kushtia Highwa...

PSC announces 41st, 42nd BCS exam dates

PSC announces 41st, 42nd BCS exam dates

-- 2021-01-13 19:39:40

The Public Service Commission has announced the schedule for the 41st and 42nd Bangladesh Civil Service examinations. It will hold the 41st BCS preliminary examinations in all the centres throughout...

Bangladesh-Myanmar-China tripartite meeting on Rohingya repatriation Jan 19

Bangladesh-Myanmar-China tripartite meeting on Rohingya repatriation Jan 19

-- 2021-01-13 18:08:24

Bangladesh, Myanmar and China will hold a tripartite meeting on Rohingya repatriation in Dhaka on January 19 as Bangladesh finds the repatriation as the only solution to the crisis. "We hope it would...

Fakhrul accuses AL of establishing ‘reign of robbery’

Fakhrul accuses AL of establishing ‘reign of robbery’

UNB 2021-01-13 17:01:35

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government has established a ‘reign of robbery’ in the country by indulging in widespread ‘plundering&...

ACC arrests ‘close associate’ of PK Halder in money laundering case

ACC arrests ‘close associate’ of PK Halder in money laundering case

-- 2021-01-13 16:55:36

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested Abantika Baral, a 'close associate' of Proshanta Kumar Halder, in connection with illegal acquisition of wealth and money laundering. Abantika was de...

Training for Covid-19 vaccination starts in Bangladesh  

Training for Covid-19 vaccination starts in Bangladesh  

SM Najmus Sakib 2021-01-13 16:49:29

The government has started providing necessary training to health staffers across the country to initiate the Covid-19 vaccination programme which is expected to be inaugurated by the first end of Feb...

Court seeks probe report on reserve heist case on February 17

Court seeks probe report on reserve heist case on February 17

-- 2021-01-13 16:42:37

A Dhaka court has asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police to submit a probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank reserve heist on February 17. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate...

Bangladesh reports 14 Covid deaths, 890 new cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 14 Covid deaths, 890 new cases in 24 hours

-- 2021-01-13 16:30:23

Bangladesh has registered 14 new fatalities from the coronavirus, the lowest daily count in two months, taking the death toll to 7,833. The tally of infections climbed to 524,910 after 890 people tes...

AC compressor explosion leaves one dead in Gulshan

AC compressor explosion leaves one dead in Gulshan

-- 2021-01-13 16:14:07

A man was killed and six others were injured after a suspected AC compressor explosion at a building in the capital's Gulshan-2. The incident took place at the Empori Financial Centre, which houses t...

Bangladesh sees significant rise in cancer cases in 2015-2017 period

Bangladesh sees significant rise in cancer cases in 2015-2017 period

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-01-13 14:00:32

Bangladesh witnessed a significant increase in the number of new cancer patients during the period from 2015 to 2017, according to a latest government report. Out of 76,543 outpatients attended at Na...

Dhaka city authorities show anger at UNDP's urban poor settlement mapping

Dhaka city authorities show anger at UNDP's urban poor settlement mapping

FE Report 2021-01-13 10:16:14

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) authority was compelled to revise the results of the urban poor settlement mapping in the Dhaka South City Corporation in the face of strong criticism and...

Corruption exists but it's not team work: Minister Mannan

Corruption exists but it's not team work: Minister Mannan

FE Report 2021-01-13 10:13:00

Planning Minister MA Mannan on Tuesday said the weaker side of the Development Project Proposals (DPPs) is the absence of proper feasibility study. "This is not only my observation but also many of...

Dozens of Bangladeshi expats stuck in Algeria

Dozens of Bangladeshi expats stuck in Algeria

FE REPORT 2021-01-13 10:01:53

A number of Bangladeshi workers have remained stranded in Algeria for the past two years as they fell victim to human trafficking in the name of labour migration. Victims and their families accused m...

TIB seeks transparency in vaccine collection, distribution

TIB seeks transparency in vaccine collection, distribution

-- 2021-01-12 21:51:19

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to ensure maximum transparency in the procurement, collection and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. The TIB stressed the need for...

Uncontrolled sand extraction threatens farmland in Tangail, Sirajganj

Uncontrolled sand extraction threatens farmland in Tangail, Sirajganj

AL JAZEERA 2021-01-12 21:39:23

Rapid urbanisation is driving up demand for sand in Bangladesh, leading to uncontrolled and mostly illegal extraction of sandstone and rocks from the riverbeds. The hunger for sand is threatening the...

BRICM develops nasal spray to kill coronavirus

BRICM develops nasal spray to kill coronavirus

-- 2021-01-12 20:38:43

Bangladesh Reference Institute for Chemical Measurements (BRICM) has invented a nasal spray to kill coronavirus in the upper respiratory tract. The Bangasef Oro-Nasal Spray has proven safe, effective...

Bangladesh provides list of 230,000 Rohingya to Myanmar for repatriation

Bangladesh provides list of 230,000 Rohingya to Myanmar for repatriation

-- 2021-01-12 19:46:20

The government has handed over a list of 230,000 more Rohingya refugees to Myanmar for repatriation to their homeland in Rakhine State. Delwar Hossain, the director general of the foreign ministry&rs...

Bangladesh gets AstraZeneca vaccine at 47pc higher price than India

Bangladesh gets AstraZeneca vaccine at 47pc higher price than India

-- 2021-01-12 19:33:58

Serum Institute of India will sell the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh at $4.0 per dose, three sources with knowledge of the mater told Reuters, about 47 per cent more than India will pa...

BSF describes Bangladesh-India border as ‘very complex’ border

BSF describes Bangladesh-India border as ‘very complex’ border

-- 2021-01-12 19:05:43

Border Security Force (BSF) has described Bangladesh-India border as a very complex border due to close proximity, ethnic and cultural similarities of the population living on both sides of the border...

Govt takes cautionary measures to prevent bird flu outbreak

Govt takes cautionary measures to prevent bird flu outbreak

FE Online Report 2021-01-12 18:45:36

A bird flu outbreak in India has forced the Bangladesh government to take cautionary measures for preventing any spread of the viral disease in the country. The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock on...

Bangladesh logs 16 Covid deaths, 718 new cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 16 Covid deaths, 718 new cases in 24 hours

-- 2021-01-12 16:35:07

Bangladesh recorded 16 deaths and 718 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 524,020. The death toll climbed to 7,819 till 8:00am Tuesday, accor...

Ahmad Shafi’s death: PBI investigators visit Hathazari Madrasa

Ahmad Shafi’s death: PBI investigators visit Hathazari Madrasa

-- 2021-01-12 16:06:52

Members of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) visited the Hathazari Madrasa on Tuesday morning as part of their probe into the alleged killing of Hefazat-e-Islam founder Shah Ahmad Shafi. The PBI t...