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464 killed in road accidents last December

464 killed in road accidents last December

FE Online Report 2021-01-03 16:42:08

Some 464 people were killed and 513 others injured in road accidents in December 2020 across the country. During the period, a total of 402 road accidents occurred where the number of accidents invol...

PM asks police to check cybercrimes, drug abuse

PM asks police to check cybercrimes, drug abuse

-- 2021-01-03 16:34:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, militancy, abuse of drugs, gangster culture and repressi...

Winter vegetables price plummets in Rajshahi, farmers worried

Winter vegetables price plummets in Rajshahi, farmers worried

OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2021-01-03 15:38:34

Prices of winter vegetables have plummeted in Rajshahi, causing worries among vegetable farmers in the district. According to farmers, some of them got satisfactory prices of winter vegetables during...

Fire at Konka Electronics factory in Narayanganj

Fire at Konka Electronics factory in Narayanganj

FE Online Report 2021-01-03 15:34:58

A huge fire that broke out at an electronic goods manufacturing factory in Narayanganj's Sonargaon area was doused. The fire originated at about 10:50am at the Konka Electronics factory at Mugrapara...

Seven die in Mymensingh road accident

Seven die in Mymensingh road accident

-- 2021-01-03 14:56:27

At least seven people were killed after a bus hit an auto-rickshaw at Gachtala area in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh on Sunday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, report...

Govt extends deadlines for Padma Bridge, three other mega projects until June next year

Govt extends deadlines for Padma Bridge, three other mega projects until June next year

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-03 14:22:18

The government has extended deadlines for four mega projects – Padma Bridge, Metro Rail, Karnaphuli Tunnel and Dhaka Elevated Expressway – for another six months until June next year. Roa...

Government to pay Tk 6b in advance for AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

Government to pay Tk 6b in advance for AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

-- 2021-01-03 13:04:35

The government has deposited over Tk 6 billion to make an advance payment to Serum Institute of India for the purchase of 30 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus. T...

Bangladesh’s final decision on second satellite by April

Bangladesh’s final decision on second satellite by April

-- 2021-01-03 12:50:33

The government is expected to make public the details of the Bangabandhu-2 satellite, including its type and utilities, by April, reports bdnews24.com. A consulting firm will begin working on finalis...

IU student ‘commits suicide’

IU student ‘commits suicide’

-- 2021-01-03 12:46:43

A female student of the Department of Law and Land Management at the Islamic University reportedly took her own life at Adarshapara area in Jhenaidah sadar upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased w...

Plan to resume work on faulty piers of Padma bridge link elevated rail track

Plan to resume work on faulty piers of Padma bridge link elevated rail track

MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-01-03 09:33:48

The Padma Bridge Rail Link project authority plans to resume the construction work on the faulty piers of elevated rail track after getting the final design on the concept of increasing piles in a wee...

74 tonnes of wastes removed only from Dhaka's Panthapath

74 tonnes of wastes removed only from Dhaka's Panthapath

FE REPORT 2021-01-03 09:03:57

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Saturday took out 74 tonnes of solid waste from five drainage pits of the Panthapath box culvert on the first day of cleaning drive of canals and box culverts as pa...

Bangladesh prepares masterplan for COVID-19 vaccination

Bangladesh prepares masterplan for COVID-19 vaccination

-- 2021-01-02 21:23:54

The government has prepared a masterplan and necessary guidelines for the country’s biggest-ever vaccination programme to vaccinate millions of people across the country in early 2021 to control...

Each shot of COVID-19 vaccine to cost Tk 425

Each shot of COVID-19 vaccine to cost Tk 425

FE Online Report 2021-01-02 20:19:37

Each shot of COVID-19 vaccine will be available in Bangladesh at a cost of around Tk 425, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said on Saturday. "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be available at a maximu...

Experts urge govt to count persons with disabilities in upcoming census

Experts urge govt to count persons with disabilities in upcoming census

-- 2021-01-02 18:24:09

Speakers at a workshop urged the government to count persons with disabilities properly in the upcoming Sixth Population and Housing Census 2021 and Comprehensive Disability Survey.   They...

BNP leader Moudud hospitalised

BNP leader Moudud hospitalised

-- 2021-01-02 18:18:25

BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has been hospitalised as he fell ill due to a low level of haemoglobin. "Sir was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the city on December 30 with ser...

Three die after ‘drinking excessive liquor’ in Rajshahi

Three die after ‘drinking excessive liquor’ in Rajshahi

-- 2021-01-02 18:05:51

Three youths, who reportedly drank excessive liquor on the 31st night, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Faisal, 28, son of Ainul Islam of...

Bangladesh records lowest virus infections in eight months

Bangladesh records lowest virus infections in eight months

-- 2021-01-02 16:15:35

Bangladesh has recorded 684 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the lowest daily count since May 9, taking the tally of infections so far to 515,184. The death toll climbed to 7,599 after 23 fataliti...

Oman appreciates Bangladesh’s decision to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char

Oman appreciates Bangladesh’s decision to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char

-- 2021-01-02 14:30:44

Oman has appreciated the Bangladesh government’s decision of relocating some of the Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char terming the new place "conducive and safe" for living. The He...

Migratory birds flock to Karnaphuli, no step to protect guests

Migratory birds flock to Karnaphuli, no step to protect guests

Nazimuddin Shyamol 2021-01-02 11:31:31

Migratory birds from Siberia and other cold regions have started flocking to the banks of the Karnaphuli River and the seashore in Chattogram after the onset of winter. The hill areas, sea beach and...

Ayesha Khanam, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, passes away

Ayesha Khanam, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, passes away

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-02 11:08:15

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad President Ayesha Khanam, also a freedom fighter, has passed away in the early hours of Saturday. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Bangladesh Mahila Parishad P...

Digital signal plan for Dhaka city  flops

Digital signal plan for Dhaka city flops

MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-01-02 08:49:52

A move to install an automated traffic signal system at four busy intersections in the city went in vain due to theft of a computer with software from a godown, sources said. They said the computer...

Severe cold threatens Boro seedbeds in Kurigram

Severe cold threatens Boro seedbeds in Kurigram

-- 2021-01-01 20:42:02

A cold snap, disrupting life in the northern part of Bangladesh, will likely to damage the Boro seedbeds if the weather does not improve and potentially trigger a seedling crisis, reports UNB. Mojibu...

Arms, drugs worth Tk 1.2b seized from Benapole in 2020

Arms, drugs worth Tk 1.2b seized from Benapole in 2020

-- 2021-01-01 20:24:10

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized gold, arms, dollars, and drugs worth Tk 1.2 billion and arrested 378 persons involved in smuggling and trafficking along the border areas of Jashore's Bena...

Bangladesh would march towards prosperity in 2021, Quader says

Bangladesh would march towards prosperity in 2021, Quader says

-- 2021-01-01 19:47:02

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday extended greetings of New Year 2021 and hoped that Bangladesh would march towards prosperity in the new year. The road transport and bridges mi...

Bangladesh to get rid of 'anarchy' in 2021, Fakhrul hopes

Bangladesh to get rid of 'anarchy' in 2021, Fakhrul hopes

-- 2021-01-01 19:41:07

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday hoped that the country will get rid of both coronavirus and ‘autocracy’ in the new year, 2021. “We greet all on the occas...

Primary students get new textbooks

Primary students get new textbooks

-- 2021-01-01 16:48:25

The government has distributed new textbooks on the first day of 2021, but the secondary students are yet to receive all books. The officials of primary education have received all textbooks in time...

Bangladesh records 990 new virus cases, 17 deaths

Bangladesh records 990 new virus cases, 17 deaths

-- 2021-01-01 16:02:13

Bangladesh has recorded 990 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 514,500. The death toll climbed to 7,576 after 17 fatalities were clocked in...

Bangladesh sees three rapes a day in 2020

Bangladesh sees three rapes a day in 2020

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-01 14:53:12

More than three women and children in the country were raped daily on an average in 2020, according to an annual report of a women's rights organisation. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) revealed tha...

20-km Dhaka canals to be recovered by March: Mayor Taposh

20-km Dhaka canals to be recovered by March: Mayor Taposh

FE REPORT 2021-01-01 14:10:30

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh Thursday said that DSCC will start crash programme from Saturday to clean three canals and two box culverts to recover 20 kilometr...

Bangladesh says goodbye to 2020 hoping for a better 2021

Bangladesh says goodbye to 2020 hoping for a better 2021

-- 2021-01-01 13:07:38

Bangladesh and the rest of the world bid adieu to 2020, a year many would like to forget, and welcomed 2021 with hopes that the New Year will be different – and better, UNB reports. The coronav...