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Hajj agency to be fined maximum Tk 5.0m for irregularities

Hajj agency to be fined maximum Tk 5.0m for irregularities

-- 2020-12-28 19:55:40

The Cabinet has approved the draft of ‘Hajj and Umrah Management Law-2020’ in principle to bring more discipline in this sector. According to the draft law, a hajj agency could be fined a...

Second batch of Rohingyas to be shifted to Bhasanchar Tuesday

Second batch of Rohingyas to be shifted to Bhasanchar Tuesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-28 19:47:27

The second batch of 1,772 Rohingya refugees is scheduled to be shifted to Bhasanchar island on Tuesday. According to the concerned authorities, these refugees belong to 427 families. “They hav...

Planning minister emphasises foundation for char people

Planning minister emphasises foundation for char people

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-28 19:26:45

The government is working to bring the lagging char areas into the mainstream of development, said Planning Minister M A Mannan on Monday. “To realise the development plans for Char- a Char Fou...

Cabinet approves draft of highway law

Cabinet approves draft of highway law

-- 2020-12-28 19:21:14

The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle a draft of ‘Highway Law-2020’ keeping provision of punishment for different offenses. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the regular ca...

Eighth Five-Year Plan awaits NEC approval

Eighth Five-Year Plan awaits NEC approval

-- 2020-12-28 19:03:34

The National Economic Council (NEC) will sit tomorrow (Monday) to consider the 8th Five Year Plan (2021-2025) of the country in order to attain 8.0 per cent GDP growth on average per year and also to...

HC stays ministry order to remove Zia’s name from titles of two schools

HC stays ministry order to remove Zia’s name from titles of two schools

FE Online Report 2020-12-28 18:09:05

The High Court (HC) on Monday halted the education ministry's decision for six months to remove the name of late president Ziaur Rahman from the titles of two high schools in Bogura--Shahid Ziaur Rahm...

Speakers for central coordination of community volunteers

Speakers for central coordination of community volunteers

FE Online Report 2020-12-28 17:56:10

Speakers at a programme on Sunday stressed the need for centralised coordination of community volunteers so that they can respond swiftly to disasters or other humanitarian crises. They also said mit...

RAB arrests three ‘JMB members’ from Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

RAB arrests three ‘JMB members’ from Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

-- 2020-12-28 17:46:03

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts early Sunday. The arr...

Bangladesh logs 27 deaths, 932 new virus cases

Bangladesh logs 27 deaths, 932 new virus cases

-- 2020-12-28 17:00:34

Bangladesh has recorded 932 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 510,080, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll climbed to 7,479 after 27 fatal...

Renowned chest physician AKM Shamsul Huq dies

Renowned chest physician AKM Shamsul Huq dies

-- 2020-12-28 16:30:44

Veteran chest physician Prof AKM Shamsul Huq, former director of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, died on Monday at the age of 85. Huq was undergoing treatment at Bangaba...

Mercury drops to 7.7 degrees Celsius in Chuadanga

Mercury drops to 7.7 degrees Celsius in Chuadanga

-- 2020-12-28 16:22:58

A cold spell has continued to grip Bangladesh's northern regions for the last 10 days, with the mercury dropping below 8.0 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country. Chuadanga recorded the lowest...

Govt imposes mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine on arrivals from UK

Govt imposes mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine on arrivals from UK

-- 2020-12-28 15:28:40

Bangladesh has introduced a mandatory two-week institutional quarantine period for all travellers arriving in the country from the United Kingdom following the discovery of a new variant of the corona...

Radon gas detected in indoor air in Dhaka

Radon gas detected in indoor air in Dhaka

FE Online Report 2020-12-28 14:44:38

Researchers have detected the toxic and unhealthy radon gas presence in indoor air in Dhaka city for the first time in the country. The Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO) on Monda...

Sundarbans sees golpata trees dying a slow death

Sundarbans sees golpata trees dying a slow death

-- 2020-12-28 13:03:17

Up until five years back, Mir Quamruzzaman Bachchu had always believed that the identity of the Sundarbans was interwoven with golpata (Nypa fruticans), a trunk-less palm species which grows naturally...

First phase of voting in 24 municipalities begins

First phase of voting in 24 municipalities begins

-- 2020-12-28 12:45:23

The first phase of voting in 24 municipalities across the country has begun amid the coronavirus pandemic. Ballots are being cast using electronic voting machines. The voting will continue until 4 pm...

UNHCR supporting Cox’s Bazar locals with livelihood initiatives

UNHCR supporting Cox’s Bazar locals with livelihood initiatives

-- 2020-12-27 21:54:46

UNHCR and its partners have completed 130 projects so far to support the Cox's Bazar locals through "Community Solidarity Projects" and income generation initiatives. They have been implementing the...

Biman resumes flights to Oman from Tuesday night

Biman resumes flights to Oman from Tuesday night

-- 2020-12-27 20:56:06

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume its flight operation to Oman on Tuesday as the Oman government has withdrawn its suspension order on the flight operation. Passengers of suspended flights have b...

More 21 private labs to conduct COVID-19 tests for outbound travellers

More 21 private labs to conduct COVID-19 tests for outbound travellers

-- 2020-12-27 20:13:44

The government has authorised more 21 private laboratories to conduct COVID-19 tests of outbound travellers. It also lowered the fee of RT-PCR tests for the coronavirus at private labs to Tk 3,000 fr...

Govt hopes to get 55m Covid-19 vaccine doses by June

Govt hopes to get 55m Covid-19 vaccine doses by June

-- 2020-12-27 19:38:53

Bangladesh is hopeful of receiving 55 million doses of the coronavirus vaccines from the Serum Institute of India and under a programme led by the World Health Organization (WHO) within June, 2021. H...

Court orders to freeze 617 bank accounts of lawmaker Shahid, family

Court orders to freeze 617 bank accounts of lawmaker Shahid, family

-- 2020-12-27 19:29:29

A Dhaka court has ordered banks to freeze 617 accounts that belong to Kazi Shahid Islam Papul, the independent lawmaker from Laxmipur-2 constituency, and his family members who are facing charges of m...

Reactor pit construction at RNPP power unit No.1 completed

Reactor pit construction at RNPP power unit No.1 completed

-- 2020-12-27 19:26:57

Reactor pit construction at Rooppur Nuclear Power Project (RNPP) unit No.1 in Bangladesh has been completed, said a Rosatom press release. Rosatom is the Russian state nuclear agency which remained e...

DNCC launches drive to free up Manik Mia Avenue bicycle lane

DNCC launches drive to free up Manik Mia Avenue bicycle lane

-- 2020-12-27 18:42:24

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Sunday conducted a drive against illegal food stands, installations, and parking on the Manik Mia Avenue bicycle lane. During the drive, led by DNCC Executive M...

Qatar to reopen its visa centre in Dhaka Wednesday

Qatar to reopen its visa centre in Dhaka Wednesday

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-12-27 18:37:46

The government of Qatar has announced to reopen its visa centre in Dhaka on Wednesday. "Within the framework of resuming work at Qatar visa centers abroad, work will start at the Dhaka Center in the...

Bangladeshi death row convict detained in India

Bangladeshi death row convict detained in India

-- 2020-12-27 18:06:24

Indian law enforcers have arrested a fugitive Bangladeshi national, who fled India after being sentenced to death in a kidnapping, robbery and murder case a decade ago, from New Delhi. New Delhi poli...

‘Good communication system will drive Bangladesh forward’

‘Good communication system will drive Bangladesh forward’

-- 2020-12-27 17:17:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is working to upgrade the communication system in Bangladesh to drive the country forward. She made the remarks while inaugurating the latest addi...

Govt to introduce virtual court activities at district-level jails, PM says

Govt to introduce virtual court activities at district-level jails, PM says

-- 2020-12-27 17:06:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the government will introduce virtual court activities in district-level jails to lessen sufferings of justice seekers amid coronavirus outbreak. The prime...

26,000 Gaibandha char families to get electricity by June

26,000 Gaibandha char families to get electricity by June

-- 2020-12-27 17:05:40

A number of 26,000 dwellers of remote char areas of river-surrounded three upazilas –Shaghata, Fulchhari, Sadar — of Gaibandha are going to get electric facility by June next, an official...

Bangladesh registers 1,049 Covid cases, another 24 die in 24 hours

Bangladesh registers 1,049 Covid cases, another 24 die in 24 hours

-- 2020-12-27 16:53:39

Bangladesh has recorded 1,049 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 509,148. The death toll climbed to 7,452 after 24 fatalities were registere...

International conference on Bangladesh’s environment begins

International conference on Bangladesh’s environment begins

FE Online Report 2020-12-27 16:10:17

The 4th international conference on Bangladesh’s environment (ICBEN-4) has begun with the motto to strengthen the environment movement to ensure a liveable earth. Over 40 renowned environmental...

PM inaugurates Biman's new Dash 8-400 aircraft ‘Dhruvatara’

PM inaugurates Biman's new Dash 8-400 aircraft ‘Dhruvatara’

-- 2020-12-27 16:00:46

National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines got a new Dash 8-400 aircraft to help it expand operations in the short-range, including domestic and South Asian destinations. Prime Minister Sheikh H...