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PM inaugurates Bangladesh’s largest Women Central Jail

PM inaugurates Bangladesh’s largest Women Central Jail

FE Online Report 2020-12-27 15:21:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually inaugurated Bangladesh’s largest Women Central Jail on Sunday noon. Talking to The Financial Express, Mohammad Sajjad Hossain, Assistant Inspector General...

19 firms, entrepreneurs to receive Presidential Industrial Development Award

19 firms, entrepreneurs to receive Presidential Industrial Development Award

FE Online Report 2020-12-27 15:03:30

The government will give awards to 19 industrial organisations and entrepreneurs, under six categories, for their contributions to the industrial development of the country. Industries Minister Nurul...

Border violence kills 42 Bangladeshis in Jan-Nov

Border violence kills 42 Bangladeshis in Jan-Nov

-- 2020-12-27 14:15:18

A total of 42 Bangladeshis were killed in violence-related incidents along the country's border from January to November of 2020, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish Kendra...

First phase of municipal polls poised to begin on Monday

First phase of municipal polls poised to begin on Monday

-- 2020-12-27 13:52:27

The first phase of the staggered municipal elections will begin in 24 municipalities across the country on Monday amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, reports bdnews24.com. Ballots will be cast usin...

Second batch of Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char in next few days: Officials

Second batch of Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char in next few days: Officials

REUTERS 2020-12-27 12:50:48

Bangladesh is set to move a second batch of Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar to the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal this month, officials said on Sunday, despite calls by...

Police arrest manager of local NGO for embezzling Tk 20 million

Police arrest manager of local NGO for embezzling Tk 20 million

-- 2020-12-27 12:14:06

Police arrested the manager of a local NGO named RAK in connection with a case filed for embezzling Tk 20 million (2 crore) after conning 800 members of the NGO, from Paikgachcha upazila in Khulna dis...

More international carriers may be allowed to operate to and from Dhaka

More international carriers may be allowed to operate to and from Dhaka

KAMRUN NAHAR 2020-12-27 08:54:50

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is set to allow more international airlines to operate flights here because of a favourable regulatory policy, vibrant market and high profitability....

Stop use of polythene to protect environment, says minister

Stop use of polythene to protect environment, says minister

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-26 22:26:48

The use of polythene should be stopped to protect the environment from pollution in the long-run, said the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md. Shahab Uddin. “The use of harmful...

Post-paid electricity consumers can replace meters with pre-paid ones, CAB says

Post-paid electricity consumers can replace meters with pre-paid ones, CAB says

-- 2020-12-26 21:54:52

The post-paid electricity bill payers will be able to replace their meters with pre-paid ones to escape harassment regarding bill payment, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) on Saturday....

Experts say no need to worry about new Covid-19 variant

Experts say no need to worry about new Covid-19 variant

-- 2020-12-26 20:17:14

The reported detection of a new Covid-19 variant in Bangladesh having some similarities to the one spotted in the UK has triggered panic among people. But health experts in Bangladesh think this stra...

Most mayoral candidates in municipal elections are businessmen

Most mayoral candidates in municipal elections are businessmen

-- 2020-12-26 19:52:35

Most of the mayoral candidates in the first phase of municipal elections are businessmen, according to their affidavits published by the Election Commission on its website ahead of Monday’s elec...

Govt keen to incorporate ADR in existing laws

Govt keen to incorporate ADR in existing laws

FE Online Report 2020-12-26 19:15:03

The government is relentlessly working to incorporating Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provisions in different existing laws of the country in order to make the commercial dispute resolution pro...

Gazipur RMG workers block road demanding payment of dues

Gazipur RMG workers block road demanding payment of dues

-- 2020-12-26 17:24:45

Traffic on Dhaka-Gazipur road came to a halt for one hour as the workers of a garment factory at Laxmipura area under Gazipur City Corporation blockade road for the third consecutive day on Saturday,...

Bangladesh reports 30 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 30 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2020-12-26 16:35:26

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,428 with 30 more deaths recorded in 24 hours till Saturday morning. The mortality rate stood at 1.46 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services s...

Wall collapse leaves two construction workers dead in Chattogram

Wall collapse leaves two construction workers dead in Chattogram

-- 2020-12-26 15:53:36

Two workers have died after an under-construction boundary wall came crashing down in Chattogram’s Jubilee Road. The incident occurred near the Election Commission office in the port city aroun...

62 injured in violence against religious minorities from Jan to Nov

62 injured in violence against religious minorities from Jan to Nov

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-26 13:35:29

At least 62 people were injured in different violent attacks on religious minorities in the first eleven months of the current calendar year across the country. Among the injured, one belongs to Budd...

President, PM mourn death of actor Abdul Kader

President, PM mourn death of actor Abdul Kader

-- 2020-12-26 13:21:47

President Mohammad Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of actor Abdul Kader. In a condolence message, the president pra...

Covid exposes ills of Bangladesh's health sector

Covid exposes ills of Bangladesh's health sector

FE REPORT 2020-12-26 08:53:25

Time has come to say goodbye to another eventful year and welcome a new one. Indeed, people from all around the world, including Bangladesh, want to forget the bitter and horrific experiences they are...

Two cops arrested for looting Tk 0.28m from civilian

Two cops arrested for looting Tk 0.28m from civilian

-- 2020-12-25 22:30:22

Two policemen posted at the Sitakunda Police Station have been arrested and later suspended for mugging a man in the area. A case was filed on Thursday night at Sitakunda Police Station against Sub-I...

Bangladesh, India to conduct joint patrols to end border deaths

Bangladesh, India to conduct joint patrols to end border deaths

-- 2020-12-25 20:33:37

Bangladesh and India have decided to conduct joint night patrols in vulnerable areas along the border in order to reduce frontier killings. The two countries share a 4,096km-long international border....

First batch of vaccines to arrive next month, health minister says

First batch of vaccines to arrive next month, health minister says

-- 2020-12-25 18:49:32

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the first batch of vaccines against coronavirus disease will arrive in Bangladesh at the end of January. “We are bringing in 30 million doses of the Oxfor...

Govt reappoints Khurshid Alam as DG of health

Govt reappoints Khurshid Alam as DG of health

-- 2020-12-25 16:59:43

The government has reappointed Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam as director general of the Directorate General of Health Services under a contract for two years after his retirement. The Minis...

Journalist Kajol freed from jail

Journalist Kajol freed from jail

-- 2020-12-25 16:40:03

Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been freed from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj. The journalist was released at 11am on Friday and his family members received him from the jail gate, said J...

1,163 new coronavirus cases, 20 deaths in a day

1,163 new coronavirus cases, 20 deaths in a day

-- 2020-12-25 16:14:12

Bangladesh has logged 1,163 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 507,265. The death toll climbed to 7,398 after 20 fatalities were registered...

Major reshuffle takes place in top brass of Army

Major reshuffle takes place in top brass of Army

-- 2020-12-25 16:02:30

Ten generals have been handed new responsibilities in a major shake-up in the top brass of the Bangladesh Army. Among them, one officer has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and four to...

Honey growers hardly get half the commercial price

Honey growers hardly get half the commercial price

ROVING CORRESPONDENT, PABNA 2020-12-25 13:48:23

Honey producers in Chalanbeel, the vast swathes of wetland in the northern region, are being forced to sell their farm produce at throwaway prices, beekeepers have alleged. They are struggling to rec...

Internet users marginally fall in November

Internet users marginally fall in November

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-25 13:10:08

The number of internet subscribers in the country marginally dropped in November compared to the previous two months, according to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTR...

RAB arrests six, seizes snake venom worth Tk 750m in Dhaka

RAB arrests six, seizes snake venom worth Tk 750m in Dhaka

FE Online Report 2020-12-25 11:19:37

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested six members of an international snake venom smuggling ring in the city on Thursday afternoon. The elite force arrested the smugglers with snake venom worth Tk 75...

Halda River declared Bangabandhu Fisheries Heritage

Halda River declared Bangabandhu Fisheries Heritage

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL 2020-12-25 10:26:32

The government has declared the Halda River as Bangabandhu Fisheries Heritage. The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock issued a circular about this on Thursday. In the circular, the ministry declare...

Christian community celebrating Christmas today

Christian community celebrating Christmas today

-- 2020-12-25 00:02:45

The Christian community is celebrating the Christmas Day in the country, as elsewhere across the world, on Friday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas, the biggest religious festival of...