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Anti-tobacco organisation protests allowing Asia Tobacco to invest in EPZs  

Anti-tobacco organisation protests allowing Asia Tobacco to invest in EPZs  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-24 21:56:58

An anti-tobacco campaign and rights organisation Thursday protested the government's move to allow Asia Tobacco (Pvt) to invest in an export processing zone. Asian Tobacco (Pvt) Ltd signed an agreeme...

FE reporter among 13 gets ‘Migration Media Award’

FE reporter among 13 gets ‘Migration Media Award’

FE ONLINE REPORT   2020-12-24 20:33:56

The government will work to encourage Bangladeshi migrants to invest in the country, said Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE) Minister Imran Ahmad at an award-giving ceremony on Thursd...

Election Commission denies allegations of misconduct

Election Commission denies allegations of misconduct

-- 2020-12-24 19:52:39

The Election Commission (EC) has dismissed accusations of financial misconduct levelled against it by the eminent citizens as baseless, lies and undesirable. Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda...

Police arrest three ‘fraud gang members’ in city

Police arrest three ‘fraud gang members’ in city

-- 2020-12-24 18:15:54

Detectives in a drive arrested three members of a fraud gang from different parts of the city on Thursday. The arrestees are Shimul Mia, 29, son of Siraj Mia, Shaheen Matobbar, 28, son of A Jabbar an...

BCSIR urges citizens not to panic over ‘new virus strain’

BCSIR urges citizens not to panic over ‘new virus strain’

-- 2020-12-24 16:56:54

Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has urged citizens not to panic over a new COVID variant similar to the strain found in the United Kingdom. It would not be proper to spread f...

Five ministries get new secretaries

Five ministries get new secretaries

-- 2020-12-24 16:53:30

The government has promoted five additional secretaries to the ranks of secretaries. The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Thursday. According to the notificatio...

1,234 new virus cases, another 19 die

1,234 new virus cases, another 19 die

-- 2020-12-24 16:01:43

Bangladesh has recorded 1,234 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 506,102. The death toll climbed to 7,378 after 19 fatalities were registered in t...

Bangladesh embassy in Korea honours outstanding Bangladesh workers, Korean employers

Bangladesh embassy in Korea honours outstanding Bangladesh workers, Korean employers

Korea Times 2020-12-24 15:56:09

The Embassy of Bangladesh in Korea honoured outstanding Bangladesh workers and Korean employers this month in celebration of the UN-designated International Migrants Day. Observed on every Dec 18, In...

Ahmad Kaikus to stay as PM's principal secretary for two more years

Ahmad Kaikus to stay as PM's principal secretary for two more years

-- 2020-12-24 15:20:10

The government has decided to extend the appointment of the prime minister's Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus, who was due to retire at the end of the month, for two more years. The contract will be...

PM asks Army to help people improve their lifestyle

PM asks Army to help people improve their lifestyle

-- 2020-12-24 15:02:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the members of Bangladesh Army to stand beside people to improve their living standards. “If the country prospers, the lifestyle of everyone has to be imp...

Japan wants to see start of Rohingya repatriation process next year, ambassador says

Japan wants to see start of Rohingya repatriation process next year, ambassador says

-- 2020-12-24 14:43:20

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki on Thursday said they want to see the start of repatriation process next year as Japan supports repatriation of Rohingyas to their homes in Rakhine State....

Bangladesh jumps eight places in global cyber security index

Bangladesh jumps eight places in global cyber security index

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-24 14:15:15

Bangladesh has improved eight places from 73rd to 65th position in the global cyber security index. In South Asia, the country ranks second with 44.16 points while India first with 59.74, shows the i...

Govt to distribute Tk 10.37 million to Christian religious institutes on Christmas

Govt to distribute Tk 10.37 million to Christian religious institutes on Christmas

FE Online Report 2020-12-24 13:29:27

The government has decided to distribute over Tk 10.37 million to some 254 Christian religious institutions across the country on the occasion of Christmas Day on December 25. The decision was taken...

Young men bring tomato revolution in Godagari

Young men bring tomato revolution in Godagari

OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2020-12-24 12:57:18

Hundreds of young people in Rajshahi's Godagari, one of the major tomato-producing hubs in the country, have become self-reliant by cultivating tomato, a cash vegetable. Traders from different part...

Partex Group’s founding chairman M A Hashem passes away

Partex Group’s founding chairman M A Hashem passes away

FE Online Desk 2020-12-24 11:16:36

M A Hashem, the founding chairman of Partex Group, passed away at a city hospital in the early hours of Thursday. He was 77. He died at Evercare Hospital around 1:20 am while undergoing treatment the...

Young professionals need to change worldview in changing development patterns: Experts

Young professionals need to change worldview in changing development patterns: Experts

FE OUTREACH TEAM 2020-12-24 11:11:04

Bangladeshi non-government organisations (NGOs) will face shortfall in external funding once the country reaches the middle-income country status but, some development professionals say, they would st...

No progress towards safe roads after task force made 111 recommendations

No progress towards safe roads after task force made 111 recommendations

FE REPORT 2020-12-24 10:27:35

The second meeting of the task force (TF) formed to bring discipline in streets ended on Wednesday without any action plan. The first meeting, which was held more than a year ago, made 111 recommenda...

Four Dhaka suburbs to host bus terminals

Four Dhaka suburbs to host bus terminals

FE REPORT 2020-12-24 08:51:04

Two mayors of Dhaka on Wednesday made the primary selection of four spots at the periphery of the Dhaka city for the relocation of inter-district bus terminals. The four selected spots are Batulia...

Eminent playwright Mannan Hira dies

Eminent playwright Mannan Hira dies

-- 2020-12-23 23:27:47

Eminent playwright Mannan Hira passed away at a city hospital on Wednesday night. Mannan, who received the Bangla Academy Award in 2006, breathed his last around 9:00 pm following a severe heart atta...

UGC alerts all over recruitment for ‘non-existent’ university

UGC alerts all over recruitment for ‘non-existent’ university

-- 2020-12-23 21:09:57

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has alerted all to the attempts to recruit personnel for a private institution named Bangabandhu International University in Nilphamari’s Saidpur. The UGC...

Turkey keen to sell arms to Bangladesh

Turkey keen to sell arms to Bangladesh

-- 2020-12-23 20:55:27

Turkey is eager to sell defence equipment to Bangladesh and double the bilateral trade to $2.0 billion, visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. He said he highlighted...

PM seeks Turkey’s involvement in ensuring Rohingya repatriation

PM seeks Turkey’s involvement in ensuring Rohingya repatriation

-- 2020-12-23 19:42:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought Turkey’s involvement in ensuring the return of forcibly-displaced Myanmar citizens from Bangladesh to their homeland. Sheikh Hasina made the req...

Digital land record rooms launched in 21 districts

Digital land record rooms launched in 21 districts

FE Online Report 2020-12-23 19:10:30

Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury on Wednesday said that the digital record room will reduce harassment in the collection of land Records of Rights (ROR). The number of visitors to deputy commiss...

Vitamin A campaign reaches 20.8m children in Bangladesh: UNICEF

Vitamin A campaign reaches 20.8m children in Bangladesh: UNICEF

-- 2020-12-23 18:11:24

The National Vitamin A plus campaign in Bangladesh has reached 20.8 million children aged between 6 months and 5 years with the important immunity boosting supplement, UNICEF said on Wednesday. The t...

DU students demand reopening of residential halls before examinations

DU students demand reopening of residential halls before examinations

-- 2020-12-23 17:58:15

A group of Dhaka University students on Wednesday demanded ensuring residential facilities for them before hosting examinations for final year and masters from December 26 amid the coronavirus pandemi...

Bangladesh fines Buraq Air for bringing passengers without COVID clearances

Bangladesh fines Buraq Air for bringing passengers without COVID clearances

-- 2020-12-23 17:18:12

The authorities at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport have slapped a Tk 300,000 fine on Buraq Air after its passengers arrived in Bangladesh from Libya without negative COVID-19 test reports. A...

Bangladesh reports 30 Covid deaths, 1,367 new cases

Bangladesh reports 30 Covid deaths, 1,367 new cases

-- 2020-12-23 16:30:39

Bangladesh has recorded 30 deaths and 1,367 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 504,868. The death toll climbed to 7,359 till 8:00am Wednesda...

Seven-day quarantine a must for UK returnees: Health minister

Seven-day quarantine a must for UK returnees: Health minister

-- 2020-12-23 16:10:36

Travellers from the United Kingdom without ‘negative test certificates’ for the coronavirus will have to undergo a seven-day quarantine, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque, reports bdnews2...

Bangladesh a rising star in South Asia, says Turkish minister

Bangladesh a rising star in South Asia, says Turkish minister

-- 2020-12-23 16:01:44

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday lauded Bangladesh’s progress saying that the country has become a rising star in South Asia under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh H...

29 Bangladeshis freed from Pakistan prisons returning home

29 Bangladeshis freed from Pakistan prisons returning home

-- 2020-12-23 14:38:29

Twenty-nine Bangladeshi nationals, who were released from Malir and Karachi jails in Sindh province of Pakistan, will be brought back home on Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry took the initiative to br...