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Third phase polls to 64 municipalities Jan 30

Third phase polls to 64 municipalities Jan 30

-- 2020-12-14 20:27:42

The third phase elections to 64 municipalities of different districts will be held on January 30 as per the schedule announced by the Election Commission (EC) on Monday, reports UNB. The deadline for...

Anti-liberation forces hatching conspiracy against sculptures: Tofail

Anti-liberation forces hatching conspiracy against sculptures: Tofail

-- 2020-12-14 20:26:25

Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Monday said anti-liberation forces are hatching a conspiracy against sculptures. “Today the people of the country have become united against those who are ha...

Relocation may create new obstacles to resolving Rohingya crisis, BNP says

Relocation may create new obstacles to resolving Rohingya crisis, BNP says

-- 2020-12-14 20:18:56

BNP on Monday strongly opposed the relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char, saying it has manifested the government’s ‘limitless diplomatic and political failures’ to resolve the pro...

Pandemic fallout may lead to corporate, household debt defaults: ICCB president

Pandemic fallout may lead to corporate, household debt defaults: ICCB president

FE Online Report 2020-12-14 19:11:27

As the second wave of Covid-19 has started affecting Europe and America, emerging economies like Bangladesh will also struggle and have to tackle a number of economic effects of the pandemic, ICC Bang...

Chattogram city polls on January 27 after pandemic delay 

Chattogram city polls on January 27 after pandemic delay 

-- 2020-12-14 17:33:47

The election commission has scheduled the Chattogram City Corporation polls for January 27, after a delay of more than eight months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Md Alamgir, senior secretary of th...

Bangladesh registers 37 deaths, 1,799 new virus cases

Bangladesh registers 37 deaths, 1,799 new virus cases

-- 2020-12-14 17:28:04

Bangladesh has recorded 1,799 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 492,332, reports bdnew24.com. The death toll climbed to 7,089 after 37...

BTRC gets new chairman

BTRC gets new chairman

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-14 17:20:33

The government has appointed Shyam Sunder Sikder, a former secretary of the government, as the chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). The Ministry of Public Admini...

116 doctors, 40 journalists die amid pandemic in Bangladesh

116 doctors, 40 journalists die amid pandemic in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-14 17:14:15

At least 116 physicians in Bangladesh died of Covid-19 so far with one more death on Monday, according to the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA). Meanwhile, some 8,092 health workers so far tested...

Another ‘wartime bomb’ found at HSIA’s third terminal site

Another ‘wartime bomb’ found at HSIA’s third terminal site

-- 2020-12-14 16:48:53

Another 250 kg bomb, believed to be dropped during the Liberation War in 1971, was recovered at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday. The airport authorities found the bomb 10 feet un...

Bangladeshi gets death penalty for murder in Singapore

Bangladeshi gets death penalty for murder in Singapore

-- 2020-12-14 16:14:18

A Bangladeshi painter has been sentenced to death for killing his Indonesian girlfriend in a Singapore hotel in 2018. Ahmed Salim, 31, had strangled domestic worker Nurhidayati Wartono Surata for ref...

Govt to suspend flights for COVID certificate breach

Govt to suspend flights for COVID certificate breach

-- 2020-12-14 15:55:17

The government has announced that the flights of airlines bringing passengers from abroad without COVID-negative certificates will be suspended for up to four weeks.  “It is observed with...

DSCC mayor urges all to remain alert against communal fundamentalist forces

DSCC mayor urges all to remain alert against communal fundamentalist forces

-- 2020-12-14 14:38:52

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh urged everyone to remain alert until the communal fundamentalist forces are completely wiped out. “We have seen that the commu...

Eight get death penalty for killing child after rape in Chattogram

Eight get death penalty for killing child after rape in Chattogram

-- 2020-12-14 13:34:08

A Chattogram court has sentenced eight people to death for their roles in the murder of a nine-year-old child after rape about three years ago. The verdict was passed by Chattogram Women and Child Re...

Gadkhali, Panisara flower villages ready with flowers for national events

Gadkhali, Panisara flower villages ready with flowers for national events

OUR CORRESPONDENT, BENAPOLE 2020-12-14 12:16:45

Gadakhali and Panisara flower growers in Jashore’s Jhikargachha are ready with their produce as national events such as the Victory Day, 16 December, are now around the corner. On the occasion...

President, PM pay homage to martyred intellectuals

President, PM pay homage to martyred intellectuals

-- 2020-12-14 11:06:25

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid their homage to the martyred intellectuals of 1971, as the nation observes Martyred Intellectuals Day, bdnews24.com reports. The Pakis...

Prices for Covid tests, oxygen fixed, DGHS tells court

Prices for Covid tests, oxygen fixed, DGHS tells court

FE REPORT 2020-12-14 10:56:33

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has rescheduled prices of 10 emergency coronavirus tests and services, including the prices of oxygen cylinder, cylinder refilling and oxygen utilis...

PM pays rich tributes to martyred intellectuals

PM pays rich tributes to martyred intellectuals

-- 2020-12-14 09:40:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in Dhaka, marking the Martyred Intellectuals...

Nation to observe Martyred Intellectuals Day on Monday

Nation to observe Martyred Intellectuals Day on Monday

-- 2020-12-13 22:56:57

The nation is set to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Monday in a befitting manner. Just two days ahead of the country’s victory on this day 49 years ago, the marauding Pakistan army i...

RAB says Sinha was murdered for discovering OC Pradip’s drug links

RAB says Sinha was murdered for discovering OC Pradip’s drug links

-- 2020-12-13 20:23:09

Retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan was killed because he “came to know about Teknaf police’s OC Pradip Kumar Das’s links to drug business, the RAB has said. The basic finding o...

UNESCO launches Bangabandhu award on creative economy

UNESCO launches Bangabandhu award on creative economy

-- 2020-12-13 19:48:33

UNESCO has launched an international award named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman following Bangladesh’s proposal, reports bdnews24.com.  The UN agency’s executive board unani...

Bangladesh signs deal with India's Serum Institute for importing Covid-19 vaccine

Bangladesh signs deal with India's Serum Institute for importing Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2020-12-13 19:03:59

The government on Sunday signed an agreement with Serum Institute of India Pvt Limited for procuring Covid-19 vaccine. Under the deal, Bangladesh will import 3.0 billion doses of SARS-Cov-2 AZD 1222...

Spice farming increases in Rangpur region

Spice farming increases in Rangpur region

-- 2020-12-13 17:59:09

Farmers are accelerating cultivation and production of spice crops and getting lucrative prices to achieve self-reliance during the last twelve years in Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the D...

Bangladesh logs 32 deaths, 1,355 new virus cases

Bangladesh logs 32 deaths, 1,355 new virus cases

-- 2020-12-13 17:28:35

Bangladesh has recorded 1,355 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 490,533, reports bdnew24.com. The death toll surged to 7,052 after 32 f...

Bangladesh to raise major issues during Hasina-Modi meeting on Dec 17

Bangladesh to raise major issues during Hasina-Modi meeting on Dec 17

-- 2020-12-13 17:01:46

Bangladesh will raise all the big issues, including water and border related ones, during the virtual meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, scheduled t...

Environment minister talks tough on ‘plastic waste trade’

Environment minister talks tough on ‘plastic waste trade’

-- 2020-12-13 16:55:13

The government will never allow plastic waste trade in the country, said Md Shahab Uddin, minister of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, on Sunday. He made the comment at a virt...

10 to walk gallows for killing UP chairman in Chattogram 21 years ago

10 to walk gallows for killing UP chairman in Chattogram 21 years ago

-- 2020-12-13 14:39:20

A Chattogram court has handed down the death sentence to 10 people in a case involving the murder of Sonakania Union Parishad Chairman Amzad Hossain in Satkania 21 years ago. Chattogram division's Sp...

Nayeemul Abrar’s death: HC suspends trial of Prothom Alo editor for six months

Nayeemul Abrar’s death: HC suspends trial of Prothom Alo editor for six months

-- 2020-12-13 13:52:21

The High Court has suspended for six months the trial proceedings against Prothom Alo's Editor Matiur Rahman in a case over the death of Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar. Justice Md R...

Police officers Pradip, Liakat among 15 charged with ex-army officer Sinha murder

Police officers Pradip, Liakat among 15 charged with ex-army officer Sinha murder

-- 2020-12-13 12:30:12

The Rapid Action Battalion has pressed formal charges in court against former Teknaf Police OC Pradip Kumar Das, former in-charge of Baharchhara investigation centre Inspector Liakat Ali and 13 others...

Preparations on to bring children back to schools: PM

Preparations on to bring children back to schools: PM

-- 2020-12-13 12:18:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is taking preparations so that children can return to their educational institutions and resume their academic activities normally. "We hope that...

Banana growers in Tangail make good profit

Banana growers in Tangail make good profit

OUR CORRESPONDENT, TANGAIL 2020-12-13 12:00:39

Banana growers of Tangail are making a good profit with the price of the iron-rich fruit going higher this year. They have also witnessed a bumper yield of the popular fruit crop. More than a thousa...