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Boro cultivators in haor areas worried because they can’t prepare seedbeds

Boro cultivators in haor areas worried because they can’t prepare seedbeds

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2020-11-17 11:18:22

Farmers in haor areas of Sunamganj and Habiganj are worried as they cannot prepare seedbeds for Boro production season due to a slow recession of water. Only a handful of farmers have managed to prep...

Mechanical parking recommended to rid Dhaka of traffic congestion

Mechanical parking recommended to rid Dhaka of traffic congestion

KAMRUN NAHAR 2020-11-17 09:57:59

Bangladesh is still at the primitive stage of traffic management for which the roads cannot be used at their optimum level creating nagging traffic congestion, experts have said. Professor Hadiuzza...

Bangladesh announces one-day mourning for Bahrain PM Sheikh Khalifa

Bangladesh announces one-day mourning for Bahrain PM Sheikh Khalifa

-- 2020-11-16 22:07:08

Bangladesh's has announced a day's state mourning for Tuesday as a mark of respect to the memory of world's longest serving prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain. Prince Kha...

Momen for ‘rock-solid partnership’ of stakeholders to fight intolerance

Momen for ‘rock-solid partnership’ of stakeholders to fight intolerance

-- 2020-11-16 20:56:52

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the battle against the "pandemic of intolerance" needs a concerted "whole of society" approach and a rock-solid partnership involving all stakeholders. He...

Report on bill seeking death penalty for rape submitted to parliament

Report on bill seeking death penalty for rape submitted to parliament

-- 2020-11-16 19:28:27

The report on the 'Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020', seeking death penalty for rape, was submitted to the parliament on Monday. Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing...

Cabinet approves nuclear disaster response plan

Cabinet approves nuclear disaster response plan

-- 2020-11-16 18:59:50

The government has approved a draft guideline on emergency responses to face any nuclear or radioactive disaster. The cabinet approved the National Nuclear and Radioactive Emergency Preparedness and...

Speakers for right to freedom of expression

Speakers for right to freedom of expression

FE Online Report 2020-11-16 17:58:41

Speakers at a discussion on Monday urged the government to repeal the use of Digital Security Act to stop oppressing voices of journalists and citizens, and thus ensure the right to freedom of express...

Women in coastal fishing families facing socio-economic disparity: Study

Women in coastal fishing families facing socio-economic disparity: Study

FE Online Report 2020-11-16 17:20:35

Women in the coastal fishery families are still lagging behind in terms of empowerment and facing socio-economic disparity, according to a study. All the women workers surveyed involved in fish proce...

Covid cases surge in Bangladesh

Covid cases surge in Bangladesh

-- 2020-11-16 16:46:50

Bangladesh has confirmed 21 new deaths from the COVID-19 illness in a day, raising the toll to 6,215. The country also reported 2,139 news Coronavirus cases in the 24 hours till 8:00am Monday, reachi...

Police launch platform to support female victims of cybercrimes

Police launch platform to support female victims of cybercrimes

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-16 16:24:20

Cyber Support Centre for Women, a cell of Bangladesh Police, has been launched with a view to extending help and support to the female victims of cybercrimes in the country. Benazir Ahmed, Inspector...

JCI Bangladesh recognises 10 outstanding youths

JCI Bangladesh recognises 10 outstanding youths

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-11-16 15:59:38

JCI Bangladesh has recognised ten youths of Bangladesh for their contribution to society through an event titled “Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) 2020” to inspire young leaders for th...

Government to deploy mobile courts in Dhaka to ensure face mask use

Government to deploy mobile courts in Dhaka to ensure face mask use

-- 2020-11-16 15:40:57

The government is deploying mobile courts in Dhaka to ensure that mask rules are followed by all amid the pandemic outbreak. The law-enforcement agencies have been instructed to make sure everyone we...

Ethnic families raising rabbits to earn a better living

Ethnic families raising rabbits to earn a better living

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-11-16 14:41:28

Netrakona: A number of families at tribal-dominated Nayapara cluster village in Kullagarh union of Durgapur upazila of Netrakona district are trying to change their days by raising rabbits. Accordi...

Japan will work for early Rohingya repatriation: Envoy

Japan will work for early Rohingya repatriation: Envoy

FE Online Report 2020-11-16 14:36:46

Japan will work towards the early repatriation of Rohingya people communicating with Myanmar to this end, said Japan ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki. The Ambassador said that it is important to co...

Potato growers in Joypurhat expect windfall profit

Potato growers in Joypurhat expect windfall profit

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2020-11-16 14:04:37

JOYPURHAT: Potato farmers of the district are expecting a windfall profit this season as they plan to harvest early-winter potato from the first week of December. A good number of growers said they s...

US-Bangladesh relations never been so important, says Ambassador Miller

US-Bangladesh relations never been so important, says Ambassador Miller

BSS 2020-11-16 13:36:35

US Ambassador Earl Miller has said Bangladesh and the United States are now enjoying the best ever cooperation, ranging from economic ties to development and health care cooperation, compared to any t...

Stakeholders demand Chattogram business hub be saved

Stakeholders demand Chattogram business hub be saved

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHATTOGRAM 2020-11-16 13:12:44

Stakeholders at a programme here on Sunday called for stopping encroachment of Chaktai canal and taking measures to dredge it on a regular basis in order to save the Chaktai-Khatunganj business hub of...

BGB hands over 11 seized touchstone statues Naogaon Archaeology Dept

BGB hands over 11 seized touchstone statues Naogaon Archaeology Dept

-- 2020-11-16 13:12:20

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over 11 touchstone statues, seized during drives in different parts of Naogaon district, to the Archaeology Department in the district. Sector Commande...

How Magura's Abul Hossen shows pearls grow in ponds

How Magura's Abul Hossen shows pearls grow in ponds

OUR CORRESPONDENT, MAGURA 2020-11-16 12:27:08

That pearls can be produced in ponds is what one Abul Hossein Khan in Magura has made possible. As the government enforced a lockdown across the country in efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in...

Ex-Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali passes away

Ex-Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali passes away

-- 2020-11-16 12:26:00

Former Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali, one of the accused in the Agartala Conspiracy Case, has passed away at 84. He breathed his last while on life support at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka at...

Nighttime crimes, accidents rise on Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover

Nighttime crimes, accidents rise on Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover

-- 2020-11-16 10:56:38

Darkness under the lampposts on the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in Dhaka has prevailed for three years as the authorities have failed to repair the lights, leading to a rise in nighttime crimes and acci...

Bridges that block water vessels will be demolished: Minister

Bridges that block water vessels will be demolished: Minister

FE REPORT 2020-11-16 10:00:05

The government will demolish bridges that hamper movement of water vessels on the rivers surrounding Dhaka city, said Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister Md Tajul Islam on...

Bangladesh no longer links Rohingya's citizenship issue with repatriation

Bangladesh no longer links Rohingya's citizenship issue with repatriation

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-11-16 09:53:51

Bangladesh does not want to tag the citizenship rights issue with the repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Several Rohingya community leaders and rights groups have been vocal about ensuring citizenshi...

US provides 100 ventilators to Bangladesh

US provides 100 ventilators to Bangladesh

-- 2020-11-15 21:10:08

The United States, through the US Embassy in Dhaka and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Bangladesh that it had pledged earlier to...

Passengers returning home must carry Covid-19 negative certificates: Minister

Passengers returning home must carry Covid-19 negative certificates: Minister

-- 2020-11-15 21:07:38

Air passengers returning home must show Covid-19 negative certificates at the airport, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday, reports UNB. Otherwise they will have to go into quarantine for 14...

RAC elects Mohiuddin president, Foyez general secretary

RAC elects Mohiuddin president, Foyez general secretary

FE Online Report 2020-11-15 20:35:03

The members of Reporters against Corruption (RAC) elected its new president and general secretary on Friday. Mohiuddin Ahmed and Ahammad Foyez have been elected president and general secretary of RAC...

Tk 0.9m robbed from Chuadanga Sonali Bank at gunpoint

Tk 0.9m robbed from Chuadanga Sonali Bank at gunpoint

-- 2020-11-15 20:15:07

Robbers looted around Tk 900,000 at gunpoint from Sonali Bank in Chuadanga's Jibonnagar upazila on Sunday. Ashraful Islam, security guard of the branch, said three people wearing face masks and helme...

Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char soon

Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char soon

-- 2020-11-15 20:13:41

Bangladesh wants to begin relocation of Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char soon as the government finds the weather and overall environment suitable for such relocation, officials said. The relocation...

PM opens Bangabandhu Pavilion at parliament

PM opens Bangabandhu Pavilion at parliament

-- 2020-11-15 19:06:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday opened a pavilion 'Prodorshonite Bangabandhu' (Bangabandhu in exhibition) at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. The Prime Minister opened the pavilio...

Ministry issues order on state honour of freedom fighters

Ministry issues order on state honour of freedom fighters

-- 2020-11-15 18:51:25

The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has issued a state honouring order, 2020 on the death of the heroic freedom fighters, and thus repeals the state honouring order of 2005, reports BSS. The new o...