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Dhaka seeks AIIB support for Covid-19 vaccine

Dhaka seeks AIIB support for Covid-19 vaccine

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-11-08 09:51:31

Bangladesh has recently sought financial support from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for procuring coronavirus vaccine soon after it is developed, officials said on Saturday. The g...

BNP’s politics on life support now, Obaidul Quader says

BNP’s politics on life support now, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2020-11-07 21:12:54

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP’s politics is on life support now as the party is facing an existential crisis after failing in the national election. He came up with...

BNP observes November 7, vows to protect democracy

BNP observes November 7, vows to protect democracy

-- 2020-11-07 21:08:09

BNP has observed ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ on Saturday remembering ‘civil-military uprising’ on November 17 in 1975. Leaders and activists of the party and diff...

Move to generate power from waste

Move to generate power from waste

-- 2020-11-07 20:34:09

In two years, the city's increasing demand for electricity could be met by the waste it generates. Yes, a waste-to-energy project has been finalised by the government to generate electricity from the...

DGHS reports 15 new dengue cases in 24 hours

DGHS reports 15 new dengue cases in 24 hours

-- 2020-11-07 19:08:08

Fifteen more people were diagnosed with dengue fever in the past 24 hours until early Saturday. All of the new patients were from Dhaka, and the 52 people who are undergoing treatment at hospitals ar...

Fund crunch weighs on Rohingya response amid pandemic

Fund crunch weighs on Rohingya response amid pandemic

-- 2020-11-07 18:58:35

A shortage of foreign funds has affected the uncertain lives of the Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, with only a little over half the required funds received this year amid the coronavirus pand...

EC plans NID for expatriate Bangladeshis

EC plans NID for expatriate Bangladeshis

-- 2020-11-07 17:27:54

All Bangladeshi expatriates would eventually be able to cast their votes in general elections from overseas as the Election Commission (EC) plans to issue National Identity (NID) cards to Bangladeshi...

PM calls on rich nations to make Covid-19 vaccine free for LDCs, developing countries

PM calls on rich nations to make Covid-19 vaccine free for LDCs, developing countries

-- 2020-11-07 16:48:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the rich countries and international development banks and institutions to help the least developed and developing countries secure free COVID-19 vaccines....

Prime accused of Lalmonirhat youth lynching held in Dhaka

Prime accused of Lalmonirhat youth lynching held in Dhaka

-- 2020-11-07 16:40:48

Detectives in a drive arrested the prime accused in a case over the lynching of a young man for ‘disrespecting Quran’ in Burimari of Lalmonirhat, from Kuril Biswa Road in the capital early...

Bangladesh reports 13 Covid deaths, 1,289 new cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 13 Covid deaths, 1,289 new cases in 24 hours

-- 2020-11-07 16:24:38

Bangladesh has confirmed 13 new deaths from the Covid-19 in a day, raising the toll to 6,049. Virus cases surged by 1,289 in the 24 hours to 8:00am Saturday to 418,764, according to data released by...

Bangladesh’s minorities protest attacks on them

Bangladesh’s minorities protest attacks on them

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-07 16:11:58

Hundreds of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians on Saturday staged protests against recent attacks on them in the country. They staged the protests under the banner of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian...

PM says multidimensional cooperatives can remove rural poverty

PM says multidimensional cooperatives can remove rural poverty

-- 2020-11-07 13:51:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there will be no poverty in Bangladesh if multidimensional rural cooperatives can be established. "It’s proven…if we can build multidimensio...

Ex-BCL leader ‘commits suicide’ in Satkhira

Ex-BCL leader ‘commits suicide’ in Satkhira

-- 2020-11-07 12:40:32

A former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Harishchandrakathi village in Tala upazila in Satkhira on Friday. The deceased was identified as Riad Hoss...

485 children killed in Jan-Oct: Report

485 children killed in Jan-Oct: Report

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-07 12:18:40

Child killings in Bangladesh witnessed a drastic increase in the first 10 months of this year compared to the same period of the previous year, according to a local rights body. A total of 485 chil...

Accident snaps Dhaka’s rail link with north; one dead

Accident snaps Dhaka’s rail link with north; one dead

-- 2020-11-07 12:04:54

A man was killed and several others were injured when a train hit a bus at Sonakhali level crossing in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur early Saturday. Rail communication between Dhaka and northern parts...

Four of a family die in Brahmanbaria road accident

Four of a family die in Brahmanbaria road accident

-- 2020-11-06 20:41:06

Four members of a family were killed and four others injured in a collision between a truck, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a private car on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Syedabad area under Kasba upazil...

Number of cases filed, fines witness significant rise in September: BRTA

Number of cases filed, fines witness significant rise in September: BRTA

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-11-06 18:29:38

Both the number of cases lodged and the amount of fine witnessed a significant rise in the ninth month of the current calendar year compared to any previous months as Bangladesh’s transport regu...

PM urges world leaders to create well-tuned roadmap for facing Covid crisis

PM urges world leaders to create well-tuned roadmap for facing Covid crisis

-- 2020-11-06 16:38:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged world leaders to formulate a well-coordinated roadmap to face the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. "The Covid-19 pandemic has created a multifacete...

12 new dengue cases reported in Dhaka

12 new dengue cases reported in Dhaka

-- 2020-11-06 15:46:17

The health authorities reported 12 new dengue cases in Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Friday morning. No new cases of the mosquito-borne disease were reported from outside the capital. Currently,...

Padma Bridge likely to be fully visible by Dec: Executive engineer

Padma Bridge likely to be fully visible by Dec: Executive engineer

-- 2020-11-06 14:56:38

The 36th span of the Padma Bridge has been installed this morning five days after setting up the previous one, making a 5400-metre or 5.4-km stretch of the main structure visible, BSS reports. &ldquo...

Demra light factory fire extinguished after 17-hours long struggle

Demra light factory fire extinguished after 17-hours long struggle

-- 2020-11-06 14:05:19

A fire that broke out at a light factory warehouse at Konapara of Matuail in Demra area of Dhaka on Thursday afternoon, was put out on Friday morning. The fire occurred at 4:50 pm on Thursday at the...

Deaths with corona symptoms cross 2,200 in Bangladesh

Deaths with corona symptoms cross 2,200 in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-06 12:40:31

A total of 2,201 people died with Covid-19 symptoms in the last seven months from March 22 to October 31 across the country, according to a latest report. Of them, at least 3 died between October 18...

Rape victim raped again in Lalmonirhat

Rape victim raped again in Lalmonirhat

-- 2020-11-06 12:14:47

A girl was raped in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday evening at her sister’s house, her family said Thursday. The victim filed a case at Patgram Police station on Thursday e...

Perilla farming in Khulna brings initial success

Perilla farming in Khulna brings initial success

OUR CORRESPONDENT, KHULNA 2020-11-06 10:46:41

The farming of a China-origin edible oil seed, SAU Perilla-1, has primarily yielded a remarkable success in Khulna district. Two farmers Mehedi Hasan Bablu and Sheikh Monjur, hailing from Chugnagar v...

Hilsa fishing resumes after 22-day ban

Hilsa fishing resumes after 22-day ban

FE REPORT 2020-11-06 10:04:53

Fishermen resumed catching hilsa from Thursday as a 22-day ban on the same ended the previous day. The government imposed a ban on catching hilsa during the period from October 14 to November 4. A h...

Nationwide expressway network mission suspended for two years

Nationwide expressway network mission suspended for two years

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-11-06 10:00:39

A move to develop a nationwide expressway network for access controls on highways has remained halted for the past two years due to the authorities' inaction. The Roads and Highways Department (RHD),...

City to face serial eight hours blackouts for Desco maintenance works

City to face serial eight hours blackouts for Desco maintenance works

-- 2020-11-05 23:07:38

Different areas of the city will undergo serial blackouts for eight hours from 8am to 4pm as Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (Desco) will conduct annual maintenance works in power substations in...

Fire breaks out in multi-storied building at Konapara

Fire breaks out in multi-storied building at Konapara

FE Online Report 2020-11-05 22:00:09

A devastating fire broke out in a multi-storied building at Konapara under Demra in the capital on Thursday evening. The fire originated on the sixth floor of the 11-storey building that houses facto...

Ex-VP Nur's associate Shohag arrested on rape charges

Ex-VP Nur's associate Shohag arrested on rape charges

-- 2020-11-05 21:43:01

Anti-quota movement leader Nazmul Hasan Shohag has been arrested in Dhaka on rape charges brought by a Dhaka University student. The 28-year old close associate of former DUCSU vice-president Nurul H...

Govt formulates SoPs for improving labour inspection system

Govt formulates SoPs for improving labour inspection system

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-05 19:59:54

The government has formulated four Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to improve labour inspections and thus ensuring decent working conditions in all workplaces The Department of Inspection for Fa...