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Four Bangladeshis killed in Mauritius road crash

Four Bangladeshis killed in Mauritius road crash

-- 2020-11-05 18:20:44

Four Bangladeshi workers were killed and dozens injured in a road accident in the Pail area near Port Louise on Thursday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, reports UN...

Bangladesh uses only 8.0pc of mitigation funding for climate change: Study

Bangladesh uses only 8.0pc of mitigation funding for climate change: Study

FE Online Report 2020-11-05 16:42:35

While the lion's share of mitigation funding for climate change in Bangladesh comes from international sources, only 8. 0 per cent of it is spent on mitigation activities, a latest study has found....

Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 17 deaths, 1,842 new cases

Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 17 deaths, 1,842 new cases

-- 2020-11-05 16:39:05

Bangladesh has recorded 17 deaths and 1,842 new cases of the novel coronavirus in las 24 hours. The death toll reaches 6,021 while the tally of infections so far 416,006, the government said in a sta...

Bangladesh to buy 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses

Bangladesh to buy 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses

-- 2020-11-05 14:55:58

The Bangladesh government has signed a deal with two organisations to buy 30 million doses of the Oxford University vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca. The officials from the Ministry of Health a...

PM commissions Navy’s five modern warships

PM commissions Navy’s five modern warships

-- 2020-11-05 14:46:04

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has commissioned Bangladesh Navy’s five modern warships -- BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Ubaidah, BNS Prottasha, BNS Darshak and BNS Tallashi-- at Naval Berth-1 in Chatto...

Bandarban fire burns 20 shops

Bandarban fire burns 20 shops

-- 2020-11-05 13:22:23

Twenty shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Boro madok Bazar in Bandarban early Thursday. Mui Sui Thui, chairman of Romacri Union, said the fire broke out following gas cylinder explosion a...

Turkish envoy reiterates support to Bangladesh on Rohingya issue

Turkish envoy reiterates support to Bangladesh on Rohingya issue

-- 2020-11-05 10:48:10

Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan has reiterated his country's continued support to the government of Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue. Bangladesh is hosting over a million of Ro...

Rajshahi student turns pastime into business

Rajshahi student turns pastime into business

Our Correspondent 2020-11-05 09:45:12

RAJSHAHI: It was just out of fancy that Salah Uddin Mamun started to pet four rats of Swiss Albino species at his house in the Kantakhali area of the Rajshahi city. Watching its unprecedented growt...

US-Bangladesh joint navy exercise in Bay to address shared maritime security

US-Bangladesh joint navy exercise in Bay to address shared maritime security

FE Online Report 2020-11-04 19:43:13

The exercise titled ‘Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Bangladesh 2020’ demonstrates the US’s continuing commitment to working with the Bangladesh military to address...

High Court questions legal provisions that legalise ‘marital rape’

High Court questions legal provisions that legalise ‘marital rape’

-- 2020-11-04 18:40:29

The High Court has questioned legal provisions that bar married women from seeking justice for rape by their husbands asking why it should not order the government to nullify the sections of the law....

Suspended DIG Prisons Partha indicted in graft case

Suspended DIG Prisons Partha indicted in graft case

-- 2020-11-04 16:49:36

A Dhaka court today (Wednesday) framed charges in a graft case filed against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Partha Gopal Bonik, formally initiating the trial against him. Judge N...

Covid-19 death toll tops 6,000-mark in Bangladesh

Covid-19 death toll tops 6,000-mark in Bangladesh

FE Online Report 2020-11-04 16:35:22

The Covid-19 deaths reached 6,004 in Bangladesh on Wednesday with 21 new fatalities, according to official data. Besides, some cases of 1,517 fresh infection were recorded in the last 24 hours, pushi...

Momen says whoever wins US elections, Bangladesh has no problem

Momen says whoever wins US elections, Bangladesh has no problem

-- 2020-11-04 15:32:18

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said Bangladesh does not have any problem whoever wins the US election which sees a very tight contest. "Whoever comes to power, we’ve no problem...

PM urges judges, lawyers to ensure swift, hassle-free justice

PM urges judges, lawyers to ensure swift, hassle-free justice

-- 2020-11-04 14:31:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged judges and lawyers to ensure people’s right to quick and hassle-free justice. "Getting justice quickly, less expensively and hassle-free is the right of t...

Government releases souvenir sheet, envelope on Constitution Day

Government releases souvenir sheet, envelope on Constitution Day

-- 2020-11-04 12:56:47

The Directorate of Posts on Wednesday released a Tk 40 souvenir sheet, an envelope of Tk 10, a Tk 5 data card and a special seal stamp marking the Constitution Day of Bangladesh. Posts, Telecommunica...

Liberation War Ministry urges all to be aware of Grameen Service Bangladesh Ltd

Liberation War Ministry urges all to be aware of Grameen Service Bangladesh Ltd

-- 2020-11-04 12:18:04

The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has urged everyone to be aware of ‘Grameen Service Bangladesh Limited’ which has been deceiving unsuspecting people. The ministry issued a notice in...

Govt removes IPH director from post after dress code scuffle

Govt removes IPH director from post after dress code scuffle

-- 2020-11-03 20:12:24

The government has removed Md Abdur Rahim from the Institute of Public Health (IPH) as its director and made him an officer on special duty after he instructed Muslim employees to follow the Islamic d...

Small number of internet users experiencing slower speed

Small number of internet users experiencing slower speed

FE Online Report 2020-11-03 20:05:19

A small number of internet users in the country are experiencing slower speed due to emergency maintenance work of submarine cable which started on Monday, according to the latest update of internet s...

Citing technical limitations, experts oppose admission tests through software

Citing technical limitations, experts oppose admission tests through software

FE Online Report 2020-11-03 19:38:05

Public universities should not hold its admission tests through software as the country is not ready yet to hold such competitive examinations through a technology-based system, experts observed. &nbs...

‘Aug 15 carnage, jail killings outcomes of conspiracy against independence’

‘Aug 15 carnage, jail killings outcomes of conspiracy against independence’

-- 2020-11-03 19:16:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described the killings of August 15 and November 3 in 1975 as the outcomes of conspiracy against independence and the people of the...

FS urges all to refrain from mixing religious issues with economic ones

FS urges all to refrain from mixing religious issues with economic ones

FE Online Report 2020-11-03 17:58:35

Bangladesh on Tuesday urged both its people and France to show restraint in dealing with religious sentiment and to not link religion with trade. Referring to the recent act of violence in France ove...

ECNEC clears Tk 24.59b for four projects  

ECNEC clears Tk 24.59b for four projects  

FE Online Report 2020-11-03 17:37:11

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday in Dhaka endorsed four development projects at a combined cost of Tk 24.59 billion (Tk 2,459 crore and 15 lac). Presided ov...

Five die in Kushtia as truck collides with ambulance

Five die in Kushtia as truck collides with ambulance

-- 2020-11-03 17:29:04

At least five people died after a truck collided with an ambulance in Bittipara on the Kushtia-Jhenaidah highway on Tuesday. The accident occurred at 3.30 pm at Lakshmipur-Niyatmor in Bittipara area...

Enjoy freedom of expression without hurting religious sentiment: FS

Enjoy freedom of expression without hurting religious sentiment: FS

-- 2020-11-03 16:36:13

Bangladesh has urged all sides to exercise the freedom of expression responsibly and refrain from hurting anybody's religious sentiment in the name of freedom of expression. Foreign Secretary Masud B...

Covid-19: Dhaka division alone reports 52.13pc deaths

Covid-19: Dhaka division alone reports 52.13pc deaths

FE Online Report 2020-11-03 16:17:54

The Dhaka division alone has recorded more than half of the total fatalities in novel coronavirus, said official data. Of the total fatalities in Covid-19, the Dhaka division reported 52.13 per cent...

Six more people arrested over lynching of young man in Lalmonirhat

Six more people arrested over lynching of young man in Lalmonirhat

-- 2020-11-03 15:11:19

Detectives in a drive arrested six more people in connection with the lynching of a young man over ‘disrespecting Quran’ in Burimari of Lalmonirhat, from different parts of the upazila ear...

Jail Killing Day being observed with due solemnity

Jail Killing Day being observed with due solemnity

-- 2020-11-03 13:51:26

The nation is observing the Jail Killing Day today (Tuesday) with due solemnity. On November 3, 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country’s Liberation War -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Taju...

123 physicians, 37 journalists die in pandemic in Bangladesh

123 physicians, 37 journalists die in pandemic in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-03 12:59:58

At least 103 physicians in Bangladesh died so far from Covid-19 and 8,092 health workers were infected with the virus, according to the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA). The BMA expressed deep co...

ACC asks BIWTA engineer, three others to submit wealth statements

ACC asks BIWTA engineer, three others to submit wealth statements

-- 2020-11-03 12:25:19

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked BIWTA additional chief engineer Mohammad Saidur Rahman and three others to submit their wealth statement to it. Director of ACC Head Office Akhtar Hossa...

700-800 visitors enter Sundarbans on first day of reopening

700-800 visitors enter Sundarbans on first day of reopening

-- 2020-11-03 12:20:40

On the first day of reopening on Sunday, 700-800 visitors entered the Sundarbans, a Unesco World Heritage Site, on 16-17 ships, the tour operators said. With this, the world's largest mangrove forest...