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Internet growth shows Bangladesh's economic recovery, telecom operators believe

Internet growth shows Bangladesh's economic recovery, telecom operators believe

Ismail Hossain 2020-11-03 11:11:19

The numbers of mobile phone and internet subscribers in Bangladesh reached the highest ever in the country in September this year, according to new data released by the telecom regulator. The country...

Fishermen getting ready for deep-sea voyage

Fishermen getting ready for deep-sea voyage

Our Correspondent 2020-11-03 10:39:11

Fishermen have started taking preparation for the sea voyage ahead of the fishing and dry processing season at Dublar Char in the Sundarbans on the Bay of Bengal. They will set sail for remote char a...

Dhaka city plagued by capital-intensive infrastructure projects

Dhaka city plagued by capital-intensive infrastructure projects

FE Report 2020-11-03 10:30:22

Experts at a programme on Sunday said Dhaka has been developed in an unplanned manner due to poor institutional and professional capacity, and a lack of political empowerment and accountability. Acco...

Indo-Bangla relations not strained: Kamal

Indo-Bangla relations not strained: Kamal

FE REPORT 2020-11-03 09:59:06

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Monday the relations between Bangladesh and India have not strained. "…we are working very closely. I don't think there is any problem (between us)...

Brand value, better pay to help banks attract new talents: Study

Brand value, better pay to help banks attract new talents: Study

FE REPORT 2020-11-03 09:39:18

The country's banks should spend more on building their brand image to attract new talents while retaining the old ones as well. A survey on banks' image building has suggested so. The survey noted...

Bangladesh prohibits public gatherings in Cumilla locality   

Bangladesh prohibits public gatherings in Cumilla locality  

-- 2020-11-02 21:36:53

The local administration has banned all public gatherings in Andikot after a group of angry locals vandalised and burned several homes of Hindu people over rumours about an alleged Facebook post blasp...

Depression may turn into cyclone this month: BMD

Depression may turn into cyclone this month: BMD

-- 2020-11-02 20:31:35

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has warned that a depression over the Bay of Bengal could intensify into a cyclone and hit the country this month. The Met Office issued the warning in its mo...

Government not planning another lockdown

Government not planning another lockdown

-- 2020-11-02 20:01:06

The government is not considering any drastic measures such as lockdowns or movement restrictions apart from enforcing the health and safety protocols despite growing concerns over a second wave of th...

HC wants hospitals’ explanation over death of infant twins

HC wants hospitals’ explanation over death of infant twins

-- 2020-11-02 19:52:55

The High Court has ordered authorities of three city hospitals to submit their explanations within 48 hours for not providing treatment to infant twins timely, causing their deaths without treatment....

Stress on promoting freedom of expression

Stress on promoting freedom of expression

FE Online Report 2020-11-02 19:27:31

Speakers at a high-level consultation meeting titled ‘Defending Media Freedom for Democracy and Citizen’s Rights in Bangladesh’ have called for protecting and promoting freedom of ex...

Incident of missing journalist an ongoing process to silence media: TIB

Incident of missing journalist an ongoing process to silence media: TIB

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-02 19:06:06

Terming the incident of abduction of journalist Golam Sarwar an alarming example of an ongoing process to silence the media, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded exemplary punishme...

Illegal buildings: Rajuk officials to be under DNCC’s radar

Illegal buildings: Rajuk officials to be under DNCC’s radar

-- 2020-11-02 18:36:56

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) officials, allowing the construction of illegal buildings, will be under the radar of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) now. DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam said this...

Jail Killing Day to be observed Tuesday

Jail Killing Day to be observed Tuesday

BSS 2020-11-02 18:34:59

The Jail Killing Day will be observed on Tuesday as the day is the second disgraceful incident in the country after the brutal murder of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his...

22 holidays in 2021

22 holidays in 2021

-- 2020-11-02 18:11:35

The Cabinet on Monday approved the proposed list of 22 holidays for the 2021 calendar year by the executive order of the government. The approval came at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting held at th...

PM for instant protest against any rumour, propaganda

PM for instant protest against any rumour, propaganda

-- 2020-11-02 17:35:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday laid emphasis on instant protest against any rumour and propaganda, saying freedom of speech does not mean creating any type of anarchy by spreading false and fa...

DNCC fines house owners about Tk 300,000 in anti-mosquito drive 

DNCC fines house owners about Tk 300,000 in anti-mosquito drive 

FE Online Report 2020-11-02 17:30:50

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Monday found Aedes larvae in 94 houses and establishments in Dhaka city during the first day of its 10-day combing operation and fined them Tk 290,000. A DNCC...

Govt imposes entry fee for visitors at Ratargul

Govt imposes entry fee for visitors at Ratargul

-- 2020-11-02 16:16:45

The government has imposed an entry fee for visitors at Sylhet’s Ratargul swamp forest, which has become an attractive tourist destination in Bangladesh over the past few years. The Ministry of...

Bangladesh Covid-19 death toll inches towards 6,000 mark

Bangladesh Covid-19 death toll inches towards 6,000 mark

-- 2020-11-02 15:52:21

Bangladesh has recorded 1,736 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 410,988, bdnews24.com reports. The death toll climbed to 5,966 after 25 fat...

Stakeholders demand resumption of quarrying sand, stone

Stakeholders demand resumption of quarrying sand, stone

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2020-11-02 14:35:46

Stakeholders have demanded resumption of activities in all stone and sand quarries in Sylhet region. They made the demand at a view exchange meeting held at a hotel in the divisional city on Saturday...

US embassy issues security warning for its citizens in Bangladesh

US embassy issues security warning for its citizens in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-02 14:11:58

The US Embassy in Dhaka has issued a security alert for its citizens living in Bangladesh as flash demonstrations and human chains are expected within the Diplomatic Enclave in the capital on Monday (...

Lakshmipur double murder: Convict executed at Kashimpur Jail

Lakshmipur double murder: Convict executed at Kashimpur Jail

-- 2020-11-02 13:29:34

A condemned convict was hanged on Sunday night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for killing his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter in 2006. Senior Jail Super Abdul Jalil Roy said Abdul Gafur...

Hundreds of thousands gather in Dhaka to protest French caricatures of Prophet Muhammad

Hundreds of thousands gather in Dhaka to protest French caricatures of Prophet Muhammad

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-02 11:56:55

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees have gathered in the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area of Purana Paltan in Dhaka city to stage protests against anti-Islamic acts in France, including publi...

Hindu homes vandalised in Cumilla over rumours

Hindu homes vandalised in Cumilla over rumours

-- 2020-11-01 23:41:07

Angry locals have vandalised several homes of Hindu people over rumours about an alleged Facebook post slandering Islam in Cumilla’s Muradnagar. The police arrested two people on charges of hur...

SC stays bail of RNPP contractor in graft case

SC stays bail of RNPP contractor in graft case

-- 2020-11-01 23:14:53

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday stayed a High Court order that had granted bail to a contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed for graft in purchasing furniture and other household...

Move to reduce tariffs on anti-mosquito medicine import

Move to reduce tariffs on anti-mosquito medicine import

-- 2020-11-01 22:15:10

The government plans to reduce tariffs on imports of medicines and equipment needed to eradicate the mosquitoes. Local government, rural development and cooperatives minister Mohammad Tajul Islam gav...

Maritime ports to hoist cautionary signal 3: BMD

Maritime ports to hoist cautionary signal 3: BMD

-- 2020-11-01 22:14:29

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has asked the maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal no. 3 as deep convection is taking place over North Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal are...

BGB seizes smuggled goods, drugs worth Tk 649.0m last month

BGB seizes smuggled goods, drugs worth Tk 649.0m last month

-- 2020-11-01 20:41:52

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized smuggled goods and drugs, worth Tk 649.0 million from across the country last month. Besides, 363 people were arrested for smuggling goods and drugs...

Talks underway to procure Covid-19 vaccines, health minister says

Talks underway to procure Covid-19 vaccines, health minister says

-- 2020-11-01 20:20:27

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said discussions are underway with different countries for procuring coronavirus vaccines once they are available. “Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) wil...

Irfan Selim, bodyguard put on two-day fresh remand

Irfan Selim, bodyguard put on two-day fresh remand

-- 2020-11-01 19:56:45

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed suspended DSCC councillor Irfan Selim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed over assaulting a navy official. Dhaka Metropolitan Mag...

Bangladesh Digital Survey to be conducted phase-wise across the country: Land minister

Bangladesh Digital Survey to be conducted phase-wise across the country: Land minister

FE Online Report 2020-11-01 18:52:46

Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury on Sunday said Bangladesh Digital Survey (BDS), to be launched soon in Patuakhali and Barguna, will be conducted in phases across the country. The updated rec...