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CIID seizes gold worth Tk 7.5 million from Abu Dhabi flight

CIID seizes gold worth Tk 7.5 million from Abu Dhabi flight

-- 2020-10-24 10:49:59

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport seized 68 gold bars from a flight which returned from Abu Dhabi on Friday. Acting on a ti...
Eminent jurist Barrister Rafique-Ul Huq passes away

Eminent jurist Barrister Rafique-Ul Huq passes away

FE Online Report 2020-10-24 10:49:12

Eminent lawyer Barrister Rafique-ul-Huq has passed away while undergoing treatment in ICU at Ad-Deen Hospital in Dhaka. Senior Supreme Court (SC) lawyer and former Attorney General of Bangladesh brea...
4.0m southeastern people at high risk of disaster

4.0m southeastern people at high risk of disaster

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-10-24 10:27:46

CHATTOGRAM: Around 4.0 million (40 lakh) people of coastal belt in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar are living in high risk of natural disaster as the two districts and the port city lacks adequate number...
Financial anomalies found in purchase for hospital

Financial anomalies found in purchase for hospital

KAMRUN NAHAR 2020-10-24 09:44:29

A health ministry probe committee unearthed serious financial irregularities amounting to more than Tk 64 million at Shahid Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital. Hospital director Dr Uttam Kumar Bar...
Depression over Bay makes landfall, more rainfall likely  

Depression over Bay makes landfall, more rainfall likely  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2020-10-23 22:01:13

Bangladesh has experienced heavy rains since Thursday due to a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal that crossed Khulna and India’s West Bengal coast between 12 noon and 6pm on Friday, accordi...
Depression over Bay brings heavy rains in Bangladesh

Depression over Bay brings heavy rains in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-23 19:23:52

Depression over northwest Bay and adjoining west-central Bay is set to bring heavy rainfall at many parts of the country in 48 hours from Thursday night till Saturday, said met office. Met office rec...
China to initiate ‘tripartite talks’ over Rohingya after Myanmar polls

China to initiate ‘tripartite talks’ over Rohingya after Myanmar polls

-- 2020-10-23 18:29:49

Beijing has assured Dhaka that it would take initiatives to arrange the second round of foreign ministerial level ‘tripartite talks’ among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar over Rohingya repat...
PM seeks UN’s robust role to resolve global challenges, Rohingya crisis

PM seeks UN’s robust role to resolve global challenges, Rohingya crisis

-- 2020-10-23 18:12:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the United Nations (UN) to play a more decisive and robust role in resolving existing global challenges, including the Rohingya crisis. “There are still a...
None facing starvation in pandemic: Agriculture minister

None facing starvation in pandemic: Agriculture minister

-- 2020-10-23 17:23:04

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque on Friday said that no one in the country is facing starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the agriculture-friendly policy of the prime minister. He ca...
Shilpakala Academy reopens after seven months

Shilpakala Academy reopens after seven months

-- 2020-10-23 16:50:19

Shilpakala Academy is set to provisionally reopen after a seven-month hiatus amid the coronavirus pandemic. Three theatre troupes will stage plays at the academy's National Theatre, Experimental Thea...
1,586 new coronavirus cases, 14 deaths in 24 hours

1,586 new coronavirus cases, 14 deaths in 24 hours

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-23 16:39:22

Bangladesh registered another 14 deaths from coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the past 24 hours to 8:00 am on Friday, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,761 in the country, according to offic...
BGD e-GOV CIRT holds Bangladesh’s first-ever cyber drill

BGD e-GOV CIRT holds Bangladesh’s first-ever cyber drill

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-23 15:00:50

Bangladesh’s cybersecurity platform BGD e-GOV CIRT has said it on Thursday organised the country’s first ever cyber drill. A total of 35 teams from different types of organisations, inclu...
Nearly 2,200 people die with Covid symptoms in Bangladesh: Report

Nearly 2,200 people die with Covid symptoms in Bangladesh: Report

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-23 14:53:35

A total of 2,198 people died with Covid-19 symptoms in the last seven months from March 22 to October 17 across the country, according to a latest report. Of them, at least 2 died between October 4 t...
Met Office asks maritime ports to host signal no 4

Met Office asks maritime ports to host signal no 4

-- 2020-10-23 12:57:39

The Met Office has advised maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal number 4 and warned that low-lying coastal areas could be inundated by tidal surges. In a special bulletin on Friday morning...
BIWTA suspends internal launch services on Barishal route

BIWTA suspends internal launch services on Barishal route

-- 2020-10-23 11:28:09

Launch services on Barishal’s internal routes were suspended on Friday morning due to inclement weather. Traffic Inspector Md Kabir of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) said t...
Jamuna erosion panics Bogura people

Jamuna erosion panics Bogura people

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-10-23 10:09:44

Thousands of families on the banks of the Jamuna River are spending their days in panic and anxiety as various places of arrow protection work has collapseddue to the erosionin Bogura. The correspond...
Donors pledge $600m for Rohingya to meet aid shortfall

Donors pledge $600m for Rohingya to meet aid shortfall

Reuters 2020-10-22 23:33:13

International donors pledged nearly $600 million to support displaced Rohingya on Thursday, succeeding in bridging a huge gap in funding for hundreds of thousands of refugees. Britain, the United Sta...
HRW urges education facilities for Rohingya children in Myanmar, Bangladesh

HRW urges education facilities for Rohingya children in Myanmar, Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-22 21:07:30

Concerned at the Rohingya children’s deprivation of education, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the international donor community to ensure formal learning facilities for younger generations o...
UN failed to push Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh tells int’l community

UN failed to push Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh tells int’l community

-- 2020-10-22 20:55:39

Bangladesh on Thursday told the international community that the United Nations has failed to put pressure on Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya issue. The observation was made at the international dono...
Bangladesh raises warning signal number 4 for ports  

Bangladesh raises warning signal number 4 for ports  

-- 2020-10-22 20:41:00

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal No. 4 as a trough of low over the Bay of Bengal intensified and turned into a deep depression on Th...
Sylhet city police commissioner, 18 others transferred as rape protests continue

Sylhet city police commissioner, 18 others transferred as rape protests continue

-- 2020-10-22 20:03:01

The government has transferred Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police or SMP Golam Kibria and 18 other officials of the unit. The home ministry announced the development in a notice issued on Thu...
Workers end cargo vessel strike

Workers end cargo vessel strike

-- 2020-10-22 19:52:56

Bangladesh Water Transport Workers Federation has called off their strike saying that the owners have agreed to meet their demand for food allowance, reports bdnews24.com. Shah Alam, the president of...
Ex-DIG prisons Rashid indicted for illegally amassing Tk 31.4m

Ex-DIG prisons Rashid indicted for illegally amassing Tk 31.4m

-- 2020-10-22 19:49:48

A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against suspended DIG Prisons Bazlur Rashid for illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 31.4 million. Judge Md Iqbal Hossain of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 fra...
After COVID-19, no internet means no school for Bangladesh's rural children

After COVID-19, no internet means no school for Bangladesh's rural children

Deutsche Welle 2020-10-22 19:22:52

Nine-year-old Subarna Akhter Sathi spends most of her days with friends at a local playground in Brahmanbaria, an eastern district of Bangladesh. On regular days, Subarna would have been going to scho...
Int’l community sits together to resolve Rohingya crisis  

Int’l community sits together to resolve Rohingya crisis  

-- 2020-10-22 19:13:08

The United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday brought the international community together and pledged to do everything po...
NICVD to be upgraded to 1200-bed hospital: Minister

NICVD to be upgraded to 1200-bed hospital: Minister

-- 2020-10-22 18:24:53

The government is going to upgrade the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) to a 1200-bed hospital soon as part of its move to improve the healthcare services in the country, said Hea...
‘Strike of water transport workers to be resolved by today’

‘Strike of water transport workers to be resolved by today’

-- 2020-10-22 17:41:04

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Thursday said the ongoing strike of water transport workers will be resolved by today (Thursday). To resolve the matter, discussion is underway...
Six new dengue cases reported in 24 hrs

Six new dengue cases reported in 24 hrs

-- 2020-10-22 16:40:16

Six new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Twenty-four dengue patients are currently taking treatm...
Bangladesh registers 1,696 virus cases, 24 deaths in a day

Bangladesh registers 1,696 virus cases, 24 deaths in a day

-- 2020-10-22 16:29:58

Bangladesh has recorded 1,696 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally so far to 394,827, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll surged to 5,747 after 24 fataliti...
ICT issue death warrant for Syed Mohammad Kaisar

ICT issue death warrant for Syed Mohammad Kaisar

-- 2020-10-22 15:46:59

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued a death warrant against Syed Mohammad Kaisar for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War. The full verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) u...

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