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PM asks authorities to bring drivers under dope test

PM asks authorities to bring drivers under dope test

-- 2020-10-22 14:58:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to bring drivers under a dope testing system to know whether they use drugs. “We need to know whether those who’re...

BMD predicts heavy rainfall due to depression

BMD predicts heavy rainfall due to depression

-- 2020-10-22 14:49:01

Due to a well-marked low over the Northwest Bay and adjoining West-central Bay heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, Mymensingh,...

UK urges world not to turn away from Rohingya’s suffering

UK urges world not to turn away from Rohingya’s suffering

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-22 14:36:27

The UK has pledged £47.5 million to provide life-saving support for Rohingya refugees and to help Bangladesh with its response to the coronavirus pandemic and natural disasters. This announceme...

Vegetables price hike hits consumers but makes growers in the north happy

Vegetables price hike hits consumers but makes growers in the north happy

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2020-10-22 10:44:05

Low and middle-income consumers of 16 northern districts including Sirajganj, Bogura, and Gaibandha are worst-hit by the price spiral of vegetables. However, the growers are happy as they are getting...

International donors hold Rohingya conference, though Bangladesh wants repatriation

International donors hold Rohingya conference, though Bangladesh wants repatriation

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-10-22 09:36:38

The much-hyped international donor conference takes place today (Thursday) to mobilise long-term aid for Rohingya refugees. Bangladesh, host of the largest number of Rohingyas, has also been invite...

Road accidents still leading cause of deaths in Bangladesh

Road accidents still leading cause of deaths in Bangladesh

-- 2020-10-21 23:28:48

Road accident in Bangladesh is still one of the leading causes of deaths as 37,170 people were killed in 26,902 accidents across the country in the last five years. Besides, 82,758 people were injure...

Durga Puja begins Thursday maintaining health guidelines

Durga Puja begins Thursday maintaining health guidelines

-- 2020-10-21 22:27:02

Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, is set to begin on Thursday with Maha Sashthi puja at temples across the country maintaining health guidelines set by the government...

Govt approves Tk 2.74b to improve Cox’s Bazar road

Govt approves Tk 2.74b to improve Cox’s Bazar road

-- 2020-10-21 21:25:57

The government has approved two packages to develop the road stretching from Ekatabazar to Bangladesh Navy Base Sheikh Hasina in Cox’s Bazar at a cost of around Tk 2.74 billion. The Cabinet Com...

Arrest PK Haldar immediately after he returns: HC

Arrest PK Haldar immediately after he returns: HC

-- 2020-10-21 19:20:20

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to arrest Proshanto Kumar Halder, disgraced director of International Leasing and Finance Service Ltd (ILFSL), as soon as he returns...

Special parliament session from Nov 8 marking Mujib Borsho

Special parliament session from Nov 8 marking Mujib Borsho

-- 2020-10-21 18:13:06

Parliament will go into a special session (10th session of the current parliament) on November 8 for the first time in its history marking the Mujib Borsho on the occasion of the birth centenary of Fa...

Jute mill workers to get arrears by next month, minister says

Jute mill workers to get arrears by next month, minister says

-- 2020-10-21 17:46:57

Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has assured that all workers of 25 shuttered state-run jute mills of the country will get their arrears within November. “We have received Tk 17.9...

‘Virtual courts needed in special conditions’

‘Virtual courts needed in special conditions’

-- 2020-10-21 16:30:59

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that virtual courts will be used in special conditions based on necessity while regular court proceedings will resume after the Covid-19 pandemic elope. The min...

Hundreds of vehicles remain stranded at Daulatdia ghat

Hundreds of vehicles remain stranded at Daulatdia ghat

OUR CORRESPONDENT, FARIDPUR 2020-10-21 16:13:12

Several hundreds of vehicles remained stranded at the Daulatdia end of the Daulatdia-Paturia ferry route in Rajbarhi district on Wednesday. Disruption in ferry services resulted in this situation, wi...

Covid-19 claims 24 more lives, infects 1,545

Covid-19 claims 24 more lives, infects 1,545

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-21 15:47:17

Bangladesh registered another 24 deaths in coronavirus (Covid-19) in the past 24 hours to 8:00 am on Wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,723 in the country, according to official dat...

Bail pleas of ex-AL leaders Enu, Rupon rejected

Bail pleas of ex-AL leaders Enu, Rupon rejected

-- 2020-10-21 15:43:12

The High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of former Awami League (AL) leaders Enamul Haque Enu and his brother Rupon Bhuiyan in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The...

No annual secondary exams in pandemic this year: Dipu Moni

No annual secondary exams in pandemic this year: Dipu Moni

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-21 14:18:48

No annual secondary examinations will be held due to the coronavirus situation in the country this year, Education Minister Dipu Moni has said. The minister came up with the development at a virtual...

Anti-rape protesters block Shahbagh intersection

Anti-rape protesters block Shahbagh intersection

-- 2020-10-21 14:03:34

Demonstrators blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka protesting against the attack on anti-rape long march in Feni in which 20 people were injured. A group of protesters belonging to various orga...

US wants China’s clear message to Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation

US wants China’s clear message to Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation

-- 2020-10-21 13:56:46

The United States has said China has done "very little" to help resolve the Rohingya issue and for whom much more should be expected, considering the proximity to China of this humanitarian catastroph...

Met office asks maritime ports to hoist signal No. 3

Met office asks maritime ports to hoist signal No. 3

-- 2020-10-21 13:43:39

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number 3 as a low has formed over the central part of the Bay of Bengal. It n...

Traffic sergeant dies in Dhaka road crash

Traffic sergeant dies in Dhaka road crash

-- 2020-10-21 13:20:13

A traffic sergeant was killed after a covered van hit him in the Jatrabari area of Dhaka city on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Babul Sheikh, 55, a TSI of Kotwali Zone traffic Departme...

Hundreds walk along Cox’s Bazar beach for climate, gender justice

Hundreds walk along Cox’s Bazar beach for climate, gender justice

FE Online Report 2020-10-21 13:09:24

Over hundreds of men, women, and young people walked along the beach of Cox’s Bazar with demand for climate and gender justice. ActionAid Bangladesh organised the event under a global campaign...

A deshi lao hub

A deshi lao hub

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CUMILLA 2020-10-21 12:05:35

Cumilla’s Lalmai Upazila has a good name for growing a variety of vegetables, particularly gourds, all the year round. The gourds grown here are supplied to Dhaka, Chattogram and other district...

Language Movement veteran Nurul Islam dies at 91

Language Movement veteran Nurul Islam dies at 91

-- 2020-10-21 12:01:25

Language Movement veteran M Nurul Islam Dadu Bhai passed away at a hospital on Wednesday at the age of 91. Dadu Bhai, a former BNP MP from Khulna-4 constituency, breathed his last at Khulna City Medi...

Tangail farmers find incentive in olive cultivation

Tangail farmers find incentive in olive cultivation

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-10-21 10:45:50

The cultivation of olive, a seasonal but profitable fruit, is gaining popularity in many areas of Tangail district. Hundreds of farmers have attained financial solvency by cultivating the fruit. Sour...

Pandemic recovery requires people’s resilience, policy atmosphere: FE dialogue

Pandemic recovery requires people’s resilience, policy atmosphere: FE dialogue

FE Online Report 2020-10-20 23:22:20

Bangladesh's ability to come out of  the Covid-19 dilemma and resume economic activities earlier than many countries has paid dividends, economists and entrepreneurs told a discussion held in Dha...

Solution to Rohingya crisis unlikely if impunity, geopolitical appeasement continues: Momen

Solution to Rohingya crisis unlikely if impunity, geopolitical appeasement continues: Momen

-- 2020-10-20 21:23:04

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said there will be no sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis in near future if the defiance, impunity and geopolitical appeasement of Myanmar continu...

Coast Guard members rescue 14 crew members from Bay

Coast Guard members rescue 14 crew members from Bay

-- 2020-10-20 20:38:23

Members of the Bangladesh Coast Guard have rescued 14 crew members of a lighter vessel, which remained stuck in the Bay of Bengal since Monday night. Lieutenant Commander M Hayat Ibne Siddique, media...

Water transport strike disrupts loading, unloading of goods across Bangladesh

Water transport strike disrupts loading, unloading of goods across Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-20 20:10:57

Loading and unloading operations of consumer goods, oil and sand have been affected as water transport workers started a countrywide indefinite strike on Tuesday. They raised an 11-point charter of d...

‘Memorial-cum-tourist complex on cards at Mujibnagar’

‘Memorial-cum-tourist complex on cards at Mujibnagar’

-- 2020-10-20 19:53:25

The government has embarked on a project to develop a state-of-the-art memorial-cum-tourist complex in the historical Mujibnagar, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said on Tuesday. "...

Faridpur MP Nixon gets eight-week anticipatory bail

Faridpur MP Nixon gets eight-week anticipatory bail

-- 2020-10-20 18:10:27

The High Court on Tuesday granted an eight-week anticipatory bail to Faridpur-4 MP Mujibur Rahman Nixon Chowdhury in a case filed by the Election Commission (EC). The bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir...