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CID rescues two missing Faridpur children from Dhaka

CID rescues two missing Faridpur children from Dhaka

-- 2020-10-13 20:35:35

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has rescued two minor siblings from Bhatara area in the city after a 48-hour long drive. Mahia Akter Pinki, 12, and Biplob Bepari, 10, used to li...

EC hands data entry operator to police over NID anomalies

EC hands data entry operator to police over NID anomalies

-- 2020-10-13 20:23:42

The Election Commission (EC) has handed over a data entry operator to police for his alleged involvement in NID anomalies. Data entry operator SM Azam Ali was handed over to Lalmonirhat Sadar Police...

Eight DNCC officials test positive for Covid-19

Eight DNCC officials test positive for Covid-19

-- 2020-10-13 20:07:20

Eight officials of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have been diagnosed with Covid-19. They are – Chief Executive Officer Md Selim Reza, Chief Property Officer Md Mozammel Haque, Chief Healt...

COVID-19 crisis increases human trafficking risk, law minister says

COVID-19 crisis increases human trafficking risk, law minister says

-- 2020-10-13 19:23:35

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and economic downturn have increased the risk of human trafficking. He also said that human trafficking is a rapidly-evolving crime and it...

Rizvi hospitalised after heart attack

Rizvi hospitalised after heart attack

-- 2020-10-13 18:54:20

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was admitted to Labaid Specialized Hospital in the capital on Tuesday as he suffered a heart attack. Rizvi complained of chest pain as he got into...

US Deputy Secretary due Wednesday

US Deputy Secretary due Wednesday

-- 2020-10-13 18:48:56

US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun will arrive in the city on Wednesday afternoon to discuss Bangladesh-US cooperation on Covid-19 response, recovery efforts and sustainable economic devel...

TIB seeks concrete actions against foreign trade bribery

TIB seeks concrete actions against foreign trade bribery

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-13 18:20:49

Expressing grave concern over the failure in taking proper actions against bribery in foreign trade, the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government, foreign trade partner cou...

Bangladesh-India JRC meeting by December

Bangladesh-India JRC meeting by December

FE Online Report 2020-10-13 17:54:01

After a gap of 11 years, the Joint River Commission (JRC) between Bangladesh and India will sit by December this year. The disclosure was made by Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Tuesd...

Ulpur Zamindar House in Gopalganj in shabby state

Ulpur Zamindar House in Gopalganj in shabby state

-- 2020-10-13 17:44:54

Ulpur village, just eight kilometres from the district headquarters of Gopalganj, is home to the Ulpur Zamindar House, a symbol of aristocracy from ancient Bengal. The zamindar house is one of the lan...

Indictment hearing against Prothom Alo editor, nine others Oct 27

Indictment hearing against Prothom Alo editor, nine others Oct 27

-- 2020-10-13 16:45:08

A Dhaka court today (Tuesday) set October 27 to hold hearing on charge framing in a case lodged over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat, against 10 people includin...

Planning Minister MA Mannan tests positive for Covid-19

Planning Minister MA Mannan tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2020-10-13 16:23:04

Planning Minister MA Mannan has been infected with Coronavirus. Shahed Rahman, public relations officer of the Planning Ministry, said the minister was admitted to the  Combined Military Hospita...

22 more Covid deaths, 1,537 fresh infections in daily count

22 more Covid deaths, 1,537 fresh infections in daily count

FE Online Report 2020-10-13 15:45:48

Bangladesh registered another 22 deaths from novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours to 8:00am on Tuesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,577 in the country since the first virus death was...

MC College rape: National University suspends studentship of four

MC College rape: National University suspends studentship of four

-- 2020-10-13 15:19:17

The National University authorities have suspended the studentship of four over the gang-rape incident at MC College in Sylhet. The decision was taken at the 210th syndicate meeting of National Unive...

Rapists are like ‘beasts’, PM says

Rapists are like ‘beasts’, PM says

-- 2020-10-13 13:55:28

Describing rapists as 'beasts', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government has to induct the death sentence in the relevant law to save girls from these beasts. "The rapists are [lik...

Prominent author Rashid Haider dies

Prominent author Rashid Haider dies

-- 2020-10-13 13:28:16

Noted writer Rashid Haider, known for his work in war memoirs and collections of prose, has died at the age of 80, his family said. Haider breathed his last on Tuesday at his daughter Shaonti's resid...

President promulgates ordinance on death penalty for rape

President promulgates ordinance on death penalty for rape

-- 2020-10-13 12:52:57

Bangladesh President Md Abdul Hamid has issued an ordinance elevating the maximum punishment in rape cases to the death sentence from life imprisonment. Hamid on Tuesday signed the amendment to the W...

Teenage girl ‘gang raped’ in Chattogram amid protests

Teenage girl ‘gang raped’ in Chattogram amid protests

-- 2020-10-13 11:55:40

Despite widespread protests against rape and the government's plan to toughen the law in this regard, a teenager girl has reportedly been gang- raped at a residential hotel in Sitakundu upazila of Cha...

Momen new chair of Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana

Momen new chair of Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana

FE Online Report 2020-10-13 11:55:15

Foreign Minister Dr Abdul Momen has been appointed as the chair of the Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana. Momen’s appointment received unanimous support from the seven-member group compr...

Bangladesh not interested in arms purchase under US-led Indo-Pacific Strategy: Momen

Bangladesh not interested in arms purchase under US-led Indo-Pacific Strategy: Momen

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-10-13 10:51:35

Bangladesh is not willing to purchase arms under the proposed Indo Pacific Strategy alliance, led by the United States, the foreign minister said on Monday. Rather, he added, the country wants Americ...

Ban on hilsha catching, sales starts Wednesday

Ban on hilsha catching, sales starts Wednesday

FE REPORT 2020-10-13 10:01:31

The government has imposed a 22-day ban on catching, sale, marketing, preservation and transportation of Hilsha fish. The ban will come into effect from tomorrow (Wednesday), and will continue until...

Bangladesh sees herd immunity: Study

Bangladesh sees herd immunity: Study

FE REPORT 2020-10-13 09:56:05

The country has started developing herd immunity against Covid-19 as indicated by a new study on seroprevalence among the Dhaka city dwellers, including the inhabitants of slums. About 45 per cent...

Sexual harassment topics to be included into school curriculum

Sexual harassment topics to be included into school curriculum

-- 2020-10-13 09:53:11

The government is including topics on violence against women and sexual harassment in school curriculum to sensitise children about the dangers, Dipu Moni says. The education minister revealed the mo...

Bangladeshi female migrants face wage fraud abroad

Bangladeshi female migrants face wage fraud abroad

ARAFAT ARA 2020-10-13 09:44:40

A significant number of returnee female migrant workers, especially those from the Middle-East (ME) countries, became victims of wage theft, as they failed to bring home their dues from employers duri...

HC asks BERC to adjust inflated electricity bills by two months

HC asks BERC to adjust inflated electricity bills by two months

-- 2020-10-12 21:49:50

The High Court has directed the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to adjust the inflated electricity bill issued during general holidays due to coronavirus pandemic. A High Court divisio...

IG prisons tests positive for coronavirus

IG prisons tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-10-12 20:45:28

Newly-appointed Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General Md Mominur Rahman Mamun has tested positive for coronavirus. He was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on Monday morning,...

RI Chowdhury's death anniversary today

RI Chowdhury's death anniversary today

-- 2020-10-12 20:20:21

Today is 12th death anniversary of ex VC of Chattogram University Dr Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury (RI Chowdhury), says a press release. His family has arranged recitation from the Quran and doa for the de...

India's bureaucratic red tape holds up transmission projects for RNPP

India's bureaucratic red tape holds up transmission projects for RNPP

-- 2020-10-12 20:04:53

Uncertainty looms large over the timely execution of a slew of power transmission projects aimed at facilitating electricity evacuation from the upcoming 2,400 MW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).Th...

Anti-rape protest continues for eighth day at Shahbagh

Anti-rape protest continues for eighth day at Shahbagh

-- 2020-10-12 19:42:58

Protest against the recent rapes and violence against women rolled into the eighth day on Monday in Dhaka. Protesters, mostly leaders and activists of leftist student bodies, joined a 'cultutal rally...

Bangladesh-India maintaining multidimensional friendly ties: Quader

Bangladesh-India maintaining multidimensional friendly ties: Quader

-- 2020-10-12 19:08:18

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday described Bangladesh and India ties as multidimensional saying if friendly relations and mutual understanding prevail among neighbouring co...

Two suspects put on remand over DU student ‘rape’

Two suspects put on remand over DU student ‘rape’

-- 2020-10-12 18:40:32

A Dhaka court has granted a two-day remand to interrogate two suspects in a case filed over allegedly raping a Dhaka University student. The suspects are: Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakk...