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Death sentence would bring down rape incidents, law minister says

Death sentence would bring down rape incidents, law minister says

-- 2020-10-12 18:06:45

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said inclusion of death sentence as capital punishment in the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Ordinance- 2020 would certainly bring down the occurrence...

No entry to Italy for Bangladeshi expatriates

No entry to Italy for Bangladeshi expatriates

-- 2020-10-12 17:23:30

The government of Italy has turned down a request from Bangladesh to withdraw restrictions on entry of its expatriates into that country until December 31. Foreign Minister  AK Abdul Momen said...

Five gets death penalty for killing child after abduction

Five gets death penalty for killing child after abduction

-- 2020-10-12 17:11:07

A tribunal in Joypurhat on Monday sentenced five people to death for killing a two and a half years old girl after abduction in 2015. Judge of Joypurhat Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal...

UNICEF hails immunisation progress in Bangladesh amid pandemic

UNICEF hails immunisation progress in Bangladesh amid pandemic

-- 2020-10-12 16:34:37

Monthly immunisation service uptake has surpassed pre-COVID-19 levels in Bangladesh despite the challenges faced by parents, communities and health services during the pandemic, according to new data....

Covid-19 claims 31 more lives, infects 1,472

Covid-19 claims 31 more lives, infects 1,472

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-12 16:21:12

Bangladesh has registered 31 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours until 8 am taking the tally to 5,555 since the first case of the coronavirus disease was reported on March 08 this year. A...

Papia, husband get 20 years jail

Papia, husband get 20 years jail

-- 2020-10-12 15:25:09

A Dhaka court has sentenced expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon to 20-year imprisonment in an arms case. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imr...

A bright spot for Bangladeshi farming: Narsingdi producing chemical-free vegetables

A bright spot for Bangladeshi farming: Narsingdi producing chemical-free vegetables

-- 2020-10-12 15:14:39

A large number of farmers in Narsingdi district are now growing chemical-free vegetables using compost instead of different chemical fertilisers and poisonous pesticides, reports BSS. The Department...

Death of Sylhet youth in police custody triggers protest

Death of Sylhet youth in police custody triggers protest

-- 2020-10-12 14:49:52

Locals blocked the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway for half an hour at Akhalia area after a young man died allegedly in police custody in Sylhet city on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Rayhan Ahmed,...

Bangladesh war crimes trial on pause for six months, may resume soon

Bangladesh war crimes trial on pause for six months, may resume soon

-- 2020-10-12 14:12:11

The International Crimes Tribunal prosecutors brought formal charges of crimes against humanity against 14 suspects, including Khan Ashraf Ali, from Bagerhat’s Morolganj-Kachua three and a half...

Lawyer Yunus Ali gets three-month suspension for contempt of court

Lawyer Yunus Ali gets three-month suspension for contempt of court

-- 2020-10-12 13:43:55

The Supreme Court has suspended lawyer Yunus Ali Akhand from practising in the top court for the next three months after finding him guilty of contempt of court. A virtual appellate bench of seven ju...

BMD asks maritime ports to hoist signal 1

BMD asks maritime ports to hoist signal 1

-- 2020-10-12 13:10:20

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has asked the maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra to hoist distant cautionary signal one due to  depression over the West-...

Cabinet approves death penalty for rapists

Cabinet approves death penalty for rapists

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-12 12:51:52

The cabinet has approved in principle the draft of the amended ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000’ providing for death penalty in rape cases as maximum punishment. The app...

Motorcycle registrations fall drastically in January-August

Motorcycle registrations fall drastically in January-August

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-12 12:18:10

The number of motorcycle registrations across the country witnessed a drastic decline in the last eight months of the current calendar year compared to that of 2019, BRTA data showed. A total of 179,...

DNCC Mayor Atiqul, wife test Covid-19 positive

DNCC Mayor Atiqul, wife test Covid-19 positive

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-10-12 11:45:25

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam and his wife Dr. Shaila Shagufta Islam have been diagnosed with Covid-19. They gave samples for coronavirus test on Sunday morning after feel...

Conflicts over height of MRT-1 still remain unresolved

Conflicts over height of MRT-1 still remain unresolved

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-10-12 10:17:40

Conflicts between the two government agencies over maintaining the elevated height of separate infrastructures in Purbachal area have not yet been resolved, sources said. Though the prime minister ha...

Mild heat wave may continue in several regions

Mild heat wave may continue in several regions

FE REPORT 2020-10-12 09:56:36

A mild heat wave swept over several regions across the country on Sunday. The regions which experienced the mild heat wave are Gopalganj, Rangamati, Chandpur, Srimangal, Pabna, Nilphamari, Mongla, Sa...

Language movement veteran Dr Mirza Mazharul dies

Language movement veteran Dr Mirza Mazharul dies

-- 2020-10-11 23:31:30

Ekushey Padak recipient and language movement veteran Dr Mirza Mazharul Islam died of old age complications at a city hospital on Sunday morning at the age of 93. Mirza Mazharul Islam, who was a memb...

NGO worker ‘gang raped’ in Bagerhat

NGO worker ‘gang raped’ in Bagerhat

-- 2020-10-11 23:08:06

Despite widespread protests against rape and the government’s plan to toughen the law in this regard, a female NGO worker was allegedly gang raped at her Maitkumra house at Fakirhat of Bagerhat...

Attorney general vows to curb backlog of cases

Attorney general vows to curb backlog of cases

-- 2020-10-11 21:57:12

As the chief legal officer of the state, the newly appointed Attorney General (AG) AM Amin Uddin on Sunday said his prime challenge is to curb the backlog of cases in the judiciary. “Many cases...

Railway stops selling ‘Rail Pani’ on trains following media report

Railway stops selling ‘Rail Pani’ on trains following media report

-- 2020-10-11 21:39:17

Bangladesh Railways (BR) has stopped selling its own brand of bottled drinking water ‘Rail Pani’ on trains following media reports regarding the quality. According to a press release, the...

Anti-rape protests flare for sixth day in Dhaka

Anti-rape protests flare for sixth day in Dhaka

-- 2020-10-11 20:28:53

Protests against the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women are continuing in different parts of the city for the sixth consecutive day on Sunday. Students, teachers,...

HC stays proceedings of rape case against four Barishal children

HC stays proceedings of rape case against four Barishal children

-- 2020-10-11 19:19:59

The High Court on Sunday stayed proceedings of a rape case against four children of Barishal’s Bakerganj upazila. The court also directed officer-in-charge of Bakerganj Police Station to make a...

Govt eyes 0.6m mt fish production in FY 2020-21

Govt eyes 0.6m mt fish production in FY 2020-21

-- 2020-10-11 18:49:19

The Fisheries and Livestock Ministry has taken different measures to produce six lakh metric tonnes of fish in the current fiscal year of 2020-21. The target was mentioned at the 12th meeting of the...

China for quick repatriation of Rohingya

China for quick repatriation of Rohingya

FE Online Report 2020-10-11 18:14:50

China has expressed concern over the delay in Rohingya repatriation to their homeland in Myanmar. The concern was expressed when the Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jiming met Foreign Minister Dr AK A...

Govt inaugurates country's first hydraulic elevator dam in Chattogram

Govt inaugurates country's first hydraulic elevator dam in Chattogram

-- 2020-10-11 17:46:12

The government inaugurated on Sunday the country's first hydraulic elevator dam to increase the use of surface water for irrigation.  The hydraulic elevator dam has been built at Barumchara unio...

Regent Group’s Shahed put on four-day remand

Regent Group’s Shahed put on four-day remand

-- 2020-10-11 16:31:12

A Chattogram court on Sunday placed Chairman of Regent Group Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim on a  four-day remand in a case filed over embezzling Tk 9.1 million, reports UNB. Chattogram Metropolit...

Bangladesh logs 1,193 new virus cases, 24 deaths

Bangladesh logs 1,193 new virus cases, 24 deaths

-- 2020-10-11 16:19:13

Bangladesh has posted 1,193 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally so far to 378,266. The death toll climbed to 5,524 after 24 fatalities were registered until 8:00am Sunday,...

Gazipur factory fire kills female worker

Gazipur factory fire kills female worker

-- 2020-10-11 15:45:38

A female worker has been burned to death in a fire at a shoe factory in Ulusara area of Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur. The deceased was identified as Golapi Akhter, 30, wife of Ainul Islam. She hailed...

700 NGOs want UN give them active role in Rohingya response

700 NGOs want UN give them active role in Rohingya response

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-10-11 15:23:50

A coalition of 700 non-government and civil society organisations have urged the United Nations to limit its role only to monitoring and technical assistance in operation of programmes for supporting...

4.8km of Padma Bridge visible as 32nd span span installed

4.8km of Padma Bridge visible as 32nd span span installed

-- 2020-10-11 14:51:47

Nearly five kilometres of the Padma Bridge has become visible with the installation of its 32nd span on Sunday. The span, weighing 3,150 tonnes, was installed on pillars no 4 and 5 at Mawa point arou...