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UN recommends urgent reform of criminal justice system in Bangladesh

UN recommends urgent reform of criminal justice system in Bangladesh

-- 2020-10-07 20:02:28

The United Nations (UN) has strongly recommended an urgent reform of the criminal justice system to support and protect victims and witnesses, and to speed up the slow trial process expressing ‘...

Lawmaker Papul facing trial in Kuwait as local resident: FM

Lawmaker Papul facing trial in Kuwait as local resident: FM

FE Online Report 2020-10-07 19:50:00

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahidul Islam Papul is being tried as a local resident in Kuwait. Responding to a query, the minister said the issue of the...

Saudi Arabia extends visas for Bangladeshi migrant workers till Oct 30

Saudi Arabia extends visas for Bangladeshi migrant workers till Oct 30

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-07 19:10:33

Saudi Arabia has further extended the tenure of visa and work permit of Bangladeshi workers stranded here from October 18 to October 30. Foreign Minister Dr A K Momen said this on Wednesday. This wi...

Govt allocates Tk 6.0b to procure Covid-19 vaccine

Govt allocates Tk 6.0b to procure Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2020-10-07 18:55:28

Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam on Wednesday said the government has allocated an amount of Tk 6.0 billion under a project to procure the Covid-19 vaccine at the earliest possible time. &ldq...

Teen ‘raped in captivity’ for three days in Kishoreganj

Teen ‘raped in captivity’ for three days in Kishoreganj

-- 2020-10-07 17:58:55

Police arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly raping his teenage cousin in captivity for three days in Gujaria Bazar area of Karimganj in Kishoreganj. The arrestee was identified as Shahabuddin, 28,...

Govt makes new push for cluster admission tests for universities

Govt makes new push for cluster admission tests for universities

-- 2020-10-07 17:51:00

The government is making a new push to hold university admissions tests in clusters for the next academic session after cancelling the HSC and equivalent examinations due to the coronavirus pandemic....

Cabinet declares March 7 as ‘Historic Day’ for global observation

Cabinet declares March 7 as ‘Historic Day’ for global observation

-- 2020-10-07 17:41:44

The Cabinet on Wednesday declared March 7 as ‘Historic Day’ instead of the ‘National Historic Day’ in a bid to observe the day nationally and internationally, commemorating the...

Dhaka seeks support from big powers to end Rohingya crisis

Dhaka seeks support from big powers to end Rohingya crisis

-- 2020-10-07 17:15:10

Reminding about the possible uncertainty in the region, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday sought support from big countries to find a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis. "This is s...

Construction of bridge over Karnaphuli to start next year: Minister

Construction of bridge over Karnaphuli to start next year: Minister

-- 2020-10-07 17:13:43

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Wednesday said the construction of a railway-cum-road bridge over the Karnaphuli River at Kalurghat in Chattogram will begin early next year. The minister in...

PM to open Kishoreganj’s all-weather road Thursday

PM to open Kishoreganj’s all-weather road Thursday

-- 2020-10-07 16:27:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the Itna-Mithamoin-Astagram all-weather road in Kishoreganj on Thursday. She will inaugurate it through a videoconference on Thursday morning,...

35 more Covid deaths, 1,520 fresh infections in daily count

35 more Covid deaths, 1,520 fresh infections in daily count

FE Online Report  2020-10-07 16:02:56

Bangladesh witnessed 35 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours to 8:00am on Wednesday, pushing the death count to 5,440 in the country since the first virus death was registered on March 18 la...

Bangladesh highest prevalence of child marriage in South Asia

Bangladesh highest prevalence of child marriage in South Asia

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-07 15:43:49

Despite significant progress in recent years, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of child marriage in South Asia and ranks among 10 countries in the world with the highest levels, according to a ne...

Bangladesh seeks durable solution to Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh seeks durable solution to Rohingya crisis

-- 2020-10-07 15:32:05

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday sought a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis through their peaceful repatriation and termed the killings at Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar very sad o...

No HSC, equivalent exams this year: Dipu Moni

No HSC, equivalent exams this year: Dipu Moni

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-07 13:53:37

The government has decided not to hold the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Education Minister Dipu Moni announced at a virtua...

PM unveils Braille version of Bangabandhu’s ‘Oshomapto Atmojiboni’

PM unveils Braille version of Bangabandhu’s ‘Oshomapto Atmojiboni’

-- 2020-10-07 12:54:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled the Braille version of the autobiography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-- “Oshomapto Atmojiboni” (The Unfinished Memoir...

BDCSO Process holds annual conference

BDCSO Process holds annual conference

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-10-07 12:20:34

BDCSO Process, a process forum of around 700 local CSOs/NGOs, has started its second annual conference virtually. The title of the first-day session was ‘Building civil societies, complementari...

Two more held over Noakhali housewife molestation

Two more held over Noakhali housewife molestation

-- 2020-10-07 11:51:58

Detectives on Wednesday arrested two more suspects in connection with the torture of a housewife in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila. The arrestees were identified as Shohagh, son of Pora Muns...

Locals hand over man to cops for raping madrasa girl

Locals hand over man to cops for raping madrasa girl

-- 2020-10-07 10:42:33

Locals handed over a young man to police after he raped a madrasa girl at Charpattania area in Sadar upazila of Barishal district on Tuesday. The man, Monir Hosain Jibon, 29, son of Altaf Hawladar, u...

Dhaka's bus route rationalisation plan sees no progress in years

Dhaka's bus route rationalisation plan sees no progress in years

FE REPORT 2020-10-07 09:38:22

Dhaka's mayors have expressed their utter dismay at no headway yet in the process of bus route rationalisation (BRR) even after a lapse of five long years. They said only two of the decisions made by...

Bangladeshi teachers, students to be provided with recovery strategy

Bangladeshi teachers, students to be provided with recovery strategy

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-10-07 09:35:01

The World Bank (WB) will help Bangladesh develop content for online education during Covid-19 and recover from its impact in the post-pandemic period, officials said on Monday. The Washington-based l...

Four Rohingyas killed, 20 injured in turf war at Cox’s Bazar camp

Four Rohingyas killed, 20 injured in turf war at Cox’s Bazar camp

-- 2020-10-06 23:57:14

Four Rohingyas were killed and 20 others injured in a turf war at a camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya on Tuesday night, reports UNB.  Additional Superintendent of Police Rafikul Islam sai...

Noakhali housewife assault: Main accused on seven-day remand

Noakhali housewife assault: Main accused on seven-day remand

-- 2020-10-06 22:17:38

A Noakhali court on Tuesday placed main accused Badal Mia on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the torture of a housewife in Begumganj upazila of the district. The court also placed local UP me...

Nari O Shishu Odhikar Forum announces three-day programme against rape

Nari O Shishu Odhikar Forum announces three-day programme against rape

-- 2020-10-06 21:31:20

Nari O Shishu Odhikar Forum, a platform of BNP, on Tuesday announced a three-day programme in protest against violence against women and children, including inhuman repression of a woman in Noakhali&r...

Umrah pilgrims asked not to make transaction before announcement

Umrah pilgrims asked not to make transaction before announcement

-- 2020-10-06 21:12:25

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has requested all to refrain from making any transaction with anyone before a formal announcement of the government. The ministry made the request as some individual...

‘97pc sex offenders easily get off hook’

‘97pc sex offenders easily get off hook’

UNB 2020-10-06 21:00:30

As the recent spate of rape and sexual harassment of women rocked the country, experts called for ensuring exemplary punishment of the culprits and their abettors through prompt trials since 97 per ce...

Bangladesh seeks S. Korea’s cooperation for returning stranded Bangladeshis

Bangladesh seeks S. Korea’s cooperation for returning stranded Bangladeshis

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-06 20:31:36

Bangladesh has sought South Korea’s cooperation to ease the visa process so that the workers and students, who came back to Bangladesh at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, could return to thei...

BTRC taking down Noakhali woman’s assault video

BTRC taking down Noakhali woman’s assault video

-- 2020-10-06 20:14:11

The telecom regulator has begun taking down the video of a sexual assault on a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj from the internet following a High Court order. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Reg...

Expatriate ministry to create database of returned, stranded workers

Expatriate ministry to create database of returned, stranded workers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-06 20:13:51

Expatriates’ welfare ministry will create a databank of returned and stranded migrant workers whose work permits and visas have expired and cannot rejoin their works. The ministry has taken the...

Met office forecasts rainfall with thundershowers

Met office forecasts rainfall with thundershowers

-- 2020-10-06 19:57:32

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers at many parts of the country in the next 24 hours commencing at 9:00am today (Tuesday). “Light to mo...

ACC conducts operations in Chattogram, Barishal, Gaibandha

ACC conducts operations in Chattogram, Barishal, Gaibandha

-- 2020-10-06 19:48:07

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday launched an operation against Abul Kalam Majumder, an accounting officer at the Chattogram Regional Accounts Center under the Water Development Board, o...