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Climate change: Adaptation action to be accelerated in South Asia

Climate change: Adaptation action to be accelerated in South Asia

-- 2020-10-06 19:47:36

The South Asian Regional Center of Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) in Dhaka will play a role in scaling up and accelerating the action of adaptation in the region as South Asia is the most vulnerabl...

ECNEC approves 1st revision of Rohingya crisis response project

ECNEC approves 1st revision of Rohingya crisis response project

-- 2020-10-06 19:23:00

The government has approved the first revision of the multi-sector project to address Rohingya crisis on emergency basis with an additional cost of Taka 9.30 billion to ensure various facilities for t...

Protest against rape: Many FB profile pictures go black

Protest against rape: Many FB profile pictures go black

-- 2020-10-06 18:20:18

Alongside protests on the streets, netizens, especially women, have resorted to digital protests to raise their voices against sexual assault, harassment and torture of women. Many FB female users ha...

47 Vietnam returnees freed from Kashimpur jail

47 Vietnam returnees freed from Kashimpur jail

-- 2020-10-06 18:13:22

Forty-seven Bangladeshi workers, who were sent to jail after returning from Vietnam, were released from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur on Tuesday following the court's directive, reports UNB. The...

Covid-19 prompts surge in Bangladesh unemployment

Covid-19 prompts surge in Bangladesh unemployment

FE ONLINE REPORT   2020-10-06 17:37:53

Bangladesh’s unemployment rate swelled to 22.39 per cent in July from 2.3 per cent in March due to the impact of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on Tuesday....

59 held for selling, consuming drugs in city

59 held for selling, consuming drugs in city

-- 2020-10-06 16:44:50

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 59 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives in the last 24 hours till 6:00am today (Tuesday). The Detective Bra...

Police club protesters during anti-rape march towards PMO   

Police club protesters during anti-rape march towards PMO  

-- 2020-10-06 16:43:13

Protesters have brought out a black flag rally, demanding justice for rapes and other forms of sexual violence. As they started a march towards the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the procession...

Child rape increases in Sept

Child rape increases in Sept

FE Online Report 2020-10-06 16:39:48

Incidents of child rape witnessed an alarming rise in September 2020 compared to the last eight months of the current calendar year, according to a report released by a child rights organisation. The...

Home minister vows quick action against perpetrators of Noakhali incident

Home minister vows quick action against perpetrators of Noakhali incident

-- 2020-10-06 16:38:22

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said legal action will be taken soon against the criminals involved in torturing and sexually humiliating a woman in Noakhali. “The criminals await imm...

Bangladesh registers 30 more deaths, 1,499 new Covid cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh registers 30 more deaths, 1,499 new Covid cases in 24 hours

FE Online Report 2020-10-06 15:41:51

Bangladesh has witnessed deaths of 30 more people from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of casualties to 5,375 since the first case of the virus hit the country on March 8, accor...

US, Bangladesh share common Indo-Pacific vision: Joint statement

US, Bangladesh share common Indo-Pacific vision: Joint statement

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-06 15:25:00

A US-Bangladesh meeting has underscored the need for implementing reforms for continued improvement of Bangladesh's investment climate for US-sourced foreign direct investment, including initiation of...

SC commutes death sentences of three convicts in Gopal Muhuri murder

SC commutes death sentences of three convicts in Gopal Muhuri murder

-- 2020-10-06 13:54:56

Three death-row convicts in the murder of Gopal Krishna Muhuri, the principal of Chattogram’s Nazirhat College, will now serve prison time until death, according to a new order issued by the App...

Two more arrested over assault on Noakhali woman

Two more arrested over assault on Noakhali woman

-- 2020-10-06 13:00:31

Police have arrested two more suspects, including a Union Parishad member, taking the number of arrests to six over sexual assault on a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj. The latest arrestees are S...

Six month-long education programme launched

Six month-long education programme launched

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-06 11:27:02

A six-month long education programme was inaugurated, along with a seminar “Teachers: Leadership in Crisis, New Thoughts for the Future” over a video conferencing platform. The programme...

Fire guts 10 shops, jute godown in Rajbari

Fire guts 10 shops, jute godown in Rajbari

-- 2020-10-06 10:44:24

At least 10 shops and a jute warehouse were gutted in a fire at a market in Rajbari district town on Tuesday morning. Rabiul Islam, station officer of Rajbari Fire Station, said that the fire broke o...

Police arrest madrasah super for ‘violating female student’

Police arrest madrasah super for ‘violating female student’

-- 2020-10-06 10:35:53

Police on Monday night arrested a superintendent of a local madrasah from Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district for allegedly violating a female student. The arrestee was identified as Maulana Abdul Qua...

Vegetable market in Jashore volatile

Vegetable market in Jashore volatile

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-10-06 10:04:37

The vegetable market in Jashore is volatile. Lower and middle class people are afraid to go to the market. Going to the vegetables market with taka two hundred seems to be foolish. According to the...

Saudi Arabia to take back Bangladeshi workers if they've work permits

Saudi Arabia to take back Bangladeshi workers if they've work permits

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-10-06 09:59:57

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) government will take back all the Bangladeshi workers, who got stranded after returning home due to Covid-related restrictions, provided they have valid work permits....

Supreme Court upholds stay order on trial in five cases against Dr Yunus

Supreme Court upholds stay order on trial in five cases against Dr Yunus

FE REPORT 2020-10-06 09:57:28

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld five High Court orders which stayed the trial proceedings of five cases filed against Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus on charges...

Rights activists for passing law ensuring welfare, protection of elderlies

Rights activists for passing law ensuring welfare, protection of elderlies

FE Report 2020-10-06 09:45:25

Rights activists have demanded to pass a law ensuring the welfare and social protection of elderly citizens of the country. The demand was made at a webinar organised by Prabin Odhikar Mancha, Bangla...

Noakhali housewife’s molestation: Two accused put on six-day remand

Noakhali housewife’s molestation: Two accused put on six-day remand

-- 2020-10-05 22:57:32

A Noakhali court on Monday placed two accused on six-day remand each in two cases filed over torturing a housewife in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district. Judge of the Noakhali Begumganj Cognisanc...

Bangladesh urges Kuwait to open flights soon to take back expats

Bangladesh urges Kuwait to open flights soon to take back expats

-- 2020-10-05 22:48:16

Bangladesh has requested Kuwait to resume flights between the two countries as quickly as possible so that the Bangladeshi expatriates who got stuck here can return to their workplaces smoothly. Bang...

ACC imposes travel ban on seven mask scam suspects

ACC imposes travel ban on seven mask scam suspects

-- 2020-10-05 21:31:20

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has barred seven suspects accused of supplying ‘low-quality’ N95 masks for health workers amid the coronavirus pandemic from travelling abroad. The mo...

Trial of BUET student Abrar Fahad murder case begins

Trial of BUET student Abrar Fahad murder case begins

-- 2020-10-05 20:40:59

The trial of 25 accused in a case filed over the killing of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad has started in a Dhaka court. Barkat Ullah, victim’s f...

Noakhali woman assault: HC directs BTRC to remove  all video clips from social media

Noakhali woman assault: HC directs BTRC to remove all video clips from social media

FE Online Report 2020-10-05 20:02:55

The High Court on Monday ordered the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to remove all the links of the recorded video clip of torturing a woman in Noakhali that sparked outrage...

DNCC removes around 1,090 illegal billboards, banners in Uttara

DNCC removes around 1,090 illegal billboards, banners in Uttara

FE Online Report 2020-10-05 19:45:43

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Monday removed around 1,090 illegal billboards and banners in the capital’s Uttara area on the second day of the drive. The evicted billboards were sold a...

RMP to bring suspected cops under dope testing

RMP to bring suspected cops under dope testing

-- 2020-10-05 19:38:02

The Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has taken initiative of dope testing to detect its drug-addict police members. “We have taken the initiative of bringing all the suspected policemen under...

Payra power plant ready for full-fledged operation

Payra power plant ready for full-fledged operation

-- 2020-10-05 19:10:29

The 1,320 MW coal-fired Payra power plant in Patuakhali district's Kalapara upazila is ready to operate at full blast. Officials said the second unit of the plant, a joint venture between Bangladesh...

US embassy starts accepting interview-waiver visa applications

US embassy starts accepting interview-waiver visa applications

-- 2020-10-05 19:08:30

The US Embassy in Dhaka has started accepting interview-waiver visa applications of B1/B2 categories to visit the USA for tourism, business and medical purposes. “Individuals only with B1/B2 vi...

PM to lead global leaders at CVF event Wednesday

PM to lead global leaders at CVF event Wednesday

-- 2020-10-05 17:26:01

Bangladesh along with Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) will host the virtual Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) leaders’ event on Wednesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the current President o...