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HC questions legality of water price hike

HC questions legality of water price hike

-- 2020-10-05 17:07:31

The High Court has issued a rule questioning the legality of a water price hike made effective in April by the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority. Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam of t...

Flood situation in Ganges basin improving

Flood situation in Ganges basin improving

-- 2020-10-05 17:03:57

The overall flood situation in the Ganges basin has improved for the second consecutive day today as water level in many of its rivers and tributaries recorded a falling trend in the last 24-hour endi...

Businessmen, hawkers block Dhaka-Aricha highway protesting extortion

Businessmen, hawkers block Dhaka-Aricha highway protesting extortion

-- 2020-10-05 16:51:50

Businessmen and hawkers of Savar Bazar bus stand area on Monday morning blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway protesting rampant extortion. They blocked the highway from 10:00am to 11:00am, halting vehicular...

Four get death over Kishoreganj murder

Four get death over Kishoreganj murder

-- 2020-10-05 16:30:41

A Kishoreganj court has sentenced four people to death and jailed four others for life for killing former public works employee Abdur Rahman in 2006. Kishoreganj Additional District and Sessions Judg...

Nationwide protests on violence against women, girls held

Nationwide protests on violence against women, girls held

FE Online Report 2020-10-05 16:15:42

Nationwide protests against the recent violence against women and girls, including rape and tortures, held across the country on Monday. Participants in those protests demanded immediate actions from...

Covid-19: 27 deaths, 1,442 new infections reported in 24 hours

Covid-19: 27 deaths, 1,442 new infections reported in 24 hours

FE Online Report 2020-10-05 15:39:26

Bangladesh on Monday registered 27 more deaths from Coronavirus disease, taking the total number of fatalities to 5,375 since the first deaths were recorded in the country on March 18, according to go...

Globe Biotech plans to release Covid vaccine early next year

Globe Biotech plans to release Covid vaccine early next year

FE Online Report 2020-10-05 15:02:40

Bangladeshi drug firm Globe Biotech has planned to release its homegrown coronavirus vaccine ‘BANCOVID’ in the country by early next year. To execute the plan, it sought necessary governm...

Protesters block Shahbag over molestation of Noakhali housewife

Protesters block Shahbag over molestation of Noakhali housewife

-- 2020-10-05 14:49:26

People blocked Shahbagh intersection in the capital on Monday, protesting the horrific incident of Noakhali housewife’s molestation that has gone viral on social media. The protesters demanded...

Newly appointed Indian High Commissioner Doraiswami arrives

Newly appointed Indian High Commissioner Doraiswami arrives

-- 2020-10-05 14:37:51

Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami arrived in Dhaka on Monday through Brahmanbaria's Akhaura International Immigration Checkpost. He is expected to take up the a...

PM warns of prompt action against any kind of child oppression

PM warns of prompt action against any kind of child oppression

-- 2020-10-05 13:50:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government is careful so that prompt action can be taken against any kind of child oppression in the country. "We’re taking steps to ensure secur...

US embassy issues security alert for its citizens in Bangladesh

US embassy issues security alert for its citizens in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-05 12:45:36

The US embassy in Dhaka has issued a security alert for its citizens living in Bangladesh as about 10,000 migrant workers were demonstrating in the capital’s Karwan Bazar area on Sunday. The em...

Floating houses: A way of making peace with floods

Floating houses: A way of making peace with floods

NAFIS ALMAS SIAM 2020-10-05 12:27:10

The people of Bangladesh have long been living with natural calamities that ravage lives and properties and cause immense sufferings to them. The most common among them is flood, which forces hundreds...

Noakhali housewife molested: RAB arrests two more suspects

Noakhali housewife molested: RAB arrests two more suspects

-- 2020-10-05 11:36:06

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have arrested two more suspects from Dhaka and Narayanganj in connection with torturing a housewife after undressing her and filming the video of the incident in...

Savar road crash kills RMG worker

Savar road crash kills RMG worker

-- 2020-10-05 10:45:07

An RMG factory worker was killed and another injured as a pick-up hit a motorcycle in Savar municipal area on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Alam, 35, son of Abul Kashem Sadh...

48-hour countrywide goods transport strike on Oct 12, 13

48-hour countrywide goods transport strike on Oct 12, 13

-- 2020-10-04 21:56:38

Bangladesh Truck-Covered Van Owners-Workers Coordination Council on Sunday called a 48-hour strike across the country to press home their nine-point demand including an amendment to the Road Transport...

Bangladesh witnesses lower COVID-19 fatality rate: Health minister

Bangladesh witnesses lower COVID-19 fatality rate: Health minister

-- 2020-10-04 21:17:24

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said Bangladesh witnessed lower COVID-19 fatality rate as the government has taken multiple preventive measures. He also mentioned that COVID-19 situation in Banglad...

CID to issue red notice through Interpol to bring back human traffickers

CID to issue red notice through Interpol to bring back human traffickers

-- 2020-10-04 21:08:08

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Bangladesh Police will soon issue a red notice through Interpol to bring back the human traffickers involved in the killing 26 Bangladeshi migrant worker...

Verdict of blogger Washiqur murder case on Oct 27

Verdict of blogger Washiqur murder case on Oct 27

-- 2020-10-04 20:59:56

A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed October 27 for delivering its verdict in a case filed over the murder of blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu. Dhaka's Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court Judge...

ACC sues Rajuk employee

ACC sues Rajuk employee

-- 2020-10-04 20:33:50

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday filed a case against Rajuk employee Mohammad Mohiuddin for allegedly acquiring illegal assets worth around Tk 7.2 million. Nargis Sultana, Assistant Dir...

‘No procession during immersion of idols’

‘No procession during immersion of idols’

-- 2020-10-04 20:19:39

No procession will be allowed to be brought out across the country ahead of the immersion of idols during Durga Puja this time due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was taken at a meeting on...

Right activists stress enacting law for social protection of elderly

Right activists stress enacting law for social protection of elderly

FE Online Report 2020-10-04 20:04:50

Rights activists demanded a law to be passed for the welfare and social protection of the elderly people in the country. The demand was made in a webinar organised by Prabin Odhikar Mancha, Banglades...

Doing business without permission not possible: Mayor Atiqul

Doing business without permission not possible: Mayor Atiqul

-- 2020-10-04 19:56:50

Voicing displeasure over the chaotic use of illegal billboards and signboards in the city, Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam on Sunday said no one will be allowed to do business witho...

Online classes for college students begin

Online classes for college students begin

-- 2020-10-04 19:39:58

Colleges have begun conducting online lessons for new class XI students as the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep schools and other educational institutions across the country shut. Education Min...

Sinovac seeks co-financing from Bangladesh for vaccine trial

Sinovac seeks co-financing from Bangladesh for vaccine trial

-- 2020-10-04 19:24:48

China’s private Sinovac Biotech Ltd has sought co-financing from Bangladesh for phase-3 clinical trial of its prospective anti-COVID-19 vaccine, more than a month after securing approval to carr...

Dr Kamal serves show-cause notices on Montu, 3 others

Dr Kamal serves show-cause notices on Montu, 3 others

-- 2020-10-04 18:50:36

Gono Forum, led by its president Dr Kamal Hossain, has served show cause notices on its four senior leaders, including former general secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu, for ‘creating chaos in the p...

‘Demand for highly skilled people in Bangladesh, globally growing’

‘Demand for highly skilled people in Bangladesh, globally growing’

-- 2020-10-04 18:15:40

Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Bangladesh Ambassador Rensje Teerink on Sunday said the demand for highly skilled, socially engaged people worldwide and in Bangladesh is increasing....

DSCC to begin drive against battery-run rickshaws

DSCC to begin drive against battery-run rickshaws

-- 2020-10-04 17:58:46

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will begin a drive to take battery-powered rickshaws and vans off the streets on Monday. "A mobile court will launch a drive to discipline the transportation s...

Saudi Airlines resumes ticket sale after brief disruption

Saudi Airlines resumes ticket sale after brief disruption

-- 2020-10-04 17:03:10

The Saudi Airlines authorities in Dhaka resumed sale of tickets and distribution of tokens for Bangladeshi expatriates on Sunday morning after a brief disruption. Witnesses said a number of Banglades...

Illegal sand lifting goes unabated in Brahmanbaria

Illegal sand lifting goes unabated in Brahmanbaria

-- 2020-10-04 16:48:57

Illegal sand lifting in Bilkenduai village in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila is going on unabated, posing threat to a vast track of farmland. Farmers of the village said they are worried about losing the...

Single women may face accommodation crisis in Dhaka during post-lockdown period

Single women may face accommodation crisis in Dhaka during post-lockdown period

UNB 2020-10-04 16:47:29

Hostel accommodation for single women in Dhaka may face a severe crisis in the post-lockdown period as most of them have been forced to close during the lockdown. Talking to many owners and managers...