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Bangladesh ranks fifth in creating jobs in solar power sector

Bangladesh ranks fifth in creating jobs in solar power sector

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-29 20:35:44

Bangladesh has been ranked fifth among 161 countries in creating employment opportunities in the solar power sector. Around 1,37,000 people in the country have got employment opportunity so far in th...

Food minister lambasts rice millers, allied traders for rise in prices

Food minister lambasts rice millers, allied traders for rise in prices

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-29 20:28:03

Food Minister Shadhan Chandra Majumder on Tuesday lambasted rice millers and their allied traders by blaming them for the continuous rise in prices of the staple. Terming the current surge in rice pr...

Decision on reopening of schools, colleges soon: Dipu Moni

Decision on reopening of schools, colleges soon: Dipu Moni

-- 2020-09-29 19:53:23

The government will formally announce the decision about reopening of schools and colleges, and holding examinations amid the coronavirus outbreak ‘very soon’. Education Minister Dipu Mon...

BNP’s politics is in deep crisis, Quader says

BNP’s politics is in deep crisis, Quader says

-- 2020-09-29 19:44:35

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said BNP’s politics is in deep crisis now as the party is getting isolated from the people day by day after failing in elections, by-elec...

Govt gets infected with various viruses, BNP leader says

Govt gets infected with various viruses, BNP leader says

-- 2020-09-29 19:41:54

Stating that the government has ‘got infected with various viruses’, BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Tuesday suggested the ruling party leaders to ‘hide their faces behind mas...

Verdict on Jaha Alam case Wednesday

Verdict on Jaha Alam case Wednesday

-- 2020-09-29 19:38:30

The High Court will deliver judgment on a rule on Wednesday on compensation to Jaha Alam who languished in jail for three years instead of the real accused in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commi...

Consultant hiring delay pushes back Matarbari land-based LNG terminal project

Consultant hiring delay pushes back Matarbari land-based LNG terminal project

-- 2020-09-29 18:45:33

A delayed move to hire a consultant has pushed back the process for selecting a qualified bidder for the country's maiden land-based LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal project at Matarbari in Mahesh...

Bangladesh to get $3.0m ADB grant to fight Covid-19

Bangladesh to get $3.0m ADB grant to fight Covid-19

  FE Online Report 2020-09-29 18:42:29

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Bangladesh US$3.0 million in grant for procuring urgent medical supplies including vaccine for the Covid-19. To this effect, the Manila-based lender and...

HC forms committee for judicial probe into MC College rape incident

HC forms committee for judicial probe into MC College rape incident

-- 2020-09-29 18:40:44

The High Court has formed a committee for a judicial investigation into the rape of a woman in Sylhet’s MC College allegedly by a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, reports bdnews24.c...

Education minister to hold press conference on Wednesday

Education minister to hold press conference on Wednesday

-- 2020-09-29 18:05:54

Education Minister Dipu Moni has called a news conference to brief the public about the ‘overall situation’ amid concerns of students and parents over the coronavirus outbreak. She will h...

Three-member probe body formed over MC College gang-rape

Three-member probe body formed over MC College gang-rape

-- 2020-09-29 17:27:45

The Education Ministry formed a three-member committee on Tuesday to investigate whether there was any negligence of the college authorities in the gang rape incident at MC College dormitory. The com...

Three robbers impersonating DB police held in city

Three robbers impersonating DB police held in city

-- 2020-09-29 16:57:33

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in a special drive, arrested three alleged robbers, including the chief of a robber gang from Kajla area under Jatrabari police station on...

Bangladesh, Nigeria sign MoU on bilateral consultations

Bangladesh, Nigeria sign MoU on bilateral consultations

-- 2020-09-29 16:41:38

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the establishment of bilateral consultations has signed between the foreign ministries of Bangladesh and Nigeria. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen a...

Bangladesh sees violence against children rise in January-August

Bangladesh sees violence against children rise in January-August

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-09-29 16:11:18

The period January-August 2020 saw 983 alarming incidents of violence against children, with 465 dead, 415 sexually assaulted, 457 injured and 637 arrested, according to a latest report. A 17 per cen...

Bangladesh coronavirus deaths top 5,200, cases reach 362,043

Bangladesh coronavirus deaths top 5,200, cases reach 362,043

-- 2020-09-29 15:41:10

Bangladesh has recorded 1,488 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally so far to 362,043, bdnews24.com reports. The death toll jumped to 5,219 after 26 fataliti...

Two die in Satkhira road crash

Two die in Satkhira road crash

-- 2020-09-29 15:09:45

Two people were killed and three others injured following a collision between a motorbike and a trolley on Satkhira-Jashore highway in Madhabkathi area in Satkhira district on Tuesday. The deceased w...

Man gets death penalty for murdering wife, daughter in Bhola

Man gets death penalty for murdering wife, daughter in Bhola

-- 2020-09-29 14:57:48

A Bhola court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife and minor daughter in Daulatkhan upazila of the district in 2017. The condemned convict is Md Bellal Hossain, UNB reports. Acco...

ACC arrests JMI Hospital chairman over graft in supplying N-95 masks

ACC arrests JMI Hospital chairman over graft in supplying N-95 masks

-- 2020-09-29 14:18:53

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested Md Abdur Razzak, chairman of JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd, over allegations of corruption in supplying N-95 masks to some government hospi...

Police arrest another accused in MC College gang-rape case

Police arrest another accused in MC College gang-rape case

-- 2020-09-29 12:33:18

Police arrested another accused from Haripur of Jaintapur upazila on Monday night in connection with Friday’s gang-rape at Sylhet MC College. The arrestee is Mahfuzur Rahman Masum, a 4th year s...

Murder accused dies in ‘custody’ in Bagerhat

Murder accused dies in ‘custody’ in Bagerhat

-- 2020-09-29 12:31:30

An accused in a murder case died reportedly under custody of Bagerhat Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Monday. The deceased was identified as Raja Fakir, 20, son of Babu Fakir, a resident of K...

DGHS to further trim list of Covid hospitals

DGHS to further trim list of Covid hospitals

JUBAIR HASAN 2020-09-29 09:29:01

Growing financial pressure coupled with less patients than capacity have forced the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to reduce services from some of its Covid-dedicated hospitals, officia...

Joint Consultative Commission meeting: Bangladesh may seek fair treatment in investments, visas

Joint Consultative Commission meeting: Bangladesh may seek fair treatment in investments, visas

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN and Rezaul Karim 2020-09-29 09:29:00

Bangladesh plans to raise some discriminatory measures taken by the Indian government regarding investments and visa extension as foreign ministers of the both nations meet today (Tuesday). Banglades...

Bangladesh PM for prioritising  a green Covid recovery

Bangladesh PM for prioritising a green Covid recovery

FE Online Desk 2020-09-28 21:06:20

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, in an article published in The Financial Times (FT), said that prioritising a green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is right step.  “A re...

Private medical institutes to be brought under one law

Private medical institutes to be brought under one law

-- 2020-09-28 20:18:54

The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of "Private Medical and Dental College Bill, 2020" in principle to bring the all private medical institutions, including dental institutes, under one law inste...

COVID-19: Infections among health workers top 8,000 

COVID-19: Infections among health workers top 8,000 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-28 19:26:19

COVID-19 infections among health workers in the country topped 8,000 mark while the virus also infected over 900 newsmen. Meanwhile, 88 doctors died in the pandemic since March 18, according to Bangl...

Bangladeshi couple found dead in US after suspected murder-suicide

Bangladeshi couple found dead in US after suspected murder-suicide

-- 2020-09-28 18:38:23

A Bangladeshi-origin couple has been found dead in their home in the US state of Arizona after an apparent murder-suicide. Police believe the man shot his wife dead before ending his own life. The i...

Hasina, Modi to meet virtually in December: FM

Hasina, Modi to meet virtually in December: FM

-- 2020-09-28 18:27:05

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a virtual meeting in December. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said this while talking to reporters at his office on...

PM seeks report on sending back expats to workplace

PM seeks report on sending back expats to workplace

-- 2020-09-28 18:03:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the foreign minister to submit a complete report before the next cabinet meeting on measures to send back Bangladeshi expatriate workers to their workplace, The...

Dhaka-18, Sirajganj-1 by-polls on November 12

Dhaka-18, Sirajganj-1 by-polls on November 12

-- 2020-09-28 17:47:15

The election commission has decided to hold by-elections to Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1 constituencies on November 12 As per the schedule announced on Monday, the deadline for nomination submission is O...

Bangladesh, India to hold JCC meeting Tuesday

Bangladesh, India to hold JCC meeting Tuesday

-- 2020-09-28 17:42:46

The sixth Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting will be held on Tuesday in a virtual platform in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen and his Indi...