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2,755 complaints lodged to DIFE in FY 2018-19

2,755 complaints lodged to DIFE in FY 2018-19

FE Online Report 2020-09-28 17:01:41

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) received some 2,755 complaints in the fiscal year (FY) 2018-2019 from workers regarding violations of the Bangladesh Labour Act, 20...

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam laid to rest

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam laid to rest

-- 2020-09-28 16:54:42

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam laid to rest at the Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Dhaka's Mirpur after a namaz-e-janaza at the Supreme Court premises, his workplace for almost half a century, on...

Virus cases in Bangladesh exceed 360,000, deaths near 5,200

Virus cases in Bangladesh exceed 360,000, deaths near 5,200

-- 2020-09-28 16:37:20

Bangladesh has posted 1,407 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 360,555, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll jumped to 5,193 after...

Saudi-bound Bangladeshi migrants seek auto-renewals of visas

Saudi-bound Bangladeshi migrants seek auto-renewals of visas

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-28 16:20:52

Saudi Arabia-bound stranded Bangladeshi migrant workers have demanded automatic renewals of visas so that they can return to work on time. To this end, they met with Bangladesh’s Expatriates' W...

US embassy in Dhaka issues security alert for its citizens over migrants’ demonstration

US embassy in Dhaka issues security alert for its citizens over migrants’ demonstration

FE Online Report 2020-09-28 15:40:20

The US embassy in Dhaka issued a security alert for its citizens living in Bangladesh as a group of migrant workers are demonstrating around the Embassy of Saudi Arabia on Road 83, Gulshan 2 in the ca...

Regent Group chairman Shahed gets life imprisonment in arms case

Regent Group chairman Shahed gets life imprisonment in arms case

-- 2020-09-28 14:45:20

Regent Group chairman Shahed Karim has been sentenced to life imprisonment in an arms case. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Kayes delivered the verdict on Monday afternoon, UNB reports. R...

PM says Bangladeshis are capable of overcoming all hurdles

PM says Bangladeshis are capable of overcoming all hurdles

-- 2020-09-28 14:34:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the people of Bangladesh have the capability to overcome all sorts of hurdles. "With the cooperation from all, we’re advancing the country. I thank t...

MC College rape: Court grants five-day remand of two accused

MC College rape: Court grants five-day remand of two accused

-- 2020-09-28 13:49:56

Two accused, including the prime suspect in MC College gang rape, were sent on a five-day remand by a Sylhet court on Monday. Indraneel Bhattacharya, officer-in-charge of Shahporan Police Station (in...

Short deadline spells trouble for Saudi-bound Bangladeshi migrants

Short deadline spells trouble for Saudi-bound Bangladeshi migrants

-- 2020-09-28 13:35:11

The Saudi authorities have a set a 48-hour deadline for Bangladeshi migrant workers to reach the kingdom after giving samples for coronavirus tests, bdnews24.com reports. With little time to prepare...

Mahbubey Alam’s namaj-e-janaza held on Supreme Court premises

Mahbubey Alam’s namaj-e-janaza held on Supreme Court premises

-- 2020-09-28 12:46:05

The namaj-e-janaza of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam was held on the Supreme Court premises on Monday morning. His body was taken there around 11am and the namaj-e-janaza was held at 11:30am, UNB rep...

Flood situation worsens in Kurigram

Flood situation worsens in Kurigram

-- 2020-09-28 12:33:03

Heavy rains and upstream water are worsening the flood situation in Kurigram district inundating cropland, houses and cutting off road communication affecting thousands of people. Shamsuddin Mia, the...

73rd birthday of PM today

73rd birthday of PM today

-- 2020-09-28 10:27:14

The 73rd birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of the Bangladesh Awami League, will be celebrated across the country today, report agencies. Sheikh Hasina, the eldest of five child...

Rape at MC College: RAB arrests another accused

Rape at MC College: RAB arrests another accused

-- 2020-09-28 10:26:37

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested another accused from Fenchuganj upazila of Sylhet district early Monday in a case filed over Friday’s gang-rape at MC College. With the latest a...

Veg seedling farmers may incur Tk 10m loss for prolonged rain

Veg seedling farmers may incur Tk 10m loss for prolonged rain

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-28 10:08:17

Vegetable seedling farmers of Shajahanpur upazila of Bogra district may incur a loss of Tk 10 million for the prolonged rain in the district. A good number of peasants of Shahnagar, Bihigram and Bara...

Bridge connecting road in Chaugachha collapses

Bridge connecting road in Chaugachha collapses

Our Correspondent 2020-09-28 09:59:30

The eastern side of a road connecting the bridge over the Narayanpur Kopotakho river in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore district has collapsed. As a result, cracks have developed in different places of...

Derogatory posts on judiciary: AD asks BTRC to block SC lawyer’s facebook account

Derogatory posts on judiciary: AD asks BTRC to block SC lawyer’s facebook account

FE REPORT 2020-09-28 09:47:36

The Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court on Sunday asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to remove derogatory comments about the judiciary posted by Supreme Cou...

Dhaka University BCL demands arrest of rapists soon

Dhaka University BCL demands arrest of rapists soon

DU CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-28 09:43:19

Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) demanded on Sunday immediate arrest of rapists of the recent incidents across the country including the rape in Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet. The Dha...

Bangladesh experts urge government not to issue passports for Rohingya in Saudi Arabia

Bangladesh experts urge government not to issue passports for Rohingya in Saudi Arabia

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-09-28 09:41:36

Bangladesh's decision to issue national passports to Rohingya living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) will be harmful to the country's interest, opined foreign affairs experts. Recently, Saudi...

Experts push for strict safeguard measures

Experts push for strict safeguard measures

FE REPORT 2020-09-28 09:32:15

Health experts advised the people again on Sunday to strictly follow the safeguard measures such as wearing of masks, frequent washing of hands and social distancing to protect themselves from novel c...

PM mourns Mahbubey Alam’s death

PM mourns Mahbubey Alam’s death

-- 2020-09-27 21:34:46

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, reports UNB. In a condolence message, she said the nation will always rememb...

Writ seeks implementation of ACC's recommendations for health sector

Writ seeks implementation of ACC's recommendations for health sector

-- 2020-09-27 20:54:04

A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday seeking its directives to the Ministry of Health to implement the 25-point recommendation of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) after identify...

BAF Air Defence Exercise ‘ADEX-2020-2’ held

BAF Air Defence Exercise ‘ADEX-2020-2’ held

-- 2020-09-27 20:48:04

Air Defence Exercise titled 'ADEX-2020-2’ of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) was held in Dhaka, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Moulvibazar, Tangail and Bogura districts on Sunday. The aim of this ex...

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam no more

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam no more

-- 2020-09-27 20:01:39

Mahbubey Alam, the longest-serving attorney general of Bangladesh, has died at a Dhaka hospital at the age of 71 after suffering from COVID-19 illness. Law Minister Anisul Huq confirmed the news of A...

Two districts get new deputy commissioners

Two districts get new deputy commissioners

-- 2020-09-27 19:25:37

The government has appointed new deputy commissioners to two districts -- Chapainawabganj and Shariatpur. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification in this regard on Sunday,...

Bangladesh requests KSA to increase flights for expatriate Bangladeshis

Bangladesh requests KSA to increase flights for expatriate Bangladeshis

FE Online Report 2020-09-27 19:15:07

Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen requested the Saudi Arabia to increase the number of flights required for facilitating the travel of Saudi expatriate Bangladeshis to the gulf country.   &...

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam in ‘critical’ condition

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam in ‘critical’ condition

-- 2020-09-27 19:06:35

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam is fighting for his life at a Dhaka hospital in ‘critical’ condition after he contracted the novel coronavirus. His son-in-law Sheikh Reazul Haque confirmed...

Tk 28.0b e-judiciary project awaits ECNEC approval

Tk 28.0b e-judiciary project awaits ECNEC approval

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-27 18:43:01

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said an e-judiciary project worth Tk 28.00 billion will be placed before an ECNEC meeting soon. The minister gave the information while speaking at the inauguration...

Bangladesh reports 216 Covid-related deaths in a week

Bangladesh reports 216 Covid-related deaths in a week

-- 2020-09-27 18:27:23

Bangladesh recorded 216 Covid-related deaths on the 39th epidemiological week till Sunday morning. Meanwhile, the country saw 32 more deaths, 1,275 new cases and 1,714 recoveries from Covid-19 in 24...

Bangladesh moving towards high-value crops

Bangladesh moving towards high-value crops

UNB 2020-09-27 17:55:38

As part of its crop diversification and boosting agricultural output in the country, the government is taking region-based projects to promote the cultivation of new and high-value crops, and bring fa...

1,275 new coronavirus cases, 32 deaths in a day

1,275 new coronavirus cases, 32 deaths in a day

-- 2020-09-27 17:53:10

Bangladesh has recorded 1,275 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 359,148. The death toll jumped to 5,161 after 32 fatalities were...