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Workplaces of UNO Wahida, husband transferred to Dhaka

Workplaces of UNO Wahida, husband transferred to Dhaka

-- 2020-09-19 20:30:18

The government has attached injured Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam to the public administration ministry. The public administration ministry has issued a circular to this end on Septemb...

Govt to train returning workers for making skilled manpower

Govt to train returning workers for making skilled manpower

-- 2020-09-19 20:02:11

Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed on Saturday said that training and certification initiatives are being taken according to the experience of the workers returning from a...

Devoted AL activists to get priority in committees: Obaidul Quader

Devoted AL activists to get priority in committees: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-09-19 19:23:30

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the time-tested leaders and activists of the party will get priority at all levels of committees. “The tested leaders and workers...

Fakhrul for united movement to ‘protect democracy’ 

Fakhrul for united movement to ‘protect democracy’ 

-- 2020-09-19 19:19:21

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said media freedom and democracy in Bangladesh ‘cannot be protected’ without a united movement. “A message should be gi...

TIB condemns ‘unlawful’ proposal to re-appoint current Dhaka WASA MD

TIB condemns ‘unlawful’ proposal to re-appoint current Dhaka WASA MD

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-19 18:58:40

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has strongly condemned the proposal to re-appoint the incumbent Dhaka WASA managing director (MD). The civil society organisation, in a statement, said Dha...

Fourth spell of flood in northern region affects Aman, early winter crops

Fourth spell of flood in northern region affects Aman, early winter crops

FE Online Report 2020-09-19 18:46:28

Several districts in the northern region witnessed fresh floods in the last few days amid heavy rain and the onrush of upstream water. It is the fourth spell of flooding in the region since June 26....

Shah Ahmed Shafi laid to rest

Shah Ahmed Shafi laid to rest

-- 2020-09-19 17:36:29

Hefazat-e-Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi was laid to rest at Hathazari Madrasah graveyard in Chattogram on Saturday afternoon. His namaz-e-janaza was held on the madrasah premises with participation of...

Hatchery creates hope among freshwater prawn farmers

Hatchery creates hope among freshwater prawn farmers

-- 2020-09-19 17:26:47

A newly built hatchery in Rajshahi city has created high hope among the commercially freshwater prawn farmers relating to furthermore expansion of the lucrative prawn farming in the region. For the f...

BARD annual planning conference begins

BARD annual planning conference begins

-- 2020-09-19 16:23:35

The 53rd annual planning conference of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) has been started at its own premises in Cumilla district on Saturday. Md. Tazul Islam, Minister, Ministry of Loc...

Unknown assailant stabs man to death in Dhaka

Unknown assailant stabs man to death in Dhaka

-- 2020-09-19 15:43:15

A man has been stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in Dhaka's Jatrabari. The 50-year-old Akhter Hossain Sikder had succumbed to his wounds by the time he was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospi...

Bangladesh adds 1,567 corona cases, 32 deaths in daily count

Bangladesh adds 1,567 corona cases, 32 deaths in daily count

-- 2020-09-19 15:30:19

Bangladesh on Saturday logged 1,567 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus infection in the daily count, taking the tally to 347,372. The death toll jumped to 4,913 after 32 fatalities from the disease...

Bangladesh universities fall back into further session jams as Covid-19 undoes gains

Bangladesh universities fall back into further session jams as Covid-19 undoes gains

-- 2020-09-19 15:28:28

The public universities in Bangladesh had been conducting their academic activities without hindrances thanks to the absence of significant political disturbances. Still, the coronavirus crisis has re...

Father, son die in Mymensingh road accident

Father, son die in Mymensingh road accident

-- 2020-09-19 14:58:59

A man and his minor son were killed and 12 other people injured following a collision between a pick-up van and a microbus on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj highway in Dangri area of Nandail upazila on Saturd...

BSF vows to bring down border killings to zero

BSF vows to bring down border killings to zero

FE Online Report 2020-09-19 14:44:21

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday expressed its deep commitment to taking extra precautionary measures to bring down border killings to zero. Director General of the BSF, Rakesh Asthana,...

Four Titas Gas engineers among eight held over mosque blasts

Four Titas Gas engineers among eight held over mosque blasts

-- 2020-09-19 14:32:34

Eight people, including four engineers of Titas Gas, have been arrested in connection with the fatal air-conditioner blasts in a Narayanganj mosque that left 32 people dead. They were apprehended by...

India, Japan may work together in Bangladesh: Jaishankar

India, Japan may work together in Bangladesh: Jaishankar

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-19 13:03:16

India and Japan are looking at the possibility of cooperating on projects in Bangladesh and Myanmar as part of their efforts to work together in third countries, India’s External Affairs Ministe...

India allows pre-contracted onions to Bangladesh

India allows pre-contracted onions to Bangladesh

-- 2020-09-19 12:18:00

India has decided to allow export of some quantity of onions which was handed over to customs on the date imposing ban on onion export. The ban will not be applicable for those pro-contracted shipmen...

Another Narayanganj AC blast victim loses battle for life

Another Narayanganj AC blast victim loses battle for life

-- 2020-09-19 11:39:13

Another victim of AC blasts at a Narayanganj mosque has died, taking the death toll in the incident to 32. Abdul Aziz, 40, died while undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of the Sheiikh Ha...

Allama Shafi’s death: Security tightened in Chattogram

Allama Shafi’s death: Security tightened in Chattogram

-- 2020-09-19 10:35:10

Security has been tightened in four upazilas of Chattogram to avoid any untoward situation over the burial of Hathazari Madrasah rector and chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi. Allama Sh...

Service delivery: Police units need to work in sync

Service delivery: Police units need to work in sync

FE Report 2020-09-19 10:04:43

It's Covid time. The government has withdrawn restrictions on most economic activities and resumed the services of the public transports for the sake of livelihoods. Justifiably, however, the authori...

Migrant workers' families facing shortage of nutritious food: Study

Migrant workers' families facing shortage of nutritious food: Study

Arafat Ara 2020-09-19 09:42:40

The families of migrant workers are facing a shortage of nutritious food as they have brought in changes in their food intake for losing income during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study....

Health management disparity- 4: Resource allocation spawns disparity

Health management disparity- 4: Resource allocation spawns disparity

JASIM UDDIN HAROON and JUBAIR HASAN 2020-09-19 09:33:21

A major policy reform should be undertaken immediately to ensure an equal and safer healthcare for people of all income groups, medical scholars and practitioners say. They said the government must l...

Ganges, Brahmaputra basins see inundation, further floods unlikely shortly

Ganges, Brahmaputra basins see inundation, further floods unlikely shortly

-- 2020-09-18 22:56:19

Water levels in most of the rivers and tributaries in Ganges and Brahmaputra basins recorded a rising trend again on Friday. Water level of Ganges basin began to swell owing to onrushing of floodwate...

Prices of other essentials also witness rise

Prices of other essentials also witness rise

Yasir Wardad 2020-09-18 21:03:54

Prices of some essentials, besides onions, witnessed a 80-167 per cent rise in last few weeks affecting the purchasing capacity of commoners further. Prices of 16 kinds of vegetables witnessed a 70-1...

PM mourns death of Hefazat chief Ahmad Shafi

PM mourns death of Hefazat chief Ahmad Shafi

-- 2020-09-18 20:17:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi. In a condolence message on Friday, the prime minister pray...

Shah Ahmed Shafi dies a day after resignation

Shah Ahmed Shafi dies a day after resignation

-- 2020-09-18 19:53:27

Shah Ahmed Shafi, chief of Hifazat-e Islam, has died in hospital care in Dhaka, a day after resigning from the Harhazari madrasa in Chattogram as its director general, according to bdnews24.com. He p...

DNCC mayor urges traders to follow city corporation rules

DNCC mayor urges traders to follow city corporation rules

-- 2020-09-18 19:47:37

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam today urged traders to follow city corporation’s rules and regulations, saying, no illegal works would be allowed in the capital. &ldqu...

Magura road accident leaves four dead, 19 injured

Magura road accident leaves four dead, 19 injured

-- 2020-09-18 18:44:51

At least four people were killed and 19 others injured after two buses crashed into each other on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Mugi area of Magura Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon. Police could not i...

Mother sells newborn to pay hospital bills

Mother sells newborn to pay hospital bills

-- 2020-09-18 16:17:37

A woman, who gave birth at a clinic in Gaibandha, sold her baby for Tk 16,000 to pay medical bills. Amena Begum, wife of Shajahan Mia of Sholagari village in Gaibandha Sadar upazila, went to a local...

Bangladesh logs 1,541 new virus cases, 22 deaths in a day

Bangladesh logs 1,541 new virus cases, 22 deaths in a day

-- 2020-09-18 16:08:30

Bangladesh has registered 22 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 4,881, reports bdnews24.com. The tally of infections climbed to 345,805 af...