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Rain likely to intensify from Monday

Rain likely to intensify from Monday

-- 2020-09-18 15:29:52

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Friday has forecast that rainfall activity will increase all over the country from Monday. Omar Faruk, a meteorologist, said rainfall will decrease to so...

Allama Shafi resigns as Hathazari Madrasa DG

Allama Shafi resigns as Hathazari Madrasa DG

-- 2020-09-18 14:57:03

Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi, the director general of Hathazari Madrasa, has stepped down. Shafi, also the ameer (chief) of Hefajat-e-Islam, announced to resign from his madrasa post after a meeting of Ma...

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam moved to ICU

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam moved to ICU

-- 2020-09-18 14:35:54

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has been moved to the intensive care unit of Dhaka's Combined Military Hospital after his condition deteriorated during treatment. Alam was admitted to the hospital wit...

Bangladesh can prefer region-wise representation at UN: Jeffrey Sachs

Bangladesh can prefer region-wise representation at UN: Jeffrey Sachs

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-18 14:29:13

Lack of cooperation in South Asia, including in water-sharing, has dangerous consequences for Bangladesh, says noted development economist Jeffrey Sachs. Regional cooperation is important because, he...

Holding of HSC exams: Board chairmen to meet Sept 24

Holding of HSC exams: Board chairmen to meet Sept 24

-- 2020-09-18 13:17:36

The chairmen of all education boards will meet on September 24 to find ways to run HSC and equivalent exams which were deferred due to the coronavirus pandemic. Md Abdus Salam, chairman of Cumilla Ed...

Govt forms striking forces for Kashimpur jail security

Govt forms striking forces for Kashimpur jail security

-- 2020-09-18 13:02:32

Four striking forces have been formed to ensure security of the Kashimpur Central Jail at the directive of the prison administration. Jail Super of Kashimpur Central Jail-1 Ratna Roy said the strikin...

None can fly drone until gazette

None can fly drone until gazette

FE REPORT 2020-09-18 09:54:50

Civil aviation and tourism ministry said on Wednesday no person or organisation can register or fly drone until gazette notification and preparation of the relevant ministry, department or agency. Th...

Graft eats up big chunk of small health budget

Graft eats up big chunk of small health budget

JASIM UDDIN HAROON and JUBAIR HASAN 2020-09-18 09:25:26

The country's health expenditure has been one of the lowest in the region for years. A sizeable part of the allocation made annually in the national budget gets lost in the vast cobweb of corruption a...

Faults in Padma Rail Link Project: PM orders redesigning

Faults in Padma Rail Link Project: PM orders redesigning

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-09-18 09:23:34

Bangladesh Railway (BR) would have to revise the design of Padma Rail Link Project (PRLP) to address the faults detected recently, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed redesigning it followi...

Government shuts Hathazari madrasa following protest for removal of Shafi’s son

Government shuts Hathazari madrasa following protest for removal of Shafi’s son

-- 2020-09-17 22:16:35

The government has shut down the madrasa in Chattogram’s Hathazari amid tensions after protests by students for removal of Anas Madani, son of its Director General and Hifazat-e Islam chief Shah...

Countries like Bangladesh key to democratising UN: NSU conference   

Countries like Bangladesh key to democratising UN: NSU conference  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2020-09-17 22:00:32

Asia’s rising nations, including Bangladesh, need to be in focus in democratising the United Nations, a forum of academics, development practitioners and diplomats recommended at an internationa...

65pc women entrepreneurs had no income in pandemic: Survey 

65pc women entrepreneurs had no income in pandemic: Survey 

FE Online Report 2020-09-17 21:04:19

Some 65 per cent women entrepreneurs surveyed had no income while 58 per cent women working in the informal sectors had no jobs in the pandemic, said a new study on Thursday. They mainly faced challe...

PM vows to build graft-free administration

PM vows to build graft-free administration

-- 2020-09-17 20:58:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday vowed to build a corruption-free administration, asking the government officials and employees to undertake their own plan on integrity and implement it effect...

Why Ramna Park hasn’t been reopened: HC

Why Ramna Park hasn’t been reopened: HC

-- 2020-09-17 20:32:04

The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered the authorities concerned to explain why the Ramna Park that was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic has not been reopened. Justice JBM Hassan and Justice M...

Govt relaxes age eligibility for public sector jobs after coronavirus lockdown

Govt relaxes age eligibility for public sector jobs after coronavirus lockdown

-- 2020-09-17 20:20:10

The government has allowed those who turned 30 on Mar 25 this year, during the coronavirus shutdown, to apply for public sector jobs. According to a bdnews24.com report, the public administration min...

Narayanganj mosque blast: Probe committee blames illegal gas line, unauthorised electricity connection  

Narayanganj mosque blast: Probe committee blames illegal gas line, unauthorised electricity connection  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-17 19:29:42

Illegal gas pipeline below surface, unauthorised electricity connection and ‘negligence’ and ‘ignorance’ of the mosque committee were the causes of Narayanganj’s mosque b...

RMP launches cyber crime unit

RMP launches cyber crime unit

-- 2020-09-17 17:37:03

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) today (Thursday) launched its cyber crime unit after 28 years of its inception to contain all sorts of cyber-related crimes. “RMP will be the service-oriented...

Low-lying areas submerged as Teesta, Dharala swell again

Low-lying areas submerged as Teesta, Dharala swell again

-- 2020-09-17 17:12:42

The waters in the Teesta and Dharala rivers Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts started to rise again for continuous rains and upstream water, submerging the low-lying and char areas. In Lalmonirhat,...

RAB arrests recruiting agent over death of domestic worker in Saudi Arabia

RAB arrests recruiting agent over death of domestic worker in Saudi Arabia

-- 2020-09-17 16:53:24

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested Mokbul Hossain, the owner of a recruitment agency in Dhaka, in connection with the death of Umme Kulsum, a teenage domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, reports bdne...

Bangladesh registers 1,593 new virus cases, another 36 die   

Bangladesh registers 1,593 new virus cases, another 36 die  

-- 2020-09-17 16:33:48

Bangladesh has logged 1,593 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 344,264, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll climbed to 4,859 after anot...

Ban on onion export: Momen says Indian ministry ‘very repentant’

Ban on onion export: Momen says Indian ministry ‘very repentant’

-- 2020-09-17 16:02:51

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said Indian Ministry of External Affairs is very "repentant" for not informing Bangladesh beforehand while imposing a ban on onion export. "I heard that...

BGB, BSF begin DG-level talks in Dhaka

BGB, BSF begin DG-level talks in Dhaka

-- 2020-09-17 15:08:37

Bangladesh and Indian border guards have begun a four-day director general-level conference in Dhaka city. The event began at the conference room of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) headquarters in...

Health Ministry did well in handling pandemic: PM

Health Ministry did well in handling pandemic: PM

-- 2020-09-17 15:00:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the Ministry of Health showed enough efficiency in checking the Covid-19 pandemic in the country by properly taking necessary measures in time, UNB report...

55 women tortured to death for dowry in Jan-Aug

55 women tortured to death for dowry in Jan-Aug

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-17 14:55:59

At least 55 women were tortured to death for dowry in the first eight months of the calendar year, according to a local legal aid and rights body. Besides, 66 women were physically tortured in the co...

Bangladesh to halt services for Covid patients at 12 hospitals

Bangladesh to halt services for Covid patients at 12 hospitals

-- 2020-09-17 14:22:47

The government is halt Covid-19 services at 12 hospitals to cut costs with more than 78 per cent of the beds in the facilities dedicated for coronavirus treatment remaining empty amid the outbreak, bd...

Mahalaya being celebrated across country in pandemic

Mahalaya being celebrated across country in pandemic

-- 2020-09-17 14:15:40

The Mahalaya, a ritual that marks the beginning of the Durga Puja festivities, has begun across the country amid the coronavirus crisis. Indian High Commissioner Riva Ganguly Das inaugurated the cere...

1,695 sets of PPEs damaged at CMSD

1,695 sets of PPEs damaged at CMSD

FE REPORT 2020-09-17 09:54:53

A total of 1,695 sets of personal protective equipment (coveralls and shoe covers) have been damaged by rainwater due to negligence of duty of some staffers at the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD)....

Aman fields battered by pest attack in Jashore

Aman fields battered by pest attack in Jashore

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-17 09:49:46

BENAPOLE: Massive pest attack on Aman paddy fields has become a worrying concern for the famers in Jashare district this season. The pest infestation has created doubt among the Aman growers whether...

SC on cheque dishonor: Drawer has no obligation to pay if conditions not fulfilled

SC on cheque dishonor: Drawer has no obligation to pay if conditions not fulfilled

FE REPORT 2020-09-17 09:40:00

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed in a verdict that the cheque drawer has no obligation to pay the money to a cheque holder if the promise which was considered during issuing th...

Erdogan to visit Dhaka early 2021

Erdogan to visit Dhaka early 2021

-- 2020-09-16 22:41:00

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would visit Dhaka early next year to join the D-8 summit. Erdogan gave the confirmation when Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen called on him in Ank...