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PM Hasina wants to ready next generation to run state

PM Hasina wants to ready next generation to run state

-- 2020-09-16 22:13:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday stressed the need for preparing a concept paper or guideline or framework for next generation to run the state towards advancement in future. “The Awam...

Ministry bars flying drones without permission until gazette notification

Ministry bars flying drones without permission until gazette notification

-- 2020-09-16 21:58:14

Civil aviation and tourism ministry on Wednesday said that no person or organisation can register or fly drone until issuing the gazette notification. “On September 14, the cabinet approved &ls...

Government committed to succeeding in overall environmental protection

Government committed to succeeding in overall environmental protection

FE Online Report 2020-09-16 21:25:40

The government is committed to succeeding in overall environmental protection activities, including tackling the adverse effects of climate change and conserving biodiversity. Environment, Forests an...

97pc of women migrant workers unaware of formal services regarding migration

97pc of women migrant workers unaware of formal services regarding migration

-- 2020-09-16 19:47:58

About 97 per cent of the aspirant women migrant workers do not know about the formal services regarding migration at the community level in the country, a study revealed Wednesday at a virtual consult...

HC summons Faridpur judicial magistrate for violating rules

HC summons Faridpur judicial magistrate for violating rules

-- 2020-09-16 19:16:21

The High Court on Wednesday summoned Faridpur's Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Mainul Islam for not following the rules in recording the confessional statements of three accused in a school student mur...

Kuwait to open trial against Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahid on Thursday

Kuwait to open trial against Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahid on Thursday

-- 2020-09-16 19:00:44

A Kuwait court will open trial against Bangladeshi lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul and eight others over the charges of human trafficking and money laundering on Thursday. Two Kuwaiti...

Cabinet body approves proposal to generate power from waste

Cabinet body approves proposal to generate power from waste

-- 2020-09-16 18:45:45

The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) has approved a proposal for generating 6 megawatts of power from waste under private sector for the first time in the country with a cost of Taka 16...

Retired senior secretary Sohrab Hossain to head PSC

Retired senior secretary Sohrab Hossain to head PSC

-- 2020-09-16 17:54:02

The government has named Sohrab Hossain, a former bureaucrat, as the new chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC), reports bdnews24.com. In a notice issued on Wednesday, the public administrat...

VAT intelligence team unearths Tk 215m VAT evasion by HR service organisation

VAT intelligence team unearths Tk 215m VAT evasion by HR service organisation

FE Online Report 2020-09-16 17:53:58

VAT intelligence has unearthed VAT evasion worth Tk 215 million by a human resources service organisation Frontdesk Bangladesh Limited.   The intelligence wing filed a case on Wednesday aga...

Sheikh Hasina greets new Japanese PM

Sheikh Hasina greets new Japanese PM

-- 2020-09-16 17:41:15

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has extended her heartiest congratulations to Yoshihide Suga on his appointment as the prime minister of Japan, saying that she is looking forward to working in a closer t...

Jamuna River moves west weakening a key embankment

Jamuna River moves west weakening a key embankment

-- 2020-09-16 16:44:28

The river Jamuna has begun to change its course westward as its banks in Sirajganj and Bogura continue to erode away. Meanwhile, a 217-km long protective embankment along the western side of the rive...

Govt to import onion from Turkey, Egypt

Govt to import onion from Turkey, Egypt

-- 2020-09-16 16:36:25

The government has decided to import onion from multiple sources to ensure enough supply of the popular cooking ingredient in the local markets. In line with the decision, the government has already...

Bangladesh registers 21 new coronavirus deaths

Bangladesh registers 21 new coronavirus deaths

-- 2020-09-16 16:11:40

Bangladesh has reported 21 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus, the fewest in a daily count since Aug 01, taking the death toll to 4,823, reports bdnews24.com. The tally of infections surged to...

Met office predicts more rain

Met office predicts more rain

-- 2020-09-16 15:26:45

The Met Office has forecast light to moderate rain and thundershowers at many places across the country in the next 24 hours commencing 9:00 am on Wednesday. Parts of Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet d...

Refat murder case: Court set to deliver verdict on Sept 30

Refat murder case: Court set to deliver verdict on Sept 30

-- 2020-09-16 15:12:39

The fate of Aysha Siddika Minny and nine other suspects in the daylight murder of her husband Refat Shorif in Barguna is set to be decided on September 30. Barguna's District and Sessions Judge Md As...

Bangladesh economy relatively in good shape despite pandemic, PM says

Bangladesh economy relatively in good shape despite pandemic, PM says

-- 2020-09-16 13:53:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh’s economy is more or less in a good shape now although the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to it as elsewhere in the world. "...

Road accidents claim 459 lives in Aug

Road accidents claim 459 lives in Aug

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-16 12:59:19

Some 459 people were killed and 618 others injured in 388 road accidents in August across the country, according to study of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity. Besides, 14 people died and three others w...

ACC files case against ex-education leader

ACC files case against ex-education leader

-- 2020-09-16 12:08:33

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against the former chairman of the Bangladesh Technical Education Board for 'acquiring illegal wealth', reports UNB. ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bh...

State Minister for Shipping contracts coronavirus

State Minister for Shipping contracts coronavirus

-- 2020-09-16 12:05:37

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has been diagnosed with coronavirus. “His test report came positive,” Shipping Ministry’s Senior Information Officer Md Jaha...

Farmers benefiting a lot from early variety summer bean

Farmers benefiting a lot from early variety summer bean

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-16 10:42:07

Farmers are benefiting a lot from early summer bean cultivation in Sadar Upazila of Jashore District Many farmers in the area are now self-sufficient from bean cultivation. Farmers of Churamankati, H...

Class XI admission: Many colleges not going by Covid-19 health rules

Class XI admission: Many colleges not going by Covid-19 health rules

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2020-09-16 09:47:49

Many colleges are not complying with Covid-19-related cautionary health directives during their admission process for Class XI (academic session 2020-21), which began on Sunday and will continue until...

Health management disparity-1: Centralised policy behind deficit

Health management disparity-1: Centralised policy behind deficit

JASIM UDDIN HAROON and JUBAIR HASAN 2020-09-16 09:25:28

The coronavirus pandemic, which arrived in the country in early March, has brought to the fore a high-level regional disparity in areas of health sector management. The disparity, unfortunately, has...

Foreign trips to learn how to cook ‘khichuri’ a novel joke: BNP

Foreign trips to learn how to cook ‘khichuri’ a novel joke: BNP

-- 2020-09-15 21:20:13

BNP on Tuesday termed the reported proposal of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) to send 1,000 government officials abroad to learn how to cook 'khichuri' a unique joke under the rule of Prim...

‘No scope for any untoward incident along border with Myanmar’

‘No scope for any untoward incident along border with Myanmar’

-- 2020-09-15 20:47:02

Bangladesh remains vigilant along the border with Myanmar and sees no scope for any untoward incident, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has said. "There’s no scope for any unt...

G20 should mobilise global support for climate refugees: PM

G20 should mobilise global support for climate refugees: PM

-- 2020-09-15 19:44:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the G20 has a greater responsibility to come forward with stronger commitment to mobilise global support to address the issue of displacement or climate re...

Onion gets dearer

Onion gets dearer

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-15 19:29:57

Onion prices witnessed further hike on Tuesday and shot up to Tk 110 per kg at retail market amid the ban on export by neighbouring India on Monday. Thus, a large crowd of people gathered in front Op...

‘Zero tolerance’ policy to fight irregularities: UGC chairman

‘Zero tolerance’ policy to fight irregularities: UGC chairman

FE Online Report 2020-09-15 19:13:54

Chairman of UGC Prof Kazi Shahidullah called upon the vice chancellors and registrars of public universities to work within the rules and regulations, mentioning that appropriate action will be taken...

Jute mill workers start receiving due wages

Jute mill workers start receiving due wages

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-15 19:11:37

The government has started giving payment of due wages of retired and discharged workers of closed state-owned jute mills.  Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi inaugurated the payment of due wages...

Probe into anonymous letter to jail underway: Minister   

Probe into anonymous letter to jail underway: Minister  

-- 2020-09-15 18:50:04

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said an intelligence team is investigating the anonymous letter sent to Lalmonirhat district jail. "Lalmonirhat jail authorities received an anonymous letter...

Age eligibility for government jobs to be relaxed in pandemic

Age eligibility for government jobs to be relaxed in pandemic

-- 2020-09-15 18:12:53

The government will allow those who turned 30 on Mar 25 during the coronavirus shutdown to apply for government jobs, according to a bdnews24.com report. Government job seekers will be provided with...