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US Embassy Dhaka starts accepting applications to renew visas

US Embassy Dhaka starts accepting applications to renew visas

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-14 11:24:38

The US Embassy Dhaka is now accepting applications to renew certain classifications of nonimmigrant visas. Returning students and certain other categories of non-immigrants who need to renew their vi...

Jute farming on the wane in Naogaon

Jute farming on the wane in Naogaon

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-14 10:45:39

Cultivation of jute is in a gradual decline in the district as it has been proved less profitable than other crops these days. Sources at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Naogaon said...

Data management essential to tackle pandemic: Experts

Data management essential to tackle pandemic: Experts

FE REPORT 2020-09-14 09:59:15

Proper management of authentic data is essential to cope with the economic recovery and tackle the ongoing pandemic, experts said at a webinar on Saturday evening. According to them, availability,...

Eight years too short to build!

Eight years too short to build!

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-09-14 09:58:35

Large-scale irregularities took place in building the Kushtia Medical College, a government report has found. Flouting the public procurement rules, the authorities had purchased goods and services f...

Court frames charges against Bodi for illegal assets

Court frames charges against Bodi for illegal assets

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-14 09:45:32

The court framed charges on Sunday against the former lawmaker of ruling Awami League (AL) Abdur Rahman Bodi in connection with a case of the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) for his illegal assets....

Myanmar mobilises troops near Bangladesh border   

Myanmar mobilises troops near Bangladesh border  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2020-09-13 23:02:32

Myanmar has deployed troops in a few points near her border with Bangladesh without what Dhaka said as any provocation. The Bangladesh authorities observed suspicious movement of Myanmar troops aboar...

Battery-run rickshaws, vans banned from plying on DSCC roads

Battery-run rickshaws, vans banned from plying on DSCC roads

-- 2020-09-13 22:25:17

All non-mechanical vehicles, including battery-run rickshaws and vans that were mechanised by adding motor-battery-engines, have been banned from the roads under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) ar...

SC stays HC order to compensate N’ganj mosque blast victims

SC stays HC order to compensate N’ganj mosque blast victims

-- 2020-09-13 21:42:37

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday stayed a High Court (HC) order that had directed Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited to give Tk 0.50 million as initial c...

Remote areas to get improved livestock breeds: Minister

Remote areas to get improved livestock breeds: Minister

-- 2020-09-13 21:23:12

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim has said the government is working to spread the improved species of livestock to remote areas of the country in a scientific way. "In the near future...

Writ against disclosing Sinha murder probe details dropped from cause list

Writ against disclosing Sinha murder probe details dropped from cause list

-- 2020-09-13 21:22:25

A writ petition was filed with the High Court recently seeking restriction on disclosing the details of the investigation over the murder of retired army officer Sinha Md Rashed Khan. However, the HC...

DB detains five involved in making fake NIDs for loan defaulters

DB detains five involved in making fake NIDs for loan defaulters

-- 2020-09-13 21:08:41

Detective Branch (DB) of police has arrested five members of a gang, who used to make fake national identity cards (NIDs) for loan defaulters in exchange of Tk 80,000 to Tk 100,000 for each card. The...

E-judiciary project to be launched soon: Minister

E-judiciary project to be launched soon: Minister

FE Online Report 2020-09-13 20:43:56

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said the government’s e-judiciary project will be implemented soon to reduce time and costs for the litigants and make the case management system more efficient...

Natural gas supply finally reaches Khulna

Natural gas supply finally reaches Khulna

-- 2020-09-13 19:46:59

Natural gas supply through pipeline finally reached the industrial belt of the country’s southern parts of Khulna meeting three decades long demand of the residents of this region. The gas pack...

Lawyers to get long-term loan at low interest: Law minister

Lawyers to get long-term loan at low interest: Law minister

-- 2020-09-13 19:27:17

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said lawyers will get long-term loans at low interest rate to cope with the financial crisis caused by coronavirus outbreak. “Lawyers could not practice for around 2...

BNP picks Salahuddin, Rezaul for Dhaka-5, Naogaon-6 by-polls

BNP picks Salahuddin, Rezaul for Dhaka-5, Naogaon-6 by-polls

-- 2020-09-13 19:18:06

BNP has nominated Salahuddin Ahmed and Sheikh Mohammad Rezaul Islam to contest the Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 by-elections respectively billed for October 17. A day after BNP’s nomination board or p...

Domestic flights allow passengers to sit side-by-side

Domestic flights allow passengers to sit side-by-side

-- 2020-09-13 19:06:07

Domestic flights have allowed passengers to sit side-by-side, starting Sunday, amid the coronavirus outbreak, the director of Shahjalal International Airport has said. “Everything will operate...

BGB-BSF border talks postponed

BGB-BSF border talks postponed

-- 2020-09-13 18:56:20

The crucial border talks between Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India (BSF), scheduled to start on Sunday, was postponed indefinitely. The meeting was scheduled...

Gas pipe abandoned for 22 years caused Narayanganj mosque blast

Gas pipe abandoned for 22 years caused Narayanganj mosque blast

-- 2020-09-13 18:51:44

State utility Titas discovered six leaks in an abandoned pipeline which has been identified as the main reason behind the deadly blast at Narayanganj mosque which left 31 people dead. Although the li...

Bangladesh sees steady rise in COVID-19 recovery rate

Bangladesh sees steady rise in COVID-19 recovery rate

-- 2020-09-13 18:02:29

The coronavirus recovery rate in Bangladesh jumped to 71.3 per cent on Sunday with the recovery of 2,372 patients. So far, a total of 240,643 coronavirus patients have recovered from COVID-19. A han...

Bangladesh, India maintain smoother, warmer ties: Obaidul Quader

Bangladesh, India maintain smoother, warmer ties: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-09-13 17:50:56

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the Bangladesh and India are maintaining smoother, warmer and more futuristic relations than any time in the past. “With her diplomatic ef...

HC rules over bail of contractor in Rooppur pillow scam case

HC rules over bail of contractor in Rooppur pillow scam case

-- 2020-09-13 17:05:22

The High Court (HC) today (Sunday) issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why it shall not scrap the lower court bail given to contractor Shahadat Hossain, an accused in a case lodg...

Mob beating: 28 killed in eight months

Mob beating: 28 killed in eight months

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-13 16:07:26

Some 28 people were killed in mob beating across the country in the first eight months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. The highest number of inciden...

DSCC begins registration of non-mechanical vehicles

DSCC begins registration of non-mechanical vehicles

-- 2020-09-13 15:49:36

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) formally started registration process of non-mechanical vehicles from Sunday. Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Sunday said only the registered non-m...

Six to die for double murder in Tangail

Six to die for double murder in Tangail

-- 2020-09-13 15:18:49

A tribunal has handed down the death penalty to six people for their roles in the killings of a retired teacher and his wife over a land dispute in Tangail in 2017. Dhaka's Speedy Trial Tribunal No.1...

Sheikh Rehana’s birthday today

Sheikh Rehana’s birthday today

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-13 14:48:47

Today is the birthday of Sheikh Rehana, the youngest daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the youngest sister of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi...

PM to virtually open Bangladesh Chancery in Turkey

PM to virtually open Bangladesh Chancery in Turkey

-- 2020-09-13 14:10:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to virtually inaugurate the newly-constructed Bangladesh Chancery Complex in Turkish capital Ankara on Monday. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will join h...

Narsingdi man arrested for murdering wife, two others

Narsingdi man arrested for murdering wife, two others

-- 2020-09-13 13:29:06

A man was arrested in Narsingdi for reportedly murdering his wife and two others during a family feud at Kumardi in Shibpur upazila on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Nazma Begum, 45, wife of...

Bangladesh top contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping missions

Bangladesh top contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping missions

-- 2020-09-13 13:09:25

Bangladesh has secured the top position among 118 countries in sending troops to the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Inter Services Public Relations Directorate disclosed the information t...

BGB-BSF border conference postponed

BGB-BSF border conference postponed

-- 2020-09-13 13:04:05

The border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has been postponed as the BSF delegation failed to reach Dhaka due to a technical glitch in their air...

Chattogram divisional commissioner infected with coronavirus

Chattogram divisional commissioner infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-09-13 13:00:26

Chattogram Divisional Commissioner ABM Azad has tested positive for coronavirus. Ikhtier Uddin Arafat, personal assistant to the commissioner said Azad’s test report came out from the Banglades...