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Sinha killing: Four policemen sent to jail after confessional statement

Sinha killing: Four policemen sent to jail after confessional statement

-- 2020-09-09 22:55:29

Four policemen, who were among the accused in the case filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, were sent to Cox's Bazar jail on Wednesday, after making their confessional statement...

PM calls for safe environment for students during COVID-19 crisis

PM calls for safe environment for students during COVID-19 crisis

-- 2020-09-09 22:10:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called for a concerted global action to ensure a safe and secure environment for students during the ongoing coronavirus crisis as it (education) is one of th...

Quader says opposition role crucial for democratic advancement

Quader says opposition role crucial for democratic advancement

-- 2020-09-09 20:55:18

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the role of a strong opposition is very important in advancing the country’s democratic system. Calling upon BNP to come out of t...

Govt officials can't be sued without approval: Cabinet Division

Govt officials can't be sued without approval: Cabinet Division

-- 2020-09-09 19:21:43

The Cabinet Division has directed the authorities concerned to ensure that no lawsuit is filed against a public official without the government's approval. In a letter to the Law and Justice Division...

No idea how Sinha murder probe report leaked, says Home Minister

No idea how Sinha murder probe report leaked, says Home Minister

-- 2020-09-09 18:46:25

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Wednesday that he doesn’t know how the probe report on the investigation into the murder of Major (retd) Sinha was published in a newspaper. “We can...

Six die in Barishal road crash

Six die in Barishal road crash

-- 2020-09-09 18:35:42

At least six people have died after a head-on collision between an ambulance and a covered-van in Barishal’s Uzirpur Upazila. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Barishal highway in the Upazila'...

Job cuts, unpaid wages add to woes of women workers

Job cuts, unpaid wages add to woes of women workers

FE Online Report 2020-09-09 17:15:50

Some 30 per cent of women workers remain unpaid while 18 per cent cannot join work as their workplaces are closed due to Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) re...

Holy Family Hospital director besieged over back pay

Holy Family Hospital director besieged over back pay

-- 2020-09-09 16:50:11

Doctors and other employees of Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital in Dhaka have besieged the office of its Director Dr Md Morshed, demanding their back pay. As many as 150 to 200 healt...

Papia, her husband plead not guilty in arms case

Papia, her husband plead not guilty in arms case

-- 2020-09-09 16:41:11

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon have pleaded not guilty and begged to be tried in an arms case against them. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judg...

BMD predicts light to moderate rainfall

BMD predicts light to moderate rainfall

-- 2020-09-09 16:14:20

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast light to moderate rain for many parts of the country in the next 24 hours commencing 9:00 am Wednesday. “Light to moderate rain or thunder sh...

Bangladesh registers 41 virus deaths and 1,827 cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh registers 41 virus deaths and 1,827 cases in 24 hours

-- 2020-09-09 15:51:41

Bangladesh has registered 41 new deaths from the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the death toll to 4,593. The caseload surged to 331,078 after 1,827 people tested positive for Covid-19 in...

Three cops get life in jail over killing of driver in Dhaka

Three cops get life in jail over killing of driver in Dhaka

-- 2020-09-09 15:15:18

A Dhaka court has sentenced three policemen to life imprisonment for beating to death a driver, Ishtiaque Hossain Jony, at the Pallabi Police Station more than six years ago. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessi...

BGB seizes 0.12m Yaba pills in Teknaf

BGB seizes 0.12m Yaba pills in Teknaf

-- 2020-09-09 14:13:21

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 0.12 million pieces of Yaba pills worth Tk 36 million from near Naf River along the bordering area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. Dur...

Kishoreganj, Chandpur getting universities

Kishoreganj, Chandpur getting universities

-- 2020-09-09 14:07:17

The Parliament has passed two bills for setting up a science and technology university in Chandpur and a general university in Kishoreganj. Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni moved the bills in the Hous...

Mosque blast: HC orders Titas to pay Tk 0.5 million each to victims' families

Mosque blast: HC orders Titas to pay Tk 0.5 million each to victims' families

-- 2020-09-09 13:53:53

The High Court has ordered state utility Titas to pay on an emergency basis Tk 0.5 million (Tk 500,000) each to the families of the 37 victims of the deadly air-conditioner blasts at a mosque in Naray...

Working to identify mastermind of UNO attack, PM says

Working to identify mastermind of UNO attack, PM says

-- 2020-09-09 13:47:03

Noting that the culprits will be punished, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told Parliament that thorough investigation is being carried out to identify the masterminds of the attack on Ghoraghat Upaz...

10 die as trawler capsizes in Netrakona, 12 others still missing

10 die as trawler capsizes in Netrakona, 12 others still missing

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

The authorities have recovered the bodies of 10 people after a passenger boat collided with a sand-laden trawler on the Gumai river in Netrakona's Kalmakanda Upazila. The incident took place in the U...

Hungarian FM due in Dhaka Thursday

Hungarian FM due in Dhaka Thursday

-- 2020-09-09 10:33:47

Peter Szijjarto, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, arrives in Dhaka on Thursday on a  brief official visit as the two countries want to boost bilateral ties. He is scheduled...

Bumper radish harvest beckons Cumilla farmers

Bumper radish harvest beckons Cumilla farmers

Our Correspondent 2020-09-09 10:21:09

Farmers are hopeful of reaping a bumper yield of the early winter variety radish in Cumilla in the upcoming season. The peasants who commercially produce vegetables cultivated the crop in a large are...

Card users suffering for disrupted ADC services

Card users suffering for disrupted ADC services

FE REPORT 2020-09-09 10:01:52

Possibility of cyber threats is disrupting banking services under alternative delivery channel (ADC) for particular periods in the last couple of days, thus causing inconvenience to many debit/credit...

DNCC to complete installing 46,410 LED lights by 2021   

DNCC to complete installing 46,410 LED lights by 2021  

FE REPORT 2020-09-09 09:54:07

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will complete installing 46,410 LED lights in the city streets by 2021 under the 'LED Light Supply and Installation in DNCC Streets' project. The revised cost...

HC issues rule over removing obscene content from web series

HC issues rule over removing obscene content from web series

FE REPORT 2020-09-09 09:43:42

The High Court has issued a rule upon the respondents to explain why the inaction and apathy of the concerned authorities about streaming of immoral video content on various over-the-top (OTT) web-bas...

Govt to deport over 700 foreigners without proper papers

Govt to deport over 700 foreigners without proper papers

-- 2020-09-08 22:51:49

The government is going to send foreigners, whose visa and passports have expired, back to their countries even if it means spending its own money for their return, a minister has said. Liberation Wa...

Country’s literacy rate reaches 74.7pc: State minister

Country’s literacy rate reaches 74.7pc: State minister

-- 2020-09-08 21:59:26

State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossen has said the literacy rate in the country has risen to 74.7 per cent, which was 53.5 per cent in 2005. The state minister gave the inform...

EC, Somoy TV gets legal notice for report involving Dr Mizan

EC, Somoy TV gets legal notice for report involving Dr Mizan

-- 2020-09-08 21:26:40

A legal notice was sent to Election Commission (EC) and Somoy Television over publishing a report over Dr Sabrina’s dual national identity card (NID) scam involving former National Human Rights...

Govt prepares guidelines on reopening of primary schools

Govt prepares guidelines on reopening of primary schools

-- 2020-09-08 20:45:26

The government has prepared a set of guidelines on the reopening of primary schools in line with the health safety rules amid the coronavirus pandemic. The primary and mass education ministry sent th...

Power supply resumes in Mymensingh division

Power supply resumes in Mymensingh division

-- 2020-09-08 20:20:35

The power supply that was snapped due to a fire in Kewatkhali Power Grid has been restored in Jamalpur, Sherpur and Netrakona districts in Mymensingh division, reports BSS. The power to Mymensingh d...

HC turns down writ seeking probe into deaths of 84 elephants

HC turns down writ seeking probe into deaths of 84 elephants

-- 2020-09-08 19:10:37

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday rejected a writ petition seeking investigation into the deaths of 84 elephants in Chattogram region. The bench of Justice JBM Hassanand Justice Md Khairul Alam passed t...

PM hopes GCA to be a solution-broker for climate adaptation measures

PM hopes GCA to be a solution-broker for climate adaptation measures

-- 2020-09-08 18:46:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday hoped that the regional office of the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) in Dhaka will serve as a 'centre of excellence' and a solution-broker for climate change...

Minister says watch towers, CCTVs to be installed for monitoring Rohingyas

Minister says watch towers, CCTVs to be installed for monitoring Rohingyas

-- 2020-09-08 18:41:32

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today said fence, watch towers and CCTVs (Close Circuit Television Cameras) will be installed to beef up surveillance in and around the camps of Rohi...