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Sinha killing: Three witnesses put on four-day remand

Sinha killing: Three witnesses put on four-day remand

-- 2020-08-29 20:07:19

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Saturday took the three witnesses in a police case into their custody on a four-day remand for questioning them in a case filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinh...

Enforced disappearance symbol of 'one-party misrule': Fakhrul

Enforced disappearance symbol of 'one-party misrule': Fakhrul

-- 2020-08-29 19:16:09

BNP on Saturday alleged that the current government has made enforced disappearance as its main political programme to continue its ‘despotic’ rule by eliminating its opponents, reports UN...

Govt spending Tk 32.80b to protect coastal areas

Govt spending Tk 32.80b to protect coastal areas

-- 2020-08-29 18:34:20

The government is constructing 139 polders in the coastal belt to protect the areas from tidal surges and flood, State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed Farooque said Saturday. Constructing the pol...

Siblings drown in Cumilla

Siblings drown in Cumilla

-- 2020-08-29 17:54:58

Two children drowned in a pond at Nowagao village of Manoharganj in Cumilla on Saturday. The deceased are Ziad, 9, and his cousin Sayed, 7. Local Union Parishad Member Saiful Islam said the boys wer...

Australia provides PPE to AFD under defence cooperation

Australia provides PPE to AFD under defence cooperation

-- 2020-08-29 17:54:40

The Australian government has provided personal protective equipment (PPE) to Bangladesh Armed Forces Division (AFD) under the Defence Cooperation Programme between the two countries, for combating CO...

WHO DG lauds BD’s efforts to control COVID-19

WHO DG lauds BD’s efforts to control COVID-19

-- 2020-08-29 17:42:10

Director General of the World Health Organization Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lauded the ongoing activities and various initiatives taken by the government of Bangladesh to control COVID-19. He...

Ashura Sunday

Ashura Sunday

-- 2020-08-29 17:32:25

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain Ibn Ali (RA), a grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), will be observed across the country tomorrow (Sunday) with...

Don’t pay heed to rumours over HSC examinations: Ministry

Don’t pay heed to rumours over HSC examinations: Ministry

-- 2020-08-29 17:16:36

The Ministry of Education has urged people of the country not to pay heed to any rumour about HSC and its equivalent examinations. “Recently, it has been noticed that teachers, parents and stud...

BD's work on climate front an example for world: UK

BD's work on climate front an example for world: UK

-- 2020-08-29 17:08:40

UK Minister of State Lord Zac Goldsmith has said developing countries like Bangladesh are the hardest hit by climate change and Bangladesh's effort on climate front is an example for the world to foll...

Govt reports 2,131 new virus cases, 32 deaths

Govt reports 2,131 new virus cases, 32 deaths

-- 2020-08-29 15:30:14

Bangladesh has recorded 2,131 fresh cases of Covid-19 in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 308,925. The death toll from the disease climbed to 4,206 after 32 fatalities were registered...

Bangladesh seeks UK's GSP facility until 2030

Bangladesh seeks UK's GSP facility until 2030

-- 2020-08-29 15:20:48

Bangladesh has sought a post-Covid extension of UK’s GSP facility to Bangladeshi products until 2030 and greater support to its low-carbon climate-resilient development strategies for a faster p...

2,229 trucks get BRTA registration in H1

2,229 trucks get BRTA registration in H1

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-29 14:55:30

The number of truck registration in the country stood at 2,229 in the first six months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total, 1,589 trucks were registered in Dhaka...

Public transports to readjust fares to usual rates from Sep 1: Quader

Public transports to readjust fares to usual rates from Sep 1: Quader

-- 2020-08-29 14:49:04

Public transports will readjust ticket prices to pre-pandemic rates from Sep 1, Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader has said. Quader announced the decision during a videoconference with the offici...

India ‘underperforms’ in improving relations with Bangladesh: The Diplomat

India ‘underperforms’ in improving relations with Bangladesh: The Diplomat

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-29 14:16:53

India has ‘underperformed in strengthening’ the Indo-Bangladesh relations and its ‘poor handling’ drives Bangladesh to deepen ties with China, observed an article published in...

BSF returns Bangladeshi youth’s body in Kushtia after 15 days of killing

BSF returns Bangladeshi youth’s body in Kushtia after 15 days of killing

-- 2020-08-29 14:06:54

Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) on Friday returned the body of a Bangladeshi youth who was shot dead by them on Kushtia border 15 days back. The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, son of...

Sundarbans tourism businesses seeks nod for reopening

Sundarbans tourism businesses seeks nod for reopening

-- 2020-08-29 13:04:02

Hit hard by coronavirus fallouts, tourism-based businesses in the Sundarbans are eagerly waiting for reopening of tourism for their survival as they suffered huge losses over the past five months. Th...

Bangladeshi woman, daughter found dead in Kuwait apartment

Bangladeshi woman, daughter found dead in Kuwait apartment

-- 2020-08-29 12:12:45

The bodies of two Bangladeshi women have been recovered from a flat in Kuwait. Police retrieved the bodies from the ground floor of a multi-storey building in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh area on Friday (local...

Traders find imports by rail thru Benapole more profitable

Traders find imports by rail thru Benapole more profitable

Our Correspondent 2020-08-29 10:47:42

Importers find it more profitable importing goods by rail through Benapole port than any other mode of transport. Besides, they can import goods more quickly by rail and do not have to face any kind...

Parents of primary pupils worry about annual exams amid pandemic

Parents of primary pupils worry about annual exams amid pandemic

-- 2020-08-29 10:19:00

Grade-four student Sakia Karim Raka has been housebound for around five and a half months. Her school in Dhaka’s Malibagh held online classes for some days in June, but could not continue, bdnew...

Railway to procure 125 luggage vans

Railway to procure 125 luggage vans

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-08-29 10:04:03

After almost 30 years, Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to buy 50 broad-gauge and 75 metre-gauge luggage vans aiming to improve its goods transportation services which helped it minimize the loss duri...

PM condoles death of Rahat Khan

PM condoles death of Rahat Khan

-- 2020-08-28 23:05:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of eminent journalist and litterateur Rahat Khan, reports UNB. In a condolence message, the prime minister with pro...

EC eyes changes to registration criteria for political parties

EC eyes changes to registration criteria for political parties

-- 2020-08-28 23:01:30

Political parties in Bangladesh are likely to be given more time to increase women's participation at all organisational levels in order to maintain their registration status, with the current deadlin...

Padma port ready to receive large equipment for RNPP

Padma port ready to receive large equipment for RNPP

-- 2020-08-28 22:55:46

A freight water terminal located on the bank of Padma river near the site of Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant project in Pabna’s Rooppur has gone fully operational, reports bdnews24....

Journalist and author Rahat Khan dies at 80

Journalist and author Rahat Khan dies at 80

-- 2020-08-28 22:48:45

Journalist and author Rahat Khan has died at the age of 80, reports bdnews24.com. He breathed his last at his home in Dhaka’s Eskaton Garden around 8:30pm on Friday, said Habibullah Sirajee, th...

Sinha murder: Three put on further three-day remand

Sinha murder: Three put on further three-day remand

-- 2020-08-28 22:39:33

A Cox's Bazar court on Friday placed each of three accused on a further three days of remand over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Teknaf. Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Ta...

Prices of essentials skyrocketing: CAB Ctg

Prices of essentials skyrocketing: CAB Ctg

-- 2020-08-28 22:35:28

Consumers' Association of Bangladesh (CAB), Chattogram on Friday claimed that despite the coronavirus crisis, prices of essential consumer goods have been rising all over the country, reports UNB. A...

Floods kill 251 in Bangladesh

Floods kill 251 in Bangladesh

-- 2020-08-28 19:46:39

At least 251 people have died in Bangladesh due to floods over the last two months, according to government data. The National Health Crisis Management Centre recorded the fatalities between June 30...

2,156 people die of Covid-19 like symptoms in five months

2,156 people die of Covid-19 like symptoms in five months

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-08-28 18:44:20

A total of 2,156 people died with Covid-19-like symptoms in the country in five months till August 22, according to a latest report. The week between August 16 and August 22 saw some 45 such deaths,...

CID arrests 15 more Nigerians over Facebook gift scam

CID arrests 15 more Nigerians over Facebook gift scam

-- 2020-08-28 18:35:19

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has arrested 15 more Nigerians over Facebook gift scam, from different parts of the capital. The law enforcers arrested them in separate drives o...

‘Intruders, opportunists tarnish image of AL, govt’

‘Intruders, opportunists tarnish image of AL, govt’

-- 2020-08-28 18:14:12

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said intruders and opportunists are tarnishing the image of the ruling party as well as the government....