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OPEC Fund approves $70m in loans to BD for COVID-19 response

OPEC Fund approves $70m in loans to BD for COVID-19 response

-- 2020-08-25 16:52:04

The OPEC Fund for International Development has provided a $70 million loan to Bangladesh to help fight the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The loan to Bangladesh will help provide social safety net prog...

DNCC announces 10pc holding tax rebate for rooftop gardening

DNCC announces 10pc holding tax rebate for rooftop gardening

FE Online Report 2020-08-25 16:47:10

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam announced that the city corporation would provide 10 per cent holding tax rebate for the city dwellers if they plant rooftop gardening at thei...

No PEC exam this year

No PEC exam this year

-- 2020-08-25 16:46:13

The government has suspended the Primary Education Completion (PEC) and equivalent examinations this year due to the coronavirus epidemic. “The prime minister has approved the suspension of pri...

Bangladesh reports 45 deaths, 2,545 new cases in 24hrs

Bangladesh reports 45 deaths, 2,545 new cases in 24hrs

-- 2020-08-25 16:31:46

The death toll from the novel coronavirus infection in Bangladesh has surpassed 4,000, hitting another grim milestone in the pandemic that has upended millions of lives in the country. The government...

Repatriation seen as only solution as Rohingyas commemorate three years of exodus

Repatriation seen as only solution as Rohingyas commemorate three years of exodus

SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2020-08-25 15:22:41

The persecuted Myanmar Rohingya Muslims, currently living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, on Tuesday recalled the brutal military crackdown that forced them to flee from Myanmar homeland seeking safety...

Rohingyas hold 'silent protest' on anniversary of exodus to Bangladesh

Rohingyas hold 'silent protest' on anniversary of exodus to Bangladesh

REUTERS 2020-08-25 13:21:08

Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh held a “silent protest” on Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that set off a hu...

Miscreants kill mother, son in Ctg

Miscreants kill mother, son in Ctg

-- 2020-08-25 12:11:26

A woman and her minor boy were murdered by miscreants in Chandgaon area of Chattogram city on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Gulnahar Begum, 34, and her son Md Rifat, 9, reports . Gul...

Bangladesh war hero CR Dutta dies at 93

Bangladesh war hero CR Dutta dies at 93

-- 2020-08-25 12:02:21

Bangladesh war hero Chitta Ranjan Dutta, popularly known as CR Dutta, has died in a Florida hospital at the age of 93, his family said. Dutta, a sector commander of the 1971 Liberation War, fell at h...

Attack on FFs, journos: MP, 25 others sued in Chattagram

Attack on FFs, journos: MP, 25 others sued in Chattagram

-- 2020-08-25 11:51:33

A case has been filed against 26 people including Banshkhali MP Mostafizur Rahman Chowdhury and the local municipal mayor for attack on journalists and freedom fighters in front of Chattogram Press Cl...

Gas supply to remain suspended at Zurain for six hours

Gas supply to remain suspended at Zurain for six hours

-- 2020-08-25 10:36:35

Gas supply will remain shut from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm at different points of Zurain area in Dhaka city for relocation of gas pipeline. The areas where gas supply to household consumers, industries, ca...

Power substation project: For DPDC, foreign tour a must

Power substation project: For DPDC, foreign tour a must

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-08-25 09:58:58

Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) will spend Tk 145 million as fees for a consultant to supervise nine electricity substation installation and rehab work, people knowledge of the matter...

Export-bound trucks being extorted in Benapole

Export-bound trucks being extorted in Benapole

Our Correspondent 2020-08-25 09:40:25

BENAPOLE: Transport workers are extorting money from the export-bound trucks in Benapole port in defiance of the government directive. They are collecting toll from the trucks in the name of severa...

Working to bring Covid-19 vaccine: Health Minister

Working to bring Covid-19 vaccine: Health Minister

-- 2020-08-24 22:17:59

All government agencies which are working to tackle coronavirus in Bangladesh are also working to bring Covid-19 vaccine to the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said Monday. "The work on vaccin...

Lease out BJMC mills to pvt sector for long time

Lease out BJMC mills to pvt sector for long time

FE Online Report 2020-08-24 21:57:35

Private jute millers suggested leasing out of the mills under Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) to private sector for long time and declaring their machinery scarp. They also recommended for d...

Time hasn’t come yet to reopen educational institutions: Secretary

Time hasn’t come yet to reopen educational institutions: Secretary

-- 2020-08-24 21:13:32

Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam on Monday said time has not come yet to reopen the educational institutions of the country. "I don't think time has come to reopen schools and colleges," he s...

Pradeep, six others put on four-day fresh remand

Pradeep, six others put on four-day fresh remand

-- 2020-08-24 20:56:42

A court in Cox’s Bazar has placed seven police personnel, including former OC of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das, on a four-day remand each in connection with the case filed over the kil...

Violence against women increased during pandemic: Experts

Violence against women increased during pandemic: Experts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-24 20:19:16

Gender-based violence like rape, tortures on women has increased during Covid-19 pandemic, said speakers at an online dialogue on Monday. They said women are also bearing more workload at home during...

Cabinet not to scrap laws enacted by Bangabandhu govt

Cabinet not to scrap laws enacted by Bangabandhu govt

-- 2020-08-24 20:12:33

The cabinet has decided not to scrap laws which were enacted by the post-independence Bangabandhu government and resolved that if required those could be updated with necessary amendments. The decisi...

Bankers’ book evidence bill gets initial approval from cabinet

Bankers’ book evidence bill gets initial approval from cabinet

-- 2020-08-24 19:14:02

The cabinet on Monday gave approval in principle to the draft of the Bankers' Book Evidence Bill 2020 to replace the old Bankers' Book Evidence Act 1891. The decision came from the regular weekly mee...

PM recalls Ivy Rahman’s contributions to democratic movements

PM recalls Ivy Rahman’s contributions to democratic movements

-- 2020-08-24 18:01:25

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid rich tributes to Awami League leader Ivy Rahman on her 16th death anniversary, recalling her outstanding contributions to country’s all democratic mov...

US provides COVID safety supply to DMP’s diplomatic security div

US provides COVID safety supply to DMP’s diplomatic security div

-- 2020-08-24 17:49:25

The USA Embassy in Dhaka has donated essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to Diplomatic Security Division (DSD) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) as part of continued US support for Banglade...

Bangladesh to open antigen tests for COVID-19

Bangladesh to open antigen tests for COVID-19

-- 2020-08-24 17:42:18

The government has decided to open antigen tests for the COVID-19 illness in government-run hospitals on a limited scale and cut test fees for travellers. Health Minister Zahid Maleque gave the infor...

Qawmi madrasas get permission to hold degree, master’s exams

Qawmi madrasas get permission to hold degree, master’s exams

-- 2020-08-24 17:22:13

The government has allowed qawmi madrasas to organise examinations equivalent to degree and masters level following the health protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic. "The qawmi madrasas appealed to...

Rights group emphasises aid transparency, peaceful co-existence

Rights group emphasises aid transparency, peaceful co-existence

FE Online Report 2020-08-24 17:04:10

Aid transparency and peaceful co-existence should get priority until the safe and dignified Rohingya repatriation happened, said rights groups. They also said until December 2019 there were approxima...

BD wants to begin initial transfer of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char

BD wants to begin initial transfer of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char

-- 2020-08-24 16:51:31

Bangladesh wants to start the initial transfer of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char Island after monsoon through conducting a "go-and-see" visit programme first. "We’ll soon conduct a go-and-see visit [...

ICMAB holds CPD prog on ‘Impact of Covid-19 and the Bangladesh Economy going forward’

ICMAB holds CPD prog on ‘Impact of Covid-19 and the Bangladesh Economy going forward’

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-24 16:24:07

Chattogram Branch Council of The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) on Sunday organised a webinar CPD on ‘Impact of Covid-19 and the Bangladesh Economy going forw...

Bangladesh counts 2,485 new virus cases, death toll nears 4,000

Bangladesh counts 2,485 new virus cases, death toll nears 4,000

-- 2020-08-24 15:41:17

Bangladesh has registered 42 new fatalities from Covid-19 in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,983. The tally of infections climbed to 297,083 after 2,485 people tested positive for Covid-19...

Rohingya children bear brunt of Covid-19 as education facilities remain closed: UNICEF

Rohingya children bear brunt of Covid-19 as education facilities remain closed: UNICEF

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-24 15:11:23

Three years are on since hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas fled violence and persecution in Myanmar;  Rohingya refugee children and families in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh are now f...

US embassy in Dhaka provides safety gears to police

US embassy in Dhaka provides safety gears to police

FE Online Report 2020-08-24 14:48:02

The US embassy in Dhaka has provided health safety gears to the Diplomatic Security Division (DSD) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) as a gesture of support amid the coronavirus pandemic. United Sta...

Attracting more FDI important for Bangladesh, says Australian HC Bruer

Attracting more FDI important for Bangladesh, says Australian HC Bruer

-- 2020-08-24 14:25:53

Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Jeremy Bruer has said Bangladesh and Australia need to redouble their efforts to ensure that the two countries can take advantage of new opportunities in tra...