-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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 [...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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