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Some cops turned monsters: Dr Kamal

Some cops turned monsters: Dr Kamal

-- 2020-08-22 21:56:11

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday alleged that the law-and-order situation in the country has completely ‘collapsed’ as some police personnel have turned monsters for being...

Passport offices resume operations on limited scale

Passport offices resume operations on limited scale

-- 2020-08-22 21:15:34

Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has started enrolment of e-passport and MRP (new and re-issue) on limited scale, after five months off due to Covid-19 pandemic. DIP issued a notificatio...

Lives of health workers in danger

Lives of health workers in danger

FE Online Report 2020-08-22 20:45:57

Cancelation of the institutional quarantine facility has put the life of the frontline health workers in danger in the country amid pandemic, experts said, urging the government to immediately restore...

Aug 15 carnage: BNP dismisses PM’s remarks on Khaleda

Aug 15 carnage: BNP dismisses PM’s remarks on Khaleda

-- 2020-08-22 20:33:10

BNP on Saturday termed 'irresponsible, fabricated and politically motivated' Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's comment that Khaleda Zia tried to kill her through the August-21 grenade attack. In a state...

Over 2,100 people died with coronavirus-like symptoms on Mar 22-Aug 15

Over 2,100 people died with coronavirus-like symptoms on Mar 22-Aug 15

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-08-22 20:21:56

A total of 2,110 people died with Covid-19 like symptoms in the country in last five months from March 22 to August 15, according to a latest report. A project titled 'Bangladesh Peace Observatory (B...

Sculptor Mrinal Haque dead at 62

Sculptor Mrinal Haque dead at 62

-- 2020-08-22 20:05:42

Mrinal Haque, a sculptor best known for making murals on the streets of Dhaka and an occasional subject of criticism from art connoisseurs and fundamentalists' wrath, has died at the age of 62, report...

Aminbazar waste-to-energy plant to be a turning point: Minister

Aminbazar waste-to-energy plant to be a turning point: Minister

-- 2020-08-22 20:01:53

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, which generates some 6,000 tonnes of garbage every day, is expected to see a sea change in garbage disposal once the country’s first proposed waste-energy plant...

AL planted the 'venom tree’: BNP

AL planted the 'venom tree’: BNP

-- 2020-08-22 18:03:48

BNP on Saturday alleged that it is Awami League, not BNP, which has planted the 'venom tree of corruption’ in Bangladesh and produced fraudster like Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed and ove...

10 villages flooded as embankment collapses in Barguna

10 villages flooded as embankment collapses in Barguna

-- 2020-08-22 17:31:51

Ten villages in Barguna district have been flooded following collapse of Majherchar embankment in Bishkhali river for torrential rain in the last couple of days influenced by low in the Bay of Bengal....

Noteworthy gap exists between male, female mobile phone use

Noteworthy gap exists between male, female mobile phone use

FE Online Report 2020-08-22 17:26:11

A noteworthy gap exists between male and female youths in terms of their access to different technologies, namely access to the internet and the use of mobile phone and computer, a study has revealed....

Agro-based programmes bring solvency for Narsingdi char people

Agro-based programmes bring solvency for Narsingdi char people

-- 2020-08-22 16:56:14

Hundreds of people living in 12 remote char (river bed) unions of Narsingdi Sadar and Raipura Upazilas have successfully overcome their abject poverty through multifarious agricultural programmes. Ne...

BD reports 2,265 fresh virus cases, 46 new deaths

BD reports 2,265 fresh virus cases, 46 new deaths

-- 2020-08-22 16:31:32

Bangladesh has recorded 2,265 fresh cases of COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 292,625. The death toll climbed to 3,907 after 46 new fatalities were registered until 8 am S...

Tourism sites in Ctg reopened after five months

Tourism sites in Ctg reopened after five months

-- 2020-08-22 16:13:04

After five months of closure due to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the tourist spots of Chattogram reopened on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Elias Hossain said that all the tourist spots includi...

Light to moderate rain likely over country: BMD

Light to moderate rain likely over country: BMD

-- 2020-08-22 14:15:46

Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast light to moderate rain across the country in next 24 hours starting from 6:00 am today (Saturday). “Light to moderate rain or thundersh...

Three Bangladeshis held in Malaysia for not having travel documents

Three Bangladeshis held in Malaysia for not having travel documents

-- 2020-08-22 14:06:52

Malaysian Police has arrested three Bangladeshi nationals at a roadblock at Jalan Napoh, Changlun, near Jitra for not having travel documents A female private taxi driver was also arrested with them,...

Ambassador Riaz Hamidullah presents credentials to OPCW

Ambassador Riaz Hamidullah presents credentials to OPCW

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-22 13:19:53

Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands M Riaz Hamidullah has presented his credentials as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to...

Singer SI Tutul contracts COVID-19

Singer SI Tutul contracts COVID-19

-- 2020-08-22 12:19:31

Popular singer-composer SI Tutul has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). From his official Facebook page, Tutul posted on Friday that he took the test three days ago. The test result came out...

Six die as bus rams into car in Mymensingh

Six die as bus rams into car in Mymensingh

-- 2020-08-22 11:07:39

At least six people have died after a bus rammed into a car in Mymensingh. The incident occurred on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Bhaluka around 8:30 am Saturday, bdnews24.com reported citing the f...

Sculptor Mrinal Haque dies at 62

Sculptor Mrinal Haque dies at 62

-- 2020-08-22 10:51:45

Mrinal Haque, a sculptor best known for making murals on the streets of Dhaka, has died at the age of 62. He breathed his last at his Gulshan home at around 2 am Saturday, said his associate and grap...

Low presence of patients puts Covid hospitals in dilemma

Low presence of patients puts Covid hospitals in dilemma

Jubair Hasan 2020-08-22 10:21:48

The extremely low presence of coronavirus patients puts some of the country's Covid-dedicated hospitals in dilemma over the continuation of health care services, officials and physicians said. Sour...

500 stranded Indian nationals return home thru Benapole

500 stranded Indian nationals return home thru Benapole

Our Correspondent 2020-08-22 10:09:39

BENAPOLE: About 500 Indian nationals stranded in Bangladesh due to corona virus have returned to their homeland through Benapole check post after about five months on Friday. Immigration sources sa...

NOAB seeks govt support amid virus pandemic

NOAB seeks govt support amid virus pandemic

FE DESK REPORT 2020-08-22 09:43:44

Like many other economies across the globe, the economy of Bangladesh too, is at a standstill and the crisis has largely affected the newspaper industry and it is nearly on the verge of collapse. Sa...

Maldives extends ban on new Bangladeshi labour recruits

Maldives extends ban on new Bangladeshi labour recruits

-- 2020-08-21 22:40:27

Economic Development Ministry of Maldives extended a ban on entry of new Bangladeshi labourers to Maldives for a period of one year, as the restriction's September 18 deadline draws close. Minister o...

Webinar on impact of coronavirus on non-member RMG factories coducted   

Webinar on impact of coronavirus on non-member RMG factories coducted  

-- 2020-08-21 22:34:32

The Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) project of Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Brac University (BracU), organised a webinar on August 12 titled "Impact of Coronavirus on Non-member RMG Facto...

Malaysia to deport Bangladeshi who spoke on migrants’ mistreatment

Malaysia to deport Bangladeshi who spoke on migrants’ mistreatment

-- 2020-08-21 22:01:53

Malaysian authorities are set to deport Md Rayhan Kabir, a Bangladeshi migrant worker who was arrested after claiming mistreatment of immigrants in a documentary. He will be sent back to Bangladesh v...

Faridpur BCL leader held for money laundering

Faridpur BCL leader held for money laundering

-- 2020-08-21 20:38:05

Police arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of ruling Awami League, from Uttara area of the capital on Friday in a money laundering case. The arrestee was identifi...

Rab arrests Rajshahi councillor with heroin worth Tk 10.3m

Rab arrests Rajshahi councillor with heroin worth Tk 10.3m

-- 2020-08-21 20:29:31

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the councillor of Godagari Municipality in Rajshahi along with heroin worth Tk 10 million from Mohishalbari area on Friday, reports UNB. The arrestee...

‘Govt to bring back fugitive killers of August 21’

‘Govt to bring back fugitive killers of August 21’

-- 2020-08-21 19:54:09

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the perpetrators of August 21, 2004 grenade attack, including Tarique Rahman, would be brought back home...

BNP planted “poisonous tree of graft” in Bangladesh: PM

BNP planted “poisonous tree of graft” in Bangladesh: PM

-- 2020-08-21 19:20:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the past BNP government planted the “poisonous tree of corruption” and Bangladesh is now bearing its brunt. “The meaning of power to the...

Awami League leaders recount the grisly Aug 21 grenade attack

Awami League leaders recount the grisly Aug 21 grenade attack

bdnews24.com 2020-08-21 19:07:02

The asphalt was strewn with bodies and body parts, with shoes and blood spattered all around. The silence of a late afternoon was pierced only by the agonising groans of the wounded. This was the scen...