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Duck farming makes Naogaon youth self-reliant

Duck farming makes Naogaon youth self-reliant

Our Correspondent 2020-08-20 10:04:33

NAOGAON: Tariqul Islam, a youth of Shimuldanga village in Sapahar upazila of Naogaon district, has achieved self-reliance by rearing ducks on a commercial basis setting an example for others of his...

Passengers facing trouble as BR enforces new ticketing rules

Passengers facing trouble as BR enforces new ticketing rules

FE Report 2020-08-20 09:58:39

The introduction of online train tickets which will be issued in the names of the passengers has put many people in trouble due to their inability to purchase tickets on their own. The passengers who...

Govt finalises primary school reopening plan

Govt finalises primary school reopening plan

-- 2020-08-20 09:56:45

The government has finalised a plan to reopen primary schools, but it will be implemented only when the intensity of the coronavirus outbreak reduces, bdnews24.com reports. The plan will take effect...

Allow public transport to operate at full capacity

Allow public transport to operate at full capacity

FE Report 2020-08-20 09:52:11

Road transport owners have sought permission from the authority concerned to operate public transport at full capacity, saying that other modes of transport have already been doing so. Bangladesh Sar...

Country's centre, northwest may see worsening floods

Country's centre, northwest may see worsening floods

-- 2020-08-19 22:02:22

Torrential rains in upstream regions in India continued to inflate waters in the Brahmaputra River amid expert fears it could be a prelude to a major flooding in the Bangladesh’s north and north...

Tahmina Shirin named IEDCR chief

Tahmina Shirin named IEDCR chief

-- 2020-08-19 21:21:30

The government has appointed Professor Tahmina Shirin as Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research or IEDCR, reports bdnews24.com.  Shirin is currently leading the...

Ninth JS session to begin Sep 6

Ninth JS session to begin Sep 6

-- 2020-08-19 20:19:30

The ninth session of the current parliament will begin on September 6 next after a 59-day recess as the budget session prorogued on July 9 last. President Abdul Hamid summoned the session exercising...

‘Disclose purpose of Indian FS Shringla’s visit’

‘Disclose purpose of Indian FS Shringla’s visit’

-- 2020-08-19 19:05:20

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday urged the government to inform people about whether Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla came here for ‘mending friendship or for any...

Zia ‘footnote’ of history, not a hero: Quader

Zia ‘footnote’ of history, not a hero: Quader

-- 2020-08-19 18:53:59

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wedbesday said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was “just a footnote of history” and a footnote can never be a hero of the history, reports BSS....

BD counts 41 new virus deaths, recoveries outpace infections

BD counts 41 new virus deaths, recoveries outpace infections

-- 2020-08-19 17:14:48

Bangladesh has registered 41 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,781. The tally of infections surged to 285,091 after 2,747 people tested...

No need to worry about visa expiration date: FM to expats

No need to worry about visa expiration date: FM to expats

-- 2020-08-19 16:49:36

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the expatriates have no reason to worry about the visa expiration date as their visas will be renewed automatically free of charge. He also urged the expat...

Charge-sheet in arms case against Shahed taken into cognizance

Charge-sheet in arms case against Shahed taken into cognizance

-- 2020-08-19 16:44:12

A Dhaka court today (Wednesday) took into cognizance the charge-sheet filed in an arms case lodged against Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imr...

Biman reduces number of flights on Dhaka-Abu Dhabi route

Biman reduces number of flights on Dhaka-Abu Dhabi route

-- 2020-08-19 16:41:16

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided to reduce the number of flights on the Dhaka-Abu Dhabi route after Bangladeshi migrant workers were denied entry to the capital of the United Arab Emirates amid t...

Bangladesh always a priority for India: Shringla on Covid vaccine

Bangladesh always a priority for India: Shringla on Covid vaccine

-- 2020-08-19 16:31:12

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Wednesday said India is now at an advanced stage of developing COVID-19 vaccine saying friends, partners and neighbours will get priority once it is...

Flood claims four more lives

Flood claims four more lives

-- 2020-08-19 16:26:38

Four people died in 24 hours until Tuesday pushing the death toll to 226 in flood that set in during the last week of June. A daily bulletin of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) confi...

Govt reduces virus test fees by 50pc

Govt reduces virus test fees by 50pc

-- 2020-08-19 15:15:13

The government has reduced coronavirus test fees by 50 per cent from Tk 200 to Tk 100 for state-run hospitals, reports bdnews24.com. Sample collection from home for the test will cost Tk 300 instead...

Motorcyclist killed in Dhaka road crash

Motorcyclist killed in Dhaka road crash

-- 2020-08-19 14:59:48

A motorcyclist was killed after a bus hit the motorbike from behind at Shanir Akhra in city’s Jatrabari area on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Masud Hossain, 40, son of Delwa...

Floods destroy crops worth Tk 13.23 billion

Floods destroy crops worth Tk 13.23 billion

-- 2020-08-19 14:41:04

An estimated Tk 13.23 billion worth of crops have been lost in the three waves of flooding that hit Bangladesh this year, according to Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque. Natural calamities such as...

99pc migrants would stay home if they had better job opportunities in Bangladesh: IOM

99pc migrants would stay home if they had better job opportunities in Bangladesh: IOM

FE Online Report 2020-08-19 14:36:48

About 99 per cent of potential migrants would choose to stay in the country, if there were better job opportunities in Bangladesh, according to a study of IOM. The findings were released by Internati...

Mobile court fines college principal for holding exam

Mobile court fines college principal for holding exam

-- 2020-08-19 13:27:59

A mobile court has fined Tk 20,000 to the principal of Ginnidevi Agrawal Women College at Ruhia in Thakurgaon district for holding examination violating the government's order. The mobile court led b...

SC cancels its annual vacations

SC cancels its annual vacations

-- 2020-08-19 13:21:05

The Supreme Court has decided to cancel its annual vacations this year in an attempt to make up for lost work due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The decision was taken at a full-court meeting...

Another murder case filed against OC Pradeep, 27 others

Another murder case filed against OC Pradeep, 27 others

-- 2020-08-19 11:55:36

Former Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf Model Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and 27 others have been accused in another case filed by a woman with a Cox's Bazar court on Tuesday.  The plaintiff - G...

Flood relief efforts fall short of needs: CPD

Flood relief efforts fall short of needs: CPD

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-19 11:54:14

In terms of both coverage and per head allocations, relief efforts of the government to mitigate the impact of ongoing flood fall short of the needs, according to an assessment of the Centre for Pol...

Bangladesh reports 105 doctors’ death in battle against Covid-19

Bangladesh reports 105 doctors’ death in battle against Covid-19

SM Najmus Sakib 2020-08-19 09:46:30

A total of 105 doctors have died so far while rendering service as frontline warriors in the battle against novel coronavirus in the country. Of them, 94 physicians were confirmed to have died of Cov...

Schools score very low on WASH

Schools score very low on WASH

KAMRUN NAHAR 2020-08-19 09:46:23

A government move to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities at educational institutions has hardly made any visible progress over the last five years. The education ministry issued...

Covid-19 set to create 'lockdown generation'

Covid-19 set to create 'lockdown generation'

FE REPORT 2020-08-19 09:34:23

A large number of employed youth in Bangladesh stands to lose their jobs this year due to massive disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic to the country's labour market, according a report prepared...

Why MP Shahid’s seat shouldn’t be declared vacant: HC

Why MP Shahid’s seat shouldn’t be declared vacant: HC

-- 2020-08-18 21:09:55

The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to explain why Laxmipur-2 independent MP Mohammad Shahid Islam should not be expelled and his seat declared vacant. Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice A...

113 stranded Bangladeshis return from Vietnam

113 stranded Bangladeshis return from Vietnam

-- 2020-08-18 20:25:18

A total of 113 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in Vietnam due to coronavirus lockdown, returned home on Tuesday on a special flight of US-Bangla Airlines. The flight landed at Hazrat Shahjal...

‘Stay alert against recurrence of Aug 15, 21-like incidents’

‘Stay alert against recurrence of Aug 15, 21-like incidents’

-- 2020-08-18 20:10:17

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday called upon all to remain alert so that the country never witnesses the recurrence of incidents like August 15, 1975 carnage and the August 21,...

Govt distorting history, alleges BNP

Govt distorting history, alleges BNP

-- 2020-08-18 20:07:35

Accusing the government of indulging in ‘bad politics by distorting history’, BNP on Tuesday urged it to come to the path of national unity to tackle coronavirus and its fallouts instead o...