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11.8m people to face internal migration in Bangladesh soon: Study

11.8m people to face internal migration in Bangladesh soon: Study

FE Online Report 2020-08-18 19:47:30

Some 11.8 million people in the country will soon face internal migration for various reasons, including climate change, a study has found. The migration could reach 21.3 million by 2041, the study r...

Bangladesh to discuss vaccine trial with India

Bangladesh to discuss vaccine trial with India

-- 2020-08-18 18:52:42

Dhaka is set to discuss the trial of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine, millions of doses of which will be produced by India’s Serum Institute if successful in tests, in Bangladesh. Fo...

Display Bangabandhu's portrait in Parliament: HC

Display Bangabandhu's portrait in Parliament: HC

-- 2020-08-18 18:49:48

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday ordered authorities concerned to display the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the session-room in Parliament. The virtual bench of Justice Tariq ul Haki...

Contempt of court rule issued against health secy, DGHS DG

Contempt of court rule issued against health secy, DGHS DG

-- 2020-08-18 18:31:32

The High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court rule against health secretary and director general (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice K...

ACC sues Invent Clothing chairman, wife for embezzling Tk 120m

ACC sues Invent Clothing chairman, wife for embezzling Tk 120m

-- 2020-08-18 18:22:00

The Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against chairman of Invent Clothing Limited and his wife for embezzling around 120 million from AB Bank. Assistant Director of ACC Fakhru...

Rest house construction proposal dropped

Rest house construction proposal dropped

FE Online Report 2020-08-18 16:58:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday cut Roads and Highways Department (RHD)’s construction proposal of two rest houses costing some Tk 70 million as those are ‘unnecessary spending&rsq...

Covid-19: 46 die, 3,200 infected, 3,234 recover in 24 hours

Covid-19: 46 die, 3,200 infected, 3,234 recover in 24 hours

-- 2020-08-18 16:30:39

Bangladesh has registered 46 new deaths from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,740. The tally of infections surged to 282,344 after 3,200 people tested posi...

Sinha killing: BFIU freezes bank accounts of Pradip, seven others

Sinha killing: BFIU freezes bank accounts of Pradip, seven others

-- 2020-08-18 16:19:59

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit or BFIU froze the bank accounts of eight people allegedly involved in the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar. The account h...

Two more dengue cases recorded in 24 hrs: DGHS

Two more dengue cases recorded in 24 hrs: DGHS

-- 2020-08-18 15:03:04

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has registered two new dengue cases in the past 24 hours until Tuesday morning. Currently, 13 patients are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Dhaka...

Indian FS Shringla in Dhaka carrying Modi’s message

Indian FS Shringla in Dhaka carrying Modi’s message

-- 2020-08-18 13:57:53

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived in Dhaka on a brief visit on Tuesday carrying a message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shringla will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi...

UAE extends amnesty for visa violators till Nov 17

UAE extends amnesty for visa violators till Nov 17

-- 2020-08-18 13:07:11

The UAE has extended the amnesty period waiving the fines of residents whose visas expired before March 1. Bangladesh Embassy in Abu Dhabi shared this information on its facebook page, UNB reports....

Sayeeda Khanam, the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh, dies at 83

Sayeeda Khanam, the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh, dies at 83

-- 2020-08-18 12:06:07

Sayeeda Khanam, the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh, has died at the age of 83. She breathed her last at her Banani home at 3 am on Tuesday, her family friend and filmmaker Munir...

Maldives repatriates 5,733 Bangladeshis since pandemic

Maldives repatriates 5,733 Bangladeshis since pandemic

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-18 12:04:29

The Maldives has repatriated a total of 5,733 Bangladeshi nationals, 5,049 of whom are undocumented, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Maldivian media. At the latest on M...

Road crash kills eight in Mymensingh

Road crash kills eight in Mymensingh

-- 2020-08-18 10:47:18

Eight people, including children, have died after a microbus veered out of control and plunged into a pond in Phulpur Upazila of Mymensingh, bdnews24.com reports citing local police. The incident too...

Incessant rains trigger fear of landslide in Chattogram

Incessant rains trigger fear of landslide in Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-08-18 09:41:35

CHATTOGRAM: Incessant rains that continued for last two days have triggered fear of landslides in Chattogram. Sources said with heavy rainfall forecast in Chattogram division, the Met Office has wa...

No lack of coordination in Sinha probe: RAB chief

No lack of coordination in Sinha probe: RAB chief

-- 2020-08-17 22:53:10

Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, the director-general of the Rapid Battalion Action (RAB), has said the inquiry into the shooting death of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan is being carried out with...

BD farmers set to receive emergency livelihood support

BD farmers set to receive emergency livelihood support

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-17 22:40:42

Farmers of Bangladesh and seven other Asian and Sub-Sahara African countries--- Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine and Rwanda --- will receive emergency livelihood support unde...

Shipra to file case over social media photos

Shipra to file case over social media photos

-- 2020-08-17 20:56:01

Shipra Debnath, an associate of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan who was shot dead by the police in Cox’s Bazar more than two weeks ago, will sue those who made her personal photos and vi...

Committee formed over deportation of Bangladeshi workers from Abu Dhabi airport

Committee formed over deportation of Bangladeshi workers from Abu Dhabi airport

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-17 20:44:17

The government has decided to form an inquiry committee to find out the reason behind forced deportation of 68 Bangladeshi migrant workers from Abu Dhabi airport. The decision was taken in an inter-m...

Govt yet to decide HSC, JSC exams schedules amid pandemic

Govt yet to decide HSC, JSC exams schedules amid pandemic

-- 2020-08-17 19:28:32

The government has yet to finalise its plans for this year's HSC, JSC and JDC examinations, which were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Students will be given two weeks' notice once the sch...

Govt increases allocation for transport and communications sector

Govt increases allocation for transport and communications sector

-- 2020-08-17 19:18:54

The government has taken a plan to increase allocation for the transport and communications sector to Tk 773.65 billion in 2022-23 fiscal year, with an average 14.65 per cent increase each year, since...

Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan becomes next Ambassador to Germany

Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan becomes next Ambassador to Germany

-- 2020-08-17 18:30:08

The government has decided to appoint Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to Germany. Mr Bhuiyan is a former senior secretary. Before his retirement on January 3, 2020,...

Two minor girls ‘raped’ in Rajshahi

Two minor girls ‘raped’ in Rajshahi

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

Two minor children have been raped by a young man at Thanapara in Charghat upazila of Rajshahi, police said. Police on Monday arrested Pranto, 20, son of Abu Ali of Gopalpur village in the upazila fr...

SC halts trial proceedings in four cases against Khaleda

SC halts trial proceedings in four cases against Khaleda

-- 2020-08-17 16:50:24

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the High Court Division order that stayed trial proceedings in four sabotage cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. A five-member benc...

Two brothers die from electrocution in Chapainawabganj

Two brothers die from electrocution in Chapainawabganj

-- 2020-08-17 16:49:30

Two siblings died from electrocution at Palpara under Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj on Monday. The deceased were identified as Partho Pal, 10, and Prattay Pal, 5, sons of Parimal P...

Sinha killing: Three policemen face interrogation

Sinha killing: Three policemen face interrogation

-- 2020-08-17 16:43:59

Investigators have begun interrogating three policemen over their alleged involvement in the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar. The four-strong probe panel led b...

DU student ‘commits suicide’ in Barishal

DU student ‘commits suicide’ in Barishal

-- 2020-08-17 16:37:19

A student of Dhaka University (DU) reportedly took his own life at his room in Barishal town on Monday. The deceased was Imam Hossain, a second-year student of Institute of Education and Research and...

PM donates Tk 10.0 million to Buddhist community

PM donates Tk 10.0 million to Buddhist community

-- 2020-08-17 16:31:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has donated Tk 10.0 million to the Buddhist community for celebrating their religious festival in a befitting manner. She gave the money to Buddha Dhormio Kalyan Trust fo...

Bangladesh registers another 37 virus deaths, 2,595 cases

Bangladesh registers another 37 virus deaths, 2,595 cases

-- 2020-08-17 16:17:30

Bangladesh has registered 37 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the death toll to 3,694. The tally of infections surged to 279,144 after 2,595 people tested positive f...

Two fresh dengue cases recorded

Two fresh dengue cases recorded

-- 2020-08-17 14:59:11

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has registered two new dengue cases in the past 24 hours until Monday morning. Currently, 16 patients are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Dhaka,...