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Digital Security Act govt's weapon to cling to power: BNP

Digital Security Act govt's weapon to cling to power: BNP

-- 2020-08-14 17:58:11

Accusing the government of using the Digital Security Act as a weapon to hang onto power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday demanded the withdrawal of all the cases filed und...

A museum that mourns Bangladesh’s worst carnage

A museum that mourns Bangladesh’s worst carnage

-- 2020-08-14 17:44:33

From 1961 to 1975, the famous Dhanmondi house witnessed every milestone in the journey of Bangladeshis toward independence. It was on the evening of August 15, 1975, a dark chapter unfolded at the ho...

2,766 new COVID-19 cases, 34 deaths in a day

2,766 new COVID-19 cases, 34 deaths in a day

-- 2020-08-14 16:51:02

Bangladesh has recorded 2,766 new cases of COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 271,881. The death toll climbed to 3,591 after 34 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours to...

Natore OC dies of Covid-19

Natore OC dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-08-14 16:05:35

Sumon Ali, the officer-in-charge of Baraigram Police Station in Natore, died of coronavirus at a hospital in Dhaka on Friday. Liton Kumar Saha, Superintendent of Natore Police, said Sumon had been un...

South Asian Youth Festival 2020 launched by a2i and Glocal After School

South Asian Youth Festival 2020 launched by a2i and Glocal After School

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-14 15:49:39

The Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme, Bangladesh and Glocal After School, Nepal have launched the South Asian Youth Festival 2020 on the occasion of International Youth Day 2020. They opened the ev...

Meherpur MP, nine family members contract coronavirus

Meherpur MP, nine family members contract coronavirus

-- 2020-08-14 14:50:13

Mohammad Shahiduzzaman Khokon, the MP from Meherpur-2 constituency, and nine members of his family have tested positive for coronavirus. Civil Surgeon Dr Mohammad Nasir Uddin said according to the re...

Orphans are my “most near and dear ones”: PM

Orphans are my “most near and dear ones”: PM

-- 2020-08-14 14:32:49

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday described the orphans as her “most near and dear ones” and vowed to build a beautiful future for them, BSS reports. “I want to tell you (one t...

Bangladesh assumes presidency of Conference on Disarmament

Bangladesh assumes presidency of Conference on Disarmament

-- 2020-08-14 12:32:57

Bangladesh has assumed presidency of the Conference of Disarmament in the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva and reiterated its commitment to general and complete disarmament to preserve global pea...

Artist Murtaza Bashir falls sick, hospitalised

Artist Murtaza Bashir falls sick, hospitalised

-- 2020-08-14 12:17:11

Noted artist Murtaza Bashir, an awardee of the Ekushey Padak, has been admitted to the medical intensive care unit of Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. He was admitted at around 1.30 am on Friday, said his...

Three die in Jashore juvenile correction centre clash

Three die in Jashore juvenile correction centre clash

-- 2020-08-14 10:59:49

Three teenagers were killed in a clash at a juvenile correction centre in Jashore on Thursday evening. The deceased as - Naim Hossain, 15, son of Nannu Parmanik of Shibganj, Parvej Hasan Rabbi, 18, s...

India appoints new envoy to Bangladesh

India appoints new envoy to Bangladesh

-- 2020-08-14 10:36:57

India has appointed Vikram Kumar Doraiswami as the country’s new high commissioner to Bangladesh, one of New Delhi’s “closest allies”. Doraiswami, presently additional secreta...

CCC administrator directs to renovate damaged roads in Ctg   

CCC administrator directs to renovate damaged roads in Ctg  

Our correspondent 2020-08-14 09:37:45

The newly appointed Administrator of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Khorshed Alam Sujan has directed to renovate the Airport Road within August 20. He visited the damaged roads in the port city on...

NOAB urges calm over Ctg incident

NOAB urges calm over Ctg incident

FE DESK REPORT 2020-08-14 09:32:11

Closure of Chattogram daily newspapers as a sequel to gherao of senior editor MA Malek's house by a section of protesting journalists has been viewed as an unprecedented incident by the Newspapers Own...

Govt seeks explosives data as Beirut blast raises alarm

Govt seeks explosives data as Beirut blast raises alarm

-- 2020-08-13 22:35:35

The government has asked for data on import and storage of explosives in Bangladesh as the devastating port blast that killed more than 200 people in the Lebanese capital has raised alarm in Dhaka. A...

Httpool, Facebook’s partner in Bangladesh, sued on charges of dodging Tk 9.3m VAT

Httpool, Facebook’s partner in Bangladesh, sued on charges of dodging Tk 9.3m VAT

-- 2020-08-13 21:43:30

A government agency in Bangladesh has sued Httpool, the sales partner of social media giant Facebook in the country, on charges of dodging Tk 9.3 million in Value Added Tax payment. The VAT Audit, In...

Boiling weather continues for 16th day

Boiling weather continues for 16th day

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-08-13 20:40:02

Extreme hot and humid weather continued for the 16th consecutive day on Thursday despite light rain. Though evening humidity declined to 53 per cent from 79 per cent on Thursday morning, the hot cond...

Sabrina Flora named additional DG of health services

Sabrina Flora named additional DG of health services

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

Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, the director of IEDCR, has been appointed as the additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS. She will join the directorate’s...

Covid-19: Bangladesh records 2,617 new cases, 44 more deaths

Covid-19: Bangladesh records 2,617 new cases, 44 more deaths

-- 2020-08-13 18:09:08

Health authorities on Thursday reported the detection of 2,617 new cases in 24 hours in the country taking the total number of cases to 2,69,115. Meanwhile, another 44 patients died of Covid-19 durin...

Stress on good governance, affordable energy, quality services

Stress on good governance, affordable energy, quality services

FE Online Report 2020-08-13 17:45:02

Speakers at a webinar on Thursday opined for good governance, availability of affordable energy and quality services to consumers of power and energy sector to ensure the country’s overall econo...

COVID-19: BD witnesses over 100 doctors’ death

COVID-19: BD witnesses over 100 doctors’ death

FE Online Report 2020-08-13 17:26:13

The supreme sacrifice of doctors, the frontline fighters in the war against novel coronavirus, crossed 100 in Bangladesh. At least 94 physicians died while 11 more lost their lives with COVID-19-like...

‘Misuse of funds not acceptable’

‘Misuse of funds not acceptable’

FE Online Report 2020-08-13 17:02:33

Planning Minister MA Mannan on Thursday in Dhaka said the government will no more tolerate misuse of public funds in the name of project execution. “In some cases, there are some overestimation...

Ex-CJ Sinha, 10 others indicted over Farmers Bank scam

Ex-CJ Sinha, 10 others indicted over Farmers Bank scam

-- 2020-08-13 14:40:27

A Dhaka court has opened the trial of former chief justice SK Sinha and 10 others on charges of loan fraud and embezzlement of Tk 40 million from the Farmers Bank. Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of Dhaka's...

ACC quizzes ex-DG of health services Azad over Regent scam

ACC quizzes ex-DG of health services Azad over Regent scam

-- 2020-08-13 13:49:23

The Anti-Corruption Commission has interrogated Abul Kalam Azad, the former DG of health services, over the health directorate's controversial deal with Regent Hospital to provide treatment for Covid-...

Three of a family among four killed in Kurigram road crash

Three of a family among four killed in Kurigram road crash

-- 2020-08-13 12:49:18

Four people including three members of a family were killed and two others injured when a bus hit a private car on Rangpur-Kurigram highway in Sadar upazila of Kurigram district on Thursday. The dece...

17 more infected with Covid-19 in Thakurgaon

17 more infected with Covid-19 in Thakurgaon

-- 2020-08-13 12:30:22

Seventeen more people including a senior consultant of Thakurgaon Sadar hospital have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the district in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning. With the new cases, t...

Hot weather lingers in city

Hot weather lingers in city

FE REPORT 2020-08-13 09:52:56

Hot weather continued in Dhaka city on Wednesday amid high temperature and a lack of rain. For partly cloudy sky with humidity ranging from 76 per cent to 71 per cent in the air, people experienced a...

Binadhan output makes Mymensingh farmers happy

Binadhan output makes Mymensingh farmers happy

Our Correspondent 2020-08-13 09:45:50

Binadhan-19 and Binadhan-21, two high yielding varieties of paddy cultivated in Aush season are marking a new record of production in 95 days after planting. Farmers got four and a half tonnes of pad...

SC restarts functioning

SC restarts functioning

FE REPORT 2020-08-13 09:39:09

The Supreme Court (SC) has restarted its regular activities alongside the virtual system after four and half months, although coronavirus fear is not over yet. Health guidelines were poorly maintai...

Kamal for exploring multiple sources of Covid vaccine

Kamal for exploring multiple sources of Covid vaccine

-- 2020-08-13 09:36:35

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal emphasised the need for taking quick steps to get access to coronavirus vaccine from any possible sources as the pandemic killed thousands and affected 0.266 million...

SC summons lawyer for posting derogatory FB status

SC summons lawyer for posting derogatory FB status

FE REPORT 2020-08-13 09:31:01

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Advocate Syed Mamun Mahbub to appear before it on August 20 for posting a derogatory status about Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on...