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Dhaka air 3rd most polluted in the world this morning

Dhaka air 3rd most polluted in the world this morning

-- 2023-02-15 10:41:44

Dhaka’s air quality is once again in the 'unhealthy' zone. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 180 at 9:08 am today, the capital of Bangladesh ranked third in the list of cities worldwide...

Obaidul Quader says BNP now afraid of joining next general elections

Obaidul Quader says BNP now afraid of joining next general elections

-- 2023-02-14 21:06:35

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader says BNP is now afraid of joining the next general elections sensing defeat. Obaidul Quader also accused the party of beginning a road march after l...

BNP reschedules its road march in capital to February 17

BNP reschedules its road march in capital to February 17

-- 2023-02-14 21:05:07

The BNP has moved up its road march in the capital city by a day, deciding to organise the programme on February 17 instead of February 18 ‘due to unavoidable reasons’. BNP acting office...

Dhaka University expels three students over mugging incident

Dhaka University expels three students over mugging incident

-- 2023-02-14 20:40:20

Dhaka University has temporarily expelled three students over assaulting and mugging a covered van driver on the campus. The perpetrators are Fazle Navid Onon from the Department of Theatre and Perfo...

President-elect Shahabuddin resigns from Islami Bank

President-elect Shahabuddin resigns from Islami Bank

-- 2023-02-14 20:21:47

President-elect Md Shahabuddin resigned from the board of directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL), a top official of the bank said on Tuesday. IBBL Managing Director Muhammad Munirul Mawla...

Counselor to Anthony Blinken arrives

Counselor to Anthony Blinken arrives

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-14 19:58:36

Derek Chollet, counselor to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday. He was received by the Foreign Secretary (Senior Secretary) Ambassador Masud Bin Momen at the Hazrat Sha...

PM urges exporters to find out new markets for RMG products

PM urges exporters to find out new markets for RMG products

-- 2023-02-14 18:22:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked all concerned to explore new markets for Bangladeshi garments with the invention of newer items keeping pace with its ever-changing trend. "They, who are workin...

Militant surrenders to police by calling 999

Militant surrenders to police by calling 999

-- 2023-02-14 18:20:18

A suspected member of the newly formed Islamist group Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya has surrendered to the police by calling the 999 national helpline. Dhaka police took him into custody. “...

B-baria Bar created a black mark in country’s legal history: HC        

B-baria Bar created a black mark in country’s legal history: HC      

FE ONLINE REPORT   2023-02-14 18:12:24

The High Court on Tuesday observed that the Brahmanbaria Bar Association has created a black mark in the legal history of the country. They have disgraced all the lawyers by posing muscle, also observ...

Bangladesh logs 15 new Covid cases

Bangladesh logs 15 new Covid cases

-- 2023-02-14 17:50:41

Bangladesh has recorded 15 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,703. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,445 over the 24-hour period, a...

Railway inks feasibility study contract with consultancy firm for 11 projects

Railway inks feasibility study contract with consultancy firm for 11 projects

-- 2023-02-14 17:48:23

An agreement has been signed between Bangladesh Railway (BR) and joint consultancy firm Oriental Consultancy Global Company Limited (Japan) for carrying out preparatory work for feasibility study and...

UN in Bangladesh congratulates President-elect Shahabuddin

UN in Bangladesh congratulates President-elect Shahabuddin

-- 2023-02-14 17:43:58

The United Nations in Bangladesh has congratulated Md Shahabuddin on his election as the 22nd President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. "We wish the President-elect, Md Shahabuddin, success i...

Farmers get Tk 572.5m incentives to boost Aus production

Farmers get Tk 572.5m incentives to boost Aus production

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-14 16:41:02

The government is set to provide Tk 572.5 million incentives to the country’s farmers to boost cultivation and production of Aus. As many as 1.0 million small and marginal farmers across the co...

DB officer among 4 accused by a trader of torture, extortion in Dhaka

DB officer among 4 accused by a trader of torture, extortion in Dhaka

-- 2023-02-14 15:28:21

A trader has petitioned the court to file a case against four people, including a senior officer of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch and a DB inspector, for ‘brutalising him’...

PM to inaugurate Kalshi flyover on Feb 19

PM to inaugurate Kalshi flyover on Feb 19

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 11:31:25

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate the Kalshi flyover in Dhaka's Mirpur on Feb 19. The structure will open to traffic on the same day. Once it opens, the flyover will further improve c...

Dhaka's air 2nd most polluted in the world

Dhaka's air 2nd most polluted in the world

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 10:41:01

Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the 'unhealthy' zone this morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 174 at 9:20 am, the capital of Bangladesh ranked second in the...

Awami League nominates honest, qualified presidential candidate: Obaidul Quader

Awami League nominates honest, qualified presidential candidate: Obaidul Quader

-- 2023-02-13 20:32:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said the ruling party nominated a well-educated, honest, efficient, and skilled person for the post of the country's President. "We did not nom...

BNP says govt launches fresh crackdown to arrest its leaders and activists

BNP says govt launches fresh crackdown to arrest its leaders and activists

-- 2023-02-13 20:28:29

BNP on Monday alleged that the government has launched a fresh drive to arrest the leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies across the country ahead of the 12th parliamentary electi...

Bangladesh team rescues one alive, recovers 12 bodies so far in Turkey

Bangladesh team rescues one alive, recovers 12 bodies so far in Turkey

-- 2023-02-13 20:18:11

A joint rescue team of Bangladesh continues to play its part in the rescue effort in Turkey for the fourth day following last Monday's earthquake, one of the deadliest natural disasters ever to hit th...

EC issues notification declaring Shahabuddin as President

EC issues notification declaring Shahabuddin as President

-- 2023-02-13 20:11:56

The Election Commission (EC) on Monday issued a notification announcing Awami League (AL) nominee Md Shahabuddin as the President of Bangladesh, reports BSS. According to the Presidential Election Ac...

Indian FS Kwatra to arrive Tuesday for FOC

Indian FS Kwatra to arrive Tuesday for FOC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-13 19:52:51

Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday to lead the Indian side during the upcoming foreign office consultations (FOC) with Bangladesh. The FOC will be...

Japan, IOM sign $5.7m assistance to Rohingyas, host communities

Japan, IOM sign $5.7m assistance to Rohingyas, host communities

-- 2023-02-13 18:59:32

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori has said Japan would continue to work towards durable solutions including early repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar while cooperating with internation...

Dhaka, Delhi to hold foreign secretary-level talks in Dhaka Wednesday

Dhaka, Delhi to hold foreign secretary-level talks in Dhaka Wednesday

-- 2023-02-13 18:54:54

Bangladesh and India are scheduled to hold Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) on Wednesday, which will review the ongoing cooperation between the two countries apart from discussing the issues of mutu...

HC questions is this country a place for plundering

HC questions is this country a place for plundering

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-13 18:34:47

The High Court has raised a question whether this country is a place of plundering, as a group of people, especially who have the dual citizenship, are smuggling huge sum of money abroad. It also obs...

icddr,b launches new climate change website

icddr,b launches new climate change website

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-13 17:59:58

The Initiative for Climate Change and Health of icddr,b launched a climate change and health related web-based platform https://cch.icddrb.org/ on Monday, with support from USAID’s Research for...

PM urges coast guard members to be true friends of coastal people

PM urges coast guard members to be true friends of coastal people

-- 2023-02-13 17:51:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) to be "true friend" of the coastal people by establishing guardianship at the sea. "The motto of the force (BCG) is 'Guar...

Nine Covid-19 cases, one death reported in a day

Nine Covid-19 cases, one death reported in a day

-- 2023-02-13 17:34:58

Bangladesh has recorded nine new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,688. The death toll from the disease climbed by one to 29,445 over the 24-hour period, rep...

Fugitive convict arrested after 13 years

Fugitive convict arrested after 13 years

-- 2023-02-13 16:36:12

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a fugitive convict from the capital's Gulshan area on Monday, reports UNB. The arrestee was Ibrahim Khalil, 40 son of Nurul Islam, a resident of Fatehabad ar...

Bangladesh bars entry of 69 Russian ships after US, EU sanctions

Bangladesh bars entry of 69 Russian ships after US, EU sanctions

-- 2023-02-13 15:51:51

The government of Bangladesh has imposed restrictions barring the entry of 69 Russian ships into its maritime waters in line with US and EU sanctions. This means that Russian vessels will not be able...

Truck-autorickshaw collision leaves five dead in Joypurhat

Truck-autorickshaw collision leaves five dead in Joypurhat

-- 2023-02-13 15:16:15

A head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run autorickshaw has left five people dead in Joypurhat’s Khetlal. The incident occurred on the Joypurhat-Khetlal road in the Majhipara area around...