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HC orders providing protocol to constitutional officers

HC orders providing protocol to constitutional officers

-- 2019-08-07 16:58:47

The High Court has ordered authorities concerned to provide constitutional officers protocol in accordance with the Warrant of Precedence. A High Court division bench comprising Justice Obaidul Hassa...

Main Eid congregation at National Eidgah at 8:30am

Main Eid congregation at National Eidgah at 8:30am

FE Online Desk 2019-08-07 15:24:18

The main congregation of Eid-ul-Azha will be held at the National Eidgah ground near the High Court premises in the capital at 8:30am, says an Islamic Foundation press release. Senior Pesh Imam of Ba...

Stop spraying ineffective insecticide: Quader

Stop spraying ineffective insecticide: Quader

-- 2019-08-07 14:06:32

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to refrain from spraying ineffective mosquito medicines. “Effective insecticide will arrive in Dhaka w...

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal number three

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal number three

-- 2019-08-07 13:35:47

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra were advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number three on Wednesday because of a deep depression over the Bay. One to two...

Two railway policemen withdrawn over 'gang-rape'

Two railway policemen withdrawn over 'gang-rape'

-- 2019-08-07 13:22:22

Two railway policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Khulna Government Railway Police (GRP) Station, were withdrawn on Wednesday for their suspected involvement with the reported gang-rape of a w...

Three die in separate 'gunfights'

Three die in separate 'gunfights'

-- 2019-08-07 13:04:23

Three people were killed in separate 'gunfights' in Bogura and Jashore districts on Wednesday. In Bogura, a gunfight between two rival gangs of criminals took place on a bridge near Sherpur upazila&r...

Youth stabbed to death in Khulna

Youth stabbed to death in Khulna

-- 2019-08-07 12:08:18

Criminals stabbed a young man to death and injured another at Ghohordanga village in Terokhada upazila of Khulna on early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Naim Sheikh, 26, son of Hiru Sheikh...

PM Hasina expresses shock at Sushma Swaraj demise

PM Hasina expresses shock at Sushma Swaraj demise

-- 2019-08-07 10:57:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep condolence at the death of former Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj. In a condolence message on Wednesday, Sheikh Hasina, who is now in L...

South Korea to help build Jute Industrial Village

South Korea to help build Jute Industrial Village

-- 2019-08-07 10:39:41

South Korea has assured to extend financial and technical assistance to Bangladesh to set up a ‘Jute Industrial Village’. Korea Textile Machinery Convergence Research Institute (KOTMI) ma...

Ministry mulls gas pricing projection for investors

Ministry mulls gas pricing projection for investors

FE Report 2019-08-07 10:39:04

The government is contemplating a pricing projection of natural gas over the next five to 10 years to help businesses chalk up their future investment. "This projection will help investors adopt...

Railway's special Eid service fails to halt bleeding

Railway's special Eid service fails to halt bleeding

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-08-07 10:26:26

The number of railway passengers leaving the city almost doubles during the Eid vacation, but that has little impact on the overall annual income of the Bangladesh Railway (BR), people familiar with t...

Dengue virus infecting 100 people each hour

Dengue virus infecting 100 people each hour

Six more die, hospitals in a fix amid patients' influx 2019-08-07 10:04:02

The dengue outbreak has turned so severe across the country that almost 100 people are getting infected with the deadly virus in each hour, official sources said on Tuesday. Such a massive spread of...

TIB urges CEC, ECs to step down

TIB urges CEC, ECs to step down

FE Online Report 2019-08-06 21:22:07

The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the chief election commissioner (CEC) and other election commissioners (ECs) to step down for alleged involvement in fund irregularities. Th...

Two die of dengue in Rangpur, Dinajpur

Two die of dengue in Rangpur, Dinajpur

FE Desk Report 2019-08-06 21:09:45

There is no respite from the deadly fever dengue as the disease is taking its toll almost everyday in the city or districts. Virtually it is spreading in an epidemic form creating panic among the peo...

Impressive chilli output makes Magura farmers happy

Impressive chilli output makes Magura farmers happy

Our Correspondent 2019-08-06 21:07:40

MAGURA, Aug 06: Bumper production and high market price have brought smile to the faces of chilli growers in the district. Farmers' sources said green chilli harvest going on in full swing. Newly-har...

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal 3

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal 3

-- 2019-08-06 20:56:48

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal No 3 as the well-marked low over the Northwest Bay and adjoining coastal...

Dhaka, Moscow sign nuclear fuel supply deal for RNPP

Dhaka, Moscow sign nuclear fuel supply deal for RNPP

-- 2019-08-06 20:13:03

Bangladesh signed a nuclear fuel supply agreement with Russia on Tuesday for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project. As the implementing agency of the RNPP project, Bangladesh Atomic Energy C...

CPD to form citizen’s review commission on banking sector

CPD to form citizen’s review commission on banking sector

-- 2019-08-06 19:04:07

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has decided to set up ‘citizen’s review commission’ on banking in view of what it said the “deteriorating health” of the banking sector a...

Prices of rawhide remain unchanged

Prices of rawhide remain unchanged

-- 2019-08-06 18:15:59

The government has set the prices of rawhide and skin of sacrificial animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, leaving the rates unchanged. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi announced the prices on Tuesday after a m...

Old gas pipelines to be replaced: Minister

Old gas pipelines to be replaced: Minister

-- 2019-08-06 17:59:31

The old gas pipelines in the capital will be replaced, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday. “We’re planning to replace the existing pipelin...

17,338 people recovered from dengue so far

17,338 people recovered from dengue so far

-- 2019-08-06 17:09:12

A total of 17,338 dengue patients, who were admitted to different hospitals across the country,  returned home after recovering, from the first day of January, 2019 till date. According to Publi...

50 more ICUs at DMCH to deal with dengue patients

50 more ICUs at DMCH to deal with dengue patients

-- 2019-08-06 17:06:46

The government has decided to set up 50 new intensive care units or ICUs at Dhaka Medical College Hospital to cope with the rush of dengue patients. The Directorate General of Health Services took th...

DU suspends 69 students for admission test forgery

DU suspends 69 students for admission test forgery

FE Online Desk 2019-08-06 15:37:36

The disciplinary board of Dhaka University has suspended its 69 students on charges of their involvement in the admission test forgery. The body took the decision at a meeting with vice chancellor Md...

Three get life in jail in C’nawabganj for possessing arms

Three get life in jail in C’nawabganj for possessing arms

-- 2019-08-06 14:56:56

A Chapainawabganj court on Tuesday sentenced three people to life imprisonment in a case filed over the recovery of 22 firearms and 136 bullets in Chapainawanj municipality area in 2016. The lifers a...

Don’t harass Fakhrul, three others for six weeks: HC

Don’t harass Fakhrul, three others for six weeks: HC

-- 2019-08-06 14:42:29

The High Court (HC) has directed law enforcers not to harass four BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, for six weeks in a case filed for issuing ‘death threa...

Three more die of dengue today

Three more die of dengue today

FE Online Desk 2019-08-06 14:05:35

Three more deaths were reported from three separate districts on Tuesday as the entire country remains in the grip of dengue fever. At Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Monwara Begum, 75, su...

Another woman dies from dengue in city

Another woman dies from dengue in city

-- 2019-08-06 12:05:25

Another woman has died in Dhaka amid the massive outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue across Bangladesh. Hafsa Lipi, 34, passed away on Monday night while undergoing treatment at Anwer Khan Modern Hospi...

Dengue outbreak: Eid holidays worry government

Dengue outbreak: Eid holidays worry government

-- 2019-08-06 11:40:13

The health department, which is facing an uphill task of managing thousands of dengue patients in the capital Dhaka, is now worried about the upcoming Eid holidays when millions of people will travel...

Missing Mohona TV journo found blindfolded in Sunamganj

Missing Mohona TV journo found blindfolded in Sunamganj

-- 2019-08-06 10:39:21

Mohona TV journalist FM Mushfiqur Rahman who went missing from the capital on Saturday was found blindfolded in Sadar upazila of Sunamganj district on early Tuesday. The imam of a local mosque found...

Agartala airport: BD govt caught off guard

Agartala airport: BD govt caught off guard

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-08-06 10:33:03

India's request for providing a stretch of land for the upgradation of the Agartala airport has apparently caught Bangladesh government off guard. "We have held a series of meetings in the last few m...