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Myanmar says ready to welcome Rohingays

Myanmar says ready to welcome Rohingays

FE Online Report 2019-07-29 15:25:53

Myanmar is ready to welcome the Rohingyas and now they themselves have to take the decision whether they will go back or not, said the Myanmar foreign secretary U Myint Thu on Monday. “We are r...

Four die as bus overturns in Gopalganj

Four die as bus overturns in Gopalganj

-- 2019-07-29 14:32:25

Four people were killed and 21 others injured as a bus overturned at Vatiapara intersection in Kashiani upazila on Dhaka-Khulna highway on Monday. The identities of the deceased could not be known ye...

Ensure hospitals don't charge extra for dengue tests: HC

Ensure hospitals don't charge extra for dengue tests: HC

FE Online Desk 2019-07-29 14:27:46

The High Court today asked the government to monitor the hospitals to make it sure that they do not charge extra to test for dengue fever. The bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul...

BD hands over fresh list of Rohingyas to Myanmar

BD hands over fresh list of Rohingyas to Myanmar

-- 2019-07-29 13:21:24

Bangladesh on Monday handed over a fresh list of 25000 Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification before their repatriation to their place of origin in Rakhine State. Bangladesh has so far handed over nam...

Advance Eid train ticket sale begins

Advance Eid train ticket sale begins

FE Online Desk 2019-07-29 12:05:39

Bangladesh Railway today began selling advance train tickets  ahead of Eid-ul-Azha from five different places in Dhaka city. Both online and offline or traditional sales began on the same day....

Dengue Outbreak: JU students bring out silent procession

Dengue Outbreak: JU students bring out silent procession

-- 2019-07-29 11:43:58

Jahangirnagar University (JU) students brought out a silent procession on the JU campus on Saturday, demanding steps for preventing dengue. On Sunday morning, students gathered at the Central Shaheed...

Police find girl’s beheaded body in Sirajganj

Police find girl’s beheaded body in Sirajganj

-- 2019-07-29 11:35:56

The beheaded body of an unidentified young girl was recovered from Fuljor river in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj district on Sunday. Pabitra Kumar, Sub Inspector of Raiganj Police Station, said on inf...

Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’ kills two ‘drug traders’

Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’ kills two ‘drug traders’

-- 2019-07-29 11:31:34

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Baharchhara Uttar Shilkhani on Marine Drive road in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Ba...

Blood banks struggle as dengue turns worse

Blood banks struggle as dengue turns worse

FE Report 2019-07-29 10:35:22

Blood banks are finding it difficult to meet the fast-growing demand for platelets as the number of dengue patients across the country has reached record-high, people at hospitals and storage faciliti...

Thousands facing boundless miseries  in flood-battered Bogura, Sirajganj

Thousands facing boundless miseries in flood-battered Bogura, Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2019-07-28 21:41:12

SIRAJGANJ, July 28: Flooding has brought several thousand people to their knee in Bogura and Sirajganj districts with fresh swelling of the mighty Jamuna and Bengali rivers in recent days.  The...

‘Mosquito-control workers to be brought under GPS tracking’

‘Mosquito-control workers to be brought under GPS tracking’

-- 2019-07-28 20:53:36

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will bring its mosquito-controlling and cleaning workers under the GPS tracking system to strengthen monitoring of their activities, said Mayor Atiqul Islam on Sund...

ACC seizes Tk 8.0m from DIG Prison’s house

ACC seizes Tk 8.0m from DIG Prison’s house

-- 2019-07-28 20:31:01

In a drive in the city on Sunday, the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) seized TK 8.0 million from the house of Deputy Inspector General of Prisons of Sylhet Partha Gopal Banik. ACC deputy director (...

127 women victims of sexual harassment in Jan-June

127 women victims of sexual harassment in Jan-June

FE Online Report 2019-07-28 20:17:07

At least 127 women were sexually harassed and eight committed suicide in the first six months of the calendar year, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) report...

Govt mulls revamping postal system to boost revenue

Govt mulls revamping postal system to boost revenue

-- 2019-07-28 18:26:34

The government has drafted a master plan to modernise the postal system aiming to improve the services and give a boost to revenue collection, reports UNB. Although the department has seen a gradual...

Dengu test charge halved to Tk 500

Dengu test charge halved to Tk 500

-- 2019-07-28 17:49:01

The government has fixed charges of dengue tests at a maximum of Tk 500 to drive down the costs of healthcare amid a massive outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, reports bdnews24.com. The decision...

Flood claims 75 lives in 14 districts

Flood claims 75 lives in 14 districts

-- 2019-07-28 17:22:45

A total of 75 people, including 56 children and six women, have so far died in 14 districts in the ongoing floods across the country, said State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahm...

‘Other Asian countries also affected by dengu’

‘Other Asian countries also affected by dengu’

-- 2019-07-28 17:18:59

Mentioning that the government has made all the necessary arrangements to control Dengue, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said Dengue has been a common menace in other Asian countries a...

‘Cell counter’ opens at DU for dengu diagnosis

‘Cell counter’ opens at DU for dengu diagnosis

-- 2019-07-28 16:55:46

The authorities of Dhaka University on  Sunday launched a ‘cell counter centre’ at the university’s medical centre to diagnose dengue and count blood platelets. The authorities...

Mango intercropping boon for Rajshahi farmers

Mango intercropping boon for Rajshahi farmers

-- 2019-07-28 16:50:53

Many farmers are seen showing interests towards intercropping of mango with various cereal crops especially paddy in the region including its vast Barind tract because the method gives additional inco...

HC bans pasteurised milk of 14 companies for five weeks

HC bans pasteurised milk of 14 companies for five weeks

-- 2019-07-28 16:45:13

The High Court has ordered 14 registered companies to stop production, distribution and sales of pasteurised milk for five weeks across the country. The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Just...

Cautionary signal 3 for ports

Cautionary signal 3 for ports

-- 2019-07-28 16:32:37

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has asked maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal No. 3 due to a low over the Bay of Bengal. In a special bulletin on Sunday, it asked the ports to ke...

Biman GM, three directors face ACC interrogation

Biman GM, three directors face ACC interrogation

-- 2019-07-28 16:24:35

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is interrogating Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ general manager and three directors for irregularities in pilot recruitment. ACC Assistant Director M Saiful Isl...

Fifth multipurpose Women Centre launched in Rohingya camp

Fifth multipurpose Women Centre launched in Rohingya camp

-- 2019-07-28 14:34:39

UN Women has launched its 5th multipurpose Women Centre at Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar recently to support women’s empowerment. The centre is built with the funds from the UK Department...

90 charged over Gaibandha Santhal killings

90 charged over Gaibandha Santhal killings

-- 2019-07-28 14:27:46

The Police Bureau of Investigation has pressed charges against 90 people over the killings of three people and lootings and torching of Santhal houses in Gaibandha about three years ago. The chargesh...

Tokyo moves on Rohingya issue; FM Taro Kono to visit camps

Tokyo moves on Rohingya issue; FM Taro Kono to visit camps

-- 2019-07-28 13:01:57

Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono arrives in Dhaka on Monday night on a two-day visit to discuss bilateral issues with special focus on Rohingya issue amid global efforts to expedite the repatriatio...

Khaleda’s bail hearing in Charitable Trust case Tuesday

Khaleda’s bail hearing in Charitable Trust case Tuesday

-- 2019-07-28 12:47:52

The High Court is scheduled to hear the bail petition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. The bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice SM Kuddus Zaman fixed...

Bodies of two Ideal College students recovered

Bodies of two Ideal College students recovered

-- 2019-07-28 12:06:40

Two students of Dhaka’s Ideal School and College were found dead on Sunday, a day after three friends had gone missing in the Dhaleswari River. The body of Akash, 18, was recovered from Nama Ge...

Writ seeks Tk 50m in damages for lynching victim's family

Writ seeks Tk 50m in damages for lynching victim's family

-- 2019-07-28 11:33:57

A lawyer lodged a petition with the High Court on Sunday seeking an order from it to provide Tk 50 million in compensation to Badda lynching victim Taslima Begum Renu’s family. The petition, fi...

BGMEA moves to form RSC to take over Accord operations

BGMEA moves to form RSC to take over Accord operations

Monira Munni 2019-07-28 10:57:24

BGMEA has started a move to set up a special purpose company namely 'RMG Sustainability Council (RSC)' aiming to take over Accord activities after the expiry of its tenure, sources said. The aim of...

Fears run deep as dengue spreads beyond Dhaka

Fears run deep as dengue spreads beyond Dhaka

-- 2019-07-28 10:36:34

After a huge outbreak in Dhaka, dengue has spread to different districts outside the capital. As many as 373 patients have so far been diagnosed with the viral disease outside Dhaka this year with a...