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Bangladesh plans to send medical, rescue teams to Türkiye

Bangladesh plans to send medical, rescue teams to Türkiye

FE Online Desk 2023-02-07 15:19:54

Bangladesh is planning to send two teams to Türkiye to join the rescue efforts there after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed over 4,000 people and injured many."We are planning to send two teams:...

BNP announces fresh march programme in Dhaka on Feb 9, 12

BNP announces fresh march programme in Dhaka on Feb 9, 12

FE Online Desk 2023-02-07 15:09:52

BNP will again march in the capital on February 9 and 12 to press home their 10-point demand,  including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government. BNP Secretary G...

Fire service responders douse blaze at Pakiza Textile factory in Shyampur

Fire service responders douse blaze at Pakiza Textile factory in Shyampur

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-07 14:16:37

Firefighters have doused a fire that broke out at the Pakiza Textile factory in Jatrabari’s Shyampur. Five firefighting units worked to tame the blaze around 12:10 pm Tuesday, said Khaleda Akte...

1488 kg sand found in govt wheat consignment in Chuadanga;  three arrested

1488 kg sand found in govt wheat consignment in Chuadanga; three arrested

FE Online Desk 2023-02-07 12:33:47

Three people were arrested by Chuadanga Sadar Police over putting sand and stones in the same truck carrying government wheat consignment. A case has been filed by Sadar Upazila food inspector and of...

RAB exchanges fire with militants in Bandarban

RAB exchanges fire with militants in Bandarban

FE Online Desk 2023-02-07 11:38:10

The Rapid Action Battalion has reported a gunfight with militants and other armed groups in the hills near the Remakri Bridge in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila.RAB will provide more details o...

20 ‘teen gang members’ held in city

20 ‘teen gang members’ held in city

FE Online Desk 2023-02-07 11:13:38

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 20 members of a “teen gang” along with sharp weapons from different areas of Dhaka on Monday.Tipped off, a team of RAB-2 conducted drives i...

Fire incidents, damage, fatalities rising sharply

Fire incidents, damage, fatalities rising sharply

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2023-02-07 09:02:12

The number of fire incidents along with extent of property damage and fatalities caused by the fire incidents has increased alarmingly over the last two and a half decades. A total of 24,102 fire i...

273 Rohingya taken to Kutupalong camp in second phase

273 Rohingya taken to Kutupalong camp in second phase

-- 2023-02-06 22:05:32

A total of 273 Rohingya were taken to Kutupalong Transit Camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar from conflicting Tumbru border under Ghumdhum union of Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban on Monda...

PM restricts implementation of development projects on arable lands

PM restricts implementation of development projects on arable lands

-- 2023-02-06 20:32:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities concerned not to take any development project on arable land where crops grow three times in a year. According to BSS, the prime minister cam...

Writ petition filed seeking compensation for 714 dead migrant female workers

Writ petition filed seeking compensation for 714 dead migrant female workers

-- 2023-02-06 19:56:56

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court (HC) seeking directives to provide adequate compensation to the family members of the 714 deceased migrant female workers who died in different count...

Cabinet approves draft law prohibiting sale of antibiotics without prescription

Cabinet approves draft law prohibiting sale of antibiotics without prescription

-- 2023-02-06 19:51:00

The cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 2023 banning the sale of antibiotic drugs without a prescription from a registered doctor. The approval came...

Fardin murder case: DB files final report, seeks acquittal of Bushra

Fardin murder case: DB files final report, seeks acquittal of Bushra

-- 2023-02-06 18:03:43

Detective Branch (DB) of police has pleaded to acquit Amatullah Bushra in a case lodged over the death of her friend and BUET student Fardin Noor Parash, 24, as the branch filed final report in the ca...

Earthquake: Ministry in touch with Bangladesh embassy in Ankara

Earthquake: Ministry in touch with Bangladesh embassy in Ankara

-- 2023-02-06 18:02:40

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka is in touch with the Embassy of Bangladesh in Ankara though it is "less likely" that any Bangladesh citizen will be affected due to the earthquake considering...

Bangladesh logs 13 Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh logs 13 Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2023-02-06 17:33:08

Bangladesh has recorded 13 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,622. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,443 over the 24-hour period, acc...

Belgium’s Queen Mathilde arrives in Dhaka

Belgium’s Queen Mathilde arrives in Dhaka

-- 2023-02-06 16:26:58

Mathilde, the queen of Belgium, has arrived in Dhaka on a three-day visit to Bangladesh as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals advocate. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, accompanied by I...

Bangladesh’s probable population 169.8 million

Bangladesh’s probable population 169.8 million

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-06 16:24:54

The population size of Bangladesh might be above 169.5 million as per the latest review of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). It was revealed at the Post Enumeration Check of the...

HC orders to remove posters, wall writings from flyovers

HC orders to remove posters, wall writings from flyovers

-- 2023-02-06 16:18:28

The High Court has ordered the authorities concerned to remove all posters and wall writings from all flyovers in Dhaka within two weeks and take legal action against those involved in it. The HC b...

AL MP Moslem Uddin Ahmed passes away

AL MP Moslem Uddin Ahmed passes away

-- 2023-02-06 15:37:26

Valiant freedom fighter, lawmaker and Chattogram south district Awami League (AL) president Moslem Uddin Ahmed passed away at a hospital in the capital early today at the age of 75. "Chattogram-8 con...

Man arrested for defrauding people with promises to send them to Poland

Man arrested for defrauding people with promises to send them to Poland

-- 2023-02-06 15:18:32

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a man for cheating people of millions with promises of sending them to Poland. Saiful Islam Porag, 29, was arrested in Uttara on Sunday following a speci...

PM mourns death of AL lawmaker Moslem Uddin Ahmad

PM mourns death of AL lawmaker Moslem Uddin Ahmad

UNB 2023-02-06 10:08:21

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Moslem Uddin Ahmad, a valiant freedom fighter and MP from Chittagong-8 constituency. In a condolence message, th...

Two ACI officials including MD get HC bail

Two ACI officials including MD get HC bail

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-05 21:01:55

The High Court on Sunday granted anticipatory bail for six weeks to two ACI officials including its Managing Director Arif Dowla in a case filed on charge of hoarding 4,510 tonnes of rice and paddy in...

Four-day Dhaka international textile machinery exhibition will begin on Feb 15

Four-day Dhaka international textile machinery exhibition will begin on Feb 15

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-05 20:33:57

The four-day-long Dhaka International Textile and Garments Machinery Exhibition (DTG–2023) will begin on February 15 after a pause of three years mainly due to Covid. The 17th edition of the DT...

14 temples vandalised in Thakurgaon

14 temples vandalised in Thakurgaon

-- 2023-02-05 20:22:01

Unknown miscreants have laid idols to waste at 14 Hindu temples in Baliadangi upazila in Thakurgaon in one night. The attacks took place between Saturday night and Sunday dawn at different villages i...

No steps for controlling air pollution angers HC

No steps for controlling air pollution angers HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-05 19:43:04

The High Court on Sunday expressed its angers over the concerned authorities of the government for not taking appropriate steps in line with the earlier directives issued by it to control the air poll...

Data regulation may force foreign companies to quit Bangladesh: US, UK

Data regulation may force foreign companies to quit Bangladesh: US, UK

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-05 19:23:03

Concerned about the proposed Digital Protection Act (DPA), the United States and the United Kingdom warned on Sunday that any attempt to regulate digital space would not only discourage their companie...

Adani to start power supply to Bangladesh from March

Adani to start power supply to Bangladesh from March

-- 2023-02-05 18:53:14

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that the electricity under the agreement with India’s Adani’s power will come into Bangladesh in the first week...

Bangladesh opens doors for 2,970 more Rohingya

Bangladesh opens doors for 2,970 more Rohingya

-- 2023-02-05 18:48:04

At least 180 Rohingya people of 35 families have been relocated to a transit refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya area from their temporary shelter in Bandarban’s Ghumdhum Union Pari...

Police arrest five  over gang-rape of Jashore woman who came to Dhaka

Police arrest five over gang-rape of Jashore woman who came to Dhaka

-- 2023-02-05 18:29:23

Police have arrested five men in a case of gang-rape of a mother who travelled to Dhaka from Jashore to meet her children. They arrested Shafiqul Islam, 26, Billal Hossain, 25, Al Amin, 26, Md Sabuj,...

Consumers suffer as LPG gas price higher than fixed rate in Khulna market

Consumers suffer as LPG gas price higher than fixed rate in Khulna market

-- 2023-02-05 18:12:32

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) price witnessed a record hike recently amid increase in prices of essentials and fuel. But consumers are not getting this costly LPG gas at the government-fixed price in...

High Court stays lower court ban on GM Quader’s party politics

High Court stays lower court ban on GM Quader’s party politics

-- 2023-02-05 17:33:54

The High Court (HC) has stayed a lower court order imposing a temporary ban on party activities of Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman Ghulam Muhammad (GM) Quader. A High Court division bench of Justice Muh...