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Four killed in separate road accidents in Kushtia

Four killed in separate road accidents in Kushtia

-- 2022-09-12 16:54:26

At least four people were killed in separate road accidents in Kushtia on Monday. The accidents that occurred on the Kushtia-Jhenaidaha Highway and in Kumarkhali's Alauddin Nagar also left 13 others...

Rare white tiger species born in Chattogram Zoo

Rare white tiger species born in Chattogram Zoo

Tanjim Hasan Patwary 2022-09-12 16:23:51

Four new tiger cubs were born in Chattogram Zoo recently. These cubs came from the tiger couple 'Raj-Pori,' purchased from South Africa in 2016. Among the cubs, 3 are males and, 1 is female. The name...

421 Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours

421 Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-09-12 16:10:12

Bangladesh has recorded 421 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,015,308. The death toll from the disease rose stayed unchanged at 29,334 over the 24-hour period, a...

Students take to Dhaka streets to protest schoolboy's death

Students take to Dhaka streets to protest schoolboy's death

-- 2022-09-12 15:40:10

Students of Government Science College have poured onto the streets in protest against the death of a schoolboy in a road accident in the capital's Tejgaon. The protesters descended in the Farmgate a...

PM, President mourn death of Sajeda Chowdhury

PM, President mourn death of Sajeda Chowdhury

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-12 14:56:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and President M Abdul Hamid today (Sept 12, 2022) expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Awami League Presidium Member and Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sa...

Sajeda Chowdhury to be buried at Banani graveyard

Sajeda Chowdhury to be buried at Banani graveyard

-- 2022-09-12 14:23:47

Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Deputy Leader and Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, who died at a city hospital last night at the age of 87, will be buried at the Banani Graveyard here wi...

Bangladesh will always assist to maintain global peace: PM

Bangladesh will always assist to maintain global peace: PM

-- 2022-09-12 11:29:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh will always assist to maintain global peace, even it also intends to do it. "It is our constitutional obligation that Bangladesh shall always assist t...

249 tonnes of plastic waste produced in Ctg city each day

249 tonnes of plastic waste produced in Ctg city each day

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHATTOGRAM 2022-09-12 10:40:05

As alarming as it may sound, residents in Chattogram city produce 3,000 tonnes of waste every day and 249 tonnes of it (8.3 per cent) are plastic and polythene waste. Of the plastic-polythene waste,...

Padma Bridge's faults being traced, fixed

Padma Bridge's faults being traced, fixed

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-09-12 10:13:53

The 6.15-km-long Padma Bridge, opened two and a half months back, still has over 500 major and minor faults, which have to be addressed and repaired to make it an international-standard one in 'true s...

Bangladesh positive about giving fuel transit to India

Bangladesh positive about giving fuel transit to India

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2022-09-12 08:48:34

India is likely to be allowed to use Bangladesh territory for fuel transportation from Assam to Tripura and other Northeastern states of the next-door neighbour, said a high official. Bangladesh is p...

Sajeda Chowdhury dies

Sajeda Chowdhury dies

-- 2022-09-12 08:27:18

Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, a veteran Awami League leader and Deputy Leader of the House, a key political figure who was one of the best-known women and national leaders of Bangladesh, has died at a...

Bangladesh-India friendly relations make BNP annoyed: Obaidul Quader

Bangladesh-India friendly relations make BNP annoyed: Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-09-11 21:35:10

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday commented that the everlasting Bangladesh-India friendly relations are making Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) irritated.  “The Ba...

President Hamid congratulates King Charles III on accession to the British throne

President Hamid congratulates King Charles III on accession to the British throne

-- 2022-09-11 21:23:12

President M Abdul Hamid has extended his warm felicitations to His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on his royal accession to the throne. According...

Tidal surge inundates low-lying areas in Sundarbans

Tidal surge inundates low-lying areas in Sundarbans

-- 2022-09-11 20:47:42

The low-lying areas of the Sundarbans in Bagerhat district have been inundated due to the tidal surge caused by the depression in the Bay of Bengal. Most of the areas including Karamjal Wildlife Bree...

‘Border killing during PM’s India visit shocking’

‘Border killing during PM’s India visit shocking’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-11 20:06:07

The killing of a Bangladeshi on Indian border during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Delhi is shocking, said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Sunday. “This is undoubtedly pain...

Transfer orders cannot be treated as punishment: SC

Transfer orders cannot be treated as punishment: SC

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-09-11 19:51:34

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in a verdict has ruled that a transfer order is an administrative order which cannot be challenged and treated as a punishment. A three-member bench of the...

Government plans to set up food labs in eight divisions

Government plans to set up food labs in eight divisions

-- 2022-09-11 19:29:17

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said on Sunday the government is planning to set up food laboratories in eight divisions across the country for ensuring hygienic food in the market.  "In o...

Maritime ports advised to hoist signal 3 as low pressure turns into depression

Maritime ports advised to hoist signal 3 as low pressure turns into depression

-- 2022-09-11 19:25:50

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has advised maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal No. 3 as the well-marked low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression....

Khaleda Zia’s family seeks extension of her jail sentence suspension

Khaleda Zia’s family seeks extension of her jail sentence suspension

-- 2022-09-11 19:19:06

The family of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday sought an extension of suspension on the jail sentence of the former prime minister. On behalf of Khaleda Zia's younger brother Shamim Iskander, th...

Legal notice demands stop of Hilsa export

Legal notice demands stop of Hilsa export

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-11 18:48:47

A legal notice has been sent to the concerned bodies of the government demanding to take all necessary steps to stop the export of Hilsha fish to India permanently within seven days from the date of r...

DSCC runs eviction drive to free Gulistan footpaths

DSCC runs eviction drive to free Gulistan footpaths

-- 2022-09-11 18:21:45

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) conducted an eviction drive from Gulistan Zero Point through Bangabandhu Avenue to Ahad Police Box on Sunday to free footpaths for pedestrians. The eviction drive...

PM likely to attend Queen’s state funeral

PM likely to attend Queen’s state funeral

-- 2022-09-11 18:14:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19 for which her stay in London may be extended by one day, said a reliable source on Sunday. On...

Open Russian tech universities’ offshore campus in Bangladesh, Palak asks ambassador

Open Russian tech universities’ offshore campus in Bangladesh, Palak asks ambassador

-- 2022-09-11 17:54:39

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Sunday requested Russia to open offshore campuses of its technical universities in Bangladesh - to develop the IT sector here and upskills youths. He made...

British High Commission in Dhaka opens condolence book for Queen Elizabeth II

British High Commission in Dhaka opens condolence book for Queen Elizabeth II

-- 2022-09-11 17:51:15

British High Commission in Dhaka has opened a condolence book for Queen Elizabeth II at the British High Commissioner’s residence. The condolence book will remain open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm...

Policeman sent to jail for entrapping pedestrian by putting drugs into pocket

Policeman sent to jail for entrapping pedestrian by putting drugs into pocket

-- 2022-09-11 17:31:13

A court has sent Pallabi Police Station's Assistant Sub-Inspector Mahbubul Alam and two others to jail amid allegations that they entrapped a pedestrian by planting narcotics in his pocket. Dhaka Met...

Court indicts 29 people for murder of Rohingya leader

Court indicts 29 people for murder of Rohingya leader

-- 2022-09-11 17:23:48

A Cox's Bazar court has indicted 29 people for the murder of prominent Mohammad Mohib Ullah, a civilian leader of Myanmar's forcibly displaced Rohingya community, at a refugee camp in Ukhiya in 2021....

Bangladesh sees two more Covid deaths, 310 cases

Bangladesh sees two more Covid deaths, 310 cases

-- 2022-09-11 17:14:27

Bangladesh reported two more Covid-linked deaths and 310 cases in 24 hours till Sunday morning. With the new numbers, the country's total fatalities rose to 29,334 and caseload to 2,014,887, accordin...

Dependency on top-order can trouble Pakistan in the final

Dependency on top-order can trouble Pakistan in the final

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-09-11 16:32:16

Their win against India was fascinating, and against Afghanistan, breathtaking. They had a poor outing against Sri Lanka.  Yet, for the brand of entertaining cricket they are playing, people are...

Newborn, schoolboy among four killed in road accidents in Dhaka, Rangpur

Newborn, schoolboy among four killed in road accidents in Dhaka, Rangpur

-- 2022-09-11 16:26:17

At least four people, including a newborn child and a student, have been killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka and Rangpur. In Dhaka, a 10th-grader died after being run over by a car while cross...

Train engine catches fire in Natore

Train engine catches fire in Natore

-- 2022-09-11 15:26:00

The engine of an Uttara Express train caught fire in Natore, but no one has been injured in the incident, bdnews24.com reports. The incident occurred at Abdulpur Rail Station in Lal...