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Tea estates in Sylhet come alive as workers return after a wage hike

Tea estates in Sylhet come alive as workers return after a wage hike

-- 2022-08-28 15:11:34

Tea plantation workers in Sylhet have returned to work after weeks of protests ended with a Tk 50 increase in their daily wages, breathing life back into the region's estates. Raju Goala, preside...

Khaleda headed back to hospital for more tests

Khaleda headed back to hospital for more tests

-- 2022-08-28 13:18:33

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is headed back to Evercare Hospital for more tests six days after her last visit, according to her personal physician Prof AZM Zahid Hossain, bdnews24.com reports. &...

Traffic policeman killed in city road crash

Traffic policeman killed in city road crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-28 12:41:02

A traffic police constable was killed after a lorry ran over him in the city's Uttara area early Sunday, said police. The deceased was identified as Kazi Masud, 38, of Bagerhat. He was posted at Traf...

Power outages 'ease' as diesel-run plants restart amid better supply

Power outages 'ease' as diesel-run plants restart amid better supply

-- 2022-08-28 10:48:39

Bangladesh’s electricity crisis appears to have relented slightly with the restart of the diesel-run power plants and increased supply of gas. Daily electricity shortage has fallen to 500MW now...

Report against anti-state propaganda mongers abroad to concerned country: Hasan

Report against anti-state propaganda mongers abroad to concerned country: Hasan

-- 2022-08-27 22:59:54

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has urged the expatriate Bangladeshis and Awami League (AL) men to report against anti-state rumour mongers and malice disseminators staying abroad i...

BNP wants to bring back 'Hawa Bhaban': Obaidul Quader

BNP wants to bring back 'Hawa Bhaban': Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-08-27 21:35:21

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said that the main goal of BNP is to bring down the government so that it (BNP) can bring back 'Hawa Bhaban' in the country through milit...

Three cases filed against more than 400 BNP men over Banshkhali clash

Three cases filed against more than 400 BNP men over Banshkhali clash

-- 2022-08-27 21:31:21

Three cases have been filed against more than 400 BNP leaders and activists in connection with Friday's clash between them and police in Banshkhali Upazila of Chattogram. Police filed two of the case...

About 0.3m citizens received smart land services in eight months

About 0.3m citizens received smart land services in eight months

FE Online Report 2022-08-27 21:02:14

About 300,000 people have received land-related services through the helpline 'Citizen Land Service 24/7' by calling 16122 in the first eight months of this year. Meanwhile, about 12,000 messages and...

Parliament to get new deputy speaker Sunday

Parliament to get new deputy speaker Sunday

-- 2022-08-27 19:59:52

Parliament will formally mourn the late deputy speaker Md Fazle Rabbi Miah and elect his successor at the beginning of its 29th session on Sunday. The session, called by President Md Abdul Hamid, is...

Power supply will improve further next month, says Nasrul Hamid

Power supply will improve further next month, says Nasrul Hamid

-- 2022-08-27 19:51:40

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said the situation of power supply has gradually improved in the current month and it will improve further in the next month. T...

Daily wage for tea workers fixed at Tk 170

Daily wage for tea workers fixed at Tk 170

-- 2022-08-27 19:34:38

The daily wage of tea estate workers has been raised to Tk 170 from Tk 120 in a meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the owners amid a labour strike. The prime minister also urged the str...

156 Covid-19 cases, two deaths reported in 24 hours

156 Covid-19 cases, two deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-08-27 17:25:46

Bangladesh has recorded 156 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,011,100. The death toll from the disease rose by two in 24 hours to hit 29,323, according to the la...

Battery-run rickshaw drivers block road in Demra to protest police action

Battery-run rickshaw drivers block road in Demra to protest police action

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-27 15:51:11

The protesters occupied the road in front of the Demra Staff Quarter from Saturday morning to the afternoon, interrupting traffic on Bhulta Road. Battery-run rickshaws have been running on roads in D...

BGB seizes drugs worth Tk 70m in Cox’s Bazar

BGB seizes drugs worth Tk 70m in Cox’s Bazar

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-27 14:47:06

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) claimed to have seized over 1kg of Ice and 50,000 pieces of Yaba worth nearly TK 70 million at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar distri...

Truck rams autorickshaw in Cox's Bazar, kills 4

Truck rams autorickshaw in Cox's Bazar, kills 4

-- 2022-08-27 13:39:50

At least four people have been killed and another injured after a truck ploughed into an autorickshaw in Cox's Bazar's Ukhia. The accident occurred on the Shaheed ATM Zafar Alam Arakan Road along the...

'Rejuvenated' Sundarbans set to reopen to visitors on Sept 1

'Rejuvenated' Sundarbans set to reopen to visitors on Sept 1

-- 2022-08-27 11:52:46

After a three-month hiatus, the Sundarbans is gearing up to welcome tourists on Sept 1. In light of fish-breeding season, the Forest Department imposed a ban on fishing and fish harvesting in the riv...

Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 46th death anniversary today

Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 46th death anniversary today

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-27 11:24:23

Today (Saturday) is the 46th death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, widely revered for his limitless contribution to Bengali literature. To observe the day commemorating the life and w...

Woman 'tortured to death by husband’ in Ctg

Woman 'tortured to death by husband’ in Ctg

-- 2022-08-27 10:36:22

A woman was tortured to death allegedly by her husband at the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) area of Chattogram city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Shirin Akhter, 35, wife of Ajgor Ali, of D...

JRC meeting ends, outcome upsets BD

JRC meeting ends, outcome upsets BD

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2022-08-27 09:04:39

The three-day Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting between Bangladesh and India, which ended in Delhi on Thursday, failed to deliver any breakthrough on the long-pending Teesta River water-sharing a...

Two workers die falling off high rise building in Dhaka 

Two workers die falling off high rise building in Dhaka 

-- 2022-08-26 20:46:59

Two construction workers died after falling from an under-construction building in Agargaon area of Dhaka on Friday.  The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain,22, and Md Rokon,32, of Kaz...

Energy cooperation: Nepal to export 50MW electricity to Bangladesh initially

Energy cooperation: Nepal to export 50MW electricity to Bangladesh initially

-- 2022-08-26 20:12:49

Nepal and Bangladesh have decided to request India to allow the export of 40 to 50 megawatts (MW) of electricity from Nepal to Bangladesh in the initial phase utilising the high voltage direct current...

More employees to get dues from Grameen Telecom

More employees to get dues from Grameen Telecom

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-08-26 19:24:58

Grameen Telecom, an organisation owned by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, has recently paid Tk 4.37 billion to its 176 former employees as their dues through an out-of-court settlement. &nbsp...

Dhaka, Delhi finalise MoU on Kushiyara water distribution; no headway on Teesta

Dhaka, Delhi finalise MoU on Kushiyara water distribution; no headway on Teesta

-- 2022-08-26 19:24:37

Bangladesh has finalised the details of a Memorandum of Understanding of Kushiyara river water distribution with India. The countries officially reached an understanding at a meeting of the Joint Riv...

ICJ ruling dismissing Myanmar's objections will mobilise fruitful int'l action: OIC

ICJ ruling dismissing Myanmar's objections will mobilise fruitful int'l action: OIC

-- 2022-08-26 19:19:30

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has said the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to dismiss the preliminary objections of Myanmar would contribute to mobilizing the...

PM to sit with tea estate owners on Saturday amid worker strike

PM to sit with tea estate owners on Saturday amid worker strike

-- 2022-08-26 19:06:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will sit with the owners of the tea plantations in Bangladesh on Saturday amid a worker strike for a rise in their daily wage from Tk 120 to Tk 300. The prime minister&rs...

Electrocution leaves three dead in Kishoreganj

Electrocution leaves three dead in Kishoreganj

-- 2022-08-26 18:37:42

Three people died by electrocution and three others were injured in Bhairab Upazila of Kishoreganj on Friday, said police. According to UNB, the deceased were identified as Deb Lal, 15, his cousin Mi...

Dead body of a student recovered from school's toilet in Sherpur 

Dead body of a student recovered from school's toilet in Sherpur 

-- 2022-08-26 18:33:56

The body of an 8th grader was recovered from an open toilet of his school in Bhimganj Bazar area of Sherpur district town on Friday morning, said police.  Identified as Mohammad Rimon, the 16-ye...

68 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours 

68 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours 

-- 2022-08-26 17:49:14

Another 68 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Friday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).  Among them, 67 patients were hos...

Bangabandhu's 'Unfinished Memoirs' unveiled in Thai language

Bangabandhu's 'Unfinished Memoirs' unveiled in Thai language

-- 2022-08-26 17:23:26

'Asamapta Atmajibani' (The Unfinished Memoirs), the autobiography of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was unveiled in the Thai Language in Bangkok on Thursday. The Thai lan...

196 Covid-19 cases, one death reported in 24 hours

196 Covid-19 cases, one death reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-08-26 16:52:48

Bangladesh has recorded 196 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,010,944. The death toll from the disease rose by one in 24 hours to 29,321, according to the latest...