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Countrymen celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with much enthusiasm: Hasan Mahmud

Countrymen celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with much enthusiasm: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-07-12 22:41:05

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has urged the BNP leaders to look into the world situation instead of confining themselves within the four walls of the party office and among the le...

New UN resident coordinator meets Mirza Fakhrul

New UN resident coordinator meets Mirza Fakhrul

-- 2022-07-12 22:33:55

Newly-appointed UN Resident Coordinator Gwyn Lewis has met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday. The meeting was held at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office. BNP standing co...

Orphan siblings spend 17 days on a tree as flood washes away their house

Orphan siblings spend 17 days on a tree as flood washes away their house

-- 2022-07-12 22:27:08

Two siblings spent 17 days on the branches of a tree as flood water washed away their house at Dhalagaon village in Sunamganj. The ill-fated siblings are Julekha, 22 and Rakib, 13. The orphans used t...

Tourists litter Tanguar Haor with plastic waste

Tourists litter Tanguar Haor with plastic waste

-- 2022-07-12 21:53:57

The greenish waters of the Tangaur Haor in Sunamganj are covered with all sorts of plastic waste, including disposable plates and bottles, as far as the eye can see. Locals and environmentalists say...

Drop in water levels brings respite to flood-hit people during holidays: Enamur

Drop in water levels brings respite to flood-hit people during holidays: Enamur

-- 2022-07-12 21:39:39

State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman has said the government has stepped up its efforts to rebuild the lives and livelihoods of people in the flood-hit northern region of Ba...

Flood death toll reaches 116, says health directorate

Flood death toll reaches 116, says health directorate

-- 2022-07-12 20:44:41

Three more deaths from the flood were reported in Sunamganj and Moulvibazar districts within 24 hours till Tuesday morning, taking the total fatalities to 116. The latest victims drowned in floodwate...

Dhaka’s rail link with Sylhet restored after seven hours

Dhaka’s rail link with Sylhet restored after seven hours

-- 2022-07-12 20:04:49

Rail communications between Dhaka and Sylhet were restored Tuesday afternoon after 10 hours of suspension following the derailment of a bogie of a freight train near Mukundapur railway station in Bijo...

Shinzo Abe played key role in funding mega projects in Bangladesh: Momen

Shinzo Abe played key role in funding mega projects in Bangladesh: Momen

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-12 19:51:58

Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen on Tuesday said former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe played a pivotal role in deepening bilateral ties between Bangladesh and Japan. The foreign minister came...

Argentina plans to open diplomatic mission in Dhaka

Argentina plans to open diplomatic mission in Dhaka

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-12 19:16:49

Argentina is actively considering opening its diplomatic mission in Dhaka, said Claudio Javier Rozencwaig, Undersecretary of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and...

Seven children drown in four districts during Eid-ul-Azha holidays

Seven children drown in four districts during Eid-ul-Azha holidays

-- 2022-07-12 19:04:26

Seven children died from drowning in Chattogram, Chapainawabganj, Sherpur and Brahmanbaria districts during the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. In Chattogram, two children drowned in a canal in Kalpolok reside...

Derailment suspends Dhaka’s rail link with Sylhet

Derailment suspends Dhaka’s rail link with Sylhet

-- 2022-07-12 17:56:29

Rail communications between Dhaka and Sylhet have remained suspended since Tuesday morning as a bogie of a train got derailed near Mukundapur railway station in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria. Sa...

Bangladesh records 656 new virus cases, nine deaths

Bangladesh records 656 new virus cases, nine deaths

-- 2022-07-12 17:32:18

Bangladesh has recorded 656 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,991,031. The death toll from the disease climbed by nine in 24 hours to 29,212, according to the la...

Railway travellers enjoy comfortable return after Eid holidays

Railway travellers enjoy comfortable return after Eid holidays

-- 2022-07-12 17:27:51

People travelling by train are returning to Dhaka with relative ease at the end of the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. Trains departing the capital were also crowded, but both incoming and outgoing services wer...

Mismanagement caused traffic jams during Eid holidays: Quader

Mismanagement caused traffic jams during Eid holidays: Quader

-- 2022-07-12 16:49:42

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has blamed 'mismanagement' of traffic by local authorities for the hold-ups on highways during the Eid-ul-Azha journeys. However, he believes a stro...

Bangladesh won’t face food crisis due to Ukraine war: Minister

Bangladesh won’t face food crisis due to Ukraine war: Minister

-- 2022-07-12 16:43:37

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder believes Bangladesh has enough arable land and crop yields to ward off a potential food crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine. "The state has a plan to deal w...

Mild heat wave sweeping Rajshahi, Nilphamari districts

Mild heat wave sweeping Rajshahi, Nilphamari districts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-12 14:35:02

A mild heat wave is sweeping over Rajshahi and Nilphamari districts and it may continue, according to a bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) issued on Tuesday. However, it forecaste...

Elderly man stabbed to death in Dhaka

Elderly man stabbed to death in Dhaka

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-12 14:01:30

An elderly man was stabbed to death allegedly by some local criminals at Jatrabari wholesale fish market in Dhaka on Monday. The deceased was identified as Ashrafur Rahman, a resident of Bagicha in J...

Govt offices reopen after Eid vacation

Govt offices reopen after Eid vacation

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-12 11:10:07

Government offices reopened in Bangladesh today (Tuesday) after a long Eid-ul-Azha vacation. This year, government officials enjoyed holidays from July 8 to July 11, with July 8 being a Friday. Howe...

Bus crushes autorickshaw in Chattogram leaving five dead

Bus crushes autorickshaw in Chattogram leaving five dead

-- 2022-07-11 22:39:17

At least five people have died after a bus rammed into an autorickshaw on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar Highway in Patiya. The Chattogram-bound bus hit the autorickshaw from behind on the bypass in an a...

Offices to reopen today after Eid vacation 

Offices to reopen today after Eid vacation 

-- 2022-07-11 20:12:21

Government offices, banks, share market, and private offices will resume tomorrow after the vacation of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, one of the major religious festivals of Muslim community.  This year...

9.95 million cattle sacrificed on Eid-ul-Azha 

9.95 million cattle sacrificed on Eid-ul-Azha 

-- 2022-07-11 19:52:52

A total of 99,50,763 cattle have been sacrificed across the country on the occasion of the holy Eid-ul-Azha this year.   As many as 8,57,521 more cattle have been slaughtered this year comp...

Three bikers killed in Manikganj road crashes

Three bikers killed in Manikganj road crashes

-- 2022-07-11 19:00:01

Three bikers have been killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj district. The deceased were identified as Abdullah Al Amin, 45, Zubayer, 14, and Haji Mia, 26, of the di...

Bangladesh logs 521 new Covid cases, three deaths

Bangladesh logs 521 new Covid cases, three deaths

-- 2022-07-11 17:41:14

Bangladesh has recorded 521 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,990,375. The death toll from the disease climbed by three in 24 hours to 29,203, according to the l...

Dengue: Seven more hospitalised in Dhaka

Dengue: Seven more hospitalised in Dhaka

-- 2022-07-11 17:36:29

Another seven dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Monday morning in Bangladesh. All the new patients were hospitalised in Dhaka division, according to the Directorate General of Health...

Seven dengue patients hospitalised in city 

Seven dengue patients hospitalised in city 

-- 2022-07-11 17:02:36

Another seven dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours until Monday morning in Bangladesh, reports UNB. All the new patients were hospitalised in Dhaka division, according to the Directorate Gen...

Flood situation improving as water level of major rivers falls 

Flood situation improving as water level of major rivers falls 

-- 2022-07-11 16:56:32

Water levels at 18 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rise while 79 stations recorded fall.   Among the 109 monitored river stations, three...

6.6m mobile phone subscribers left Dhaka in the two days before Eid-ul-Azha   

6.6m mobile phone subscribers left Dhaka in the two days before Eid-ul-Azha  

-- 2022-07-11 15:15:24

Users of more than 6.6 million mobile phone connections have left the capital on the first two days of the Eid-ul-Azha holidays, according to Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar. In...

DSCC removes 9.5K tonnes of animal waste 

DSCC removes 9.5K tonnes of animal waste 

-- 2022-07-11 15:10:15

Around 9,500 tonnes of the waste of sacrificial animals on the holy Eid-ul-Azha were removed from Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Sunday.  The DSCC cleared this massive amount of ani...

Mild heat wave may sweep country

Mild heat wave may sweep country

-- 2022-07-11 15:04:16

A mild heat wave may sweep across the country including  Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Panchagarh and Srimangal , according to weather office on Monday. Light to moderate rain or thundershower...

Dhaka looks deserted on the day after Eid 

Dhaka looks deserted on the day after Eid 

-- 2022-07-11 13:19:57

The streets of Bangladesh’s capital were largely free of traffic on Monday, the day after Eid, as holidaymakers left the city in droves for their home towns and factories, offices and government...