-- 2022-06-23 16:57:59
Bangladesh reported 29 more new dengue cases in the 24 hours till Thursday morning. Earlier on Tuesday, the first dengue death of the season was reported on Tuesday. Among the new patients, three ne...
-- 2022-06-23 16:49:33
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday questioned how BNP leader Tarique Rahman can lead the party when he does not dare to return home. “If a political leader has no courage to return home,...
-- 2022-06-23 16:49:30
Taksim A Khan, the managing director of Dhaka WASA, and eight others are facing charges of embezzling Tk 1.32 billion from the employees' co-operative society. The society's Secretary Shahab Uddin Sa...
-- 2022-06-23 16:41:06
The flood situation started improving following falls in water levels of major rivers at all monitoring points amid almost no rainfalls in the Brahmaputra basin during the past 24 hours till 9:00 am o...
-- 2022-06-23 16:30:59
The government has invited Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to join the opening ceremony of the Padma Bridge on June 25. The Bridges Division sent the invitation card to Yunus Centre on Wednes...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-23 15:04:34
Flight operations at the MAG Osmani International Airport in Sylhet have restarted after six days of closure in the wake of the devastating floods in the region. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-23 14:18:49
A 42-year-old Rohingya refugee was shot dead allegedly by assailants at Balukhali camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Shah, a resident of...
-- 2022-06-23 13:13:43
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid glowing tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the 73rd founding anniversary of the ruling Awami League (AL), BSS repo...
-- 2022-06-23 11:52:07
Dhaka ranks as the seventh least liveable city in the world this year, moving up three spots from its 2021 ranking, according to an annual report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, bdnews24.com rep...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-23 10:46:09
Though Dhaka is no longer the world's most polluted city, its air quality continues to be 'unhealthy'. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 112 at 9.01am on Thursday, the metropolis ranked sixth...
-- 2022-06-22 21:54:56
Flights will be resumed at Osmani International Airport, Sylhet from Thursday after six days of suspension due to the ongoing flood. Abdus Sattar, station manager of Osmani International Airport, con...
-- 2022-06-22 21:31:51
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed her optimism that the next parliamentary election in Bangladesh will be free and fair with spontaneous participation of all political parties. She...
-- 2022-06-22 21:01:56
BNP has turned down the government’s invitation to join the opening programme of the Padma Bridge because of an earlier alleged threat to the life of its chairperson Khaleda Zia. BNP Secretary...
-- 2022-06-22 20:06:34
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh has broken through the mental stasis that prevents the country from moving forward without the assistance of foreign lenders. The Padma Bridge is a step-u...
-- 2022-06-22 19:58:13
Ferries on Shimulia-Majhirkandi and Kathalbari routes will remain close from 12:00 pm on June 24 to 6:00 pm on June 25 6:00 pm as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to inaugurate the multipurpose P...
-- 2022-06-22 19:22:41
Authorities in Bangladesh intensified efforts on Wednesday to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-22 18:48:46
The UK and the USA have announced emergency flood relief for Bangladesh. The UK has released additional emergency funding of £442,548 (over Tk 50 million) to support communities affected by t...
-- 2022-06-22 18:45:15
As many as 15,708 candidates have passed the 44th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary examinations. The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) published the results on Wednesday. The tests were...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-22 18:39:27
The High Court on Wednesday concluded the hearing on the rule issued earlier over a bail petition of Hallmark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam in a case filed over misappropriating Tk 858.73 million from...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-06-22 17:42:48
A Netrakona court has sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2018. District and Sessions Judge Shahjahan Kabir passed the order on Wednesday noon. The convicted person is – Birbal Ch...
-- 2022-06-22 16:42:01
Bangladesh has recorded 1,135 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in a daily count since Feb 25, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,959,209. The death toll from the disease climbed by one in...
-- 2022-06-22 16:39:30
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $41.4 million grant to help improve infrastructure and manage the basic needs of displaced persons from Myanmar sheltered in Cox’s Bazar district...
-- 2022-06-22 16:25:32
The UK has released additional emergency funding of £442,548 (over Tk 50 million) to support communities affected by the ongoing floods in Sylhet division. This brings the UK’s contributi...
-- 2022-06-22 16:15:02
Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets on July 1 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said this at a press conference at Rail Bhaban on Wednesday....
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-22 13:46:54
People in flood-hit Kurigram district are suffering increasingly due to lack of pure drinking water, food and sanitation. Though water levels of almost all rivers have subsided to a large extent, som...
-- 2022-06-22 13:15:44
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government did not make any compromise on the quality of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge, bdnews24.com reports. The mega structure, built with the country's ow...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-22 12:11:30
The US has announced Tk 23 million ($244,680) as emergency funding in response to record-level rainfall and catastrophic flooding which claimed the lives of at least 36 people in three divisions, incl...
-- 2022-06-22 11:51:31
Bangladesh is prone to natural disasters which cannot be stopped but the damage can be controlled, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, bdnews24.com reports. “We live in a region where flooding h...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETRAKONA 2022-06-22 11:20:05
A school teacher has drowned in flood waters in Netrakona’s Madan upazila. Hafizur Rahman (55), an assistant teacher at Ranihala Private Primary School, drowned in the flood waters on the road...
-- 2022-06-22 09:50:11
An estimated 56,000 hectares of Aus cropland have so far got damaged due to recent devastating floods in Bangladesh, agriculture minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque says. The cataclysm has also affec...
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