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Bangladesh witnesses rapid rise in dengue cases

Bangladesh witnesses rapid rise in dengue cases

-- 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...

PM questions Tarique Rahman's leadership credentials

PM questions Tarique Rahman's leadership credentials

-- 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,...

WASA MD, eight others accused of Tk 1.32b embezzlement

WASA MD, eight others accused of Tk 1.32b embezzlement

-- 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...

Flood situation starts improving in Brahmaputra basin

Flood situation starts improving in Brahmaputra basin

-- 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...

Govt invites Prof Yunus to join Padma Bridge opening ceremony

Govt invites Prof Yunus to join Padma Bridge opening ceremony

-- 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...

Flight operations at Sylhet airport resume after six days

Flight operations at Sylhet airport resume after six days

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...

Rohingya man shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

Rohingya man shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

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...

PM pays homage to Bangabandhu on AL's founding anniversary

PM pays homage to Bangabandhu on AL's founding anniversary

-- 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...

Dhaka improves ranking to become 7th least liveable city in the world: EIU

Dhaka improves ranking to become 7th least liveable city in the world: EIU

-- 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...

Dhaka's air still 'unhealthy'

Dhaka's air still 'unhealthy'

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...

Sylhet airport to resume flights from Thursday

Sylhet airport to resume flights from Thursday

-- 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...

PM hopes next parliamentary election will be free, fair, participatory

PM hopes next parliamentary election will be free, fair, participatory

-- 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...

BNP rejects Padma Bridge opening invitation

BNP rejects Padma Bridge opening invitation

-- 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...

Bangladesh broke through ‘mental stasis’: PM

Bangladesh broke through ‘mental stasis’: PM

-- 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...

Ferries on Shimulia-Majhirkandi, Kathalbari routes will remain close from 24-25 June

Ferries on Shimulia-Majhirkandi, Kathalbari routes will remain close from 24-25 June

-- 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...

Bangladesh intensifies efforts to deliver food, drinking water to flood-hit people

Bangladesh intensifies efforts to deliver food, drinking water to flood-hit people

-- 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...

UK, US provide emergency flood relief

UK, US provide emergency flood relief

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...

15,708 candidates pass 44th BCS preliminary test

15,708 candidates pass 44th BCS preliminary test

-- 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...

High Court verdict on June 30 on rule over Hallmark chairman’s bail plea

High Court verdict on June 30 on rule over Hallmark chairman’s bail plea

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...

Husband to walk gallows for killing wife in Netrokona

Husband to walk gallows for killing wife in Netrokona

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...

Bangladesh logs 1,134 new COVID cases, highest in four months

Bangladesh logs 1,134 new COVID cases, highest in four months

-- 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...

ADB approves $41.4m grant to help Rohingyas

ADB approves $41.4m grant to help Rohingyas

-- 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...

UK allocates over Tk 50m to support flood victims in Sylhet

UK allocates over Tk 50m to support flood victims in Sylhet

-- 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...

Advance train ticket sale for Eid-ul-Azha begins on July 1

Advance train ticket sale for Eid-ul-Azha begins on July 1

-- 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....

Sufferings mount as Kurigram people in need of drinking water, food

Sufferings mount as Kurigram people in need of drinking water, food

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...

Bangladesh didn't compromise on quality of Padma Bridge: PM

Bangladesh didn't compromise on quality of Padma Bridge: PM

-- 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...

US announces Tk 23m emergency relief for Bangladesh as floods claim 36 lives

US announces Tk 23m emergency relief for Bangladesh as floods claim 36 lives

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...

We can’t stop natural disasters but can control damage, says PM

We can’t stop natural disasters but can control damage, says PM

-- 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...

Schoolteacher drowns in floodwaters in Netrakona

Schoolteacher drowns in floodwaters in Netrakona

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...

56K hectares of Aus paddy damaged

56K hectares of Aus paddy damaged

-- 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...