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Experts link climate change with floods

Experts link climate change with floods

ARAFAT ARA 2022-06-22 09:21:22

There is a strong relationship between climate change and the early monsoon that has led to flash-floods across the border in India and major portions of Sylhet division in Bangladesh, leaving million...

Sufferings mount in flood-hit northeast

Sufferings mount in flood-hit northeast

FE REPORT 2022-06-22 09:12:14

People in the worst flood-affected northeastern districts of the country are suffering increasingly as lack of necessary food, sanitation and pure drinking water has intensified. Though river current...

Sonali Bank officials sued for 'embezzling' Tk 3.23 million

Sonali Bank officials sued for 'embezzling' Tk 3.23 million

-- 2022-06-21 23:33:40

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against 21 officials of Sonali Bank and One Spinning Mills Ltd for embezzling Tk 3.23 million from the bank. The case was filed with the Dhaka...

Awami League always stands beside countrymen during any disaster: Hasan Mahmud

Awami League always stands beside countrymen during any disaster: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-06-21 22:45:04

Awami League’s Joint General Secretary Hasan Mahmud has said Awami League always stands beside the countrymen during any disaster and it is a culture and tradition of the party. "Politics is fo...

BNP to begin a fundraising campaign for flood-hit people

BNP to begin a fundraising campaign for flood-hit people

-- 2022-06-21 22:35:12

Slamming the ruling party leaders for not visiting the flood-affected areas, BNP on Tuesday decided to collect money from common people to help the flood-marooned people in the northeast region. The...

0.1m people marooned in Kishoreganj flood

0.1m people marooned in Kishoreganj flood

-- 2022-06-21 21:54:30

More than one lakh people of 62 unions under nine upazilas of Kishoreganj have become marooned as flood water increased at all rivers in the district. A total of 12,748 families in the district have...

Flood claims 22 lives in Sylhet division in seven days

Flood claims 22 lives in Sylhet division in seven days

-- 2022-06-21 20:52:20

Twenty-two people have died in recent floods in Sylhet division since June 15, said Divisional Health Director Himangshu Lal Roy on Tuesday. “We have received information that 22 people have di...

Status quo on tribunal’s decision over tax payment by Dr Kamal’s law firm

Status quo on tribunal’s decision over tax payment by Dr Kamal’s law firm

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-21 20:47:28

The High Court on Tuesday directed to maintain the status quo for three months on the decision passed by the Taxes Appellate Tribunal in Dhaka regarding tax claim of Tk 60.98 million by the income tax...

Korea, Japan, India congratulate Bangladesh on occasion of Padma Bridge inauguration

Korea, Japan, India congratulate Bangladesh on occasion of Padma Bridge inauguration

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-21 20:31:40

Korea, Japan and India have congratulated the people and the government of Bangladesh on the occasion of the inauguration of the Padma Bridge. Conveying his ‘heartfelt congratulations’, K...

DSCC to launch 200 more buses on three routes from September 1

DSCC to launch 200 more buses on three routes from September 1

-- 2022-06-21 20:29:51

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will launch 200 more buses on three routes from September 1 under the Dhaka Nagar Paribahan service. Dhaka South City Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh came up with t...

Bangladesh reports first dengue death of this season

Bangladesh reports first dengue death of this season

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-21 19:53:21

The first dengue death of the season has been reported on Tuesday and 27 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne disease in different hospitals in Dhaka in the last 24 hours. Among the...

‘Earn public trust as last resort for their safety’

‘Earn public trust as last resort for their safety’

-- 2022-06-21 19:05:15

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the police force to gain people’s trust as their last resort in protecting lives and dignity. "In our country, the police will also have to acqu...

Over 56,000 hectares croplands of Aush paddy damaged

Over 56,000 hectares croplands of Aush paddy damaged

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-21 18:17:27

About 56,000 hectares croplands of Aush paddy have been damaged so far due to the recent flood situation in the country, Agriculture minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque has said. The ongoing flood ha...

PKSF allocates Tk 20m to support flood victims

PKSF allocates Tk 20m to support flood victims

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-21 17:10:53

Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) has initially allocated Tk 20 million to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to the flood-hit people of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts. The fund is being s...

Bangladesh logs 874 new Covid cases, one death

Bangladesh logs 874 new Covid cases, one death

-- 2022-06-21 17:06:33

Bangladesh has recorded 874 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,958,074. The death toll from the disease climbed by one in 24 hours to 29,133, according to the lat...

BRTC to launch AC buses on 23 routes via Padma Bridge on Jun 26

BRTC to launch AC buses on 23 routes via Padma Bridge on Jun 26

-- 2022-06-21 17:02:05

The state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation will launch air-conditioned buses on 23 routes in the southwest on Jun 26 after the inauguration of the Padma Bridge. Initially, 65 AC buses will...

Sylhet flood: Mother, son swept away by floodwaters found dead

Sylhet flood: Mother, son swept away by floodwaters found dead

-- 2022-06-21 16:54:26

The bodies of a woman and her son have been found three days after they were swept away by floodwaters in Sylhet’s Jaintapur. The bodies were recovered from the haor in Darbasta Union at 9 am o...

Build infrastructure with floods in mind: PM

Build infrastructure with floods in mind: PM

-- 2022-06-21 13:30:06

The people of Bangladesh are always confronting natural disasters and the infrastructure in disaster-prone regions should be built accordingly, says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, bdnews24.com reports....

Children in Bangladesh call for more spending on education, health and protection: Unicef

Children in Bangladesh call for more spending on education, health and protection: Unicef

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-21 13:17:12

Nine in ten Bangladeshi children say that it is very important for the government to spend more on education, health and other areas that directly impact children, according to a new UNICEF survey....

PM reaches Sylhet to inspect flood-ravaged areas

PM reaches Sylhet to inspect flood-ravaged areas

-- 2022-06-21 11:54:23

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Sylhet to extend her support to millions of people marooned in Bangladesh's flood-ravaged northeast. Hasina left Dhaka by helicopter on Tuesday morning to obs...

Padma Bridge: BRTC bus service likely after inauguration

Padma Bridge: BRTC bus service likely after inauguration

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-06-21 09:16:04

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) plans to start bus services with all south-western districts through Padma Bridge after its opening on June 25. After groundwork, the BRTC has decided...

Russia terms it a true game changer

Russia terms it a true game changer

FE REPORT 2022-06-21 08:56:35

Terming the Padma Bridge 'a true game changer', Russia on Monday said the bridge would offer multiple opportunities in terms of regional trade, investments, connectivity, employment, tourism and man...

‘Landmark in Sino-Bangla bond’

‘Landmark in Sino-Bangla bond’

FE REPORT 2022-06-21 08:54:21

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming says Padma Multipurpose Bridge is a milestone in the field of China-Bangladesh cooperation. "I feel particularly proud of and connected to the bridge, not...

Millions cry for food, safe water

Millions cry for food, safe water

YASIR WARDAD 2022-06-21 08:43:07

Water level in rivers fell slightly, but sufferings of 5.5-million people marooned mounted further in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Netrakona -- the three worst-hit districts -- amid shortages of food, sanita...

Former secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed dies aged 80

Former secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed dies aged 80

-- 2022-06-20 22:49:29

Former secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed, the first Bangladeshi diplomat in Europe to defect from Pakistan during the 1971 Liberation War, has died at the age of 80. He breathed his last at his home in Dhaka...

Meditation Day prize giving ceremony Tuesday  

Meditation Day prize giving ceremony Tuesday  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-20 22:34:38

The prize giving ceremony for the winners of various competitions on the theme World Meditation Day will be held on Tuesday marking the World Yoga Day (June 21). Quantum Foundation organised the comp...

Dhaka court refuses to hear bail petitions of four NSU trustees         

Dhaka court refuses to hear bail petitions of four NSU trustees      

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-06-20 22:14:41

A Dhaka court on Monday refused to hold a hearing on the bail petitions submitted for four members of North South University's (NSU) trustee board in a Tk 3.03 billion money laundering case. The four...

No toll to cross three bridges on Padma Bridge opening day

No toll to cross three bridges on Padma Bridge opening day

-- 2022-06-20 21:35:37

The government has exempted travellers from paying toll to cross three bridges on the day of Padma Bridge's inauguration. The three bridges on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Highway Corridor a...

Bangladesh-India agree to work together to offset shock of war

Bangladesh-India agree to work together to offset shock of war

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-20 21:26:05

In the Seventh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting, Bangladesh and India have agreed to work together to offset the negative impacts of the Ukraine war on the regional economy, said Foreign Mi...

HC orders regular audit on fined-money realised by mobile courts

HC orders regular audit on fined-money realised by mobile courts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-20 21:05:28

The High Court on Monday directed the concerned bodies of the government to carry out an audit into the fined-money realised by the mobile courts across the country every year. It also asked the auth...