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EU provides €0.2m to support flood victims in Bangladesh

EU provides €0.2m to support flood victims in Bangladesh

-- 2022-06-07 18:46:06

The European Union (EU) is allocating €0.20 million to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to families affected by the flash floods in north eastern Bangladesh. The aid will benefit over 2...

Monkeypox infected foreign national not true, says Health Ministry  

Monkeypox infected foreign national not true, says Health Ministry  

-- 2022-06-07 18:32:03

No one has been infected with monkeypox virus in Bangladesh yet, said the Health Ministry on Tuesday. A report on the detection of a monkeypox infected foreign national in Bangladesh which is circula...

Dhaka’s role sought to save SAARC from ongoing difficulties

Dhaka’s role sought to save SAARC from ongoing difficulties

-- 2022-06-07 18:02:11

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Secretary General Esala Weerakoon has appealed to Bangladesh for its "intervention" to save the SAARC process from the existing "difficulties."...

75 dengue patients undergoing treatment at hospitals

75 dengue patients undergoing treatment at hospitals

-- 2022-06-07 17:35:58

Bangladesh registered 17 more dengue cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning. Among the new patients, sixteen were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and another was hospitalized outside the cap...

HC orders to complete Nazmul Huda’s trial in six months

HC orders to complete Nazmul Huda’s trial in six months

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-07 17:17:57

The High Court HAS summarily rejected a petition filed by former communication minister Nazmul Huda to cancel trial proceedings of a case filed against him by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on...

Strike halts trade at Benapole land port

Strike halts trade at Benapole land port

-- 2022-06-07 17:09:40

Export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through Jashore’s Benapole land port remained suspended on Tuesday as a union strike continued over a list of demands. The strike called by...

Bangladesh reports 54 new Covid cases, zero death

Bangladesh reports 54 new Covid cases, zero death

-- 2022-06-07 17:00:13

Bangladesh has registered 54 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,754. But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from t...

Remains of two victims recovered from BM Depot debris

Remains of two victims recovered from BM Depot debris

-- 2022-06-07 15:57:17

The fire service says it has recovered the remains of two more people from the BM Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda. Earlier, the authorities lowered the death toll from the deadly fire to 41, re...

New Zealand changed the ball and lost the game

New Zealand changed the ball and lost the game

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-06-07 15:56:12

The 1st Test between England and New Zealand had all the reasons to be remembered for Joe Root only. However, the game was enthralling even keeping Root out of the picture.  The game of extremel...

Container depot fire under control after 60 hours, says army

Container depot fire under control after 60 hours, says army

-- 2022-06-07 15:13:13

The deadly fire at BM Container Depot at Sitakunda was brought under control on Tuesday morning after over 60 hours, said the Army, news agency UNB reported.  "We have been able to control the f...

Japan wants to sell military hardware to BD

Japan wants to sell military hardware to BD

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-07 14:48:16

Japan wants to sell military hardware to Bangladesh, said Naoki Ito, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, on Tuesday. Recently, a Japanese company came and met officials to assess Bangladesh’s in...

BNP blockade halts traffic in Khagrachhari

BNP blockade halts traffic in Khagrachhari

-- 2022-06-07 14:14:01

A 24-hour blockade by the BNP in protest of the vandalism of ex-MP Wadud Bhuiyan’s property has halted the movement of vehicles in Khagrachhari, causing suffering among tourists, bdnews24.com re...

Historic 6-Point Day today

Historic 6-Point Day today

-- 2022-06-07 13:49:06

The historic Six-Point Day, marking the demand for autonomy for the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, is being observed today, Tuesday, across the country in a befitting manner, BSS reports. On Jun...

Fire-ravaged BM depot had no clearance to store chemicals, says DoE

Fire-ravaged BM depot had no clearance to store chemicals, says DoE

-- 2022-06-07 12:20:55

Authorities of the Dutch-Bangla joint venture BM Container Depot in Sitakunda are not cleared to store chemicals by the Department of Environment, bdnews24.com reports. Following the deadly fire and...

BM Container Depot fire: Search for bodies, DNA testing go on

BM Container Depot fire: Search for bodies, DNA testing go on

FE REPORT 2022-06-07 08:40:23

Desperate search for missing people and bodies continued, and the inferno at the BM Container Depot Ltd in Sitakunda, Chattogram, was yet to be doused even after 44 hours of the incident. People were...

Banks, utilities oppose EC’s plan to allow defaulters to contest in polls

Banks, utilities oppose EC’s plan to allow defaulters to contest in polls

-- 2022-06-06 22:52:07

Banks and utilities have objected to a plan of the Election Commission (EC) to allow some defaulters to stand in polls. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said the EC would decide later wh...

Firefighters continue efforts for third day to douse Chattogram depot fire

Firefighters continue efforts for third day to douse Chattogram depot fire

-- 2022-06-06 22:20:22

The firefighters continued their efforts for the third consecutive day on Monday to douse completely the devastating container depot fire in Chattogram. According to BSS, the entire BM Container Depo...

Physicians should stay beside people with vow of providing services: PM

Physicians should stay beside people with vow of providing services: PM

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

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the country’s physicians to stay beside people with a vow of providing services as it’s not just a profession. “It’s not just a pr...

PM to address nation June 14 on eve of population census

PM to address nation June 14 on eve of population census

-- 2022-06-06 21:05:18

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on June 14 on the eve of the start of countrywide population and household census, Planning Minister MA Mannan told the parliament on Monday. The...

Bangladesh for strengthening SAARC food bank to combat crisis

Bangladesh for strengthening SAARC food bank to combat crisis

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2022-06-06 19:15:28

In the wake of global food crisis, Bangladesh has proposed to strengthen the SAARC food bank. The proposal was made when visiting SAARC Secretary General Esala Ruwan Weerakoon met the high ups of the...

Army identifies four chemical containers at Chattogram depot after fire

Army identifies four chemical containers at Chattogram depot after fire

-- 2022-06-06 18:55:29

A team of experts from the Bangladesh Army has identified four containers carrying chemicals at the depot where a devastating fire and explosions killed at least 41 people in Chattogram's Sitakunda....

Bagerhat’s heritage sites face uncertain future due to climate change

Bagerhat’s heritage sites face uncertain future due to climate change

-- 2022-06-06 18:19:30

Since the 15th century, southern Bangladesh's "Mosque City", dominated by the imposing brick Sixty Dome Mosque, has been a pilgrimage destination for pious Bangladeshis and for tourists. "I believe i...

‘Stern action against those responsible for Sitakunda fire’

‘Stern action against those responsible for Sitakunda fire’

-- 2022-06-06 17:58:59

People responsible for the devastating fire at the BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda will face justice following an investigation, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. He visited t...

Square’s Anjan Chowdhury gets anticipatory bail   

Square’s Anjan Chowdhury gets anticipatory bail  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-06-06 17:56:57

The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Anjan Chowdhury, one of the key stakeholders of the Square Group, for six weeks in a case filed on charge of hoarding 4,812 tonnes of extra aromat...

Nine fire-fighters die while trying to douse Sitakunda fire

Nine fire-fighters die while trying to douse Sitakunda fire

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-06 17:08:47

At least nine fire-fighters were killed and three went missing in their attempt to douse a massive fire which swept through a container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh's fire...

Ctg depot fire: UN for joint efforts in addressing “safety deficits” in workplaces

Ctg depot fire: UN for joint efforts in addressing “safety deficits” in workplaces

-- 2022-06-06 16:08:34

The United Nations (UN) has said the tragic accident at the BM Container depot in Chattogram is reminder of the need to work together towards effective industrial and enterprise safety frameworks and...

Bangladesh reports 43 new Covid cases, no death

Bangladesh reports 43 new Covid cases, no death

-- 2022-06-06 16:01:54

Bangladesh has registered 43 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,700. But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from t...

Six to walk gallows for rape, double murder

Six to walk gallows for rape, double murder

-- 2022-06-06 15:42:23

A Narayanganj court has sentenced six men to death for gangraping a woman and then killing her and her husband in 2009. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Nazmul Haque Shyamol...

Landslide kills four of a family in Sylhet

Landslide kills four of a family in Sylhet

-- 2022-06-06 15:36:37

Four members of a family including a five-year-old boy were killed and eight others injured as a landslide demolished their house in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet early Monday, said police. The decease...

Flood situation in parts of country likely to worsen further

Flood situation in parts of country likely to worsen further

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-06-06 14:33:27

Flood situation in some parts of Bangladesh is likely to worsen further as all the major rivers of the northern & north-eastern regions of the country are on the rising trend, according to a bulle...