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Activist, campaigning to protect playground, detained with son in Kalabagan

Activist, campaigning to protect playground, detained with son in Kalabagan

-- 2022-04-24 20:56:21

Police have detained an activist, Syeda Ratna, who has actively been campaigning against the construction of an establishment on a playground in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area. 17-year-old son of the a...

32,904 families to get houses on Tuesday

32,904 families to get houses on Tuesday

-- 2022-04-24 20:41:42

As many as 32,904 landless and homeless families across the country will get houses under the third phase of the Ashrayan-2 Project on Tuesday ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will...

Patuakhali’s handwritten newspaper, published by labourer, gains global media coverage

Patuakhali’s handwritten newspaper, published by labourer, gains global media coverage

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-24 20:11:41

Andharmanik, named after a local river, is a bimonthly handwritten newspaper launched by Mohammed Hasan Parvez in West Sonatala village in Patuakhali district, where national dailies rarely reach and...

HC clears way for evicting illegal establishments in Ichamati’s bank

HC clears way for evicting illegal establishments in Ichamati’s bank

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-24 19:42:41

The High Court has cleared the way to evict illegal establishments and occupations built at the bank of Ichamati River in Pabna. The court on Sunday lifted a status quo issued earlier over the evicti...

Chief justice reaches Turkey to join constitutional court’s programme

Chief justice reaches Turkey to join constitutional court’s programme

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-24 19:19:47

Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique reached Turkey on Saturday to join the ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey and he will stay there till April 29....

Three flyovers, Nalka bridge to be opened Monday to tackle Eid rush

Three flyovers, Nalka bridge to be opened Monday to tackle Eid rush

-- 2022-04-24 19:14:23

Three flyovers from Joydebpur to Alenga to Hatikumrul will be opened for traffic on Monday to control the rush on the roads ahead of Eid, according to Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary Md...

‘US will be neutral in Bangladesh election’

‘US will be neutral in Bangladesh election’

-- 2022-04-24 19:03:54

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas has said the US will not take any side in the upcoming elections in Bangladesh and reiterated US commitment across the world to help countries strengthen democra...

Health minister warns travellers of surging Covid cases in India

Health minister warns travellers of surging Covid cases in India

-- 2022-04-24 18:34:11

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has advised travellers making plans to visit India to tread cautiously as COVID-19 cases have been surging in the neighbouring country. In the last 24 hours, according t...

New Market clashes: Police say they find important information from Mokbul

New Market clashes: Police say they find important information from Mokbul

-- 2022-04-24 18:16:59

Police say they have found important information regarding the violent clashes between Dhaka College students and New Market shopkeepers after interrogating Advocate Mokbul Hossain, former president o...

Bangladesh’s digital land tax system chosen 'WSIS Champion' for 2022

Bangladesh’s digital land tax system chosen 'WSIS Champion' for 2022

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-24 17:42:50

Bangladesh’s Digital Land (Development) Tax system, under Ministry of Land, has been chosen as one of the five champion projects of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2022 contes...

Call to ban three-wheelers from highways

Call to ban three-wheelers from highways

-- 2022-04-24 17:37:31

The Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh (PWAB) has called on the authorities to regulate the movement of motorcycles and ban three-wheelers from all highways to reduce the risk of accidents an...

PM directs authorities to take measures for stabilising commodity market

PM directs authorities to take measures for stabilising commodity market

-- 2022-04-24 17:26:38

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities to take stringent measures against those who deliberately drive up prices of essential items. The government is doing its best to control com...

Country experiencing mild to moderate heat wave

Country experiencing mild to moderate heat wave

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-24 17:20:35

A mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over different parts of the country including Dhaka and it may continue to spread in the next 24 hours starting from 9:00am on Sunday. Bazlur Rashid, a meteor...

Spreading happiness through Project Trishna

Spreading happiness through Project Trishna

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-24 17:14:05

Project Trishna, a venture of Footsteps Bangladesh, is working extensively to ensure access to safe water for the marginalised communities in the country. Since 2015 Project Trishna has been working...

517 more diarrhoea patients admitted to icddr,b

517 more diarrhoea patients admitted to icddr,b

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-24 16:51:56

As many as 517 more diarrhoea patients were admitted to the icddr,b, an international health research institute in Dhaka, in the last 15 hours till 3:00 pm on Sunday. AKM Tariful Islam Khan, media ma...

Bangladesh reports 24 fresh Covid cases, zero death

Bangladesh reports 24 fresh Covid cases, zero death

-- 2022-04-24 16:43:36

Bangladesh has logged 24 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,556. The government did not register any fatalities in the 24-hour count and the death toll fr...

Floodwater breaches Chhayar Haor dam in Sunamganj

Floodwater breaches Chhayar Haor dam in Sunamganj

-- 2022-04-24 16:32:38

Floodwaters have streamed into Chhayar Haor (wetlands) in Sunamganj's Shalla after the levee protecting crops broke as rivers and water bodies in the district continued to swell. The dam collapsed un...

New ferry terminal to be launched before Eid

New ferry terminal to be launched before Eid

-- 2022-04-24 15:04:37

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) is working to launch a new ferry terminal at Majhir Ghat in Shariatpur to mitigate the sufferings of homebound people and ensure smooth services dur...

Denmark crown princess due Dhaka on Monday

Denmark crown princess due Dhaka on Monday

-- 2022-04-24 14:44:50

Denmark Crown Princess Mary will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Monday) on a three-day tour to visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar and the climate-vulnerable community in Sundarbans area. During the visit...

Road encroachment in Narayanganj may add to traffic woes during Eid

Road encroachment in Narayanganj may add to traffic woes during Eid

-- 2022-04-24 13:24:32

Markets, factories, and illegal truck stands located next to the Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet highways in Narayanganj may add to traffic woes during Eid travels, according to transport workers an...

People throng Kamalapur to buy train tickets for April 28 Eid trips

People throng Kamalapur to buy train tickets for April 28 Eid trips

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-24 12:15:56

People are swarming Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday, the second day of advance sales of train tickets for the upcoming Eid holidays. Long lines formed at the 16 counters selling the advance ticke...

Pineapple farming makes Narsingdi farmers happy

Pineapple farming makes Narsingdi farmers happy

-- 2022-04-24 10:36:19

NARSINGDI: The honey queen pineapple farming is gaining ground, making many farmers happy in Polash upazila of the district. The high yield of the pineapple variety brings substantial amount of money...

Roadside mkts, work on Dhaka-Ctg highway may affect Eid trips

Roadside mkts, work on Dhaka-Ctg highway may affect Eid trips

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-24 10:23:51

Bus drivers and passengers fear that the ongoing repair work on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway and the sprawling kitchen markets hugging both sides of the road in Cumilla could choke traffic ahead of...

Bangladesh, Mizoram plan to set up 4 border 'haats'

Bangladesh, Mizoram plan to set up 4 border 'haats'

FE REPORT 2022-04-24 10:01:52

Bangladesh and Mizoram, a northeastern state of India, are set to identify potential sites for border 'haats' as Bangladesh's commerce minister Tipu Munshi is now on a three-day visit there, Indian me...

9th anniv of Rana Plaza tragedy today

9th anniv of Rana Plaza tragedy today

FE REPORT 2022-04-24 08:32:35

Today (Sunday) is the ninth anniversary of the world's biggest industrial disaster-Rana Plaza collapse- in Savar of Dhaka. On this day (24th April) in 2013, Rana Plaza building collapsed, killing 1,1...

Enhance budget for education

Enhance budget for education

FE REPORT 2022-04-24 08:09:39

Increased budget for ensuring quality education and teaching, particularly more investment in technical and vocational education and training (TVET), were underscored at a programme Saturday to fit...

Joy says Zia, Ershad formed parties to legitimise illegal seizure of state power

Joy says Zia, Ershad formed parties to legitimise illegal seizure of state power

-- 2022-04-23 22:12:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad formed the political parties to legitimise their illegal seizure of state power, condemning their partie...

Awami League always blames others after committing misdeeds, says Fakhrul

Awami League always blames others after committing misdeeds, says Fakhrul

-- 2022-04-23 22:08:55

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that Awami League’s real character is to shift blame onto others after committing misdeeds itself. "A courier service emplo...

Construction of Ramu-Ghumdhum rail line suspended

Construction of Ramu-Ghumdhum rail line suspended

-- 2022-04-23 21:44:30

Construction of the trans-Asian rail line from Cox’s Bazar’s Ramu to the border union of Ghumdhum has been ‘suspended’ as work on the Myanmar section of the project has not beg...

Mild to moderate heat wave likely to spread across the country

Mild to moderate heat wave likely to spread across the country

-- 2022-04-23 20:54:14

The Met Office has asked the public to brace for hot weather ahead as a mild to moderate heat wave sweeping over Khulna division and the regions of Rajshahi, Pabna, Gopalganj and Patuakhali may contin...