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Govt plans to continue onion imports during Ramadan

Govt plans to continue onion imports during Ramadan

-- 2022-03-29 16:23:26

The Ministry of Agriculture plans to allow the import of onions during the month of Ramadan in a bid to protect the interests of consumers and farmers in Bangladesh. Rebuffing reports indicating that...

Rain likely in Dhaka: Met Office

Rain likely in Dhaka: Met Office

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-29 15:37:46

Several places, including Dhaka, are likely to witness rainfall in the next 24 hours, the Met Office has said in a forecast commencing 9:00 am. Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squ...

769 diarrhoea patients admitted to icddr,b

769 diarrhoea patients admitted to icddr,b

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-29 14:53:46

As many as 769 diarrhoea patients were admitted to the icddr,b, an international health research institute in Dhaka, in the 14 hours till 2:00pm on Tuesday. AKM Tariful Islam Khan, media manager, icd...

Badda fire: Death toll rises to three

Badda fire: Death toll rises to three

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-29 14:44:27

A seven-year-old child, who suffered burns in a fire sparked by a suspected gas leak in Dhaka's Badda, died after losing both of his parents in the incident. It brings the death toll from the fire to...

PM asks armed forces to be in readiness for safeguarding independence, sovereignty

PM asks armed forces to be in readiness for safeguarding independence, sovereignty

-- 2022-03-29 13:47:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Bangladesh Armed Forces personnel to always be ready to protect the country's independence and sovereignty, BSS reports. "We don't want to engage in war wit...

ACC quizzes former BB officials SK Sur, Shah Alam over loan scam

ACC quizzes former BB officials SK Sur, Shah Alam over loan scam

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-29 13:03:45

Former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank SK Sur Chowdhury and Executive Director Shah Alam are being questioned by the Anti-Corruption Commission over a loan scandal involving the International Leasi...

Many Bangladeshi expats in Malaysia yet to complete biometric registration

Many Bangladeshi expats in Malaysia yet to complete biometric registration

ARAFAT ARA 2022-03-29 08:48:48

A significant number of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia are facing uncertainty over regularisation of their job status under the Labour Recalibration Programme (LRP) as they are yet to go through bi...

Libya’s security force detains Bangladeshi journalist, engineer

Libya’s security force detains Bangladeshi journalist, engineer

-- 2022-03-28 23:21:47

Authorities of Bangladesh have received information on the whereabouts of a Bangladeshi journalist and an engineer, who went missing with their Libyan chauffeur. SM Shamim-Uz-Zaman, the ambassador of...

Medical college student Aqib’s skull bone replaced successfully

Medical college student Aqib’s skull bone replaced successfully

-- 2022-03-28 23:08:03

A team of surgeons successfully replaced Chittagong Medical College Hospital student Mahadi J Aqib’s skull bone, which was damaged during a clash between two factions of the Chhatra League last...

Dhaka court jails ex-Niko boss for bribing former state minister

Dhaka court jails ex-Niko boss for bribing former state minister

-- 2022-03-28 22:51:35

A Dhaka court has sentenced Kashem Sharif, a former president of Niko Resources Limited Bangladesh, to five years in prison for bribing former state minister AKM Mosharraf Hossain with a car worth Tk...

Three Belarus citizens sent to jail in Kazakhstan national murder case

Three Belarus citizens sent to jail in Kazakhstan national murder case

-- 2022-03-28 22:43:45

A murder case was filed at Ishwardi Police Station in Pabna on Sunday night over the death of a Kazakhstan national in the residential area of the Rooppur power plant project in the district. Shvets...

President visits various development projects in Kishoreganj

President visits various development projects in Kishoreganj

-- 2022-03-28 22:25:36

President Md. Abdul Hamid on Monday visited various development projects of Mithamain and Itna Upazilas in the Kishoreganj district. He inquired about the progress made in the projects, including Has...

Momen in Colombo to attend 18th ministerial BIMSTEC meeting Tuesday

Momen in Colombo to attend 18th ministerial BIMSTEC meeting Tuesday

-- 2022-03-28 22:03:15

The eighteenth ministerial meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) opens in the Sri Lankan capital on Tuesday as the members explore way...

icddr,b registers 8,500 cases of diarrhoea over a week

icddr,b registers 8,500 cases of diarrhoea over a week

-- 2022-03-28 21:05:23

An alarming rise in diarrhoea cases has become a cause for concern for cholera hospital at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. As many as 8,500 patients streamed int...

Tourism fair of TOAB to start Wednesday

Tourism fair of TOAB to start Wednesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-28 21:04:21

Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh (TOAB) is going to organise a three-day tourism fair from Wednesday to promote tourism in Bangladesh. The 10th edition of the fair, under the banner ‘M...

Legal notice served to resume primary teachers’ transfer process

Legal notice served to resume primary teachers’ transfer process

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-28 20:16:40

A legal notice has been sent to the concerned bodies of the government demanding to resume the transfer process of the government primary school teachers across the country within seven days. Primary...

Rape case against ex-SCBA secretary Mehedi, HC grants anticipatory bail for six weeks   

Rape case against ex-SCBA secretary Mehedi, HC grants anticipatory bail for six weeks  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-03-28 20:13:20

Rape allegation has been raised against Supreme Court lawyer Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi, who is also a former secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). A fellow lawyer of his chamber file...

Cabinet approves draft of Ansar Battalion Act 2022

Cabinet approves draft of Ansar Battalion Act 2022

-- 2022-03-28 19:37:25

The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of 'Ansar Battalion Act, 2022' keeping death penalty as the maximum punishment for serious offences like attempt to revolt, participation or provocation in suc...

Office timing for Ramadan to be 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

Office timing for Ramadan to be 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

-- 2022-03-28 17:51:04

The government has rearranged the office timing for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm for all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions. The de...

Shahjahanpur double murder suspect put on seven-day remand

Shahjahanpur double murder suspect put on seven-day remand

-- 2022-03-28 17:44:11

The detective branch of police has been granted seven days to grill Masum Mohammad Akash over his suspected links to the killings of two people, including Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu, in Dh...

Bomb attack at Benapole port leaves dozens injured, halts trade

Bomb attack at Benapole port leaves dozens injured, halts trade

-- 2022-03-28 17:23:28

Unknown attackers exploded home-made bombs in a bid to take control of Benapole land port's contracting job on Monday, leaving at least 20 workers and several pedestrians injured. The import and expo...

Bangladesh logs one Covid death, 81 infections in 24hrs

Bangladesh logs one Covid death, 81 infections in 24hrs

-- 2022-03-28 17:02:23

Bangladesh has registered 81 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the total caseload from the disease to 1,951,363. The government recorded another death related to the disease, raising the total t...

'Biman to resume Dhaka-New York flights soon'

'Biman to resume Dhaka-New York flights soon'

-- 2022-03-28 16:36:40

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has taken all preparations to resume direct flights between Dhaka and New York shortly, said State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mahbub Ali. “We have come a...

Building catches fire in Old Dhaka

Building catches fire in Old Dhaka

-- 2022-03-28 16:30:52

A fire broke out in a multistoried building in Islampur area of Old Dhaka on Monday. The fire broke out at Royal Tower around 2:10 pm and spread soon, said Md Shahjahan Shikdar, Deputy assistant dire...

US sanctions on RAB are outrageous, says PM Hasina

US sanctions on RAB are outrageous, says PM Hasina

-- 2022-03-28 16:14:31

The US decision to sanction members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is ‘outrageous’, says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “I want to be clear – we punish any member of our l...

Leftist alliance calls nationwide protests for Tuesday

Leftist alliance calls nationwide protests for Tuesday

-- 2022-03-28 14:23:08

The Left Democratic Alliance has called nationwide protests for Tuesday against the baton charge and firing of teargas shells by police on protesters at the Paltan intersection, bdnews24.com reports....

Rain likely to continue in parts of country

Rain likely to continue in parts of country

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-28 12:59:00

Several places across Bangladesh are likely to continue witnessing rainfall in the next 24-hour, said a met office bulletin on Monday. Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has forecast rain/thu...

Protesters block Shahbagh, Paltan over price spirals

Protesters block Shahbagh, Paltan over price spirals

-- 2022-03-28 11:53:17

Protesters have blocked traffic at Shahbagh and Paltan intersections at the start of the half-day strike called by the Left Democratic Alliance to protest the soaring prices of edible oil and other es...

Tobacco farming goes unabated in Cox's Bazar

Tobacco farming goes unabated in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT, COX'S BAZAR 2022-03-28 11:48:39

Tobacco farming is increasing day by day in the villages of Cox's Bazar. This new trend of cultivation is not only making the soil lose its fertility but also posing threats to the environment and bi...

‘Three-year-old baby informed neighbours about murder of her mother’

‘Three-year-old baby informed neighbours about murder of her mother’

-- 2022-03-27 23:15:51

A woman, Tania Akter, was living at a flat on the first floor of a building at Begunbari Master Goli in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh area with her 3-year-old daughter and 10-month old son. Her husband Mai...