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Bangladesh warns diplomats against interference in its internal affairs

Bangladesh warns diplomats against interference in its internal affairs

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-25 19:41:16

Bangladesh does not expect interference of foreign diplomats in its internal affairs, said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen. As development partners, they naturally may have an interest in our elect...

Covid claims 11 more lives, infects 1,406 more

Covid claims 11 more lives, infects 1,406 more

-- 2022-02-25 17:02:37

Bangladesh has registered 1,406 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally of infections to 1,941,057. As many as 25,667 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 5.48 per cent, ac...

Bangladesh issues helpline numbers for stranded citizens in Ukraine

Bangladesh issues helpline numbers for stranded citizens in Ukraine

-- 2022-02-25 16:28:04

Bangladesh has asked its nationals stranded in Ukraine to contact the country's diplomatic missions in the neighbouring European countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday issued helpline n...

Fire breaks out at Rohingya camp again

Fire breaks out at Rohingya camp again

-- 2022-02-25 16:16:40

A fire has broken out at a Rohingya refugee settlement in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar. Two Fire Service units are working to douse the fire that erupted at the Kutupalong-7 camp around 1:15 p...

Bangladesh advises its citizens in Ukraine to go to Romania

Bangladesh advises its citizens in Ukraine to go to Romania

-- 2022-02-25 16:07:53

Bangladesh has advised its nationals stranded in Ukraine to contact the country's diplomatic missions in the neighbouring European countries while Poland and Romania came forward to provide temporary...

Five of a family hacked to death in Bandarban

Five of a family hacked to death in Bandarban

-- 2022-02-25 15:50:34

The headman of a remote neighbourhood in Ruma upazila of Bandarban district and his four sons have been hacked to death. The incident took place at Abupara in the upazila's Galenga Union around 10:00...

Bridge sans an approach road lying unused for 10 years

Bridge sans an approach road lying unused for 10 years

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETRAKONA 2022-02-25 14:14:50

A bridge built over a canal in the district's Madan upazila has been lying unused for 10 years as it does not have approach roads on either side. Lack of connecting roads is causing immense suffering...

Bangladesh wants peaceful end to Ukraine-Russia crisis through UN Charter

Bangladesh wants peaceful end to Ukraine-Russia crisis through UN Charter

-- 2022-02-25 14:14:30

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has reiterated Bangladesh calls for the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine to be peacefully resolved in line with the Charter of the United Nations, b...

Bangladeshi student in Ukraine pleads for evacuation after Russian attack

Bangladeshi student in Ukraine pleads for evacuation after Russian attack

-- 2022-02-25 10:10:10

The US and its Western allies warned for weeks that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent, but it appeared to Ahmed Fatami Rume even on Wednesday that there would not be a war, Reuters reports....

Bangladesh braces for spillover impacts of Ukraine war

Bangladesh braces for spillover impacts of Ukraine war

FE REPORT 2022-02-25 08:32:50

The latest restrictions on Russia and its attack on Ukraine might send in spillover adversities for Bangladesh's economy, both directly and indirectly, analysts predict. They fear the most immediat...

Bangladesh to continue mass vaccination drive on Friday

Bangladesh to continue mass vaccination drive on Friday

-- 2022-02-24 20:22:18

The government will keep vaccination centres countrywide open on Friday after its announcement that the  mass vaccination drive will not be relaunched after Feb 26 sparked a rush for jabs at walk...

Bangladesh appoints US lobbyist firm to strengthen Dhaka-Washington ties

Bangladesh appoints US lobbyist firm to strengthen Dhaka-Washington ties

-- 2022-02-24 20:10:50

Bangladesh has recently appointed a US lobbyist firm for a year to work for further deepen Dhaka’s relations with Washington, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam confirmed on Thu...

Bangladesh to arrange evacuation flight as Russia attacks Ukraine

Bangladesh to arrange evacuation flight as Russia attacks Ukraine

-- 2022-02-24 19:28:45

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam has said the government will arrange chartered flights to bring back Bangladeshis who would leave warn-stricken Ukraine and arrive in neighbouring...

Vaccine certificate needed for services at DNCC from Mar 1

Vaccine certificate needed for services at DNCC from Mar 1

-- 2022-02-24 18:46:26

People must produce records showing they have taken at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine while seeking services at the Dhaka North City Corporation from Mar 1, said Mayor Md Atiqul Islam. Ot...

Malaysia keen to hire Bangladeshi workers

Malaysia keen to hire Bangladeshi workers

-- 2022-02-24 18:46:06

Malaysia is keen to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh particularly for the plantation sector, visiting Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Zuraida Kamaruddin has said. The...

BNP announce 11-day programme to protest price hike

BNP announce 11-day programme to protest price hike

-- 2022-02-24 18:06:54

BNP and its associate bodies have worked out an 11-day countrywide programme, including demonstrations, to protest the growing price hike of key commodities and utility services. The programmes have...

Bangladesh planning ways to move its citizens from Ukraine to Poland

Bangladesh planning ways to move its citizens from Ukraine to Poland

-- 2022-02-24 17:37:24

Bangladesh on Thursday asked its nationals in Ukraine "to move to safer places" with Kyiv closing its airspace amid a Russian invasion while the country's embassy in Poland is exploring ways to give B...

HC disposed of writ filed by Tafsir Awal over ACC's travel ban

HC disposed of writ filed by Tafsir Awal over ACC's travel ban

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-24 17:21:10

The High Court has disposed of a writ petition filed by Tafsir Awal, one of the Directors of Multimode Group Limited, challenging the legality of a travel ban on him by the Anti-Corruption Commission...

Covid-19 death toll tops 29,000 in Bangladesh

Covid-19 death toll tops 29,000 in Bangladesh

-- 2022-02-24 17:10:15

Bangladesh has recorded 10 deaths from the coronavirus in a day, taking the total toll from the disease to 29,005. The country also registered 1,516 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total caseload to 1...

Building owner of Evaly office asked to cooperate court-appointed body

Building owner of Evaly office asked to cooperate court-appointed body

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-24 16:58:12

The High Court has asked the building owner of the Evaly office to extend his all-out cooperation to the court-appointed board of directors of the organisation and their appointed auditor to carry out...

Bangladeshis in Ukraine live in fear as war drums echo in Europe

Bangladeshis in Ukraine live in fear as war drums echo in Europe

-- 2022-02-24 08:20:33

Even three days ago, Mahbub Alam, a Bangladeshi businessman in Ukraine, was in his homeland. He then flew to Kyiv full of worries. Mahbub is trying to grasp what might happen in the coming days as are...

D-8 countries have potential to emerge as powerful economic block, PM says

D-8 countries have potential to emerge as powerful economic block, PM says

-- 2022-02-23 22:15:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the D-8 countries collectively have a great potential to emerge as a powerful economic block. She made the remarks when Secretary General of D-8 Organiz...

Three burned to death in Ashulia footwear factory fire

Three burned to death in Ashulia footwear factory fire

-- 2022-02-23 20:48:50

At least three people were burned to death and 15 others injured as a massive fire broke out at a footwear factory in Ashulia of Savar Wednesday afternoon. The identities of the deceased-two men and...

EC search committee to submit 10 names to president Thursday

EC search committee to submit 10 names to president Thursday

-- 2022-02-23 20:01:47

President M Abdul Hamid will get the search committee's 10 names to constitute an Election Commission (EC) with picking up one for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and four others for election co...

Campaign begins to vaccinate 10,000 fishermen in Dublarchar

Campaign begins to vaccinate 10,000 fishermen in Dublarchar

-- 2022-02-23 18:58:35

A campaign to vaccinate 10,000 fishers against Covid-19 is underway in the remote Bay of Bengal fishing island of Dublarchar off Sundarbans. A 40-member medical team joined the campaign launched on T...

Khaleda receives Covid booster dose

Khaleda receives Covid booster dose

-- 2022-02-23 18:45:24

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia received the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at Sheikh Russel Gastroliver Institute and Hospital on Wednesday. She took the Pfizer shot as her booster dose at the hos...

Writ petition filed seeking probe into ACC official Sharif’s termination

Writ petition filed seeking probe into ACC official Sharif’s termination

-- 2022-02-23 18:37:49

A writ petition was filed before the High Court seeking a probe into the termination of Sharif Uddin, an officer of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Ten lawyers of the Supreme Court filed the wr...

Ashulia market catches fire

Ashulia market catches fire

-- 2022-02-23 18:32:51

A fire broke out at a market in Ashulia of Savar Wednesday afternoon. According to fire service sources, the fire broke out on the ground floor of the three-story Rupayan Mart building  around 5...

Nilkhet book traders say fire destroys their dreams of better days

Nilkhet book traders say fire destroys their dreams of better days

-- 2022-02-23 18:19:33

Traders in Nilkhet, the largest book market in Dhaka, have been struggling with the impact of the pandemic. And just when hope seemed on the horizon, a devastating blaze has ruined their hard work. &...

Election in Bangladesh became a tale of murder and horror, says GM Quader

Election in Bangladesh became a tale of murder and horror, says GM Quader

-- 2022-02-23 17:59:58

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Wednesday said the election in Bangladesh has now become a name of killing and horror. “The electoral system has collapsed in the country. It’s now the...