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High Court orders emergency steps against mosquito menace at Dhaka airport 

High Court orders emergency steps against mosquito menace at Dhaka airport 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-20 19:12:42

The High Court has ordered the concerned bodies of the government to take necessary steps on an emergency basis to curb mosquito menace at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The court a...

PM vows to continue efforts to flourish Bangla language, culture

PM vows to continue efforts to flourish Bangla language, culture

-- 2022-02-20 17:55:21

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the government is actively engaging in efforts to further elevate the status of the Bangla language and Bengali culture in the international sphere. She mad...

IsDB provides Bangladesh $56m to improve sanitation, hygiene

IsDB provides Bangladesh $56m to improve sanitation, hygiene

-- 2022-02-20 17:48:18

Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) will provide US$56 million to improve sanitation and hygiene services for 1.4 million people of 10 priority towns in Bangladesh. A loan deal in this regard was signed...

Manikganj villagers still resort to bamboo crossing four years after a bridge collapsed,

Manikganj villagers still resort to bamboo crossing four years after a bridge collapsed,

-- 2022-02-20 17:39:58

Four years ago, a concrete bridge collapsed in Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila. And yet, local residents have been unable to get another built in its place. Villagers from Babupur have, instead,...

Bangladesh logs 21 Covid fatalities, 1,987 cases

Bangladesh logs 21 Covid fatalities, 1,987 cases

-- 2022-02-20 17:16:43

Bangladesh has registered 1,987 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in a day since Jan 9, taking the total caseload to 1,933,291. As many as 25,405 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity...

Primary schools to reopen on March 1

Primary schools to reopen on March 1

-- 2022-02-20 17:07:41

Bangladesh will resume in-person classes at all educational institutions, including primary schools, on Mar 1 in strict compliance with health directives amid the coronavirus pandemic. No new pandemi...

Bangladesh to lift Covid restrictions on Feb 22

Bangladesh to lift Covid restrictions on Feb 22

-- 2022-02-20 17:00:00

The government has decided not to extend the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions anymore from February 22, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam has said. "A clear instruction has been given to reopen s...

Supreme Court lawyers sent letter to HC seeking security of dismissed  ACC official

Supreme Court lawyers sent letter to HC seeking security of dismissed ACC official

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-20 15:20:23

Ten Supreme Court lawyers have sent a letter to the High Court seeking the security of life of recently laid off Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) official Sharif Uddin.  The letter was sent to t...

UNDP, BRAC tie up for expediting poverty reduction in Bangladesh

UNDP, BRAC tie up for expediting poverty reduction in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-20 14:53:58

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and BRAC partnered to enhance the effectiveness of poverty eradication and make these efforts more impactful to ensure inclusive growth for Bangladesh....

Quazi Rosy, former MP and award-winning poet, passes away

Quazi Rosy, former MP and award-winning poet, passes away

-- 2022-02-20 13:59:02

Former member of parliament and Ekushey Padak-winning poet Quazi Rosy has died at the age of 74, bdnews24.com reports. She passed away at 2:30 am on Sunday morning while receiving treatment at Square...

Dhanu River damages Rasulpur market

Dhanu River damages Rasulpur market

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETRAKONA 2022-02-20 12:45:13

The Dhanu River has turned turbulent suddenly during this spring as it devoured the Rasulpur market adjacent to Khaliajuri upazila headquarters in Netrakona district. Now Rasulpur village and a large...

Rain likely in Dhaka as well: Met Office

Rain likely in Dhaka as well: Met Office

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-20 12:32:45

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at some places of seven divisions including Dhaka in the next 24-hour beginning from this morning, according to a weather...

We have nothing to comment on Bangladesh’s elections, India’s envoy says

We have nothing to comment on Bangladesh’s elections, India’s envoy says

-- 2022-02-19 23:36:36

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has said they have ‘absolutely nothing’ to comment on the election issue of Bangladesh. "This is an internal issue of Bangla...

Police Headquarters moves to cancel IGP’s Germany tour

Police Headquarters moves to cancel IGP’s Germany tour

-- 2022-02-19 22:50:37

Police have written to the home ministry to cancel Inspector General Benazir Ahmed’s planned visit to Germany following a criticism on social media over the tour. Assistant Inspector General Md...

Experts urge journalists to highlight success stories of female migrants

Experts urge journalists to highlight success stories of female migrants

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-19 22:17:13

Migration experts, researchers and officials have opined that the journalists can open up new opportunities for female migration by highlighting the success stories of female migrants. They said such...

Bags not allowed inside Shaheed Minar on Feb 21

Bags not allowed inside Shaheed Minar on Feb 21

-- 2022-02-19 18:28:05

No bags will be allowed inside the Central Shaheed Minar as part of the six-tier security system centring which Dhaka Metropolitan Police have put in place ahead of the Feb 21 Martyrs Day and Internat...

Ex-DUCSU member erects open-air library on DU campus ‘without permission’

Ex-DUCSU member erects open-air library on DU campus ‘without permission’

-- 2022-02-19 18:20:55

Just across the TSC at the western entrance to Suhrawardy Udyan an open-air makeshift ‘library’ has sprung up recently raising some eyebrows. Tanvir Hasan Saikat, a former member of Dhaka...

Woman facing murder charges over deaths of her twin daughters

Woman facing murder charges over deaths of her twin daughters

-- 2022-02-19 18:14:52

A woman is facing murder charges over the deaths of her twin daughters in Khulna’s Terokhada Upazila. Masum Billah, father of the victims, started a case against Kaniz Fatema Kona with Terokhad...

Sunamganj pharmacy owner, two others sliced woman’s body after rape, CID says

Sunamganj pharmacy owner, two others sliced woman’s body after rape, CID says

-- 2022-02-19 18:07:29

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police have arrested three people for their suspected involvement in slicing the body of a woman after raping her in a Sunamganj pharmacy. The arrestees are...

Search committee shortlists 20 candidates for EC

Search committee shortlists 20 candidates for EC

-- 2022-02-19 17:07:28

The panel tasked with nominating candidates for the next Election Commission has shortlisted 20 names for the posts of chief commissioner and other commissioners. The committee, headed by Justice Oba...

Daily Covid cases and deaths hit one-month low in Bangladesh

Daily Covid cases and deaths hit one-month low in Bangladesh

-- 2022-02-19 16:58:16

Bangladesh has registered 2,150 new COVID-19 cases, the fewest in a day since Jan 9, taking the total caseload to 1,931,304.As many as 24,698 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity r...

Panel meets to finalise candidates for next Election Commission

Panel meets to finalise candidates for next Election Commission

-- 2022-02-19 13:45:40

The panel tasked with scoping out candidates for the next Election Commission has convened a meeting to finalise its shortlist of proposed commissioners. The meeting began around 11:15 am on Saturd...

Journalist arrested in Satkhira under Digital Security Act

Journalist arrested in Satkhira under Digital Security Act

-- 2022-02-18 21:24:52

Two people, including a journalist, were arrested under the Digital Security Act for posting alleged provocative statements against the government and police on Facebook in Patkelghata of Satkhira, po...

BNP-Jamaat's misrule pushed Bangladesh 50 years behind, Joy claims

BNP-Jamaat's misrule pushed Bangladesh 50 years behind, Joy claims

-- 2022-02-18 21:20:02

Condemning the BNP-Jamaat alliance's 2001-06 regime, Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said the BNP-Jamaat's five-year misrule had pushed the country 50 years behind. He made the rema...

Man posing as journalist arrested for killing wife after 17 years

Man posing as journalist arrested for killing wife after 17 years

-- 2022-02-18 20:31:11

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a man who evaded justice for 17 years by posing as a journalist, after killing his wife. The 47-year old Ashraf Hossain Kamal was arrested at Ashulia in...

Tk 22.17b deposited with 2.82m school banking accounts in 2021

Tk 22.17b deposited with 2.82m school banking accounts in 2021

-- 2022-02-18 19:07:45

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, school banking witnessed huge responses from the students in 2021 as deposits with the banking accounts crossed Tk 22.0 billion at the end of December 2021. The central...

Route to Central Shahid Minar on 21st February

Route to Central Shahid Minar on 21st February

-- 2022-02-18 17:49:28

The route map for going to Central Shaheed Minar on February 21 to pay homages to language martyrs was on Friday announced by Dhaka University's Central Coordination Committee. The route map will be...

Bangladesh, Mexico sign MoU to boost diplomatic cooperation

Bangladesh, Mexico sign MoU to boost diplomatic cooperation

-- 2022-02-18 17:47:18

The Foreign Service Academy of Bangladesh and the Matias Romero Institute of Mexico have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral diplomatic cooperation at the Mexican Ministry of Foreig...

Shimla dialogue: Bangladesh reiterates firm commitment to ensuring regional peace

Shimla dialogue: Bangladesh reiterates firm commitment to ensuring regional peace

-- 2022-02-18 17:32:01

Highlighting growing friendship between Bangladesh and India, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has reiterated the unwavering commitment of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government...

Bangladesh records lowest daily cases in over five weeks

Bangladesh records lowest daily cases in over five weeks

-- 2022-02-18 17:10:35

Bangladesh has registered 2,584 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in a day since Jan 11, taking the total caseload to 1,929,154. As many as 27,765 samples were tested across the country, for a positivit...