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Anti-Corruption Commission's hotline gets 2,449 complaints in two years

Anti-Corruption Commission's hotline gets 2,449 complaints in two years

FE REPORT 2022-01-14 08:50:55

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) received a total of 113,773 calls on its Hotline-106 in the last two years (2020 and 2021) and documented 2,449 calls as valid allegations for further scrutiny. B...

Climate Smart Agriculture comes as farming model

Climate Smart Agriculture comes as farming model

FE REPORT 2022-01-14 08:49:41

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) comes as a farming model for sustainable agricultural production system aimed at food security even during climatic calamities in eight countries, including Bangladesh....

Only 3.0pc Dhaka workers aided, survey finds

Only 3.0pc Dhaka workers aided, survey finds

-- 2022-01-14 08:44:27

Only 3.0 per cent of Dhaka's private-sector workers laid off during the corona onslaught could benefit from the Tk 1.28-trillion recovery packages, says a survey that found delivery disarray. A think...

Disparity, youth unemployment among Bangladesh's key development challenges

Disparity, youth unemployment among Bangladesh's key development challenges

FE REPORT 2022-01-14 08:41:59

Coupled with the existing development challenges, five major issues, including gaping inequalities, are emerging as critical for advancing Bangladesh's human-development status. The government, in it...

Power production of Bangladesh shrinks to one-third of capacity

Power production of Bangladesh shrinks to one-third of capacity

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2022-01-14 08:37:41

Electricity generation across Bangladesh now hovers over 'one third' of the capacity with many gas-fired power plants laid idle because of sagging winter demand. However, this winter scenario betrays...

Buses will run at full capacity, says transport owners’ leader

Buses will run at full capacity, says transport owners’ leader

-- 2022-01-13 21:35:14

Buses will be allowed to take passengers on all the seats from Saturday, a transport owners’ leader has said, although the government has ordered them to operate at half capacity to control a sp...

DSCC Mayor Taposh contracts Covid-19

DSCC Mayor Taposh contracts Covid-19

-- 2022-01-13 20:58:46

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Fazle Noor Taposh has tested positive for Covid-19. "The mayor has been diagnosed with the coronavirus and has been staying in isolation at his own residence...

Dhaka appears oblivious to govt curbs

Dhaka appears oblivious to govt curbs

-- 2022-01-13 20:28:10

Vendor Mokhles was selling vegetables without a mask. His customer at Muslim Bazar in Dhaka’s Mirpur 12 had no face-covering either. “It’s no use wearing a mask. We’ll catch t...

Danish PM phones Sheikh Hasina, discusses climate, trade, other issues

Danish PM phones Sheikh Hasina, discusses climate, trade, other issues

-- 2022-01-13 18:06:27

Bangladesh and Denmark have agreed to work together on climate change and infrastructural development issues for mutual benefits. Both the countries expressed their eagerness when Danish Prime Minist...

Ctg bus owners demand 60pc fare hike to operate at half capacity

Ctg bus owners demand 60pc fare hike to operate at half capacity

-- 2022-01-13 18:02:38

Bus owners in Chattogram on Thursday demanded a 60 per cent hike in fare to run buses at their half capacities as per the government's instruction to fight off Covid. "If we have to operate buses kee...

 ‘Army to be built as world-class force’

 ‘Army to be built as world-class force’

-- 2022-01-13 17:37:22

The efforts to build Bangladesh Army as a world-class force through realistic and up-to-date training, will continue, said Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed on Thursday. "Apart from the...

Bangladesh reports 3,359 new Covid cases, 12 deaths

Bangladesh reports 3,359 new Covid cases, 12 deaths

-- 2022-01-13 17:06:48

Bangladesh has reported 3,359 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily count since Sept 2, taking the total caseload to 1,604,664. The death toll rose to 28,123 as 12 more patients died from Covid-19...

TIB insists on reinvigorating grassroots aid activities by NGOs to offset Covid-19 effects

TIB insists on reinvigorating grassroots aid activities by NGOs to offset Covid-19 effects

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-13 16:44:27

As almost half of the Bangladeshi NGOs suffer fund crisis, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has sought government and donor support to help them undertake and operate Covid-19-related progr...

Three suspected robbers lynched in Narayanganj

Three suspected robbers lynched in Narayanganj

-- 2022-01-13 13:42:15

Locals have beaten three youths to death on suspicion of being robbers in Narayanganj. The incident took place in the Ilmadi area of Arhaihazar Upazila at 5 am on Thursday, said Arhaihazar Police S...

China plans to boost digital economy in 2021-2025

China plans to boost digital economy in 2021-2025

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-13 13:24:05

China's State Council on Wednesday rolled out a plan to facilitate the development of the digital economy in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025). The country aims to raise the proportion of th...

PM Hasina calls for getting jabbed to avoid catching Omicron

PM Hasina calls for getting jabbed to avoid catching Omicron

-- 2022-01-13 13:17:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the unvaccinated people of the country to take the Covid-19 jab immediately to protect their lives from the new variant of the pandemic, UNB reports. &l...

Boro seedbeds kindle new hope for char farmers

Boro seedbeds kindle new hope for char farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-13 09:35:52

RAJSHAHI: The crisis of land for preparing Boro seedbeds has long been a common issue for the farmers of Rajshahi. However, the farmers have recently come up with a way out by producing seedlings on...

Substandard food, insufficient medical treatment for prisoners detected

Substandard food, insufficient medical treatment for prisoners detected

FE REPORT 2022-01-13 09:29:50

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday conducted a drive in Kashimpur Central Jail at Gazipur over the allegations of providing substandard food to prisoners and insufficient medical treatm...

Call for building resilient infrastructures in Bangladesh

Call for building resilient infrastructures in Bangladesh

FE REPORT 2022-01-13 09:25:29

Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday underscored the need for building resilient infrastructure in the country as the climate change impact affects Bangladesh's overall socio-economic development seriou...

BTRC eases submarine guideline to court private funds

BTRC eases submarine guideline to court private funds

Ismail Hossain 2022-01-13 09:24:04

State-owned Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) further amends the submarine cable guideline to woo private as well as foreign investment. It eases the provision of 'previous ex...

Padma bridge's rail link trails six months of planned inauguration

Padma bridge's rail link trails six months of planned inauguration

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-01-13 08:55:37

The rail connectivity is likely to fall six months behind inauguration of the Padma Bridge scheduled for June next, sources said. This is because, they said, the rail-track-placement work cannot be c...

BNP skips President's dialogue on Election Commission formation

BNP skips President's dialogue on Election Commission formation

FE REPORT 2022-01-13 08:54:04

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has skipped the ongoing dialogue with President Md Abdul Hamid over the formation of the Election Commission (EC). The party, which remains out of power for mor...

Bangladeshi workers' migration cost falls, yet highest in SE Asia: Study

Bangladeshi workers' migration cost falls, yet highest in SE Asia: Study

FE REPORT 2022-01-13 08:42:24

The cost of migration for Bangladeshi workers declined to some extent over the last several years, but it is still highest in Southeast Asia, according to a new study. The Refugee and Migratory Movem...

Finance minister rules out middle income trap for Bangladesh

Finance minister rules out middle income trap for Bangladesh

FE REPORT 2022-01-13 08:36:54

No chances are there for Bangladesh getting caught in a middle-income trap in its LDC graduation process for its inherent economic dynamics, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said Wednesday. He ma...

Two Biman staffers jailed for gold smuggling from Dhaka airport

Two Biman staffers jailed for gold smuggling from Dhaka airport

-- 2022-01-12 23:20:52

A Dhaka court has sentenced four people including two staff members of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to 12 years in prison for smuggling out over 9 kg gold from Shahjalal International Airport. Judge Bil...

‘15 to 20pc Covid-19 patients in Bangladesh infected with omicron’

‘15 to 20pc Covid-19 patients in Bangladesh infected with omicron’

-- 2022-01-12 23:02:08

Fifteen to 20 per cent of the coronavirus patients in Bangladesh now have been infected with the omicron variant, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said. The data suggests community transmission of t...

Human trafficking is modern slavery, says Ambassador Miller

Human trafficking is modern slavery, says Ambassador Miller

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-12 20:41:31

Terming human trafficking as modern slavery, US ambassador to Dhaka Earl Miller said working with Bangladesh to fight human trafficking is a priority of the United States. Ambassador Miller made the...

9 members of illegal kidney trading racket held in Joypurhat

9 members of illegal kidney trading racket held in Joypurhat

-- 2022-01-12 20:16:54

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested nine members of an illegal kidney trading racket from Kalai Upazila in Joypurhat. The arrestees are ring leader Khawja Moyen, 44, Azadul Islam, 3...

1743 sq km of Bay of Bengal declared as protected area

1743 sq km of Bay of Bengal declared as protected area

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-12 20:10:45

The government has declared 1743 square kilometres of the Bay of Bengal, adjacent to St. Martin Island, as a protected area to prevent biodiversity loss. “1743 sq km of the Bay of Bengal area a...

Hospitalisation, deaths due to Covid-19 may rise in five days: Health minister

Hospitalisation, deaths due to Covid-19 may rise in five days: Health minister

-- 2022-01-12 19:30:45

The rates of hospitalisation and death caused by Covid-19 might see a rise in the next four or five days, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday. “There were around 250 Covid-19 patien...