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BNP announces fresh protests for Jan 16

BNP announces fresh protests for Jan 16

-- 2023-01-11 16:52:50

The BNP and its allies have announced a new round of rallies and marches for Jan 16 in Dhaka and the rest of the country to press for their 10-point list of demands to oust the Awami League governme...

Police sue protesting kidney patients at CMCH, arrest one

Police sue protesting kidney patients at CMCH, arrest one

-- 2023-01-11 16:06:05

A case has been filed against some kidney patients and their relatives who have been protesting the recent hike in dialysis fee at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH). Mostafizur Rahman, s...

PM Hasina’s Japan visit likely to be rescheduled for April

PM Hasina’s Japan visit likely to be rescheduled for April

UNB 2023-01-11 14:43:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Japan visit could be scheduled for April. Newly-appointed Japanese Ambassador Iwama Kiminori today made the propodal to PM Hasina on behalf of his country while c...

Five die as train hits auto-rickshaw in Tangail

Five die as train hits auto-rickshaw in Tangail

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-11 14:30:41

At least five passengers have died after a train hit an autorickshaw at an unguarded level crossing in Tangail. The accident occurred in Depakandi across the Bhuapur-Tarakandi rail line where the lev...

18 CU students suspended over clashes, vandalism

18 CU students suspended over clashes, vandalism

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-11 12:53:23

Chittagong University (CU) suspended 18 students for separate terms following several incidents including clashes, vandalism and harassment of journalists on the university campus. The CU authorities...

BNP, like-minded parties start mass sit-in protest 

BNP, like-minded parties start mass sit-in protest 

UNB 2023-01-11 12:04:37

The mass sit-in programme, by the BNP and other like-minded opposition parties, alliances and organisations began today in the capital and other divisions in the county as part of the simultaneous mov...

Half of govt pry schools in Chandpur sans playground

Half of govt pry schools in Chandpur sans playground

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHANDPUR 2023-01-11 11:03:48

In the absence of playgrounds in many government primary schools in Chandpur district, thousands of little students can't play in their leisure time for many years. Most students feel bored and monot...

AQI: Dhaka's air most polluted in the world this morning

AQI: Dhaka's air most polluted in the world this morning

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-11 10:49:46

The densely populated capital of Bangladesh has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality. The capital's air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 259 at 9.55am on Wednesday...

TIB slams closure of 265 schools in Kurigram

TIB slams closure of 265 schools in Kurigram

FE REPORT 2023-01-11 08:58:46

The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has condemned the closing of 265 primary schools in Kurigram centring Sunday's wedding reception of the son of state minister for primary and mass educa...

Killing of Bangladeshi student in US is violation of human rights: Hasan Mahmud

Killing of Bangladeshi student in US is violation of human rights: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2023-01-10 23:08:16

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has described the killing of Bangladesh-origin student Sayed Faisal at Cambridge in the US as unexpe...

We will build ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041 to repay Bangabandhu’s blood debt: PM

We will build ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041 to repay Bangabandhu’s blood debt: PM

-- 2023-01-10 22:59:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed firm conviction to build the country as developed, prosperous and smart Bangladesh by 2041 to repay the blood debt of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu...

Obaidul Quader says Awami League will respond befittingly to violence, conspiracy

Obaidul Quader says Awami League will respond befittingly to violence, conspiracy

-- 2023-01-10 21:53:12

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said his party will give a befitting reply to any kind of conspiracy and violence in the name of an anti-...

Sit-in protest of BNP, like-minded parties on Wednesday in divisional cities

Sit-in protest of BNP, like-minded parties on Wednesday in divisional cities

-- 2023-01-10 21:47:22

BNP and other like-minded opposition parties, alliances and organisations are set to observe a mass sit-in programme in Dhaka and other divisions in the county as part of the simultaneous movement to...

Dhamrai kitchen gas blast death toll rises to three

Dhamrai kitchen gas blast death toll rises to three

-- 2023-01-10 21:39:34

The blast from gas accumulated in a kitchen from a leaked cylinder line in Dhaka’s Dhamrai has claimed another life, taking the death toll to three. Two other victims are fighting for their liv...

Bangladesh moves 3 notches up in passport index

Bangladesh moves 3 notches up in passport index

-- 2023-01-10 20:57:04

Bangladesh has been ranked 101st in the 2023 edition of the Henley Passport Index, improving three notches from the previous year. According to BSS, the Passport Index features a total of 109 positio...

‘No new pay scale or dearness allowance for govt employees right now’ 

‘No new pay scale or dearness allowance for govt employees right now’ 

-- 2023-01-10 20:35:16

The government has no plan to announce new pay scale or dearness allowance for the government employees right now, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said in Parliament on Tuesday. The minister said...

Legal proceedings underway to recover laundered money, says finance minister

Legal proceedings underway to recover laundered money, says finance minister

-- 2023-01-10 20:30:31

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told the parliament on Tuesday that legal proceedings are underway to recover the money laundered from the country based on specific information. The minister, in r...

Plastic wastes dumped in Barishal river hamper dredging

Plastic wastes dumped in Barishal river hamper dredging

-- 2023-01-10 19:49:33

The bottom of the Kirtankhola River in Barishal is so filled with plastic wastes that the authorities are facing difficulties in dredging in the port area. Officials fear the river may lose navigabil...

Extreme rightists, leftists join hands with BNP to topple us from power: PM

Extreme rightists, leftists join hands with BNP to topple us from power: PM

-- 2023-01-10 19:42:18

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday warned that all the extreme rightist and leftist groups are joining forces with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to try to oust her Awami League government, w...

‘Dhaka- Bhanga train services via Padma Bridge from June’

‘Dhaka- Bhanga train services via Padma Bridge from June’

-- 2023-01-10 19:35:43

Rail service from Dhaka to Faridpur's Bhanga via Padma Bridge will start in June this year, said Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan on Tuesday. "The work on the railway lines of the Padma Bridge pro...

HC summons Brahmanbaria’s 21 lawyers for misconduct with judge

HC summons Brahmanbaria’s 21 lawyers for misconduct with judge

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-01-10 18:57:10

The High Court on Tuesday summoned 21 lawyers from the Brahmanbaria Bar Association directing them to appear before it on January 23 on a charge of chanting indecent slogans against the judge of the d...

Bangladesh is ‘true global champion’ on various fronts, says WB country director

Bangladesh is ‘true global champion’ on various fronts, says WB country director

-- 2023-01-10 18:48:02

New World Bank Country Director to Bangladesh and Bhutan Abdoulaye Seck has lauded highly the economic development of Bangladesh over the years and thus termed the country as a 'true global champion'...

Momen thanks Japanese support for implementing metro rail, other projects

Momen thanks Japanese support for implementing metro rail, other projects

-- 2023-01-10 18:20:21

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has thanked the government of Japan for providing technical and financial support for the implementation of various projects including the metro rail. Welcoming new...

BGB seizes gold bars worth Tk 26m from Benapole

BGB seizes gold bars worth Tk 26m from Benapole

-- 2023-01-10 17:40:05

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday seized six gold bars worth Tk 26 million at Daulatpur border area in Benapole. Lt. Col. Tanvir Rahman, commander of the Khulna BGB-21 battalion, sa...

Bushra freed from jail after two months

Bushra freed from jail after two months

-- 2023-01-10 17:27:14

Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd year student of East West University, was freed from jail on Tuesday after two months of her arrest in a case filed over the death of BUET student Fardin Noor Parash. She walk...

Three police officers injured after gun misfires during training

Three police officers injured after gun misfires during training

-- 2023-01-10 17:21:04

Three police officers of Chattogram Metropolitan Police have been injured after one of their colleagues misfired a gun during training. The incident took place during the annual shooting training at...

Bangladesh reports 21 new Covid cases

Bangladesh reports 21 new Covid cases

-- 2023-01-10 17:18:36

Bangladesh has recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,305. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,440 over the 24-hour period, acc...

Dhaka WASA chief Taqsem denies owning multiple houses in US

Dhaka WASA chief Taqsem denies owning multiple houses in US

-- 2023-01-10 17:02:39

Taqsem A Khan, the managing director of Dhaka WASA, has refuted a recent media report indicating that he owns over a dozen houses in the US, branding it "baseless and malicious". “Of the 14 hou...

Temperature may fall slightly

Temperature may fall slightly

-- 2023-01-10 16:56:38

Moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and adjoining areas and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere over the country from Tuesday midnight to tomorrow morning, a met release said....

Bangladesh wants to maintain good relations with both USA and China

Bangladesh wants to maintain good relations with both USA and China

-- 2023-01-10 16:40:44

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh is maintaining good relations with both global powers USA and China through its balanced foreign policy, though it is a “challenging”...