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Bangladesh approves three vaccines for booster shots

Bangladesh approves three vaccines for booster shots

-- 2021-12-29 13:59:15

Bangladesh has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines for use in its booster shot programme. Those receiving the booster shots, however, will not be able to choose wh...

Bangladesh records three more omicron cases, raising total to seven

Bangladesh records three more omicron cases, raising total to seven

-- 2021-12-29 11:47:59

Bangladesh has detected the omicron variant of COVID-19 in three more patients. This raises the total number of cases of the new variant in the country to seven, reports bdnews24.com. The first ca...

Accidents on water routes killed 20,508 in 50 years: POBA

Accidents on water routes killed 20,508 in 50 years: POBA

FE REPORT 2021-12-29 10:57:55

A total of 20,508 people were killed in 2,572 waterway accidents across the country in the last 50 years, said Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA) on Tuesday. Besides, it said, these accidents had left sc...

Construction of Buddha statue in Cox's Bazar nearing completion

Construction of Buddha statue in Cox's Bazar nearing completion

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-29 10:00:30

COX'S BAZAR: Ukhia Central Ananda Bhaban Bihar is building a 130-foot Buddha statue on the ground of the monastery in Cox's Bazar. Leaders of the Buddhist community say the 130-foot statue of Gauta...

Lockdown aid eludes rickshaw-pullers due to absence of database

Lockdown aid eludes rickshaw-pullers due to absence of database

FE REPORT 2021-12-29 08:56:01

Despite suffering acute hardships during the pandemic-induced lockdown, most of the rickshaw- pullers did not receive assistance from the government or any other sources mainly due to the unavailabili...

SUFAL changing people's livelihoods to save forests

SUFAL changing people's livelihoods to save forests

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-12-29 08:50:34

The Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) is changing the livelihood of the people, living in the forest-adjacent areas, by helping them explore new economic opportunities, like - retail stores, fisherie...

ICT publishes 81st report on crimes against humanity during liberation war

ICT publishes 81st report on crimes against humanity during liberation war

-- 2021-12-28 22:47:37

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT of Bangladesh) has released the 81st report on crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation, 1971. The investigation agency on Tuesday released a full i...

BNP searches for clandestine alley to go to power, Hasan Mahmud says

BNP searches for clandestine alley to go to power, Hasan Mahmud says

-- 2021-12-28 22:40:37

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said BNP doesn’t believe in the power of mass people as it is searching for a clandestine alley to go to the power. “In fa...

Drugs sales go online, says home minister

Drugs sales go online, says home minister

-- 2021-12-28 21:25:41

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said that drugs are being sold online, but the government will crackdown on the peddlers. “Those who are involved in it (online sale) will be hunted do...

PM takes swipe at US for criticising Bangladesh’s human rights record

PM takes swipe at US for criticising Bangladesh’s human rights record

-- 2021-12-28 20:50:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid into the United States for criticising Bangladesh's democracy and human rights record while at the same time giving sanctuary to a killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mu...

Bangladesh detects two more Omicron cases  

Bangladesh detects two more Omicron cases  

-- 2021-12-28 20:16:02

Two more Covid cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in Bangladesh, raising the total tally to four. According to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data, revealed the res...

1056 families in Cox’s Bazar get Tk 4.70m for pandemic recovery

1056 families in Cox’s Bazar get Tk 4.70m for pandemic recovery

-- 2021-12-28 19:55:02

Cox’s Bazar Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Milton Roy has launched the distribution of over Tk 4.75 million and Covid-19 safety gears among 1056 families of the host community at Sadar Upazila Pa...

One hurt as Ena Paribahan bus rams a microbus in Dhaka

One hurt as Ena Paribahan bus rams a microbus in Dhaka

-- 2021-12-28 19:49:42

A bus operated by Ena Paribahan has ploughed into a microbus after breaking through a road divider in Dhaka, leaving one person injured. The driver of the microbus was hurt after the incident took pl...

BWP calls for enactment of law to form EC

BWP calls for enactment of law to form EC

-- 2021-12-28 19:13:04

Bangladesh Worker's Party (BWP) on Tuesday proposed to President Abdul Hamid enactment of a law early next year to guide the formation of an independent Election Commission (EC) for conduct of the nex...

Govt to build labour institute to increase production

Govt to build labour institute to increase production

-- 2021-12-28 19:10:21

The government has taken initiatives to set up an international standard 'Bangabandhu National Labor Institute' aiming to increase the industrial production of the country. The institute will be cons...

PM urges judges to ensure justice for all

PM urges judges to ensure justice for all

-- 2021-12-28 19:03:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the judges of the country to ensure justice for all, reassuring them of her government every required support to this end. "We know the pain of getting no...

Inner containment construction of RNPP Unit-2 completed

Inner containment construction of RNPP Unit-2 completed

-- 2021-12-28 18:44:57

Concreting of the fifth tier of the inner containment of reactor building at Unit 2 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) has been completed. According to a statement of Rosatom, the Russian contract...

Proposal of 25pc electricity generation from renewables by 2030 on cards

Proposal of 25pc electricity generation from renewables by 2030 on cards

-- 2021-12-28 18:16:24

Although the country's target to generate 10 per cent of electricity from clean and renewable sources by 2020 was not achieved, a fresh target for 25 per cent renewable energy is going to be proposed...

BCG rescues seven fishermen from Bay

BCG rescues seven fishermen from Bay

-- 2021-12-28 17:55:31

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) have rescued seven fishermen stranded in a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal. Lt Commander Khandaker Munif Taki, a media officer at the Bangladesh Coast Guard...

SSC, equivalent exams results on Thursday

SSC, equivalent exams results on Thursday

-- 2021-12-28 17:52:09

The results of the pandemic-delayed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on Thursday. Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni confirmed the date in response t...

Sanction against RAB officials: Govt plans to engage US law firm   

Sanction against RAB officials: Govt plans to engage US law firm  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-28 17:15:29

The government is planning to engage a law firm in the USA as part of its effort to exclude RAB officials from the US government’s sanction list. Bangladesh Embassy in the USA is engaged in dis...

397 new Covid cases, one death in 24hrs

397 new Covid cases, one death in 24hrs

-- 2021-12-28 17:12:43

Bangladesh has registered 393 new Covid-19 cases in a day, taking the total caseload to 1,584,023. The death toll rose to 28,062 as another fatality was reported in the 24 hours to 8:00 am on Tuesday...

HC issues rule over compensation to Jhalakathi launch fire victims

HC issues rule over compensation to Jhalakathi launch fire victims

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-28 17:02:23

The High Court (HC) has asked the district administrations to provide necessary financial assistance of the victims over the devastating fire on the MV Abhijan-10 launch and also sought the list of th...

No legal path to Khaleda’s treatment abroad, says home minister   

No legal path to Khaleda’s treatment abroad, says home minister  

-- 2021-12-28 16:46:33

The law ministry has told the Ministry of Home Affairs that there is no legal path to allowing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for medical treatment while she is on bail under special terms,...

Administering Covid-19 booster dose starts in Dhaka

Administering Covid-19 booster dose starts in Dhaka

-- 2021-12-28 15:49:50

Bangladesh has begun to administer booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at a few vaccination centres in Dhaka. Bangladesh began distributing the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Feb 8. Now,...

Furniture factory catches fire

Furniture factory catches fire

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-28 14:36:01

A fire broke out at a furniture factory on Santarkul Road in the capital Dhaka’s North Badda on Tuesday noon. The fire that took place around 12 noon was brought under control around 1:00pm, ac...

Cox's Bazar rape: Husband says he told victim to give false testimony in court

Cox's Bazar rape: Husband says he told victim to give false testimony in court

-- 2021-12-28 11:22:18

In a dramatic twist, the plaintiff in a high-profile rape case in Cox's Bazar has claimed he told his wife, the alleged victim, to give false testimony in court under duress after receiving an anony...

Education fund for Rohingya only 5.0pc

Education fund for Rohingya only 5.0pc

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-12-28 10:12:34

Funding for the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya under the Joint Response Plan 2021 was US$ 602 million, which is 64 per cent of the total requirement of US$ 943 million. Education and logistics...

Jhalakathi launch fire: Families keep searching for missing victims

Jhalakathi launch fire: Families keep searching for missing victims

-- 2021-12-27 23:25:27

Fatema Shahidun sent her son and two daughters to bring their grandparents to Barguna from Dhaka. They were on board the ill-fated MV Abhijan-10 on Thursday night, but never made it back. The 50-year...

Death toll in Narayanganj train-bus crash rises to four

Death toll in Narayanganj train-bus crash rises to four

-- 2021-12-27 22:46:24

Another man has succumbed to the injuries he suffered after a crash between a train and a bus in Narayanganj, raising the death toll from the incident to four. Mesbah Uddin, 65, died while undergoing...