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Bangladesh Nutrition council signs MoU with Farming Future Bangladesh

Bangladesh Nutrition council signs MoU with Farming Future Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-20 17:30:50

Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC) and Farming Future Bangladesh (FFB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on joint activities and information sharing to address malnutrition, food se...

President's dialogue on EC formation starts with Jatiya Party

President's dialogue on EC formation starts with Jatiya Party

-- 2021-12-20 17:27:32

President Abdul Hamid has started a dialogue with the main opposition Jatiya Party in Parliament to discuss issues relating to the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC). An eight-member dele...

Bangladesh logs two new virus deaths, 260 cases

Bangladesh logs two new virus deaths, 260 cases

-- 2021-12-20 17:21:22

Bangladesh has registered two new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 28,050. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,581,343 as 260 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours...

Bangladesh wants to maintain friendly relations with all countries, PM says

Bangladesh wants to maintain friendly relations with all countries, PM says

-- 2021-12-20 17:10:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government seeks to continue friendly relations with all countries. "We want to keep intact friendly relations with all countries and march the country forwa...

Food minister urges people to eat red rice

Food minister urges people to eat red rice

-- 2021-12-20 16:58:27

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has urged people to eat red rice instead of white rice. “There is no Najirshaile or Miniket rice in Bangladesh. The traders are selling differ variety of r...

31 winners receive Joy Bangla Youth Award 2021

31 winners receive Joy Bangla Youth Award 2021

-- 2021-12-20 16:36:28

A total of 31 organisations and individuals have won the Joy Bangla Youth Award 2021 for their contributions to different sectors including climate change, technology, social development and empowerme...

Chuadanga records country’s lowest temperature

Chuadanga records country’s lowest temperature

-- 2021-12-20 16:04:26

At the beginning of winter, a cold wave is sweeping across ten districts in the northern and central regions of Bangladesh. Many areas are shrouded in fog. Chuadanga, one of the northern districts, r...

Writ filed seeking HC directive for Khaleda’s treatment abroad

Writ filed seeking HC directive for Khaleda’s treatment abroad

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-20 15:11:49

A writ petition was filed on Monday with the High Court seeking its directive to allow Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Begum Khaleda Zia to go abroad for medical treatment. Talking to The Fi...

Cold wave likely until Wednesday

Cold wave likely until Wednesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-20 14:58:29

A mild to moderate cold wave is likely to continue and spread over the western part of the country until Wednesday as the temperature is likely to remain between 7.0 to 10 degrees Celsius, according t...

Govt wants to strengthen Bangladesh Navy's capabilities further: PM

Govt wants to strengthen Bangladesh Navy's capabilities further: PM

-- 2021-12-20 14:48:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has more plans to enhance the capabilities of Bangladesh Navy further inducting advanced ships, war equipment and technology to the force, BSS repo...

Plastic consumption in Bangladesh increased three times in 15 years: World Bank

Plastic consumption in Bangladesh increased three times in 15 years: World Bank

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-20 13:38:43

Bangladesh’s per capita plastic consumption in urban areas tripled to 9.0 kg in 2020 from 3.0 kg in 2005, according to a new study of the World Bank. Meanwhile, Dhaka's annual per capita consum...

Half of Naogaon's husking mills closed for years

Half of Naogaon's husking mills closed for years

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NAOGAON 2021-12-20 12:49:38

About fifty per cent of the husking mills in the district were closed due to inability to compete with the auto rice mills in last several years. As a result, a good number of husking-mill owners a...

Fire hits Rangpur Medical College Hospital

Fire hits Rangpur Medical College Hospital

-- 2021-12-20 12:43:34

A fire that broke out in the main building of Rangpur Medical College Hospital has been brought under control by Fire Service workers. The blaze was reported from a ward on the fourth floor of the ho...

Bangladesh announces humanitarian aid for Afghan people

Bangladesh announces humanitarian aid for Afghan people

-- 2021-12-20 12:41:33

Bangladesh has announced humanitarian aid package that includes food and medicinal assistance for Afghan people, BSS reports. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen revealed the information during the 17t...

Secondary school admission through lottery for all classes, says Dipu Moni

Secondary school admission through lottery for all classes, says Dipu Moni

-- 2021-12-19 21:21:56

A digital lottery will be held in all government and private secondary schools of the country for all classes to stop the ‘admission battle’ and lobbying, Education Minister Dipu Moni has...

Cabinet approves draft law to secure international accreditation for medical degrees

Cabinet approves draft law to secure international accreditation for medical degrees

-- 2021-12-19 20:57:37

The government has approved the draft of a new law that would ensure that medical education in Bangladesh is on par with global standards and recognised internationally. The decision on the ‘Ba...

Two killed in bus-auto rickshaw collision in city

Two killed in bus-auto rickshaw collision in city

-- 2021-12-19 20:33:38

Two persons were killed and two others injured as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in front of the Famous Hospital in Banasree area of Dhaka at around 11:00 am on Sunday. The deceased were identifie...

Solo art exhibition begins at Alliance Française de Dhaka

Solo art exhibition begins at Alliance Française de Dhaka

-- 2021-12-19 20:22:31

A solo art exhibition, titled Ka’-Shommondhiyo [Connected Speech] by Azizee Fawmi Khan, has started at Alliance Française de Dhaka. Jeremy Opritesco, Chargé d’Affaires of th...

Gas supply to be cut off in southern part of city Monday

Gas supply to be cut off in southern part of city Monday

-- 2021-12-19 20:13:11

Gas supply to different areas in the southern part of Dhaka will remain suspended for four hours from 12 noon to 4:00 pm on Monday for relocation of gas pipeline under Padma Bridge Project. According...

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to return to a healthy track of politics

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to return to a healthy track of politics

-- 2021-12-19 20:11:22

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged BNP to return to the proper and healthy track of politics upholding the spirit of the Liberation War.  “The whole nation simultaneou...

Dengue claims two more lives, 50 others hospitalised

Dengue claims two more lives, 50 others hospitalised

-- 2021-12-19 19:56:56

Bangladesh reported two more deaths from dengue while 50 new patients were hospitalised with the fever in 24 hours till Sunday morning, health authorities have said. With the latest deaths, fatalitie...

Journalist Reazuddin Ahmed at ICU

Journalist Reazuddin Ahmed at ICU

-- 2021-12-19 19:52:23

Reazuddin Ahmed, a senior journalist and former president of Jatiya Press Club (JPC), was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of United Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday with Covid complications. Reazud...

Bangladesh gets 2.2m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Canada

Bangladesh gets 2.2m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Canada

-- 2021-12-19 19:47:03

A consignment of 2.2 million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Dhaka on Sunday as part of contributions from Canada through COVAX facility, reports UNB. “Canada’s commitmen...

President's dialogue on EC formation starts Monday

President's dialogue on EC formation starts Monday

-- 2021-12-19 19:37:09

President Abdul Hamid will kick off the dialogue with registered political parties on Monday to discuss issues relating to the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC). The dialogue is formally...

BNP brings out victory day rally, vows afresh to awaken people

BNP brings out victory day rally, vows afresh to awaken people

-- 2021-12-19 19:35:47

Vowing afresh to “awaken people for the restoration of democracy”, BNP leaders and activists on Sunday took out a colourful rally in Dhaka city, marking the 51st Victory Day. Thousands of...

Bangladesh to donate military vehicles  to Maldives   

Bangladesh to donate military vehicles to Maldives  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-19 19:23:33

Bangladesh will donate 13 military vehicles to Maldives during the two-day visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the country. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said this on Sunday while briefin...

Rohingya have no right to move freely in Bangladesh, Momen says

Rohingya have no right to move freely in Bangladesh, Momen says

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-19 19:04:12

The Rohingya refugees, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh after fleeing a crackdown in Myanmar, are not eligible to get the right to freedom of movement in Bangladesh. At a media briefing on Sunday...

Bangladesh can't, shouldn't take Rohingya responsibility alone, UN expert says

Bangladesh can't, shouldn't take Rohingya responsibility alone, UN expert says

-- 2021-12-19 18:06:35

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Tom Andrews on Sunday said they all, as part of the international community, have a responsibility to support the Rohingya, noting that B...

Abducted Rohingya found dead in Ukhiya camp

Abducted Rohingya found dead in Ukhiya camp

-- 2021-12-19 18:05:45

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) has recovered a body of a Rohingya boatman, who was abducted in January this year and buried after being killed in a house of Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar....

Covid kills one, infects 211 more

Covid kills one, infects 211 more

-- 2021-12-19 17:57:04

Bangladesh has registered one new death from Covid-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 28,048. The coronavirus caseload rose to 1,581,083 as 211 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hou...