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Bangladesh gets 1.19m doses of AstraZeneca from France

Bangladesh gets 1.19m doses of AstraZeneca from France

-- 2021-12-19 17:45:17

The government of France has donated 1,197,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh under the Covax arrangement. The vaccine support from France came as a gesture of solidarity to the frien...

Poor suffer most as mild cold wave sweeps Panchagarh

Poor suffer most as mild cold wave sweeps Panchagarh

-- 2021-12-19 17:35:57

A mild cold wave is sweeping through Panchagarh district on Sunday, disrupting the normal life of people. Mohamamd Russel Shah, officer-in-charge of Tentulia Weather Observatory, said, “The low...

PM asks BGB personnel to follow the 'chain of command'

PM asks BGB personnel to follow the 'chain of command'

-- 2021-12-19 17:09:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to be driven by patriotism and carry out their duties with honesty and discipline. She made the call while virtuall...

Prisoner transfer treaty likely with Maldives during PM’s visit

Prisoner transfer treaty likely with Maldives during PM’s visit

-- 2021-12-19 16:46:16

Bangladesh is likely to sign a prisoner transfer agreement with the Maldives during the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the archipelagic country. The cabinet on Sunday approved the...

Govt closes unauthorised learning centres for Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar

Govt closes unauthorised learning centres for Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar

-- 2021-12-19 16:11:44

The government has closed some unauthorised ‘private’ home-based schools, coaching centres, and madrasahs run by Rohingya people in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps. A foreign ministry...

Bangladesh launches Covid booster programme

Bangladesh launches Covid booster programme

-- 2021-12-19 15:07:03

Bangladesh on Sunday started administering the Covid-19 booster dose to health workers on trial basis in Dhaka city to fight off Covid-19, UNB reports. The booster dose is being administered at Bangl...

New avenues open for Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia

New avenues open for Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-19 14:25:32

In a welcome move, Malaysia has opened its door for Bangladeshi workers with the withdrawal of more than three years of ban on recruiting people from Bangladesh since 2018. To this effect, a Memorand...

198 journalists harassed in Bangladesh in Jan-Nov

198 journalists harassed in Bangladesh in Jan-Nov

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-19 13:30:46

At least 198 journalists fell victim to harassment in Bangladesh in January-November 2021, according to a report by a local independent rights body. Of them, 13 received death threats over the phones...

Drive to evict Karnaphuli bank grabbers to start soon

Drive to evict Karnaphuli bank grabbers to start soon

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-19 09:50:26

CHATTOGRAM: Three government bodies will jointly start fresh eviction drive soon against all unauthorised establishments on Karnaphuli River banks which remained stopped since February 2019 due to c...

Holidaymakers suffer a lot in Cox's Bazar

Holidaymakers suffer a lot in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-19 09:42:26

COX'S BAZAR: As many as 0.4 million tourists have arrived in Cox's Bazar to spend their holidays even though hotels and motels do not have enough room, causing immense suffering to them. Many tourist...

Airfare instability to be checked, says minister Momen

Airfare instability to be checked, says minister Momen

FE REPORT 2021-12-19 09:37:52

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said the government would take steps to check airfare volatility so that migrant workers can go to their job destination countries on time. "We have com...

1,130 more NGOs await microcredit licences

1,130 more NGOs await microcredit licences

FE REPORT 2021-12-19 09:31:09

Some 1130 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have applied for licence to run microcredit operations across Bangladesh, and all may get the go conditionally. Sources say the government has decided...

Dhaka, KL set to sign today deal on hiring Bangladeshi workers

Dhaka, KL set to sign today deal on hiring Bangladeshi workers

ARAFAT ARA 2021-12-19 09:26:13

Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur are set to sign an agreement today (Sunday) to resume manpower recruitment from Bangladesh, raising hopes for overseas employment opportunities in the South East Asian nation....

Farmers fear Boro rice farming cost spiral

Farmers fear Boro rice farming cost spiral

REZAUL KARIM AND YASIR WARDAD 2021-12-19 09:19:42

Dearth of fertiliser and a surge in costs of irrigation, plough and transport amid the diesel-price hike could deal a severe blow to Boro farming this season, discouraging many from cultivation, accor...

Judges must work hard to ease the backlog of cases, president says

Judges must work hard to ease the backlog of cases, president says

-- 2021-12-18 22:48:19

President Md Abdul Hamid has urged the judges to speed up their work so that the people seeking justice do not need to wait too long for the copy of a verdict.  “Judges must work hard to e...

Awami League leaders vow to build ‘Sonar Bangla’ thwarting conspiracies

Awami League leaders vow to build ‘Sonar Bangla’ thwarting conspiracies

-- 2021-12-18 22:32:02

Awami League leaders have expressed their firm optimism to build a ‘Sonar Bangla’ under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by thwarting all conspiracies. They made the pledge...

Awami League provides wrong information about liberation war, BNP leader alleges

Awami League provides wrong information about liberation war, BNP leader alleges

-- 2021-12-18 18:19:21

BNP Senior Leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday alleged that Awami League has been providing wrong information to the country’s people about the Liberation War as part of its move to hide facts....

Jagannath University student dies in Noakhali road accident

Jagannath University student dies in Noakhali road accident

-- 2021-12-18 17:59:34

Jagannath University student Sabrina Akhtar was killed in a road accident in Noakhali as she was returning to Dhaka with her parents. Sabrina was enrolled in the university’s 2017-18 batch at t...

Four coronavirus deaths, 122 new cases reported in 24 hours

Four coronavirus deaths, 122 new cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2021-12-18 17:44:47

Bangladesh has registered four new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 28,047. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,580,872 as 122 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hour...

Dr Debapriya reappointed as CDP member

Dr Debapriya reappointed as CDP member

-- 2021-12-18 15:41:17

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has reappointed Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) as a member of the Committee for Development P...

Prices of nearly all essentials remain steady at Dhaka’s kitchen markets

Prices of nearly all essentials remain steady at Dhaka’s kitchen markets

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-18 15:36:09

Prices of almost all essentials have remained steady with many of them maintaining the previous hike in the capital’s kitchen markets on Saturday. However, some vegetables like red tomato, bitt...

Mild cold wave likely to sweep over country Sunday

Mild cold wave likely to sweep over country Sunday

FE REPORT 2021-12-18 14:44:08

A mild cold wave may sweep over the western part of the country from the next 48 hours starting from Sunday as the temperature is likely to remain between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius, according to a met o...

Gold bars worth Tk 70 m seized at Ctg airport

Gold bars worth Tk 70 m seized at Ctg airport

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-18 14:02:51

As many as 86 gold bars worth Tk 70 million (Tk 7 crore) were found hidden under two passenger seats of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight that landed at the Chattogram international airport from Duba...

Rights groups call for ensuring zero-cost migration for workers

Rights groups call for ensuring zero-cost migration for workers

FE REPORT 2021-12-18 09:22:45

Rights groups have called for ensuring zero-cost migration for Bangladeshi workers as they pay the highest among workers from different job-destination countries. The government should discuss the ma...

China project progress in Bangladesh better than elsewhere, claims Beijing

China project progress in Bangladesh better than elsewhere, claims Beijing

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-12-18 09:10:06

China expressed annoyance over 'distorted' media reports on China-funded projects that 'adversely affects' implementation of the government-to-government ventures, competent sources said. Referring t...

Cox's Bazar buzzes with tourists; hoteliers happy, police struggle to provide security

Cox's Bazar buzzes with tourists; hoteliers happy, police struggle to provide security

-- 2021-12-17 20:56:47

Cox’s Bazar is buzzing with a stream of tourists as people have flocked to the beach city during a long stretch of vacation that combines Victory Day and weekly holidays. Hoteliers are happy wi...

Two tourists killed in Sylhet road accident

Two tourists killed in Sylhet road accident

-- 2021-12-17 20:14:40

Two motorcyclists were killed when a truck hit their bike on Sylhet-Tamabil Highway at Gucchagram area in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Yusuf,30, so...

Bangladesh bans airguns to protect bird species, wildlife

Bangladesh bans airguns to protect bird species, wildlife

-- 2021-12-17 19:17:03

Bangladesh has prohibited the use of airguns with some exceptions in a bid to protect bird species and wildlife. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced the new restriction o...

Trafficked girl rescued in Dhaka, three held

Trafficked girl rescued in Dhaka, three held

-- 2021-12-17 18:25:39

Rab have rescued a teenage girl who was trafficked from Chattogram to Dhaka’s Fakirapul area and arrested three people in this connection, officials said on Friday. The girl was rescued on Wedn...

Myanmar citizen held with arms, drugs

Myanmar citizen held with arms, drugs

-- 2021-12-17 18:00:18

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has detained two drug smugglers including a Myanmar citizen with arms, crystal methamphetamine (Ice), and Yaba from Naf River of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar. The...