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BGB recovers Tk 60m worth Yaba from Teknaf

BGB recovers Tk 60m worth Yaba from Teknaf

-- 2021-11-26 17:31:28

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 200,000 pieces of Yaba worth Tk60 million during a drive at Teknaf, the force said on Friday. The illegal drug was being smuggled to Bangladesh from Myanm...

Two Rohingya killed in Cox's Bazar 'gunfight'

Two Rohingya killed in Cox's Bazar 'gunfight'

-- 2021-11-26 17:19:48

Two refugees from the Rohingya community have died in a so-called shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district. The dead have been identified as Kefayet Ul...

58 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

58 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

-- 2021-11-26 17:15:32

Fifty-eight new dengue patients have been hospitalised in 24 hours until Friday morning, health authorities said. The number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease remained unchanged at 98 in...

Malaysia revokes death sentence for Bangladeshi student over cannabis 'trafficking'

Malaysia revokes death sentence for Bangladeshi student over cannabis 'trafficking'

-- 2021-11-26 16:49:06

Malaysia has set aside the death sentence handed down to a Bangladeshi engineering student for trafficking 3.8 kg of cannabis in 2017 due to an 'error' by the trial judge, reports bdnews24.com citing&...

Govt halves BRTC bus fares for students amid protests

Govt halves BRTC bus fares for students amid protests

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-26 14:43:09

The government has decided to reduce state-owned bus fares for students by half in the face of mounting protests. The decision has been taken with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's approval and the new...

UK contributes $34.7m to UNICEF for ensuring quality education in Bangladesh

UK contributes $34.7m to UNICEF for ensuring quality education in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-26 13:04:11

The United Kingdom (UK) has recently contributed US$34.7 million to UNICEF through the British High Commission in Dhaka to ensure quality education for the most disadvantaged and out-of-school childre...

Fire breaks out at BSCIC chemicals factory in Chattogram

Fire breaks out at BSCIC chemicals factory in Chattogram

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-26 12:28:48

A fire has broken out at a chemicals factory in the BSCIC industrial estate in Chattogram's Sagorika. At least five units from Agrabad and Bandar fire stations are engaged in efforts to tame the flam...

No scope for half fares, say bus owners

No scope for half fares, say bus owners

FE REPORT 2021-11-26 10:35:42

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's (BRTA) meeting on Thursday for fixing half bus fares for students proved futile, as private bus operators disagreed with such proposal, saying there is no sco...

Stakeholders seek more time to give feedback on draft

Stakeholders seek more time to give feedback on draft

FE REPORT 2021-11-26 09:59:51

The stakeholders concerned have identified a number of loopholes in the draft income tax law that they think might hinder the operations of both foreign and local investors if the new law is enacted...

LDC graduation comes well ahead of time

LDC graduation comes well ahead of time

FE REPORT 2021-11-26 08:56:59

In an epoch change in the nation's history, Bangladesh graduates from the world club of least-developed countries (LDCs) ahead of time as the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution endor...

Strong quake strikes India-Myanmar border region; tremors felt in Chattogram

Strong quake strikes India-Myanmar border region; tremors felt in Chattogram

-- 2021-11-26 08:35:44

A shallow and strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the Myanmar-India border region early on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage. According to India's National Center for Seismo...

Students issue ultimatum after protests over peer's death cripple Dhaka

Students issue ultimatum after protests over peer's death cripple Dhaka

-- 2021-11-25 21:22:16

The students aggrieved by the death of a peer in a road crash have left the streets after a day of protests that caused traffic turmoil in Dhaka. But they vowed to resume their demonstrations unless t...

Logical decision over half bus-fare for students by Saturday, says Quader

Logical decision over half bus-fare for students by Saturday, says Quader

-- 2021-11-25 21:13:56

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that a rational decision will be taken by Saturday over the issue of the half bus fare for students. He said this while speaking at the bie...

HC grants anticipatory bail to seven scientific officers      

HC grants anticipatory bail to seven scientific officers    

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-11-25 20:57:07

The High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to seven scientific officers for eight weeks in a corruption case on the condition that they will have to need court permission if they want to go...

Truck driver put on three-day remand over death of Notre Dame College student   

Truck driver put on three-day remand over death of Notre Dame College student  

-- 2021-11-25 20:41:40

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed a garbage truck driver on three-day remand in a case filed over the death of Notre Dame College student in road crash. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...

Steam generators installed at Unit-1 of Rooppur NPP

Steam generators installed at Unit-1 of Rooppur NPP

-- 2021-11-25 20:10:29

All four steam generators have been installed at the design position at Unit-1 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Project (RNPP). Specialists of Energospecmontazh, a subcontracting organisation of the Rosa...

EU support for regional hydropower, solar projects sought

EU support for regional hydropower, solar projects sought

-- 2021-11-25 19:48:15

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has encouraged the European Investment Bank, the lending arm of the European Union (EU), to further support regional hydropower and solar projects a...

Man dies in second garbage truck accident in two days

Man dies in second garbage truck accident in two days

-- 2021-11-25 18:56:25

A man has died after being run over by a Dhaka garbage truck only a day after a Notre Dame student was killed in an accident involving another garbage truck. Police say the vehicle involved in Thursd...

BFIU report finds Evaly authorities withdrew billions of taka from company accounts

BFIU report finds Evaly authorities withdrew billions of taka from company accounts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-25 18:52:44

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) said in a report that the authorities of the controversial e-commerce platform Evaly have withdrawn billions of taka in cash from the company accounts...

Covid kills nine more, infects 237

Covid kills nine more, infects 237

-- 2021-11-25 17:32:46

Bangladesh has registered nine new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,970. The Covid-19 caseload rose to 1,575,185 as 237 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hour...

Students block police bus after driver fails to show licence

Students block police bus after driver fails to show licence

-- 2021-11-25 17:26:25

Students protesting the recent death of a Notre Dame student in a road accident blocked a Dhaka Metropolitan Police bus for an hour after the driver was unable to show his license. The DMP bus was on...

High Court scraps 10pc quota system for including FFs in gazette

High Court scraps 10pc quota system for including FFs in gazette

-- 2021-11-25 17:25:13

The High Court (HC) has scrapped a Jatio Muktijoddha Council (Jamuka) provision keeping 10 per cent quota system for including real Freedom Fighters (FFs) in the official gazette. A High Court divisi...

379 Rohingyas leave for Bhasan Char

379 Rohingyas leave for Bhasan Char

-- 2021-11-25 17:17:47

As many as 379 Rohingya refugees left Chattogram port for Bhasan Char on a naval ship Thursday morning. These refugees are part of some 1,500 Rohingyas slated to be relocated to the island in the seve...

118 more hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hrs

118 more hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hrs

-- 2021-11-25 17:09:37

As many as 118 new Dengue patients have been hospitalised in 24 hours until Thursday morning. The mosquito-borne disease has claimed 98 lives in the current year as no fresh death was reported during...

AL appoints Ataullah Mandal as Gazipur unit acting general secretary 

AL appoints Ataullah Mandal as Gazipur unit acting general secretary 

-- 2021-11-25 17:01:47

Awami League has named Md Ataullah Mandal as the acting general secretary of the party's Gazipur metropolitan unit replacing Zahangir Alam, who has recently been expelled from the party, according a p...

Zahangir Alam suspended as Gazipur mayor

Zahangir Alam suspended as Gazipur mayor

-- 2021-11-25 16:50:08

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development suspended Zahangir Alam as the mayor of Gazipur, days after his expulsion from the ruling Awami League, for his controversial remarks on Bangaban...

Hundreds of students block Gulistan, Farmgate protesting Nayeem’s death

Hundreds of students block Gulistan, Farmgate protesting Nayeem’s death

-- 2021-11-25 14:23:26

Hundreds of Notre Dame College students have blocked roads in Dhaka for the second day to protest the death of their peer Nayeem Hasan, who was killed by a garbage truck operated by the Dhaka South...

Approach road linking 40 Sylhet villages damaged

Approach road linking 40 Sylhet villages damaged

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-25 11:11:31

SYLHET: Thousands of locals have been suffering much due to damage of a major part of the approach of an important link road, connecting the Beheli union parishad and other offices in the district. I...

Lucrative price boosts BARI Halud-1 cultivation in Bogura

Lucrative price boosts BARI Halud-1 cultivation in Bogura

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-25 10:45:20

BOGURA: BARI Halud-1 (turmeric) farming is expanding across the district over the last few years. Due to favourable weather condition, peasants are expecting bumper production of the spice this sea...

UN adopts resolution on Bangladesh’s graduation from LDC

UN adopts resolution on Bangladesh’s graduation from LDC

-- 2021-11-25 10:34:30

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted the resolution on Graduation of Bangladesh from the LDC category. With the adoption of this resolution at the 40th plenary meeting of 76th UN General A...