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Nearly 400,000 Bangladeshi workers go abroad in 10 months

Nearly 400,000 Bangladeshi workers go abroad in 10 months

ARAFAT ARA 2021-11-17 08:42:38

Bangladesh sent 65,233 workers abroad in October, 55 per cent higher than in the previous month, official data showed, following a turnaround from the pandemic-time slump in manpower export. Statisti...

Bangladesh's power subsidy to hit Tk 200b

Bangladesh's power subsidy to hit Tk 200b

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2021-11-17 08:34:46

State subsidy on power poses to nearly double to Tk 200 billion in the current fiscal year with a push from fuel-price spiral, BPDB fears. Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), country's lone bu...

UK announces fresh £18m funding to end child marriage in Bangladesh, 11 other countries

UK announces fresh £18m funding to end child marriage in Bangladesh, 11 other countries

-- 2021-11-16 22:17:50

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Tuesday announced £18 million of new funding to end child marriage in Bangladesh and 11 other countries through partners UNICEF and UNFPA (United Nations P...

Bangladesh urges UK to repatriate convicted war criminals

Bangladesh urges UK to repatriate convicted war criminals

-- 2021-11-16 20:34:53

Bangladesh has urged the United Kingdom to repatriate the convicted war criminals currently living there to implement the court verdict as Bangladesh believes in the rule of law. Foreign Minister Dr...

BNP demands steps as per international law to deal with border killings

BNP demands steps as per international law to deal with border killings

-- 2021-11-16 20:24:07

Members of BNP’s highest policymaking body have urged the government to take steps as per international law to stop the unacceptable killing of Bangladeshis along the border by the Indian Border...

Slum dwellers celebrate access to COVID-19 vaccine

Slum dwellers celebrate access to COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-11-16 20:17:53

The residents of Korail slum in Dhaka have become the first in Bangladesh to get COVID-19 vaccines under a programme for slum dwellers with national ID cards or birth certificates. The adults lined u...

MRT symbolises changing Dhaka’s face, says Japanese Ambassador

MRT symbolises changing Dhaka’s face, says Japanese Ambassador

-- 2021-11-16 19:36:23

The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), set to begin on December next year, symbolises the changing face of Dhaka, said Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki on Tuesday. Selector at BCB national selectio...

123 more hospitalised with dengue in 24hrs

123 more hospitalised with dengue in 24hrs

-- 2021-11-16 19:31:59

Bangladesh reported 123 new dengue patients being hospitalised in 24 hours until Tuesday morning. Although dengue cases were supposed to drop ahead of winter the country is still seeing over 100 deng...

UK steps up with £18m for 12 countries to end child marriage

UK steps up with £18m for 12 countries to end child marriage

-- 2021-11-16 18:22:55

The United Kingdom has declared £18 million of new funding through partners UNICEF and UNFPA for 12 countries, including Bangladesh to end child marriage. This investment will strengthen laws a...

‘3,214 acres of railway land under illegal occupation’ 

‘3,214 acres of railway land under illegal occupation’ 

-- 2021-11-16 18:14:18

Some 3,214 acres of land of Bangladesh Railway are now under the clutches of land grabbers across the country, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan told Parliament on Tuesday. "The amount of unused (f...

Russia to lift COVID-19 ban on flights to Bangladesh

Russia to lift COVID-19 ban on flights to Bangladesh

-- 2021-11-16 18:07:35

Russia will lift its COVID-19 ban on flights to countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Mongolia, Costa Rica and Argentina from Dec 1, the government coronavirus task force said on Tuesday. The gover...

COVID-19: Two deaths, 213 cases recorded in 24 hours

COVID-19: Two deaths, 213 cases recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-11-16 17:15:43

Bangladesh has registered two new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,928. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,572,948 as 213 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours...

PM to brief media Wednesday on UK, France visit

PM to brief media Wednesday on UK, France visit

-- 2021-11-16 17:10:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference on Wednesday afternoon on the outcome of her recently-concluded visit to the United Kingdom (UK) and France. Prime Minister's Press Secret...

Four Health Ministry employees suspended over missing documents

Four Health Ministry employees suspended over missing documents

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

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has suspended four employees over possible ties to a missing file containing 17 documents from the ministry. The ministry’s investigation committee recomm...

HC expresses anger over govt bodies' ‘negligence’ in informing court  about e-commerce scam

HC expresses anger over govt bodies' ‘negligence’ in informing court  about e-commerce scam

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-16 16:39:31

The High Court on Tuesday expressed its resentment against the negligence of three government bodies in informing the court about the steps taken over the alleged money laundering by the e-commerce pl...

Youth dies after jumping from Radisson Blu's 20th floor

Youth dies after jumping from Radisson Blu's 20th floor

-- 2021-11-16 16:34:55

A young man has died after jumping off the 20th floor of Radisson Blu Chittagong Bay View hotel in Chattogram, police said. The dead man was identified as 24-year-old Arif Kabir, who lived in Mohamma...

Tangail MP Akabbar passes away

Tangail MP Akabbar passes away

-- 2021-11-16 16:22:55

Md Akabbar Hossain, the Awami League member of parliament from the Tangail-7 seat, has died at the age of 65. He died while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Tuesda...

Man dies after jumping off 20th floor of Radisson Blu Hotel in Ctg

Man dies after jumping off 20th floor of Radisson Blu Hotel in Ctg

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-16 14:53:27

A man died after jumping off the 20th floor of Radisson Blu Chittagong Bay View hotel in Chattogram, police said. The deceased was identified as 24-year-old Arif Kabir, who lived in Dhaka’s Moh...

UNICEF urges Bangladesh to retain virtual courts for children

UNICEF urges Bangladesh to retain virtual courts for children

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-16 14:09:44

More than 45,000 children were released from detention and safely returned to the family or an appropriate alternative since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data released by UNICE...

Islam supports technology, gene engineering in agriculture

Islam supports technology, gene engineering in agriculture

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-11-16 13:07:27

There is no prohibition in Islamic law on the use of modern technology in agriculture and the use of biotechnology in crop production to ensure sustainable food security, opined the country's eminent...

Five sailors missing as coal-carrying boat sinks near Mongla Port

Five sailors missing as coal-carrying boat sinks near Mongla Port

-- 2021-11-16 11:43:04

Five sailors have gone missing after their coal-bearing boat was involved in a collision with a foreign ship in the Poshur River near the Mongla Port, bdnews24.com reports. The incident occurred arou...

Aman rice harvesting goes on in full swing

Aman rice harvesting goes on in full swing

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-16 11:25:17

Aman harvesting is going on in full swing in Tangail and Panchagarh districts with the hope of achieving bumper output this year. Our Tangail Correspondent reports, the harvesting of Aman paddy has...

Writer Hasan Azizul Haque dies aged 82

Writer Hasan Azizul Haque dies aged 82

-- 2021-11-15 22:33:01

Noted writer Hasan Azizul Haque has died at the age of 82 after suffering from health complications for months, reports bdnews24.com. He passed away at his home in Rajshahi at 9 pm on Monday, said Pr...

Bridge authority to suspend increased toll from Tuesday midnight

Bridge authority to suspend increased toll from Tuesday midnight

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-15 22:28:35

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has kept its decision to realise toll from its two bridges including Bangabandhu Jamuna bridge suspended at an increased rate from Tuesday midnight. The authority e...

Raintree rape case judge ignored SC order in another case

Raintree rape case judge ignored SC order in another case

-- 2021-11-15 21:55:10

Mosammat Kamrunnahar, the judge who has lost her judicial powers over a controversial observation in the Raintree hotel rape case verdict, granted bail to a suspect in another case ignoring the Suprem...

Lord Tariq highlights UK-Bangladesh relation for trade, education, climate change

Lord Tariq highlights UK-Bangladesh relation for trade, education, climate change

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-15 20:30:34

UK Minister Lord Tariq Ahmad on Monday highlighted the importance of UK-Bangladesh ties in terms of trade, education, climate change. “We must work together so that economic development does n...

Covid jabbing of slum dwellers to begin Tuesday

Covid jabbing of slum dwellers to begin Tuesday

-- 2021-11-15 20:25:45

The government has decided to vaccinate the residents of slums, with the dwellers of Korail in Dhaka to receive the first shots under the programme on Tuesday. The campaign will be expanded to other...

Mastermind in the killing of former wheat scientist held in city

Mastermind in the killing of former wheat scientist held in city

-- 2021-11-15 19:57:29

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday arrested two people including the mastermind in connection with the murder of the former chief scientific officer of Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Resear...

HC rules over job tenure of transferred primary teachers

HC rules over job tenure of transferred primary teachers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-15 19:37:06

The High Court on Monday issued a ruling regarding the calculation of ‘job tenure’ from the date of starting job as assistant teachers at the government primary schools, who have been tran...

JKS demands fixing fares for CNG-run, petrol-run transports

JKS demands fixing fares for CNG-run, petrol-run transports

FE ONLINE REPORT  2021-11-15 19:20:34

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) demanded fixing fares for CNG-run human hauler, laguna, auto-tempo, and auto-rickshaw to provide legal protection from the ongoing fare anarchy and harassment of...