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SSC, equivalent exams begin as Covid situation improves

SSC, equivalent exams begin as Covid situation improves

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-14 10:49:31

The much-awaited Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations have begun today (Sunday), maintaining health protocols. Some 22,27,113 students are taking part in the examination...

PM Hasina returns home after two-week foreign tour

PM Hasina returns home after two-week foreign tour

-- 2021-11-14 10:13:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this morning after her two-week official visit to Glasgow, London and Paris, BSS reports. "A VVIP flight (BG-2109) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the...

Day labourers in a tight corner

Day labourers in a tight corner

OUR CORRESPONDENT, TANGAIL 2021-11-14 10:00:05

A large number of day-labourers are passing very hard time across the district amid seasonal job crisis which will continue until Boro paddy plantation. About 40,000 labourers have to suffer a lot as...

Bogura farmers happy with cauliflower yield, price

Bogura farmers happy with cauliflower yield, price

OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2021-11-14 09:54:58

Early cauliflower cultivation has brought smiles on peasants for getting bumper output as well as fair market price in the district this season. Farmers of the district are happy as they are selling...

Dutch tech can be used to preserve onion: Razzaque

Dutch tech can be used to preserve onion: Razzaque

FE REPORT 2021-11-14 08:36:05

Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said on Friday Bangladesh can utilise Dutch technology to preserve onions and increase its shelf life. During his visit to 'Waterman Onions' in the Net...

PM to return home Sunday

PM to return home Sunday

-- 2021-11-13 21:50:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return home on Sunday morning, wrapping up her two-week visit to the United Kingdom and France. She left the French capital, Paris, by a VVIP flight of Biman Banglad...

Shahida Begum becomes first transgender UP member in Khulna

Shahida Begum becomes first transgender UP member in Khulna

-- 2021-11-13 21:44:12

In a first for the district, a member of the transgender community has won elected office during phase two of the UP elections last Thursday. Shahida Begum, 43, has been elected as a member of Magura...

Bangladesh eyes $5.0b IT export by 2025, Joy says

Bangladesh eyes $5.0b IT export by 2025, Joy says

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-13 20:57:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said the government of Bangladesh has set a target to reach the $5 billion mark by 2025 in exporting IT products. In a Fa...

Brahmanbaria railway station resumes full-scale operation

Brahmanbaria railway station resumes full-scale operation

-- 2021-11-13 19:47:22

Brahmanbaria railway station, which was vandalised and torched by Hefazat-e-Islam activists and supporters on March 26, resumed its full-scale operation on Saturday. The full-fledged operation of the...

Dr Kamal wants caretaker govt back, looks for Oikyafront’s revival 

Dr Kamal wants caretaker govt back, looks for Oikyafront’s revival 

-- 2021-11-13 18:47:47

Renewing the demand for holding the next national election under a non-party government, Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain said there is a possibility to revive Jatiya Oikyafront, an electoral alli...

Shan receives Shikdar Printing Award

Shan receives Shikdar Printing Award

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-13 18:18:52

Child star Adib Ahmed Shan has received Shikdar Printing Award in recognition of his progress and achievement at an early age, according to a statement. Mohammad Moksedur Rahman, chairman of Sikdar P...

SSC, equivalent exams begin Sunday

SSC, equivalent exams begin Sunday

-- 2021-11-13 18:17:58

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will begin on Sunday, maintaining health protocols, reports UNB. Usually, the SSC examinations are held in February but this yea...

Bangladesh logs 151 new virus cases, six deaths

Bangladesh logs 151 new virus cases, six deaths

-- 2021-11-13 17:20:04

Bangladesh has logged 151 new COVID cases in a single day, the lowest since Apr 12, 2020, raising the total caseload to 1,572,278 The death toll from the disease rose by six in the 24 hours to 8 am o...

Fire incidents increase four-fold in two decades

Fire incidents increase four-fold in two decades

UNB 2021-11-13 16:57:52

The number of fire incidents in Bangladesh has increased four times over the last two decades as the country's urban areas are expanding without basic infrastructure like fire stations. According to...

DU ‘Cha’ unit admission test results on Sunday

DU ‘Cha’ unit admission test results on Sunday

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-13 16:36:20

The results of Dhaka University’s (DU) ‘Cha’ unit admission test under the Fine Arts Faculty for the 2020-21 academic session will be published on Sunday. Vice-Chancellor of the uni...

Train fares to remain unchanged despite fuel price hike

Train fares to remain unchanged despite fuel price hike

-- 2021-11-13 16:22:27

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has said the government has no plans to change the price of train tickets at present despite an increase in fuel prices. Even though locomotives run on diesel, Suj...

Parliament to hold ‘special discussion’ on Sunday

Parliament to hold ‘special discussion’ on Sunday

-- 2021-11-13 14:45:33

Parliament will hold a ‘special discussion’ on Sunday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence during its upcoming 15th session. President Md Abdul Hamid may al...

Light rain likely in different parts of country

Light rain likely in different parts of country

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-13 13:54:58

Light rain is likely to occur at one or two places of Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, & Sylhet divisions on Saturday and Sunday, according to a met office 24-hour forecast. Banglad...

Authorities take extra precautions at SSC test centres for Covid-19

Authorities take extra precautions at SSC test centres for Covid-19

-- 2021-11-13 13:12:21

Authorities have taken extra precautions at test centres to protect the pupils sitting SSC examinations from Covid-19. The first public tests at schools amid the pandemic are set to begin on Sunday....

PM Hasina seeks strong global partnership for humanity

PM Hasina seeks strong global partnership for humanity

-- 2021-11-13 11:12:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for strong global partnership for the common good of humanity, reminding the world of the devastations caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports. Add...

Newly elected union council member beaten dead in Gaibandha

Newly elected union council member beaten dead in Gaibandha

-- 2021-11-13 10:56:02

Md Abdur Rouf, a newly elected member of the Laxmipur union council in Gaibandha’s Sadar Upazila, has been beaten to death. Rouf was set upon by unknown attackers with metal rods as he return...

PM urges world leaders to forge unity for common good of global humanity

PM urges world leaders to forge unity for common good of global humanity

-- 2021-11-12 22:45:33

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world community to forge a strong partnership for the common good of global humanity as the world moves towards recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic fallouts....

Sajeeb Wazed Joy gets ASOCIO Leadership Award

Sajeeb Wazed Joy gets ASOCIO Leadership Award

-- 2021-11-12 22:17:30

Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy was conferred with 'ASOCIO Leadership Award-2021' for his contribution to bringing unprecedented change in the country's ICT sector. On behalf of...

‘Act right now to fund climate change adaptation’

‘Act right now to fund climate change adaptation’

-- 2021-11-12 20:28:13

The developed countries should come forward right now in fulfilling their commitments to tackle the adverse effects of global climate change, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Hassan Mahmud....

Ex-wheat institute scientist stabbed to death

Ex-wheat institute scientist stabbed to death

-- 2021-11-12 19:15:32

An unidentified assailant has stabbed to death Anwar Shaheed, 72, a former chief scientific officer of Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI), in Dhaka. He died at Shaheed Suhrawardy M...

Three farm workers killed in Sirajganj road crash

Three farm workers killed in Sirajganj road crash

-- 2021-11-12 19:09:51

Three farm workers were killed and another injured when a truck crushed a motorbike they were riding on Hatikumrul-Bonpara highway at Tarash upazila of Sirajganj district. Witnesses said the accident...

COVID-19: Bangladesh reports five deaths, 221 cases in 24 hours

COVID-19: Bangladesh reports five deaths, 221 cases in 24 hours

-- 2021-11-12 18:36:32

Bangladesh has recorded 221 new COVID-19 cases in the latest daily count, taking the caseload to 1,572,127. The death toll has risen by five to 27,912 in the past 24 hours till Friday morning, accord...

Govt ‘deliberately destroyed’ electoral system, Fakhrul says

Govt ‘deliberately destroyed’ electoral system, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-11-12 17:58:54

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday voiced concern over the violence in Union Parishad (UP) polls and said the government “deliberately destroyed the electoral system to...

103 more hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hrs

103 more hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hrs

-- 2021-11-12 17:56:18

Bangladesh reported 103 new Dengue patients being hospitalised in 24 hours till Friday morning. The number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease this year remained unchanged at 96 as no fresh...

PM for setting up South-South Knowledge and Innovation Centre in Bangladesh

PM for setting up South-South Knowledge and Innovation Centre in Bangladesh

-- 2021-11-12 17:16:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday sought international support for setting up a 'South-South Knowledge and Innovation Centre' in Bangladesh to act as a platform of technological solutions to deve...