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UNFPA launches project for improving menstrual health management of Rohingya and host community girls and women

UNFPA launches project for improving menstrual health management of Rohingya and host community girls and women

-- 2021-10-31 12:22:52

The project, “Improving Menstrual Health Management of Adolescent girls and women in Cox’s Bazar,” generously funded by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has been launch...

PM leaves for Glasgow to join COP26

PM leaves for Glasgow to join COP26

-- 2021-10-31 11:20:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left for Glasgow to join the 2021 United Nations climate change conference, COP26, a crucial summit for Bangladesh, one of the countries that are most vulnerable to th...

Farmers suffer as 1,200 hectares of land remain fallow

Farmers suffer as 1,200 hectares of land remain fallow

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-31 10:00:23

SYLHET: The local authorities took no measures to facilitate the poor small farmers to cultivate their own lands even in months as they cannot remove the sand from their croplands. About 1,200 hectar...

Bangladesh to push for carbon emission cut, funds at COP26

Bangladesh to push for carbon emission cut, funds at COP26

-- 2021-10-30 21:47:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Glasgow on Sunday to join the 2021 United Nations climate change conference, COP26, a crucial summit for Bangladesh, one of the countries that are mos...

Communal violence instigators, attackers identified: Home minister says

Communal violence instigators, attackers identified: Home minister says

-- 2021-10-30 21:35:34

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said all those who instigated communal violence and carried out attacks in different parts of the country, including Cumilla, have been identified. “T...

Many parents still not sending children to schools, minister says

Many parents still not sending children to schools, minister says

-- 2021-10-30 19:38:23

Education Minister Dipu Moni has said the government is yet to ascertain the number of dropped out students due to a long closure amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re receiving assignments...

Polka, alternative to traditional plastic bags

Polka, alternative to traditional plastic bags

Md Zahidur Rabbi 2021-10-30 18:20:54

Shalbrikkho, a Bangladeshi company that specializes in biodegradable and recycled materials, has developed 'Polka,' a green and sustainable alternative to typical plastics. Polka is a type of bioplas...

COVID-19: 166 people test positive, 8 die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 166 people test positive, 8 die in 24 hours

-- 2021-10-30 17:16:40

Bangladesh has recorded 166 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, the lowest since April 12, 2020, taking the tally of infections to 1,569,328. The death toll climbed to 27,862 after 8 fatalities were regi...

PCR lab to be set up in Chattogram, minister says

PCR lab to be set up in Chattogram, minister says

-- 2021-10-30 17:03:05

Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed has said that a lab for Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test will be set up in Chattogram soon. "Necessary steps are being taken to set...

Chattogram Medical College closes indefinitely following BCL clashes

Chattogram Medical College closes indefinitely following BCL clashes

-- 2021-10-30 16:56:31

Chattogram Medical College (CMC) has been closed indefinitely after clashes between the two factions of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student affiliate of the ruling Awami League. The college au...

Three of a family found dead in Tangail, five-year-old in critical condition

Three of a family found dead in Tangail, five-year-old in critical condition

-- 2021-10-30 14:09:34

Police have recovered the bodies of three members of a family from a house in Tangail's Ghatail Upazila. The cause of the deaths remains unclear, bdnews24.com reports. A severely injured five-year-ol...

Ring Road designed to ease port city traffic snarls

Ring Road designed to ease port city traffic snarls

Nazimuddin Shyamol 2021-10-30 13:03:33

CHATTOGRAM: After completion of the construction work of the much-awaited Coastal Road, popularly known as Ring Road, traffic congestion will ease remarkably in the port city as the communication syst...

Many Bangladeshi migrants suffering in Brunei

Many Bangladeshi migrants suffering in Brunei

ARAFAT ARA 2021-10-30 09:56:06

Seizing passports by employers leave many Bangladeshi migrant workers in Brunei in dire straits, as their fundamental rights are violated for it, workers and officials said. Although passport confisc...

Car-auto rickshaw collision leaves two dead in Sylhet

Car-auto rickshaw collision leaves two dead in Sylhet

-- 2021-10-29 19:51:38

Two people were killed in a head-on collision between a private car and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet on Friday. The dead were auto-rickshaw driver...

India gifts 3 ‘life-support’ ambulances to Bangladesh hospitals

India gifts 3 ‘life-support’ ambulances to Bangladesh hospitals

-- 2021-10-29 19:50:33

The Indian government has handed over three ambulances with life-support equipment to Bangladesh for emergency care to patients on their way to hospitals. Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami h...

Two killed in Magura road crash

Two killed in Magura road crash

-- 2021-10-29 19:39:43

At least two people were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Saitrish area on the Magura-Jhenaidah highway on Friday. One of the deceased has been identif...

130 more hospitalised with dengue in 24hrs

130 more hospitalised with dengue in 24hrs

-- 2021-10-29 19:23:44

Bangladesh reported hospitalisation of 130 new patients with dengue fever in 24 hours till Friday morning. With no fresh death reported, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease this...

Bangladesh to seek quick formation of climate fund in COP26

Bangladesh to seek quick formation of climate fund in COP26

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-10-29 19:19:42

Bangladesh will seek immediate formation and release of the $100 billion climate fund in the upcoming UN Climate Conference, dubbed as COP26. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to start the jo...

Bangladesh adds 305 new virus cases, seven deaths

Bangladesh adds 305 new virus cases, seven deaths

-- 2021-10-29 17:18:30

Bangladesh has registered seven fatalities from COVID-19 in a day, taking the death toll to 27,854. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,569,162 after 305 people tested positive until 8:00 am Friday, acco...

Two arrested at Dhaka airport with Tk 14m worth foreign currency

Two arrested at Dhaka airport with Tk 14m worth foreign currency

-- 2021-10-29 17:07:15

Armed Police arrested two departing passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Friday while allegedly trying to smuggle out Saudi Riyal. They tried to go to Bahrain with...

Khaleda Zia doing well, says Fakhrul

Khaleda Zia doing well, says Fakhrul

-- 2021-10-29 16:25:28

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said their party chairperson Khaleda Zia, undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the city, is now fine. “I visited madam (Khaleda) at...

Paturia ferry capsize: Rustom to join rescue operation

Paturia ferry capsize: Rustom to join rescue operation

-- 2021-10-29 16:06:27

One more vehicle was fished out of the river Friday as the salvage of the ferry that sank at Paturia dock Wednesday continued. Around 12.30 pm, a van was retrieved from the river. So far, a total of...

3,870 hectares under winter vegetable cultivation in Tangail

3,870 hectares under winter vegetable cultivation in Tangail

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-29 14:48:37

TANGAIL: Growers of the district have brought a total of 3,870 hectares of land under early winter vegetables cultivation in the current season in the district. According to the Department of Agric...

Coal-based power plants to jeopardise livelihoods of 15m

Coal-based power plants to jeopardise livelihoods of 15m

FE REPORT 2021-10-29 14:32:32

Expressing concern over proposed 19 coal-based power plants in the country, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Thursday said the plants will pose high risk for the ecology and livelihoods...

PM warns of winter COVID dangers

PM warns of winter COVID dangers

-- 2021-10-29 11:30:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alerted all to the dangers the coronavirus poses in winter taking the last year’s cases into consideration. “Coronavirus is reappearing in all the countries o...

Bangladesh to vaccinate children with Pfizer vaccine

Bangladesh to vaccinate children with Pfizer vaccine

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-29 09:47:55

Bangladesh to vaccinate children with Pfizer vaccine Is one dose effective enough and safer? With several countries administering only the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to c...

Govt promotes six officials to secretaries

Govt promotes six officials to secretaries

-- 2021-10-28 22:00:08

The government has promoted five grade-1 government officials to the rank of secretary. The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Thursday. According to the notifica...

E-orange owner Sonia among three remanded again

E-orange owner Sonia among three remanded again

-- 2021-10-28 21:21:14

A Dhaka court has Thursday placed e-commerce platform eorange.shop owner Sonia Mehzabin, her husband Masukur Rahman, and Chief Operating Officer Aman Ullah on a one-day remand in a fraud case filed wi...

Deal signed to set up 590 MW power plant in Anwara

Deal signed to set up 590 MW power plant in Anwara

-- 2021-10-28 20:25:46

Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has signed a power purchase agreement with United Chattogram Power Limited (UCPL) to set up a 590 MW gas-based combined cycle power plant in Anwara upazila of...

173 more hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours

173 more hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours

-- 2021-10-28 20:09:25

Bangladesh reported hospitalisation of 173 new patients with Dengue fever in 24 hours till Thursday morning. With no fresh death reported, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease thi...