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Of broken bridges, bamboo bridge

Of broken bridges, bamboo bridge

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2021-10-25 11:35:38

Ten bridges are lying useless on a Netrakona road while Cox's Bazar villagers crossing a canal using a bamboo-made bridge for a century now. Reports of such rural communications hardship came from the...

Karnaphuli capital dredging to end by next July

Karnaphuli capital dredging to end by next July

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL 2021-10-25 09:10:44

CHATTOGRAM: More than 60 per cent of works of capital dredging of Karnaphuli River have been completed after the project was started afresh by Bangladesh Navy in April this year, sources said. Stop...

Central rawhide storage to be built in Savar

Central rawhide storage to be built in Savar

REZAUL KARIM 2021-10-25 08:57:48

A move is underway to establish a central storage facility in Savar industrial hub to help ensure fair prices and quality of rawhides and skins as well as for proper management of the items, officia...

'Facebook also responsible for spreading posts on communal violence'

'Facebook also responsible for spreading posts on communal violence'

-- 2021-10-24 21:36:09

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said Facebook and other social networks cannot deny responsibility for spreading posts that led to the recent communal violence in Bangladesh. T...

Bangladesh imposes mandatory quarantine for travellers from 13 countries

Bangladesh imposes mandatory quarantine for travellers from 13 countries

-- 2021-10-24 20:30:17

Travellers from 13 countries who have received full doses of a coronavirus vaccine approved by the World Health Organization will have to quarantine at home for seven days upon arrival in Bangladesh....

Momen blames division in UNSC for prolonging Rohingya crisis

Momen blames division in UNSC for prolonging Rohingya crisis

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-24 19:35:00

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says a division in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is responsible for prolonging the Rohingya crisis. “Among the five permanent members (of UNSC) Russ...

Pori Moni’s remand: Two judges get another week to submit explanation

Pori Moni’s remand: Two judges get another week to submit explanation

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-24 18:39:57

The High Court on Sunday granted one more week to two lower court judges for submitting their explanations over sending actress Shamsunnahar Smriti, better known as Pori Moni, on second and third phas...

Rabindra University student 'attempts suicide’ in public

Rabindra University student 'attempts suicide’ in public

-- 2021-10-24 17:48:45

The authorities had been warned: if they failed to permanently remove Farhana Yeasmin Baten, a teacher who landed in hot water for forcibly cutting students' hair, Shamim Hossain would end his own lif...

COVID-19: 275 people test positive, 9 die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 275 people test positive, 9 die in 24 hours

-- 2021-10-24 17:36:32

Bangladesh has registered nine fatalities from COVID-19 in a day, taking the death toll to 27,823. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,567,692 after 275 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 h...

Names of money launderers: HC angers over finance ministry,  other respondents

Names of money launderers: HC angers over finance ministry, other respondents

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-24 17:23:01

The High Court on Sunday expressed its anger over the respondents including the finance ministry and Bangladesh Bank as they didn’t submit any report complying with its earlier order that sought...

Press Club Kolkata to set up 'Bangabandhu Sangbad Kendra'

Press Club Kolkata to set up 'Bangabandhu Sangbad Kendra'

-- 2021-10-24 16:40:40

All set to establish the much-desired "Bangabandhu Sangbad Kendra" (Bangabandhu Media Centre) at Press Club Kolkata (PCK), the oldest club of the working journalists in the sub-continent. I...

'Vested quarters are trying to tarnish country's image'

'Vested quarters are trying to tarnish country's image'

-- 2021-10-24 16:24:55

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the recent religiously motivated attacks on Hindus were carried out with the intention of tarnishing the image of Bangladesh, reports bdnews24.com. Certain q...

Govt announces reward for providing information about dolphin killers

Govt announces reward for providing information about dolphin killers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-24 16:17:06

The government will reward those who will provide information to the forest department about dolphin killers. Environment Minister Md Shahab Uddin came up with the announcement while addressing ...

Attacks on Noakhali puja venues:  Three suspects give confessional statements

Attacks on Noakhali puja venues:  Three suspects give confessional statements

-- 2021-10-24 14:05:08

Three more suspects in the recent attacks on Hindu places of worship in Noakhali have given confessional statements to a court. Senior Judicial Magistrate Nabanita Guha recorded the statements made b...

Truck crushes motorcycle in Sirajganj, leaving two dead

Truck crushes motorcycle in Sirajganj, leaving two dead

-- 2021-10-24 12:38:26

Two men riding a motorcycle have died after being run over by a truck in Sirajganj Sadar Upazila. The accident occurred on the Sirajganj-Kazipur road near Chhongachha Bazar around 12:45 am on Sunda...

PM opens Payra Bridge to traffic

PM opens Payra Bridge to traffic

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-24 12:28:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Sunday) inaugurated the much-awaited bridge constructed over the Payra River in Lebukhali area on Patuakhali-Barishal highway for traffic movement, paving the way f...

bdnews24.com celebrates 15 years of unwavering journey

bdnews24.com celebrates 15 years of unwavering journey

-- 2021-10-24 10:28:38

The full stop is probably the most essential punctuation mark in writing. About half of all punctuation marks used in writing are full stops. It terminates a sentence and gives clarity to writing, but...

Tahirpur frontier road in poor condition

Tahirpur frontier road in poor condition

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-24 09:38:38

SYLHET, Oct 23: Tahirpur border road in Sunamgaj district has become unfit for use as big potholes have developed on various parts of it due to the strong current of hilly water from the Meghalaya hil...

Payra bridge that establishes road connectivity with South opens today

Payra bridge that establishes road connectivity with South opens today

FE REPORT 2021-10-24 08:47:40

Lebukhali bridge over the Payra river finally opens to traffic today (Sunday), marking an epoch-making development of a road network in southern districts. With the opening, Dhaka-Mawa-Faridpur-Bar...

Govt to integrate electricity transmission system

Govt to integrate electricity transmission system

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-23 20:31:13

The country requires an automatic frequency control system for smooth transmission of electricity being generated from renewable energy, coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear. Efforts are there to moder...

UNHCR expresses deep concern over killing in Rohingya camps

UNHCR expresses deep concern over killing in Rohingya camps

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-23 19:00:37

The killing of seven Rohingya people in a Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp, weeks after the murder of Rohingya leader Muhibullah, caused concern among the development partners. Reacting to the inciden...

Civil society calls for finalisation of Paris rulebook

Civil society calls for finalisation of Paris rulebook

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-23 18:33:54

Stakeholders and civil society organisations have called for the finalisation of the Paris rulebook to make the Paris agreement functional in the upcoming COP-26 scheduled to be held in Glasgow city...

Two more die of dengue, 189 hospitalised in 24hrs

Two more die of dengue, 189 hospitalised in 24hrs

-- 2021-10-23 17:31:04

Dengue claimed two more lives in Bangladesh while 189 new patients were hospitalised with it in 24 hours till Saturday morning. With the fresh deaths, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne...

Govt plans to increase number of classes in schools, colleges from January: Dipu Moni

Govt plans to increase number of classes in schools, colleges from January: Dipu Moni

-- 2021-10-23 17:22:40

Education Minister Dipu Moni has said the government is planning to increase the number of classes in schools and colleges from January next. The minister said this while talking to local journalists...

Bangladesh logs 9 virus deaths, 278 cases in a day

Bangladesh logs 9 virus deaths, 278 cases in a day

-- 2021-10-23 17:18:58

Bangladesh has registered 9 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,814.The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,567,417 as 278 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to...

Bangladesh to formulate integrated energy-power sector master plan

Bangladesh to formulate integrated energy-power sector master plan

-- 2021-10-23 15:50:23

Responding to the suggestions of energy experts, Bangladesh is finally moving towards formulating an integrated energy and power sector master plan with a focus on the "3E+S" concept.“We’l...

Key suspect behind Mohib Ullah killing arrested

Key suspect behind Mohib Ullah killing arrested

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-23 14:58:11

Although several suspects in the murder of prominent Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah were arrested, police said they have now caught a man, who was directly involved in the killing. Law enforcers have...

Dhaka world's second most polluted city

Dhaka world's second most polluted city

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-23 11:40:35

Air pollution still remains one of the top most challenges for Bangladesh -- its capital has been ranked as the second-most polluted city in the world. On Saturday, Dhaka occupied the second position...

Father six years younger than son!

Father six years younger than son!

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-23 11:14:59

A father and a son in Chuadanga were found where the son is six years older than the father according to the national identity card (NID). According to the National Identity Card (NID), Md Jamat Ali...

Three-wheelers still ply on highways despite ban

Three-wheelers still ply on highways despite ban

-- 2021-10-23 10:21:42

A woman and her daughter died after another vehicle hit their battery-run rickshaw van on the highway near Nalka in Sirajganj on Sunday. Although the police are looking for the vehicle that broke th...