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Arms coming from Myanmar to destabilise Rohingya camps, home minister says

Arms coming from Myanmar to destabilise Rohingya camps, home minister says

-- 2021-10-03 22:51:43

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said arms are coming into the country from Myanmar in various ways in an attempt to create ‘instability' in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. H...

Awami League issues show-cause notice to Gazipur city mayor

Awami League issues show-cause notice to Gazipur city mayor

-- 2021-10-03 22:35:40

Awami League has issued a show-cause notice to Gazipur City Corporation Mayor, also general secretary of the party’s Gazipur city unit, Jahangir Alam for allegedly making controversial comments...

DMP arrests 13,942 people in eight-month anti-narcotics drive

DMP arrests 13,942 people in eight-month anti-narcotics drive

-- 2021-10-03 20:39:32

Police arrested 13,942 people and filed 9,821 cases in the capital city during an eight-month special drive against illegal narcotics until August 30, a senior official said on Sunday. Teams from the...

Five accused of Banani double rape case sent to jail, verdict on October 12

Five accused of Banani double rape case sent to jail, verdict on October 12

-- 2021-10-03 20:32:20

A Dhaka court has set October 12 to deliver its verdict in the case of rape of two private university students at a hotel in Dhaka's Banani area four years ago on completion of prosecution and defence...

Legal notice served to resume broadcasting of foreign channels

Legal notice served to resume broadcasting of foreign channels

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-03 19:59:24

A legal notice has been served on the information ministry and the cable operators association of Bangladesh (COAB) to take necessary steps within seven days for the restart of the broadcasting of all...

Ministry to bear COVID-19 test expenses of UAE-bound workers

Ministry to bear COVID-19 test expenses of UAE-bound workers

-- 2021-10-03 19:29:54

The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment (MOEWOE) will bear the costs of COVID-19 tests at the RT-PCR laboratories of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) for United...

Model Piyasha placed on two-day remand over Munia rape-murder case

Model Piyasha placed on two-day remand over Munia rape-murder case

-- 2021-10-03 19:15:03

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed model Faria Mahabub Piyasha on a two-day remand allowing police to quiz her in a case over the murder of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia after rape in her Gulshan fl...

Sheikh Russel Website launched with Online Quiz Contest

Sheikh Russel Website launched with Online Quiz Contest

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-03 18:20:34

The birthday of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on 18th October has been declared as "Sheikh Russel Day".  To this end, the ICT Divisio...

PM to hold media briefing on Monday to highlight participation in UNGA

PM to hold media briefing on Monday to highlight participation in UNGA

-- 2021-10-03 18:10:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a media briefing on Monday to highlight her participation in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other events during her visit to the United States....

COVID-19 infection rate dips to 2.9pc

COVID-19 infection rate dips to 2.9pc

-- 2021-10-03 17:12:36

Bangladesh has registered 18 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,573. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,557,964 as 617 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours...

JMB bomb maker Mizan sentenced to death

JMB bomb maker Mizan sentenced to death

-- 2021-10-03 12:26:30

A court has sentenced Jahidul Islam Mizan, aka ‘Boma Mizan’, a bomb maker for banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh to death over a bomb attack on a Chattogram court in 200...

Bangladesh expresses concern over crimes in Rohingya camps

Bangladesh expresses concern over crimes in Rohingya camps

-- 2021-10-03 10:53:07

Bangladesh has expressed concern over the growing incidents of crimes and unrest at the Rohingya camps indicating the recent murder of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah, BSS reports. "Bangladesh is concern...

Rohingya organisers seek new path to safety

Rohingya organisers seek new path to safety

-- 2021-10-03 10:02:08

The killing of Mohib Ullah has sent shockwaves to the camps in Cox’s Bazar, with the Rohingya organisers close to the refugee leader seeking safety from the authorities.  “All of us,...

Import-export thru Benapole suspended

Import-export thru Benapole suspended

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-03 09:26:04

BENAPOLE: Import and export between Bangladesh and India have been suspended through Benapole port on Saturday morning as the day is a public holiday in India on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 155th...

BRRI dhan75 to create scope for early farming of Rabi crops

BRRI dhan75 to create scope for early farming of Rabi crops

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-10-03 09:23:57

BRRI dhan75 will open doors for the early cultivation of potato, mustard, maize, wheat, and other Rabi crops across the country, especially in the northern region. "It is a potential short-duration v...

20pc people to be vaccinated by Dec: Maleque

20pc people to be vaccinated by Dec: Maleque

FE REPORT 2021-10-03 09:07:59

Health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque has said that some 20 per cent of the country's populations will be vaccinated by December next under the first phase of the Covax facility. In the...

Child marriage rate increases in Cox’s Bazar significantly amid pandemic

Child marriage rate increases in Cox’s Bazar significantly amid pandemic

-- 2021-10-02 23:25:18

A recent study on the impact of COVID-19 on child marriage in Cox’s Bazar district has uncovered rates of child marriage soared throughout the district since March 2021, with the highest increas...

Police beef up patrol at Rohingya camps, arrest four over Mohib Ullah murder

Police beef up patrol at Rohingya camps, arrest four over Mohib Ullah murder

-- 2021-10-02 22:41:16

Law enforcement agencies have arrested four people in connection with the killing of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah inside Rohingya camps in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar district. Among the arrested susp...

Don’t make unnecessary chaos, polls will be held as per constitution: Obaidul Quader

Don’t make unnecessary chaos, polls will be held as per constitution: Obaidul Quader

-- 2021-10-02 22:19:47

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said parliamentary polls will be held in due time as per the constitution like in other democratic countries. “So, there is no need to make evi...

‘Operators stopped foreign channel broadcast for failing to air clean feed’

‘Operators stopped foreign channel broadcast for failing to air clean feed’

-- 2021-10-02 19:40:34

The government did not shut any foreign TV channel as Bangladesh's sky is open, said Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Saturday. "The agents of foreign channels and operators have stopped broadcas...

RingID director held in city on fraudulence charges

RingID director held in city on fraudulence charges

-- 2021-10-02 18:55:13

As financial scams keep unfolding in the country, members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested Saiful Islam, director of ringID, a social media platform, from Gulshan in the capital on...

Rabindra University protests ease on govt assurance

Rabindra University protests ease on govt assurance

-- 2021-10-02 18:02:28

Protests in Sirajganj's Rabindra University have subsided after the government assured that action would be taken against a teacher for forcibly cutting the hair of students, based on an investigation...

Armoury with ties to 1930 anti-British raid, 1971 war to become museum

Armoury with ties to 1930 anti-British raid, 1971 war to become museum

-- 2021-10-02 17:23:17

Chattogram police have taken steps to turn the armoury raided nearly a century ago by the legendary anti-British revolutionary Surya Sen, fondly known as Masterda, into a museum, reports bdnews24.com....

COVID-19: 589 people test positive, 24 die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 589 people test positive, 24 die in 24 hours

-- 2021-10-02 17:22:00

Bangladesh has registered 24 new fatalities from COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the death toll to 27,555. The caseload surged to 1,557,347 after 589 people, the lowest daily count since May 16, te...

Govt plans to build tunnel under Padma at Daulatdia-Paturia point, says bridges minister   

Govt plans to build tunnel under Padma at Daulatdia-Paturia point, says bridges minister  

-- 2021-10-02 16:24:04

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the government has a plan to build a tunnel beneath the river Padma at Daulatdia-Paturia point instead of constructing a bridge to...

Two more Rohingya men held over Mohib Ullah killing

Two more Rohingya men held over Mohib Ullah killing

-- 2021-10-02 15:36:00

Police have arrested two more men over their suspected involvement in the murder of Rohingya leader Mohammad Mohib Ullah in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya, bdnws24.com reports. The men, both members of the Roh...

1,075 buses registered in eight months

1,075 buses registered in eight months

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-10-02 14:41:31

A total of 1,075 buses were registered in the last eight months from January to August 2021, according to the country’s transport regulator. Of the buses, 849 were registered in Dhaka duri...

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah's killers must be brought to justice: Momen

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah's killers must be brought to justice: Momen

-- 2021-10-02 13:12:52

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the killers of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah must be brought to justice, BSS reports. "No one will be exempted (those were involved in the murder," he said...

PM greets Chinese president on 72nd founding anniversary

PM greets Chinese president on 72nd founding anniversary

-- 2021-10-02 12:24:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today conveyed her heartiest felicitations and warmest greetings to Chinese President Xi Jumping and the friendly people of China on the auspicious occasion of the 72nd an...

Ziauddin Bablu no more

Ziauddin Bablu no more

-- 2021-10-02 11:25:54

Jatiya Party (JP) Secretary-General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu died at a city hospital on Saturday. He was 66. The JP leader was undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital in Dhaka, where he b...