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Moderate to severe cold conditions likely to continue in parts of country: Met Dept

Moderate to severe cold conditions likely to continue in parts of country: Met Dept

UNB 2023-01-04 12:14:55

Moderate to severe cold conditions are likely to continue in north, north-western and central parts of the country due to lower difference between day and night temperatures, Bangladesh Meteorological...

Ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia route resume after six hours

Ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia route resume after six hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 11:19:45

Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route resumed this morning after more than six hours of disruption caused thick fog. Mohiuddin Russel, Manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation...

Gaibandha-5 by-polls: Voting underway

Gaibandha-5 by-polls: Voting underway

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 10:59:59

Voting in the by-election for Gaibandha-5 constituency, which was suspended due to irregularities, began this morning in a peaceful environment with the use of electronic voting ma...

Boro farming starts in Sylhet region amid high cost of inputs

Boro farming starts in Sylhet region amid high cost of inputs

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2023-01-04 10:43:55

Farmers in Sylhet region started Boro farming in many areas of all the four districts. Many of them alleged that due to lack of irrigation facilities a good tracts of land would remain fallow while ot...

Six ex-SB officials among nine jailed for seven years

Six ex-SB officials among nine jailed for seven years

FE REPORT 2023-01-04 08:48:34

A Dhaka court has sentenced nine persons including six former Sonali Bank (SB) officials to seven years' imprisonment for embezzling over Tk4.97 million from Dhaka University fund. Earlier in 2010, t...

BFSA publishes family directory on safe food consumption

BFSA publishes family directory on safe food consumption

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-01-03 20:37:05

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) on Tuesday published a family directory on safe food consumption aiming to make the nation a healthy one. The directory was published at an event in the confer...

Households bear 71pc cost of education, government shares rest: UNESCO

Households bear 71pc cost of education, government shares rest: UNESCO

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-01-03 20:31:13

Households in Bangladesh account for the largest share of 71 per cent of total education-spending of while the rest 29 per cent is shared by the government, according to a report disclosed in Dhaka on...

BNP leaders making 'tall talks' to console their activists, says Hasan Mahmud

BNP leaders making 'tall talks' to console their activists, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2023-01-03 20:10:06

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League joint general secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said BNP leaders including Khandaker Mosharraf are making ‘tall talks’ to console their...

PM’s resignation can pave way for credible polls, says Gayeshwar

PM’s resignation can pave way for credible polls, says Gayeshwar

-- 2023-01-03 19:57:48

BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Tuesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation can pave the way for holding a fair and credible election and resolving the ongoing political crisis...

Bangladesh to get Adani’s electricity from March

Bangladesh to get Adani’s electricity from March

-- 2023-01-03 19:28:02

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that the electricity, under the agreement with Adani Power of India, will come to Bangladesh from mid-March this year. "No...

48 more Dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

48 more Dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2023-01-03 17:29:42

Forty-eight more people were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Tuesday morning. Of the new patients, 17 were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 31 outside it, according to the Directorate...

HC grants six-month bail to Fakhrul, Abbas

HC grants six-month bail to Fakhrul, Abbas

-- 2023-01-03 17:20:50

The High Court has granted six-month bail to BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and party's Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas in a case lodged over clashes between police and BNP me...

Khulna, Magura road accidents leave three dead

Khulna, Magura road accidents leave three dead

-- 2023-01-03 17:15:38

Three people were killed in road accidents in Khulna and Magura districts on Tuesday morning. In Khulna, two people died in separate accidents that took place at Parchalna village of Chalna municipal...

31 Covid-19 cases reported in a day

31 Covid-19 cases reported in a day

-- 2023-01-03 17:09:46

Bangladesh has recorded 31 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,187. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,440 over the 24-hour period, repor...

Awami League leaders, activists pay homage to Syed Ashraf

Awami League leaders, activists pay homage to Syed Ashraf

-- 2023-01-03 16:57:53

Leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League (AL) and its affiliated organisations on Tuesday paid tributes to former AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on the occasion of his fourth death a...

PM vows to develop Bangladesh Police as a smart force

PM vows to develop Bangladesh Police as a smart force

-- 2023-01-03 16:48:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to build a world-standard ‘Smart Police’ force good at knowledge, science and technology, urging the law enforcement agency to work for upholding peo...

Gaibandha-5 by-election on Wednesday

Gaibandha-5 by-election on Wednesday

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 14:41:53

The by-election to Gaibandha-5 constituency, which was suspended due to irregularities, will be held on Wednesday. On October 12 last year, the Election Commission (EC) suspended the by-election due...

Syed Ashraf's 4th death anniversary today

Syed Ashraf's 4th death anniversary today

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 14:23:26

The fourth death anniversary of former Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam is today (Jan 3, 2023), BSS reports. On January 3 in 2019, Syed Ashraf, also the then Public Administration M...

Mahbub Hossain picked as new cabinet secretary after Kabir Bin Anwar retires

Mahbub Hossain picked as new cabinet secretary after Kabir Bin Anwar retires

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 12:21:34

Three weeks after his appointment, Kabir Bin Anwar retired as Bangladesh’s cabinet secretary. The top civil service post will now go to Senior Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain, who was previou...

Man’s wrist slit over land dispute in Sylhet

Man’s wrist slit over land dispute in Sylhet

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 12:10:39

One of the wrists of a 35-year-old man was slit allegedly by his cousins in Sylhet's Companiganj upazila over a land dispute on Monday. The victim was identified as Helal Ahmed, of East Kathalbari vi...

PM opens Police Week-2023

PM opens Police Week-2023

FE ONLINE REPORT  2023-01-03 12:06:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Jan 3, 2023) inaugurated the six-day Police Week-2023.  She opened the police week in person in the capital's Rajarbagh Police Lines, after a gap of two years...

Dhaka's air third most polluted in the world this morning

Dhaka's air third most polluted in the world this morning

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 11:24:03

Dhaka’s air has ranked as the third most polluted in the world this morning. Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) score was 211 at 8:23 am. An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very...

Tk 1.5b special fund for road accident victims

Tk 1.5b special fund for road accident victims

Munima Sultana 2023-01-03 08:58:55

A special fund of at least Tk 1.5 billion is going to be created for road-accident victims and fatally injured people, as the Road Transport Rules 2022 (RTR) has kept the provision of forming the fund...

Record 5,891 Bangladeshi workers went to Korea in 2022

Record 5,891 Bangladeshi workers went to Korea in 2022

-- 2023-01-02 21:47:34

A record number of 5,891 Bangladesh workers went to South Korea, a "popular, preferred" destination for them, in 2022. The "low and medium" skilled workers from Bangladesh were taken by the East Asia...

Govt committed to expanding techno-based police services, says PM

Govt committed to expanding techno-based police services, says PM

-- 2023-01-02 20:17:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked Bangladesh Police to make the force as the "people's police" by working tirelessly with integrity and humanity. "I hope that every member of the Banglades...

1034 workers killed in workplace accidents in 2022

1034 workers killed in workplace accidents in 2022

-- 2023-01-02 20:16:05

A total of 1034 workers died in workplace accidents while 1,037 others were injured across Bangladesh in 2022, a new report said on Monday. The report by the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (B...

Amanul Haq appointed Ambassador of Bangladesh to Turkey

Amanul Haq appointed Ambassador of Bangladesh to Turkey

-- 2023-01-02 20:02:33

The government has appointed M Amanul Haq as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Republic of Turkey. He will be replacing Ambassador Mosud Mannan in this capacity, said the Ministry of Foreign A...

Border killing going on despite Indian assurances to stop it, says FM

Border killing going on despite Indian assurances to stop it, says FM

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-01-02 19:19:26

The killing of Bangladeshis on the Indo-Bangladesh border is going on despite assurances from the highest level of the Indian government that there will be no killing on the border, foreign minister D...

Fakhrul, Abbas seek bail from HC

Fakhrul, Abbas seek bail from HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-01-02 17:51:33

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas have filed bail petition with the High Court in a case filed over the December 7 clashes between police and...

Khandker Mahbub laid to eternal rest

Khandker Mahbub laid to eternal rest

-- 2023-01-02 17:32:27

BNP vice-chairman and senior lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain was buried at Azimpur Graveyard in the capital on Monday. The burial took place after his fifth namaz-e-janaza at the Khilgaon Chowdhury Pa...