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133,044 motorcycles registered in five months

133,044 motorcycles registered in five months

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-16 11:42:14

A total of 133,044 motorcycles were registered in the first five months of the current calendar year across the country, according to official data. Of the total, 32,777 got registered in Dhaka from...

Supreme Court says no written contract is needed for hiring in any entity as worker

Supreme Court says no written contract is needed for hiring in any entity as worker

FE REPORT 2021-09-16 08:59:23

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court observed that to be appointed in any establishment as a worker, no written contract under the present law or the previous law was needed. Once a person i...

Auto-rickshaw drivers urge for maximum daily deposit maintained at Tk 900

Auto-rickshaw drivers urge for maximum daily deposit maintained at Tk 900

FE REPORT 2021-09-16 08:56:59

CNG-driven auto-rickshaw drivers on Wednesday reiterated their call to the government to fulfil their 10-point demand, including proper enforcement of Tk 900 as daily deposit that they have to pay t...

Reopening school in Bangladesh: Experts see greater Covid risk

Reopening school in Bangladesh: Experts see greater Covid risk

-- 2021-09-15 19:24:28

As millions of children returned to classrooms amid the growing concern of the possible third wave of Covid-19, experts fear that any laxity in maintaining health protocols and guardian’s lack o...

Bangladesh receives 0.27m AstraZeneca doses from Bulgaria

Bangladesh receives 0.27m AstraZeneca doses from Bulgaria

-- 2021-09-15 19:06:50

Bangladesh has received 0.27 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine as donation from the Bulgarian government. The vaccine consignment landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) by...

Bangladesh logs 1,901 new virus cases, 51 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 1,901 new virus cases, 51 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-09-15 17:29:38

Bangladesh has registered 51 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,058. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,536,341 as 1,901 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hour...

DAP to be finalised by January, says LGRD minister

DAP to be finalised by January, says LGRD minister

-- 2021-09-15 17:27:02

The Detailed Area Plan (DAP) that will guide the future construction of buildings in Dhaka city, the use of land and demarcation of canals and flow areas is expected to be finalised in the next few mo...

Parliament passes Kurigram Agricultural University Bill

Parliament passes Kurigram Agricultural University Bill

-- 2021-09-15 17:07:00

Kurigram Agricultural University Bill, 2021 was passed by Parliament on Wednesday to develop agriculture in the country’s northern districts through research. Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni mo...

Four to die, nine get life in prison in Shariatpur murder case

Four to die, nine get life in prison in Shariatpur murder case

-- 2021-09-15 16:48:17

A tribunal in Dhaka has sentenced four people to death and nine others to life in prison for killing a school teacher following a dispute over union parishad elections in Shariatpur. Dhaka Speedy Tri...

Bangladesh on track to get 240m Covid jabs by March-April

Bangladesh on track to get 240m Covid jabs by March-April

-- 2021-09-15 15:32:26

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday sounded hopeful regarding procurement of Covid-19 jabs, saying Bangladesh is on track to get 240 million vaccines by March-April next year. "Vaccine do...

Payra Bridge to be opened in Oct

Payra Bridge to be opened in Oct

-- 2021-09-15 14:24:58

The Payra Bridge over the Payra River in the Lebukhali area of Barishal district will be opened for traffic in October, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said Wednesday.  &ldquo...

Bill placed in parliament to extend ‘quick rental’ power supply by another five years

Bill placed in parliament to extend ‘quick rental’ power supply by another five years

-- 2021-09-15 13:48:52

A bill has been tabled in parliament to extend the special law on the purchase of electricity from ‘quick rental’ power plants by another five years. The Speedy Supply of Power and Ener...

Bangladesh plans Earth observation satellite

Bangladesh plans Earth observation satellite

-- 2021-09-15 12:58:22

Bangladesh is going ahead with its plan to have a second outpost in space after finalising that it will be an Earth observation satellite. Imagery from the satellite will enable the authorities to ge...

Students aged 12 or above to be vaccinated, says PM

Students aged 12 or above to be vaccinated, says PM

-- 2021-09-15 12:50:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government has planned to gradually bring students 12 and above under the vaccination coverage. Hasina said this while replying to a tabled question...

Pre-lockdown exodus from Dhaka caused spread of COVID-19

Pre-lockdown exodus from Dhaka caused spread of COVID-19

-- 2021-09-15 11:43:25

The exodus from Dhaka after the announcement of the first lockdown in 2020 spread the coronavirus throughout Bangladesh, researchers have found. The government’s disease control agency IEDCR co...

Test lab for Covid-19 at airports soon

Test lab for Covid-19 at airports soon

FE REPORT 2021-09-15 10:33:05

The government was expected to select companies to install RT-PCR test labs for Covid-19 at the country's three international airports for UAE-bound workers on Tuesday. A technical committee, formed...

Helping taxpayers to pay taxes online

Helping taxpayers to pay taxes online

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-15 10:19:49

CHATTOGRAM, Sept 14: A speaker at a workshop in the port city on Tuesday said training will help tax payers pay the taxes online. He noted that following receiving training a tax payer can also submit...

Good yield, good price delight pineapple growers

Good yield, good price delight pineapple growers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-15 10:03:35

TANGAIL, Sept 14: Pineapple growers in the district are happy with the juicy fruit's satisfactory production and prices this season. The consumers, however, expressed their expectation of getting ba...

Disguised brain-drain can put MIC aspiration at serious risk: Hossain Zillur Rahman

Disguised brain-drain can put MIC aspiration at serious risk: Hossain Zillur Rahman

KHAWAZA MAIN UDDIN 2021-09-15 10:03:30

Concerned about the quality of education and gainful employment at home, many meritorious and financially capable Bangladeshi youth are increasingly being inclined to go abroad, says former caretaker...

Rolling sand turns farmland fallow

Rolling sand turns farmland fallow

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-15 09:56:11

SYLHET, Sept 14: Anjana's dwelling house was washed away in just few hours as rolling waters and stones from upper-riparian deluged their frontier hamlet. She is among members of about 20 families at...

Bangladesh's coastal belt needs sustainable solutions to safe drinking water

Bangladesh's coastal belt needs sustainable solutions to safe drinking water

ADNAN HOSSAIN BHUIYAN back from Satkhira 2021-09-15 09:47:31

Sustainable drinking water solutions, introduced under the NoboJatra (New Beginning) project funded by USAID and implemented by World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) in four salinity-hit upazilas in the sou...

BSMMU allowed to hire firms directly

BSMMU allowed to hire firms directly

FE REPORT 2021-09-15 08:58:27

The government allowed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Tuesday to appoint contractors directly to set up a 200-bed Covid field hospital on an emergency basis. The BSMMU will no...

Legal action against Evaly recommended

Legal action against Evaly recommended

FE REPORT 2021-09-15 08:46:56

An inter-ministerial committee has recommended taking legal action against e-commerce platform Evaly for breaching relevant rules and regulations. The decision came from a meeting of the committee on...

Apparel workers uncertain about financial security

Apparel workers uncertain about financial security

FE REPORT 2021-09-15 08:24:31

Uncertainty about ready-made garment (RMG) workers' future financial security loomed because of the pandemic, as some 16 per cent of apparel labourers feared that they might earn less than normal, acc...

Man gets 60-year imprisonment for violating two girls in Joypurhat

Man gets 60-year imprisonment for violating two girls in Joypurhat

-- 2021-09-14 20:14:53

A Joypurhat tribunal on Tuesday sentenced a man to 60 years' imprisonment for violating two girls. The convict is Abu Salam, 54, son of Bachchu Molla of Panchbibi upazila. Joypurhat Women and Childr...

Deep depression weakens into depression, Maritime ports asked to lower signal

Deep depression weakens into depression, Maritime ports asked to lower signal

-- 2021-09-14 20:09:03

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to lower signal as the deep depression over Odisha-Jarkhand and adjoining area moved west-northwestwards further, weakened...

Universities to reopen after Sept 27

Universities to reopen after Sept 27

-- 2021-09-14 19:50:33

The Bangladesh authorities are allowing universities to reopen for in-person classes and exams after Sept 27 following the long coronavirus-induced shutdown. They took the decision in a meeting betwe...

ACC approves corruption charges against seven doctors, four others

ACC approves corruption charges against seven doctors, four others

-- 2021-09-14 19:41:32

The Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday approved charge-sheets against 11 people, including seven doctors and three contractors for irregularities in procurement of drugs for Maternal and Chi...

Farhad says no chance to relax age limit for entering govt jobs   

Farhad says no chance to relax age limit for entering govt jobs  

-- 2021-09-14 19:27:44

State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain on Tuesday told the parliament that the government has no plan to raise the maximum age limit for taking up government jobs. Defending the go...

Govt to arrange rehabilitation for climate affected people, says Environment Minister

Govt to arrange rehabilitation for climate affected people, says Environment Minister

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-14 18:53:41

The government is working to address the climate change effect, including arranging rehabilitation for the climate change affected people in the country, said Environment Minister Md. Shahab Uddin. S...