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Sylhet-3 bypoll goes on

Sylhet-3 bypoll goes on

-- 2021-09-04 12:47:23

The bypoll for the Sylhet-3 parliamentary seat, which consists of the Dakshin Surma, Fenchuganj and Balaganj Upazilas, is underway. Ballots are being cast by Electronic Voting Machine, or EVMs, at...

Four JMB members held in Mymensingh

Four JMB members held in Mymensingh

-- 2021-09-04 10:48:50

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested four members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh following a gunfight in Mymensingh. The incident took place in Khagarhar area of Mym...

90pc of Bangladesh's hospitalised Covid-19 patients are from villages

90pc of Bangladesh's hospitalised Covid-19 patients are from villages

FE REPORT 2021-09-04 10:28:04

Professor Dr A B M Khurshid Alam, Director General (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said villages accounted for around 90 per cent of the hospitalised Covid-19 patients. But...

Bangladesh-India air bubble flights to restart from Sunday

Bangladesh-India air bubble flights to restart from Sunday

-- 2021-09-04 10:16:14

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume Bangladesh-India air bubble flights on the Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka route from September 5 and the Dhaka-Delhi-Dhaka route three days later. The flights will restart...

Bill seeking SSF protection for Bangabandhu’s family placed in parliament

Bill seeking SSF protection for Bangabandhu’s family placed in parliament

-- 2021-09-03 20:50:20

A draft law to ensure security of the family of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been placed in the parliament. Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, who a...

PM greets Tigers for going 2-0 up against New Zealand

PM greets Tigers for going 2-0 up against New Zealand

-- 2021-09-03 20:38:29

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday congratulated the Tigers for their second consecutive win against touring New Zealand in the five-match T20 series. Bangladesh beat New Zealand by four runs in the...

52 districts to get water testing labs, minister says

52 districts to get water testing labs, minister says

-- 2021-09-03 19:54:29

LRGD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam on Friday told Parliament that the government is setting up water testing laboratories in 52 districts in order to ensure a safe water supply across the c...

One more die, 255 hospitalised with Dengue

One more die, 255 hospitalised with Dengue

-- 2021-09-03 19:52:45

One more died of Dengue and 255 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Of the new patients, 233 were in Dhaka wh...

Tofail suffers stroke, flies to India for advanced medical care

Tofail suffers stroke, flies to India for advanced medical care

-- 2021-09-03 19:15:50

Veteran politician Tofail Ahmed, who recently suffered a stroke, has flown to India for advanced medical care. He left for Delhi in an air ambulance from Dhaka's Square Hospital, where he had been re...

Reports on non-payment of council taxes by Bangladesh’s Manchester Mission "baseless"   

Reports on non-payment of council taxes by Bangladesh’s Manchester Mission "baseless"  

-- 2021-09-03 18:55:44

Bangladesh High Commission in London has trashed reports on "non-payment of council taxes" by the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Manchester, UK. "The news was blatantly misleading and lacked...

Momen proposes separate event at COP26 for most climate-vulnerable countries

Momen proposes separate event at COP26 for most climate-vulnerable countries

-- 2021-09-03 18:43:26

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has proposed to host a CVF-COP26 joint event on the sideline of the upcoming COP26 to strengthen climate cooperation between the President of COP-26 and the most climat...

Leader, Deputy Leader of Opposition (Remuneration and Privileges) Bill placed in parliament

Leader, Deputy Leader of Opposition (Remuneration and Privileges) Bill placed in parliament

-- 2021-09-03 18:24:30

The Leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Remuneration and Privileges) Bill, 2021 was placed in the parliament on Friday. It was placed in order to replace the Leader and Deputy Leader of the o...

Bangladesh’s Hindu family laws need overhaul: Reform Council

Bangladesh’s Hindu family laws need overhaul: Reform Council

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-03 18:04:33

Terming the Hindu family laws discriminatory to women, children, people with disabilities and the third gender, a group of activists have demanded formulation of codified laws on regulating Hindu fami...

Big Covid-19 medical bills making many people paupers   

Big Covid-19 medical bills making many people paupers  

-- 2021-09-03 18:04:02

When Hasan Chowdhury, a small trader, died at a private hospital in the capital after taking treatment for five days with Covid symptoms, his family found it next to impossible to get his body release...

COVID-19: 3,167 test positive, 70 die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 3,167 test positive, 70 die in 24 hours

-- 2021-09-03 17:17:12

Bangladesh has registered 70 new fatalities from COVID-19 in a day, taking the death toll to 26,432. The caseload surged to 1,510,283 after 3,167 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hour...

Seven arrested for making counterfeit drugs

Seven arrested for making counterfeit drugs

-- 2021-09-03 17:05:25

Detective police have arrested seven people on charges of making counterfeit versions of medicines typically used to treat different diseases, including COVID-19 and cancer. The fake drugs were made...

BRTA fines Tk 1.28m in May for violating traffic rules

BRTA fines Tk 1.28m in May for violating traffic rules

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-03 13:57:39

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) filed a total of 1,097 cases and realised over Tk 1.28 million in fines in May 2021 for violating traffic rules. Both the number of cases lodged and the amo...

Schools and colleges to reopen Sept 12: Dipu Moni

Schools and colleges to reopen Sept 12: Dipu Moni

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-09-03 13:12:52

The country’s schools and colleges will resume in-person academic activities from 12 September, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has said. The educational activities will resume at the primary,...

Water everywhere and not a drop to drink!

Water everywhere and not a drop to drink!

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2021-09-03 10:00:44

Jamlabaj Government Primary School in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district goes under water. Students suffer for want of pure drinking water, especially during the monsoon. Meanwhile, the official...

Nitrous gas crisis hampers surgery in CMC Hospital

Nitrous gas crisis hampers surgery in CMC Hospital

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-03 09:51:19

Cumilla Medical College (CMC) Hospital has been experiencing an acute shortage of nitrous-oxide gas essential for the surgery. Doctors could not perform surgery on many patients for the past few da...

Indian naval ship reaches Chittagong port with medical equipment

Indian naval ship reaches Chittagong port with medical equipment

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-03 09:40:34

A ship of Indian Navy carrying two medical oxygen plants (MOPs) and medical equipment reached Chittagong port on Thursday. Sources said Indian naval ship INS Savitri carrying two 960 LPM MOPs and med...

ACC seeks information on Evaly over money laundering charges

ACC seeks information on Evaly over money laundering charges

-- 2021-09-02 22:38:35

The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has asked several organisations for information on Evaly as it investigates accusations that the digital marketplace has ‘embezzled and trafficked’ Tk...

Flood situation worsens, 0.1m people marooned in Sirajganj

Flood situation worsens, 0.1m people marooned in Sirajganj

-- 2021-09-02 21:26:25

Flood situation in Sirajganj has worsened as Jamuna River continues to swell above the danger level leaving at least 100,000 people marooned. The Jamuna is flowing 61 cm above the danger level in Sir...

EU to send 10m vaccine doses to Bangladesh

EU to send 10m vaccine doses to Bangladesh

-- 2021-09-02 21:10:18

The European Union has pledged to provide Bangladesh with 10 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. But the bloc's Ambassador in Dhaka Rensje Teerink acknowledge...

Govt sends CID official to retirement

Govt sends CID official to retirement

-- 2021-09-02 20:49:00

The government has sent Sheikh Omar Faruque, additional DIG of the police's Criminal Investigation Department, to retirement. In a notification issued on Thursday, the home ministry said the decision...

Dengue causes three more deaths, record 330 patients hospitalised

Dengue causes three more deaths, record 330 patients hospitalised

-- 2021-09-02 20:40:02

Three more people died of dengue and a record 330 new patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until Thursday morning, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Of the new patien...

Bangladesh reports 88 new covid-19 deaths, 3,436 cases

Bangladesh reports 88 new covid-19 deaths, 3,436 cases

-- 2021-09-02 18:34:56

Bangladesh logged 88 new Covid-19 deaths and 3,436 cases in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning, showing a slight upward trend from a day earlier. Besides, the case positivity rate also increased...

In-person classes for medical students to begin Sept 13

In-person classes for medical students to begin Sept 13

-- 2021-09-02 18:12:09

Classes for all medical colleges and other medical institutions will begin from Sept 13, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said on Thursday, as per a report on bdnews24.com. "We have taken preparations t...

HC summons investigator in Pori Moni case

HC summons investigator in Pori Moni case

-- 2021-09-02 17:56:37

The High Court has summoned the investigating officer in the narcotics case against actress Shamsunnahar Smriti, popularly known by her screen name Pori Moni. The court has ordered the officer to app...

Minister urges private sector to invest more in agriculture

Minister urges private sector to invest more in agriculture

-- 2021-09-02 17:04:19

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has asked the private sector to invest more in agriculture to make farming a profitable venture. He urged the private entities to raise their involvement in agr...