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Bangabandhu guiding light of Bangladesh foreign policy

Bangabandhu guiding light of Bangladesh foreign policy

FE REPORT 2021-08-29 09:14:44

Despite great power rivalry, Bangabandhu navigated the country's international relations in a direction that still works as a guiding principle of foreign policy, said foreign minister on Saturday. W...

Participants of govt webinars to get paid

Participants of govt webinars to get paid

FE REPORT 2021-08-29 09:09:20

The government, for the first time, will allow honorarium for joining seminars and workshops on the online platform Zoom. It will pay all types of participants in such webinars which have become popu...

Oxygen express arrives with another 200 tonnes of medical oxygen

Oxygen express arrives with another 200 tonnes of medical oxygen

-- 2021-08-28 23:26:19

Another 200 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen were imported from India by the Oxygen Express through Benapole land port on Friday night. The special Oxygen Express train carrying the oxygen reached Bena...

Award-winning fiction writer Bulbul Chowdhury no more

Award-winning fiction writer Bulbul Chowdhury no more

-- 2021-08-28 23:06:54

Renowned Bangladeshi fiction writer Bulbul Chowdhury has passed away, losing a long battle with cancer at the age of 73. The Ekushey Padak-winning writer breathed his last around 6 pm on Saturday at...

Flooding maroons 0.1m people in northern, central districts   

Flooding maroons 0.1m people in northern, central districts  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-08-28 22:31:57

Flood waters have entered low-lying areas in so far 12 northern and central districts, leaving about 100,000 people marooned. At least eight rivers are flowing above danger mark, according to a Flo...

‘Khaleda must first return to jail to apply for overseas travel’

‘Khaleda must first return to jail to apply for overseas travel’

-- 2021-08-28 22:22:53

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will have to return to jail first to apply for overseas travel, the law minister has said. The law stipulates she cannot apply for overseas travel while on suspended sent...

12 Bangladeshis returning home from Afghanistan

12 Bangladeshis returning home from Afghanistan

-- 2021-08-28 22:11:18

Twelve Bangladeshis are returning home from Afghanistan as a deadly attack by the Islamic State in Kabul accelerated evacuation efforts, reports bdnews24.com. The Bangladeshis reached a US military b...

Youth's body found floating in Karnaphuli river

Youth's body found floating in Karnaphuli river

-- 2021-08-28 22:09:21

The floating body of a youth was recovered from the Fishery Ghat area of Karnaphuli river in Chittagong on Saturday. He was identified as Fayaz Noor, 21, from the NID card found in his shirt pocket....

Metro rail to go for performance test Sunday

Metro rail to go for performance test Sunday

-- 2021-08-28 22:02:02

Bangladesh’s first overhead metro train service will go for performance test on viaduct from Uttara to Pallabi station tomorrow (Sunday). “We'll carry out performance test of the much awa...

Foreign envoys pay homage to Bangabandhu

Foreign envoys pay homage to Bangabandhu

-- 2021-08-28 21:51:40

Ambassadors of Italy, China, Brazil and Nepal as well as the high commissioners of India and Sri Lanka paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Saturday. They were addres...

Construction of Matarbari power plant goes

Construction of Matarbari power plant goes

-- 2021-08-28 21:32:04

Construction works are going on fast at Moheshkhali area aimed at generating 2400MW electricity from Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal Fired Power Plant.  “The government is very much op...

BNP continues anti-state conspiracy by appointing lobbyists, Obaidul Quader says

BNP continues anti-state conspiracy by appointing lobbyists, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-08-28 21:19:41

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP wants to create unrest in the country to fish in troubled water. “BNP has kept up its...

Govt keeps educational institutions shut to prevent movement, BNP alleges

Govt keeps educational institutions shut to prevent movement, BNP alleges

-- 2021-08-28 21:16:55

BNP on Saturday alleged that the government has kept educational institutions shut for a long time only to prevent a possible movement instead of protecting students from COVID-19. Speaking at a pres...

Bangladesh-India flights likely to resume on Sep 3

Bangladesh-India flights likely to resume on Sep 3

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-28 20:18:22

Air connectivity between Bangladesh and India, which has been placed on suspension for a long time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is likely to resume on September 3 under the Air Bubble arrangemen...

Bangladesh faces no impact of Afghanistan situation, home minister says

Bangladesh faces no impact of Afghanistan situation, home minister says

-- 2021-08-28 20:15:10

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan does not have any effect in Bangladesh and there is no existence of Taliban and militants in Bangladesh. “Bangl...

Dengue death toll rises to 41 with 265 more hospitalised

Dengue death toll rises to 41 with 265 more hospitalised

-- 2021-08-28 19:28:10

This year’s dengue death toll reached 41 as one more died of the fever in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning, according to Directorate General of Health Services. Besides, 265 more people...

Biman’s ailing pilot will get proper medical care, says state minister

Biman’s ailing pilot will get proper medical care, says state minister

-- 2021-08-28 18:55:59

State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mohammad Mahbub Ali has said that necessary assistance would be provided to ensure better medical care for the ailing pilot Captain Nowshad Ataul Qayumof...

Another batch of 634,920 AstraZeneca doses to arrive from Japan today

Another batch of 634,920 AstraZeneca doses to arrive from Japan today

-- 2021-08-28 18:35:34

The fifth batch of 634,920 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive in Dhaka from Japan on Saturday evening. The vaccine doses are scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a...

How carjackers deal with stolen vehicles

How carjackers deal with stolen vehicles

-- 2021-08-28 18:15:39

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five members of a gang over their involvement in a carjacking scheme. The arrestees, Azim Uddin, 38, Rafique Ullah, 26, Md Selim, 50, Kamrul Hasan, 26, a...

COVID-19: 3,436 people test positive, 80 die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 3,436 people test positive, 80 die in 24 hours

-- 2021-08-28 17:27:09

Bangladesh has registered 80 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, the lowest since Jun 26, taking the total toll to 25,926. On Jun 26, the country logged 77 deaths from the disease. After that, the num...

Bangabandhu’s foreign policy still works as guiding principle, Momen says

Bangabandhu’s foreign policy still works as guiding principle, Momen says

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-28 16:48:58

Despite the great power rivalry, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with his visionary leadership navigated the country’s international relations in a direction that still works as a guiding prin...

Cox’s Bazar airport runway expansion works to begin Sunday

Cox’s Bazar airport runway expansion works to begin Sunday

-- 2021-08-28 16:26:00

The runway expansion works of Cox's Bazar Airport will begin on Sunday as part of a project to make it an international standard one. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to officially inaugurat...

Child among three killed in Dhaka road crashes

Child among three killed in Dhaka road crashes

-- 2021-08-28 13:17:56

Three people, including a child, have been killed in three separate accidents in Dhaka’s Farmgate, Jatrabari and Kalshi areas. Two of the accidents occurred on Friday night, while the third t...

Sand-laden trawler driver, his two assistants arrested over Brahmanbaria capsize

Sand-laden trawler driver, his two assistants arrested over Brahmanbaria capsize

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-28 12:38:31

Police have arrested the driver and his two assistants of the sand-laden trawler responsible for a passenger trawler capsize that left more than 20 people dead in Brahmanbaria on Friday evening, Proth...

57 arrested in Dhaka

57 arrested in Dhaka

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-28 11:57:08

Police have arrested 57 people on charges of selling and taking in drugs in Dhaka city, Prothom Alo reports. They were arrested in a 24-hour raid from 6:00am on Friday to 6:00am on Saturday, accordin...

Death toll in Brahmanbaria boat capsize stands at 21

Death toll in Brahmanbaria boat capsize stands at 21

-- 2021-08-28 11:34:43

Divers recovered the body of a man from Laiska Canal in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Friday midnight, raising the death toll from a trawler capsize in the canal to 21. Fire services...

Bangladesh needs shock-responsive social safety net prog: Experts

Bangladesh needs shock-responsive social safety net prog: Experts

FE REPORT 2021-08-28 09:57:51

Bangladesh needs to adopt a shock-responsive social-safety-net programme with perfect identification of the extreme poor, experts at a webinar said on Thursday. Such a social protection strategy will...

At least 17 die, 33 missing as trawler crushes boat in Brahmanbaria

At least 17 die, 33 missing as trawler crushes boat in Brahmanbaria

-- 2021-08-27 21:44:52

At least 17 people have died and some 33 others are missing after a boat overturned following a collision in Brahmanbaria’s Sadar Upazila. The mishap occurred in Loiska Beel around 5:15pm on Fr...

At least 10 die, several missing as trawler crushes boat in Brahmanbaria

At least 10 die, several missing as trawler crushes boat in Brahmanbaria

-- 2021-08-27 21:17:11

At least 10 people have died and some others are missing in a boat accident in Brahmanbaria’s Sadar Upazila. It overturned after a head-on collision with a sand-laden trawler in Loiska Beel aro...

20,000 marooned as 16 rivers swell in Kurigram

20,000 marooned as 16 rivers swell in Kurigram

-- 2021-08-27 20:52:54

Onrush of upstream waters and heavy rains have caused 16 rivers to swell in Kurigram and left almost 20,000 people marooned. Water levels have risen to above 17 cm and 5 cm above the danger line at S...