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Dhaka University introduces Bangabandhu Gold Medal

Dhaka University introduces Bangabandhu Gold Medal

-- 2021-08-22 20:37:47

The Dhaka University has introduced the 'Bangabandhu Gold Medal', which will be given for special contributions to education, culture, science and literature. The decision was taken at a meeting of t...

Bangladeshis stranded in Kabul likely to be evacuated this week

Bangladeshis stranded in Kabul likely to be evacuated this week

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-22 20:36:52

The Bangladeshis, stranded in Afghanistan, are likely to be evacuated by this week, said State Minister M Shahriar Alam on Sunday. “We are trying to evacuate the Bangladeshi citizens and we are...

DGHS study finds Goran, Basabo as most risky areas for dengue

DGHS study finds Goran, Basabo as most risky areas for dengue

-- 2021-08-22 20:02:08

As a dengue outbreak intensifies across Bangladesh, Dhaka is most vulnerable to the risk of viral infection, and the city's Goran and Basabo areas have the highest prevalence of the disease-carrying A...

50 railway stations are getting facelift with modern amenities

50 railway stations are getting facelift with modern amenities

-- 2021-08-22 20:02:00

As part of initiative taken to modernise the railway services, more than 50 railway stations are now being renovated on the occasion of the Mujib Year, said Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on S...

Gas crisis hampers city life

Gas crisis hampers city life

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-22 19:09:56

Several parts of the capital are experiencing gas crisis with low pressure over the past several days. Lower quantity of LNG (liquefied natural gas) re-gasification in both the operational FSRUs (flo...

‘Bangabandhu contributed to power sector development’

‘Bangabandhu contributed to power sector development’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-22 18:42:04

Father of the nation Bangabandhu Shiekh Mujibur Rahman contributed to electrification and industrialisation of the country through developing Ashuganj, Ghorashal and Shidhhirganj as power hubs, said S...

High Court terms forced confession from a minor a crime

High Court terms forced confession from a minor a crime

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-22 18:39:29

The High Court (HC) on Sunday reprimanded a police officer for recording a confessional statement by using force from a minor boy who was charged with the murder of his eight-year-old brother in Bogur...

Sundarbans conservation project works yet to begin seven months after approval

Sundarbans conservation project works yet to begin seven months after approval

-- 2021-08-22 18:28:33

Even seven months after its approval red tapes are holding back a much-hyped government project aimed at the sustainable conversation of the world's largest mangrove forest.  The Tk. 1.5-billion...

Bangladesh to receive over 0.63m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan Aug 28    

Bangladesh to receive over 0.63m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan Aug 28    

-- 2021-08-22 18:18:08

Japanese Ambassador to Dhaka Naoki Ito has said they have planned to deliver another 634,920 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine on August 28 and fulfil their commitment of over 3.0 million doses to Banglade...

Bangladesh logs 139 virus deaths, 4,804 new cases

Bangladesh logs 139 virus deaths, 4,804 new cases

-- 2021-08-22 17:42:32

Bangladesh has registered 139 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 25,282. The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,461,998 after 4,804 people tested positive for the disease in the 2...

Health officials involved in COVID vaccine sales will be punished, DGHS says

Health officials involved in COVID vaccine sales will be punished, DGHS says

-- 2021-08-22 17:27:57

The government will take stern action against anyone from the Directorate General of Health Services involved in the sale of the coronavirus vaccine, Director General Prof ABM Khurshid Alam has warned...

HC orders probe into ‘bullying’ after student’s death

HC orders probe into ‘bullying’ after student’s death

-- 2021-08-22 17:24:13

The High Court has ordered an investigation into the death of a Class 10 student from Ideal School and College’s Banasree Wing from bulimia and anorexia to see whether he was a victim of bullyin...

Air bubble flights with India await CAAB approval

Air bubble flights with India await CAAB approval

-- 2021-08-22 14:43:22

Bangladesh is able to run flights to India during the COVID-19 pandemic under the air bubble pact, but airlines have yet to receive approval to operate any flights to the neighbouring country. The Ci...

Fire at Shilpa Bhaban in Dhaka’s Motijheel

Fire at Shilpa Bhaban in Dhaka’s Motijheel

FE Online Report 2021-08-22 13:51:08

A fire broke out at Shilpa Bhaban adjacent to Bak Chattar in the capital’s Motijheel area on Sunday noon. Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence media official M Rayhan told The Financial Ex...

Dhaka to receive 634,920 AstraZeneca doses from Japan Aug 28

Dhaka to receive 634,920 AstraZeneca doses from Japan Aug 28

-- 2021-08-22 12:59:26

Japanese Ambassador to Dhaka Naoki Ito has said they have planned to deliver another 634,920 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines on August 28 and fulfill their commitment of over 3.0 million doses to Bangla...

100 oxygen cylinders missing from SBMCH

100 oxygen cylinders missing from SBMCH

-- 2021-08-22 11:27:00

Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH) authorities have formed a five-member probe committee after the missing of 100 oxygen cylinders and 30 cylinder meters from the Covid unit of the h...

Farming of multiple crops gains popularity

Farming of multiple crops gains popularity

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-22 10:10:36

Sultan Ahmed, a retired teacher, has succeeded in cultivating multiple crops on his land in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore district. Sultan cultivated multiple crops by the Chougachha-Kotchandpur road...

Fertiliser, gas, electricity may be produced from city garbage

Fertiliser, gas, electricity may be produced from city garbage

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-22 10:07:52

The garbage that emits stink in Cumilla city, in many towns for that matter, holds a bright prospect of yielding fertiliser, gas, and electricity. Residents of the area where the solid wastes are dum...

Successful farmers to be honoured as Agricultural VIPs

Successful farmers to be honoured as Agricultural VIPs

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-08-22 08:40:06

Successful persons in agriculture and its subsectors, which evidently saved the situation during the current penury-inflicting pandemic, are being honoured with VIP status that entitles them to state...

Trade licences of businesses suspended at fire-ravaged Banani building

Trade licences of businesses suspended at fire-ravaged Banani building

-- 2021-08-21 22:30:02

The Dhaka North City Corporation has suspended licences of the business entities housed in a building that caught fire on Saturday. Mayor Atiqul Islam announced the decision during a visit to the bui...

Stress on utilisation of Bangladeshi expatriates’ expertise in infrastructure projects

Stress on utilisation of Bangladeshi expatriates’ expertise in infrastructure projects

-- 2021-08-21 21:29:31

Govt urged to utilise Bangladeshi expatriates’ expertise in infrastructure projects Speakers at a webinar on Saturday urged the government to create opportunities to utilise expatriate Banglade...

Barishal violence: Two ruling party activists lose eyesight

Barishal violence: Two ruling party activists lose eyesight

UNB 2021-08-21 21:04:29

Two activists of the ruling Awami League and its youth front Jubo League, who suffered gunshot wounds in firing by the village defence party or Ansar last Wednesday in Barishal have lost their eyesigh...

Perpetrators of Aug 21 grenade attack wanted to make AL leaderless: Obaidul Quader

Perpetrators of Aug 21 grenade attack wanted to make AL leaderless: Obaidul Quader

-- 2021-08-21 20:25:47

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the deadly bullet of the 'August 15 carnage' in 1975 came back once again through the 'August 21 grenade attack' in 2004 to make the...

Hundreds of vehicles stranded at Paturia as strong current disrupts ferry services

Hundreds of vehicles stranded at Paturia as strong current disrupts ferry services

-- 2021-08-21 20:06:36

Hundreds of goods-laden trucks, buses and cars were stranded at Paturia in Manikganj from Saturday morning as a strong current in Padma River disrupted ferry crossings. The recent suspension of ferry...

Dengue claims four more lives in 24 hrs

Dengue claims four more lives in 24 hrs

UNB 2021-08-21 19:42:24

Dengue claimed four more lives in 24 hours until Saturday morning, raising the death toll to 35, said a report of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). A total of 278 new patients were a...

PM sees Khaleda administration’s hand in Aug 21 grenade attack

PM sees Khaleda administration’s hand in Aug 21 grenade attack

-- 2021-08-21 19:10:00

A grenade attack that killed 24 people 17 years ago was aided by the ruling BNP-Jamaat alliance of the time, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was the key target of the horrific attack. The prim...

GM Quader wants reopening of educational institutions on experimental basis

GM Quader wants reopening of educational institutions on experimental basis

UNB 2021-08-21 19:05:27

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has demanded the government to reopen all educational institutions right now on an experimental basis. "The nation is being pushed towards a dark future as educational...

Bangladesh records lowest daily infections in a month with 3,991 new virus cases

Bangladesh records lowest daily infections in a month with 3,991 new virus cases

-- 2021-08-21 18:25:23

Bangladesh has logged 3,991 new COVID cases in a day, the lowest since Jul 22, taking the country’s total caseload to 1,457,194. The death toll from the disease rose by 120, the lowest daily to...

Missing worker’s body recovered from Madhumati after three days

Missing worker’s body recovered from Madhumati after three days

UNB 2021-08-21 18:11:01

Police recovered the body of a worker, who had gone missing three days ago while taking bath, from the Madhumati River in Bagerhat district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Billal Molla, 2...

Bangladesh gets 7,81,440 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Japan

Bangladesh gets 7,81,440 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Japan

UNB 2021-08-21 17:50:30

Bangladesh has received 7,81,440 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan. The vaccine doses arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Saturday afternoon by a flight of Cathay Pacific....