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-- 2021-06-17 21:31:48
The government’s Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd plans to launch underground train services in 2026 following the start of the construction work in 2022. As many as 800,000 passengers will commu...
UNB 2021-06-17 21:16:54
Speakers at a virtual dialogue on Thursday called for urgent enhancement of cash transfers to the marginalised and affected households in view of COVID-19. They said there is a need for a transparent...
-- 2021-06-17 20:46:49
Bangladesh is the 91st most peaceful country with an overall score of 2.068, according to Global Peace Index 21 released on Thursday. In the latest index, Bangladesh has jumped up by seven not...
-- 2021-06-17 20:28:07
The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court verdict dismissing a plea that sought to preserve Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul's membership of parliament following his conviction in Kuwait. A si...
-- 2021-06-17 19:59:12
The government is planning to launch an educational TV channel for students to prevent any further loss of learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, reports bdnews24.com. The channel will allow stude...
FE ONLNE REPORT 2021-06-17 19:34:22
Labour rights groups and activists on Thursday urged the government to ratify the ILO convention 189 in order to uphold the rights of domestic workers of the country. They emphasised incorporating th...
-- 2021-06-17 19:07:43
The Bangladesh Restaurant Owners Association wants close down of ‘Designated Smoking Areas' in restaurants across the country for public health reasons. The demand was made at a virtual discuss...
-- 2021-06-17 18:13:19
Bangladesh has registered 63 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since May 03. This brings the death toll to 13,345, according to the latest government data released on Thursday,...
FE Online Report 2021-06-17 17:45:54
A total of 68,283 people secured bail in the 45 working days until Wednesday as the virtual courts and tribunals settled a total of 134,636 petitions. The virtual courts and tribunals have granted ba...
FE Online Report 2021-06-17 17:38:01
The iDEA of the ICT Division will provide Tk 430 million (43 crore) to Startup Bangladesh Ltd for the development of seed and growth-stage startups. Through this company, startups have the opportunit...
-- 2021-06-17 17:13:44
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will give 53,340 more houses to the landless and homeless families as part of her government’s campaign to bring all landless and homeless families under housing sch...
-- 2021-06-17 16:43:18
A heated debate has broken out in parliament about clubs in Dhaka city, and their involvement with alcohol and gambling. The unplanned discussion saw members of the Awami League, Jatiya Party, BNP an...
-- 2021-06-17 16:38:40
A case was filed in connection with the killing of three people including two children in Goainghat upazila of Sylhet district. Father of slain Alema filed the case with Goainghat Police Station earl...
-- 2021-06-17 13:05:58
Police have arrested a suspect accused in 18 cases after a ‘gunfight’ at a checkpoint in Chattogram. The suspect, 32-year-old Saiful Islam, aka Burma Saiful, was taken into custody on Thu...
-- 2021-06-17 11:13:03
Amid an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases in Rajshahi city, authorities have extended the ongoing lockdown in the city by one more week. The decision to extend the lockdown till June 24 to break the c...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-17 10:37:44
Mofizur Rahman Mafi, a young entrepreneur, has succeeded in cultivating foreign varieties of mangoes commercially in Faridpur. The world's most expensive mango Miyazaki or sun-egg is also in Mafi's g...
FE REPORT 2021-06-17 10:15:26
Speakers during a webinar on Wednesday called for reducing digital divide urgently to ensure all students' equal access to education amid this pandemic. They also emphasised quality of early childhoo...
FE REPORT 2021-06-17 09:30:51
In a full verdict released on Wednesday, the High Court criticised Etihad Airways for harassing and torturing two Bangladeshi women passengers at Abu Dhabi International Airport in June 2011. It or...
-- 2021-06-16 22:58:20
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has assured the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) of vaccinating garment workers on priority basis after sufficient vaccine doses are ava...
-- 2021-06-16 22:04:06
Bangladesh features among the top three countries that have progressed most on the SDG Index score since 2015, when the UN member states agreed the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The t...
-- 2021-06-16 21:06:17
Bangladesh has provided Sudan with Tk 650 million in debt relief in a bid to alleviate poverty in the African nation. The fund was handed over to Sudan in response to a call by the International Mone...
Meghan Doetschman and Stephanie Jacquier 2021-06-16 21:06:14
In the early part of the twentieth century, few diseases affected children and communities more than polio. At its peak, the disease devastated over 350,000 lives every year, disproportionately affe...
FE Online Report 2021-06-16 20:55:40
Bangladesh will ratify International Labour Organization (ILO) convention 138 concerning the minimum age for admission to any type of employment or work by December 2021. State Minister for Labour Mo...
FE Online Report 2021-06-16 19:58:04
Although the number of smokers has decreased in Bangladesh over the years, it is not adequate to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has said at a workshop organis...
-- 2021-06-16 19:46:08
A madrasa in Dhaka’s Bhatara has started a case accusing former Hifazat-e Islam joint secretary general Mamunul Haque and 42 others of embezzling Tk 200 million. They embezzled the funds by sho...
-- 2021-06-16 18:23:01
The National Research Ethics Committee of Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) on Wednesday decided to approve Globe Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine, Bangavax, for human trials Globe Biotech will ge...
-- 2021-06-16 17:52:25
Bangladesh has decided to extend its pandemic restrictions by another month to July 15 in the wake of a spike in cases and deaths, but offices will be allowed to open if they follow health protocols....
-- 2021-06-16 17:43:13
Bangladesh has registered 60 new fatalities from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since May 4. The total number of deaths from COVID-19 reached 13,282 with the latest fat...
-- 2021-06-16 16:31:52
Police have arrested four people, including a woman, for embezzling nearly Tk 25.7 million by altering “electronic journals” on the Dutch-Bangla Bank ATM network. The detainees arrested i...
-- 2021-06-16 16:16:47
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is taking steps to expand the Sundarbans with an emphasis on protecting the biodiversity of the world's largest mangrove forest. According to a ca...
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