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UN honours eight Bangladeshi fallen peacekeepers

UN honours eight Bangladeshi fallen peacekeepers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-28 13:08:25

The United Nations has awarded eight fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh posthumously with ‘Dag Hammarskjöld Medal’, the foreign ministry said on Friday. “Today, at a virtual c...

Virtual hearings: 48,498 secure bail in 29 working days

Virtual hearings: 48,498 secure bail in 29 working days

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-28 12:43:04

Virtual courts and tribunals have granted bail to 48,498 people in the last 29 working days to Thursday after settling a total of 81,650 petitions. Among them, there were 661 juveniles, Md Saifur Rah...

Schools, colleges ordered to prepare for reopening

Schools, colleges ordered to prepare for reopening

-- 2021-05-28 10:02:06

The government has ordered the high schools and colleges to get ready for a possible reopening on Jun 13 after more than a year of shutdown over the coronavirus pandemic. The Directorate of Secondary...

Govt to help migrant workers quarantine in Saudi Arabia

Govt to help migrant workers quarantine in Saudi Arabia

-- 2021-05-28 09:16:28

The government will help Bangladeshi migrant workers quarantine in hotels after flying back to Saudi Arabia, with subsidy if necessary. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen revealed the plan on Thursday,...

Four killed in Bhola road crash

Four killed in Bhola road crash

-- 2021-05-28 08:47:01

At least four people were killed and four others injured after a passenger bus hit an autorickshaw at Ghuingarhat area in Charfesson upazila of Bhola district on Thursday. Sohag, 35, Aziz, 30, and Si...

SC stays bail of seven accused of attacking Sheikh Hasina

SC stays bail of seven accused of attacking Sheikh Hasina

-- 2021-05-27 21:20:12

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed a High Court order that had granted four-month bail to seven accused in a case filed over the attack on then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina's motorc...

Evercare Chattogram’s triumph over critical procedures

Evercare Chattogram’s triumph over critical procedures

-- 2021-05-27 20:57:43

Evercare Hospital Chattogram organised a workshop recently with local media personnel on Thursday to discuss the successful neurosurgery for a brain tumor of a 42-year-old woman, Nurunnahar. In the w...

Bangladesh demands justice for violations of international law in the ‘Occupied Palestinian territory'

Bangladesh demands justice for violations of international law in the ‘Occupied Palestinian territory'

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-27 19:21:22

The Human Rights Council must take decisive action towards ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” said Bangladesh Fore...

‘Govt to help expats get hotel accommodation in KSA for quarantine’

‘Govt to help expats get hotel accommodation in KSA for quarantine’

-- 2021-05-27 18:40:05

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said the government will help Bangladeshi expatriates manage hotel accommodation in Saudi Arabia for their mandatory quarantine there. Biman Bangladesh...

Farmers in distress as cyclone Yaas kills fish eggs

Farmers in distress as cyclone Yaas kills fish eggs

-- 2021-05-27 18:21:44

Kamal Saudagar has made his living gathering fish eggs from the Halda River for many years. In the past two days, since Cyclone Yaas made its way inland, he has collected eight buckets of fish eggs, o...

Bangladesh authorises Pfizer vaccine for emergency use

Bangladesh authorises Pfizer vaccine for emergency use

-- 2021-05-27 18:16:02

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has given emergency use authorisation to the coronavirus vaccine developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and German biotechnological company BioNTech. T...

Don’t lag behind, improve online services, PM asks postal officials

Don’t lag behind, improve online services, PM asks postal officials

-- 2021-05-27 17:09:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the Directorate of Posts to take prompt measures to reap maximum benefits of the online business so that people can enjoy the services more easily. &ldq...

Bangladesh logs 1,292 virus cases, 22 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 1,292 virus cases, 22 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-27 16:14:50

Bangladesh has recorded 1,292 new cases of coronavirus infection in a day, taking the tally to 794,985. The death toll from COVID-19 rose by 22 in a daily count to 12,480, according to the latest gov...

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal three as cyclone Yaas weakens

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal three as cyclone Yaas weakens

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-27 13:54:33

Maritime ports of Bangladesh have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number three as cyclone Yaas weakened into a deep depression over north Odisha and the adjoining Jharkhand area in the m...

River transport services resume across country

River transport services resume across country

-- 2021-05-27 13:07:45

River transport services across the country have resumed after being suspended for two days due to Cyclone Yaas. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority shut the river transport operations from 4...

PM inaugurates ‘Dak Bhaban’ for directorate of posts

PM inaugurates ‘Dak Bhaban’ for directorate of posts

-- 2021-05-27 12:40:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has launched the newly constructed headquarters of the Directorate of Posts, Dak Bhaban, at Agargaon area in Dhaka. She opened the 14-storey eye-catching building through...

Bangladesh seeks int'l support for sustainable graduation from LDC status

Bangladesh seeks int'l support for sustainable graduation from LDC status

FE Online Report 2021-05-27 12:05:22

Bangladesh sought coordinated support measures from the development partners, United Nations system, and other international and regional organisations to ensure the sustainability of the countries th...

'Chandpur Mini Cox's Bazar' beckons holiday-makers

'Chandpur Mini Cox's Bazar' beckons holiday-makers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-05-27 09:37:56

Holidaymakers of Chandpur and far-flung areas are rushing every day to Chandpur Mini Cox's Bazar beside the district town with a view to making enjoyment and having the touch of Cox's Bazar in the b...

Citizen platforms criticise Dhaka WASA decision to hike water tariff

Citizen platforms criticise Dhaka WASA decision to hike water tariff

FE REPORT 2021-05-27 08:59:49

Rights groups, economists, and political parties have strongly criticised the decision of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority to increase the tariff and asked the authority to review its decisio...

14 metro rail sets to be made by this year

14 metro rail sets to be made by this year

Munima Sultana 2021-05-27 08:53:20

Dhaka metro rail company is likely to get 14 sets of train manufactured by this year against its target of 24 sets, as the global coronavirus pandemic delayed their manufacturing process by almost a y...

Niloufer Manzur recalled

Niloufer Manzur recalled

FE REPORT 2021-05-27 08:48:24

The first death anniversary of renowned educationist and founding principal of Sunbeams School Niloufer Manzur was observed on Wednesday by a host of her friends, relatives, and family members. She p...

BNP sends medicines, medical equipment to Palestine

BNP sends medicines, medical equipment to Palestine

-- 2021-05-26 21:00:48

BNP on Wednesday sent medicines and medical equipment to Palestine ravaged by Israeli airstrikes. BNP Party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir handed over the medicines and equipment to Pa...

 ‘Paid NGOs’ demanding tax hike to destroy local bidi industry, workers say

 ‘Paid NGOs’ demanding tax hike to destroy local bidi industry, workers say

-- 2021-05-26 20:24:39

Several hundred bidi workers have protested against a proposal for increasing tax on the bidi industry by some NGOs from the next fiscal year. They held a human chain protest in front of the National...

Bangladesh remains ‘largely safe’ as cyclone moves into India

Bangladesh remains ‘largely safe’ as cyclone moves into India

-- 2021-05-26 19:10:05

Cyclone Yaas has slammed the eastern state of Odisha in India with tidal surges, but Bangladesh remained largely unscathed. “The possibility of the cyclone hitting Bangladesh is zero,” St...

1,497 new coronavirus cases, 17 deaths recorded in 24 hours

1,497 new coronavirus cases, 17 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-26 17:09:55

Bangladesh has recorded 1,497 new cases of coronavirus infection in a day, taking the tally to 793,693. According to the latest government data, 17 deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in the last 24 h...

Cyclone Yaas forces suspension of river crossings at Shimulia

Cyclone Yaas forces suspension of river crossings at Shimulia

-- 2021-05-26 15:25:42

Travel along the Shimulia-Banglabazar river route has been suspended as Cyclone Yaas causes high waves on the Padma, leaving over 500 vehicles and several thousand people stuck at the piers. Port aut...

Closure of schools, colleges extended till June 12

Closure of schools, colleges extended till June 12

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-26 13:37:29

Bangladesh has further extended the ongoing shutdown of secondary and higher secondary level educational institutions to June 12 amid the surging coronavirus infections in the country. Education Mini...

One dies of suspected black fungus infection in capital

One dies of suspected black fungus infection in capital

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-05-26 13:12:47

A suspected black fungus patient died at Birdem General Hospital in Dhaka on Saturday, and two more cases of such rare and dangerous infection were detected at the same hospital recently, according to...

Momen warns of legal action if anyone tries to go to Israel from Bangladesh

Momen warns of legal action if anyone tries to go to Israel from Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-26 12:56:29

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday warned of action as per the immigration law if anyone tries to go to Israel from Bangladesh as it still does not recognise Israel. “We remain ver...

Coastal areas of Satkhira inundated following heavy showers

Coastal areas of Satkhira inundated following heavy showers

-- 2021-05-26 11:30:50

The low-lying areas of Burigoalini union in Satkhira's Shyamnagar upazila have been inundated following heavy showers and the onrush of river water ahead of Cyclone Yaas. Some 15 areas, including Gab...