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Arresting govt employees: Appellate division clears way for regular appeal against HC verdict

-- 2022-11-06 18:31:28

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday accepted a leave-to-appeal filed by the State side seeking halt to a High Court (HC) verdict that cancelled the provision of taking prior per...

New curriculum will make private coaching unnecessary, says Minister

-- 2022-11-06 17:40:21

Education Minister Dipu Moni has said she believes the new curriculum will make the trend of after-school private coaching a thing of the past. “We aim to fully implement the new curriculum for...

Bangla first paper exam under Technical Education Board postponed

-- 2022-11-06 17:30:27

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination on Bangla first paper of Business Management and Technology (BMT) under Bangladesh Technical Education Board has been postponed. The board issued a...

46 Covid-19 cases, one death reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-11-06 17:10:36

Bangladesh has logged 46 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 2,035,828, as the death toll rose by one to 29,426. As many as 4,626 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity...

Mohila Dal leader Sultana Ahmed arrested in digital security case

-- 2022-11-06 16:29:34

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Sultana Ahmed, general secretary of the Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, in a Digital Security Act case, just after she arrived back in Dhaka following a rally in...

Four die as bus veers off road in Faridpur

-- 2022-11-06 15:20:27

At least four people have died in a bus accident in Faridpur. Ten others were injured in the accident around 3:00 am on Sunday on the Dhaka-Barishal Highway near Madhabpur in Faridpur’s Bhanga....

Woman found dead in Chattogram water tank

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-06 12:25:26

The body of a 21-year-old woman was recovered from a water tank of a house at Bandartila in Chattogram city on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Marjina Akter, daughter of Wahidul Gazi o...

1.2m students sit for HSC, equivalent exams

-- 2022-11-06 11:53:49

Some 1.2 million students are sitting for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams after a seven-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic and floods. The exams kicked off at 11:...

Skills-based training crucial to creating human capital

FE REPORT 2022-11-06 09:22:34

Providing skills-based training to create human capital is crucial for the country to achieve its economic goals and meet the challenges stemming from the fourth industrial revolution. Experts observ...

China ready to engage with Teesta River management

FE REPORT 2022-11-06 09:15:46

China wants to share its experiences of managing rivers with Bangladesh, said its envoy to Bangladesh on Saturday. "China has thousand years of experience managing rivers like Yangtze River, Yellow R...

HSC, equivalent exams begin today

-- 2022-11-06 09:12:05

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations begin across the country today (Sunday) with holding of the Bangla First Paper examination, reports BSS. According to officials, t...

Climate change much deadlier than cancer in some places, UNDP data shows

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-05 20:52:51

The impact of climate change on health could be up to twice as deadly as cancer in some parts of the world if carbon emissions remain high, according to new data released on Friday by the UN Developme...

All countries are using reserves to cope with crisis, says PM 

-- 2022-11-05 20:23:29

All countries are using their foreign currency reserves to tackle the effects of the global economic crisis triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war amid the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Prime M...

BNP trying to gather people in its rallies in exchange of money: Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-11-05 20:20:51

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that BNP is trying to gather people in their rallies in exchange of money. “Now BNP is trying to gather people in their rallies in...

Law minister for returning to 1972's Constitution 

-- 2022-11-05 20:13:02

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Saturday said that the government has brought back many things of the Constitution of 1972 through the 15th amendment and is now working to get back the original constitutio...

42pc people in Bangladesh still living under the poverty line, says Mirza Fakhrul

-- 2022-11-05 20:08:07

Rejected the government’s claim on achieving self-sufficiency in food production, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says 42 per cent of people in Bangladesh are still living unde...

Stern action against anyone breaking the law, says IGP 

-- 2022-11-05 19:47:23

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has served a stern warning against anyone tries to deteriorate the law-and-order situation.  "Police have been dealing with any crim...

TIB watchful about “discriminatory implications” of IMF’s conditions for loan

-- 2022-11-05 19:10:27

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed concern over the "potential discriminatory implications" of some of the conditions on which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is proposing...

DMP Commissioner asks DB to consider changing crime patterns

-- 2022-11-05 18:58:23

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq on Saturday asked the Detective Branch to work considering changing patterns of crimes. "Crime patterns are changing, cybercrime is i...

Dengue death toll rises to 167 with five new deaths

-- 2022-11-05 17:30:21

Five more people have dies from dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning raising this year's fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 167. Moreover, 788 patients were hospitalised...

BNP activists rally in Barishal amid allegations of attack on party leader’s convoy

-- 2022-11-05 17:20:41

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s rally in Barishal was underway leaving two chairs empty on the stage, a new practice that mirrors similar events in other major cities, as opposition activists...

HSC exam begins Sunday

-- 2022-11-05 17:15:35

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will begin across the country tomorrow (Sunday) with holding Bangla First Paper examination.  According to officials, the total...

Bangladesh reports 37 new Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2022-11-05 17:01:53

Bangladesh has logged 37 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 2,035,782, as the death toll remained unchanged 29,425. As many as 1,892 samples were tested across the country, for a positiv...

DU suspends student for ‘harassing’ female private university student

-- 2022-11-05 16:18:19

Dhaka University authorities have suspended a student, also an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, allegedly for harassing a female student on Tuesday in front of Raju sculptor memorial on the univ...

Parts of Dhaka, N'ganj may face weeklong gas supply disruption

-- 2022-11-05 13:46:58

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company has warned that large swathes of Dhaka and Narayanganj may experience a weeklong disruption or complete outage in the gas supply due to repairs to its d...

Voting in Faridpur-2 bypolls underway

-- 2022-11-05 13:12:37

Bypolls to the Faridpur-2 constituency are underway and are being monitored by the Election Commission on CCTV cameras. Polls opened at 8:00 am on Saturday and will continue until 4:00 pm. Electronic...

'Basic spirit of 72-Constitution was hacked through illegal amendments'

FE ONLINE REPORT     2022-11-04 21:06:05

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Friday said the basic spirit and philosophy of the 1972-Constitution was hacked through the illegal amendments. Later, through the 15th amendment, mu...

Govt hospitals to run free dengue tests

-- 2022-11-04 20:18:41

Bangladesh’s health authorities have ordered all state-owned hospitals across the country to run dengue tests for free amid a surge in the Aedes mosquito-borne disease, according to bdnews24.com...

Militants were taking advanced training in hills: RAB

-- 2022-11-04 19:59:01

Members of Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya, a recently discovered Islamist outfit, were sent to hill areas for advanced training after they learnt the basics in different islands in Patuakhali and B...

Access green energy through legal obligations, say experts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-04 19:19:33

The enlarging energy crisis that has engulfed the world, including Bangladesh would have been avoided if there was an adequate supply of renewable energy, experts said on Friday. Bangladesh can acces...