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Dengue death toll climbs to 134 with six more deaths   

Dengue death toll climbs to 134 with six more deaths  

-- 2022-10-29 21:18:09

Six more deaths from dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning raised this year's fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 134. During this period, 869 more patients were hospitalis...

No election will be held under Sheikh Hasina, says Mirza Fakhrul

No election will be held under Sheikh Hasina, says Mirza Fakhrul

-- 2022-10-29 20:45:38

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said members of parliament from his party are ready to resign from the current parliament as their main goal is to restore democracy by ou...

Bangladesh generates 2.81m tonnes of e-waste every year: Study   

Bangladesh generates 2.81m tonnes of e-waste every year: Study  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-29 19:52:50

Bangladesh sells electronic goods worth US$ 1.36 billion while generating approximately 2.81 million tonnes of e-waste every year, a study reveals. It also found that some 40 per cent of the e-waste...

Jagannath professor under fire for releasing answer paper on facebook

Jagannath professor under fire for releasing answer paper on facebook

-- 2022-10-29 19:01:54

A professor at Jagannath University in Dhaka has come under the spotlight after releasing photos of some of the answer papers of a recently held examination of his department on Facebook. Though the...

Hilsa fishing resumes as 22-day ban ends on Saturday

Hilsa fishing resumes as 22-day ban ends on Saturday

-- 2022-10-29 18:51:55

Hilsa catching, selling and transportation resumed on Saturday as a 22-day government ban ended on Saturday. A total of 600 maunds of Hilsa came to Chandpur’s Bara Station Fish Ghat, the bigges...

Community policing should tackle crimes by juvenile gangs, says Home Minister   

Community policing should tackle crimes by juvenile gangs, says Home Minister  

-- 2022-10-29 18:28:22

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday called upon the members of the community police for working to prevent the criminal activities of juvenile gangs. Due to the closure of educational institut...

Benzir elected president, Poniruzzaman gen secy of Dhaka district unit of Awami League   

Benzir elected president, Poniruzzaman gen secy of Dhaka district unit of Awami League  

-- 2022-10-29 18:17:29

Benzir Ahmed has been made the president of Dhaka district unit of Awami League while Poniruzzaman Torun the general secretary. AL general secretary Obaidul Quader announced their names during the tr...

Five Biman officials remanded for two days over question paper leak

Five Biman officials remanded for two days over question paper leak

-- 2022-10-29 17:56:34

Five employees and officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were placed on two-day remand by a court in Dhaka on Saturday for their alleged involvement in disclosing a recruitment test question paper pr...

Cumilla schoolgirl killed in road crash, locals block highway

Cumilla schoolgirl killed in road crash, locals block highway

-- 2022-10-29 17:45:52

A student of class IX was killed on Saturday after being hit by a truck in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla on Dhaka-Chattogram highway. The deceased was identified as Sadia Akter, 15, daughter of Saifu...

Journalists in Bangladesh need more maturity, says Momen

Journalists in Bangladesh need more maturity, says Momen

-- 2022-10-29 17:04:04

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said through misquoting him journalists have tried to make the US Bangladesh’s enemy. “A total of 17 media outlets including print, electronic and onli...

Media can disclose weaknesses of Critical Information Infrastructures: BGD e-Gov CIRT

Media can disclose weaknesses of Critical Information Infrastructures: BGD e-Gov CIRT

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-29 16:49:22

Bangladeshi media can disclose any weakness and mismanagement of the institutions declared as Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) by the ICT Division as media reporting will help autho...

Bangladesh reports 69 COVID cases, one death in a day

Bangladesh reports 69 COVID cases, one death in a day

-- 2022-10-29 16:15:31

Bangladesh has recorded 69 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,035,037. The death toll from the disease climbed by one to 29,419 over the 24-hour period, according...

Bangladesh, Myanmar border troops to meet Sunday amid tensions

Bangladesh, Myanmar border troops to meet Sunday amid tensions

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-29 14:34:22

Myanmar's Border Guard Police has agreed to hold talks with its Bangladeshi counterpart on the simmering tensions along the border between the countries, bdnews24.com reports. A flag meeting betw...

BNP rally begins defying transport strike in Rangpur

BNP rally begins defying transport strike in Rangpur

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-29 13:02:40

Thousands of leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies joined the party's divisional rally in Rangpur on Saturday defying a transport strike, UNB reports. The rally organised by Rangp...

President off to Germany, UK for health check-up

President off to Germany, UK for health check-up

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-29 10:57:52

President M Abdul Hamid left Dhaka in the early hours of today (Oct 22, 2022) on a 16-day visit to Germany and the UK for health check-up, BSS reports. A regular aircraft of Qatar Airways (QY639), ca...

Bangladesh Army asks Myanmar Army to be cautious during operations at common border

Bangladesh Army asks Myanmar Army to be cautious during operations at common border

-- 2022-10-28 20:36:34

Bangladesh Army has asked the Myanmar Army to maintain more caution in conducting its operations along the common border areas. A three-member delegation of Myanmar Army led by Lt Gen Phone Myat, Com...

President leaves Dhaka for Germany, UK for checkup Saturday 

President leaves Dhaka for Germany, UK for checkup Saturday 

-- 2022-10-28 20:25:32

President M Abdul Hamid is set to leave Dhaka early tomorrow (Saturday) for a 16-day visit to Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) for health checkup and treatment of eyes.  "A VVIP aircraft of Q...

Photos of PM Hasina, Sheikh Rehana fishing win over netizens 

Photos of PM Hasina, Sheikh Rehana fishing win over netizens 

-- 2022-10-28 20:13:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shared lighter moments with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana. Photos of the fishing are winning the hearts of netizens.  "Despite being very busy with state and...

Two die in Narayanganj road accident 

Two die in Narayanganj road accident 

-- 2022-10-28 19:25:48

Two people were killed and five others injured in a collision between a bus and a human hauler in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district on Friday.  The deceased were identified as Ferdous, 2...

Awami League to hold its national council on December 24

Awami League to hold its national council on December 24

-- 2022-10-28 19:25:30

Awami League has decided to hold its 22nd national council on December 24 at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city. The decision was taken at the ruling party’s central executive committee meeting at Ga...

Bangladesh logs 102 new Covid cases, one death

Bangladesh logs 102 new Covid cases, one death

-- 2022-10-28 19:20:51

Bangladesh has recorded 102 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,034,968. The death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,418 over the 24-hour period, according t...

BNP set to hold fourth divisional rally in Rangpur Saturday

BNP set to hold fourth divisional rally in Rangpur Saturday

-- 2022-10-28 18:56:34

Amid a 36-hour transport strike beginning from Friday morning, BNP is all set to hold its fourth divisional rally in Rangpur city on Saturday, defying all adversities. Party leaders and activists hav...

Dhaka's rail links with Chittagong, Sylhet restored after 1.5 hours

Dhaka's rail links with Chittagong, Sylhet restored after 1.5 hours

-- 2022-10-28 18:32:20

Train movements on the Dhaka-Chattogram and Chattogram-Sylhet routes which were suspended due to the arrival of two trains on the same track have returned to normalcy after one and a half hours of eff...

27 Agyan Party members, snatchers held in Dhaka

27 Agyan Party members, snatchers held in Dhaka

-- 2022-10-28 17:43:44

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested 27 people for allegedly being the members of notorious Agyan Party and snatcher gang in Dhaka. The arrestees are- snatcher gang leader Md Rube...

Dengue death toll reaches 128 with five more deaths

Dengue death toll reaches 128 with five more deaths

-- 2022-10-28 17:23:08

Five more deaths from dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning raised this year's fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 128. During the period, 440 more patients were hospitalised...

Indian high commissioner presents credentials to president

Indian high commissioner presents credentials to president

-- 2022-10-28 17:12:01

India's new High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranny Kumar Verma presented credentials to President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursday. Welcoming the new Indian envoy, the president said India is...

‘Labour rights related recommendations from US, EU, ILO get due importance in BD’

‘Labour rights related recommendations from US, EU, ILO get due importance in BD’

-- 2022-10-28 16:52:56

Bangladesh considers the recommendations of the United States of America, the European Union and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on labour rights with due importance. Prime Minister's Advi...

Power usage now parameter of rampant tax evasion

Power usage now parameter of rampant tax evasion

FE REPORT 2022-10-28 08:53:16

Power usage now becomes a parameter of wide-scale tax delinquency in Bangladesh as nearly two-thirds of electricity consumers under Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) are found having no tax re...

Tk 1.37b incentive for farmers in Rabi crop season

Tk 1.37b incentive for farmers in Rabi crop season

-- 2022-10-27 21:48:21

The government has announced an incentive worth Tk 13.7 billion for 1.67 million farmers designed to increase production in the coming Rabi season, as per a bdnews24.com report. According to a statem...

Rangpur transport owners call strike ahead of BNP rally

Rangpur transport owners call strike ahead of BNP rally

-- 2022-10-27 20:28:44

Rangpur Motor Owners’ Association will enforce a 36-hour strike from Friday (October 28) in the district demanding an end to movement of unauthorised three-wheelers and ‘harassment by admi...