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29 state agencies' info systems made no-go areas for strangers

29 state agencies' info systems made no-go areas for strangers

FE REPORT 2022-10-04 10:01:53

The government declares communication systems of 29 vital state agencies as 'Critical Information Infrastruc-ture (CII)' with punitive provision for unauthorized access. Information and Communication...

PM returns home after 18-day trip to UK, US

PM returns home after 18-day trip to UK, US

-- 2022-10-04 08:48:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has flown back to Bangladesh after her 18-day official visit to the United Kingdom and the United States. She joined the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London and...

Bangladesh declares 29 organisations Critical Information Infrastructure

Bangladesh declares 29 organisations Critical Information Infrastructure

-- 2022-10-03 21:45:38

The government has declared 29 organisations Critical Information Infrastructure under the Digital Security Act for the safety of data. The law has provisions to penalise illegal access to comp...

GM Quader expresses doubt about inclusive election

GM Quader expresses doubt about inclusive election

-- 2022-10-03 20:55:45

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader expressed his doubt whether the next general election will be free and fair and inclusive. "The overall situation of the country is fragile with unstable political sit...

Zia killed many freedom fighters to prolong ‘illegal rule’: Joy

Zia killed many freedom fighters to prolong ‘illegal rule’: Joy

-- 2022-10-03 20:15:33

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has accused former military ruler Ziaur Rahman of executing thousands of members of Bangladesh's armed forces, who were freedom fighters, th...

Khaleda to lead 'simultaneous’ movement, says Mirza Fakhrul

Khaleda to lead 'simultaneous’ movement, says Mirza Fakhrul

-- 2022-10-03 20:10:13

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their planned 'simultaneous’ movement' with different political parties to oust the current government will be carried out under...

PM leaves London on her way back home from Washington

PM leaves London on her way back home from Washington

-- 2022-10-03 20:02:50

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday left London on her way back home from Washington DC in the USA. A VVIP chartered flight carrying the premier and her entourage members departed from London Stan...

Muhammad Yunus awarded Karl Kübel Prize

Muhammad Yunus awarded Karl Kübel Prize

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-03 18:29:49

German-based Karl Kübel Foundation for Child has honoured Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with Karl Kübel Prize. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation last Septe...

Dengue kills three more raising death toll to 61: DGHS

Dengue kills three more raising death toll to 61: DGHS

-- 2022-10-03 18:18:03

Three more dengue patients died in 24 hours till Monday morning, raising this year's death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 61. During this period, 525 more patients were hospita...

Covid mass vaccination to continue until Oct 8

Covid mass vaccination to continue until Oct 8

-- 2022-10-03 18:06:09

The special mass inoculation campaign against Covid-19, which was launched to celebrate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's birthday, has been extended by three days to Oct 8, health authorities say. The...

‘Diplomats free to give advice on polls but no interference’

‘Diplomats free to give advice on polls but no interference’

-- 2022-10-03 17:45:05

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said that foreign diplomats are free to give advice on elections as long as they don't interfere in the country's internal affairs and cross dipl...

Bangladesh reports 696 new Covid cases, two deaths

Bangladesh reports 696 new Covid cases, two deaths

-- 2022-10-03 17:21:21

Bangladesh has recorded 696 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,026,908. The death toll from the disease rose by two to 29,371 over the 24-hour period, according t...

Man sentenced to death for killing a Narayanganj factory worker over Tk 500

Man sentenced to death for killing a Narayanganj factory worker over Tk 500

-- 2022-10-03 15:30:50

A court has sentenced a man to death and two others to life in prison for the murder of Mizan Sikdar Mishor, a worker at a dyeing factory at the Narayanganj Port. District and Sessions Judge Munshi M...

PM Hasina reaches London on way back home

PM Hasina reaches London on way back home

UNB 2022-10-03 14:55:18

A VVIP chartered flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her entourage members reached London Stanstead Airport at 7:30 am (local time) for a short stopover en route to Dhaka. Bangladesh Hig...

476 killed, 794 injured in road accidents in September: Report

476 killed, 794 injured in road accidents in September: Report

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-03 14:42:09

At least 476 people were killed and 794 others injured in road accidents across the country in September this year. It means, on average, roughly 16 people died in road mishaps every day in September...

Two dead, one injured as motorcycle hits pedestrian in Gazipur

Two dead, one injured as motorcycle hits pedestrian in Gazipur

bdnews24.com 2022-10-03 12:07:52

Two people have died and another injured in a motorcycle accident in Gazipur’s Konabari area. The accident took place near Robi tower in the Mitali Club area on Sunday evening, said Konabari Po...

PM leaves Washington for home via London

PM leaves Washington for home via London

UNB 2022-10-03 10:23:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Washington DC for Dhaka wrapping up her 18-day official visit to the UK and the USA. A VVIP chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier an...

Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecasts cyclone for October

Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecasts cyclone for October

bdnews24.com 2022-10-03 10:07:49

Bangladesh may experience a cyclone and more rains than usual in October, the country's Meteorological Department has forecast in a long-term climate outlook. The country saw 3.4 per cent more ra...

College principal killed in Khulna road crash

College principal killed in Khulna road crash

-- 2022-10-02 22:07:28

A college principal died after being hit by a tractor trolley loaded with bricks in Rupsa upazila of the Khulna district on Sunday. The deceased is identified as Md Rafiqul Islam, 40, principal of pr...

Another shipment of Metro Rail arrived at Mongla port

Another shipment of Metro Rail arrived at Mongla port

-- 2022-10-02 21:22:17

Another shipment of eight coaches and four locomotives for the country's first-ever metro rail service has arrived at Mongla port from Japan. 'MV Venus Triumph' vessel, carrying eight coaches, four l...

Obaidul Quader urges all to maintain peace during Durga Puja

Obaidul Quader urges all to maintain peace during Durga Puja

-- 2022-10-02 20:50:04

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday urged all concerned to remain alert to maintain peace and harmony during the ongoing Durga Puja. "A ves...

BNP, Kalyan Party reach consensus to wage a 'simultaneous’ movement

BNP, Kalyan Party reach consensus to wage a 'simultaneous’ movement

-- 2022-10-02 20:44:49

BNP on Sunday reached a consensus with Kalyan Party to wage a 'simultaneous’ movement by giving priority to bring back a caretaker government to oversee next general elections. As part of its m...

PM to return home early Tuesday from Washington

PM to return home early Tuesday from Washington

-- 2022-10-02 20:41:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to return home early hours of Tuesday wrapping up her 18-day official visit to the UK and the USA. A VVIP chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carry...

Emphasis on uninterrupted flow of common rivers to avert disaster

Emphasis on uninterrupted flow of common rivers to avert disaster

-- 2022-10-02 20:22:20

International Farakka Committee (IFC) in a statement on Sunday urged the concerned governments to ensure an uninterrupted flow of water from all common rivers in the region. It said the flow of all c...

12 climate-resilient community clinics inaugurated in Cox’s Bazar

12 climate-resilient community clinics inaugurated in Cox’s Bazar

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-02 19:07:30

Twelve 12 climate-resilient community clinics were inaugurated in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday under a joint effort to expand access to health care in remote areas. The International Organization for...

‘Don’t collect tolls from transports outside terminal perimeters’

‘Don’t collect tolls from transports outside terminal perimeters’

-- 2022-10-02 18:22:56

The Bangladesh government has instructed all local authorities, especially city corporations and municipalities, to make sure that their appointed leaseholders do not collect tolls from inter-city tra...

Reforms can be initiated after reviewing US report on RAB, says Minister

Reforms can be initiated after reviewing US report on RAB, says Minister

-- 2022-10-02 17:41:25

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said that reforms can be initiated after reviewing the US report on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). He made the comment in response to reporters' questions af...

Fast food worker headed a robbery gang at Dhaka airport: RAB

Fast food worker headed a robbery gang at Dhaka airport: RAB

-- 2022-10-02 16:43:04

Fifty-one-year-old Amir Hossain has been working in a food shop opposite Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for the last 15 years. But beneath the facade of a fast food worker, he orchestr...

Bangladesh reports 535 new COVID cases, one death in a day

Bangladesh reports 535 new COVID cases, one death in a day

-- 2022-10-02 16:38:46

Bangladesh has recorded 535 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,026,212. The death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,369 over the 24-hour period, according t...

BGB seizes smuggled goods worth Tk 1.21b in September

BGB seizes smuggled goods worth Tk 1.21b in September

-- 2022-10-02 16:33:07

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized smuggled goods, arms, ammunition and drugs worth Tk 1.21 billion across the country in September. The seized drugs include 8,31,594 Yaba pills, 3.141 Kg cryst...