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Opportunity to study in Belgium with Master Mind Scholarship

Opportunity to study in Belgium with Master Mind Scholarship

FE Online 2022-01-20 16:31:41

The Flemish Ministry of Education and Training awards scholarships for master's programmes in Flanders and Brussels to outstanding students from around the world. If you are interested, you first nee...

Daraz is looking for an HR Executive for HungryNaki

Daraz is looking for an HR Executive for HungryNaki

FE Online 2022-01-20 15:53:37

Daraz is the leading end-to-end e-commerce solution for South Asia (excluding India). Their business covers four key areas – e-commerce, logistics, payment infrastructure and financial services....

300-year-old ‘dighi’ being filled for building market

300-year-old ‘dighi’ being filled for building market

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-20 09:58:51

CUMILLA: The owner of Wazir Dighi has decided to fill the 300-year-old pond in Cumilla for constructing a community centre, a coffee house and a market. Located in the heart of the city (ward 5), t...

Authorities shut primary school as all teachers test Covid-19 positive

Authorities shut primary school as all teachers test Covid-19 positive

-- 2022-01-18 21:52:41

Authorities have shut down a government primary school in Laksam Upazila of Cumilla district for an indefinite period on Tuesday after all eight teachers tested Covid-19 positive. The teachers, inclu...

CCC dismantles illegal structures in Chattogram

CCC dismantles illegal structures in Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-18 10:30:46

CHATTOGRAM: The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) conducted a mobile court and demolished establishments built illegally on footpaths and drains at Muradpur in the port city today (Monday). Executi...

Walton Hi-Tech is looking for an Engineer

Walton Hi-Tech is looking for an Engineer

-- 2022-01-17 16:03:01

Walton Hi-Tech Industries Ltd is the country’s leading company in the field of consumer electronic appliances. It has pioneered the use of state-of-the-art design and modern technology in its pr...

China plans to boost digital economy in 2021-2025

China plans to boost digital economy in 2021-2025

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-13 13:24:05

China's State Council on Wednesday rolled out a plan to facilitate the development of the digital economy in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025). The country aims to raise the proportion of th...

Boro seedbeds kindle new hope for char farmers

Boro seedbeds kindle new hope for char farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-13 09:35:52

RAJSHAHI: The crisis of land for preparing Boro seedbeds has long been a common issue for the farmers of Rajshahi. However, the farmers have recently come up with a way out by producing seedlings on...

Committee assigned to develop Patenga sea beach

Committee assigned to develop Patenga sea beach

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-12 12:50:18

CHATTOGRAM: The government has formed Chattogram Beach Management Committee to develop the Patenga sea beach and Parki sea beach at Anwara in the port city Chattogram. The Chattogram Beach Management...

A group of fishermen earns Tk 0.6m with a single cast of net

A group of fishermen earns Tk 0.6m with a single cast of net

-- 2022-01-10 18:20:47

A group of fishermen have caught about 300 maunds (1 maund = 37 kg) of fish in a single cast of the net that earned them Tk 600,000. Md Kalim Ullah, a fisherman from Pan Majher Para, and his team net...

Boro farmers worried about delay in embankment protection projects

Boro farmers worried about delay in embankment protection projects

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2022-01-10 09:49:23

Flash floods in haor areas often cause huge damage to Boro harvest. In response, the government has initiated investment in embankment construction and repair. However, farmers in Sylhet's haor are...

Woman, two children dead after trawler capsizes in Cumilla

Woman, two children dead after trawler capsizes in Cumilla

-- 2022-01-03 19:16:31

A woman and two girls, believed to be members of the same family, have died after a trawler capsized in the Kathalia River in Cumilla’s Meghna Upazila. At least 10 others were injured after the...

Migratory birds no more a common sight in Cox's Bazar

Migratory birds no more a common sight in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-03 09:47:31

COX'S BAZAR: Migratory birds are now-a-days hardly seen in Cox's Bazar district due to hunting, heavy urbanisation, massive deforestation, occupation of water bodies and a lack of campaign against p...

15 shops gutted in Sherpur market fire

15 shops gutted in Sherpur market fire

-- 2022-01-02 19:16:51

Fifteen shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Kushumhati market of Sherpur Sadar upazila early Sunday. Jabed Hossain Tareq, deputy assistant director of Sherpur Fire Service, said the fire br...

More than 700 birds rescued in Bagerhat

More than 700 birds rescued in Bagerhat

-- 2022-01-02 18:57:49

More than 700 birds of Sturnidae species, known as Shalik, were on Sunday freed by police after they were rescued from a cowshed at Mollahat in Bagerhat. Tipped off, police raided Kaka Mia's house at...

Bus plunges into ditch in Sirajganj, four dies

Bus plunges into ditch in Sirajganj, four dies

-- 2021-12-31 17:47:16

Four people, including a policeman, were killed after a bus overturned and fell into a roadside ditch in Sirajganj's Salanga. At least 15 others were injured in the incident which took place on the H...

Mustard cultivation exceeds target in Tangail, Jamalpur

Mustard cultivation exceeds target in Tangail, Jamalpur

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-31 09:53:26

Tangail, Dec 30: The mustard cultivation has exceeded its target by 5,000 hectares of land in Tangail. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and the growers here are expecting a bumper musta...

Construction of Buddha statue in Cox's Bazar nearing completion

Construction of Buddha statue in Cox's Bazar nearing completion

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-29 10:00:30

COX'S BAZAR: Ukhia Central Ananda Bhaban Bihar is building a 130-foot Buddha statue on the ground of the monastery in Cox's Bazar. Leaders of the Buddhist community say the 130-foot statue of Gauta...

An incomplete bridge that symbolises corruption

An incomplete bridge that symbolises corruption

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-27 12:48:42

Irregularities in development projects, including slow implementation, repeated extension of deadlines and the use of substandard materials, are nothing new in Bangladesh. The ordinary residents of T...

Couple killed as truck ploughs through house in Jamalpur

Couple killed as truck ploughs through house in Jamalpur

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-27 12:24:35

A man and his wife were killed as a truck ploughed through their roadside house at Garohori village in Dewanganj upazila early Monday. The deceased are Joynal Abedin, 48 a farmer, and his wife Hasina...

Three die after drinking ‘toxic liquor’ in Pabna

Three die after drinking ‘toxic liquor’ in Pabna

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-25 18:52:36

Three people died and two others fell sick reportedly after drinking toxic liquor at Chakchatiani  in Pabna Sadar upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Robiul Islam Roman, 35, son...

10 held while entering Bangladesh illegally

10 held while entering Bangladesh illegally

-- 2021-12-25 17:37:53

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members on Saturday detained 10 Bangladeshis while they were entering the country from India without valid documents through Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah district. Thre...

Thrust on boosting output of all-season beans thru hi-tech

Thrust on boosting output of all-season beans thru hi-tech

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-24 09:47:05

SYLHET: Agriculture scientists and researchers at an event in Sylhet on Thursday stressed the need for boosting production of all season beans and other vegetables through application of modern farmin...

Ramu rubber farming in a tight spot

Ramu rubber farming in a tight spot

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-23 09:58:50

COX'S BAZAR: The existence of rubber cultivation in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar that dates back to over six decades is now in a fragile condition for various reasons. Lack of manpower and patronisati...

Farmers of Netrokona haor cultivating sweet gourds

Farmers of Netrokona haor cultivating sweet gourds

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-22 10:01:27

NETRAKONA: Growing vegetables in haor areas is not a common sight in Bangladesh. But for the first time, the cultivation of sweet gourd began on the highlands of Netrakona haor. And, the farmers are e...

Half of Naogaon's husking mills closed for years

Half of Naogaon's husking mills closed for years

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NAOGAON 2021-12-20 12:49:38

About fifty per cent of the husking mills in the district were closed due to inability to compete with the auto rice mills in last several years. As a result, a good number of husking-mill owners a...

Jagannath University student dies in Noakhali road accident

Jagannath University student dies in Noakhali road accident

-- 2021-12-18 17:59:34

Jagannath University student Sabrina Akhtar was killed in a road accident in Noakhali as she was returning to Dhaka with her parents. Sabrina was enrolled in the university’s 2017-18 batch at t...

Teenager dies as Dhaka-bound bus hits bike in Bagura

Teenager dies as Dhaka-bound bus hits bike in Bagura

-- 2021-12-17 14:51:17

A teenager died while another person riding pillion sustained injuries when their bike was hit by a bus on the Dhaka-Bagura highway in the district's Shahjahanpur upazila late Thursday night. The dec...

Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die

Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die

-- 2021-12-10 18:53:50

A man and his daughter were killed and another one injured when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw in front of Dak Bungalow of Chasara in Narayanganj on Friday. The deceased were identified as Altaf Hossai...

Fire breaks out at Rajbari Jute Mills

Fire breaks out at Rajbari Jute Mills

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-10 11:57:00

A fire broke out at a jute mill in the Aladipur area of Rajbari Sadar upazila early on Friday morning. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. Md Nazrul Islam, assistant director of Faridpur fire s...