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Japanese speech contest held in city

Japanese speech contest held in city

FE Report 2023-02-26 08:35:12

Tanzina Afroz and Christina Miti Rozario have won the first prize in two categories of National Japanese Speech Contest held at the Japanese Embassy in the city on Saturday. Tanzina Afroz for her spe...

Hasan Mahmud says BNP was involved in conspiracy of BDR mutiny

Hasan Mahmud says BNP was involved in conspiracy of BDR mutiny

-- 2023-02-25 22:10:12

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said BNP was involved in the conspiracy of BDR mutiny. "The BNP secretary general has p...

Momen reiterates proposal for ministerial forum on South-South Cooperation

Momen reiterates proposal for ministerial forum on South-South Cooperation

-- 2023-02-25 22:01:27

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has reiterated his proposal to create a ministerial forum on South-South Cooperation to explore potentials and share lessons on priorities and concerns of the Global...

Khaleda Zia’s movement shrouded in mystery on BDR carnage day: Hanif

Khaleda Zia’s movement shrouded in mystery on BDR carnage day: Hanif

-- 2023-02-25 21:57:12

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Saturday said movement of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on the day of Pilkhana BDR carnage in 2009 was shrouded in mystery. “Begum Khal...

BNP is a trustworthy shelter to communalism, militancy: Obaidul Quader

BNP is a trustworthy shelter to communalism, militancy: Obaidul Quader

-- 2023-02-25 21:55:00

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said if BNP goes to power, they will turn Bangladesh into Afghanistan and the women will have no...

Mirza Fakhrul questions investigation into 2009 BDR mutiny

Mirza Fakhrul questions investigation into 2009 BDR mutiny

-- 2023-02-25 21:53:56

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that there was no proper investigation into the killings of 57 army officers in the BDR mutiny in 2009. "We think the way this in...

Bangladesh seeks German support to implement NAP on climate change 

Bangladesh seeks German support to implement NAP on climate change 

-- 2023-02-25 20:15:06

Bangladesh has sought help from Germany to implement the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and areas related to climate change including technology transfer, capacity building and renewable energy. Mini...

Russia thanks Bangladesh for abstaining from UNGA vote on Ukraine war

Russia thanks Bangladesh for abstaining from UNGA vote on Ukraine war

-- 2023-02-25 19:52:49

Russia has thanked Bangladesh for abstaining from voting on the latest adopted UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that called for "ending the war in Ukraine and demanded Russia's immediate withdraw...

Earthquake felt in Cox’s Bazar; epicentre in Myanmar

Earthquake felt in Cox’s Bazar; epicentre in Myanmar

-- 2023-02-25 19:24:56

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake with the epicentre in Myanmar has shaken Cox’s Bazar. Assistant Meteorologist Abdur Rahman at the regional office of the Meteorological Department said the earthquake...

No comparison can be drawn between Awami League and BNP: PM

No comparison can be drawn between Awami League and BNP: PM

-- 2023-02-25 17:51:12

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there is no comparison between her party and the BNP. "BNP doesn't want people's welfare. They burnt people alive and pla...

Death-row convict of BDR mutiny dies in Dhaka hospital

Death-row convict of BDR mutiny dies in Dhaka hospital

-- 2023-02-25 17:38:39

A death-row convict who took part in the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny has died at a hospital in Dhaka. Abdul Baten, 70, was rushed from Kashimpur High-Security Prison in Gazipur to Dhaka Medical College...

Six Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours

Six Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2023-02-25 17:10:14

Bangladesh has recorded six new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,796. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,445 over the 24-hour period,...

Govt trying to resist movement using constitution as excuse: BNP leader Nazrul

Govt trying to resist movement using constitution as excuse: BNP leader Nazrul

-- 2023-02-24 22:55:38

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Friday alleged that the government is making a joke about the constitution. "What have you (govt) started? You talk about the constitution. You’re actuall...

Chhatra League activists ‘loot’ Awami League leader’s house

Chhatra League activists ‘loot’ Awami League leader’s house

-- 2023-02-24 22:14:36

A Chhatra League leader and his activists allegedly attacked a local leader of Awami League at his home in the Mithabo area of Rupganj Upazila in Narayanganj district on Friday afternoon. Tanzin Ahme...

Police helped create investment-friendly environment in country: IGP

Police helped create investment-friendly environment in country: IGP

-- 2023-02-24 20:50:32

The police have been able to create an investment-friendly environment in the country by maintaining law and order and implementing a zero-tolerance policy against militancy and terrorism, said Inspec...

Hasan Mahmud taking classes at DU

Hasan Mahmud taking classes at DU

-- 2023-02-24 20:47:04

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud is teaching at Dhaka University (DU) after discharging political and state duties along with working for his own constituency. Dr Hasan is taking...

Five Bangladeshis killed in South Africa road crash

Five Bangladeshis killed in South Africa road crash

-- 2023-02-24 19:06:29

At least five Bangladeshis have been killed and two others seriously injured in a road crash in South Africa. Md Tarikul Islam, the director general of Africa wing at the foreign ministry, said on Fr...

Woman, who was on the run for a decade, arrested in police murder

Woman, who was on the run for a decade, arrested in police murder

-- 2023-02-24 18:08:14

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a woman who was sentenced to life in prison over ties to the murder of Humayun Kabir, an assistant sub-inspector of Shah Ali Police Station in Dhaka’s Mir...

Bangladesh reports four new Covid cases

Bangladesh reports four new Covid cases

-- 2023-02-24 18:06:08

Bangladesh has recorded four new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,790. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,445 over the 24-hour per...

PM to unveil 49 dev projects in Gopalganj on Saturday

PM to unveil 49 dev projects in Gopalganj on Saturday

-- 2023-02-24 16:33:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate 44 projects during her daylong visit to Gopalganj on Saturday. The premier is also likely to lay the foundation stones of five other projects....

Bangladesh almost self-sufficient in treatment of heart diseases, says PM

Bangladesh almost self-sufficient in treatment of heart diseases, says PM

-- 2023-02-24 15:48:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the country’s health sector has witnessed significant progress despite various limitations over the last 14 years. “Bangladesh is now almost se...

RAB arrests 29 men on mugging charges in Dhaka

RAB arrests 29 men on mugging charges in Dhaka

bdnews24.com 2023-02-24 13:57:56

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested 29 suspected members of a mugging gang in Dhaka. The elite force arrested the suspects during raids in the neighbourhoods of Mohammadpur, Adabor, Hazarib...

Bangladesh abstains from UN vote on Russia as war enters second year

Bangladesh abstains from UN vote on Russia as war enters second year

bdnews24.com 2023-02-24 12:14:19

Bangladesh is among 32 countries that refrained from voting as the United Nations adopted a resolution condemning Russia’s attack on Ukraine and urging the immediate withdrawal of troops a...

Vegetable farming on floating beds makes Jashore fishermen self-reliant

Vegetable farming on floating beds makes Jashore fishermen self-reliant

OUR CORRESPONDENT, BENAPOLE 2023-02-24 10:58:31

Many unemployed fishermen have become self-reliant by growing vegetables on floating beds in the Harihar river in the Madhyakul Rajvanshipara area at Keshabpur Upazila of Jashore district. Having fai...

Clean energy in focus as air pollution rising

Clean energy in focus as air pollution rising

FE REPORT 2023-02-24 08:30:14

Speakers at a seminar on Thursday laid emphasis on increasing the use of clean energy to cope with the climate change impact on the country's people. The seminar titled 'Global Policy Narrative of Cl...

‘Bangladesh abide by US sanctions against Russia to protect national interest’

‘Bangladesh abide by US sanctions against Russia to protect national interest’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-02-23 21:10:43

Bangladesh had to abide by the US sanctions against Russia to protect the country’s interest, said the foreign ministry on Thursday. “The US is the biggest trading partner of our country....

Dhaka expects sanctioned ship issue won’t affect ties with Moscow

Dhaka expects sanctioned ship issue won’t affect ties with Moscow

-- 2023-02-23 20:04:23

Bangladesh’s foreign ministry has said Dhaka believed that its decision over a Russian ship under US sanction was unlikely to affect the existing friendly ties with Moscow.  “Our (Dh...

French, German embassies install Ukrainian flag in front of their shared embassy building in Dhaka

French, German embassies install Ukrainian flag in front of their shared embassy building in Dhaka

-- 2023-02-23 19:59:23

The French and German embassies in Dhaka on Thursday evening installed a Ukrainian flag in front of their shared embassy building on Madani Avenue, Baridahara. As February 24, 2023 would mark one yea...

Canadian minister Sajjan to arrive on Feb 24

Canadian minister Sajjan to arrive on Feb 24

-- 2023-02-23 19:26:52

Canadian Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency Harjit S Sajjan will begin his four-day visit to Bangladesh on Friday. The Canadian...

PM asks scientists to boost research on agriculture

PM asks scientists to boost research on agriculture

-- 2023-02-23 18:19:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to scientists to put extra efforts on research to attain excellence in agricultural production. “I always think that without research it is...