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Seven sailors go missing after ship sinks off Chattogram port

Seven sailors go missing after ship sinks off Chattogram port

-- 2022-03-19 13:54:37

Seven sailors have gone missing after a lighter ship carrying cement clinker sank off the coast of Chattogram. The ship, belonging to Abul Khair Group, capsized around 3 pm on Friday, according to Ch...

Met office says heatwave likely to continue until Wednesday

Met office says heatwave likely to continue until Wednesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-19 12:49:30

The ongoing heatwave is likely to continue in different parts of the country, including Dhaka, for the next several days until Wednesday, a met official has said. The official also hinted that light...

Former Bangladesh president Shahabuddin Ahmed dies

Former Bangladesh president Shahabuddin Ahmed dies

-- 2022-03-19 12:29:40

Shahabuddin Ahmed, the former president and chief justice of Bangladesh, has died at the age of 92 while receiving care at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka. “He has passed away at CMH...

Bangladesh moves up seven notches on Happiness Index

Bangladesh moves up seven notches on Happiness Index

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-03-19 12:04:28

Bangladesh has moved up seven notches on the Happiness Index ahead of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, as per the World Happiness Report 2021 released by the United Nations on Friday. The Wor...

Bangladesh seeks $22.4m from insurer after missile hits ship in Ukraine

Bangladesh seeks $22.4m from insurer after missile hits ship in Ukraine

-- 2022-03-18 23:31:01

State-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) is seeking $22.4 million from its insurer for a cargo ship hit by a missile in March, government officials with knowledge of the talks said, in the fi...

Greek PM phones Hasina

Greek PM phones Hasina

-- 2022-03-18 23:20:29

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her leadership in the impressive socio-economic development of Bangladesh.  He made the appreciation i...

TCB to begin sales of essentials to 10m families from Sunday

TCB to begin sales of essentials to 10m families from Sunday

-- 2022-03-18 23:10:15

State-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will begin its sales by trucks on Sunday to provide essential items to some 10 million low-income group families ahead of the forthcoming holy month o...

GP's eSIM launch stuck in BTRC review  

GP's eSIM launch stuck in BTRC review  

-- 2022-03-18 23:09:14

Grameenphone’s launch of eSIM, which allows a mobile to connect to the user’s operator of choice without the need to purchase a physical SIM card, has been postponed.   The Bang...

US Under Secretary Victoria Nuland due Saturday

US Under Secretary Victoria Nuland due Saturday

-- 2022-03-18 22:09:11

US President Joe Biden is sending a delegation of his country, including US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, to Bangladesh. “A source said the delegation will hold talks o...

17 tourists rescued from Sitakunda hill after 999 call 

17 tourists rescued from Sitakunda hill after 999 call 

-- 2022-03-18 21:38:46

Police rescued 17 tourists as they lost their way while visiting a hill in Sitakunda of Chattogram early Friday after they called the national emergency service number 999.  Suman Banik, of...

BNP to arrange two-day book fair on Liberation War 

BNP to arrange two-day book fair on Liberation War 

-- 2022-03-18 19:37:38

BNP is going to arrange a two-day programme, including a book fair and exhibition on the country’s Liberation War as part of the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of independence.  Amanull...

Refusal to chant ‘Joy Bangla’ tantamount to undermining independence, says PM

Refusal to chant ‘Joy Bangla’ tantamount to undermining independence, says PM

-- 2022-03-18 18:59:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday slammed those who still refuse to chant the national slogan ‘Joy Bangla’, the inspiration of the liberation war. “Those who still don’t...

Covid-19: Two deaths, 108 cases reported in 24 hours

Covid-19: Two deaths, 108 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-03-18 18:38:48

Bangladesh has logged two new deaths from COVID-19, raising the toll to 29,114 in the latest daily count, after posting no fatality from the disease for three consecutive days. The caseload increased...

Amir Hamza dropped from Independence Award list

Amir Hamza dropped from Independence Award list

-- 2022-03-18 17:26:55

The government has dropped the name of Amir Hamza from the list of winners of the Independence Award amid reports of his controversial past. The Cabinet Division published a revised list of nine indi...

Heat wave likely to continue: Met office

Heat wave likely to continue: Met office

-- 2022-03-18 17:19:07

The ongoing mild heat wave would continue in different parts of the country, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. "Mild heat wave is sweeping over Khulna and Sylhet divisions an...

Bangladesh plans new policy to avert learning gaps in future, says Dipu Moni

Bangladesh plans new policy to avert learning gaps in future, says Dipu Moni

-- 2022-03-18 17:14:11

The government of Bangladesh plans formulation of a national policy to enable students to continue their education in times of any crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic. Education Minister Dipu Moni came...

Bangabandhu's fearless March 7 call re-imagined through colours at Dhanmondi 32

Bangabandhu's fearless March 7 call re-imagined through colours at Dhanmondi 32

-- 2022-03-18 16:50:49

Young artists blended their creative endeavours into digital artwork 'The Fearless Call' re-imagining the directives of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's landmark speech on March 7, 1971. In the di...

Two teenage boys die while trying to save a friend from drowning

Two teenage boys die while trying to save a friend from drowning

-- 2022-03-18 15:35:41

Two teenage boys have died while trying to save a friend from drowning in the Padma River in Rajshahi. The incident took place in the city's Borokuthi neighbourhood around 11:30 am on Friday, said Ma...

Shab-e-Barat to be observed tonight

Shab-e-Barat to be observed tonight

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-18 12:15:17

The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune, will be observed throughout the country tonight with due religious fervour and devotion, reports BSS. Muslims consider Shab-e-Barat as one of the three...

Amid criticism, government decides to review Amir Hamza's Independence Award

Amid criticism, government decides to review Amir Hamza's Independence Award

-- 2022-03-18 09:18:08

The government will review the decision to confer the Swadhinata Purashkar (Independence Award) on Amir Hamza posthumously for his contribution to literature after his selection raised eyebrows. Repo...

City dwellers get relief from traffic congestion

City dwellers get relief from traffic congestion

FE REPORT 2022-03-18 08:34:42

A day after the nagging traffic congestion Dhaka city became less chaotic on Thursday as a good number of city-dwellers left the capital cashing in on a three-day holiday. From the morning, traffic m...

Digitising land documentation limps through dilemmas

Digitising land documentation limps through dilemmas

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2022-03-18 08:31:09

Bangladesh's land-record management has yet to be fully automated notwithstanding government commitment to digitisation of the entire processes, say sources, leaving most people in the largely venal s...

Canal re-excavation turns 2,000 acres of land cultivable

Canal re-excavation turns 2,000 acres of land cultivable

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-03-18 08:21:41

CUMILLA: Re-excavation of a 3.5-kilometre Kazipara canal has freed 2,000 acres of agricultural land from water-logging and brought smiles on the faces of Chandina farmers. The Barind Multipurpose Dev...

Posters of Bangabandhu biopic ‘Mujib - The Making of A Nation’ released

Posters of Bangabandhu biopic ‘Mujib - The Making of A Nation’ released

-- 2022-03-17 19:40:40

Posters of “Mujib - The Making of A Nation” have been released after the finalisation of the name of the biographical film on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. People related to the film...

Traffic jam eases on Dhaka streets thanks to holidays

Traffic jam eases on Dhaka streets thanks to holidays

-- 2022-03-17 19:25:59

After passing horrific time stuck in a severe traffic jam in the past two days, commuters in Dhaka breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday as many residents left the capital on a three-day vacation. Th...

Chakaria OC removed after 'celebrating birthday' with fugitive suspect

Chakaria OC removed after 'celebrating birthday' with fugitive suspect

-- 2022-03-17 19:07:30

Osman Gani, the chief of Chakaria Police Station in Cox's Bazar, has been removed from his post after he was photographed cutting a birthday cake with a fugitive wanted in an attempt to murder case....

PM vows a beautiful future for children

PM vows a beautiful future for children

-- 2022-03-17 18:30:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that her government has long-term plans to make future of the children beautiful. "We want to build a beautiful future for the children. I've also formu...

Bangladesh sees no Covid deaths for third straight day

Bangladesh sees no Covid deaths for third straight day

-- 2022-03-17 17:04:32

Bangladesh has passed a third straight day without Covid-19 deaths, leaving the toll unchanged at 29,112. The government registered 233 new cases of the coronavirus in a 24-hour count, raising the ca...

Not Napa syrup, mother poisoned Ashuganj boys, say police

Not Napa syrup, mother poisoned Ashuganj boys, say police

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-17 14:28:29

Two boys, who reportedly died from consuming paracetamol syrup in Brahmanbaria's Ashuganj a week ago, were actually poisoned by their mother, police said after a probe into the closely-watched case....

Three die as bus, microbus collide head-on in Narsingdi

Three die as bus, microbus collide head-on in Narsingdi

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-17 13:07:38

Three people died and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus in Narsingdi’s Marjal Upazila. The accident occurred around 4 am on Thursday on the Dhaka-Sylhe...