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Writ challenges validity of motorbike ban on Padma Bridge

Writ challenges validity of motorbike ban on Padma Bridge

-- 2023-01-14 18:11:22

A writ petition was filed with the High Court challenging the validity of the government’s decision to ban the movement of motorbikes on the Padma Bridge. Petitioner Advocate Yarul Islam also s...

Boosting cooperation with Bangladesh on three fronts priority for France: envoy

Boosting cooperation with Bangladesh on three fronts priority for France: envoy

-- 2023-01-14 18:09:57

Newly appointed Ambassador of France to Bangladesh Marie Masdupuy has said she will focus on three priority areas during her tenure in Dhaka to take the relations to a new height that include to "main...

'Bangladesh-Japan relations can upgrade to closer ties, deeper strategic partnership'

'Bangladesh-Japan relations can upgrade to closer ties, deeper strategic partnership'

-- 2023-01-14 17:27:57

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh and Japan are now presented with an ideal opportunity to take the bilateral relations to a new height by upgrading it to a closer and deeper 'Str...

Awami League always works for welfare of nation, says PM

Awami League always works for welfare of nation, says PM

-- 2023-01-14 16:52:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Awami League (AL) always works for the welfare of the nation as per the promise given to the people and the countrymen are getting its benefits. “AL always...

Bangladesh to ask US again to reconsider stance on RAB: Momen

Bangladesh to ask US again to reconsider stance on RAB: Momen

-- 2023-01-14 16:07:38

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said the government will ask the US again to lift sanctions on seven current and former Rapid Action Battalion officials and the agency itself. The law enforcement...

Three more devotees die at Ijtema

Three more devotees die at Ijtema

-- 2023-01-14 15:02:12

Three more devotees have died at the Bishwa Ijtema grounds in Tongi, taking the death toll from the Islamic congregation to six. Abdur Noor, engineer and member of the Bishwa Ijtema organising c...

Three die in separate motorcycle crashes in Jhenaidah

Three die in separate motorcycle crashes in Jhenaidah

-- 2023-01-14 14:54:38

Three motorcycle riders have died in two separate road accidents in Jhenaidah. The incidents occurred in Sadar Upazila’s Koyargachhi and Shailkupa Upazila’s Murotala early on Saturday. T...

Youth held with 48.5 kg hemp in city

Youth held with 48.5 kg hemp in city

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-14 14:43:31

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a suspected drug peddler with 48.5 kilograms of hemp from the capital’s Motijheel early Saturday. The arrestee is Rakibul Hasan Imon, 23, s...

Drizzles likely in eight divisions: BMD

Drizzles likely in eight divisions: BMD

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-14 12:10:47

The weather department has predicted drizzles in parts of the country in 24 hours, starting from 9am today (Saturday).  “Weather may remain mainly dry with partly cloudy skies over the cou...

Tetulia records season’s lowest temperature at 6.7 degrees C

Tetulia records season’s lowest temperature at 6.7 degrees C

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-14 11:02:43

Tetulia of Panchagarh recorded the season’s lowest temperature in Bangladesh at 6.7 degrees Celsius, in 24 hours till this morning (January 14, 2023) as a mild cold wave is sweeping across parts...

AQI: Dhaka air world’s most polluted this morning

AQI: Dhaka air world’s most polluted this morning

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-14 10:29:10

Dhaka has once again topped the list of cities with the worst air quality this morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 251 at 8:55 am on Saturday, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cit...

Bayezid Link Road to be first toll road in Ctg

Bayezid Link Road to be first toll road in Ctg

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL 2023-01-14 08:54:33

CHATTOGRAM: The Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) is going to impose toll on Bayezid Link Road which is now open to traffic, though with the work yet to be completed. Sources said CDA constructe...

Mirza Fakhrul demands cancellation of power price hike

Mirza Fakhrul demands cancellation of power price hike

-- 2023-01-13 21:41:56

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday described the government's decision to hike the electricity tariff as 'anti-people'. In a statement, he demanded the immediate cancellation...

Two ships of Indian Coast Guard arrive on six-day visit

Two ships of Indian Coast Guard arrive on six-day visit

-- 2023-01-13 20:07:08

Two Indian Coast Guard ships, named Shaurya and Rajveer, arrived at Chattogram port on Friday for a six-day visit as a part of the ongoing close cooperation between the Coast Guards of Bangladesh and...

Awami League-led govt ensures security for BNP’s programmes: Hasan

Awami League-led govt ensures security for BNP’s programmes: Hasan

-- 2023-01-13 20:01:14

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday said BNP had carried out grenade attacks on Awami League rallies but the AL government is...

Feasibility study on Chattogram metro rail project to end this month: Obaidul Quader

Feasibility study on Chattogram metro rail project to end this month: Obaidul Quader

-- 2023-01-13 19:45:03

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the feasibility study on a metro rail project in Chattogram will be completed by January 31. The minister gave the information while exchan...

Nur defends top aide Tarek’s ‘offensive remarks’ on Hindu religious scripture

Nur defends top aide Tarek’s ‘offensive remarks’ on Hindu religious scripture

-- 2023-01-13 19:34:26

Without offering any apology for the “obscene language” used by his top aide Tarek Rahman to describe Hindu religious scripture, Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad leader Nurul Haque Nur has...

Missing woman’s body recovered after five days

Missing woman’s body recovered after five days

-- 2023-01-13 19:29:38

Police recovered the body of a woman from a river near Putimari Bazar of Khulna's Batiyaghata five days after she went missing. The deceased was identified as Fatima Begum, 37, of Khulna, reports UNB...

Bangladesh studying US Indo-Pacific Strategy, Momen says

Bangladesh studying US Indo-Pacific Strategy, Momen says

-- 2023-01-13 17:55:09

Ahead of US official Donald Lu's visit, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh stands ready to do whatever is needed for the people's welfare, noting that the government is still studying...

Polluted water leaves Ijtema attendees sick with diarrhoea

Polluted water leaves Ijtema attendees sick with diarrhoea

-- 2023-01-13 17:07:22

Devotees attending the Biswa Ijtema, the largest gathering of Muslims after the Hajj, are suffering from cold and fever amid the wintry weather as the congregation began in Tongi. Many have also come...

Bangladesh logs 15 new Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh logs 15 new Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2023-01-13 16:59:53

Bangladesh has recorded 15 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,346. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,441 over the 24-hour period, a...

US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu arrives on Saturday

US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu arrives on Saturday

FE ONLINE REPORT   2023-01-13 16:36:50

Donald Lu, US assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Saturday on a two-day visit.Human rights, Indo-pacific strategy, sanctions against RA...

Bangladesh reports one more dengue death

Bangladesh reports one more dengue death

-- 2023-01-13 16:21:26

One more person died from dengue in the 24 hours to Friday morning. With the new number, the official death toll from dengue rose to two this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Serv...

Bangladesh plans to use nanotech for ensuring road safety

Bangladesh plans to use nanotech for ensuring road safety

-- 2023-01-13 16:10:32

Bangladesh's government is going to take a pilot project for using nanotechnology in the construction of roads for ensuring road safety to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030....

Mild cold wave sweeps parts of country

Mild cold wave sweeps parts of country

-- 2023-01-13 15:48:12

A mild cold wave is sweeping several parts of the country, but it may abate in some places, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said Friday. A mild cold wave is sweeping Rajshahi and Rangp...

Two dead after autorickshaw slams into parked truck in Jatrabari

Two dead after autorickshaw slams into parked truck in Jatrabari

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 14:12:51

Two people were killed after an autorickshaw ploughed into the back of a parked truck in Dhaka’s Jatrabari. The dead have been identified as 50-year-old Md Polash, the autorickshaw driver...

Five of a family die in Rangunia kitchen fire

Five of a family die in Rangunia kitchen fire

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 11:19:49

At least five members of a family died after a fire spread from a stove in the kitchen of their house at Rangunia Upazila in Chattogram. The incident occurred at around 2:15 am Friday in Uttar...

Light showers might accompany cold snap in coming days

Light showers might accompany cold snap in coming days

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 10:45:07

The Met Office has forecast drizzles or light rain amidst the ongoing cold wave with the chilly winter gripping the country, bdnews24.com reports. Chuadanga recorded the lowest temperature as t...

First phase of Ijtema begins Friday

First phase of Ijtema begins Friday

-- 2023-01-12 19:47:41

The first phase of three-day 'Biswa Ijtema', billed as the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, is set to begin Friday morning on the bank of the Turag river in Tongi of the district. T...

Payment of trade license fee thru online soon, says Taposh

Payment of trade license fee thru online soon, says Taposh

-- 2023-01-12 19:45:03

Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has said after the effective implementation of the National Payment Gateway, people will be able to pay trade license fees through online soon. He also proposed tha...