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Road crash leaves four dead in Narsingdi 

Road crash leaves four dead in Narsingdi 

-- 2022-11-17 20:32:07

At least four people have died in a head-on collision between a bus and an autorickshaw on Panchdona-Tongi road in the Chakshal area of Narsingdi.  Autorickshaw driver Mojibur Rahman, 34, passen...

Police association protests Japanese envoy's 'baseless' election comments

Police association protests Japanese envoy's 'baseless' election comments

-- 2022-11-17 19:47:59

The Bangladesh Police Service Association (BPSA) has protested Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki’s remarks casting aspersions on the integrity of the law enforcement agency during the 2018 general e...

Joint UN, EU, mission says lack of access in CHT a major development challenge

Joint UN, EU, mission says lack of access in CHT a major development challenge

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-17 19:38:32

A high-level UN delegation in Bangladesh and key development partners in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) praised the area's development efforts but noted that lack of access and remoteness of many co...

Termination of three Khulna University teachers illegal: HC

Termination of three Khulna University teachers illegal: HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-17 19:27:40

The High Court has declared illegal the termination of three teachers of Khulna University (KU). It also asked the KU authorities to reinstate the three teachers in their job.  The three teacher...

Suspended ACC director Enamul Basir gets bail from HC

Suspended ACC director Enamul Basir gets bail from HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-17 19:20:09

The High Court has granted bail to the suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Khandaker Enamul Basir who had been earlier convicted by a trial court in a case filed over the tran...

UN expert express concern over rights of Bangladeshi ship breaking workers

UN expert express concern over rights of Bangladeshi ship breaking workers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-17 18:50:36

Claudia Mahler, a UN independent expert on the environment of all human rights by elderly people, expressed concerns on Thursday over the human rights situation of the workers in the ship-breaking yar...

SSC results to be published Nov 28-30 

SSC results to be published Nov 28-30 

-- 2022-11-17 18:15:14

Results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will be published between November 28 and 30 this year.  "The proposal has been sent by the education boards to Prim...

BUET student Fardin was not murdered in Narayanganj’s Chanpara: Police

BUET student Fardin was not murdered in Narayanganj’s Chanpara: Police

-- 2022-11-17 17:38:46

Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) of DMP, Mohammad Harunur Rashid, has said that Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash was not killed in Naraya...

Bangladesh reports 38 new Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh reports 38 new Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2022-11-17 17:31:19

Bangladesh has recorded 38 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,036,306. No new fatalities were registered over the 24-hour period and the death toll from the disea...

Dengue claims another life, 685 hospitalised

Dengue claims another life, 685 hospitalised

-- 2022-11-17 17:01:46

One dengue patient died while 685 patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8:00 am today).  On November 3, Bangladesh logged nine dengue de...

‘Dhaka WASA employees getting performance bonus within the law’

‘Dhaka WASA employees getting performance bonus within the law’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-17 16:46:34

The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) have claimed that there is no violation of any existing laws and rules in giving performance bonus to its employees. It is usual customs of the or...

Prices of soybean oil, sugar hiked again 

Prices of soybean oil, sugar hiked again 

-- 2022-11-17 16:39:57

The prices of soybean oil and sugar have increased again in the country's market.  The soybean oil price has hiked by Tk 12 to Tk 190 per litre while the price of sugar has increased by Tk 13 to...

The tale of Bangladeshi youths changing the world

The tale of Bangladeshi youths changing the world

Shadique Mahbub Islam 2022-11-17 16:36:01

A global platform that gathers and publicises stories from around the world and enterprises to provide essentials to a sustainable living all around the globe; and that too in Bangladesh may come as a...

Expedite building petroleum refinery in Bangladesh, PM Hasina urges Kuwait

Expedite building petroleum refinery in Bangladesh, PM Hasina urges Kuwait

UNB 2022-11-17 14:21:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged Kuwait to quickly implement its proposal to set up a fuel petroleum refinery in Bangladesh. She said this while Kuwaiti Ambassador to Bangladesh Faisal...

UN adopts Rohingya resolution by consensus, expressing solidarity with Bangladesh

UN adopts Rohingya resolution by consensus, expressing solidarity with Bangladesh

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-17 14:08:37

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted an annual resolution on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar by consensus while recognising Bangladesh's hu...

As winter approaches, Dhaka's air quality 'unhealthy'

As winter approaches, Dhaka's air quality 'unhealthy'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-17 11:14:37

Dhaka's air quality continued to be in the 'unhealthy' zone as winter is approaching. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 161 at 9:03am today (Thursday), Dhaka ranked sixth in the list of cities...

Two held with 112 gold bars at Benapole

Two held with 112 gold bars at Benapole

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-17 10:31:33

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) claimed to have detained two people with 112 gold bars, weighing 16.5 kgs, from Amrakhali border area in Benapole on Wednesday. The two have been identified as Omar Faru...

810 women, girls raped in BD in 2021: BMP survey

810 women, girls raped in BD in 2021: BMP survey

FE REPORT 2022-11-17 08:51:32

About 810 women and girls were raped across the country in 2021, showed a survey by the Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP). Besides, 225 women and girls were victims of gang rape, 192 faced attempt to...

Korea keen to develop drone technology for Bangladesh

Korea keen to develop drone technology for Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-16 21:01:36

Bangladesh needs to start investing in drones and Korea can be Bangladesh's best and most suitable partner in its development of drone technology and business, said the Korean Ambassador in Dhaka on W...

Attorney General Office should not appear on behalf of any contemnor: HC

Attorney General Office should not appear on behalf of any contemnor: HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-16 20:00:38

In the full text of a verdict, the High Court has heavily expressed its annoyance against the Attorney General Office for their representation on behalf of the persons who face the contempt of court r...

Three more die of dengue, 767 others hospitalised

Three more die of dengue, 767 others hospitalised

-- 2022-11-16 18:37:08

Three more deaths from Dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning raised this year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to 216. During the period, 767 patients were hospitalised with t...

Upcoming PM-level talks to strengthen Dhaka-Tokyo relations, says Shahriar

Upcoming PM-level talks to strengthen Dhaka-Tokyo relations, says Shahriar

-- 2022-11-16 17:49:57

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Wednesday expressed his optimism that Bangladesh-Japan relations would further be strengthened through the upcoming prime ministers-level meeting...

Tourism ban in two Bandarban upazilas extended till Nov 20

Tourism ban in two Bandarban upazilas extended till Nov 20

-- 2022-11-16 17:45:37

Bandarban district administration has further extended the temporary ban on tourism in Ruma and Rowangchhari upazilas till November 20 as part of high-security measures. A public notice in this regar...

Fardin murder: Bushra lands in jail after five-day remand

Fardin murder: Bushra lands in jail after five-day remand

-- 2022-11-16 17:03:58

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent Amatullah Bushra to jail after the end of her five-day remand in a case over the murder of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ataullah pass...

Bangladesh logs another Covid death, 35 cases

Bangladesh logs another Covid death, 35 cases

-- 2022-11-16 16:57:07

Bangladesh has recorded 35 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,036,268. The death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,430 over the 24-hour period, according to...

Foreign secretary’s tenure extended by two years

Foreign secretary’s tenure extended by two years

-- 2022-11-16 16:56:54

The government has extended the tenure of Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen by two more years under a contractual appointment effective from December 6, 2022, or from the date of his joining. The Min...

Purchase committee approves proposal for importing 0.18m tones fertiliser

Purchase committee approves proposal for importing 0.18m tones fertiliser

-- 2022-11-16 16:23:03

The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) has approved a number of proposals including the import of a total of 180,000 tonnes of fertiliser. The committee also approved a proposal of the B...

Court sentences four drug traffickers to death in Cox’s Bazar

Court sentences four drug traffickers to death in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2022-11-16 16:16:43

Four men, including a Rohingya, have been sentenced to death by a Cox’s Bazar court for their involvement in the trafficking of 1.3 million yaba tablets. Each of the convicts was also fined Tk 5...

Fire guts Chattogram carton factory

Fire guts Chattogram carton factory

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-16 15:38:55

A fire broke out at a carton factory in Bayazid Bostami Thana area of Chattogram early Wednesday. The fire broke out around 5:10am at Mac Paper and Board Mills Limited and it took six fire tenders an...

COP27: Bangladesh urges developed nations to double provision of adaptation finance by 2025

COP27: Bangladesh urges developed nations to double provision of adaptation finance by 2025

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-16 15:16:29

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin has urged developed countries to at least double their collective provision of adaptation finance by 2025, as agreed upon during COP26 in G...