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Govt looks beyond China to import garlic, essential items

Govt looks beyond China to import garlic, essential items

FE REPORT 2020-02-14 10:36:32

The government has started searching alternative markets to source garlic and other essential items to avert any possible disruption in supplies that might occur due to the China virus threat. Commer...

Coronavirus: Prices of disposable medical items rising

Coronavirus: Prices of disposable medical items rising

ADNAN HOSSAIN BHUIYAN 2020-02-14 10:24:15

The prices of various disposable medical instruments have been showing an upward trend for past two weeks due to decline in their shipment from China as an effect of lethal Coronavirus outbreak. Impo...

Illegal brick kilns continue  to thrive in Gazipur

Illegal brick kilns continue to thrive in Gazipur

-- 2020-02-14 01:02:22

GAZIPUR, Feb 13 (UNB): Violating various government rules and regulations, illegal brick kilns continue to sprout in the districts adjacent to the capital casting hazardous impacts on the environment...

Two more Bangladeshis in Singapore infected with coronavirus

Two more Bangladeshis in Singapore infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-02-13 20:30:23

Another two Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore have been infected with coronavirus, bringing the number of patients from the South Asian nation in the island state to four. The two new Banglade...

312 Wuhan-returnees to return home Saturday

312 Wuhan-returnees to return home Saturday

-- 2020-02-13 20:23:18

Health Minister Zahid Malik on Thursday said 312 Bangladeshi nationals who returned from China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus, will return home after a 14-day of quarantine on Saturday....

Saudi deports another 183 BD workers

Saudi deports another 183 BD workers

-- 2020-02-13 18:31:09

Another 183 Bangladeshi workers, including 20 women, were deported to the country by Saudi Arabia on Thursday. A Saudi Airlines flight carrying 89 workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Air...

Fire fighters put out fire at DR Tower in Paltan

Fire fighters put out fire at DR Tower in Paltan

-- 2020-02-13 18:10:17

Fire fighters have put out a fire that erupted in a multi-storey building in the city’s Paltan area. The fire broke out at an office on the 11th floor of DR Tower in Paltan's Box Culvert Road a...

SM Rezaul Karim moved to fisheries ministry in cabinet shuffle

SM Rezaul Karim moved to fisheries ministry in cabinet shuffle

-- 2020-02-13 17:41:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reshuffled her cabinet a year after forming government for a third consecutive term. As part of the shake-up, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim has be...

Fire breaks out at DR Tower in Paltan

Fire breaks out at DR Tower in Paltan

-- 2020-02-13 17:02:42

A multi-storey building in Dhaka's Paltan has caught fire. The fire broke out at the 17-storey DR Tower in Paltan's Box Culvert Road around 2:50pm on Thursday, according to the fire service, reports...

Court summons Shajahan Khan over defamation suit

Court summons Shajahan Khan over defamation suit

-- 2020-02-13 15:00:59

A Dhaka court has summoned former shipping minister Shajahan Khan in a defamation case filed by Nirapad Sarak Chai founder Ilias Kanchan. Joint District and Sessions Judge Utpal Bhattyacharya passed...

Dhaka airport cleaner held with 32 gold bars

Dhaka airport cleaner held with 32 gold bars

-- 2020-02-13 14:26:41

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a cleaning staffer with 32 gold bars weighing 3.7kg from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Janathon Mukti B...

Barrister Sumon resigns as ICT prosecutor

Barrister Sumon resigns as ICT prosecutor

-- 2020-02-13 13:39:02

Barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Sumon has decided to step down as prosecutor in the International Crimes Tribunal after eight years in order to fulfil his increased commitments to social causes. He tend...

Defeat evil forces to ensure public security: PM to Ansar-VDP

Defeat evil forces to ensure public security: PM to Ansar-VDP

-- 2020-02-13 13:18:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) to work with honesty, courage and integrity to defeat evil forces to ensure public security. &ld...

25 CU students injured in Hathazari road crash

25 CU students injured in Hathazari road crash

-- 2020-02-13 12:12:35

At least 25 Chittagong University (CU) students were injured after a bus carrying them fell into a roadside ditch at Maniapukur in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram on Thursday morning. The accident to...

Onion farming  up in Rangpur

Onion farming up in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2020-02-13 00:54:45

RANGPUR, Feb 12: The farming of onion has increased significantly in Rangpur agriculture region during this current season. According to sources unlike many other crops soaring price of onion as well...

Coriander cultivation  raises hope among  Magura growers

Coriander cultivation raises hope among Magura growers

Our Correspondent 2020-02-13 00:53:51

MAGURA, Feb 12: Coriander cultivation is gaining popularity among the cultivators of the district. Sources said, Magura farmers are showing high interest in coriander production for low cost, fair...

Another Bangladeshi in Singapore infected with coronavirus

Another Bangladeshi in Singapore infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-02-12 21:13:31

Another Bangladeshi has been tested positive for coronavirus in Singapore on Tuesday, Bangladesh High Commissioner Md Mustafizur Rahman told UNB on Wednesday. The patient is currently undergoing trea...

Unified admission test in public universities from this year: UGC

Unified admission test in public universities from this year: UGC

FE Online Report 2020-02-12 19:09:04

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to introduce a uniform entrance test for admission to all public universities in the country from the next (2020-21) academic session. The UGC took...

No unfit vehicles can run on roads: HC

No unfit vehicles can run on roads: HC

-- 2020-02-12 19:01:07

The High Court (HC) on Wednesday said that vehicles without updated fitness certificates cannot run on the roads. The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam gave the or...

Ilias Kanchan sues Shajahan Khan

Ilias Kanchan sues Shajahan Khan

-- 2020-02-12 18:23:22

Nirapad Sarak Chai Chairperson Iliyas Kanchan has filed a defamation suit against former Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan demanding Tk 1 billion in compensation. Ilias filed the case with the court o...

Child's death in abandoned well: HC acquits four

Child's death in abandoned well: HC acquits four

-- 2020-02-12 18:12:55

The High Court has acquitted four people over the death of 4-year-old Jihad, who fell into an unsealed deep tube-well for Bangladesh Railway project in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur in 2014. Justice Md Ruhul...

We demand Khaleda's release to save her life: Fakhrul

We demand Khaleda's release to save her life: Fakhrul

-- 2020-02-12 17:42:13

BNP's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said at this moment their main goal is to save BNP chief Khaleda Zia's life. “We want to free her and save her life and then bring her be...

Business leader Mohiuddun seeks AL ticket for Dhaka-10 by polls

Business leader Mohiuddun seeks AL ticket for Dhaka-10 by polls

-- 2020-02-12 17:40:02

Business leader Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin is seeking to run with the Awami League ticket for Dhaka-10 in the by-election to the parliamentary seat vacated by mayor-elect Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. The r...

Govt to form body for rawhide management during Eid-ul-Azha

Govt to form body for rawhide management during Eid-ul-Azha

-- 2020-02-12 16:59:02

The government will form a high-level committee for proper management of rawhides of sacrificial animals during the Eid-ul-Azha. The decision was taken on Wednesday at the first meeting of the &lsquo...

Two more dengue patients hospitalised

Two more dengue patients hospitalised

-- 2020-02-12 16:54:41

Two new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to the daily update from DGHS, seven dengue...

Why Baul singer Shariat won’t be granted bail: HC

Why Baul singer Shariat won’t be granted bail: HC

-- 2020-02-12 15:25:45

The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule asking to know from authorities concerned as to why Baul singer Shariat Sarkar will not get bail. The HC bench of Justice Md Emdadul Huq and Justice Md Akram...

Govt to light up every house by ‘Mujib Borsho’: PM

Govt to light up every house by ‘Mujib Borsho’: PM

-- 2020-02-12 14:21:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government will light up every house across the country within the ‘Mujib Borsho’ (Mujib Year) by bringing all people under the electricity covera...

Case filed against 19 over trawler capsize

Case filed against 19 over trawler capsize

-- 2020-02-12 14:16:53

A case has been filed against 19 people in connection with the trawler capsize near the St. Martin’s Island in the Bay of Bengal which left 15 Rohingyas dead and 52 others ‘missing’....

Stranded 17 Chinese sailors to return home tonight

Stranded 17 Chinese sailors to return home tonight

-- 2020-02-12 14:09:55

Seventeen Chinese sailors who remained stuck for three days in a ship docked at Sitakunda are set to return to their country on Wednesday night, said the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. "The 17 Chinese sai...

Bangladeshi researcher wins L’Oréal-UNESCO Award

Bangladeshi researcher wins L’Oréal-UNESCO Award

-- 2020-02-12 13:36:17

Firdausi Qadri, a Bangladeshi researcher, has been named for the 22nd L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards. The UNESCO announced the names of the five winners of the awards, with F...