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PM inaugurates Sheikh Kamal IT Incubator and Training Centre

PM inaugurates Sheikh Kamal IT Incubator and Training Centre

-- 2020-02-12 12:09:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the Sheikh Kamal IT Incubator and Training Centre constructed at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-tech Park in Rajshahi. Through videoconferencing fro...

Man surrenders after ‘killing’ brother in Natore

Man surrenders after ‘killing’ brother in Natore

-- 2020-02-12 11:51:39

A man surrendered to police on Tuesday night reportedly after killing his elder brother in Natore Sadar upazila. The accused is Shahjahan Ali, 40, while the deceased was identified as Omar Faruque, 4...

Two die, three injured in Rajshahi road crash

Two die, three injured in Rajshahi road crash

-- 2020-02-12 11:14:36

Two people were killed and three others injured as a pickup crashed into a stationary truck at Razabari intersection in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi district on Wednesday. One of the deceased was ide...

Apparel workers block road at Mohakhali protesting job cuts

Apparel workers block road at Mohakhali protesting job cuts

FE Online Report 2020-02-12 11:06:50

Several hundreds of workers of an export oriented apparel factory in the city took to the streets on Wednesday protesting mass termination of their fellow workers. Demanding payment of their dues and...

Singapore confirms second Bangladeshi coronavirus patient

Singapore confirms second Bangladeshi coronavirus patient

-- 2020-02-12 10:56:21

Singapore has confirmed another Bangladeshi coronavirus case among a total of 47 patients. The 39-year-old had worked at Seletar Aerospace Heights, the same location where another Bangladeshi was fou...

Taro growing in dry part of Faridpur’s Mandartala canal

Taro growing in dry part of Faridpur’s Mandartala canal

A CORRESPONDENT 2020-02-11 21:41:45

FARIDPUR, Feb 11: The source of the Mandartala canal originating from the Padma river has dried up for about one kilometre. Then, local farmers have started farming taro in the area. Standing on the...

Violation of building code  rampant in Rajshahi

Violation of building code rampant in Rajshahi

Our Correspondent 2020-02-11 21:40:25

RAJSHAHI, Feb 11: Even after receiving hundreds of complaints every month, Rajshahi Development Authority (RDA) authorities remained unresponsive to take action against the constructions being underta...

Public universities to start combined admission tests this year

Public universities to start combined admission tests this year

-- 2020-02-11 20:18:52

The public universities of the country will admit students through combined admission tests from this year. The Bangladesh University Council, a body of the vice-chancellors, announced the decision t...

All senior citizens to get old-age allowance by 2025

All senior citizens to get old-age allowance by 2025

UNB 2020-02-11 19:52:28

The government has a plan to bring the country’s all senior citizens under old-age allowance in phases by 2025. Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed gave the information while replying to a...

Govt promotes two officials to secretaries

Govt promotes two officials to secretaries

-- 2020-02-11 19:45:41

The government has appointed Md Aminul Islam Khan, additional secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, as secretary to the Liberation War Affairs Ministry. In addition, Fatima Yasmin, v...

Family demands Khaleda's release on humanitarian grounds

Family demands Khaleda's release on humanitarian grounds

-- 2020-02-11 19:02:10

The family members of detained BNP chief Khaleda Zia have urged the government to release her on humanitarian grounds for her advanced medical treatment. After visiting her at the BSMMU hospital in D...

Bangladesh won’t evacuate more from China

Bangladesh won’t evacuate more from China

-- 2020-02-11 18:40:58

The government will not arrange the return of more Bangladeshi nationals from China amid the coronavirus outbreak that claimed more than 1,000 lives, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said. The governm...

Women empowerment visible in Rangpur region

Women empowerment visible in Rangpur region

-- 2020-02-11 16:49:11

More than 100,000 rural women have empowered them visibly by achieving self-reliance through their hard endeavours in remote areas of Rangpur region. According to officials and development exerts, ru...

‘Drug peddler killed in Naogaon ‘gunfight’

‘Drug peddler killed in Naogaon ‘gunfight’

-- 2020-02-11 16:36:16

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with DB police at Bankapur in Manda upazila of Naogaon early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Aurangajeb alias Jebu, 50 son of Nabirud...

1.0m schoolchildren to receive online safety certification by next year

1.0m schoolchildren to receive online safety certification by next year

FE Online Report 2020-02-11 16:30:18

Leading towards a world record, one million schoolchildren across Bangladesh are expected to receive an online safety certification within the next year, making their online experience safer. The ICT...

ECNEC clears nine projects worth Tk 24.22 billion

ECNEC clears nine projects worth Tk 24.22 billion

-- 2020-02-11 15:36:29

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved nine projects involving Tk 24.22 billion (2422.27 crore). The approval came from the weekly ECNEC meeting held at...

3.6km of Padma Bridge now visible after installation of 24th span

3.6km of Padma Bridge now visible after installation of 24th span

-- 2020-02-11 15:30:49

About 3,600 metres of the much-hyped Padma Bridge became visible after the installation of the 24th span on Tuesday. The 5-F span was installed on pillar no 30 and 31 of the bridge around 1:20 pm in...

College student dies in Jashore road crash

College student dies in Jashore road crash

-- 2020-02-11 14:24:45

A college student was killed when his motorbike hit a stationary truck in Churamonkathi patrol pump area of Sadar upazila of Jashore district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Jihad Hos...

Fire-fighters recover body of labourer in Sherpur

Fire-fighters recover body of labourer in Sherpur

-- 2020-02-11 14:21:18

Fire service members retrieved the body of a labourer from Doshani River in Jangaldi village in Sadar upazila of Sherpur district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Sultan Ahmed, 45, son...

BNP leader Gayeshwar hospitalised with ‘throat problems’

BNP leader Gayeshwar hospitalised with ‘throat problems’

-- 2020-02-11 14:03:15

BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has been hospitalised with ‘throat problems’. “He is struggling to speak and so he checked himself into Dhanmondi’s Anwer K...

Two pedestrians die in Sherpur road crash

Two pedestrians die in Sherpur road crash

-- 2020-02-11 13:09:05

Two pedestrians were crushed under the wheels of a microbus on Sherpur-Mymenshingh highway in Shimultali area of Sadar upazila of Sherpur district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Jafar Mi...

Sensitive groups may experience serious health effects in Dhaka's air: AQI

Sensitive groups may experience serious health effects in Dhaka's air: AQI

-- 2020-02-11 11:32:04

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked the sixth among cities with the worst air quality on Tuesday morning for the second consecutive day. It had a score of 197 at 08:09am in the Air Quality Index...

15 Rohingyas die as Malaysia-bound trawler sinks in Bay

15 Rohingyas die as Malaysia-bound trawler sinks in Bay

-- 2020-02-11 10:57:36

At least 15 Rohingya people -- 12 women and three children -- have died while going to Malaysia illegally as a trawler carrying them aboard sank near the Saint Martin’s island in the Bay of Beng...

FBCCI seeks members' opinions by Feb 12

FBCCI seeks members' opinions by Feb 12

FE REPORT 2020-02-11 10:57:14

The apex trade-body, FBCCI, has sought opinions from its member associations regarding the possible impact of Coronavirus outbreak on the country's trade and economy, officials said. "We have asked...

New rules to police pvt chopper service

New rules to police pvt chopper service

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-02-11 10:49:53

The government has started framing a series of policies to regulate the country's booming private helicopter services, officials say. The proposed policies and guidelines aim to bring the private h...

Khulna bears the brunt  as import, export hit

Khulna bears the brunt as import, export hit

Our Correspondent 2020-02-11 00:38:59

KHULNA, Feb 10: The outbreak of coronavirus in China has disrupted trade and supply chains, and the traders and markets in Khulna are already feeling the brunt. Traders claim that a sharp decline in...

17 Chinese sailors stuck in ship for three days in Sitakunda

17 Chinese sailors stuck in ship for three days in Sitakunda

UNB 2020-02-10 20:33:42

17 Chinese sailors remained stuck for three days in a ship docked at Sitakunda coast for scrapping. The 9,000-mt Uni Harvest cargo ship of Japan sailed from China’s Weifang Port for Chattogram...

Incidents of building collapses killed 26 in 2019: Official data

Incidents of building collapses killed 26 in 2019: Official data

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-02-10 19:29:54

At least 26 people were killed in building collapse in 66 incidents across the country in 2019, showed official data. The firefighters also rescued 119 victims from different places in those incident...

All narcotic related cases to be held in courts

All narcotic related cases to be held in courts

-- 2020-02-10 18:35:52

The government on Monday decided to hold trials of all drug related cases in the competent courts instead of tribunals. To this end, the government approved in principle a draft of the “Narcoti...

China returnee to be transferred to Dhaka from Rangpur

China returnee to be transferred to Dhaka from Rangpur

-- 2020-02-10 17:15:17

A China returnee, who was admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital, is being referred to Dhaka, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR). Director of IEDCR...