Loading...

Search results for: national

Road crash kills three in Chattogram

Road crash kills three in Chattogram

-- 2020-02-05 10:24:33

Three people were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Bashbaria in Sitakunda upazila early Wednesday. The identities of the deceased could no...

No coronavirus test for Indian truck drivers at Benapole

No coronavirus test for Indian truck drivers at Benapole

Our Correspondent 2020-02-05 00:33:00

BENAPOLE: Indian truck drivers and helpers are entering Bangladesh through Benapole Land Port, along with imported goods, without coronavirus test. Sources said, only travellers from India are being...

Rajshahi entrepreneurs demand hassle-free banking facilities

Rajshahi entrepreneurs demand hassle-free banking facilities

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-02-05 00:31:44

RAJSHAHI, Feb 04: Entrepreneurs in Rajshahi have demanded hassle-free banking facilities for smooth operation of their business. While expressing their opinions at a workshop organised on National Pr...

Bangladesh has 1.5m cancer patients, 0.15m die each year

Bangladesh has 1.5m cancer patients, 0.15m die each year

UNB 2020-02-04 20:57:58

There are around 1.5 million cancer patients in the country with 150,000 of them dying each year, said an expert on Tuesday. Prof Dr Sabera Khatun, former chair of Gynae Oncology Department of Bangab...

Four held over leaking fake SSC question papers

Four held over leaking fake SSC question papers

-- 2020-02-04 19:24:02

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested four persons for leaking fake question papers of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) from the city’s Pallabi area and Savar, outskirts of the...

BSS MD gets two-year extension

BSS MD gets two-year extension

-- 2020-02-04 18:33:08

The government on Tuesday reappointed Abul Kalam Azad as the Managing Director and Chief Editor of state-run national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) for two more years with the status o...

Fitness certificate to be renewed every two years

Fitness certificate to be renewed every two years

-- 2020-02-04 17:20:32

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has introduced a system allowing people to renew fitness certificates for vehicles, including cars and microbuses, every two years, reports bdnews24.com.  A c...

HC directs UGC to monitor PhD programmes

HC directs UGC to monitor PhD programmes

-- 2020-02-04 16:54:32

The High Court has directed the University Grants Commission to monitor the process of conferring PhDs in universities and report back in three months, reports bdnews24.com. It also issued a rule ask...

Another Wuhan-returnee shifted to Kurmitola Hospital

Another Wuhan-returnee shifted to Kurmitola Hospital

-- 2020-02-04 15:36:11

Another Bangladeshi national who was kept at the quarantine unit at Ashkona hajj camp after return from China’s Wuhan was shifted to Kurmitola General Hospital on Monday with complaints of heada...

Voter apathy not good for democracy: Quader

Voter apathy not good for democracy: Quader

-- 2020-02-04 15:19:53

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the apathy that the voters has showed towards the recently held Dhaka city elections is not good for Bangladesh democracy. The minis...

223 drug offenders convicted in Jan-Jun 2019

223 drug offenders convicted in Jan-Jun 2019

FE Online Report 2020-02-04 15:08:00

Some 37 per cent drug offenders were convicted in January-June period of 2019, according to a report of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC). Of the 605 accused, 382 were acquitted while 223 w...

Cold-related diseases affect 4,388 people in 24 hrs

Cold-related diseases affect 4,388 people in 24 hrs

-- 2020-02-04 15:05:41

Various cold-related diseases affected 4,388 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Tuesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room s...

Expatriate youth killed in Laxmipur road crash

Expatriate youth killed in Laxmipur road crash

-- 2020-02-04 11:19:54

An expatriate youth was killed after a truck collided with a motorcycle in Mohadevpur area at Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Md Sohel, 30, son of Noor Nabi of...

PM flies to Italy on four-day visit

PM flies to Italy on four-day visit

-- 2020-02-04 10:19:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Rome on Tuesday morning on a four-day bilateral visit to hold talks with her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines...

Spinach growers happy with fair market price

Spinach growers happy with fair market price

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2020-02-04 00:35:36

JOYPURHAT, Feb 03: Spinach growers in the district are happy over the bumper output and fair market price of the produce. Sources said, spinach farming is popular among the growers in the winter. Man...

BD expats in Canada demand actions against money launderers

BD expats in Canada demand actions against money launderers

FE Online Report 2020-02-03 20:46:23

Bangladeshi people in Toronto have urged Canadian government to take stern actions against money launderers who migrated to Canada. They said Bangladeshi media has identified some people who left the...

DITF extended by two more days

DITF extended by two more days

-- 2020-02-03 20:17:16

Organisers have extended the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) by two days at the request of businessmen for a longer run. It will now run until February 6,  Abdur Rauf, the member secretary...

IIMCAA, B seeks submissions for media award 

IIMCAA, B seeks submissions for media award 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-02-03 19:42:55

Indian Institute of Mass Communication Alumni Association  (IIMCAA,B) has invited submissions for IIMCAA,B Media Award 2020. This year, awards will be given for the best report/feature/analysis,...

BB allows travellers to bring in $10,000 without declaration

BB allows travellers to bring in $10,000 without declaration

-- 2020-02-03 19:32:57

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has doubled the limit on foreign currency that travellers can bring into the country without declaration to the customs authority to $10,000 or its equivalent. The central bank a...

‘171 more Bangladeshis to be brought back from China’

‘171 more Bangladeshis to be brought back from China’

-- 2020-02-03 17:54:29

The government will bring back 171 more Bangladeshis upon clearance from the Chinese authorities, said Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam. “Another 171 Bangladeshis want to return home....

HSC examinee, two others killed in Bogura road crashes

HSC examinee, two others killed in Bogura road crashes

-- 2020-02-03 17:35:47

Three people, including a Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinee, were killed in separate road crashes in Shibganj and Shahjahanpur upazilas of Bogura on Monday. Two people were killed when a Pa...

DITF at Purbachal from next year

DITF at Purbachal from next year

FE Online Report 2020-02-03 17:14:49

The Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) will be held at its permanent ground in Purbachal from next year. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi made disclosed it at the concluding ceremony of the 25th DITF...

Minor’s body retrieved from city canal

Minor’s body retrieved from city canal

-- 2020-02-03 17:10:39

The body of a minor boy, who fell into a canal in Kadamtola area on Sunday afternoon, was retrieved on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Asadul, 5. Ershad Hossain, duty officer of Fire...

Dhaka air quality 6th worst: AQI

Dhaka air quality 6th worst: AQI

UNB 2020-02-03 16:50:47

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked sixth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning. It had an AQI score of 185 at 08:06am. The air was classified as ‘unhealthy’. When t...

No coronavirus found in samples of eight returnees: IEDCR

No coronavirus found in samples of eight returnees: IEDCR

FE Online Report 2020-02-03 15:45:28

No coronavirus was found in the samples of eight persons who were admitted in Kurmitola General Hospital and Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on February 01 after returning from Wuhan in China. Of th...

Form policy to restrict gender detection of unborn babies: HC

Form policy to restrict gender detection of unborn babies: HC

-- 2020-02-03 14:47:18

The High Court on Monday issued a rule seeking the formation of a policy to restrict the gender detection of unborn babies. The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman issu...

Crude bomb explodes near Madhu’s Canteen at DU

Crude bomb explodes near Madhu’s Canteen at DU

-- 2020-02-03 13:41:25

A crude bomb exploded on the Dhaka University campus. The bomb went off on a street near Madhu’s Canteen at 10:45am on Monday, a witness told bdnews24.com. “Two policemen in plainclothes...

Minor’s body recovered from city canal

Minor’s body recovered from city canal

-- 2020-02-03 13:15:48

The body of a minor boy, who fell into a canal in Kadamtola area on Sunday afternoon, was retrieved on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Asadul, 5. Ershad Hossain, duty officer of Fire...

Fire destroys 100 shanties in Chattogram

Fire destroys 100 shanties in Chattogram

-- 2020-02-03 13:11:20

A fire has burnt down more than 100 illegally built shanties in Chattogram’s West Madarbari area. The incident occurred in railway’s land at around 5:00am on Monday, said Azizul Islam, Ch...

Rohingya: ICC team visiting Bangladesh

Rohingya: ICC team visiting Bangladesh

-- 2020-02-03 11:26:06

A delegation from the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is now visiting Bangladesh. In November 2019, the ICC judges authorised the request by ICC prosecutor Fatou Be...