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UN lauds BD’s decision to expand education for Rohingya children

UN lauds BD’s decision to expand education for Rohingya children

-- 2020-01-29 14:01:17

The United Nations and humanitarian community have welcomed Bangladesh’s decision to expand access of education for Rohingya children and adolescents living in Cox’s Bazar camps. “W...

PM asks dev nations to contribute more to tackle climate change

PM asks dev nations to contribute more to tackle climate change

-- 2020-01-29 14:00:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the developed countries and development partners to come forward further to help the climate change vulnerable countries in a proper way, not to utter the volley...

Three die in Dinajpur road crash

Three die in Dinajpur road crash

-- 2020-01-29 13:39:31

Three people were killed when a motorbike crashed into a vehicle carrying a dredger machine on Birampur-Nawabganj road at Jolagari in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur district on Tuesday night. The decea...

Plastic lamination waste piles up

Plastic lamination waste piles up

FE REPORT 2020-01-29 13:39:06

Over 10,000 tonnes of plastic lamination waste are generated in Dhaka every year from different sources, causing various health and environmental hazards. Most of such waste cannot be recycled and th...

Over 10,000 tonnes of laminated plastic waste generated in Dhaka: Study

Over 10,000 tonnes of laminated plastic waste generated in Dhaka: Study

-- 2020-01-28 22:09:00

Over 10,000 tonnes of laminated plastic waste is generated in Dhaka every year from various sources, causing several health and environmental hazards. Most of such laminated waste cannot be recycled,...

Illegal easy bikes, battery-run rickshaws to face action

Illegal easy bikes, battery-run rickshaws to face action

BSS 2020-01-28 20:37:18

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government is taking action to stop unregistered easy bikes and battery-powered rickshaws plying on the street across the country. &ldq...

Dacoits on the prowl in Kalia

Dacoits on the prowl in Kalia

FE Online Report 2020-01-28 20:08:44

The incidents of dacoity have allegedly risen in different areas of Kalia Upazila under Narail district recently. Panic gripped the people of the areas, especially Baka of Salamabad Union Parisad, as...

Bangladesh to use its fossil fuel for own development: PM

Bangladesh to use its fossil fuel for own development: PM

UNB 2020-01-28 19:59:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday reiterated her firm stance to use Bangladesh’s fossil fuel for its own economic development and the wellbeing of people.  “Whatever gas we hav...

Eight to walk gallows for killing Luxmipur schoolgirl

Eight to walk gallows for killing Luxmipur schoolgirl

-- 2020-01-28 19:58:20

The High Court has confirmed the death sentence of eight convicts in the 2012 rape and murder of a schoolgirl in Laxmipur, reports bdnews24.com.  It has also commuted the death sentence of two o...

Three students die as train hits motorbike in Gopalganj

Three students die as train hits motorbike in Gopalganj

-- 2020-01-28 19:28:04

A train has ploughed into four students on a motorbike, leaving three of them dead and the other “critically injured” at the level crossing in Kashiani Upazila of Gopalganj. The accident...

DITF extended till Feb 4

DITF extended till Feb 4

-- 2020-01-28 18:41:03

Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) has been extended by three more days till February 4. Abdur Rauf, the member secretary of the fair’s organising committee, confirmed the decision to bdnews...

ECNEC approves project to support upgradation of Hatirjheel-Demra highway

ECNEC approves project to support upgradation of Hatirjheel-Demra highway

BSS 2020-01-28 18:05:05

The government has initiated a project to upgrade the Hatirjheel-Rampura Bridge-Banasri-Shekherjaiga-Amulia-Demra highway into four lane one. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council...

Gold ornaments worth Tk 6.6m seized in Chuadanga

Gold ornaments worth Tk 6.6m seized in Chuadanga

-- 2020-01-28 17:48:07

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized gold ornaments worth about Tk 6.6 million (Tk 66.28 lakh) from frontier area Singnagar Haldapara under Jibannagar upazila of Chuadangaon Mond...

Int'l trade fair to remain closed Friday

Int'l trade fair to remain closed Friday

-- 2020-01-28 17:30:36

The Dhaka International Trade Fair will remain closed on Friday, a day before the city polls, according to a decision by the Election Commission, reports bdnews24.com. Dhaka residents will head to po...

No coronavirus case in Bangladesh: Minister

No coronavirus case in Bangladesh: Minister

-- 2020-01-28 17:10:18

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said there is nothing to worry about coronavirus as no such patient has been detected in Bangladesh yet. The minister said this at a press conference at the S...

GD filed for making ‘derogatory comments’ on Bangabandhu, PM

GD filed for making ‘derogatory comments’ on Bangabandhu, PM

-- 2020-01-28 15:23:57

A general diary (GD) was filed on Monday against Md Fauzal Azim, a Bangladeshi migrant living in London, by a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader for making ‘derogatory comments’ on Ban...

Six new dengue patients admitted in last 24 hrs

Six new dengue patients admitted in last 24 hrs

-- 2020-01-28 14:51:02

Six new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Tuesday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. In its regular update, the DGHS noted that 13 patients...

BNP’s Ishraq announces 13-point election manifesto

BNP’s Ishraq announces 13-point election manifesto

-- 2020-01-28 14:45:17

BNP's mayoral candidate for the upcoming Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls Engineer Ishraq Hossain on Tuesday announced his manifesto promising to work for building Dhaka as a 'world class met...

Destiny Group MD gets three years’ jail

Destiny Group MD gets three years’ jail

-- 2020-01-28 14:43:42

A Dhaka court has sentenced Destiny Group MD Rafiqul Amin to three years in jail for failing to submit a wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission. The court also fined him Tk 5.0 million in...

EU expects Myanmar to comply with ICJ order

EU expects Myanmar to comply with ICJ order

-- 2020-01-28 13:57:00

The European Union (EU) Ambassador and EU Member States' Ambassadors and Heads of Mission resident in Myanmar have said they expect the government of Myanmar to fully comply with the ICJ order in the...

Five of a family die in Moulvibazar fire

Five of a family die in Moulvibazar fire

-- 2020-01-28 13:45:11

Five members of a family were burned to death and two others suffered burn injuries in a fire at a house on the Central Road  in Moulvibazar district town on Tuesday. The identities of the decea...

Govt plans to revamp facilities in Sundarbans to boost tourism

Govt plans to revamp facilities in Sundarbans to boost tourism

-- 2020-01-28 12:32:49

The government is planning to renovate seven eco-parks and build four new ones in the Sundarbans, aiming to boost tourism in the world's largest mangrove forest. It also has plans to procure high-spe...

BDF meet begins in city Wednesday

BDF meet begins in city Wednesday

FE REPORT 2020-01-28 11:57:57

Bangladesh's key donors sit with top policymakers and officials tomorrow (Wednesday) in Dhaka to get an update on the country's development plans and programmes. The two-day parley, known as the Bang...

Road crashes kill four in two districts

Road crashes kill four in two districts

-- 2020-01-28 11:11:22

Four people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in Moulvibazar and Habiganj districts on Tuesday. In Moulvibazar, two people were killed and four others injured in a collision betwe...

Tabith can participate in election: HC

Tabith can participate in election: HC

-- 2020-01-27 20:52:32

The High Court (HC) Monday turned down a petition seeking cancellation of BNP's mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Tabith Awal’s nomination in the upcoming city polls. Th...

PM calls for vigilance as coronavirus fears intensify

PM calls for vigilance as coronavirus fears intensify

-- 2020-01-27 20:40:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered government officials to stay fully alert to the threat of coronavirus in a bid to prevent it from spreading to Bangladesh. She gave the directive at a cabinet...

Daycare centres to face Tk 1.0m fine for lacking security

Daycare centres to face Tk 1.0m fine for lacking security

-- 2020-01-27 18:42:43

Daycare centres for children in Bangladesh will have to pay as much as Tk 1.0 million in fine for failure to provide desired security to the children. The cabinet approved in principle a draft of &ls...

HC suggests 9-point guidelines for organ donation

HC suggests 9-point guidelines for organ donation

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-27 18:06:31

The High Court in a full text of a judgement suggested to adopt the 9-point guidelines of the ‘Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Rules, 2014 of India’ and directed the government...

   ‘999’ call saves Chattogram girl from rape

  ‘999’ call saves Chattogram girl from rape

-- 2020-01-27 16:57:35

A girl was saved from rape attempt in Chattogram after she called national emergency service 999 to seek help from police on early Monday. The victim called at 2:56am and said that she had been hel...

BD, Japan sign deal to improve access to safe water

BD, Japan sign deal to improve access to safe water

-- 2020-01-27 16:50:57

Bangladesh and Japan on Monday signed an agreement on grant aid to help the Bangladesh government with a drilling rig for deep wells and related equipment to improve access to safe drinking water. Th...