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Arrest warrant against  Prothom Alo editor  and 9 others

Arrest warrant against Prothom Alo editor and 9 others

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-16 21:42:49

A Dhaka Court on Thursday issued arrest warrant against 10 persons, including Matiur Rahman -- editor and publisher of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, in a case filed in connection with the death of Na...

‘India has not approached BD to sell onions’

‘India has not approached BD to sell onions’

-- 2020-01-16 21:36:12

Amid reports that India is trying to pass unwanted imported onions on to Bangladesh, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the government has not received any such request. After India banned onion...

Saraswati Puja: Appeal filed for deferment of city polls

Saraswati Puja: Appeal filed for deferment of city polls

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-16 18:49:13

A petition has been filed with the Appellate Division on Thursday challenging a High Court (HC) order that rejected a writ filed for the deferment of the city polls on January 30 as it coincide with S...

Harassment against journalists declines sharply in 2019

Harassment against journalists declines sharply in 2019

FE Online Report 2020-01-16 18:27:19

Journalist harassment decreased drastically across the country in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to a report by an independent rights body. At least 142 journalists fell victim to hara...

US Embassy to remain closed Jan 19

US Embassy to remain closed Jan 19

-- 2020-01-16 17:43:30

US Embassy ,  Martin Luther King ,  American Center ,  Archer K Blood American Center Library ,  EducationUSA Students Advising Center The US Embassy in Dhaka, including its consu...

Three to walk gallows for murder of Gaibandha schoolboy

Three to walk gallows for murder of Gaibandha schoolboy

-- 2020-01-16 17:07:35

A Gaibandha court has handed down the death penalty to three people for the murder of a school student after his abduction in 2015. District and Sessions Judge Dilip Kumar Bhowmik announced the verdi...

SSC: Coaching centres to be shuttered for a month

SSC: Coaching centres to be shuttered for a month

-- 2020-01-16 16:07:07

The government has announced that all coaching centres across the country will be closed for a month from Jan 25, a week before the start of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams...

Dhaka City polls: DU students start hunger strike

Dhaka City polls: DU students start hunger strike

-- 2020-01-16 15:44:00

A group of Dhaka University students went on hunger strike on Thursday afternoon demanding deferment of the polls to the two Dhaka city corporations slated for January 30. The students gathered in fr...

No dengue patients in last 24hrs: DGHS

No dengue patients in last 24hrs: DGHS

-- 2020-01-16 15:21:55

No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Thursday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. In its regular update, the DGHS noted that currently 29 patients...

EC working independently: Quader

EC working independently: Quader

-- 2020-01-16 14:21:13

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government is not interfering with elections to the Dhaka south (DSCC) and north (DNCC) city corporations. “The Election Commissi...

Petition seeks deferment of DSCC, DNCC polls

Petition seeks deferment of DSCC, DNCC polls

-- 2020-01-16 13:42:54

A petition was filed with the Appellate Division on Thursday challenging a High Court Division order that turned down a plea to defer elections to the two Dhaka city corporations slated for January 30...

RMG workers block road in Shyamoli for two hours

RMG workers block road in Shyamoli for two hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-01-16 13:19:49

Some 150 to 200 workers of a ready-made garment (RMG) factory in the city's Shyamoli blocked Mirpur Road for around two hours demanding salary hike. They staged a sit-in on the busy road stretching f...

Flight operations resume at Dhaka airport

Flight operations resume at Dhaka airport

-- 2020-01-16 12:26:21

Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka city resumed on Thursday morning after seven hours of suspension due to dense fog. Beni Madhab Biswas, deputy director of the airp...

M’singh-Ctg train services resume after 8hrs

M’singh-Ctg train services resume after 8hrs

-- 2020-01-16 11:28:23

Rail communications on the Mymensingh-Chattogram route resumed on Thursday after an eight-hour suspension following the derailment of three coaches at Gouripur Rail Station on Wednesday night. Moshar...

Custom officials seize 24 gold bars at HSIA

Custom officials seize 24 gold bars at HSIA

-- 2020-01-16 11:22:09

Custom officials seized 24 gold bars from a flight at Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Wednesday. Dr md Shohidul Islam, director general of Customs Intelligence and Investig...

Rice imports so far are lowest in two decades

Rice imports so far are lowest in two decades

Yasir Wardad 2020-01-16 10:42:13

The country's rice import declined to a two-decade low in the current fiscal year (FY '20) thanks to persisting higher import duties and bumper local production, insiders have said. But such low impo...

Farmers in Bogura cultivating  Boro with fear of loss

Farmers in Bogura cultivating Boro with fear of loss

ROVING CORRESPONDENTS 2020-01-16 00:40:39

BOGURA, Jan 15: Farmers of Bogura district have started cultivating Boro paddy this season with fear of further loss after getting unfair price of Aman paddy. The farmers had to sell Aman paddy at...

Govt implements 'zero discharge policy' to check industrial pollution

Govt implements 'zero discharge policy' to check industrial pollution

BSS 2020-01-15 20:28:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is implementing the 'zero discharge policy' in the industrial sector to check industrial pollution and protect the country’s environment. &l...

BNP mayor candidate Ishraque to stand trial in corruption case

BNP mayor candidate Ishraque to stand trial in corruption case

bdnews24.com 2020-01-15 18:45:36

A court is going to try Ishraque Hossain, the BNP candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation mayor, on charges of concealing wealth information. The court set a date to begin testimony of witnesses a...

Tk 80m seized from Chattogram cooperative

Tk 80m seized from Chattogram cooperative

-- 2020-01-15 18:32:15

A team of Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained three officials of Rupsha King Group, a multipurpose company, and confiscated Tk 84.2 million from its office on accusat...

No expulsion in PEC exams

No expulsion in PEC exams

-- 2020-01-15 17:48:13

The government informed the High Court on Wednesday that no children will be expelled during the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examinations from now on. Director General of Directorate of Primar...

Wheels of int'l justice finally turning for Rohingyas: HRW

Wheels of int'l justice finally turning for Rohingyas: HRW

-- 2020-01-15 17:13:42

The wheels of international justice are finally turning as  two international courts are now examining whether Myanmar committed genocide and who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity,...

City polls deferment: Cops foil DU students’ bid to march towards EC

City polls deferment: Cops foil DU students’ bid to march towards EC

-- 2020-01-15 15:47:02

Police obstructed a group of Dhaka University students on Wednesday afternoon when they tried to march towards the Election Commission demanding deferment of the polls to the two Dhaka city corporatio...

6,071 affected by cold-related diseases in 24hr

6,071 affected by cold-related diseases in 24hr

-- 2020-01-15 15:13:11

Various cold-related diseases affected 6,071 people across the country in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room showed tha...

37 dengue patients receiving treatment at hospitals

37 dengue patients receiving treatment at hospitals

-- 2020-01-15 14:51:08

Thirty-seven dengue patients, including 33 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals across the country. Four new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Wednesday...

Rabab Fatima elected president of UNICEF Executive Board

Rabab Fatima elected president of UNICEF Executive Board

-- 2020-01-15 14:10:36

Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative (PR) to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected president of the UNICEF Executive Board at elections held Tuesday at the U...

Bangladesh-Malaysia zero-cost recruitment deal soon

Bangladesh-Malaysia zero-cost recruitment deal soon

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-01-15 13:39:54

A Malaysian minister has said that Malaysia and Bangladesh are 'very close' to finalise a zero-cost recruitment deal that will facilitate the hiring of Bangladeshi workers into Malaysia soon. "Almost...

Two Rohingya ‘drug dealers’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

Two Rohingya ‘drug dealers’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

-- 2020-01-15 13:37:29

Two Rohingya men, suspected of being drug dealers, were killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive road early Wednesday. The deceased...

Bus, ambulance collide head-on in Rangpur, killing three

Bus, ambulance collide head-on in Rangpur, killing three

-- 2020-01-15 12:25:01

Three people were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a bus at Bachurbanda area of Taragonj upazila under RAngpur district on Wednesday. The deceased were id...

The Body Shop launches its second store in Bangladesh

The Body Shop launches its second store in Bangladesh

FE Online Desk 2020-01-15 11:29:45

Celebrating its second year of operations in Bangladesh, The Body Shop, the original, British-born, ethical cosmetics brand, has extended its retail footmark in the country by opening the second outle...