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60 dengue patients being treated at hospitals across country

60 dengue patients being treated at hospitals across country

-- 2019-12-30 15:23:31

Sixty people, including 47 in the capital city, are being treated at hospitals across the country for dengue. Ten dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday. Seven...

No rooftop parties or public gatherings on New Year's Eve: DMP

No rooftop parties or public gatherings on New Year's Eve: DMP

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-30 14:38:32

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have said they will not allow any public gatherings near roads, flyovers, open spaces or rooftops in efforts to tighten security centring on the New Year's Eve celebrat...

Ex-foreign secretary Muazzem Ali passes away

Ex-foreign secretary Muazzem Ali passes away

-- 2019-12-30 14:16:59

Former Bangladesh foreign secretary and immediate-past High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali passed away on Monday at the Combined Military Hospital in the capital. He breathed his last around...

Women migrant workers' children fail to attend classes regularly

Women migrant workers' children fail to attend classes regularly

FE REPORT 2019-12-30 13:42:04

Children left behind by Bangladeshi women migrant workers in underprivileged areas fail to go to schools regularly due to different factors including their engagement in economic and households activi...

Crude bombs explode near Madhu's Canteen; one injured

Crude bombs explode near Madhu's Canteen; one injured

-- 2019-12-30 13:39:38

A man has been wounded after two crude bombs exploded near Madhu’s Canteen in Dhaka University. The bombs were detonated in succession at 10:45am on Monday, said New Market Police Outpost SI Mo...

Fresh water ATM booth set to be launched in Chattogram

Fresh water ATM booth set to be launched in Chattogram

-- 2019-12-30 12:56:21

An ATM booth has been installed in port city’s Khulshi area from which people will be able to collect fresh water from January 1 by punching in their prepaid cards. All the mechanisms of the bo...

Asian Townscape Award-2019 handed over to PM

Asian Townscape Award-2019 handed over to PM

-- 2019-12-30 12:51:37

The Housing and Public Works Ministry handed over the Asian Townscape Awards (ATA) to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. At the beginning of the regular Cabinet meeting, Housing Minister SM Reza...

Man accused in 23 cases dies in ‘gunfight’

Man accused in 23 cases dies in ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-12-30 12:22:50

A robbery suspect has died in a gunfight with police in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali. The incident took place in Chhotodholi village of Muchapur Union at 5:00am on Monday, said Companiganj Police...

Khulna jute mills workers’ hunger strike rolls into Day 2

Khulna jute mills workers’ hunger strike rolls into Day 2

-- 2019-12-30 11:50:02

Workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore continued their fast-unto-death for the second consecutive day on Monday. They are trying to force the government to accept their 11-point...

Tentulia shivers at 5 degrees Celsius

Tentulia shivers at 5 degrees Celsius

-- 2019-12-30 11:39:11

Panchagarh’s Tentulia continued to shiver in bone-chilling cold as the area’s temperature plummeted to 5 degrees Celsius on Monday morning. “It was recorded at 9:00am,” Md Ras...

JSC, JDC, PEC, Ebtedayee results Tuesday

JSC, JDC, PEC, Ebtedayee results Tuesday

-- 2019-12-30 10:44:22

The results of Primary Education Completion (PEC), its equivalent Ebtedayee, and Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations are scheduled to be published on Tuesd...

Dhaka-Mawa expressway: Quader seeks double the allocated funds

Dhaka-Mawa expressway: Quader seeks double the allocated funds

MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-12-30 10:27:09

More than double this year's allocated funds have been sought for a single project in the middle of this fiscal to open the country's first expressway on Mujib Year. Road transport and bridges mini...

Overseas jobs to fall by 10pc this year

Overseas jobs to fall by 10pc this year

FE REPORT 2019-12-30 10:09:48

The overseas jobs for Bangladeshi workers would fall by 10 per cent at the end of 2019 compared to that of the previous year as estimated by a new study. The amount of inward remittance, however, is...

Untimely Padma erosion jolts Goalunda villagers

Untimely Padma erosion jolts Goalunda villagers

-- 2019-12-30 00:34:26

GOALUNDA, Dec 29 (UNB): An unanticipated dry-season bank erosion by the Padma River is wreaking havoc with the inhabitants of two unions here, taking away over 100 bighas of arable land in the last tw...

Construction of new floor on 22-year-old one-storey school bldg raises concern

Construction of new floor on 22-year-old one-storey school bldg raises concern

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2019-12-30 00:33:38

NAOGAON, Dec 29: Construction of a new floor on the roof of a single-storey 22-year-old Hamidpur Jigatla Multipurpose High School building under Mahadebpur upazila of the district is going apace trigg...

‘ACC received 4.0m allegations in two years’

‘ACC received 4.0m allegations in two years’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-12-29 19:27:44

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud on Sunday said the commission received around 4.0 million calls of allegations in its hotline service “106” and through other means i...

Political violence claims 38 lives in eleven months

Political violence claims 38 lives in eleven months

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-12-29 18:25:34

Some 38 people were killed and 2,457 injured in 193 incidents of political violence in the first eleven months of current calendar year, according to a local independent rights body. Out of the incid...

Army to be further modernised: PM

Army to be further modernised: PM

UNB 2019-12-29 18:19:18

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the Armed Forces of Bangladesh will be built as the most modern one equipped with ICT knowledge. "This is an ICT era. Keeping this in mind, the government...

EC prepares 30,000 EVMs for Dhaka city polls

EC prepares 30,000 EVMs for Dhaka city polls

-- 2019-12-29 17:35:14

The election commission has prepared at least 30,000 electronic voting machines for the elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations. The commission is fully prepared to use EVMs in all polli...

BNP fails to find any 'miracle' in 2019

BNP fails to find any 'miracle' in 2019

UNB 2019-12-29 17:30:26

BNP started 2019 with a bad note - a drubbing in the national election. Now Khaleda Zia’s party is going to step into the new year without showing any sign that it can make a turnaround anytime...

50pc of Bangabandhu Hi-tech Park work completed in Rajshahi

50pc of Bangabandhu Hi-tech Park work completed in Rajshahi

-- 2019-12-29 16:51:07

Around 50 per cent physical infrastructure development works of the under-construction Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib High-tech Park in Rajshahi has already been completed creating a high hope among all con...

Five members of ‘Allahr Dal’ held in Khulna

Five members of ‘Allahr Dal’ held in Khulna

-- 2019-12-29 16:43:21

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested five suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Allahr Dal’ from Labanchora area of Khulna early Sunday. The arrestees are Elias Kanchan...

Cold-related diseases claim 50 lives since November 1

Cold-related diseases claim 50 lives since November 1

Reuters 2019-12-29 16:28:10

At least 50 people have died in Bangladesh from November 1 to December 28 due to cold-related diseases as cold weather continues to sweep across the country. The country’s lowest temperature th...

Crude bomb blasts in front of BNP central office

Crude bomb blasts in front of BNP central office

-- 2019-12-29 15:21:28

A crude bomb went off in front of BNP’s central office at Naya Paltan in the capital on Sunday. Officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station Abu Bakkar Siddique said the incident took place at ar...

BD to take back only those who may have recently gone to India: Momen

BD to take back only those who may have recently gone to India: Momen

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-29 13:41:15

Bangladesh will take back only those who may have recently gone to India, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has said. " Those who have been living in India for 30 or 40 years are Indians. It will not b...

Three more explosions at Madhu’s Canteen

Three more explosions at Madhu’s Canteen

-- 2019-12-29 13:10:48

Three crude bomb exploded near Dhaka University’s Madhu’s Canteen following a similar explosion three days before. The bombs were detonated in succession after 9:45am on Sunday, New Marke...

64 kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

64 kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

-- 2019-12-29 12:17:34

Customs officials have seized 640 gold bars weighing around 64 kg at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Based on secret information, a preventive team of Dhaka Customs House...

AL picks Atiqul, Taposh as candidates for Dhaka mayoral polls

AL picks Atiqul, Taposh as candidates for Dhaka mayoral polls

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-29 12:16:16

The ruling Awami League has announced Atiqul Islam and Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh as its candidates for contesting the city mayoral elections of respectively Dhaka North and Dhaka South. The party's ge...

Panchagarh temperature dips to record 4.5˚C

Panchagarh temperature dips to record 4.5˚C

-- 2019-12-29 11:17:42

The temperature of Panchagarh district plummeted to 4.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday morning, the lowest in the country in this season, throwing the normal life into disarray. The country’s lowest...

Cumilla’s rail link restored after seven hours

Cumilla’s rail link restored after seven hours

-- 2019-12-29 10:50:20

Train communications on Chattogram-Dhaka and Chattogram-Sylhet routes resumed on Sunday morning after a suspension of seven hours following the derailment of an intercity train in Cumilla's Brahmanpar...