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Govt likely to cut foreign aid allotment in RADP

Govt likely to cut foreign aid allotment in RADP

FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-12-05 10:33:54

The government is likely to slash foreign aid allocation in the upcoming revised development budget, as many ministries and divisions have sought lower funds, officials said on Wednesday. The Econo...

Insurance mandatory for expats from Dec 19

Insurance mandatory for expats from Dec 19

ARAFAT ARA 2019-12-05 10:27:52

The government is going to enforce mandatory insurance coverage for Bangladeshis working abroad from December 19 this year, officials have said. To this effect, expatriates' welfare and overseas empl...

BD 7th most vulnerable country to climate change

BD 7th most vulnerable country to climate change

FE REPORT 2019-12-05 10:16:49

The Global Climate Risk Index has placed Bangladesh in the seventh position among countries most vulnerable to climate change in its annual report for 2020, which was released by the think-tank German...

Patients can’t go to community  clinics for lack of roads

Patients can’t go to community clinics for lack of roads

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2019-12-04 21:45:47

PABNA, Dec 04: People in Bhangura upazila of the district cannot get proper services from three community clinics in the area as there are no connecting roads to go to the clinics. Hatgram Community...

Keeping personal maid in jail is very rare, PM says

Keeping personal maid in jail is very rare, PM says

-- 2019-12-04 20:41:45

Mentioning that the ruling Awami League doesn’t believe in the politics of vengeance, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has a maid servant in jail, which...

Bangabandhu birth centenary countdown will begin January 10

Bangabandhu birth centenary countdown will begin January 10

BSS 2019-12-04 19:04:06

The countdown for the observance of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary will begin across the country on January 10. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaug...

Call to enact law to protect food, nutrition rights

Call to enact law to protect food, nutrition rights

FE Online Report 2019-12-04 19:00:53

Speakers at an event called for enacting a law in order to protect people’s rights to food and nutrition. They also urged all to wage a constructive movement that will work on people’s ri...

BUET students call off protests to return to classes

BUET students call off protests to return to classes

-- 2019-12-04 18:41:16

The students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have announced to return to classes as the authorities met their demands, including the expulsion of 26 students over the mur...

B'deshi snake farmer sees bleak future for commercial production

B'deshi snake farmer sees bleak future for commercial production

Xinhua 2019-12-04 18:10:07

A Bangladeshi expatriate photographer has turned himself into a snake farmer. And his farm has now a wide variety of snakes. Abdur Razzak Biswas during his staying in Saudi Arabia watched an America...

BAF replaces contingents in DR Congo

BAF replaces contingents in DR Congo

-- 2019-12-04 17:22:50

Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is going to replace its three contingents consisting of 320 members at United Nations Peacekeeping Mission deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). As a part of...

ACC approves charges against ex-chief justice Sinha

ACC approves charges against ex-chief justice Sinha

-- 2019-12-04 17:15:25

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charges against former chief justice SK Sinha in a case that involves Tk 40 million in suspicious loans from The Farmers Bank. The case names 10 othe...

Nothing serious in Commerce Minister’s resignation remark: Quader

Nothing serious in Commerce Minister’s resignation remark: Quader

-- 2019-12-04 15:42:56

There is nothing serious in Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi’s resignation remark which he made amid criticisms for the soaring onion prices, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader...

75 more dengue cases recorded in 24 hours

75 more dengue cases recorded in 24 hours

-- 2019-12-04 14:54:57

Seventy five new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Wednesday. Thirty seven of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorat...

Mirpur double murder: police detain one

Mirpur double murder: police detain one

-- 2019-12-04 14:38:00

Police on Wednesday arrested a man in connection with the murder of an elderly woman and her housemaid in Mirpur area in Dhaka. Police are interrogating the arrestee— Sohel, the adopted son of...

DAP fertiliser price slashed by Tk 9

DAP fertiliser price slashed by Tk 9

-- 2019-12-04 14:37:32

The government has reduced the price of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertiliser to Tk 16 per kg from Tk 25 for famers. For dealers the price has been reduced to Tk 14 from Tk 23 per kg, said Agricultur...

UPDF leader shot dead in Rangamati

UPDF leader shot dead in Rangamati

-- 2019-12-04 13:17:54

A leader of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead by some miscreants at Egoijjachhara in Naniarchar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Shubho Chakma Greek, 40,...

Woman, housemaid found dead in city flat

Woman, housemaid found dead in city flat

-- 2019-12-04 12:42:52

Police have recovered the bodies of an elderly woman and a young housemaid in a home in Dhaka. They went to the House No. 9 on Road No. 2 of Block A in Mirpur-2 on Tuesday evening on being called by...

PM returns home after joining COP25

PM returns home after joining COP25

-- 2019-12-04 11:04:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home early from Madrid, wrapping up her visit to Spain after attending the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25). A VVIP flight of Biman Ban...

BD yet to be ready to cut TFA use in foods

BD yet to be ready to cut TFA use in foods

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-12-04 10:52:38

Bangladesh is ill-prepared in minimising the use of Trans Fatty Acid (TFA) in various food items as well as meeting the World Health Organisation's (WHO) target of bringing it down below 2.0 per cent...

Calls aloud for no power tariff hike

Calls aloud for no power tariff hike

FE REPORT 2019-12-04 10:40:54

The four-day public hearing ended on Tuesday with a call from rights groups, business bodies and political parties not to raise power tariff for consumers. They demanded formation of a high-powered...

BCIC alerts admin to urea crisis rumours

BCIC alerts admin to urea crisis rumours

Jubair Hasan 2019-12-04 10:38:55

The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has alerted the authorities concerned to the malicious rumours of a crisis of the key agro-input this Boro season. It has rather assured them of...

HSIA terminal-3 project: CAAB seeks cost revision, time extension

HSIA terminal-3 project: CAAB seeks cost revision, time extension

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-12-04 10:38:41

The cost of building the third terminal at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) is going to be swelled by 57 per cent even before the start of its construction, officials said on Tuesday....

Woman, housemaid found dead in the capital

Woman, housemaid found dead in the capital

-- 2019-12-03 22:01:05

Police have recovered the bodies of an elderly woman and a teenaged housemaid in a home in Dhaka, reports bdnews24.com. They went to the house number 9 on road number 2 of Block A in Mirpur-2 on Tues...

Rail, road, shipping accidents claim 432 lives in Nov: SCRF

Rail, road, shipping accidents claim 432 lives in Nov: SCRF

-- 2019-12-03 21:33:26

At least 432 people, including 67 women and 72 children, were killed and 882 others injured in 386 road, railway and shipping accidents across the country in November, says Shipping and Communication...

320 homes set up for the homeless in Cumilla

320 homes set up for the homeless in Cumilla

Our Correspondent 2019-12-03 21:30:17

CUMILLA, Dec 03: The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has set up 320 disaster tolerant houses for the homeless in the district. Cumilla district Relief and Resettlement Office sources said...

‘BGB prevented India’s deportation attempts’  

‘BGB prevented India’s deportation attempts’  

-- 2019-12-03 20:56:07

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said there had been attempts to deport people from India, but Bangladesh’s border guards (BGB) thwarted the bids. The number of such people was in “several...

Wasa must seal 68 sewerage lines connected to Buriganga: HC

Wasa must seal 68 sewerage lines connected to Buriganga: HC

-- 2019-12-03 20:41:52

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday directed Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to take necessary steps for closing its 68 sewerage lines connected to the Buriganga River to prevent its pollu...

‘Unknown man supplied IS cap'

‘Unknown man supplied IS cap'

-- 2019-12-03 20:19:19

A militant sentenced to death for the 2016 Dhaka café attack has said he took the cap with the Islamic State’s insignia from an “unknown” man at the court premises on the verd...

All SC affidavit branch staffers transferred over corruption

All SC affidavit branch staffers transferred over corruption

-- 2019-12-03 20:05:14

A day after the Chief Justice expressed his dissatisfaction over the corruption and irregularities in the section, all the officials and employees of the Supreme Court’s affidavit branch were tr...

Cases against vehicles, realisation of fines decline in Nov

Cases against vehicles, realisation of fines decline in Nov

FE Online Report 2019-12-03 18:59:32

Both cases against vehicles and realisation of fines by Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) witnessed a drastic decline in November this year. Mobile courts of the BRTA filed 446 cases against...