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Govt scraps appointment of Shahidul Islam as ambassador to US

Govt scraps appointment of Shahidul Islam as ambassador to US

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-20 15:24:13

The government has scrapped the contractual appointment of M Shahidul Islam as the ambassador to the United States. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notice on Thursday, saying the decis...

Bangladesh on alert as cyclone threat brews over Bay of Bengal

Bangladesh on alert as cyclone threat brews over Bay of Bengal

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-20 14:03:02

A low-pressure area has formed over the Bay of Bengal, which could intensify further and turn into a cyclonic storm, meteorologists warned, bdnews24.com reports. On Thursday, the Met Office iss...

Legal experts think CC camera at secret booth violates privacy: Hasan

Legal experts think CC camera at secret booth violates privacy: Hasan

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-20 13:33:14

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today (Oct 19) said legal experts and specialists are of the view that to see who is voting for whom by installing CC cameras at secret booths is...

Rajshahi Medical interns go on strike after clashes over patient’s death

Rajshahi Medical interns go on strike after clashes over patient’s death

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-20 12:34:10

Interns at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital have called an indefinite strike after angry students of Rajshahi University vandalised the hospital in the wake of a peer's death during treatment,...

Winter veg farming gets underway in Rangpur region

Winter veg farming gets underway in Rangpur region

-- 2022-10-20 08:55:11

RANGPUR: Responding to the call of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to bring every inch of land under crop farming, enthusiastic farmers have begun cultivation of winter vegetables on their croplands an...

Railway gets only three projects since 2020

Railway gets only three projects since 2020

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-10-20 08:43:34

The railway has got the nod to only three new projects for execution since the countrywide spread of coronavirus in March 2020, reflecting a budget crunch. However, experts think that the sector mu...

Dhaka asks ILO not to use labour weakness for political gains

Dhaka asks ILO not to use labour weakness for political gains

FE REPORT 2022-10-20 08:39:28

Bangladesh has asked the International Labour Organisation (ILO) not to use the country's weakness in the labour sector as a tool to achieve political gains. While addressing a national conference...

Editors' Council fears threat to freedom of journalism

Editors' Council fears threat to freedom of journalism

FE REPORT 2022-10-20 08:35:49

Expressing concern over declaring 29 state agencies as the "Critical Information Infrastructure (CII)", the Editors' Council has said it would hamper the journalists' right to information and be a t...

People getting electricity despite austerity amid global crisis: PM

People getting electricity despite austerity amid global crisis: PM

-- 2022-10-20 08:31:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the people are getting electricity even though the government has imposed some austerity measures to navigate global crisis. "People are getting...

One-third of Dhaka-dwellers can't rely on piped water

One-third of Dhaka-dwellers can't rely on piped water

FE REPORT 2022-10-20 08:28:07

One third of the population in the high-density Dhaka metro cannot rely on piped water, a new global report revealed on Wednesday. Dhaka struggles to provide good living conditions to its residents f...

Accords soon for nosing out tax-dodgers

Accords soon for nosing out tax-dodgers

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-10-20 08:21:48

Now the tax authority moves to nose out tax-dodgers through crosschecking power-and gas-usage data of individuals and companies by partnering distributors of the two key utilities-after shelving invas...

Strike over worker’s murder postponed at Khatunganj

Strike over worker’s murder postponed at Khatunganj

-- 2022-10-19 23:18:11

Workers of Chattogram’s Khatunganj, one of the key wholesale markets in Bangladesh, have postponed their strike over the stabbing death of a fellow worker allegedly by a pickup driver and his as...

BTRC submits draft regulation for digital, social media, OTT platforms to High Court

BTRC submits draft regulation for digital, social media, OTT platforms to High Court

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-19 22:50:25

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC) has submitted the final draft of regulation for the digital, social media and OTT platforms before a High Court bench. The draft of Bangla...

Cabinet body gets money laundering complaints against 700 money exchange companies

Cabinet body gets money laundering complaints against 700 money exchange companies

-- 2022-10-19 22:23:55

Cabinet committee on law and order discussed about media reports on complaints of money laundering against more than 700 money exchange companies during its meeting on Wednesday. After chairing the m...

RAB claims progress in locating militants in hill tracts

RAB claims progress in locating militants in hill tracts

-- 2022-10-19 20:34:05

The joint operation in the Chattogram Hill Tracts to catch Islamist militants harboured by tribal seperatist groups has seen “much progress”, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said. &l...

EC extends deadline for Gaibandha-5 by-polls by three months

EC extends deadline for Gaibandha-5 by-polls by three months

-- 2022-10-19 19:52:52

The Election Commission (EC) has extended the deadline for holding any fresh election to the Gaibandha-5 parliamentary seat by three months, or till January 20, 2023. While there was no concrete deci...

Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka may seek updates on Beijing’s efforts

Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka may seek updates on Beijing’s efforts

-- 2022-10-19 19:33:35

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday morning. A senior official said Banglad...

Dengue deaths top 100

Dengue deaths top 100

-- 2022-10-19 19:26:09

The dengue death toll has climbed to 106 this year after seven more patients died in the last 24 hours, surpassing last year’s count late into autumn. Dengue claimed 164 lives in 2019, the high...

Bangladesh asks ILO not to use labour weakness for political gain

Bangladesh asks ILO not to use labour weakness for political gain

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-10-19 18:23:24

Bangladesh has asked the International Labour Organisation (ILO) not to use the country’s weakness in the labour sector as a tool for political gain. While addressing a national conference titl...

A third of Dhaka’s population cannot rely on piped water: global report 

A third of Dhaka’s population cannot rely on piped water: global report 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-19 18:17:43

A third of the population in high density Dhaka city cannot rely on piped water, according to a new global report released on Wednesday.  Meanwhile, Dhaka ranked 17th among the 20 most unsustain...

Stabbing death of worker shuts Chattogram wholesale market again

Stabbing death of worker shuts Chattogram wholesale market again

-- 2022-10-19 16:55:46

Workers at Chattogram’s Khatunganj, one of the key wholesale markets of Bangladesh, have resumed a strike after the death of a fellow worker, who was allegedly stabbed over a dispute with a pick...

Bangladesh reports 300 new Covid cases, two deaths

Bangladesh reports 300 new Covid cases, two deaths

-- 2022-10-19 16:37:09

Bangladesh has recorded 300 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,033,419. The death toll from the disease rose by two to 29,410 over the 24-hour period, according t...

Bashundhara MD cleared of rape, murder charges

Bashundhara MD cleared of rape, murder charges

-- 2022-10-19 15:37:09

Police have absolved Bashundhara Group's Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir of any culpability after charges of rape and murder were levelled against him in connection with the death of colleg...

Election Commission holds dialogue with former CECs on polls

Election Commission holds dialogue with former CECs on polls

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 14:45:46

The Election Commission is holding a meeting with 14 experts, including three former chief election commissioners, to discuss their experiences, advice and suggestions on organising fair and f...

People will get electricity, but should be economical in use: PM

People will get electricity, but should be economical in use: PM

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 14:39:40

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the countrymen will get electricity as her government would continue the power supply despite being compelled to show austerity in the energy sector due to the...

PM opens reactor pressure vessel installation for RNPP Unit-2

PM opens reactor pressure vessel installation for RNPP Unit-2

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 11:23:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Oct 19)inaugurated the installation of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-2 of the 2400MW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), enabling Bangladesh to reach ne...

97pc of Bangladeshi mobile phone users concerned about privacy, security

97pc of Bangladeshi mobile phone users concerned about privacy, security

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 09:33:37

Many users in Bangladesh think mobile phone usage has improved the quality of life, but most of them are concerned about privacy and security of their devices, according to a study by multinational te...

Malta cultivation gains popularity in Panchagarh

Malta cultivation gains popularity in Panchagarh

-- 2022-10-19 09:22:08

PANCHAGARH: Cultivation of malta on a commercial basis has gained popularity among the farmers in the district as they are getting excellent production in recent years. The cultivation of the juicy f...

NBR skips big tax fair this year too

NBR skips big tax fair this year too

FE REPORT 2022-10-19 08:56:18

The revenue board will not host large-scale tax fair in Dhaka city this year too ahead of the deadline for submission of tax returns by individual payers. Instead, the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...

RPV installation in Rooppur NPP Unit-2 today

RPV installation in Rooppur NPP Unit-2 today

FE REPORT 2022-10-19 08:51:06

Installation work of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) in the Unit-2 of the under-construction 2,400-megawatt (MW) Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) at Ishwardi in Pabna will be inaugurated today (Wednesd...