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Malta to send team for hassle-free visa processing of 3,000 Bangladeshis

Malta to send team for hassle-free visa processing of 3,000 Bangladeshis

-- 2022-07-03 21:23:47

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Malta agreed to send a consular team to Bangladesh to facilitate visa processing for Bangladeshis without any hassle. Referring to his recent discuss...

Seven killed in road accidents in three districts

Seven killed in road accidents in three districts

-- 2022-07-03 21:06:19

Seven people were killed in separate road accidents in Faridpur, Sylhet and Chuadanga districts on Sunday. In Faridpur, three people, including a 30-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter, we...

Works to create journalists’ database on cards

Works to create journalists’ database on cards

-- 2022-07-03 20:42:08

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Sunday that the Press Council was working to create a database of journalists with a view to bringing fake journalists to book. "Once the...

ACC opens 12 more offices in different districts

ACC opens 12 more offices in different districts

-- 2022-07-03 20:31:45

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) opened 12 more integrated district offices on Sunday aiming to speed up the anti-graft drives across the country. ACC Chairman Moinuddin Abdullah inaugurated the...

New case against Evaly’s Rassel, Shamima on charge of embezzling Tk 2.6m 

New case against Evaly’s Rassel, Shamima on charge of embezzling Tk 2.6m 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-03 20:03:32

A new case has been filed on Sunday against controversial e-commerce platform Evaly's former chairman Shamima Nasrin and her husband ex-chief executive officer Mohammad Russel for embezzling of Tk 2.6...

Poor luggage handling at Dhaka airport irks Momen

Poor luggage handling at Dhaka airport irks Momen

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-03 19:48:38

Mismanagement causes sufferings to the passengers, who wait for their luggage upon arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, observed Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. The min...

Six bank accounts of Grameen Telecom employees’ lawyer frozen

Six bank accounts of Grameen Telecom employees’ lawyer frozen

FE ONLINE REPORT  2022-07-03 19:29:49

A total of six bank accounts of lawyer Yousuf Ali, a counsel of the ‘Grameen Telecom union of workers and employees’, and his chamber have been frozen after an allegation that the lawyer h...

No cattle market will be allowed on roads, highways: Obaidul Quader

No cattle market will be allowed on roads, highways: Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-07-03 19:29:30

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government will not allow cattle markets on roads and highways ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Adha. "Markets of sacrificial animals on ro...

Bangladesh plans to stop vehicle purchase for govt institutions 

Bangladesh plans to stop vehicle purchase for govt institutions 

-- 2022-07-03 19:13:17

The government has decided to stop purchasing vehicles, including ships and aircrafts, for all government, semi-government, autonomous, statutory, state-owned companies and financial institu...

95 private companies to import 409,000 tonnes of rice

95 private companies to import 409,000 tonnes of rice

-- 2022-07-03 19:11:02

The government has greenlighted 95 private companies to import 409,000 tonnes of rice after slashing duty to rein in the spiralling prices. Traders can now bring 30,000 tonnes of parboiled rice and 3...

OECD urges EC to ensure inclusive, violence-free general election

OECD urges EC to ensure inclusive, violence-free general election

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-03 18:59:27

14 member countries of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have urged Bangladesh Election Commission to create an environment for participatory and violence-free general el...

Rupsha Railway Bridge, Khulna-Mongla port rail line to facilitate goods transportation: India

Rupsha Railway Bridge, Khulna-Mongla port rail line to facilitate goods transportation: India

-- 2022-07-03 18:57:40

The Rupsha Railway Bridge and the Khulna-Mongla port rail line will greatly facilitate the to and fro transportation of goods and the enhanced connectivity, says India. This will also facilitate acce...

DNCC files cases, fines vehicles for illegal parking

DNCC files cases, fines vehicles for illegal parking

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-03 18:22:19

Mobile courts of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) filed eight cases and fined different vehicles Tk 13,500 for illegal parking on roads in front of different city bus terminals. The DNCC campaign,...

No new roads in haor regions, only flyovers if necessary: Minister

No new roads in haor regions, only flyovers if necessary: Minister

-- 2022-07-03 17:30:57

The government will not build any more roads in haor region but flyovers will be constructed where necessary, said Planning Minister MA Mannan on Sunday. The minister said this while distributing rel...

Cabinet approves draft of Family Court Act, 2022

Cabinet approves draft of Family Court Act, 2022

-- 2022-07-03 17:28:30

The cabinet on Sunday approved the draft of the Family Court Act, 2022 aiming to replace an ordinance of the military regime with some minor changes. The approval came from the regular meeting of the...

1,902 Covid-19 cases, two deaths reported in a day

1,902 Covid-19 cases, two deaths reported in a day

-- 2022-07-03 17:15:33

Bangladesh has recorded 1,902 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,978,689. The death toll from the disease climbed by two in 24 hours to 29,162, according to the l...

Pirojpur man arrested during his wedding ceremony

Pirojpur man arrested during his wedding ceremony

-- 2022-07-03 16:13:53

A man in Pirojpur's Mothbaria has been arrested at his own wedding a day after he had been released by police due to confusion over his name. A native of Mothbaria's Amorbunia, 35-year-old Babu Taluk...

Two children drown in Netrokona floodwaters

Two children drown in Netrokona floodwaters

-- 2022-07-03 16:00:58

Two children have died after they drowned in floodwaters in Netrokona’s Mohongonj Upazila. Locals found their bodies near a bridge in Utiarkona Village on Saturday evening, according to Inspect...

Motorcycles on Padma Bridge unlikely before Eid, says official

Motorcycles on Padma Bridge unlikely before Eid, says official

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-03 15:43:35

Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said he does not believe that the Padma Bridge will be opened to motorcycles ahead of Eid. "First we have to install artificial intelligence security cameras...

Three BIWTA employees suspended over 'fraud' at Barishal port

Three BIWTA employees suspended over 'fraud' at Barishal port

-- 2022-07-03 14:40:33

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has suspended three employees that the Anti-Corruption Commission accused of reselling tickets that had already been sold at the Barishal River Port, bd...

All credit goes to countrymen for Padma Bridge: PM

All credit goes to countrymen for Padma Bridge: PM

-- 2022-07-03 13:52:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her gratitude to the countrymen for standing beside her in building the Padma Multipurpose Bridge, saying all credit goes to the people of Bangladesh for its...

Widow, son found dead with throats slit in Narayanganj

Widow, son found dead with throats slit in Narayanganj

-- 2022-07-03 12:40:41

Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her son, presumed murdered, from a home in Narayanganj's Araihazar Upazila, bdnews24.com reports. Razia Sultana Kakoli, a 42-year-old widow, and her 8-...

Bangladeshi woman dies in Saudi Arabia during Hajj trip

Bangladeshi woman dies in Saudi Arabia during Hajj trip

-- 2022-07-03 11:43:36

A Bangladeshi woman has died in Saudi Arabia during a visit to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. It brings the death toll to 11 this year, bdnews24.com reports. Madaripur-native Laila Akhter, 51, passed a...

Makeshift cattle markets gaining momentum in Khulna

Makeshift cattle markets gaining momentum in Khulna

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-03 11:21:18

A festive mood looks across Khulna city centring the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festivals of the Muslim community which is expected to be held on July 10, as cattle farmers started to d...

UN agencies stress concerted flood relief, rehabilitation operations in Sylhet region

UN agencies stress concerted flood relief, rehabilitation operations in Sylhet region

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2022-07-02 21:40:46

Officials of the UN organisations on Saturday stressed the need for immediate and concerted relief and rehabilitation operations in flood-hit Sylhet and Sunamganj districts. Addressing a press briefi...

Spice prices shoot up ahead of Eid-ul Azha

Spice prices shoot up ahead of Eid-ul Azha

-- 2022-07-02 21:17:47

Despite having enough stock, traders have increased the prices of all kinds of spices ahead of Eid-ul Azha as usual. Both wholesalers and retailers hiked the prices of ginger, garlic, cardamom, cinna...

No television channel can air more than one foreign serial at a time: Minister

No television channel can air more than one foreign serial at a time: Minister

-- 2022-07-02 20:57:40

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said no television channel in the country will be allowed to broadcast more than one foreign serial at a time. "In order to protect the...

Bangladesh opens chancery building in Lisbon

Bangladesh opens chancery building in Lisbon

-- 2022-07-02 20:29:12

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has formally inaugurated the new chancery building of the Bangladesh Embassy in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs o...

‘Measures to be taken if complaints found over Eid online ticketing’

‘Measures to be taken if complaints found over Eid online ticketing’

-- 2022-07-02 19:33:52

Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujon said necessary measures will be taken if any complaints are received from passengers in getting train tickets online ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. The minister told repo...

Narail students barred from using mobile phones in schools, colleges, madrasas

Narail students barred from using mobile phones in schools, colleges, madrasas

-- 2022-07-02 19:24:27

Narail education authorities have banned students from using mobile phones in schools, colleges and madrasas after a student's Facebook post prompted a mob to humiliate a teacher. The district's Educ...