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ভূমি সেবা সপ্তাহ শুরু ১৯ মে

ভূমি সেবা সপ্তাহ শুরু ১৯ মে

এফই অনলাইন ডেস্ক 2022-05-13 15:02:05

বিভাগ থেকে ইউনিয়ন পর্যায় পর্যন্ত কল সেন্টারের মাধ্যমে অনলাইন এবং ডাকযোগে ভূমি সেবাকে গুরুত্ব দিয়ে চলতি মাসে পাঁচ দিনের ‘ভূমি সেবা সপ্তাহ’ উদযাপন করতে যাচ্ছে ভূমি মন্ত্রণালয়। এক সংবাদ বিজ্...

Bangladesh sets Hajj registration for May 16-18

Bangladesh sets Hajj registration for May 16-18

-- 2022-05-13 12:52:27

Bangladeshi pilgrims willing to attend Hajj this year should register from May 16 to May 18 for both government and private packages. They must make a payment according to their package plans and s...

Met office forecasts light to moderate rain

Met office forecasts light to moderate rain

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-13 12:38:36

Most of the parts of Bangladesh, including Dhaka, are likely to see light to moderate rain/thunder showers with lightning flashes and temporary gusty/squally wind in the next 24-hour, according to a M...

Businessman shot dead in Khulna

Businessman shot dead in Khulna

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-13 11:19:30

Assailants have shot and killed a businessman blocking his way when he was heading home to Fultola Upazila in Khulna with his wife on a motorcycle. The man’s wife, injured in the incident, has...

Labourer shortage, high wages worry Boro farmers

Labourer shortage, high wages worry Boro farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2022-05-13 10:03:49

Boro farmers in the Barind tract area and Magura district are facing serious problems due to shortage of labourers and their high wages. Our Bogura Correspondent says, acute labourer crisis has been...

Public servants can’t spend taxpayers’ money on foreign tours

Public servants can’t spend taxpayers’ money on foreign tours

-- 2022-05-12 20:18:55

The government has issued a notice barring public servants from official overseas tours, a day after Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal revealed Sheikh Hasina’s decision as part of efforts to cu...

SSC, HSC exams to cover all subjects in 2023

SSC, HSC exams to cover all subjects in 2023

-- 2022-05-12 20:05:23

The government plans to include all subjects in the exams for Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate in 2023, ending three years of coronavirus-induced suspension or curtailment...

Eight edible oil importers sued for market manipulation

Eight edible oil importers sued for market manipulation

-- 2022-05-12 19:49:37

Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) has filed cases against eight importer companies for manipulating the production and supply of edible oil in the country. The companies are: City Edible Oil Li...

Mango harvesting in Rajshahi to begin Friday

Mango harvesting in Rajshahi to begin Friday

-- 2022-05-12 19:41:40

Mango harvesting of the current season is going to start from tomorrow (Friday) everywhere in Rajshahi district to ensure the natural ripening of the seasonal delicious fruit. Farmers can harvest the...

Bangladesh, Korea to collaborate on four projects worth $10b

Bangladesh, Korea to collaborate on four projects worth $10b

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-12 19:22:15

Bangladesh and South Korean private investors have selected four infrastructure projects worth over US$10 billion under PPP model, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday. He said it whil...

Bangladesh needs enhanced global financing to materialise national adaptation plan

Bangladesh needs enhanced global financing to materialise national adaptation plan

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 19:15:00

The government is currently spending around 6-7 per cent of the annual budget for climate adaptation, with more than 75 per cent of this amount financed from domestic sources, said the Environment M...

Bangladesh restricts foreign trips of govt officials

Bangladesh restricts foreign trips of govt officials

-- 2022-05-12 19:05:01

The government has restricted foreign trips of its officials under operating and development budgets in the context of post-Covid-19 economic recovery and the ongoing global situation. In a circular...

Court asks govt to form body for fair disbursement of Destiny’s money

Court asks govt to form body for fair disbursement of Destiny’s money

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-12 17:42:56

A Dhaka Court has directed the government to form a six-member committee in order to disburse the money amongst the affected shareholders and investors of the Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society...

73,000 litres of hoarded soybean oil found in Khulna

73,000 litres of hoarded soybean oil found in Khulna

-- 2022-05-12 17:41:07

A mobile court has seized 73,032 litres of soybean oil hoarded in three warehouses in Khulna. On Thursday, a mobile court run by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided the warehouses at the city&rsq...

416 die in road accidents during Eid holidays: NGO

416 die in road accidents during Eid holidays: NGO

-- 2022-05-12 16:40:30

As many as 416 travellers have died in 372 road accidents across the country during the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, according to the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh, a non-government organisatio...

Minimum price of private Hajj travel packages set at Tk 463,744

Minimum price of private Hajj travel packages set at Tk 463,744

-- 2022-05-12 16:04:50

Privately-run Hajj travel agencies have set the minimum price for this year’s pilgrimage package at Tk 463,744 per person. The decision was announced by M Shahadat Hossain Taslim, president of...

Bangladesh logs 51 new COVID cases in a day, no deaths

Bangladesh logs 51 new COVID cases in a day, no deaths

-- 2022-05-12 16:01:58

Bangladesh has registered 51 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,939. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

Nearly 2,359 litres of edible oil seized in Natore

Nearly 2,359 litres of edible oil seized in Natore

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 15:46:47

Authorities have seized 2,359 litres of edible oil illegally stored in five shops in Natore district town on Wednesday. A joint team of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP)...

Destiny Group MD Rafiqul Amin gets 12-year imprisonment for graft

Destiny Group MD Rafiqul Amin gets 12-year imprisonment for graft

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 12:54:04

Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin was sentenced to 12 years in prison while its President M Harun-Ar-Rashid, former army chief, got four-year jail term in a case over embezzlement and money...

376 killed, 1,500 injured in road accidents during Eid holidays

376 killed, 1,500 injured in road accidents during Eid holidays

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-12 12:29:37

At least 376 people were killed and 1,500 others injured in road accidents across the country during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. Both accidents and deaths witnessed a rising trend in this Eid-ul Fitr than...

A third of motorcyclists in Bangladesh have no licence

A third of motorcyclists in Bangladesh have no licence

-- 2022-05-12 10:19:49

More than 1.3 million motorcyclists, or 35 per cent of the riders across Bangladesh, drive without a licence – a factor blamed for a rising number of deadly road crashes. According to Banglad...

36 filling stations in Thakurgaon facing fuel crisis since Eid-ul-Fitr

36 filling stations in Thakurgaon facing fuel crisis since Eid-ul-Fitr

-- 2022-05-11 21:51:13

Transport owners and workers in Thakurgaon are facing immense sufferings as 36 filling stations of the district are not getting fuel after Eid-ul-Fitr due to a crisis. Owners of filling stations said...

Bangladesh improves its performance over cigarette taxation policy

Bangladesh improves its performance over cigarette taxation policy

-- 2022-05-11 21:36:00

Bangladesh has improved its performance over cigarette taxation policy, as its score slightly rose to 2.63 from 2.38 in 2018, according to a global tobacco tax index. The country scored 2.63 out of a...

Foreign minister rules out fear of debt trap

Foreign minister rules out fear of debt trap

-- 2022-05-11 21:31:42

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has ruled out fear of a debt trap for Bangladesh as the government is careful while taking loans and its subsequent management. The minister made the remarks while tal...

BB dismisses news of scrapping Tk 1,000 red notes as rumour

BB dismisses news of scrapping Tk 1,000 red notes as rumour

-- 2022-05-11 20:56:43

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has brushed aside the news that the Tk 1,000 bank red note or any other note has been scrapped. "Bangladesh Bank has not declared red note of Tk 1,000 or any other note as obsole...

Destiny scam: Dhaka court set to deliver judgement on Thursday

Destiny scam: Dhaka court set to deliver judgement on Thursday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-11 20:30:17

A court in Dhaka is set to deliver the judgement on Thursday in a case filed against 46 people, including Destiny Group President Harun-Ur-Rashid and Managing Director Rafiqul Amin, for allegedly embe...

Bangladesh Bank issues clarification on operating foreign currency accounts

Bangladesh Bank issues clarification on operating foreign currency accounts

-- 2022-05-11 19:59:23

Bangladesh Bank, in a clarification, said that non-resident Bangladeshis can open foreign currency accounts (FCA) in any scheduled banks in the country and any amount of money can be deposited with th...

Former Jubo League leader Samrat released from jail custody

Former Jubo League leader Samrat released from jail custody

-- 2022-05-11 18:08:09

Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, a former Jubo League leader who allegedly ran an illegal gambling racket, has been released from jail custody after receiving bail in the cases against him. Samrat wa...

TIB study finds Tk 3.9b corruption in three power projects

TIB study finds Tk 3.9b corruption in three power projects

-- 2022-05-11 18:00:44

A research by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) found substantive corruption in three power plants—two coal-fired and one LNG-based—in the country. According to the TIB study, t...

Posing threat to food security, Bangladesh loses 69,000 hectares of land every year

Posing threat to food security, Bangladesh loses 69,000 hectares of land every year

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-11 16:57:59

Bangladesh is losing around 69,000 hectares of land every year posing a serious threat to ensuring the food security for an increasing population. The forced migration of one million people from neig...