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Financial Express gets new editor

Financial Express gets new editor

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-17 11:57:53

Mr Shamsul Huq Zahid has been appointed editor of The Financial Express (FE) with effect from today (Thursday). The board of directors of the International Publications Limited (IPL), the owning comp...

Bangladesh celebrating founding father Bangabandhu’s birth anniversary

Bangladesh celebrating founding father Bangabandhu’s birth anniversary

-- 2022-03-17 10:44:11

Bangladesh is celebrating the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali ever to walk the face of the earth, bdnews24.com reports. Born in G...

Snarl in sultry weather chokes Dhaka's commuters

Snarl in sultry weather chokes Dhaka's commuters

FE REPORT 2022-03-17 09:53:47

The commuters in the capital suffered immensely on Wednesday due to snarl on almost all thoroughfares and important roads throughout the city areas. The traffic congestions have been deteriorating in...

'If Chattogram develops, whole country will'

'If Chattogram develops, whole country will'

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHATTOGRAM 2022-03-17 08:22:28

If Chattogram can be developed, the whole country will automatically develop, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She said, "Chattogram is the most important city of the country. So, we are very ser...

Bangladesh proposes roadmap to enhance ties with Saudi Arabia

Bangladesh proposes roadmap to enhance ties with Saudi Arabia

-- 2022-03-16 21:48:13

Bangladesh has expressed its keenness to scale up the level of engagement in friendship and cooperation as well as proposed a time-bound roadmap to enhance the relationship with Saudi Arabia in the fi...

HC directs to evict 126 illegal structures from Chattogram canals

HC directs to evict 126 illegal structures from Chattogram canals

STAFF REPORTER 2022-03-16 21:13:37

The High Court has directed the government bodies to evict all the 126 structures built illegally on the land of Chaktai Khal (canal) and Rajakhali Khal in Chattogram in 90 days. The court, however...

Commuters face awful traffic jam for 2nd day

Commuters face awful traffic jam for 2nd day

-- 2022-03-16 20:56:40

Dhaka commuters passed another day of intolerable sufferings as they remained stuck on roads for hours due to heavy traffic gridlock in different parts of the capital on Wednesday Traffic congestion...

DMP bans fireworks on Shab-e-Barat

DMP bans fireworks on Shab-e-Barat

-- 2022-03-16 19:04:55

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on carrying all types of explosives and crackers, as well as explosion of firecrackers, in the capital on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Barat, to be...

Law ministry recommends extending Khaleda’s jail term suspension by six months

Law ministry recommends extending Khaleda’s jail term suspension by six months

-- 2022-03-16 18:31:52

The law ministry has recommended extending the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail term by another six months in two graft cases. Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday said they sug...

Bangabandhu's 102nd birth anniversary on Thursday

Bangabandhu's 102nd birth anniversary on Thursday

-- 2022-03-16 18:04:19

The 102nd birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children's Day 2022 will be celebrated on Thursday On this day in 1920, Bangabandhu, the archite...

PM seeks Saudi Arabian investment on a larger scale

PM seeks Saudi Arabian investment on a larger scale

-- 2022-03-16 17:42:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought Saudi Arabia's investment on a larger scale, particularly in the special economic zones, of Bangladesh. “I welcome Saudi Arabia's investment in Banglades...

Bangladesh passes second straight day without Covid-19 deaths

Bangladesh passes second straight day without Covid-19 deaths

-- 2022-03-16 17:09:38

Bangladesh has passed a second straight day without Covid-19 deaths, leaving the toll unchanged at 29,112. The government registered 182 new cases of Covid-19 in a 24-hour count, the lowest since Nov...

Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh attuned to joint vision of future, Prince Faisal says

Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh attuned to joint vision of future, Prince Faisal says

-- 2022-03-16 17:02:39

Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are attuned to their joint vision of the future, says Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, adding that the two countries were eager to work together for...

Booster shot can be administered four months after second dose

Booster shot can be administered four months after second dose

-- 2022-03-16 16:38:05

The government plans to reduce the gap between the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and the booster shot to four months. Currently, vaccine seekers face a six-month wait after the second jab to get...

PM Hasina urges BAF members to boost skills to achieve goals

PM Hasina urges BAF members to boost skills to achieve goals

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-16 16:06:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the members of Bangladesh Air Force to maintain professional skills, discipline and patriotism to accomplish the national goals. “It is impossibl...

Novoair to resume daily flights to Kolkata from March 27

Novoair to resume daily flights to Kolkata from March 27

-- 2022-03-16 14:03:54

Novoair will resume its flights from Dhaka to Kolkata on Mar 27, it said in a press statement on Wednesday. Daily flights will depart Dhaka at 5:20 pm local time and Kolkata at 6:40 pm loca...

Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia sit for talks on investment, military support

Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia sit for talks on investment, military support

-- 2022-03-16 12:41:24

Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia are engaged in talks on a number of issues including commerce, investment and military support. The high-level dialogue began at Dhaka’s Pan Pacific Sonarg...

Lalon festival kicks off in Kushtia

Lalon festival kicks off in Kushtia

-- 2022-03-16 09:50:13

KUSHTIA: After a Covid-induced hiatus of two years, a three-day festival remembering the legendary Baul Lalon Shah began on Tuesday at Chheuria under Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district. The Lalon...

Mobile users can carry forward unused internet data after renewal

Mobile users can carry forward unused internet data after renewal

-- 2022-03-15 21:42:47

Mobile phone users in Bangladesh now can carry forward their mobile data while purchasing new data package in which they can use their unused data further. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Musta...

Experts suggest empowering next-generation farmers with advanced technology

Experts suggest empowering next-generation farmers with advanced technology

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-15 20:43:03

Experts and stakeholders have stressed empowering and grooming the next-generation farmers with policy support and equipping them with advanced technology for the development of the agriculture sector...

Saudi FM arrives in city, meetings with PM, FM Wednesday

Saudi FM arrives in city, meetings with PM, FM Wednesday

-- 2022-03-15 18:40:42

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud arrived in Dhaka on a brief visit Tuesday evening. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen received his Saudi counterpart at Hazrat Shahjalal Interna...

WB keen to invest $5.0-8.0b for rural development

WB keen to invest $5.0-8.0b for rural development

-- 2022-03-15 18:34:27

The World Bank has expressed interest in providing US$5.0-8.0 billion dollars in the development of rural infrastructure in Bangladesh, said Local Government and Rural Development Minister Md Tajul Is...

No Covid-19 deaths reported in 24 hours for first time since December 9

No Covid-19 deaths reported in 24 hours for first time since December 9

-- 2022-03-15 17:00:34

Bangladesh has recorded no new deaths from Covid-19 in a day for the first time since Dec 9, keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,112. The government registered 217 new cases of th...

Educational institutions return to regular class routines

Educational institutions return to regular class routines

-- 2022-03-15 16:33:36

Bangladesh resumed regular in-person academic classes at all of its educational institutions after 726 days of combating the coronavirus pandemic. In-person classes will be held every weekday on a...

PM asks to speed up Dhaka airport's extension work

PM asks to speed up Dhaka airport's extension work

-- 2022-03-15 16:02:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to speed up the expansion work of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka. She also asked to take required measures...

Moving bus catches fire in Chattogram

Moving bus catches fire in Chattogram

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-15 15:26:46

A fire broke out on a moving bus on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on Tuesday. The fire started in the bus named ‘New Edition’ around 12 pm, reports UNB. For...

80pc work of Karnaphuli tunnel complete

80pc work of Karnaphuli tunnel complete

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-03-15 10:15:40

CHATTOGRAM: The authority has already completed 80 per cent construction work of the Karnaphuli tunnel, first of its kind in the country. The officials concerned have, however, expressed the hope tha...

Bangladesh going to attain 100pc power grid coverage

Bangladesh going to attain 100pc power grid coverage

FE REPORT 2022-03-15 08:49:15

Bangladesh will achieve 100 per cent electrification with the inauguration of 1,320-megawatt (MW) ultra-super critical coal-fired power plant at Payra in Patuakhali on March 21. Prime Minister Sheikh...

Government agencies' inaction behind price spirals: HC

Government agencies' inaction behind price spirals: HC

FE REPORT 2022-03-15 08:41:13

If government machinery like regulatory bodies and monitoring cells were active, hoarders couldn't have the courage to stockpile essentials for pocketing extra profits, says the High Court regarding...

Noakhali trader fined for hoarding Tk 50,000 worth soybean oil

Noakhali trader fined for hoarding Tk 50,000 worth soybean oil

-- 2022-03-14 21:33:56

The authorities have fined a trader Tk 50,000 for hoarding 88 drums of soybean oil in Noakhali’s trade hub Chowmuhani. A mobile court of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection...