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Bangladesh seeks ease of Guatemalan visa process

Bangladesh seeks ease of Guatemalan visa process

-- 2022-11-30 16:48:38

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has proposed to ease the Guatemalan visa application process for Bangladeshi nationals, and explore the possibility to sign a visa waiver agreement for the diplomati...

Govt's purchase committee approves six proposals

Govt's purchase committee approves six proposals

-- 2022-11-30 16:15:47

The government has approved separate proposals for procuring some 80,000 tonnes of fertilizer and 2.20 crore litres of soybean oil to meet the growing demand of the country. The approval came from th...

Govt plans to transform Kamalapur into multimodal transport hub

Govt plans to transform Kamalapur into multimodal transport hub

-- 2022-11-30 15:59:35

Kamalapur is home to the largest and busiest railway station in Bangladesh and at least 115,000 passengers use the facilities every day for travelling. Just a few paces outside of the station, one of...

Dhaka-Narayanganj train service suspended from Dec 4

Dhaka-Narayanganj train service suspended from Dec 4

-- 2022-11-30 15:36:19

The government has decided to shut down train operations on the Dhaka-Narayanganj route from Dec 4 to complete the construction of three separate rail links in the Dhaka-Gendaria section under the Pad...

PM Hasina reaffirms optimism to resolve Teesta water sharing issue with India

PM Hasina reaffirms optimism to resolve Teesta water sharing issue with India

UNB 2022-11-30 14:20:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday once again expressed hope that Bangladesh and India would be able to resolve the Teesta River water sharing and other issues through discussion. She said thi...

Tax return submission deadline extended till Dec 31

Tax return submission deadline extended till Dec 31

-- 2022-11-30 14:13:33

Bangladesh has extended the cut-off time for individual taxpayers to file their income tax returns by one month to December 31 amid demands for a deadline extension, says Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Munim, c...

No consular service for those circulating anti-Bangladesh propaganda from Canada: High Commission

No consular service for those circulating anti-Bangladesh propaganda from Canada: High Commission

UNB 2022-11-30 13:14:41

Bangladesh High Commission in Canada has urged all “peace-loving and patriotic Bangladeshi-Canadians to be cautious of those spreading anti-Bangladesh propaganda from Canada”. In a notice...

Bangladesh arranges 7-day booster dose drive from Dec 1

Bangladesh arranges 7-day booster dose drive from Dec 1

bdnews24.com 2022-11-30 12:49:04

The Directorate General of Health Services has announced a seven-day special drive to administer the second and booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country. The programme will start...

30 workers leave Dhaka for KL

30 workers leave Dhaka for KL

FE REPORT 2022-11-30 08:55:51

The first batch of 30 workers left Dhaka for Malaysia with jobs on Tuesday, as the government's recruitment agency has started sending workers to that country. United Plantation (UP), one of the Mala...

Election Commission staff submit demands with threat of work-abstention

Election Commission staff submit demands with threat of work-abstention

-- 2022-11-29 22:01:17

The Election Commission officials on Tuesday set a deadline of December 4 to keep the National Identity Registration (NID) department under their control and stop all postings. Bangladesh Election Co...

Education gets big funding boost

Education gets big funding boost

Syed Mansur Hashim   2022-11-29 21:52:55

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made a decision in favour of investing US$2.0 billion in the education sector of Bangladesh for the next three years. This is welcome news for the country, as educ...

PM receives eye treatment as general patient

PM receives eye treatment as general patient

-- 2022-11-29 20:19:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday had her eyes checked up like a general patient after buying a Tk 10 outdoor ticket at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital in Dhaka. The head o...

HC allows GM Quader to perform party activities

HC allows GM Quader to perform party activities

-- 2022-11-29 20:13:17

The High Court has cleared the way for Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader to perform the duties of his post. The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal passed the order on Tuesday following a revision pe...

Parliamentary watchdog for reopening Sonamasjid land port

Parliamentary watchdog for reopening Sonamasjid land port

-- 2022-11-29 19:51:29

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Shipping Ministry recommended the government to reopen the immigration services at Sonamasjid land port in Chapainawabganj, which has remained suspended for nea...

Hydraulic horns to be banned in Dhaka in two months, says environment minister

Hydraulic horns to be banned in Dhaka in two months, says environment minister

-- 2022-11-29 19:44:17

The government has decided to ban the use of hydraulic horns in vehicles in the next two months to reduce noise pollution in the capital, said Environment Minister Shahab Uddin on Tuesday. "Today we...

Myanmar assures Bangladesh of not violating air space

Myanmar assures Bangladesh of not violating air space

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-29 19:38:37

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) expressed grave concern over the ongoing unstable security situation near the international boundary inside Myanmar. It urged Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) to adopt...

Dhaka WASA MD takes Tk 57.99m as gross salary in 13 years

Dhaka WASA MD takes Tk 57.99m as gross salary in 13 years

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-29 19:34:18

Managing Director and CEO of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Engineer Taqsem A Khan has received Tk 57.99 million as his gross salary in the last 13 years since his appointment in...

BAF training aircraft crash-lands in Bogura

BAF training aircraft crash-lands in Bogura

-- 2022-11-29 19:02:46

A training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force has crash-landed after it malfunctioned in the airport area in Bogura’s Erulia, but the pilots are safe, reports bdnews24.com. The jet, a PT-6 tw...

Three more die of dengue, 436 others hospitalised

Three more die of dengue, 436 others hospitalised

-- 2022-11-29 18:28:33

Three dengue patients died while 436 patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8:00 am today). On November 3, Bangladesh logged nine dengue dea...

Book publishers seek duty-free paper import

Book publishers seek duty-free paper import

-- 2022-11-29 18:02:51

Bangladesh Pustak Prokashok O Bikreta Samity, an association of book publishers and sellers, has urged the government to withdraw duty on the import of papers, protesting the 'unusual' price hike of t...

DMP permits BNP to hold Dec 10 rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on 26 conditions

DMP permits BNP to hold Dec 10 rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on 26 conditions

-- 2022-11-29 17:26:23

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Tuesday permitted BNP to hold its rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on December 10 on 26 conditions. A notification was issued in this regard from the DMP He...

Covid claims one more life; 11 get infected

Covid claims one more life; 11 get infected

-- 2022-11-29 16:35:26

Bangladesh has recorded 11 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,036,567. The death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,433 over the 24-hour period, according...

Saudi firm to set up 1000 MW solar power plant in Bangladesh

Saudi firm to set up 1000 MW solar power plant in Bangladesh

-- 2022-11-29 15:33:32

Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to set up a 1000 MW solar power plant in Bangl...

HC warns of legal action if ACC fails to finish Basic Bank probe in three months

HC warns of legal action if ACC fails to finish Basic Bank probe in three months

FE ONLINE REPORT  2022-11-29 14:10:12

The High Court on Tuesday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to complete the investigation of all 56 cases filed over the Basic Bank scam and submit a report to it within three months. Other...

Ill-fated BSC ship still stuck in Ukraine waters

Ill-fated BSC ship still stuck in Ukraine waters

SYFUL ISLAM 2022-11-29 08:48:22

The missile-hit vessel of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) that remained stuck in the Ukrainian waters is yet to be brought back as the war situation did not improve and agents of the re-insurer...

Abandoned Beanibazar well resumes gas supply to national grid

Abandoned Beanibazar well resumes gas supply to national grid

-- 2022-11-28 21:09:01

An additional 8.0 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcf/d) to the National Grid has resumed from the previously abandoned well no 1 of Sylhet's Beanibazar gas field. The gas lifted from the well be...

Cabinet directs verification of information being shared about banking sector

Cabinet directs verification of information being shared about banking sector

-- 2022-11-28 20:30:58

The Cabinet on Monday directed the authorities concerned to verify the accuracy of the videos and news seen on social media and newspapers about the current situation in the banking sector. The direc...

Water transport workers call off indefinite strike

Water transport workers call off indefinite strike

-- 2022-11-28 20:03:28

Water transport workers have called off a nationwide strike over a minimum wage of Tk 20,000 and several other demands. The announcement came after a meeting between State Minister for Labour and Emp...

Govt now can decide energy price without BERC

Govt now can decide energy price without BERC

-- 2022-11-28 19:51:42

The Cabinet has approved an amendment to Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) Ordinance 2022 to empower the government to set fuel tariffs on its own under special circumstances without wait...

Bangladesh promoting renewable energy in power generation mix: Power Secretary

Bangladesh promoting renewable energy in power generation mix: Power Secretary

-- 2022-11-28 19:49:42

Power secretary Habibur Rahman has said that the government is vigorously promoting renewable energy in the country's power generation mix. "In our development endeavour, great importance is given to...