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Buet student Fardin’s friend Bushra arrested

Buet student Fardin’s friend Bushra arrested

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-10 12:49:01

Police arrested Amatullah Bushra, friend of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash – whose body was recovered from Shitalakhkhya river on November...

Newlywed couple electrocuted in Keraniganj

Newlywed couple electrocuted in Keraniganj

FE REPORT 2022-11-10 11:47:39

A newlywed couple died after being electrocuted at their house in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka early Thursday. The couple — Ismail, 20, and his wife Kajal Akter, 18 — were residents of Ati...

CRDAP-BARD flagship training underway

CRDAP-BARD flagship training underway

-- 2022-11-10 09:36:50

The 1st Training Programme on Regional Integrated Rural Development, Governance, Trade and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific that began on November 5 will continue until November 24, say...

BD, Japan to form working group on trade, investment

BD, Japan to form working group on trade, investment

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-11-10 09:31:43

A joint working group of Bangladesh and Japan will be formed to identify sectors of mutual interest under a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) to be signed during Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina's upco...

MFS can help ‘bring more remittances’

MFS can help ‘bring more remittances’

FE REPORT 2022-11-10 09:09:59

The mobile financial services (MFS) can help stabilise the country's rapidly shrinking foreign-currency reserves by bringing more remittance through formal channel, economists and experts said on Wedn...

Check evasions, raise tax-GDP ratio to 9.6pc, suggests IMF

Check evasions, raise tax-GDP ratio to 9.6pc, suggests IMF

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-11-10 09:08:18

Salaried individuals constitute less than one-third of the total individual taxpayers in Bangladesh despite drives by the revenue authority to ensure payroll-tax compliance, according to the country...

The FE's journey is on

The FE's journey is on

Shamsul Huq Zahid 2022-11-10 08:52:56

The Financial Express (FE), the country's first and largest-circulated English financial daily, steps into the 30th year of its publication today (Thursday). On this auspicious occasion, we express o...

HC asks to be vigilant to stop illegal establishments at Cox’s Bazar sea beach

HC asks to be vigilant to stop illegal establishments at Cox’s Bazar sea beach

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-09 18:44:18

The High Court has directed government bodies to be vigilant in preventing illegal occupation and construction of structures in the Cox's Bazar Sea Beach area. It also asked for efforts to implemen...

Five more dengue patients die in 24 hours

Five more dengue patients die in 24 hours

-- 2022-11-09 18:01:12

With five more deaths reported in 24 hours, until Wednesday morning, this year's dengue fatalities climbed to 187. This year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease reached 182 on Tuesda...

Bangabandhu Tunnel to open partially this month, says Quader

Bangabandhu Tunnel to open partially this month, says Quader

-- 2022-11-09 17:51:20

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, being constructed beneath the Karnaphuli River, will be opened partially this month. "I think...

European Commissioner Ylva Johansson due Thursday

European Commissioner Ylva Johansson due Thursday

-- 2022-11-09 16:59:01

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Thursday morning on a two-day official visit to discuss issues of mutual interest with a special focus on secur...

Bangladesh reports 62 more Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh reports 62 more Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2022-11-09 16:43:50

Bangladesh has recorded 62 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,035,992. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,426 over the 24-hour period, accordi...

UN expert for monitoring recruitment process of migrant workers’ rights

UN expert for monitoring recruitment process of migrant workers’ rights

-- 2022-11-09 16:31:26

UN Special Rapporteur Siobhan Mullally has sought urgent attention on the monitoring situation in countries receiving migrant workers to ensure protection of their rights. "There is a lot of attentio...

Three more Jama'atul Ansar members arrested in Narayanganj

Three more Jama'atul Ansar members arrested in Narayanganj

-- 2022-11-09 15:56:33

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested three more members of new militant outfit Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya from the signboard area of ​​Narayanganj. The arrestees are Abdul Hadi Sumon,...

Study in China: Students allowed to pay tuition fees

Study in China: Students allowed to pay tuition fees

-- 2022-11-09 15:25:50

The central bank has allowed banks to assist Bangladeshi students in China pay their tuition fees. Bangladesh Bank issued a circular in this regard on Wednesday. According to the circular, Banglades...

Two Bangladeshis reportedly killed in BSF firing at Lalmonirhat border

Two Bangladeshis reportedly killed in BSF firing at Lalmonirhat border

-- 2022-11-09 13:28:36

Two Bangladeshis have reportedly been shot dead by the Indian border guard force BSF at the Aditmari border in Lalmonirhat. The incident occurred at the Mahishtali border area early on Wednesday morn...

Police look for answers to unearth BUET student murder mystery

Police look for answers to unearth BUET student murder mystery

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-09 12:30:08

Police are seeking answers to a number of questions surrounding the killing of Fardin Noor Parash, a student at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET. The 24-year-old left h...

BB relaxes clause on general credit limit

BB relaxes clause on general credit limit

FE REPORT 2022-11-09 09:35:56

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has relaxed the condition regarding general credit limit to the coal-based electricity-producing companies for ensuring uninterrupted credit flow to such power plants. Issuin...

Japan market shows promises for BD women caregivers

Japan market shows promises for BD women caregivers

ARAFAT ARA 2022-11-09 09:31:55

Japan has emerged as a potential market for Bangladeshi women jobseekers in the caregiving sector, following a high demand for such professionals in that country. The East Asian nation has a growin...

All entities need to play proper role

All entities need to play proper role

FE REPORT 2022-11-09 09:29:19

United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Tuesday said his country is interested in a free and fair election in Bangladesh. "The USA does not care who wins the elections, but rather cares...

Renewables on fast track amid fuel crisis

Renewables on fast track amid fuel crisis

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2022-11-09 09:20:42

Renewables come on fast track in contract awarding to generate around 1,000 megawatts of electricity to manage power shortage in Bangladesh for fossil-fuel crisis. Officials say the government recent...

Indian Coast Guard hands over 26 rescued fishermen

Indian Coast Guard hands over 26 rescued fishermen

-- 2022-11-08 21:05:26

Twenty-six Bangladeshi fishermen who were caught in a storm in the Bay of Bengal and were rescued by the Indian Coast Guard later returned to the country on Tuesday through the Benapole checkpoint. A...

HC for summary trial in money embezzlement cases

HC for summary trial in money embezzlement cases

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-08 20:30:08

The High Court has observed that there should be a summary trial in the cases of money embezzlement. While hearing three bail petitions filed by an accused of corruption cases filed in connection w...

Bangladesh broadens its sources for energy supply: FM

Bangladesh broadens its sources for energy supply: FM

-- 2022-11-08 18:59:37

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said the government broadened its network of sources for energy supply through successful discussions with a number of friendly countries. "We had limited s...

Dengue death surpasses previous record with five more deaths

Dengue death surpasses previous record with five more deaths

-- 2022-11-08 18:06:26

With five more deaths reported in 24 hours till Tuesday morning this year's fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease Dengue reached 182, exceeding all previous records in Bangladesh. Earlier the co...

Former state minister for environment Jafrul Islam dies in Chattogram

Former state minister for environment Jafrul Islam dies in Chattogram

-- 2022-11-08 17:52:22

Jafrul Islam Chowdhury, former state minister for environment and forest and ex-president of Chattogram south district BNP, died on Tuesday at a hospital in the port city. He was 72. Chowdhury, who h...

BUET student Fardin was murdered, doctors say

BUET student Fardin was murdered, doctors say

-- 2022-11-08 17:30:47

Autopsy of BUET student Fardin Noor Parash, who was found dead in the Shitalakkhya river, has revealed that he was tortured and murdered, doctors said. Fardin died three days ago, Sheikh Farhad, a re...

Flood affected children in Bangladesh, other countries highest in 30 years

Flood affected children in Bangladesh, other countries highest in 30 years

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-08 17:17:22

The numbers of children affected by flooding in Bangladesh, Chad, Gambia, and Pakistan are the highest in over 30 years, according to a latest UNICEF report. As COP27 gets underway in Egypt, UNICEF a...

Bangladesh logs 48 Covid cases, no deaths

Bangladesh logs 48 Covid cases, no deaths

-- 2022-11-08 16:35:17

Bangladesh has recorded 48 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,035,930. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,426 over the 24-hour period, accordi...

US hopes BD to choose its govt through fair polls

US hopes BD to choose its govt through fair polls

-- 2022-11-08 16:29:19

The United States (US) has expressed hope that the people of Bangladesh will “ultimately be able to choose” their own government through free and fair elections. “We hope for a robu...