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July exports up by 8.55pc

July exports up by 8.55pc

FE Report 2019-08-21 10:11:07

Country's earnings from shipment of merchandise products grew by 8.55 per cent in the first month of the current fiscal year over the corresponding month of last fiscal. Bangladesh earned nearly...

Inflation inches up in July

Inflation inches up in July

FE Report 2019-08-21 10:07:08

The country's point-to-point inflation was recorded at 5.62 per cent in July, the first month of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, showing a rising trend, according to official data. In July...

No funded facility as pension liabilities keep galloping

No funded facility as pension liabilities keep galloping

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-08-21 09:59:19

The government's liabilities on account of pension for retiring officials are increasing due to having a much higher number of people than required in the top tier of the civil administration, people...

JS body suggests long-term plan for maintaining quality of Milk Vita

JS body suggests long-term plan for maintaining quality of Milk Vita

-- 2019-08-20 20:36:20

The Parliamentary Committee on Public Undertakings has recommended a long-term plan so that Bangladesh Milk Producers’ Co-Operative Union Ltd (Milk Vita), a state-owned pasteurised milk producin...

Narendra Modi invites Sheikh Hasina to visit India

Narendra Modi invites Sheikh Hasina to visit India

-- 2019-08-20 20:05:32

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina for a bilateral official visit to India in the first week of October next. “Visiting Indian Ext...

ECNEC clears 12 projects involving Tk 34.70b

ECNEC clears 12 projects involving Tk 34.70b

-- 2019-08-20 18:52:43

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved 12 projects, including 10 new ones, involving an overall estimated cost of Tk 34.70 billion. The approval, as per...

Dengue: Over 1,500 new patients hospitalised in 24 hours

Dengue: Over 1,500 new patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2019-08-20 18:15:31

Two more dengue patients died in Keraniganj of Dhaka and Faridpur district on Monday and some 1,572 patients were hospitalised with the mosquito borne disease in the last 24 hours till 8am on Tuesday,...

Old Dhaka likely to get 120,000 prepaid gas meters

Old Dhaka likely to get 120,000 prepaid gas meters

-- 2019-08-20 18:10:36

Some 120,000 prepaid gas meters are likely to be added to the ongoing project of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd (Tas Gas T&D) to install those in the southern part of capital...

Why Minni should not get bail, HC asks govt

Why Minni should not get bail, HC asks govt

-- 2019-08-20 16:48:26

The High Court has ordered the government to explain in seven days why Aysha Siddika Minni, the wife of Refat Shorif who was brutally killed in the broad daylight in Barguna, should not get bail. Jus...

NBR issues work order for 10,000 e-fiscal devices

NBR issues work order for 10,000 e-fiscal devices

-- 2019-08-20 16:22:07

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a work order to collect 10,000 Electronic Fiscal Device (EFD) to check value added tax (VAT) evasion at the retail and wholesale levels. The revenue authori...

Dengue outbreak: DNCC's combing operation begins

Dengue outbreak: DNCC's combing operation begins

-- 2019-08-20 14:15:31

Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Md Atiqul Islam on Tuesday said owners will be fined if Aedes larvae are found in houses under his city corporation after 20 days from today. He came up...

791 women raped, 46 murdered in Jan-July: ASK

791 women raped, 46 murdered in Jan-July: ASK

FE Online Report 2019-08-20 13:13:51

At least 791 women were raped and 46 others killed after rape in the first seven months of the current calendar year across the country, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish...

Cumilla road accident claims lives of two

Cumilla road accident claims lives of two

-- 2019-08-20 12:43:17

Two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Kursap on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Debidwar Upazila of Cumilla district on Tuesday morning. Inspector Monirul Islam, in-charge...

BD, India working on formulas to share 54 common rivers’ water

BD, India working on formulas to share 54 common rivers’ water

-- 2019-08-20 12:19:19

Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday said Bangladesh and India are working to find “mutually acceptable formulas” to share water from 54 shared rivers with...

'BD, UNHCR ready to start Rohingya repatriation Aug 22'

'BD, UNHCR ready to start Rohingya repatriation Aug 22'

-- 2019-08-20 11:15:17

The government and the UNHCR have taken all necessary steps to begin repatriation of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Myanmar's Rakhine State on August 22 (Thursday), an official said on Monday....

Bangladeshi dies in Riyadh road crash

Bangladeshi dies in Riyadh road crash

-- 2019-08-20 11:10:43

A Bangladeshi man has been killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia. The deceased was identified as Syed Md Nazrul Islam, 40, son of late Nurul Alam of Saroatali in Boalkhali upazila, repo...

Ride-sharing cos, not drivers, will pay VAT

Ride-sharing cos, not drivers, will pay VAT

FE Report 2019-08-20 11:03:15

The value added tax (VAT) on ride-sharing businesses will be payable only by the mobile app-based companies from their portion of service charges while the amount received by drivers or car owners wil...

No bar to gazette publication of 9th wage board for journos

No bar to gazette publication of 9th wage board for journos

-- 2019-08-20 10:43:23

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a High Court order on the ninth wage board for journalists for eight weeks, clearing the way for publication of gazette notification to this end. A four-member ben...

Services in civil admin below par on poor accountability

Services in civil admin below par on poor accountability

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-08-20 10:17:21

People are not getting the expected level of services from the existing top-heavy civil administration as the issue of accountability is still largely neglected. No effective measure of accountabilit...

Hospitals, health complexes  face shortage of dengue kits

Hospitals, health complexes face shortage of dengue kits

Our Correspondents 2019-08-20 00:00:00

SIRAJGANJ, Aug 19: With the rise in the number of dengue patients across the districts of Rajshahi division, Sadar hospitals and upazila health complexes are facing acute crisis of dengue kits. Civil...

Indian FM Jaishankar arrives in city

Indian FM Jaishankar arrives in city

-- 2019-08-19 22:35:54

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar arrived at the city on Monday night, aiming to further strengthen the relations between Bangladesh and India. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen recei...

Dengue claims six lives on Monday

Dengue claims six lives on Monday

-- 2019-08-19 22:08:00

Six people have died on Monday while undergoing treatment for dengue fever at hospitals across Bangladesh. The deaths were reported in Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensingh, Faridpur and Barishal, according to b...

Govt plans tougher punishment for polluters of Mongla port

Govt plans tougher punishment for polluters of Mongla port

-- 2019-08-19 21:50:27

The government is contemplating sending the environmental polluters at Mongla port to jail and/or slap them with financial penalty. To this end, the Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft...

Onion price soars at Hili owing to short supply

Onion price soars at Hili owing to short supply

-- 2019-08-19 20:00:28

Wholesale traders have hiked the onion price by Tk 10-11 per kg in Dinajpur on the excuse of short supply following the closure of Hili port for eight days on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. The importe...

Govt primary schools to come under midday-meal programme by 2023

Govt primary schools to come under midday-meal programme by 2023

-- 2019-08-19 19:47:24

The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the National School Meal Policy 2019, aiming to bring all the government primary schools under the midday-meal programme by 2023. The approval came at a ca...

DNCC conducts drives at Mohakhali, fines Partex Group

DNCC conducts drives at Mohakhali, fines Partex Group

FE Online Report 2019-08-19 19:07:16

A mobile court of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) conducted drives at city’s Mohakhali area on Monday aiming to curb dengue mosquito breeding grounds in the capital. The court also fined Tk...

Youth electrocuted in Rajshahi

Youth electrocuted in Rajshahi

-- 2019-08-19 17:02:06

A youth was electrocuted in a shop at Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as Jashim, 18, son of Hazrat Ali of Mohammadpur Joibattola village in the area. He pa...

Indian FM Jaishankar to arrive Monday night

Indian FM Jaishankar to arrive Monday night

-- 2019-08-19 16:49:19

Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar will arrive in Dhaka on Monday night on a three-day official visit, aiming to strengthen the relations between Bangladesh and India further. Foreign Minister Dr A...

SC order on 9th wage board gazette on Tuesday

SC order on 9th wage board gazette on Tuesday

-- 2019-08-19 16:17:02

The Supreme Court on Monday fixed Tuesday for passing an order on publication of gazette notification on the 9th wage board for journalists. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief...

ACC arrests another owner of FR Tower

ACC arrests another owner of FR Tower

-- 2019-08-19 15:30:35

The Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested engineer SMHI Faruk, one of the owners of fire-ravaged FR Tower of Banani in Dhaka, in a case over design forgery charges. A team of the anti-graft watchdo...