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Public transport in Dhaka collects Tk 1.82b per day as additional fare

Public transport in Dhaka collects Tk 1.82b per day as additional fare

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-09-13 19:00:32

Public transport in Dhaka collects an additional fare of Tk 1.82 billion per day from passengers, causing fare anarchy, commodity price hikes, social unrest and crime, experts said on Passenger Rights...

HC extends stay of fine on shohoz.com

HC extends stay of fine on shohoz.com

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-13 18:54:48

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday extended for two months its earlier order that stayed the fine of Tk 0.2 million imposed by the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) on ticketing p...

Country-wide assessment of WASH for persons with disabilities, elderly launched

Country-wide assessment of WASH for persons with disabilities, elderly launched

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-13 18:46:07

A country-wide assessment programme has been launched to understand the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) accessibility of persons with disabilities and the elderly. icddr,b, in collaboration wit...

Flour packets under OMS from Oct 1

Flour packets under OMS from Oct 1

-- 2022-09-13 18:08:59

The government will start open market sale (OMS) of flour packets across the country from October 1, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said Tuesday. The process of packaging flour for OMS has alr...

Bangladesh clearly ahead of US in vaccination programmes: Peter Haas

Bangladesh clearly ahead of US in vaccination programmes: Peter Haas

-- 2022-09-13 18:05:38

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas has highly appreciated Bangladesh’s Covid-19 handling and vaccination programme, saying that those were ‘remarkable’ and ‘really amazing'...

Police press charges against ex-SP Babul Akter, six others in wife's murder

Police press charges against ex-SP Babul Akter, six others in wife's murder

-- 2022-09-13 17:59:05

The Police Bureau of Investigation has charged Babul Akter, a former superintendent of police, as the main suspect in a case he initiated over the murder of his wife, Mahmuda Akter Mitu, in Chattogram...

Bangladesh reports 435 new Covid cases, one death

Bangladesh reports 435 new Covid cases, one death

-- 2022-09-13 17:44:31

Bangladesh has recorded 435 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,015,743. The death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,335 over the 24-hour period, according t...

Light to moderate showers may continue until Thursday

Light to moderate showers may continue until Thursday

-- 2022-09-13 17:35:55

Rain is on the forecast for large swathes of Bangladesh, including Dhaka, as a land depression weakened into a well-marked low over the Bay of Bengal. High winds are expected to lash the country's so...

Sheikh Rehana's 67th birthday today

Sheikh Rehana's 67th birthday today

-- 2022-09-13 15:55:27

The 67th birthday of Sheikh Rehana, younger daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is today. Born at Mitford Hospital, Dhaka on September 13, 1956, Sheikh Rehana is the th...

PM pays homage to Queen Elizabeth II, signs condolence book

PM pays homage to Queen Elizabeth II, signs condolence book

-- 2022-09-13 15:07:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Sept 13, 2022) paid rich tributes to Queen Elizabeth II by placing wreath at her portrait at the British High Commission in Dhaka, BSS reports. The Prime Minister...

Rail links to Rajshahi restored after 9-hour disruption

Rail links to Rajshahi restored after 9-hour disruption

-- 2022-09-13 14:47:50

Rail connectivity between Rajshahi and the rest of the country has been restored nine hours after a Banglabandha Express train's carriage derailed near Sardah Railway Station, bdnews24.com repor...

Transport workers' strike in Sylhet hits commuters hard

Transport workers' strike in Sylhet hits commuters hard

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-13 12:59:52

Thousands of commuters in Sylhet have been hit, with buses staying off the roads since Tuesday morning in the wake of an indefinite strike called by Sylhet district transport workers. Sylhet district...

Mother, son die after eating pufferfish in Khulna

Mother, son die after eating pufferfish in Khulna

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-13 12:20:36

A mother and her son, who ate poisonous puffer fish, locally called "potka fish", died in Khulna's Batiaghata upazila on Monday evening. Pufferfish is considered a delicacy but can be fatal because o...

Tribunal hands down death sentence to Khalilur Rahman for war crimes in Netrokona

Tribunal hands down death sentence to Khalilur Rahman for war crimes in Netrokona

-- 2022-09-13 11:21:49

A tribunal has sentenced Khalilur Rahman, a commander of the anti-liberation Al-Badr force, to death for crimes against humanity in Netrokona during the Liberation War in 1971, bdnews24.com repo...

Drizzle fails to clean Dhaka's air

Drizzle fails to clean Dhaka's air

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-13 10:37:20

Dhaka's air quality continued to remain 'unhealthy for sensitive groups' on Tuesday despite intermittent late monsoon drizzle a day before. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 132 at 9:00am, the...

Dengue claims four more lives

Dengue claims four more lives

FE REPORT 2022-09-13 08:52:38

The mosquito-borne dengue fever claimed four more lives in the past 24 hours until Monday morning, taking the total fatalities to 37 this year. Newly 345 dengue patients were also hospitalised across...

Killers planned to kill MP Liton for months: RAB

Killers planned to kill MP Liton for months: RAB

-- 2022-09-12 21:42:18

The killers of Gaibandha MP Manjurul Islam Liton plotted the murder for months in 2016, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said after arresting a convict. They planned to kill Liton in October 2016...

Police will not sit idle if BNP men create anarchy: Obaidul Quader

Police will not sit idle if BNP men create anarchy: Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-09-12 21:28:12

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said accused BNP of intimidating the police force by making it a new opponent. "BNP is now making the country's police force a new opponent, wh...

BNP will come up with a different strategy of movement, says Mirza Abbas

BNP will come up with a different strategy of movement, says Mirza Abbas

-- 2022-09-12 21:21:46

BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Monday said their party leaders and activists will rather take bullets in chest, but will not leave the streets until the fall of the current government. Speaking at...

Body of Bangladeshi teenager handed over after five days

Body of Bangladeshi teenager handed over after five days

-- 2022-09-12 21:12:04

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday handed over the body of the Bangladeshi teenager who was shot dead by its members on Wednesday while the Bangladeshi prime minister was visiting India. A...

Dhaka airport's third terminal likely to be inaugurated in October next year

Dhaka airport's third terminal likely to be inaugurated in October next year

-- 2022-09-12 19:59:50

The third terminal of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka is likely to be inaugurated in October 2023 as almost 44.15 per cent work of the terminal has been completed. State Minister...

Bangladesh seeks additional supply of LNG from Qatar

Bangladesh seeks additional supply of LNG from Qatar

-- 2022-09-12 19:45:07

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has requested his Qatari counterpart Soltan bin Saad Al- Muraikhi to consider an additional supply of LNG to Bangladesh to meet the increasing deman...

Writ petition filed seeking Tk 100 million as compensation for Joj Mia

Writ petition filed seeking Tk 100 million as compensation for Joj Mia

-- 2022-09-12 19:36:44

A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) seeking Tk 100 million as compensation for Joj Mia, who was wrongfully tried on August 21, 2004, grenade attack case and spent five years in jail wit...

PM congratulates King Charles III on his accession to British throne

PM congratulates King Charles III on his accession to British throne

-- 2022-09-12 19:00:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has extended her heartiest felicitations to King Charles III on his accession to the throne as the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on beha...

Bangladesh needs to strengthen climate resilience in coastal zones: World Bank

Bangladesh needs to strengthen climate resilience in coastal zones: World Bank

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-12 18:27:40

With increasing climate risks, Bangladesh needs to continue investments to strengthen climate resilience in the coastal zones to protect the development gains, says a new World Bank report launched Mo...

Awami League strips Barishal MP Pankaj Nath of party posts

Awami League strips Barishal MP Pankaj Nath of party posts

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

Pankaj Nath, a ruling party MP from Barishal-4, has been removed from all his posts in the Awami League for 'breaching party discipline'. In a letter, the Awami League asked him to submit his respons...

PM for consolidating cooperation to check tech-based transnational crimes

PM for consolidating cooperation to check tech-based transnational crimes

-- 2022-09-12 18:03:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called for consolidating cooperation among the countries of the world to check anti-human activities and transnational organised crimes with the advent of newer...

PM to address the press Wednesday on her India visit

PM to address the press Wednesday on her India visit

-- 2022-09-12 17:57:03

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference on Wednesday afternoon on the outcome of her recent four-day visit to India. The press conference will start at 4pm, said PM's Press Secre...

WASA MD seeks permission to work remotely from US again

WASA MD seeks permission to work remotely from US again

-- 2022-09-12 17:08:30

Taqsem A Khan, the under-fire managing director of Dhaka WASA, has once again asked for permission to carry out his official work remotely from the United States. He is planning to travel to America...

Babul Akter seeks security as his prison cell ‘was searched illegally’

Babul Akter seeks security as his prison cell ‘was searched illegally’

-- 2022-09-12 17:01:15

Babul Akter, a former superintendent of police suspected of masterminding the murder of his wife Mahmuda Akter Mitu, has appealed to the court seeking the safety of his life after he alleged that his...