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Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Maldives asked to collect visas

Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Maldives asked to collect visas

-- 2022-07-01 16:04:35

The Bangladeshi High Commission in the Maldives has asked all illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in the country to collect visas or work permits on an urgent basis. The process for visa or work pe...

Bangladesh@50: Water story photo book launched in Netherlands

Bangladesh@50: Water story photo book launched in Netherlands

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-01 14:34:28

Dutch water envoy Henk Ovink, and Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Riaz Hamidullah launched a unique book capturing award-winning photos from young Bangladeshi and Dutch photographers in Delft...

Another Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim dies

Another Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim dies

-- 2022-07-01 13:12:06

Another Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim has died in Saudi Arabia, pushing the death toll to eight in the last 25 days. Fatema Begum, 59, died on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Religious Affairs. She...

Eid advance train ticket sales begin

Eid advance train ticket sales begin

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-01 11:35:48

The sale of advance train tickets for Eid-ul-Azha began today (Friday) morning. Bangladesh Railway started selling advance train tickets for July 5 at six places in Dhaka -- Kamalapur, Kamalapur subu...

Major rivers swell again in northeastern region

Major rivers swell again in northeastern region

-- 2022-07-01 09:29:13

Flood claimed four more lives in the country in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the total fatalities to 92, report agencies. Al the latest victim died by drowning in floodwater in Sherpur, Su...

Eid trips: Ride-sharers put on alert for road rage

Eid trips: Ride-sharers put on alert for road rage

FE REPORT 2022-07-01 08:39:31

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has directed ride-share companies to alert their listed motorbikers to casualties on highways during Eid trips. The advisory comes following increased f...

New bus fares for SW dists in force

New bus fares for SW dists in force

FE REPORT 2022-07-01 08:35:30

Bus fares for southwestern districts through Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga expressway have been revised six days into the previous rates fixed as toll collection from the country's first freeway starts today (Fri...

Rooppur power evacuation project faces problem

Rooppur power evacuation project faces problem

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2022-07-01 08:32:39

With the vital power-evacuation project getting into trouble, uncertainty hovers over commissioning of the maiden nuclear power plant in Bangladesh even after its completion. Sources say transmission...

JS passes growth-centric budget with high deficit

JS passes growth-centric budget with high deficit

FE REPORT 2022-07-01 08:14:41

Parliament passed Thursday a growth-centric hugely deficit national budget which critics say should have been more welfare-oriented to protect people from woes in the crisis time. The Tk 6.78-trill...

Moon sighted, Eid-ul-Azha on July 10

Moon sighted, Eid-ul-Azha on July 10

-- 2022-06-30 20:18:13

Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on Jul 10 as the moon for the month of Zil Hajj has been sighted. The National Moon Sighting Committee announced the date in a meeting at Baitul Mukarram Natio...

Lack of implementation of law turns the rivers into canals: BAPA Secretary

Lack of implementation of law turns the rivers into canals: BAPA Secretary

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-30 19:25:22

Non-implementation of law by deputy commissioners is turning rivers into canals, said Sharif Jamil, general secretary, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) on Wednesday. "We have the law of 1950, the p...

Chattogram, Gazipur, Barishal and Rangpur get new police commissioners

Chattogram, Gazipur, Barishal and Rangpur get new police commissioners

-- 2022-06-30 18:27:23

The government has appointed new commissioners of police to Chattogram, Gazipur, Barishal and Rangpur in a major shake-up of the law-enforcement agency. In a notice on Thursday, as cited by bdnews24....

Specialised hospital for Rohingya, host community start operations in Ukhiya

Specialised hospital for Rohingya, host community start operations in Ukhiya

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-30 18:18:44

A new specialised hospital in Ukhiya, funded by the UN Refugee Agency, began operations on Thursday, says a press release. To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the UN,...

HC wants details of payment to Grameen Telecom employees

HC wants details of payment to Grameen Telecom employees

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-30 18:18:26

The High Court has directed the parties to submit a statement jointly regarding the due payments of the employees of the Grameen Telecom, an organisation owned by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yun...

Accused in Ashulia teacher's murder is not a minor, says RAB

Accused in Ashulia teacher's murder is not a minor, says RAB

-- 2022-06-30 17:27:53

Although it had been assumed that the student charged with the murder of teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker in Ashulia was a minor, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has now revealed that he is, in fact, 19 ye...

PMO inks APA with its seven bodies

PMO inks APA with its seven bodies

-- 2022-06-30 17:26:52

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has signed the Annual Performance Agreement (APA) with its seven organisations for fiscal 2022-23 aimed at implementing the government's development goals under an ef...

Bangladesh logs 2,183 new Covid cases, four deaths

Bangladesh logs 2,183 new Covid cases, four deaths

-- 2022-06-30 17:14:09

Bangladesh has recorded 2,183 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,973,6785. The death toll from the disease climbed by four in 24 hours to 29,419, according to the...

HC issues rule over giving birth certificate to all street children

HC issues rule over giving birth certificate to all street children

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-30 16:29:12

The High Court has issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain as to why the respondents should not be directed to take necessary steps as per the existing law and rules to is...

Saudi Riyals worth Tk 60m seized at Dhaka airport

Saudi Riyals worth Tk 60m seized at Dhaka airport

-- 2022-06-30 15:50:40

Customs Intelligence authorities have seized 2.29 million Saudi Riyals worth Tk 60 million from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), officials said. Customs officials said on Thursday that...

Flood situation worsening again as major rivers continue to rise

Flood situation worsening again as major rivers continue to rise

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-30 15:16:50

Bangladesh’s flood situation in different parts of the country is deteriorating further as all the major rivers in the country are in a rising trend with at least nine rivers of the county...

Covered van veers off road, kills five pedestrians in Narsingdi

Covered van veers off road, kills five pedestrians in Narsingdi

-- 2022-06-30 15:02:02

Five pedestrians have died after a covered van veered out of control and ran them over in Narsingdi's Raipura Upazila. The incident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Mahmudabad at around 8:00...

Comply with EDF loan settlement instructions

Comply with EDF loan settlement instructions

FE REPORT 2022-06-30 08:46:08

The central bank on Wednesday advised the authorised dealers (ADs) to comply with the instructions in settlement of Export Development Fund (EDF) loans. Bangladesh Bank (BB) also, in a circular, aske...

Sanctions minor issue compared to depth of US-BD ties: US envoy

Sanctions minor issue compared to depth of US-BD ties: US envoy

FE REPORT 2022-06-30 08:43:44

A sanction is a minor issue compared to the hugeness of the United States and Bangladesh relations, US Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Haas said on Wednesday. All should concentrate on the positive sides o...

BB unveils 'cautious' MPS today

BB unveils 'cautious' MPS today

SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-06-30 08:32:38

The central bank is set to unveil a 'cautious' monetary policy for the next fiscal year (FY), 2022-23, today (Thursday) - to curb inflation without hampering the country's economic growth, officials s...

Check waste, make dev works public money's worth

Check waste, make dev works public money's worth

FE REPORT 2022-06-30 08:26:25

Economists at a meet censure cost escalation of development works in Bangladesh for flaws all through and say good value for the public money ought to be ensured in executing infrastructure projects....

BTRC places indefinite suspension on sale of GP SIM cards

BTRC places indefinite suspension on sale of GP SIM cards

-- 2022-06-29 21:21:27

The telecom regulator has placed an indefinite suspension on the SIM card sale of Grameenphone for the operator's failure to provide quality service. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commi...

RAB arrests tenth-grader student over killing of teacher in Savar

RAB arrests tenth-grader student over killing of teacher in Savar

-- 2022-06-29 20:45:56

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested the teenage student accused of killing a college teacher in Savar’s Ashulia. The law enforcers arrested the tenth-grader in Gazipur’s Sreepur...

BR to run cattle train on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route

BR to run cattle train on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route

-- 2022-06-29 19:00:37

The Ministry of Railways has decided to run a special cattle train from Chapainawabganj to Dhaka via Rajshahi for ferrying sacrificial animals from July 6 to 8 ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha. "We have take...

Rape victim appears in HC: Accused BGB member asked to surrender in four weeks

Rape victim appears in HC: Accused BGB member asked to surrender in four weeks

FE Online Report 2022-06-29 18:53:07

The High Court on Wednesday ordered a rape accused, Md Akhteruzzaman who is also a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), to surrender to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Nil...

HC orders to form medical board for Destiny president Harun

HC orders to form medical board for Destiny president Harun

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-29 18:15:00

The High Court has ordered the concerned bodies of the government to form a medical board for the treatment of Destiny Group President and also former Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rash...