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Beneficiaries of illegal connections ‘kill’ BREB official during drive

Beneficiaries of illegal connections ‘kill’ BREB official during drive

-- 2022-06-11 22:22:26

Police have detained five suspects over the alleged murder of a worker of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board or BREB during a drive to disconnect illegal power lines in Bogura’s Shibganj. T...

Fully digitised judiciary system within two years, says Palak

Fully digitised judiciary system within two years, says Palak

-- 2022-06-11 21:31:38

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the country's judiciary system will be made fully digitised within the next two years. 'E-Judidicary', a...

CID recovers 10 DVR machines from BM container depot

CID recovers 10 DVR machines from BM container depot

-- 2022-06-11 19:58:46

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has recovered 10 digital video recording (DVR) machines from the IT room of the BM container depot at Sitakunda in Chattogram. The CID team collected infor...

PM questions why some people can't accept development

PM questions why some people can't accept development

-- 2022-06-11 19:29:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said some people of the country can't accept any development and achievement in Bangladesh. "Why do a group of people feel pain in their hearts seeing the dev...

Khaleda undergoes angioplasty with stenting after ‘mild’ heart attack

Khaleda undergoes angioplasty with stenting after ‘mild’ heart attack

-- 2022-06-11 19:20:47

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has undergone angioplasty with stenting at a hospital in Dhaka after she suffered a heart attack, prompting the party to reiterate its demand that she be allowed to receive...

EPI 2022: Bangladesh's position slips 15 notches to 177th

EPI 2022: Bangladesh's position slips 15 notches to 177th

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-11 19:14:31

Bangladesh has ranked 177 out of 180 countries in reducing environmental pollution, the global Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2022 report, showed. The country’s position in the index dec...

Scientific symposium on hypertension held

Scientific symposium on hypertension held

-- 2022-06-11 18:38:33

Hypertension is the leading cause of death worldwide. An estimated 1.28 billion people are hypertensive and two-third of them are living in low and middle-income countries.  In Bangladesh, almos...

Dhaka-Sylhet rail communication restored after three hours

Dhaka-Sylhet rail communication restored after three hours

-- 2022-06-11 18:23:36

Rail communication on the Dhaka-Sylhet route was restored Saturday afternoon after three hours of suspension following a fire incident on a train in Srimangal of Moulvibazar district, authorities said...

Bangladesh reports 71 new Covid cases, no deaths

Bangladesh reports 71 new Covid cases, no deaths

-- 2022-06-11 17:15:04

Bangladesh has registered 71 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,954,006. But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from t...

68.6pc girls in Dhaka slums face violence while using toilets

68.6pc girls in Dhaka slums face violence while using toilets

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-11 15:29:01

Adolescent girls and young women in urban slum areas feel unsafe while bathing in open spaces. Infrastructural challenges cause the risk of sexual harassment and violence, a recent survey result has...

Fire engulfs carriages on Parabat Express train, snapping rail links to Sylhet

Fire engulfs carriages on Parabat Express train, snapping rail links to Sylhet

-- 2022-06-11 15:11:01

A fire has swept through two carriages of the ‘Parabat Express’ train, snapping rail links from Sylhet to the rest of the country, bdnews24.com reports. The train was near the Shamsernaga...

Khaleda Zia to get angiogram test after hospitalisation

Khaleda Zia to get angiogram test after hospitalisation

-- 2022-06-11 14:36:00

A team of doctors overseeing the care of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital has recommended an angiogram test to check the condition of her heart, bdnews24.com reports. Th...

Sheikh Hasina's release day from prison being observed

Sheikh Hasina's release day from prison being observed

-- 2022-06-11 14:31:48

The 14th anniversary of release of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from prison is being observed today, June 11, 2022, BSS reports. On this day in 2008, Sheikh Hasina was rele...

Khaleda Zia rushed to hospital at midnight

Khaleda Zia rushed to hospital at midnight

-- 2022-06-11 08:58:27

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been rushed to hospital in the dead of the night after she was taken ill, her personal physician says. “She suddenly fell ill at her Gulshan home. We rushed her...

Farmer commits suicide after 'failing to pay loans due to crop damage'

Farmer commits suicide after 'failing to pay loans due to crop damage'

-- 2022-06-10 23:14:37

A 32-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Sogunia village in Sherpur Upazila in Bogura, his family said on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Karim, son of Jura...

Fakhrul describes proposed budget as friendly to looters

Fakhrul describes proposed budget as friendly to looters

-- 2022-06-10 23:03:51

Slamming the government for offering an amnesty to plunderers, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday described the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023 as friendly to lo...

Provision of legalising laundered money to discourage taxpayers, says TIB

Provision of legalising laundered money to discourage taxpayers, says TIB

-- 2022-06-10 22:51:13

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to withdraw the proposed budgetary provision of allowing launderers to legalise their undeclared money, saying such provision will...

Price of divorce stamp to be increased to Tk 2,000 from Tk 500

Price of divorce stamp to be increased to Tk 2,000 from Tk 500

-- 2022-06-10 22:30:46

The cost of the divorce instrument is likely to increase as Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal proposed changes in the Stamp Act in the FY2022-23 budget. According to the proposal, the price of the d...

Dhaka north city mayor vows to mitigate water-logging at any cost

Dhaka north city mayor vows to mitigate water-logging at any cost

-- 2022-06-10 20:41:15

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam has expressed determination to mitigate water-logging at any cost to alleviate the suffering of the city-dwellers. "Measures will be taken to al...

Momen hopeful overcoming challenges to achieve 7.5pc GDP

Momen hopeful overcoming challenges to achieve 7.5pc GDP

-- 2022-06-10 20:41:09

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said Bangladesh will overcome challenges to attain the proposed budget's GDP target of 7.5 per cent. "Bangladesh is in our heart. We believe we will be able...

UN agency urges Bangladesh to renew Odhikar’s registration

UN agency urges Bangladesh to renew Odhikar’s registration

-- 2022-06-10 19:46:32

The United Nations human rights agency has called on the government to reconsider the decision to not approve the renewal of registration for Odhikar, a human rights organisation in Bangladesh. The g...

'List of educational institutions under MPO within a week'

'List of educational institutions under MPO within a week'

-- 2022-06-10 19:03:12

Education Minister Dipu Moni on Friday said the government would publish a list of educational institutions within a week for bringing them under the government's pay order. "We think we'll be able t...

FinMin defends govt's plan to give scope to legalise smuggled money

FinMin defends govt's plan to give scope to legalise smuggled money

-- 2022-06-10 18:26:39

In the face of mounting criticism, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has defended the government's plan to give Bangladeshis scope to legalising unreported offshore assets without facing any question...

Musa on six-day remand over Shahjahanpur double murder

Musa on six-day remand over Shahjahanpur double murder

-- 2022-06-10 17:51:25

A court in Dhaka on Friday placed Sumon Shikder Musa, believed to be the mastermind behind the recent murder of Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afrin Prity in capital&...

Rogue cop opens fire near Bangladesh mission in Kolkata, two killed

Rogue cop opens fire near Bangladesh mission in Kolkata, two killed

-- 2022-06-10 17:21:46

A policeman deployed at Bangladesh's Deputy High Commission in Kolkata went on a shooting spree on Friday afternoon, killing a woman passer-by and wounding two others before turning the self-loading r...

Bangladesh reports 64 new Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh reports 64 new Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2022-06-10 17:03:36

Bangladesh has recorded 64 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,935. But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the...

Rohingya leader hacked to death in Cox’s Bazar

Rohingya leader hacked to death in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2022-06-10 16:06:47

A Rohingya leader of the Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar has been hacked to death allegedly over establishing dominance in the camp, the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) sai...

Bangladesh-India bus services resume after two years

Bangladesh-India bus services resume after two years

-- 2022-06-10 15:57:18

Cross-border bus services between Bangladesh and India via ICP Agartala-Akhaura and ICP Haridaspur-Benapole resumed on Friday. The bus services had been suspended for nearly two years due to COVID-19...

Musa 'admits' role in murder of AL leader Tipu, say police

Musa 'admits' role in murder of AL leader Tipu, say police

-- 2022-06-10 14:14:32

Sumon Sikdar Musa has 'confessed' to his involvement in the plot to murder Motijheel Awami League league leader Jahidul Islam Tipu, according to the police, bdnews24.com reports. "He confessed to bei...

Ambassador Rabab Fatima appointed as UN Under-Secretary-General

Ambassador Rabab Fatima appointed as UN Under-Secretary-General

FE REPORT 2022-06-10 12:00:59

Ambassador Rabab Fatima, the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, has been appointed as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Representative for the L...