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Soybean oil price goes up again

Soybean oil price goes up again

-- 2022-06-09 22:26:59

The price of soybean oil has increased once again, despite the commerce minister’s recent suggestion that they were about to ease.The Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners & Vanaspati Manufactur...

Bus fares on 13 routes raised as government includes Padma Bridge toll

Bus fares on 13 routes raised as government includes Padma Bridge toll

-- 2022-06-09 20:38:06

The government has raised the bus fares on 13 routes adding the toll fixed for crossing the Padma Multipurpose Bridge to go to different south-western districts. Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (...

BRT project from Airport to Mohakhali under consideration, says Kamal

BRT project from Airport to Mohakhali under consideration, says Kamal

-- 2022-06-09 20:12:05

Construction of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) to Mohakhali is under consideration of the government. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal informed this in h...

Fuel, fertiliser subsidies up by 24pc

Fuel, fertiliser subsidies up by 24pc

-- 2022-06-09 19:45:03

The government has allocated Tk 827.45 billion as subsidies for fuel and fertiliser, accounting for 1.9 per cent of the GDP in the budget for the financial year 2022-23.The allocation is Tk 199.2 bill...

HC admits Gen Harun’s appeal, rejects bail in Destiny scam case

HC admits Gen Harun’s appeal, rejects bail in Destiny scam case

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-09 17:42:44

The High Court on Thursday admitted an appeal petition for hearing filed by Destiny Group President and also former Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid against his four years jail senten...

Humanitarian principles exhibition begins in Cox's Bazar

Humanitarian principles exhibition begins in Cox's Bazar

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-09 17:39:47

The Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh have jointly brought the exhibition ‘Humanitarian Princ...

Bangladesh reports 59 Covid cases, zero deaths

Bangladesh reports 59 Covid cases, zero deaths

-- 2022-06-09 17:01:00

Bangladesh registered 59 new Covid cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning taking the country's total caseload to 1,953,871. The country's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,131 as no death wa...

RAB arrests RSRM boss Maksudur Rahman, a loan defaulter

RAB arrests RSRM boss Maksudur Rahman, a loan defaulter

-- 2022-06-09 10:51:54

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested Ratanpur Steel Re-rolling Mill Managing Director Maksudur Rahman in Gulshan on charges of loan delinquency. The elite force raided his house around 11 pm on...

Old Buriganga channel re-excavation may begin this month

Old Buriganga channel re-excavation may begin this month

-- 2022-06-08 22:09:00

The re-excavation work of the Old Channel of the Buriganga River may start this month, said Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Fazle Nur Taposh on Wednesday. The mayor gave the information...

Gayeshwar says people facing ‘great misery’ due to price hike

Gayeshwar says people facing ‘great misery’ due to price hike

-- 2022-06-08 22:02:58

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Wednesday alleged that the government has inflicted ‘great misery’ on the country’s people by increasing the prices of all esse...

Six-point demand was a stepping stone of liberation war, says Joy

Six-point demand was a stepping stone of liberation war, says Joy

-- 2022-06-08 21:55:52

Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said the historic six-point demand was a Bengali nationalist movement in the then East Pakistan spearheaded by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,...

HC stays DU Prof Rahmat Ullah`s suspention

HC stays DU Prof Rahmat Ullah`s suspention

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-08 20:27:25

The High Court has postponed the decision of the suspension of Prof Md Rahmat Ullah, President of the Dhaka University Teachers’ Association (DUTA), from academic and administrative duties by th...

Supreme Court chamber judge upholds Anjan Chowdhury’s bail

Supreme Court chamber judge upholds Anjan Chowdhury’s bail

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-08 20:24:15

Supreme Court’s chamber judge on Wednesday upheld a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Anjan Chowdhury, one of the key stakeholders of the Square Group, for six weeks in a case f...

US wants fair, participatory elections in Bangladesh: US envoy

US wants fair, participatory elections in Bangladesh: US envoy

-- 2022-06-08 20:07:54

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Wednesday reiterated his country’s expectation to see a free and participatory election in Bangladesh with people’s participation. “The US...

Railway to run special mango train from on June 13

Railway to run special mango train from on June 13

-- 2022-06-08 18:52:40

A ‘special mango train’ will operate on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route from June 13 to transport mangoes at lower cost, said authority on Wednesday. The special train will start its journe...

Vehicular movement on Padma Bridge to be open June 26

Vehicular movement on Padma Bridge to be open June 26

-- 2022-06-08 17:24:40

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the long-cherished Padma Bridge will open for vehicular movement on June 26, a day after its inauguration on June 25. He said this while ex...

Rangamati journalist gets bail in digital security case

Rangamati journalist gets bail in digital security case

-- 2022-06-08 17:10:33

Fazle Elahi, the editor of a local online news website in Rangamati, has secured bail in a case under the controversial Digital Security Act. Rangamati's Senior Judicial Magistrate Fatema Begum Mukta...

Bangladesh logs 58 Covid cases, no deaths

Bangladesh logs 58 Covid cases, no deaths

-- 2022-06-08 16:59:33

Bangladesh has recorded 58 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,812. But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the...

Bangladesh, Hungary ink MoU for nuclear energy cooperation

Bangladesh, Hungary ink MoU for nuclear energy cooperation

-- 2022-06-08 16:39:16

Bangladesh and Hungary have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of training and education of the atomic industry on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Bangladesh...

Police can requisition vehicles  only for public interest and  not for personal use: HC   

Police can requisition vehicles only for public interest and not for personal use: HC  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-06-08 16:23:33

The High Court has issued a set of guidelines to protect people, in particular drivers and vehicle owners from being unnecessarily and arbitrarily harassed or prejudiced by police members in the gra...

Sitakunda fire: Police file case of negligence against eight BM Depot officials

Sitakunda fire: Police file case of negligence against eight BM Depot officials

-- 2022-06-08 15:50:19

Police have filed a case against eight suspects over the inferno at the BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda. The case was filed at Sitakunda Police Station under Section 304(a) of the...

After 86 hours, firefighters put out BM Depot fire

After 86 hours, firefighters put out BM Depot fire

-- 2022-06-08 14:55:20

After taking at least 44 lives and causing untold damage, the blaze at the BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda has been extinguished, 86 hours after it first sparked. “The fire h...

From 'root' to the top

From 'root' to the top

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-06-08 13:55:43

Joe Root flips the ball to mid-wicket; the ball kept running and so did he. Ajaz Patel stopped the ball but couldn’t stop a couple of runs for Root. A couple of runs to reach his 26th Test cent...

Death toll in Chattogram container depot fire hits 44

Death toll in Chattogram container depot fire hits 44

-- 2022-06-08 11:59:17

The death toll in the fire at a container depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda has risen to 44 after a victim succumbed to his burns while undergoing treatment at a hospital. The victim passed awa...

Parliament passes Bangladesh Tourism Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022

Parliament passes Bangladesh Tourism Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022

-- 2022-06-07 23:25:37

The Bangladesh Tourism Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 was passed in Parliament on Tuesday aiming to boost revenue from the tourism sector. State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub A...

E-passport holders can now complete immigration procedures in 18 seconds

E-passport holders can now complete immigration procedures in 18 seconds

-- 2022-06-07 21:29:15

Authorities have installed electronic immigration gates (e-gates) at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka to reduce time of completing immigration procedures. Bangladeshi holders of electr...

Instability may lead to factory closure: PM to agitating RMG workers

Instability may lead to factory closure: PM to agitating RMG workers

-- 2022-06-07 20:05:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said readymade garment factory workers are being instigated to stage protests and warned that instability in the export-focused sector will lead to closures. “[...

Kuwait can recruit more health staff from Bangladesh, says Shahriar Alam

Kuwait can recruit more health staff from Bangladesh, says Shahriar Alam

-- 2022-06-07 19:28:31

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam has said Kuwait can recruit more medical professionals including nurses, and medical technicians from Bangladesh. He discussed the issue when th...

Chattogram port auctions off 30,450 litres of hydrogen peroxide after Sitakunda fire

Chattogram port auctions off 30,450 litres of hydrogen peroxide after Sitakunda fire

-- 2022-06-07 19:26:01

The customs authorities in Chattogram have auctioned off 30,450 litres of hydrogen peroxide sitting idly at the port for four years, only a day after the same chemical agent fed into a fire that burne...

SC realises Tk 10m fine from FMC O2 Limited

SC realises Tk 10m fine from FMC O2 Limited

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-06-07 18:47:44

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a High Court order that fined Tk 10 million to private company FMC O2 Limited on a charge of abusing a court order of ad-interim injunctio...