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Biman set to start online check-in from June 1 

Biman set to start online check-in from June 1 

-- 2022-05-23 21:32:52

Biman Bangladesh airlines is going to introduce on-line checking for its passengers from June 1.    The online check-in facilities will be available for the passengers of the domestic route...

Phensedyl falls under category of narcotics, says Supreme Court

Phensedyl falls under category of narcotics, says Supreme Court

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-23 21:27:37

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed that if codeine phosphate is used in any combination irrespective of the amount of codeine phosphate total combination has to be considered as...

Quader protests Fakhrul’s ‘ill-motivated’ comment on press freedom

Quader protests Fakhrul’s ‘ill-motivated’ comment on press freedom

-- 2022-05-23 20:23:06

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's ‘ill-motivated’ comment on press freedom is an exposure of BNP's new conspiracy a...

Court allows ACC to interrogate four NSU trustees at jail gate

Court allows ACC to interrogate four NSU trustees at jail gate

FE ONLINE REPORT  2022-05-23 20:15:43

A Dhaka court has allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate four members of North South University's (NSU) board of trustees at the jail gate for a day in a corruption case.  ...

Fakhrul urges PM to offer public apology for remark on Khaleda

Fakhrul urges PM to offer public apology for remark on Khaleda

-- 2022-05-23 20:15:30

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to offer a public apology for her recent remark on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alam...

No solution to Dhaka’s waterlogging in sight as monsoon approaches

No solution to Dhaka’s waterlogging in sight as monsoon approaches

-- 2022-05-23 19:00:19

With monsoon coming Dhaka dwellers brace for the same old problem: waterlogging. No effective measure has been taken yet for a comprehensive solution to the long-standing hazard of the mega city. Ex...

Poor, developing countries bearing brunt of Russia-Ukraine conflict: PM

Poor, developing countries bearing brunt of Russia-Ukraine conflict: PM

-- 2022-05-23 18:57:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said when the world was struggling to recover from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine came as a huge blow to the global econ...

Grameen Telecom employees withdraw all cases against Muhammad Yunus

Grameen Telecom employees withdraw all cases against Muhammad Yunus

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-23 18:36:06

All the cases filed by ‘Grameen Telecom union of workers and employees’ against Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and his organisation Grameen Telecom have been withdrawn from differ...

Over 1.5m children at risk as floods hit Bangladesh, says UNICEF

Over 1.5m children at risk as floods hit Bangladesh, says UNICEF

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-23 18:16:17

Over 1.5 million children are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to extensive flooding in north-eastern Bangladesh, according to UNICEF. The UN agency says it is...

Covid claims two lives, infects 31

Covid claims two lives, infects 31

-- 2022-05-23 17:56:36

Bangladesh has recorded two more deaths from Covid-19, taking the total toll from the disease to 29,130.  It also registered 31 cases of the virus in a day, raising the overall tally of infectio...

Haji Salim hospitalised a day after landing in jail

Haji Salim hospitalised a day after landing in jail

-- 2022-05-23 17:42:39

Awami League leader Haji Mohammad Salim has been hospitalised a day after he landed in jail following a High Court order that confirmed his 10-year imprisonment in a corruption case. Judge Shahidul I...

Speakers stress more effective tobacco taxation

Speakers stress more effective tobacco taxation

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-23 16:53:17

Speakers at a discussion have stressed more effective tobacco taxation for achieving the goal of building a tobacco-free country by 2040 as committed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Besides, they su...

HC directs to identify those involved in e-commerce scams

HC directs to identify those involved in e-commerce scams

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-23 16:48:12

The High Court on Monday directed the authorities concerned to identify the persons or government authorities whose negligence and failure caused serious financial loss and damage to millions of buyer...

Square Pharmaceuticals factory catches fire in Gazipur

Square Pharmaceuticals factory catches fire in Gazipur

-- 2022-05-23 16:08:36

A fire has broken out at a Square Pharmaceuticals factory in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir Upazila. The fire erupted inside the factory’s newly-introduced large-volume parenteral unit around 12:30...

Bangladesh reviews Russian proposal to procure oil from them

Bangladesh reviews Russian proposal to procure oil from them

-- 2022-05-23 15:49:57

Bangladesh is reviewing a Russian proposal to sell crude oil to the South Asian nation, according to State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. The United States, Britain an...

Flood situation still worsening

Flood situation still worsening

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-23 15:42:30

Flood situation in some parts of the country is still worsening as the water level in some rivers of different parts of Bangladesh may rise in the next 24 hours, according to a bulletin of the Flood F...

BFAA gen secy post: SC sets date to hear pleas filed by Nipun, Zayed

BFAA gen secy post: SC sets date to hear pleas filed by Nipun, Zayed

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-23 14:50:13

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has fixed June 5 for the hearing of the petitions filed by the parties over holding the post of General Secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes' Association...

Two killed, 15 injured in Netrokona road accident

Two killed, 15 injured in Netrokona road accident

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETROKONA 2022-05-23 11:31:17

At least two people were killed and 15 others injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck on the Netrokona-Mymensingh regional highway on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as bus driv...

Thrust on protecting waterbodies to end waterlogging

Thrust on protecting waterbodies to end waterlogging

FE REPORT 2022-05-23 10:50:23

Institute for Planning and Development (IPD) on Sunday urged the authorities concerned to protect the waterbodies in the capital and adjacent areas to put an end to waterlogging. Canals and other ope...

Bangladesh donates Tk 10 million to support vulnerable Afghan people

Bangladesh donates Tk 10 million to support vulnerable Afghan people

-- 2022-05-22 21:30:26

Bangladesh will provide Tk 10 million to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) as a grant considering the current acute food and other crises in Afghanistan....

Dhaka sends “note verbale” to Delhi on arrival of Rohingya from India

Dhaka sends “note verbale” to Delhi on arrival of Rohingya from India

-- 2022-05-22 21:27:34

Bangladesh has asked India to take measures to halt the entry of the Rohingya people as Dhaka reported the arrival of some Myanmar nationals in the past weeks. "We've sent a note verbale," Mashfee Bi...

Sylhet fish farm owners counting loss of Tk 21.73b due to flood

Sylhet fish farm owners counting loss of Tk 21.73b due to flood

-- 2022-05-22 21:22:02

A total of 18,749 fisheries, including enclosures and fish farms, in 11 Upazilas of Sylhet were inundated by the flash floods. Around 21.3 million fish fry and 2,305 tonnes of fish have washed away i...

PM urges World Health Assembly to declare vaccines as global goods

PM urges World Health Assembly to declare vaccines as global goods

-- 2022-05-22 20:23:06

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her call to treat vaccines as global public goods saying that sustainable recovery cannot be ensured by leaving millions behind in vaccination efforts...

44th BCS preliminary test on May 27, seat plan published  

44th BCS preliminary test on May 27, seat plan published  

-- 2022-05-22 18:57:00

Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has published seat plan for holding MCQ type preliminary test for the 44th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS)-2021 to be held on May 27.  The te...

PM stresses region-based development planning 

PM stresses region-based development planning 

-- 2022-05-22 18:33:37

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked for appropriate development planning taking into consideration the features of different regions.   "The characteristics of all areas of Banglades...

Flood-hit Sylhet dwellers suffer crisis of gas, power, drinking water 

Flood-hit Sylhet dwellers suffer crisis of gas, power, drinking water 

-- 2022-05-22 18:32:50

Lack of drinking water, gas and electricity has compounded the sufferings of flood-affected residents of Sylhet city about a week into the deluge. Several blocks under Power Development Board-2 in th...

Maldives opens way for undocumented Bangladeshis to get regularised

Maldives opens way for undocumented Bangladeshis to get regularised

-- 2022-05-22 18:26:36

The Maldives government has opened the way for undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers to get regularised. The Bangladesh High Commission in the archipelago urged the Bangladeshi migrant workers to...

Bangladesh logs 29 Covid cases, no deaths in 24hrs 

Bangladesh logs 29 Covid cases, no deaths in 24hrs 

-- 2022-05-22 17:47:11

Bangladesh on Sunday reported zero Covid-19 death in the past 24 hours while it recorded 29 coronavirus positive cases during the period.  "Bangladesh reported 0.78 per cent Covid-19 positive ca...

Despite 40pc surplus capacity, BPDB still buys electricity from pricier rental power plants

Despite 40pc surplus capacity, BPDB still buys electricity from pricier rental power plants

-- 2022-05-22 17:29:35

Though the country's power generation capacity has swelled over 25,000 MW - more than 40 per cent it actually can use - the state-run power agency has continued to purchase six per cent of electricity...

HC sends four NSU trustees under police custody

HC sends four NSU trustees under police custody

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-22 17:12:48

The High Court (HC) on Sunday sent four trustees of the North South University (NSU) under police custody of the Shahbagh Police Station in Dhaka after rejecting their anticipatory bail petition filed...