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House built on bridge removed following FE report

House built on bridge removed following FE report

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-05-09 21:11:35

The administration has removed a house built on a bridge at Faridpur village in Chakua union under Khaliajuri upazila of Netrokona district following a report published on The Financial Express on May...

Bail to ‘Golden Monir’ in money laundering case stayed

Bail to ‘Golden Monir’ in money laundering case stayed

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-09 20:19:07

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday stayed a bail order granted by the High Court to Md Monir Hossain, known as Golden Monir, in a money laundering case. Chamber judge of the apex...

Registered hajj pilgrims for 2020 can change agencies by May 15

Registered hajj pilgrims for 2020 can change agencies by May 15

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

Muslim devotes, who got registered in 2020 for performing Hajj under different Hajj agencies, have been asked to transfer their registration from one lead agency to another by May 15 for performing th...

RAB arrests Jatrabari traders for stockpiling soybean oil

RAB arrests Jatrabari traders for stockpiling soybean oil

-- 2022-05-09 19:47:03

A Rapid Action Battalion mobile court fined three grocery shops Tk 150,000 for illegally stockpiling soybean oil and selling it at exorbitant prices in the Jatrabari area of the capital on Monday. An...

Two Awami League activists wounded as LDP leader allegedly fires shots

Two Awami League activists wounded as LDP leader allegedly fires shots

-- 2022-05-09 19:35:10

Two people were shot during a clash between activists of pro-Awami League bodies and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday at Redwan Ahmed College premises in Chandina Upazila of Cumilla. Afte...

Construction work of metro rail's Uttara to Agargaon section completed

Construction work of metro rail's Uttara to Agargaon section completed

-- 2022-05-09 18:56:10

Construction work of concourse roof, platform roof, steel roof structure, and iconic station from Uttara to Agargaon section of the much-awaited Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 commonly known as metro...

Bangladesh wants diversification of US investment

Bangladesh wants diversification of US investment

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-09 18:33:19

Bangladesh on Monday urged the US entrepreneurs to diversify their investments in the country as 90 per cent of the US investment is in the energy sector at present. “We told the US businessmen...

Hanif hopes BNP will take part in next elections

Hanif hopes BNP will take part in next elections

-- 2022-05-09 18:15:16

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Monday expressed his hope that BNP will take part in the next general election, whatever BNP say at this moment. The Member of Parliament f...

Five coastal districts on alert over cyclone ‘Asani’

Five coastal districts on alert over cyclone ‘Asani’

-- 2022-05-09 17:37:26

All necessary preparations have been taken in five coastal districts to face any possible situation that might arise due to cyclonic storm 'Asani'. Barishal divisional administration has kept 4,915 s...

Bangladesh takes part in INTERPOL operation against human trafficking

Bangladesh takes part in INTERPOL operation against human trafficking

-- 2022-05-09 16:59:35

Bangladesh and 24 other countries have taken part in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting migrant smuggling and human trafficking. Operation Storm Makers, carried out between Mar 21-25, saw au...

Bangladesh reports 30 new Covid cases, zero death

Bangladesh reports 30 new Covid cases, zero death

-- 2022-05-09 16:27:37

Bangladesh has registered 30 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,829. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

Dealers, retailers betrayed me on edible oil price, says Tipu Munshi

Dealers, retailers betrayed me on edible oil price, says Tipu Munshi

-- 2022-05-09 16:20:25

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the dealers and retail businesses betrayed him by increasing the price of edible oil during the month of Ramadan.  “I had made a mistake by urging t...

Rail link of Dhaka with Chattogram, Sylhet restored

Rail link of Dhaka with Chattogram, Sylhet restored

-- 2022-05-09 16:02:28

Dhaka’s train communications with Chattogram and Sylhet were restored Monday afternoon after 10 hours of suspension following the derailment of three bogies of a Dhaka-bound freight. Railway...

15,000 litres of cooking oil seized in Chattogram

15,000 litres of cooking oil seized in Chattogram

-- 2022-05-09 15:32:40

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection has seized around 15,000 litres of cooking oil stockpiled in a shop in Chattogram’s Pahartali amid an ongoing crisis in the edible oil mark...

PM seeks ADB’s support to implement Delta Plan 2100

PM seeks ADB’s support to implement Delta Plan 2100

-- 2022-05-09 15:31:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to implement Delta Plan 2100. “This Delta Plan is very important for Bangladesh,” she told ADB vice p...

Dhaka-Ctg rail link snapped after freight train compartments derail in Cumilla

Dhaka-Ctg rail link snapped after freight train compartments derail in Cumilla

-- 2022-05-09 14:26:58

Train operations on three different routes to the north and south of the country have been suspended after three compartments of a freight train went off the track in Cumilla’s Burichong Upazi...

642 killed in accidents on waterways in 2021

642 killed in accidents on waterways in 2021

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-05-09 13:55:40

At least 642 people, including 517 women and 115 children, were killed in different accidents on waterways including ponds, lakes and haor in 2021, according to a government report. The report prepar...

Asani turns severe but may skirt Bangladesh coast, say meteorologists

Asani turns severe but may skirt Bangladesh coast, say meteorologists

-- 2022-05-09 13:49:40

The Met Office has advised maritime ports in Bangladesh to hoist distant warning signal No. 2 as Cyclone Asani continued to gather strength in the Bay of Bengal. Asani intensified further as it moved...

Elderly man, Navy officer killed in Dhaka road accidents

Elderly man, Navy officer killed in Dhaka road accidents

-- 2022-05-09 13:06:29

An elderly man and a member of the Bangladesh Navy have died in two separate road accidents in Dhaka. Uzir Ahmed, a 72-year-old former businessman, was run over and killed by a bus in Dhanmondi ear...

Thundershower with intense lightning flashes likely

Thundershower with intense lightning flashes likely

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-05-09 10:45:16

Rain/thundershower with intense lightning flashes and temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur in most parts of the country, including Dhaka, as the severe Cyclonic Storm 'ASANI' over West-Cent...

Court can't pass order on it

Court can't pass order on it

FE REPORT 2022-05-09 08:58:23

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed that a court cannot pass an order to absorb the employees or officers of a project who have been appointed on contract basis under the revenue...

Still no soybean oil at groceries

Still no soybean oil at groceries

YASIR WARDAD 2022-05-09 08:33:19

Except a few big shops in the essential commodity markets, most of the city groceries were still out of soybean oil on Sunday, although the government raised its price by a record high of Tk 38 a litr...

Seven shops fined in Sylhet for stockpiling, overpricing soybean oil

Seven shops fined in Sylhet for stockpiling, overpricing soybean oil

-- 2022-05-08 23:09:37

The authorities on Sunday fined seven wholesalers of edible oil Tk 16,000 for stockpiling and selling soybean oil at a price higher than that fixed by the government during a raid in Sylhet. The Dire...

Four teenage girls of Lakshmipur remain missing

Four teenage girls of Lakshmipur remain missing

-- 2022-05-08 21:36:42

Four teenage girls, who are residents of a village in Lakshmipur district’s Kamalnagar Upazila, remain missing since Saturday morning, according to police. The names of missing girls are: as Zo...

Another 1,050 litres of hoarded soybean oil recovered in Chattogram

Another 1,050 litres of hoarded soybean oil recovered in Chattogram

-- 2022-05-08 21:25:11

After the recovery of 2,328 litres of soybean oil from a retailers’ house at Chattogram’s Fatikchhari on Sunday, the authorities found another 1,050 litres at a shop at Karnaphuli Market i...

Returnees from south-western districts endure 12-hr journeys

Returnees from south-western districts endure 12-hr journeys

-- 2022-05-08 20:51:58

As Eid-ul-Fitr holiday came to an end, people from south-western districts started returning to their workstations in the capital but the journey is taking more than 12 hours for many due to gridlock...

No scope for fresh cross examination of witness in graft cases: SC   

No scope for fresh cross examination of witness in graft cases: SC  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-05-08 20:17:26

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in a full text of a verdict has observed that there is no scope for the trial court to hold a fresh cross-examination of any witness, who has already been c...

Obaidul Quader says BNP must join next general polls for existence

Obaidul Quader says BNP must join next general polls for existence

-- 2022-05-08 20:15:58

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said if BNP does not participate in the next parliamentary elections, it will fall into a crisis of existence. "They (BNP) must join the next gener...

BNP to investigate New Market violence

BNP to investigate New Market violence

-- 2022-05-08 20:11:59

The BNP has formed a three-member committee, headed by party Vice-Chairman Netai Roy Chowdhury, to look into the recent clashes between a group of Dhaka College students and traders in the city's New...

USAID Deputy Administrator Coleman arrives in Dhaka

USAID Deputy Administrator Coleman arrives in Dhaka

-- 2022-05-08 19:39:44

USAID’s Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman is now visiting Bangladesh as part of her tri-nation tour. After wrapping up her Bangladesh tour (May 7-11), she will travel to Thailand and Laos, re...