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Nation bids farewell to former Finance Minister AMA Muhith

Nation bids farewell to former Finance Minister AMA Muhith

-- 2022-04-30 15:17:09

People from all walks of life are paying their final respects to former Finance Minister AMA Muhith at Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar, bdnews24.com reports. The body was brought to the location...

Caution about malware strikes on financial systems

Caution about malware strikes on financial systems

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2022-04-30 14:36:52

Bangladesh is alerted against botnet and malware infections of important data infrastructures, including in financial institutions, to forestall cyber-attacks on the sidelines of the Ukraine war. Off...

Commercial building catches fire in city

Commercial building catches fire in city

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-30 13:47:54

A fire broke out at a commercial building in the city’s Bijoynagar area on Saturday. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. The fire started around 11:40am at the multi-storey commercial bu...

FBCCI chief condoles Muhith's death

FBCCI chief condoles Muhith's death

-- 2022-04-30 11:58:38

FBCCI president Md Jashim Uddin on Saturday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, UNB reports. Mr Muhith passed away at a city hospital in th...

Tourism industry looks to bounce back this Eid

Tourism industry looks to bounce back this Eid

-- 2022-04-30 11:38:36

Tanvir Hasan, a private firm employee, spent the last two years in the familiar confines of Dhaka due to the coronavirus pandemic. But with COVID cases trending down, Eid-ul-Fitr this year has brought...

PM mourns death of AMA Muhith

PM mourns death of AMA Muhith

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-30 10:23:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Saturday) expressed profound shock and sorrow at the demise of former finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith. In a message of condolence, she prayed for eternal...

AMA Muhith dies at 88

AMA Muhith dies at 88

-- 2022-04-30 09:30:51

Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, the former finance minister who ushered Bangladesh into the era of trillion-taka budget and whose policies helped shape its economy to its current status, has died under hospit...

Tripura CM urges Bangladesh ICT firms to invest in state

Tripura CM urges Bangladesh ICT firms to invest in state

FE REPORT 2022-04-30 08:52:56

The government of neighbouring Indian state Tripura has urged Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in its ICT sector, especially in data centre. Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb made the cal...

Experts for sprinkling water on city's roads to ease air pollution

Experts for sprinkling water on city's roads to ease air pollution

-- 2022-04-30 08:50:17

Summer or winter, air pollution trends across the seasons in Dhaka. This year-round air pollution is largely attributed to the same emissions -- construction and road dust. Construction dust is basic...

Use Paturia Ghat for hassle-free journey

Use Paturia Ghat for hassle-free journey

FE REPORT 2022-04-30 08:47:52

The government asked the vehicle operators to use Paturia Ghat to reduce growing pressure - created by cars and other vehicles on Shimulia Ghat (Mawa) - to facilitate hassle-free journey of homebound...

90pc of haor paddy harvested

90pc of haor paddy harvested

-- 2022-04-30 08:30:50

Farmers have harvested 90 per cent of Boro paddy in haor areas, said AKM Enamul Haque Shamim, deputy minister for water resources, reports UNB. "The remaining ten percent paddy in haor areas will be...

Hordes head home for holidaying

Hordes head home for holidaying

FE REPORT 2022-04-30 08:25:12

Eid fervour is already in the air and hordes of holidaymakers are now heading home across Bangladesh to celebrate the festival with their kinspersons. With government offices closed after Thursday's...

Govt to launch recruiters' database in May

Govt to launch recruiters' database in May

ARAFAT ARA 2022-04-30 08:21:45

The government will launch an online database of licensed manpower recruitment agencies next month (May) to help strengthen its monitoring system. The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET...

PMB project saves Tk 20.38b

PMB project saves Tk 20.38b

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-04-30 08:14:52

The Padma Multipurpose Bridge project will save about Tk 20.38 billion from the allocated funds and the bridge is likely to open in June, officials concerned reaffirmed Friday. With the possible cost...

Who are eligible to travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj from Bangladesh?

Who are eligible to travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj from Bangladesh?

-- 2022-04-29 23:05:00

After a two-year halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabia is once again allowing Hajj pilgrims from abroad. However, considering the health risks, people over the age of 65 will not be able to...

Bangladesh forms probe body over ship sinking at Kolkata port

Bangladesh forms probe body over ship sinking at Kolkata port

-- 2022-04-29 21:47:37

An investigation committee comprising three members has been formed by the Department of Shipping, Bangladesh regarding the sinking of Bangladesh flagged vessel MV Marintrust-1 at Syama Prasad Mukherj...

Religious affairs ministry issues special notification for Hajj this year

Religious affairs ministry issues special notification for Hajj this year

-- 2022-04-29 21:45:33

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has issued a special notification today for those who want to perform Hajj this year. According to the notification, only persons below the age of 65 years (accordin...

Bangladesh eyes working with Tripura as knowledge partner

Bangladesh eyes working with Tripura as knowledge partner

-- 2022-04-29 20:55:13

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said Bangladesh wants to work as a knowledge partner with Tripura in making 'Smart Tripura' alongside building ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041. "S...

Footpath vendors doing brisk business ahead of Eid

Footpath vendors doing brisk business ahead of Eid

-- 2022-04-29 20:25:23

With Eid-ul-Fitr knocking on doors, many poor and low-income people look to be on shopping sprees like the well-off classes, as everyone gets ready to celebrate the biggest religious festival with the...

Chandpur district administration sues Dipu Moni’s brother

Chandpur district administration sues Dipu Moni’s brother

-- 2022-04-29 19:42:45

Chandpur district administration has filed a case against 25 people, including Education Minister Dipu Moni's brother Jayedur Rahim Wadud Tipu, for misappropriating over 48.5 acres of government land...

Fire sweeps through trade hub in Noakhali, guts over 200 shops

Fire sweeps through trade hub in Noakhali, guts over 200 shops

-- 2022-04-29 19:33:16

More than 200 shops have been burnt down in a blaze that swept through the trade hub of Chowmuhani in Noakhali during the busy Eid shopping season. The fire engulfed the Islam Market, Haq Market and...

90pc of Boro paddy in haor areas harvested

90pc of Boro paddy in haor areas harvested

-- 2022-04-29 19:20:58

Farmers have harvested 90 per cent of Boro paddy in haor areas, said AKM Enamul Haque Shamim, deputy minister for water resources. "The remaining 10 per cent paddy in haor areas will be harvested soo...

Ctg teen who dreamt of becoming a cricketer commits suicide

Ctg teen who dreamt of becoming a cricketer commits suicide

-- 2022-04-29 19:03:48

An 18-year-old youth, whose dream was to become a cricketer, took his own life at his house in EPZ area of Chattogram, having failed to endure acute poverty. The deceased was identified as Sagar Maju...

Thin crowd at Gabtoli, five bus operators fined for charging extra fares

Thin crowd at Gabtoli, five bus operators fined for charging extra fares

-- 2022-04-29 17:21:08

The usual buzz of Eid-ul-Fitr holidaymakers is missing in Dhaka's Gabtoli Bus Terminal and its surrounding areas, including Technical and Kalyanpur bus stops, although government, semi-government and...

Passengers urged to cross river through Paturia instead of Shimulia

Passengers urged to cross river through Paturia instead of Shimulia

-- 2022-04-29 16:55:56

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Friday requested passengers to take Paturia route in Manikganj instead of Shimulia to cross the Padma during Eid journey as a lower number of fer...

30 Covid-19 cases, no death reported in 24 hours

30 Covid-19 cases, no death reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-04-29 16:24:03

Bangladesh has registered 30 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,674. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

Road conditions are better than ever for Eid travel, says Quader

Road conditions are better than ever for Eid travel, says Quader

-- 2022-04-29 15:08:33

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader believes roads and highways across Bangladesh are in much better shape for the holiday travel rush this Eid than at any time in the past. "I don't...

As Eid exodus picks up steam, three trains run late at Dhaka's Kamalapur

As Eid exodus picks up steam, three trains run late at Dhaka's Kamalapur

-- 2022-04-29 14:37:02

As the pandemic-induced travel restrictions came off after two years, scores of people are streaming out of Dhaka ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr to spend the holidays with their loved ones back in towns and v...

Govt’s cyber threat agency issues maximum caution against botnet, malware attack

Govt’s cyber threat agency issues maximum caution against botnet, malware attack

FE REPORT 2022-04-29 14:30:54

Bangladesh Computer Council's e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) issued a warning against botnet and malware infections on different important data infrastructures includi...

Jaishankar leaves Dhaka for Bhutan

Jaishankar leaves Dhaka for Bhutan

-- 2022-04-29 14:17:53

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar left Dhaka after ending an 18-hour brief visit, BSS reports. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen saw him off at Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Bangabandhu B...