FE REPORT 2022-04-06 09:18:07
Bangladesh is not treading Sri Lanka's path as the country's socioeconomic fundamentals are on a better base, a government minister said Tuesday to dispel critics' foreboding over economic crisis. Pl...
FE REPORT 2022-04-06 09:15:42
Parliament passed on Tuesday the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Bill-2022, scrapping advisory council. The advisory council comprised local lawmakers and members of the port city's elite group. The...
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has recognised the elite force RAB's counterterrorism role as important, but stated that lifting sanctions from it and resuming training with American forces may t...
FE REPORT 2022-04-06 09:11:24
Natural gas supply situation did not return to complete normalcy until Tuesday evening, although Bibiyana's four gas wells -- of its total six wells -- which were forced shut on technical ground on Su...
FE REPORT 2022-04-06 09:09:43
Government's net borrowing from the state-sponsored savings instruments dropped in February from January due mainly to cut in yield rates, officials said. The statistics of the Department of National...
FE REPORT 2022-04-06 09:03:02
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi came under fire from the opposition lawmakers in the Jatiyo Sangsad (JS) over the government's 'failure' in controlling skyrocketing prices of essentials in the market....
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-05 22:05:08
The High Court on Tuesday directed the Officer in Charge of the Mugda Police Station of the capital to produce a Canadian female citizen in the court on April 10. The High Court bench of Justice Fara...
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Amid the outbreak of diarrhoea in the city, the Managing Director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Taqsem A Khan has urged the users to drink water after boiling it. "Only 5.0 to 1...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-05 20:22:40
Natural gas supply is yet to back to normalcy until Tuesday evening although Bibiyana’s four gas wells, out of the six, that were forced shut Sunday on technical ground, came online. The fifth...
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The Planning Minister has found “unacceptable” the comparison of Bangladesh’s economic condition with the failure that plunged Sri Lanka into a deep turmoil. MA Mannan’s remar...
-- 2022-04-05 18:04:04
The government has tabled a new law to stamp out discrimination in all spheres of society and guarantee equal rights for all citizens, regardless of their gender, religion or ethnicity. The 'Anti-dis...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-05 17:55:49
Unemployment rate among the country’s youths reached the highest 28 per cent, according to a study finding. Apart from this, about 90 per cent of the employed youths are now engaged in the info...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-05 17:47:33
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking the government to explain why the confinement of death-row convicts in death cells or condemned cells before attaining finality of their sentence by the...
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Parliament on Tuesday passed the Trade Organisation Bill, 2022 allowing foreign traders to form joint-trade bodies in Bangladesh. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi moved the bill and it was passed by voi...
-- 2022-04-05 16:20:59
Bangladesh has registered 36 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, the lowest in a day since Apr 6, 2020, taking the total caseload from the disease to 1,951,867. The government recorded no deaths in the 2...
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A total of 79,337 applicants have passed the medical college admission tests for the 2021-22 academic year, 55.13 per cent of whom were girls, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said on Tuesday. A total o...
-- 2022-04-05 15:22:30
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has raised a number of issues including enhancing trade and investment, withdrawing sanctions on RAB and extraditing Bangabandhu's killer Rashed Chowdhury in his bil...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-05 13:15:41
The appellate division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the High Court’s death sentence of two convicts and life imprisonment of two others in the murder case of Rajshahi University Profes...
-- 2022-04-05 10:28:03
Economic analysts have described the planned universal pension scheme in Bangladesh as an “excellent” idea but urged caution in its implementation, bdnews24.com reports. They have advised...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-05 09:11:34
FARIDPUR: The number of diarrhoea patients, mostly children, has been rising alarmingly in Faridpur hospitals for the last one month. Besides diarrhoea, hospitals are struggling to manage the huge...
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The country's forest coverage stands at 14.10 per cent, while the tree-covered area is 22.37 per cent, said Environment and Forests Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Monday, reports UNB. A n...
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Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque told Parliament on Monday that there is sufficient stock of fertiliser in the country against the demand, reports UNB. "The amount of stocked fertilise...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-05 09:02:28
NETRAKONA: People of 10 villages in Barhatta upazila of the district have been suffering immensely for 18 years as the bridge over the Chakuya Beel does not have approach roads on either side. Villag...
YASIR WARDAD 2022-04-05 08:47:04
A significant fall in rice output in the Aus season has raised concerns over achieving targeted rice production in the current financial year (FY '22). Aus production dropped to 3.0 million tonnes in...
FE REPORT 2022-04-05 08:42:48
Natural gas-supply shortage continued in and around the capital for the second day with slightly improved scenario on Monday along with low gas pressure and frequent electricity outages. Industrial o...
FE REPORT 2022-04-05 08:33:17
Billing Bangladesh as an invaluable partner in ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific region-a latest geostrategic focus--US President Joe Biden expressed his confidence that the partnership would furt...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-04 21:05:26
Three out of six damaged wells of the Chevron-operated Bibiyana gas field were repaired and gas extractions from the repaired wells will begin soon. Sheikh Jahidur Rahman, communications manager of C...
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ties between Bangladeshis and Americans grow deeper and more intertwined with every generation as the two countries celebrate five decades of friendsh...
-- 2022-04-04 19:18:00
Police have suspended a constable who allegedly harassed a college teacher in Dhaka’s Farmgate for wearing a 'tip' -- a traditional adornment. They also formed a committee on Monday to investig...
-- 2022-04-04 19:11:42
As many as 589 lives were lost while 647 people were injured in 458 road crash incidents across the country in March, showing an increase of 13.43 per cent of accidents from February, according to a r...
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