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Blood donors are ‘human heroes’, says minister

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-14 21:08:26

Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi termed voluntary blood donors as ‘human hero’ and said they are working silently for the country by meeting the need of people of blood. &ldq...

Two-day voting in SCBA polls starts on Tuesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-14 20:52:13

Voting in two-day polls to elect the office bearers for the 2022-2023 session of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will start on Tuesday at 10.00 am. Voting will begin at 10.00 am and will con...

Dhaka Media Summit ends with call for quality journalism

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-14 20:11:26

The four-day conference on future of journalism ended on Sunday with a call for more quality and responsible journalism by adopting new information technologies, business models and gaining people&rsq...

HC directs to demolish all illegal brick kilns in Chittagong Hill Tracts

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-14 20:07:18

The High Court has directed the concerned bodies of the government to destroy all the illegal brick kilns installed in the three districts of Chattogram Hill Tracts—Khagrachari, Bandarban, and R...

Bangladesh’s Miraz leads Ban Ki-moon Center for Global Citizens’s public welfare project

-- 2022-03-14 20:06:10

The Ban Ki-moon Center for Global Citizens has put Bangladeshi M Miraz Hossain in charge of a project to improve the quality of life of disadvantaged children and the elderly in Thailand and the Phili...

Price manipulators to face the music, says Commerce Minister

-- 2022-03-14 19:42:19

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Monday warned that the government will come down hard on manipulators of commodity prices to prevent any artificial crisis in the market. He said that there is an add...

Inactiveness of government bodies gave hoarders courage to stockpile oil: HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-14 18:57:34

The High Court (HC) on Monday said if the government entities like regulatory bodies, monitoring cells were active, the hoarders could not have the courage to stockpile the essential commodities for e...

Retired judges to get Tk 70,000 per month as special allowance

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-14 18:41:14

The Cabinet has approved in principle the draft of the "Bangladesh Supreme Court Judges (Leave, Pension and Privileges) Act, 2022" with a provision of a monthly special allowance of Taka 70,000 for a...

Cabinet clears draft law to legalise submission of digital evidence

-- 2022-03-14 18:24:50

The cabinet has approved in principle the draft of the "Evidence (Amendment) Act, 2022" to form a legal shape for the submission of digital evidence before the court. The approval came at the weekly...

No rise in power, energy tariffs right now

-- 2022-03-14 18:21:16

The government doesn't want to raise the tariffs of power and energy at this moment, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Monday. "We're trying to keep the situ...

Bangladeshi born Josh Uddin wins Democratic nomination for GA

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-14 17:54:28

Senate Democrat Josh Uddin of Georgia (GA) District 48 will be uncontested during the May GA Senate Primary for November Election 2022, says a press statement issued on Monday. Josh Uddin was born in...

Covid-19: One death, 239 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-03-14 17:23:12

Bangladesh has recorded a single death from Covid-19 in a day, taking the total death toll to 29,112. The government also registered 239 new cases of Covid-19 in a 24-hour count, raising the caseload...

Nine get death penalty for triple murder in Naogaon

-- 2022-03-14 16:49:33

A Naogaon court has sentenced nine people to death and another to life in prison for the 2014 murders of three men in Naogaon’s Badalgachhi Upazila. According to bdnews24.com, Naogaon Additiona...

Railway halts online sale of train tickets from March 21 to 25

-- 2022-03-14 16:33:46

Bangladesh Railway will halt the online sale of train tickets from March 21 to 25, said the Ministry of Railways. The sales will be stopped for that period as the service provider was changed and the...

Cabinet directed NBR to reduce VAT on edible oil

-- 2022-03-14 15:42:00

The Cabinet has directed the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to take immediate steps to curtail the VAT on edible oil import to the lowest ceiling in the wake of the rising price of the essential item...

SC asks Zayed, Nipun to strictly follow status quo on BFAA general secretary post

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-14 15:30:13

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday directed actors Zayed Khan and Nipun Akhter to strictly follow the status quo order issued by the Chamber Court over holding the post of General...

Mortal remains of engineer Hadisur arrive home

-- 2022-03-14 13:29:02

The body of Hadisur Rahman, the third engineer of the Bangladeshi vessel Banglar Samriddhi who was killed in Ukraine, has arrived home. A Turkish Airlines flight carrying Hadisur’s bo...

Government to slash VAT, taxes on essential commodities during Ramadan

-- 2022-03-13 21:47:40

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said the government decided to reduce or withdraw VAT (value added tax) and taxes to keep the prices of some daily commodities, including edible oil, at...

Two septic tanks must to get building approval, says LGRD minister

-- 2022-03-13 20:31:31

Local Government Minister Md Tajul Islam says every residential building of the capital must have two separate septic tanks in its design for approval from the city development agency. Rajdhani Unnay...

Stockpiling goods for extra profit not acceptable, says HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-13 19:59:48

The High Court has observed that it is not acceptable for a business syndicate to have a monopoly on all kinds of commodities, including Soybean oil, and to stockpiling essential commodities for ext...

PM urges FAO to set up international seed bank

-- 2022-03-13 19:49:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to set up an international seed bank for evading food crisis at any natural disaster. The prime minister made the pr...

7.02m prepaid electricity metres to be set up in FY24

-- 2022-03-13 19:49:26

As part of the government campaign to ensure an uninterrupted power supply, 7.20 million prepaid metres will be installed during the next financial year (FY) 2023-2024. An official familiar with the...

Bangladesh to make railway parts to save money, create jobs

-- 2022-03-13 19:49:08

Bangladesh is going ahead with a plan to manufacture at least 50 per cent of the railway parts in the country to save a chunk of foreign currency and create jobs. A draft policy prepared with this ob...

'Legal actions if found guilty in death of siblings after consuming Napa'

-- 2022-03-13 19:29:44

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said legal actions will be taken if anyone is found guilty in the death of two children reportedly after taking Napa syrup in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria d...

Ambassador says China won’t build military base in Bangladesh, other foreign lands

-- 2022-03-13 18:44:23

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has said China will not build any military base in Bangladesh or any other foreign land. "China will not build any military facility or military base on any...

'Some Bangladesh media coverage of Ukraine war biased against Moscow'

-- 2022-03-13 17:44:52

Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander V. Mantytskiy has slammed a section of Bangladesh media for what he said "biased approach" in their coverage of the situation in Ukraine and Russia's actions...

RAB arrests five on charges of illegal banking activities

-- 2022-03-13 17:30:46

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people on charges of illegal banking activities and fraudulently extorting millions from unsuspecting customers. The fraudsters used religion as a f...

Three men stabbed to death in Gazipur over ‘Facebook post’

-- 2022-03-13 16:43:00

Three men have been stabbed to death in Gazipur’s Kapasia Upazila, allegedly over opinions, they had shared on a Facebook post. They were attacked around 11:00 pm on Friday night in the Aral ar...

Drug administration orders inspection on Napa syrup batch after child deaths

-- 2022-03-13 16:26:55

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has ordered the inspection of wholesale and retail stores across the country to collect samples of a specific batch of Napa brand of paracetamol s...

Bangladesh logs three deaths, 233 Covid cases in 24 hours

-- 2022-03-13 16:16:36

Bangladesh has recorded 233 cases of Covid-19 in a daily count, raising the tally of infections to 1,949,486. The death toll from the disease climbed by three in 24 hours to 29,111, according to the...