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TCB expands supplies ahead of Ramadan

TCB expands supplies ahead of Ramadan

-- 2022-03-10 21:58:30

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), the government's trading arm, is building supplies of gram, pulse, sugar, and soybean oil to sell them at fair prices in Ramadan amid escalating prices of...

PM asks UAE investors to avail lucrative opportunities in Bangladesh

PM asks UAE investors to avail lucrative opportunities in Bangladesh

-- 2022-03-10 20:44:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday invited investors from United Arab Emirates to avail lucrative opportunities in Bangladesh, harness its potential and make Bangladesh their home. "Come and ma...

HC forms body to find out way for controlling defamatory content on Facebook

HC forms body to find out way for controlling defamatory content on Facebook

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-10 19:59:34

The High Court has constituted a committee for getting recommendations on what steps can be taken to control the dissemination of defamatory content through all social media, including Facebook. Po...

TIB wants cancellation of ‘unconstitutional’ draft on digital, social media

TIB wants cancellation of ‘unconstitutional’ draft on digital, social media

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-10 19:40:03

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called for cancelling the proposed draft for digital and social media describing it as unconstitutional, deterrent, contradictory and unenforceable. Re...

Price hike of essentials is as usual, says NBR chairman

Price hike of essentials is as usual, says NBR chairman

-- 2022-03-10 18:14:02

Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem has said the price hike of essential commodities is as usual as it happens globally. "Price fluctuation of essentials occurs in...

HC issues contempt rule against CEC for not registering Ganosamhati Andolon   

HC issues contempt rule against CEC for not registering Ganosamhati Andolon  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-10 17:19:47

The High Court on Thursday issued a contempt of court rule against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal for not giving registration to the Ganosamhati Andolon as a political party in sp...

Three Covid deaths, 327 cases reported in 24 hours

Three Covid deaths, 327 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-03-10 17:13:29

Bangladesh has registered 327 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, raising the caseload to 1,948,798. The government also recorded three deaths from the coronavirus in a 24-hour count, taking the death to...

SBMCH nurses go on strike over police attack on colleague

SBMCH nurses go on strike over police attack on colleague

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-10 14:37:14

Nurses of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal have gone on strike since Thursday morning in protest against an alleged attack on one of their colleagues by few cops. The nu...

PM urges Asia-Pacific nations to join efforts for ensuring food security

PM urges Asia-Pacific nations to join efforts for ensuring food security

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-10 13:17:41

Collaboration between countries in the field of agricultural research and education should be enhanced in order to ensure food security for the people of the Asia-Pacific region, said Prime Minister S...

Fortune smiles on Kendua cucumber growers

Fortune smiles on Kendua cucumber growers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-03-10 09:29:50

NETRAKONA: Cucumber growers in the district's Kendua upazila are content over their good yield of the vegetable and its fair prices in the local markets. According to the Upazila Agriculture Office,...

Jute mills workers stage demonstration for arrears

Jute mills workers stage demonstration for arrears

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-03-10 08:51:49

CHATTOGRAM: The workers of Amin Jute Mills Limited, a state-owned jute mill, staged a demonstration on Wednesday demanding payment of all dues immediately. The workers held a protest rally at the Ami...

Mandatory dope test augments harassment in securing driving licence

Mandatory dope test augments harassment in securing driving licence

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-03-10 08:50:16

Professional drivers of motorised vehicles were allegedly facing even more harassment than before and being forced to get middleman services while undergoing dope test, a prerequisite for obtaining a...

Equity, democratic values prerequisites for gender parity

Equity, democratic values prerequisites for gender parity

FE REPORT 2022-03-10 08:41:51

Gender parity can be ensured if society espouses equity, democratic values and grievance-redressal mechanisms, some experts say, and they show ways for the state to tread. They also observe that su...

HC orders to appoint 43 vacant posts of DGHS

HC orders to appoint 43 vacant posts of DGHS

-- 2022-03-09 18:50:45

The High Court (HC) has ordered authorities concerned to complete the appointment of 43 against vacant posts of health assistants, computer operators, and storekeepers in nine districts under the Dire...

Pre-primary schools to return to in-person classes from March 15

Pre-primary schools to return to in-person classes from March 15

-- 2022-03-09 18:09:10

Pre-primary schools will return to in-person classes from March 15 after a nearly two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to bdnews24.com, classes will be held twice a week, on Sunday...

One Covid-19 death, 323 cases reported in 24 hours

One Covid-19 death, 323 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-03-09 17:01:06

Bangladesh has recorded one death from the coronavirus in a 24-hour count, the lowest in a day since Jan 8, as the total toll from the disease hit 29,097. The government also registered 323 new cases...

Three students killed after being run over by train in Cumilla

Three students killed after being run over by train in Cumilla

-- 2022-03-09 14:24:25

Three students have died after they were run over by a train in Cumilla’s Sadar South Upazila. The accident occurred around noon on Wednesday at the Bijoypur Level Crossing on the Dhaka-Chattog...

28 Bangladeshi sailors caught in Russia-Ukraine conflict arrive home

28 Bangladeshi sailors caught in Russia-Ukraine conflict arrive home

-- 2022-03-09 13:45:12

The 28 surviving crew members of Banglar Samriddhi, the Bangladeshi ship which was damaged by shelling during the war in Ukraine, have returned home from Romania. A Turkish Airlines flight carrying t...

Burimari-Changrabandha rail link a demand of time

Burimari-Changrabandha rail link a demand of time

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-03-09 09:17:22

LALMONIRHAT: If only two kilometres of railway track between Burimari of Bangladesh and Changrabandha of India is built, Burimari land port's export-import activities will increase, said the traders w...

Gender parity an imperative to balanced development

Gender parity an imperative to balanced development

FE REPORT 2022-03-09 09:12:25

Ensuring gender equality is a must for achieving economic development goals and making them sustainable, speakers said at a programme on Tuesday. Unfortunately, many women still have to face discrimi...

Authorities may charge Padma bridge users from June-July

Authorities may charge Padma bridge users from June-July

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-03-09 09:10:06

Travelling on the Padma Bridge might not be much enjoyable, as the connecting roads on both sides of the country's longest bridge are likely to be brought under toll system from July, making the entir...

Donor representatives emphasise creating better work culture' for women in small business

Donor representatives emphasise creating better work culture' for women in small business

FE REPORT 2022-03-09 09:08:32

Suggesting accessible loans for women, speakers on the International Women's Day called for creating an enabling environment for those in small businesses for sustainable economic development. To c...

Securing a better life in post-Covid period remains a challenge

Securing a better life in post-Covid period remains a challenge

FE REPORT 2022-03-09 09:05:03

Ensuring better production, nutrition, environment and a better life remains a challenge for the countries during and in the post-Covid period, said speakers at a regional conference. The thirty-sixt...

Five quick rental power plants await two-year extension

Five quick rental power plants await two-year extension

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2022-03-09 09:03:47

The government finally is set to award a two-year extension to five furnace oil-fired quick-rental power plants (QRPPs) having a total generation capacity of around 457 megawatts (MW) under the 'no-el...

Dhaka expects fair compensation against wrecked Bangladesh ship in Ukraine

Dhaka expects fair compensation against wrecked Bangladesh ship in Ukraine

FE REPORT 2022-03-09 09:00:31

The Bangladesh vessel wrecked by shelling in a Ukrainean seaport has war coverage that guarantees wide compensation, mostly from its London reinsurer, officials say. Meanwhile, all but one of the s...

Fire breaks out at two Rohingya camps

Fire breaks out at two Rohingya camps

-- 2022-03-08 21:26:28

A fire broke out at two Rohingya camps in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday. The fire broke out at No 5 camp at Kutupalong around 3:40 pm and soon engulfed the adjoining No 6 ca...

BNP to face severe consequences if it carries out subversive acts, Quader says

BNP to face severe consequences if it carries out subversive acts, Quader says

-- 2022-03-08 21:19:37

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says BNP would face severe consequences if it makes evil efforts to foil the country's democratic trend in the name of the movement. Obaidul Quader made...

Fakhrul says government has no control over market

Fakhrul says government has no control over market

-- 2022-03-08 21:13:05

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government has lost full control over the market due to the influence of the ruling party-backed business syndicates. &ld...

Sehri, Iftar timings for Ramadan published

Sehri, Iftar timings for Ramadan published

-- 2022-03-08 20:13:06

The Islamic Foundation has published the timings for Sehri and Iftar of this year’s Ramadan. The Islamic month of fasting may start on Apr 3 and end on May 2, subject to the sighting of the moo...

Stories of a dozen violence survivors published in a book   

Stories of a dozen violence survivors published in a book  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-03-08 20:05:31

A book titled ‘In Search of Justice: Untold Tales of Domestic Violence Survivors’ was launched in the city on Tuesday. It explores the justice-seeking journeys of domestic violence surviv...