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High Court orders Agrani Bank official Manik Pramanik to surrender 

High Court orders Agrani Bank official Manik Pramanik to surrender 

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-23 18:27:36

The High Court on Tuesday ordered Manik Kumar Pramanik, a senior officer of Agrani Bank, to surrender in the concerned trial court within six weeks in a case filed over leaking admission test question...

Supreme Court upholds top fugitive militant Salehin’s death penalty

Supreme Court upholds top fugitive militant Salehin’s death penalty

-- 2021-11-23 17:50:22

The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of Salauddin Salehin, a dreaded militant from the banned JMB, who was convicted in the 2004 killing of Goni Gomez of Jamalpur. A five-member bench of th...

Covid claims three more lives, infects 284

Covid claims three more lives, infects 284

-- 2021-11-23 17:39:55

Bangladesh has registered three new deaths from Covid-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,958. The coronavirus caseload rose to 1,574,636 as 284 people tested positive for the disease in the 24...

Cost of Matarbari coal-fired power project increases by Tk 158b

Cost of Matarbari coal-fired power project increases by Tk 158b

-- 2021-11-23 17:06:34

The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday cleared the first revision of Matarbari 2X600 MW Ultra Supercritical Coal Fired Power Project, raising its cost by Tk 158.70 bil...

Vaccine shipments from India to resume in December, says Salman F Rahman

Vaccine shipments from India to resume in December, says Salman F Rahman

-- 2021-11-23 15:59:21

The remaining shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine bought from the Serum Institute of India will start arriving in Bangladesh in December, says Salman F Rahman, the private industry and investment advise...

Gas fire kills woman, child in Mugda

Gas fire kills woman, child in Mugda

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-23 12:50:25

A woman and her five-year-old son died after a fire, believed to have originated from a gas leak, broke out at a house in Dhaka. Two others were also seriously burnt in the incident. Priyanka Baroi,...

Humans occupy forest, 28 elephants die in last five years in Cox's Bazar

Humans occupy forest, 28 elephants die in last five years in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-23 10:35:37

COX'S BAZAR: After Sherpur and Chattogram, elephant killing is also increasing in Cox's Bazar. According to the Forest Department, 26 elephants had died in Cox's Bazar in the last five years. A gang...

Remove bureaucratic tangles to tackle post-LDC challenges

Remove bureaucratic tangles to tackle post-LDC challenges

FE REPORT 2021-11-23 09:15:41

Businesspeople and experts on Monday called for simplifying the ease of doing business and removing the existing bureaucratic bottlenecks to cope with the challenges Bangladesh might face in its pos...

Finance ministry asks BB to make fresh rules

Finance ministry asks BB to make fresh rules

FE REPORT 2021-11-23 09:11:44

Government's finance authority asks the central bank to make fresh 'incentive-bonus rules' for state-owned banks (SoBs) as most of them reportedly handed out such perks sans making profit. The Bang...

Conflicts of authority likely to deter Dhaka subway

Conflicts of authority likely to deter Dhaka subway

Munima Sultana 2021-11-23 09:06:38

Conflicts of authority between two government agencies are likely to embroil Dhaka's mass-transit-system development as Bangladesh Bridges Authority (BBA) moves to take subway construction in the capi...

Dhaka airport runway repair work deferred to March next year

Dhaka airport runway repair work deferred to March next year

-- 2021-11-22 21:44:50

The authorities have postponed the four-month repair work on the runway of Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The repair work was scheduled to start in December. It will now take place from Ma...

Councillor shot, injured at CCC office

Councillor shot, injured at CCC office

-- 2021-11-22 20:57:14

A councillor of Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) and at least another person have been shot and “critically” injured in an attack on the councillor’s office, police have said. A group...

Govt to build lightning resistant shelters in 23 districts

Govt to build lightning resistant shelters in 23 districts

-- 2021-11-22 19:40:26

State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Enamur Rahman has said the government plans to build lightning-resistant concrete shelters to prevent casualties from lightning strikes in the co...

Experts urged to ratify Minamata Convention to phase out mercury-added products

Experts urged to ratify Minamata Convention to phase out mercury-added products

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-22 18:47:48

Experts and activists urged the government to ratify the Minamata Convention immediately to phase out mercury added products from Bangladesh citing its adverse impact on lives and environment. They m...

Community clinics to administer another 15m COVID vaccine doses

Community clinics to administer another 15m COVID vaccine doses

-- 2021-11-22 17:44:58

Minister of Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque says another 15 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered through community clinics. Community clinics had previously been used to...

Kamrunnahar’s judicial powers seized

Kamrunnahar’s judicial powers seized

-- 2021-11-22 17:40:11

The Supreme Court has “seized” the criminal judicial powers of Mosammat Kamrunnahar, former judge of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7, who drew flak for...

PM directs officials to expedite development works

PM directs officials to expedite development works

-- 2021-11-22 17:29:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the officials concerned to bring the development activities back to normalcy like in the situation before the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. She gave this directi...

89 more hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hrs

89 more hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hrs

-- 2021-11-22 17:17:41

As many as 89 new Dengue patients have been hospitalised in 24 hours until Monday morning, health authorities said. Although Dengue cases were supposed to drop ahead of winter, the country has been r...

Two more die of Covid, 264 infected

Two more die of Covid, 264 infected

-- 2021-11-22 16:58:43

Bangladesh has registered two new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,955. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,574,352 as 264 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours...

South Korea approves $100m concessional loan for Bangladesh

South Korea approves $100m concessional loan for Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-22 16:47:10

South Korea has recently approved the provision of $100 million from Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) to Bangladesh to help the recovery of Bangladesh’s economy hit by the coronaviru...

Commuters suffer as transport strike begins in Sylhet

Commuters suffer as transport strike begins in Sylhet

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-22 14:32:32

An indefinite transport strike, enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' Federation (BRTWF), began in Sylhet division on Monday to press for their five-point demand. Commuters, including SSC ex...

Maldivian vice president arrives in Dhaka

Maldivian vice president arrives in Dhaka

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-22 12:28:17

Maldivian Vice President Faisal Naseem today (Monday) arrived in Dhaka on a three-day official visit to further bilateral ties and mutual cooperation between the two South Asian nations. Foreign Mini...

Truck-microbus crash in Sunamganj leaves three children dead

Truck-microbus crash in Sunamganj leaves three children dead

-- 2021-11-22 11:26:03

Three children have been killed after a microbus rammed into a standing truck in Sunamganj’s Shantiganj Upazila. The incident occurred on the Sunamganj-Sylhet Road in the Dabor Bridge area ar...

Dust covers Dhaka as winter sets in

Dust covers Dhaka as winter sets in

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-22 11:10:55

The road next to the Registration Complex in Dhaka's Tejgaon has been dug up to install sewage pipes. But as traffic stutters beside the burrowed strip, pedestrians scramble to cover their noses and m...

ACC alone can't check corruption: Chairman

ACC alone can't check corruption: Chairman

FE REPORT 2021-11-22 09:24:00

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah on Sunday said the commission can do little to prevent the graft accused from fleeing the country. "What can the ACC do, if an ac...

BUET IPE department head removed over question leak

BUET IPE department head removed over question leak

-- 2021-11-21 22:01:03

BUET has removed Professor Dr. Nikhil Ranjan Dhar as the head of the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE) amid allegations he was involved in the recent leak of question papers of...

Schoolboy held in Bailey Road hit and run after video goes viral

Schoolboy held in Bailey Road hit and run after video goes viral

-- 2021-11-21 20:26:48

Police have arrested a schoolboy on charges of injuring three people in a hit-and-run incident on Dhaka’s Bailey Road after a video of a car hitting a rickshaw went viral on social media. The 1...

Two workshop workers electrocuted in city

Two workshop workers electrocuted in city

-- 2021-11-21 20:12:15

Two people died and two others were injured from electrocution at Satarkul area in North Badda area of Dhaka on Sunday, the family said. The deceased were identified as Ariful Islam Sohel, 32, a weld...

Health minister criticises BNP leaders for not wearing mask at hunger strike

Health minister criticises BNP leaders for not wearing mask at hunger strike

-- 2021-11-21 20:11:01

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday criticised BNP leaders for not following health rules at their mass hunger strike programme demanding Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad. “They always...

Transport workers call for strike from Monday in Sylhet

Transport workers call for strike from Monday in Sylhet

-- 2021-11-21 19:50:45

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' Federation (BRTWF) has called an indefinite strike in Sylhet from Monday to press for their five-point demand. All modes of public transport, including buses, CNG-r...