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Three killed in Bagerhat road crash

Three killed in Bagerhat road crash

-- 2022-11-08 16:05:23

Three people, including two members of a family, have been killed when a trolley hit a motorbike on the Bagerhat-Khulna highway in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat district. The deceased were identified...

PM for focusing on rural development, public welfare

PM for focusing on rural development, public welfare

-- 2022-11-08 15:55:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned not to go for mega projects and instead take up small ones focusing on rural development and public welfare. She made the directives w...

Education board names five teachers responsible for controversial HSC question

Education board names five teachers responsible for controversial HSC question

-- 2022-11-08 15:33:38

The Dhaka Education Board has identified five teachers involved in including a widely criticised question on the Higher Secondary Certificate Bangla examination. One question setter and four moderato...

Man gets 10 years in jail for murder attempt on UNO

Man gets 10 years in jail for murder attempt on UNO

-- 2022-11-08 13:34:45

A court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for a murder attempt on Wahida Khanam, the upazila executive officer of Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat, and her father Omar Ali. Judge Sadia Sultana of t...

Missing BUET student found dead in Shitalakkhya river

Missing BUET student found dead in Shitalakkhya river

-- 2022-11-08 10:53:50

A student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who went missing three days ago, has been found dead in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj. Fardin Noor...

FBCCI, RAJUK discuss DAP

FBCCI, RAJUK discuss DAP

-- 2022-11-08 08:53:57

A delegation of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) Monday met RAJUK chairman Anisur Rahman Miah to discuss about the effectiveness of Detailed Area Plan (DAP) to bu...

Trading in treasury bills, bonds drops 15.9pc in Q1

Trading in treasury bills, bonds drops 15.9pc in Q1

FE REPORT 2022-11-08 08:44:10

Transactions of the government's fixed-income tradable securities in the secondary market posted a 15.90 per cent decline year on year in the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year....

Utilise accumulated pipeline aid to manage crunch

Utilise accumulated pipeline aid to manage crunch

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-11-08 08:33:51

An IMF team now in creditworthiness talks with Bangladesh government suggested utilising the foreign aid accumulated in the pipeline, unused for delays in project implementation, at this crunch time,...

PMO driver dies after falling on staircase

PMO driver dies after falling on staircase

-- 2022-11-07 21:20:51

A government employee died after falling down the stairs of his home at the Motijheel AGB Colony in Dhaka on Monday. The deceased was identified as Farooq Ahmed (55), a driver assigned to the Prime M...

Get ready for more sacrifices to restore democracy, Fakhrul tells BNP members

Get ready for more sacrifices to restore democracy, Fakhrul tells BNP members

-- 2022-11-07 20:44:35

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday urged his party leaders and activists to prepare for 'more sacrifices' for making the current pro-democracy movement a success by ousting th...

Quader promises to finish BNP's movement in December

Quader promises to finish BNP's movement in December

-- 2022-11-07 20:40:48

Issuing a warning, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said a game will be played in December against the misrule of BNP, vote thieves and arsonists. "BNP failed to raise 13 minut...

25 knife wounds found on BNP leader Kamal’s body, say police

25 knife wounds found on BNP leader Kamal’s body, say police

-- 2022-11-07 20:16:16

Police have said AFM Kamal, former health secretary of BNP’s Sylhet district unit allegedly murdered over a business dispute, was stabbed 25 times according to the autopsy report. Pathologists...

Rangpur city polls on December 27; EVMs to be used in all centres

Rangpur city polls on December 27; EVMs to be used in all centres

-- 2022-11-07 19:32:17

The election to Rangpur City Corporation will be held on December 27 using electronic voting machines in all centres. The election commission (EC) announced the schedule of the election on Monday, re...

Dengue claims seven more lives in 24 hours

Dengue claims seven more lives in 24 hours

-- 2022-11-07 18:55:41

Seven more deaths reported in 24 hours till Monday morning raised this year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to177, amid a sharp rise in dengue cases in different parts of the countr...

Court grants bail to eight DU student rights activists

Court grants bail to eight DU student rights activists

-- 2022-11-07 18:16:17

A Bangladesh court has granted bail to eight activists from the Dhaka University branch of the Students’ Rights Council, including the group’s President Aktar Hossain and General Secretary...

HC extends Khaleda Zia's bail in two defamation cases

HC extends Khaleda Zia's bail in two defamation cases

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-07 18:13:24

The High Court has extended its earlier orders that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two defamation cases until the disposal of those at the trial courts. The HC bench of Justice Mustaf...

11 cops injured during BNP-police clash in Kishoreganj

11 cops injured during BNP-police clash in Kishoreganj

-- 2022-11-07 17:53:07

At least 29 people including 11 police members were injured as a clash broke out between police and BNP activists on Monday in Kishoreganj. The incident occurred around 12:30 pm in front of the BNP o...

SC orders status quo on eviction of illegal structures from Hatirjheel

SC orders status quo on eviction of illegal structures from Hatirjheel

-- 2022-11-07 17:37:25

The Appellate Division on Monday ordered maintaining the status quo on the eviction process of the unauthorised commercial establishments at the Hatirjheel-Begunmari project. A five-member bench of t...

Ageing population in Bangladesh becoming an emerging issue: UN expert Mahler

Ageing population in Bangladesh becoming an emerging issue: UN expert Mahler

-- 2022-11-07 17:14:01

United Nations independent expert on human rights by older persons Claudia Mahler on Monday began her 11-day visit to Bangladesh focusing on the elderlies’ rights in specific contexts, including...

AB Bank branch, 10 shops gutted in Ctg market fire

AB Bank branch, 10 shops gutted in Ctg market fire

-- 2022-11-07 16:46:22

A local branch of Arab Bangladesh (AB) Bank and 10 business establishments were gutted in a fire at a market in Anwara upazila of Chattogram early Monday. Locals said the fire broke out at a shop in...

54 Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours

54 Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-11-07 16:19:51

Bangladesh has logged 54 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 2,035,882, as the death toll remained unchanged, according to the latest government data released on Monday. As many as 3,032...

Police see business dispute behind Sylhet BNP leader Kamal’s murder

Police see business dispute behind Sylhet BNP leader Kamal’s murder

-- 2022-11-07 15:32:20

Police have said that they believe AFM Kamal, former health secretary of the BNP’s Sylhet district unit, was murdered over a business dispute. A Chhatra Dal leader has been detained on suspicio...

Newly inaugurated 100 bridges will quicken country's development: PM

Newly inaugurated 100 bridges will quicken country's development: PM

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-07 13:25:28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Nov 7, 2022) termed the inauguration of 100 bridges at a time as a historic event, saying it would help quicken the country's overall development, BSS reports.&nbsp...

PM Hasina opens 100 bridges

PM Hasina opens 100 bridges

-- 2022-11-07 11:48:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday inaugurated 100 bridges in 25 districts for traffic in her government's efforts to establish direct road connectivity to further strengthen the country's economy...

PM to inaugurate 100 bridges today

PM to inaugurate 100 bridges today

FE REPORT 2022-11-07 08:17:26

The country's road-transport sector is set to experience a forward leap with inauguration of 100 bridges and two lanes of the 2.3-kilometre Tongi Bridge, and work completion of a tube of the first...

HC wants explanation over irregularities of Tk 4.72b in BPC

HC wants explanation over irregularities of Tk 4.72b in BPC

FE ONLINE REPORT  2022-11-06 20:17:25

The High Court on Sunday wanted to know what action has been taken against the irregularities of Tk 4.72 billion by Standard Asiatic Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (...

Income tax of journalists to be paid by employers: HC

Income tax of journalists to be paid by employers: HC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-11-06 19:15:42

The High Court has declared the recommendations of the Cabinet Committee regarding gratuity and income tax to the 9th Wage Board illegal for journalists and other employees of newspapers and news agen...

Dengue test to cost Tk 100 in govt hospitals, Tk 300 in private hospitals

Dengue test to cost Tk 100 in govt hospitals, Tk 300 in private hospitals

-- 2022-11-06 18:41:42

The government has fixed the fee for a dengue detection test, known as NS1, at Tk 100 at state-run hospitals, while private hospitals are allowed to charge a maximum of Tk 300. Health Minister Zahid...

PM urges countrymen to remain alert against recurrence of 2013-15 violence

PM urges countrymen to remain alert against recurrence of 2013-15 violence

-- 2022-11-06 18:40:08

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked for the countrymen's vigilance against the recurrence of violence waged by BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami during 2013-2015 killing some 500 innocent people and...

PM to inaugurate 100 bridges on Monday

PM to inaugurate 100 bridges on Monday

-- 2022-11-06 18:33:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate a total of 100 bridges on Monday.  She will virtually inaugurate the newly-constructed bridges simultaneously from her official Ganabhaban residence...