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Authorities to explain legality of BB circular

Authorities to explain legality of BB circular

FE REPORT 2022-10-19 08:47:48

The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why the big loan defaulters have been allowed to reschedule their credits under special facilities g...

Inequality one of the biggest dev challenges

Inequality one of the biggest dev challenges

FE REPORT 2022-10-19 08:35:39

Inequality is one of the biggest development challenges for the Asia and the Pacific; so, the region needs to prioritise social protection, social dialogue, employment generation, decent work, and t...

Woman, who burnt in candle fire during power cut, dies

Woman, who burnt in candle fire during power cut, dies

-- 2022-10-18 21:48:59

A woman has succumbed to burn injuries she suffered during a fire triggered 10 days ago by a candle during a power cut in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh. The 60-year old Deepali Rani Saha, a native of Gaib...

HC issues rule on military court verdicts against 88 officers during Zia’s regime

HC issues rule on military court verdicts against 88 officers during Zia’s regime

-- 2022-10-18 21:13:08

The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking why the military court verdicts on 88 people during the regime of President Ziaur Rahman should not be declared illegal. The HC bench of Justice KM Kamr...

Agriculture sector needs Tk 150b investment in next five years: Minister

Agriculture sector needs Tk 150b investment in next five years: Minister

-- 2022-10-18 20:46:00

Bangladesh's agriculture sector will need Tk 150 billion investment in next five years, said Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque on Tuesday, urging developed countries, international donor agencies an...

Three superintendents of police sent on retirement

Three superintendents of police sent on retirement

-- 2022-10-18 20:41:52

The government has sent three superintendents of police (SPs) on retirement before the completion of their service tenure. Public Security Division under the Home Ministry has already issued three se...

Some areas in Dhaka suffer rolling blackouts for 12 hours on Tuesday

Some areas in Dhaka suffer rolling blackouts for 12 hours on Tuesday

-- 2022-10-18 19:50:48

The rolling blackouts have reached such an acute level that some areas in Dhaka are suffering outages for up to 12 hours on Tuesday. Most of the areas of the capital were supposed to suffer four to s...

High Court questions legality of special facilities given to loan defaulters

High Court questions legality of special facilities given to loan defaulters

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-18 19:21:15

The High Court on Tuesday questioned the legality of a Bangladesh Bank circular that has given special facilities to big defaulters in rescheduling their loans and curtailing monitoring powers of the...

Reactor pressure vessel installation for Rooppur plant’s 2nd unit begins Wednesday

Reactor pressure vessel installation for Rooppur plant’s 2nd unit begins Wednesday

-- 2022-10-18 18:57:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the installation work of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-2 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) on Wednesday morning. The prime...

900 new Dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

900 new Dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2022-10-18 17:35:24

Three more dengue patients died in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising this year's death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 99. During this period, 900 more patients were hospit...

Bangladesh cautious in taking precautionary measures about food, says FM

Bangladesh cautious in taking precautionary measures about food, says FM

-- 2022-10-18 17:14:44

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh remains prudent in taking precautionary measures on two key fronts-food and energy security—to deal with the challenges ahead due to the Ru...

Arrest warrant issued against Alesha Mart chairman

Arrest warrant issued against Alesha Mart chairman

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-18 17:06:28

A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Manjurul Alam Sikder, chairman of the scam-hit e-commerce platform Alesha Mart, in two cheque fraud cases. Tofazzal Hossain, Additional Chief...

Embezzlement of Tk 37b: HC wants to know steps against five BB deputy governors

Embezzlement of Tk 37b: HC wants to know steps against five BB deputy governors

-- 2022-10-18 16:58:28

The High Court on Tuesday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to inform the steps taken by Bangladesh Bank (BB) against its five accused deputy governors and other officials involved in the emb...

Man convicted of raping teenager arrested after 18 years

Man convicted of raping teenager arrested after 18 years

-- 2022-10-18 16:49:03

A man who was sentenced to death for the rape of a teenage girl in Feni has been arrested after spending 18 years on the run. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) apprehended 55-year-old Latu Mia, alias...

Body found in container sent from Chattogram to Malaysia

Body found in container sent from Chattogram to Malaysia

-- 2022-10-18 16:40:10

A decomposed body was found inside a container that left Chattogram port for Malaysia. Security personnel at Malaysia's Penang port discovered the body while transporting the container to a depot. A...

Bangladesh logs 287 new COVID cases, six deaths in a day

Bangladesh logs 287 new COVID cases, six deaths in a day

-- 2022-10-18 15:54:44

Bangladesh has recorded 287 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,033,119. The death toll from the disease rose by six to 29,408 over the 24-hour period, according t...

HC questions government’s reform of Manarat University  trustee board

HC questions government’s reform of Manarat University trustee board

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-10-18 15:51:35

The High Court has questioned the legality of the government’s reconstitution action of the Board of Trustees of Manarat International University. The court asked the government to explain in f...

Tourists leaving Bandarban amid security drive to remove suspected militants, criminals

Tourists leaving Bandarban amid security drive to remove suspected militants, criminals

-- 2022-10-18 15:41:16

Tourists have started leaving Bandarban district as local administration has imposed a temporary ban on tourism at Ruma and Rowangchhari upazilas from Tuesday morning as a security drive is underway t...

PM wants peaceful world for children shunning war, arms trading

PM wants peaceful world for children shunning war, arms trading

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 15:11:06

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Oct 18) called for returning to peace, relinquishing war and arms competition to make the world a beautiful abode for children, BSS reports. “We want a p...

Four get death 17 years after rape, murder of schoolgirl in Narayanganj

Four get death 17 years after rape, murder of schoolgirl in Narayanganj

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 14:25:20

A court has handed down the death penalty to four men and sentenced another to life in prison for killing a schoolgirl after raping her in Narayanganj's Fatullah in 2005, bdnews24.com reports. Judge...

Gazipur filling station fire: Death toll rises to three

Gazipur filling station fire: Death toll rises to three

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 12:48:58

The death toll from the Gazipur filling station fire rose to three, with another victim succumbing to his burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday morning. The deceased w...

Dhaka world's fourth most polluted city

Dhaka world's fourth most polluted city

-- 2022-10-18 10:38:02

Dhaka's air quality continued to be in the 'unhealthy' zone on Tuesday morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 163 at 9:00am, the metropolis ranked fourth in the list of world cities with t...

Bangladesh closes hill tracts tourist hotspots amid security concerns

Bangladesh closes hill tracts tourist hotspots amid security concerns

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 10:23:41

The local administrations have indefinitely closed Bandarban’s Ruma and Roangchhari for tourists amid security concerns over reports of Islamist militants harboured by tribal separatists i...

PM pays homage to Aug 15 martyrs at Banani graveyard

PM pays homage to Aug 15 martyrs at Banani graveyard

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 10:09:16

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Oct 18) paid rich tributes to August 15 martyrs at the Banani graveyard in Dhaka on the occasion of Sheikh Russel Day. The premier along with her younger sister Sh...

Farming of Bina-evolved paddy varieties in Sunamganj on rise

Farming of Bina-evolved paddy varieties in Sunamganj on rise

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-10-18 08:56:16

SYLHET: With a view to popularising the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA)-evolved high yielding varieties of paddy, BINA dhan, a Field Day of some demonstration plots was held on Satu...

Sheikh Russel Day today

Sheikh Russel Day today

-- 2022-10-18 08:49:30

Sheikh Russel Day will be observed in the country today in a befitting manner coinciding with the 59th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's youngest son Shaheed Sheikh...

Metro rail likely to open on Dec 16

Metro rail likely to open on Dec 16

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-10-18 08:42:18

The long wait for the country's first-ever metro rail is likely to go on December 16 as its opening may be timed to coincide with the celebration of Victory Day. The elevated train targets to operate...

Govt starts fresh move to digitise land registration

Govt starts fresh move to digitise land registration

JUBAIR HASAN 2022-10-18 08:34:44

The government has started the process of digitising the country's manually-managed land registration system afresh - after 10 years of launching the automation move, officials said. The state-run...

Mirza Fakhrul says govt arrests BNP leaders, activists indiscriminately

Mirza Fakhrul says govt arrests BNP leaders, activists indiscriminately

-- 2022-10-17 23:09:57

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday accused the government of arresting the leaders and activists of the BNP indiscriminately and sending them to prisons across the country to...

BNP is daydreaming of creating another one-eleven, says Obaidul Quader

BNP is daydreaming of creating another one-eleven, says Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-10-17 22:56:22

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said those, who think that they would be able to topple the government through some rallies, are li...