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Heavy downpour likely from Saturday to Tuesday

Heavy downpour likely from Saturday to Tuesday

FE ONLINE DESK   2022-09-08 15:25:05

Most parts of the country including Dhaka may witness heavy rainfall from Saturday to Tuesday as the low pressure that has formed over East Central Bay and adjoining North Bay is likely to intensify,...

PM concludes India visit offering prayers at Ajmer Sharif

PM concludes India visit offering prayers at Ajmer Sharif

-- 2022-09-08 14:53:52

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Sept 8) wrapped up her four-day official tour to India by offering prayers at Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Dargah Sharif, Ajmer in India's Rajasthan, BSS reports. "The prim...

Emerging pollutants in water pose risks

Emerging pollutants in water pose risks

SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2022-09-08 14:47:19

An alarming presence of emerging pollutants (EPs) in surface water becomes a new threat to the environment and health for incapacity to treat industrial and household sewage waste in Dhaka. Banglades...

Single-use plastic in coastal areas to be phased out

Single-use plastic in coastal areas to be phased out

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-08 14:30:22

The government has endorsed a roadmap to phase out single-use plastic in coastal areas to protect the environment from the deadly pollution and ensure a clean coastal environment. The Ministry of Env...

PK Halder, 13 others indicted for money laundering, illegal wealth

PK Halder, 13 others indicted for money laundering, illegal wealth

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-08 13:01:17

A Dhaka special judge has indicted Proshanta Kumar Halder, the former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited a, and 13 others on charges of money laundering and accumulating...

Keraniganj blast: Death toll rises to six

Keraniganj blast: Death toll rises to six

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-08 12:32:10

The death toll from the explosion in a gas pipeline in Keraniganj rose to six, with another victim succumbing to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday morning. The dec...

PM reaches Rajasthan to visit Ajmer Sharif

PM reaches Rajasthan to visit Ajmer Sharif

-- 2022-09-08 12:27:51

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today, the last day of her official visit to India, (Sept 08, 2022) reached Jaipur of Rajasthan to visit Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Dargah Sharif, Ajmer, BSS reports. "The prime...

Two killed, 10 injured in Gopalganj road crash

Two killed, 10 injured in Gopalganj road crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-08 11:07:23

Two people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus hit an excavator on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in the Dumdia area of Gopalganj's Sadar upazila in the small hours of Thursday. One of the decease...

Swechchashebak activist beaten to death in Shariatpur

Swechchashebak activist beaten to death in Shariatpur

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-08 10:15:03

The deceased was identified as Mamun Khan, former publicity secretary of Swechchashebak League's Naria municipality unit and son of Abdus Salam Khan. Mamun and Mokhles Bepary, organising secretary of...

Bangabandhu our iconic hero, too: Jaishankar

Bangabandhu our iconic hero, too: Jaishankar

-- 2022-09-08 09:54:52

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar described Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as an iconic hero for both India and Bangladesh, BSS reports. "For us in India, Bang...

Five sentenced to death for gang-raping 15-year-old girl after abduction

Five sentenced to death for gang-raping 15-year-old girl after abduction

-- 2022-09-07 21:48:26

A Khulna court has sentenced five men to death on charges of abduction and gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl in Khalishpur in 2011. Among the convicts, Ali Akbar Hridoy and Mehedi Hasan Ibu were presen...

Important roads under DSCC to be marked red to keep these free from hawkers

Important roads under DSCC to be marked red to keep these free from hawkers

-- 2022-09-07 21:38:09

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is going to mark important roads in its area as red to evict makeshift markets of hawkers on footpaths of these roads from next week. DSCC Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor...

Dhaka, Delhi sign first defence contract

Dhaka, Delhi sign first defence contract

-- 2022-09-07 21:18:56

Bangladesh and India have signed the first contract under the $500 Line of Credit (LoC) which India finds an "important first step" in strengthening defence cooperation between the two countries. &ld...

UK expresses concern over recent political violence in Bangladesh

UK expresses concern over recent political violence in Bangladesh

-- 2022-09-07 20:34:54

The United Kingdom on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the recent political violence between police and BNP activists, especially in Bhola and Narayanganj that left three people killed. In a bri...

Foreign minister is also a human being who can get sick: Obaidul Quader

Foreign minister is also a human being who can get sick: Obaidul Quader

-- 2022-09-07 20:28:41

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has played down speculations that AK Abdul Momen was dropped from Sheikh Hasina’s entourage for her India visit over his controversial remarks. How...

Contracts with four rental power plants extended

Contracts with four rental power plants extended

-- 2022-09-07 20:04:42

The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) has approved 11 proposals, including the contract extension of four rental power plants and the import of 200,000 metric tonnes of rice from Myanmar...

SC expunges its previous order on repeated notice for wealth statement

SC expunges its previous order on repeated notice for wealth statement

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-07 19:38:20

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has expunged its earlier order and observations delivered in a verdict saying the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) cannot issue repeated notice upon any per...

Motorcycle ban on Padma Bridge unlikely to go soon

Motorcycle ban on Padma Bridge unlikely to go soon

-- 2022-09-07 19:33:17

Public enthusiasm for a trip through the Padma Bridge has ebbed two months after its opening, but the ban on motorcycles is unlikely to go anytime soon, according to Road Transport and Bridges Ministe...

National Committee urges govt to reduce metro rail fare by 50pc  

National Committee urges govt to reduce metro rail fare by 50pc  

-- 2022-09-07 18:34:51

The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) has urged the government to reduce the fare of metro rail by 50 per cent.  President of the organisation Md. Shahid Mia an...

Three workers die in Dinajpur septic tank accident

Three workers die in Dinajpur septic tank accident

-- 2022-09-07 18:09:38

Three workers have died in a septic tank accident in Dinajpur’s Chirirbandar Upazila. The accident occurred in the Taltala Para area of Isabpur Union in the upazila around 10 am on Wednesday, a...

Hasina says Indian, Bangladeshi youth should work in close collaboration

Hasina says Indian, Bangladeshi youth should work in close collaboration

-- 2022-09-07 17:42:04

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the youth of Bangladesh and India to interact more closely and work in close collaboration like their leaders did in the past. “We feel, that you...

Padma erosion disrupts ferry service in Daulatdia  

Padma erosion disrupts ferry service in Daulatdia  

-- 2022-09-07 17:35:15

Ferry operation from No 5 ferry terminal in Daulatdia has been suspended as it witnessed severe erosion by the Padma River in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district.   The Bangladesh Inland and Wa...

279 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours 

279 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours 

-- 2022-09-07 17:19:04

A total of 279 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours. Of them, 196 were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 83 outside...

‘Biman to start flight on Dhaka-Rome-Dhaka route soon’ 

‘Biman to start flight on Dhaka-Rome-Dhaka route soon’ 

-- 2022-09-07 17:12:53

State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali has said the operation of Biman Bangladesh Airlines flights on the Dhaka-Rome-Dhaka route will begin very soon to ensure smooth travelling f...

Bangladesh logs 282 more Covid cases, zero death

Bangladesh logs 282 more Covid cases, zero death

-- 2022-09-07 16:27:57

Bangladesh reported zero Covid-linked death and 282 cases in 24 hours till Wednesday morning. With the new numbers, the country's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,329 while the caseload rose...

BGB man stabbed to death in Magura

BGB man stabbed to death in Magura

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-07 15:00:30

A clash between two groups in Magura’s Sreepur upazila on Tuesday night left one person dead and several others injured. The victim was identified as Rashedul Islam, 55, son of Kawsar Mollah of...

Two tubes of Bangabandhu Tunnel likely to open this Oct, Nov

Two tubes of Bangabandhu Tunnel likely to open this Oct, Nov

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-07 14:42:32

The inauguration of Bangabandhu Tunnel, under Karnaphuli river, will be done in two segments and open to traffic in October and November this year, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader s...

Local engineers save millions by converting DEMU trains

Local engineers save millions by converting DEMU trains

bdnews24.com 2022-09-07 14:30:25

When the government bought 20 diesel-electric multiple-unit trains in 2013 from China to facilitate short-distance rail travel, Bangladeshis lauded the idea as these specialised trains were expe...

Stocks witness sharp rise as investors continue buying spree on major sector shares

Stocks witness sharp rise as investors continue buying spree on major sector shares

FE ONLINE REPORT     2022-09-07 12:14:11

Stocks witnessed a steep rise at opening on Wednesday as the buoyant investors continued their buying spree on major sector shares amid high expectations. Following the previous day’s upward tr...

BNP politician, his manager shot in Khulna

BNP politician, his manager shot in Khulna

UNB 2022-09-07 11:18:36

A BNP politician in Khulna and his manager returning home on a two-wheeler were shot by two bike-borne men in the Daulatpur area on Tuesday night. Riaz Shahed, a former president of BL College Chhatr...