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Top court halts HC order that nullified permission to arrest govt officials

Top court halts HC order that nullified permission to arrest govt officials

-- 2022-09-01 12:20:23

A High Court ruling that 'nullified' the requirement of prior permission to arrest civil servants on criminal charges under the Public Service Act has been put on hold on an appeal by the state....

South Korea interested in building nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

South Korea interested in building nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

-- 2022-08-31 21:57:15

South Korea is interested in building a nuclear power plant in Bangladesh if the latter also shows interest and conditions are favourable. Lee Jang-keun, the South Korean ambassador in Dhaka, said on...

Fire destroys 50 houses in Hazaribagh slum

Fire destroys 50 houses in Hazaribagh slum

-- 2022-08-31 21:51:38

A fire has engulfed 50 homes in Battala slum in Hazaribagh before firefighters could bring the flames under control. As many as 10 units of Fire Service and Civil Defence doused the flames around 7pm...

Khaleda Zia returns home from hospital

Khaleda Zia returns home from hospital

-- 2022-08-31 21:40:33

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home on Wednesday evening from the capital's Evercare Hospital after staying there for three days for tests. The BNP chief left the hospital at 5:30pm and reached...

Bangladesh alerts its citizens in Iraq, opens hotline numbers as violence escalates

Bangladesh alerts its citizens in Iraq, opens hotline numbers as violence escalates

-- 2022-08-31 21:09:00

The Bangladesh Embassy in Iraq has asked citizens to remain at safe places with political violence in the Middle Eastern country escalating. The embassy in a notice alerting the citizens on Tuesday a...

SC refuses to stay HC verdict over arresting civil servants

SC refuses to stay HC verdict over arresting civil servants

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-08-31 20:26:05

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the High Court verdict that scrapped a provision of the ‘Sarkari Chakori Ain, 2018’ making it mandatory for law enf...

Hasina urges Chhatra League men to move ahead with sacrificing mind

Hasina urges Chhatra League men to move ahead with sacrificing mind

-- 2022-08-31 19:56:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men to build themselves as perfect leaders by moving forward with sacrificing mind leaving personal interest and greed. "If...

Latin American version of Bangabandhu's ‘Unfinished Memoirs’ published

Latin American version of Bangabandhu's ‘Unfinished Memoirs’ published

-- 2022-08-31 19:49:51

As part of the observance of the 47th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Embassy in Mexico has published the Latin American version of Bangaban...

Bus fare lowered by Tk 0.05 per kilometre after fuel price cut

Bus fare lowered by Tk 0.05 per kilometre after fuel price cut

-- 2022-08-31 18:39:24

The government has lowered bus fare by Tk 0.05 per kilometre after a Tk 5 cut in fuel oil prices per litre. Road Transport and Highways Secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuri announced the decision after a me...

Four get death sentence over university student's murder in Cox's Bazar

Four get death sentence over university student's murder in Cox's Bazar

-- 2022-08-31 18:07:09

A Cox’s Bazar court has sentenced four people to death and two others to life in prison for the murder of university student Zia Uddin Faisal in 2017. District and Sessions Judge Md Ismail deli...

Shohoz fined Tk 0.21m for selling a train ticket twice

Shohoz fined Tk 0.21m for selling a train ticket twice

-- 2022-08-31 18:05:11

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has imposed a fine of Tk 215,000 on Shohoz for selling the same train ticket to two customers. The consumer watchdog levied the fine on...

HC asks BFIU chief to form research cell for recovering laundered money

HC asks BFIU chief to form research cell for recovering laundered money

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-08-31 17:32:40

Head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), Md Masud Biswas, has tendered apology to the High Court for his ‘inadvertent’ mistake in submitting a statement to the court about th...

Death of Brac University student: RAB detains father on charges of instigating suicide

Death of Brac University student: RAB detains father on charges of instigating suicide

-- 2022-08-31 17:23:47

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested the father of a BRAC University student who allegedly jumped off a building to her death in Dhaka's Dakhinkhan. RAB arrested the father in Mymensingh's...

Sunamganj’s Jhumon Das arrested again over 'provocative' Facebook post

Sunamganj’s Jhumon Das arrested again over 'provocative' Facebook post

-- 2022-08-31 17:11:24

Two and a half years after a brush with the law over a Facebook post, Sunamganj-native Jhumon Das has once again been booked by the police in a case under the Digital Security Act. According to bdnew...

One more dies of dengue, 251 others hospitalized

One more dies of dengue, 251 others hospitalized

-- 2022-08-31 16:59:09

One more patient died from dengue in the 24 hours until Wednesday morning raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 21, said health authorities. During this period, 251...

Covid claims one more life; 214 get infected

Covid claims one more life; 214 get infected

-- 2022-08-31 16:38:00

Bangladesh has recorded 214 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,011,946. The death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,323 over the 24-hour period, according t...

71pc households in Bangladesh pay bribes to get government services: TIB

71pc households in Bangladesh pay bribes to get government services: TIB

-- 2022-08-31 16:17:38

Around 70.9 per cent of the country’s households bribe government officials to get services from various sectors, according to a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) survey released on We...

Illegal arms factory unearthed in Chattogram

Illegal arms factory unearthed in Chattogram

-- 2022-08-31 15:53:01

RAB on Wednesday unearthed an illegal arms factory in a drive through a densely forested hill in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram district on Tuesday. The elite force also detained one person identif...

Mild heat wave likely to continue in seven districts

Mild heat wave likely to continue in seven districts

-- 2022-08-31 15:44:02

The ongoing mild heat wave is likely to continue in seven districts of the country, said a Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) bulletin valid for 24 hours commencing at 9:00 am today (Wednesday...

Mild heat wave sweeps parts of country

Mild heat wave sweeps parts of country

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-31 12:41:07

A mild heat wave is sweeping parts of the country, including Dhaka, with sporadic rains doing little to ease the temperature, the Met office said on Wednesday. A mild heat wave is sweeping over the d...

Dhaka's air quality 'good' now

Dhaka's air quality 'good' now

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-31 10:58:05

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 39 at 9:10am, the densely populated metropolis ranked 49th in the list of world cities with the worst air quality. Indonesia's Jakarta, Pakistan’s Lahor...

94pc of private healthcare outlets errant, survey shows

94pc of private healthcare outlets errant, survey shows

FE REPORT 2022-08-31 10:22:01

Nearly 94 per cent of the country's private sector healthcare facilities were found running in an unauthorised and non-compliant way, indicating little regulations in the health sector, according to a...

Obaidul Quader says they are not afraid of BNP's threat of movement

Obaidul Quader says they are not afraid of BNP's threat of movement

-- 2022-08-30 23:29:33

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said they are not afraid of the BNP's threat of movement since the people has been with their party for the last seven decades. The road...

Agriculture minister sees no fertiliser shortage in country

Agriculture minister sees no fertiliser shortage in country

-- 2022-08-30 22:45:10

There is no shortage of fertiliser as the country has sufficient stock of the agri-input against the demand, according to Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque. "There is no shortage of fertil...

Fakhrul breaks down in tears during speeches of ‘missing’ Chhatra Dal leaders’ children

Fakhrul breaks down in tears during speeches of ‘missing’ Chhatra Dal leaders’ children

-- 2022-08-30 22:26:50

BNP secretary general of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir broke down in tears during speeches of children of two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders, who have been reportedly missing, at a human chain program...

Taposh defends his decision to keep pharmacies closed at night

Taposh defends his decision to keep pharmacies closed at night

-- 2022-08-30 21:17:53

Dhaka South Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has defended his decision to keep pharmacies closed at night, defying calls from Health Minister Zahid Melque and doctors to allow drug stores to remain open...

UN clarifies Michelle Bachelet's position on human rights situation in Bangladesh

UN clarifies Michelle Bachelet's position on human rights situation in Bangladesh

-- 2022-08-30 21:10:39

The United Nations has moved to clarify outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's position on the human rights situation in Bangladesh. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the UN...

HC directs IGP to report on storage of seized goods

HC directs IGP to report on storage of seized goods

-- 2022-08-30 20:37:17

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday sought a detailed report regarding the storage of seized goods at police stations and court premises across the country. The HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah...

Govt to lower bus fares after reducing fuel price

Govt to lower bus fares after reducing fuel price

-- 2022-08-30 20:05:35

Road Transport and Highways Secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuri has said the government is set to reduce public transport fares after the price of fuel oil was reduced by Tk 5.0 per litre. The govern...

Student of Titumir College dies in road accident

Student of Titumir College dies in road accident

FE Online Report 2022-08-30 19:58:13

A student of Titumir College died while a man was injured after a bus hit a motorcycle on Mayor Hanif Flyover in the capital’s Jatrabari area on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sadia Af...