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Aman farming faces setback for pricier diesel, fertilisers

Aman farming faces setback for pricier diesel, fertilisers

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2022-08-25 08:41:03

The spiraling prices of fuel oil diesel and fertilisers have created a growing concern among the farmers in Sylhet and Netrakona districts during the ongoing Aman cultivation period. According to f...

Padma Bridge cost set to rise yet

Padma Bridge cost set to rise yet

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-08-25 08:32:53

The cost of Padma Bridge is set to increase yet more at the fag-end of the project tenure due to unprecedented devaluation of local currency against US dollar and price escalation of construction ma...

Surrender NIDs or passports

Surrender NIDs or passports

FE REPORT 2022-08-25 08:28:53

The High Court on Wednesday ordered 11 loan defaulters of the People's Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFSL) to surrender to the court their passport, or NID card if they don't have a passp...

President inspects development projects in Kishoreganj

President inspects development projects in Kishoreganj

-- 2022-08-24 21:32:10

President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday witnessed the progress of the construction work of Mithamoin Cantonment in Kishoreganj. Engineer-in-Chief (E-n-C) Major General Md Jubayer Salehin along with some h...

August 21 grenade attack was planned in Hawa Bhaban, says Joy

August 21 grenade attack was planned in Hawa Bhaban, says Joy

-- 2022-08-24 21:26:28

Prime Minister's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said BNP leader Tarique Rahman had a meeting with the planners and enforcers of the blast at Hawa Bhaban prior to the August 21 grenade attacks in 200...

Left-leaning parties to observe a half-day hartal on Thursday

Left-leaning parties to observe a half-day hartal on Thursday

-- 2022-08-24 21:21:37

The Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) is all set to observe a half-day hartal across the country on Thursday protesting the hike in the prices of fuel, urea fertiliser and daily essentials. The LDA, a c...

13 firefighting units douse fire in Bijoynagar

13 firefighting units douse fire in Bijoynagar

-- 2022-08-24 21:13:01

As many as 13 firefighting units doused the fire, which broke out at a building in the Bijoynagar area in Dhaka on Wednesday evening, after nearly two hours. Fortunately, no casualties were reported...

EVMs in maximum 150 constituencies to protect voting rights: CEC

EVMs in maximum 150 constituencies to protect voting rights: CEC

-- 2022-08-24 20:43:30

The decision to use electronic voting machines or EVMs in a maximum of 150 constituencies in the next parliamentary elections was made to protect voting rights without prioritising the “demands&...

Former SP Babul hired killers at Tk 300,000 to kill his wife: PBI

Former SP Babul hired killers at Tk 300,000 to kill his wife: PBI

-- 2022-08-24 20:15:12

Former Chattogram Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter hired killers at Tk 300,000 to kill his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016, according to a report from the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI...

Provision of permission to arrest civil servants will encourage corruption: HC

Provision of permission to arrest civil servants will encourage corruption: HC

-- 2022-08-24 20:03:34

The High Court on Wednesday observed that it’s one kind of immunity to add a provision in the law making it mandatory for police to take permission from higher authorities before arresting any c...

Restaurant in Paltan area catches fire

Restaurant in Paltan area catches fire

-- 2022-08-24 19:48:50

A fire broke out at a restaurant in the capital's Paltan area on Wednesday evening. Eleven firefighting units from Siddik Bazar Fire Service and Civil Defence responded to the blaze at 6:40 pm and re...

Land shortage slows growth of solar power in Bangladesh

Land shortage slows growth of solar power in Bangladesh

-- 2022-08-24 19:48:24

Topu Roy's family did not have electricity until around 2005 when his parents set up a solar power system at their home in Dinajpur, in northern Bangladesh, to run lights and fans. In the past two de...

Bangladesh, Russia in talks over oil purchase

Bangladesh, Russia in talks over oil purchase

FE Online Report 2022-08-24 19:37:35

Bangladesh is in discussions with Russia in a bid to procure crude and refined oil, Russian Ambassador Alexander Mantytskiy in Dhaka said on Wednesday. “A number of initiatives regarding t...

Five years of Rohingya crisis: Going home for one million lives remains uncertain 

Five years of Rohingya crisis: Going home for one million lives remains uncertain 

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman  2022-08-24 19:21:44

With no hope in sight to return to their homeland in Rakhine State of Myanmar, nearly one million Rohingya people, who fled to Bangladesh five years ago, are passing inhuman lives in refugee camp...

‘Abuses of child domestic workers continue unabated’

‘Abuses of child domestic workers continue unabated’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-08-24 19:07:44

Different forms of violence and abuses of child domestic workers continue unabated in the country for what child rights stakeholders say are lack of proper monitoring and supervision, and a proper leg...

UN, western fail to put pressure on Myanmar, say rights groups

UN, western fail to put pressure on Myanmar, say rights groups

FE ONLINE REPORT  2022-08-24 18:43:01

The international community, including the United Nations (UN), has completely failed to exert effective pressure on Myanmar to initiate dignified repatriation of Rohingya.  Although Banglades...

People's Leasing loan scam: HC orders 11 to surrender passports

People's Leasing loan scam: HC orders 11 to surrender passports

-- 2022-08-24 18:10:58

The High Court has ordered 11 family members, including the two daughters of Khabir Uddin, a director of People's Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL), to surrender their passports in connection...

Bangladesh witnesses rapid rise in dengue cases, 165 hospitalised in 24 hours

Bangladesh witnesses rapid rise in dengue cases, 165 hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2022-08-24 18:03:40

A total of 165 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8:00 am today).   "As many as 125 dengue patients were hospita...

Tea workers continue strike in Sylhet 

Tea workers continue strike in Sylhet 

-- 2022-08-24 17:48:44

Tea garden workers in Sylhet continued with their strike on Wednesday, the 16th day of their protest movement, demanding revision of their wages to Tk 300 from the existing Tk 120.  In tea garde...

167 Covid-19 cases, three deaths reported in 24 hours

167 Covid-19 cases, three deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-08-24 16:52:56

Bangladesh has recorded 167 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,010,490. The death toll climbed by three in 24 hours to 29,319, according to the latest government...

Six arrested in Dhaka for manufacturing counterfeit Ayurvedic medicines

Six arrested in Dhaka for manufacturing counterfeit Ayurvedic medicines

-- 2022-08-24 16:50:01

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested six people for manufacturing and selling counterfeit Ayurvedic medicines in Dhaka. The arrestees have been identified as Md Wazed Islam Shanto, 20, and his a...

World Bank’s country director pays farewell call on PM

World Bank’s country director pays farewell call on PM

-- 2022-08-24 16:32:24

World Bank's country director Mercy Miyang Tembon paid a farewell call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban in Dhaka on Wednesday. During the meeting, Mercy Miyang Tembon highly appreciated...

HC scraps bail for sacked ACC official Enamul Basir in bribery case

HC scraps bail for sacked ACC official Enamul Basir in bribery case

-- 2022-08-24 16:18:07

The High Court has reversed its decision to grant bail to Khandaker Enamul Basir, a suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission who has been sentenced to eight years in prison on bribery char...

Yunus seeks stay on HC verdict that paves way for labour court trial

Yunus seeks stay on HC verdict that paves way for labour court trial

-- 2022-08-24 16:06:34

Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has appealed to the Supreme Court's Appellate Division, seeking a stay on a High Court verdict that paved the way for a trial for breaching the labour law. The applic...

Petrol pump owners threat to strike on August 31

Petrol pump owners threat to strike on August 31

-- 2022-08-24 15:53:15

Petrol pump owners have threatened to go on strike on Aug 31 in a bid to press home several demands, including a higher sales commission. Petrol pumps across the country will enforce the strike...

Former election commissioner Mahbub Talukdar passes away

Former election commissioner Mahbub Talukdar passes away

-- 2022-08-24 15:41:27

Former election commissioner Mahbub Talukdar died at the age of 80, after a long battle with cancer and other diseases, his family said. The former bureaucrat and poet died on Wednesday afternoon whi...

New office hours to shift peak time for electricity: Nasrul Hamid

New office hours to shift peak time for electricity: Nasrul Hamid

-- 2022-08-24 15:35:42

Electricity demand is rising in the morning as a result of the government's decision to bring forward the office times by an hour, according to State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources N...

Rains likely to quell heat in Bangladesh

Rains likely to quell heat in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-24 14:12:02

Expect some respite from the scorching heat and frustrating humidity, as the weather department has predicted monsoon showers across the country in 24 hours.  “Light to moderate rain or th...

RAB arrests two more associates of PK Halder

RAB arrests two more associates of PK Halder

-- 2022-08-24 13:19:57

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested two women over their ties to scam-tainted businessman Proshanta Kumar Halder, who is currently in the custody of Indian authorities after fleeing Bangladesh...

Heavy morning traffic revisits Dhaka

Heavy morning traffic revisits Dhaka

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-24 12:41:07

The introduction of new working hours aimed at conserving energy has touched off an early morning scramble on the streets of Dhaka as commuters joined the rush of school-goers across the city. Amid a...