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Over 6.7m people may leave Dhaka after April 27 for Eid celebration

Over 6.7m people may leave Dhaka after April 27 for Eid celebration

-- 2022-04-27 20:59:54

The mass exodus of the homebound people from Dhaka is expected to begin on Thursday as it is the last workday of government, semi-government and many private offices before the Eid-ul-Fitr. Eid-ul-Fi...

Tetultala playground now police property, says Home Minister

Tetultala playground now police property, says Home Minister

-- 2022-04-27 20:12:44

Tetultala playground has been allotted for police and now it is their property, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said . “Since the allotment has been made, this place belongs to Dhaka M...

Bangladesh vows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7.0pc by 2030

Bangladesh vows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7.0pc by 2030

  FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-27 20:01:31

Bangladesh will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 7.0 per cent unconditional and 16 per cent conditional by 2030. Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin said this...

Indian foreign minister arrives on Thursday

Indian foreign minister arrives on Thursday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-27 19:25:20

The Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will arrive in the capital by a special flight of the Indian Air Force on Thursday.  According to officials, Jaishankar wi...

Chattogram experiences major shift in Eid shopping culture

Chattogram experiences major shift in Eid shopping culture

TOFAEL MAHMUD 2022-04-27 18:12:12

“Everything about shopping for Eid in Dhaka revolves around the New Market” - this used to be a fact, even a few years ago. While this has little truth in it because the rising affluence...

Railway is now a profitable organisation, says PM

Railway is now a profitable organisation, says PM

-- 2022-04-27 17:36:35

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the Awami League-led government has turned Bangladesh Railway into a profitable agency, which was left in tatters during the past BNP rule. “As we...

HC directs banks, FIs  to provide details of Evaly’s financial  transactions

HC directs banks, FIs to provide details of Evaly’s financial transactions

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-27 17:18:24

The High Court on Wednesday directed several banks and other financial institutions to provide detailed information on e-commerce firm Evaly’s financial transactions, including information ab...

23 Covid-19 cases, no death reported in 24 hours

23 Covid-19 cases, no death reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-04-27 16:55:35

Bangladesh has registered 23 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,625. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

46 new locomotives join railway fleet

46 new locomotives join railway fleet

-- 2022-04-27 16:44:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated 46 new locomotives by waving a green flag while blowing a whistle. With the Eid holidays looming, Hasina expressed her hope that the 30 metre-gauge and 16 bro...

Hajj flights from May 31, plane fare Tk 140,000

Hajj flights from May 31, plane fare Tk 140,000

-- 2022-04-27 16:34:54

Flights carrying Bangladeshi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj will begin on May 31, said the Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry. This year, the government has fixed Tk 140,000 as plane fare...

SSC examinations to begin June 19 after a four-month delay

SSC examinations to begin June 19 after a four-month delay

-- 2022-04-27 16:27:04

The government has announced the schedule for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, which will start on June 19 after a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic....

Seven ‘carjackers’ held in city

Seven ‘carjackers’ held in city

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-27 14:54:30

Police arrested seven members of a carjacking gang from Lalbagh, Bhatara and Paltan areas of the city on Tuesday. The arrestees were Enamul Molla, 35, Enamul Haque alias Enam, 47, Bakul Chowdhury, 24...

Bangladesh urges IOM to accelerate advocacy on climate-migration nexus

Bangladesh urges IOM to accelerate advocacy on climate-migration nexus

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-27 13:13:16

Bangladesh called upon the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to engage in further advocacy on the climate-migration nexus. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen made the call when the newly...

Bangladesh exporters can ship goods in container vessels directly to Spain, Netherlands

Bangladesh exporters can ship goods in container vessels directly to Spain, Netherlands

-- 2022-04-26 22:49:41

A Swiss shipping agency will start operating large container vessels straight from the dock of Chattogram port to Barcelona and Rotterdam from next month, launching new and direct European routes for...

Coal projects not abandoned as per govt announcements

Coal projects not abandoned as per govt announcements

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-26 21:37:26

Many coal projects in Bangladesh were abandoned, but not on the scale in accordance to government announcements in 2020, says Global Energy Monitor (GEM). The eighth annual survey of the coal plant p...

Jaishankar might come up with good news, we don’t know what: Momen

Jaishankar might come up with good news, we don’t know what: Momen

-- 2022-04-26 19:47:20

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said his Indian counterpart Dr S. Jaishankar might bring good news as he is scheduled to arrive here on Thursday. "This is good news that he's coming. Ma...

HC reduces death sentences of four gang-rape convicts, acquits two

HC reduces death sentences of four gang-rape convicts, acquits two

-- 2022-04-26 18:02:44

The death sentences of four people, convicted of the gang-raping a woman and taking video of the incident in Narsingdi in 2013, have been reduced to life imprisonment. Two other convicts, who also re...

Mild to severe heat wave sweeping over country

Mild to severe heat wave sweeping over country

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-26 17:31:21

People in most parts of the country including Dhaka are witnessing the scorching temperature as a mild to severe heat wave is sweeping over most parts of the country including Dhaka and it may continu...

Bangladesh proposes exporting electricity to Nepal in winter, importing in summer

Bangladesh proposes exporting electricity to Nepal in winter, importing in summer

-- 2022-04-26 17:26:47

Bangladesh has offered to export electricity to Nepal during winter while importing it during the summer. The proposal was placed at the bilateral meeting between the two countries at the conference...

Bangladesh reports 19 new COVID cases in a day, no deaths

Bangladesh reports 19 new COVID cases in a day, no deaths

-- 2022-04-26 16:46:46

Bangladesh has registered 19 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,602. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

Bangladesh reports 19 new COVID cases in a day, no deaths

Bangladesh reports 19 new COVID cases in a day, no deaths

-- 2022-04-26 16:46:45

Bangladesh has registered 19 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,602. The government recorded no deaths in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from t...

Man sentenced to life over attempted murder of author Zafar Iqbal

Man sentenced to life over attempted murder of author Zafar Iqbal

-- 2022-04-26 15:28:31

A court has sentenced a man to life in prison, another to four years in jail and acquitted four others in a case over a murder attempt on writer Muhammed Zafar Iqbal. The verdict was delivered by the...

32,904 more families get homes as PM's Eid gift

32,904 more families get homes as PM's Eid gift

-- 2022-04-26 14:01:50

Dream of owning a home of 32,904 more homeless and landless families has come into reality as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has handed over houses to them at government expenses, raising the total bene...

Death toll in Jatrabari blast reaches three as another victim succumbs to injuries

Death toll in Jatrabari blast reaches three as another victim succumbs to injuries

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-26 12:40:58

Two-year-old Fatema was not aware that she had lost both of her parents to the fire that blazed through their home. Now, she, too, has succumbed to her burn injuries. The death brings the toll from t...

200 sued for vandalising ambulance during New Market clashes

200 sued for vandalising ambulance during New Market clashes

-- 2022-04-26 12:02:36

A case has been registered in connection with the vandalism of an ambulance during the violent clashes between Dhaka College students and traders and shop workers in Dhaka's New Market. Md...

3,810 hectares of land brought under jute cultivation in Narsingdi

3,810 hectares of land brought under jute cultivation in Narsingdi

-- 2022-04-26 11:39:02

NARSINGDI: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken up a programme to cultivate jute on 3,810 hectares of land in the district with the production target of 35,950 bales of jute during t...

Salt worth Tk 7.5m washed away in Cox's Bazar

Salt worth Tk 7.5m washed away in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-26 11:12:54

COX'S BAZAR: Salt stocks worth Tk 7.5 million had been washed away recently in the district in flooding that occurred due to heavy rain, people involved in salt production said. According to salt far...

Marginal people yet to reap benefit due to tech-illiteracy: Speakers

Marginal people yet to reap benefit due to tech-illiteracy: Speakers

FE REPORT 2022-04-26 09:36:59

Despite making progress in digitalisation, marginal people in the country are yet to get the benefit mainly due to tech-illiteracy, speakers said at a webinar on Monday. Therefore, they suggested int...

Dhaka north BNP announces 620 unit committees

Dhaka north BNP announces 620 unit committees

-- 2022-04-25 22:47:10

BNP’s Dhaka north city unit BNP on Monday announced the committees of its 620 units as part of a move to overhaul the party. “The committees of 620 units at 71 wards in 26 thanas have bee...

BNP is a fraud political party, says Hasan Mahmud

BNP is a fraud political party, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-04-25 22:42:18

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said BNP is not only a hypocrite party but also a fraud political party as it has been proved through faking the signature of the US congressmen,...