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CCC demands Tk1.0b for maintaining canals

CCC demands Tk1.0b for maintaining canals

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-07 09:20:05

CHATTOGRAM: Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has demanded Tk 1.0 billion (100 crore) from a mega project to maintain the canals of the port city. CCC Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury said, "Chattogram D...

Dhaka gas crisis may ease further from today

Dhaka gas crisis may ease further from today

-- 2022-04-07 09:18:24

The Bibiyana gas field may add 70 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) by Thursday morning to further ease the gas crisis in the capital, reports UNB. The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral R...

Flash floods in Boro-producing areas bodes ill for days ahead

Flash floods in Boro-producing areas bodes ill for days ahead

-- 2022-04-07 09:15:59

Farmers in the haor areas of Sylhet, Netrakona and Sunamganj are living in fear that they may be deprived of their boro paddy's harvest, as flash floods following incessant rainfall in India's borde...

Prioritise environment while doing cost-benefit analysis

Prioritise environment while doing cost-benefit analysis

FE REPORT 2022-04-07 09:11:51

The environmental concerns should be given priority while doing a social cost-benefit analysis, said Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud. "However, it is extremely difficult and there are so many interrelated aspec...

BRTA-NBR database comes to fruition

BRTA-NBR database comes to fruition

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-04-07 09:03:15

The integration of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and the National Board of Revenue (NBR) database starts paying off following field-level taxmen's random access to it. The database w...

Bangladesh outshines neighbours

Bangladesh outshines neighbours

FE REPORT 2022-04-07 09:01:20

Bangladesh has outshone neighbours in crisis-time economic performance and may see higher growth at 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal, says the Asian Development Bank, although it cautions about risi...

Fakhrul says Awami League, not BNP, seeks foreigners' favour

Fakhrul says Awami League, not BNP, seeks foreigners' favour

-- 2022-04-06 23:14:50

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the foreign minister’s request to the US secretary of state for ensuring BNP’s participation in the next polls has expos...

Altercation with Aziz Mohammad Bhai a motive behind actor Sohel murder, says RAB

Altercation with Aziz Mohammad Bhai a motive behind actor Sohel murder, says RAB

-- 2022-04-06 22:53:06

The Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) has identified some motives, including an altercation with film producer and controversial businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai, behind the killing of actor Sohel Chowdhury...

PM greets opposition leaders on Bangla New Year

PM greets opposition leaders on Bangla New Year

-- 2022-04-06 22:41:21

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday greeted leader of the opposition in parliament Begum Raushon Ershad and deputy leader of the opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on the occasion of...

Plaintiff of Sylhet MC College gang rape case gets death threat

Plaintiff of Sylhet MC College gang rape case gets death threat

-- 2022-04-06 22:31:32

The husband of the woman, who was gang-raped at Sylhet’s MC College hostel in September 2020, received a death threat over the phone. Quamrul Ahsan, officer-in-charge of Dakkhin Surma Police St...

Youth beaten to death over betting on IPL match

Youth beaten to death over betting on IPL match

-- 2022-04-06 22:17:47

A 24-year-old youth was beaten to death allegedly by some other youths over betting on an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Hathazari in Chattogram early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as...

Evaly’s co-founder Shamima Nasrin walks out of jail

Evaly’s co-founder Shamima Nasrin walks out of jail

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-06 20:59:29

Shamima Nasrin, co-founder of scam-tainted e-commerce platform Evaly, walked out of jail on Wednesday. She was released on bail from Kashimpur Central Jail on Wednesday evening, said some television...

Bangladesh will be happy if US withdraws sanctions, says Momen

Bangladesh will be happy if US withdraws sanctions, says Momen

-- 2022-04-06 20:44:24

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh will be happy if the United States withdraws the sanctions imposed on the elite force Rab, reiterating that it was “inappropriate and unjustif...

Obaidul Quader says BNP becomes aimless, failed political party

Obaidul Quader says BNP becomes aimless, failed political party

-- 2022-04-06 20:25:46

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday alleged that the BNP has become an aimless, ineffective and failed political party as it did not take any political programme for the welfare...

Khaleda returns home after undergoing medical tests at Evercare Hospital

Khaleda returns home after undergoing medical tests at Evercare Hospital

-- 2022-04-06 20:15:14

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent some medical tests at the city’s Evercare Hospital on Wednesday. She arrived at the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 5:00 pm and stayed there for...

57 surrendered extremists get prime minister's aid worth Tk 5.5m

57 surrendered extremists get prime minister's aid worth Tk 5.5m

-- 2022-04-06 19:52:45

A total of 57 extremists, who came back to normal life after surrendering to the administration, in Rajshahi have received the prime minister's financial assistance worth Tk 5.5 million. Rajshahi&rsq...

Ukraine war delays Padma Bridge opening, says cabinet secretary

Ukraine war delays Padma Bridge opening, says cabinet secretary

-- 2022-04-06 19:51:40

The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are felt across the world, including in Bangladesh, and now the war has caused a delay to the opening of the Padma Bridge. Cabinet Secretary K...

Building catches fire in city's Mirpur, three injured

Building catches fire in city's Mirpur, three injured

-- 2022-04-06 19:41:34

Three people including two women received burn injuries in a fire that broke out in a building in Mirpur area of Dhaka on Wednesday. The identities of the injured couldn’t be known immediately,...

Bangladesh will not face Sri Lanka-like crisis, says PM

Bangladesh will not face Sri Lanka-like crisis, says PM

-- 2022-04-06 19:01:37

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a Sri Lanka-like crisis in Bangladesh, saying that the country’s economy is very strong. “The base of Bangladesh's e...

Gas crisis in Dhaka likely to ease further

Gas crisis in Dhaka likely to ease further

-- 2022-04-06 18:09:06

The Bibiyana gas field may add 70 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) by Thursday morning to further ease the nagging gas crisis in the capital. The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resour...

Hasan Mahmud exchanges views with journos on Mass Media Employees Bill draft

Hasan Mahmud exchanges views with journos on Mass Media Employees Bill draft

-- 2022-04-06 17:48:45

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has exchanged views with the leaders of journalists over draft of the Mass Media Employees (services and conditions) Bill-2022.  Secretary o...

Khaleda Zia visits Evercare Hospital for health check-up

Khaleda Zia visits Evercare Hospital for health check-up

-- 2022-04-06 17:35:44

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has gone to Evercare Hospital in the capital on Wednesday afternoon for health check-ups. She arrived at the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 5:00 pm, said her m...

Bangladesh collects over 290 million Covid-19 vaccine doses so far

Bangladesh collects over 290 million Covid-19 vaccine doses so far

-- 2022-04-06 17:16:01

The government of Bangladesh has collected a total of 29,64,84,120 doses of Covid-19 vaccine till April 4 from different countries. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave the information while replying to...

BNP leader Ishraque Hossain arrested in city

BNP leader Ishraque Hossain arrested in city

-- 2022-04-06 17:04:11

Police arrested Ishraque Hossain, a BNP leader and son of late BNP leader and former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Sadek Hossain Khoka, from Motijheel area of Dhaka on Wednesday. Md Abdul Aha...

HC questions provision of suspension of govt employees due to detention in criminal cases

HC questions provision of suspension of govt employees due to detention in criminal cases

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-04-06 16:51:00

The High Court has questioned the provision of suspending government employees due to arrest or detention by the law enforcers after being accused in a criminal case. The High Court on Wednesday iss...

Bangladesh reports 36 COVID cases in a day, no deaths

Bangladesh reports 36 COVID cases in a day, no deaths

-- 2022-04-06 16:37:58

Bangladesh has recorded 36 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,951,903. The government did not register any fatality in the 24-hour count and the death toll fr...

Generator stator installed at Rooppur NPP

Generator stator installed at Rooppur NPP

-- 2022-04-06 16:23:49

Installation of the generator stator in its design position has successfully been completed in the turbine hall of Unit-1 at Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP). According to Rosatom, the Russian contr...

Padma Bridge will open around the end of 2022, PM says

Padma Bridge will open around the end of 2022, PM says

-- 2022-04-06 14:19:35

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the Padma Bridge will be opened to traffic near the end of 2022. “It was a bold move for the current government to overcome all obstacles to build the P...

Crack on embankment causes concern in Satkhira hamlets

Crack on embankment causes concern in Satkhira hamlets

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-06 13:25:24

Residents of Ruiarbil village in Satkhira's Ashashuni upazila are living in fear of flooding as a large portion of the embankment along the Kopotakkho river has developed a crack. Not only Ruiarbil,...

Youth unemployment rate reaches 28pc

Youth unemployment rate reaches 28pc

FE REPORT 2022-04-06 09:21:25

Unemployment rate among the country's youth has reached around 28 per cent, according to a latest study. Apart from this, some 90 per cent of the employed youth are now engaged in the informal sector...