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Bangladesh enters speedy electric commuting era

Bangladesh enters speedy electric commuting era

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-12-29 08:52:55

Bangladesh enters speedy electric-commuting era as its maiden metro rail opened Wednesday with the first modern train ceremonially rolled on a section of multi-phased mass rapid-transit line. Prime...

Nation is happy with metro rail opening, but BNP is not happy: Hasan Mahmud

Nation is happy with metro rail opening, but BNP is not happy: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-12-28 22:26:38

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said that though the whole nation is expressing happiness over the launch of the metro rail service in the capital, BNP could have no...

HC order to probe money laundering by National Bank board members upheld

HC order to probe money laundering by National Bank board members upheld

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-28 20:53:39

Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court has refused to stay a High Court order that asked the authorities concerned to conduct an inquiry into the allegations of corruption and money laundering by the memb...

Punitive measures for violation of metro rail act

Punitive measures for violation of metro rail act

-- 2022-12-28 20:24:41

Ahead of Bangladesh's entry into a new age of public transportation, the government passed the Metro Rail Act in 2015 to ensure discipline in the sector. The legislation set out punitive measures for...

Tk 50 commemorative note unveiled marking metro rail launch

Tk 50 commemorative note unveiled marking metro rail launch

-- 2022-12-28 19:40:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday unveiled a commemorative note of Taka 50, marking the launch of the country's first-ever metro rail. The premier unveiled the commemorative note at the inaug...

Batteries to keep metro trains moving in power outages

Batteries to keep metro trains moving in power outages

-- 2022-12-28 18:43:55

Trains in the Dhaka Metro Rail network, the country's first, will be powered by electricity from the national grid. But the metro trains have also been equipped with high-capacity batteries to ensure...

Tax return submission deadline extended to January 1

Tax return submission deadline extended to January 1

-- 2022-12-28 18:25:11

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the tax return submission deadline to 1 January considering the weekly holidays on December 30 and 31. The NBR issued a notification extending the dea...

Trial begins against Evaly’s Rassel, Shamima in money embezzlement case

Trial begins against Evaly’s Rassel, Shamima in money embezzlement case

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-28 18:13:34

A Dhaka Court on Wednesday framed a charge against controversial e-commerce platform Evaly’s former chairman Shamima Narsin and its former managing director and CEO Mohammad Russel in a case fil...

Bangladesh logs 21 Covid cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 21 Covid cases in 24 hours

-- 2022-12-28 17:01:20

Bangladesh has recorded 21 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,037,067. The death toll from the disease stayed unchanged at 29,439 over the 24-hour period, accordi...

67 more hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours

67 more hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours

-- 2022-12-28 16:51:36

Sixty-seven more people were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning. The official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease remained unchanged at 281 as no death was recorded du...

Five killed in road crashes in three districts

Five killed in road crashes in three districts

-- 2022-12-28 16:01:58

At least five people were killed in road accidents in Gopalganj, Habiganj and Rajbari districts on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. In Gopalganj, two people were killed when their motorcycle cras...

Metro Rail marks another milestone for Bangladesh

Metro Rail marks another milestone for Bangladesh

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-28 14:27:29

Bangladesh has ushered in a new era of public transportation as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flagged off the country's first metro passenger train at Dhaka's Diabari. The prime minister inaugurated t...

Metro Rail hailed as a 'shining example' of Bangladesh-Japan friendship

Metro Rail hailed as a 'shining example' of Bangladesh-Japan friendship

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-28 14:12:18

As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched Bangladesh's first metro rail services in Dhaka, newly appointed Japanese Ambassador Kiminori Iwama and Ichiguchi Tomohide, the chief representative of JICA wh...

Coordinated humanitarian efforts uplift a nation: LGRD minister

Coordinated humanitarian efforts uplift a nation: LGRD minister

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-28 12:13:14

Local Government, Rural Development and Coperative Minister M Tajul Islam has said nation's upliftment depends on noble work for humanity as it gives a feeling of dignity and mental peace. "Life is...

Metro rail services launched

Metro rail services launched

FE ONLINE REPORT    2022-12-28 11:52:06

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened the much-awaited metro rail services by unveiling a plaque at Uttara sector-15 today (Wednesday). With the inauguration, the country has entered into an era of...

Metro trains open doors for Bangladesh

Metro trains open doors for Bangladesh

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-28 11:07:36

The stage is set for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to inaugurate Bangladesh’s first urban rail in Dhaka on Wednesday. Hasina will be the first passenger after the launch of the services. The go...

Gazipur textile godown fire under control

Gazipur textile godown fire under control

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-28 10:52:00

A fire that broke out in a textile waste warehouse in Gazipur on Wednesday morning was brought under control, officials said.The blaze started in the warehouse in the Dewaliabari area of Konabari arou...

No improvement in Dhaka’s air quality, still ‘ very unhealthy’

No improvement in Dhaka’s air quality, still ‘ very unhealthy’

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-28 10:25:56

Dhaka's air quality continued to be in the 'very unhealthy' zone on Wednesday morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 210 at 9:55 am, Dhaka ranked second in the list of cities around the wo...

Jatiya Party candidate Mostafizur re-elected mayor of Rangpur

Jatiya Party candidate Mostafizur re-elected mayor of Rangpur

bdnews24.com 2022-12-28 09:13:55

Jatiya Party candidate Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa has won the mayoral election to Rangpur City Corporation in a crushing defeat for the ruling Awami League, whose nominee Hosne Ara Lutfa lost her...

2.80pc people disabled: BBS

2.80pc people disabled: BBS

FE REPORT 2022-12-28 09:03:08

Some 2.80 per cent of the country's total population is disabled, according to a latest survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Of them, 41.09 per cent are physically or ment...

Maiden metro rail rolls in Dhaka today

Maiden metro rail rolls in Dhaka today

MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-12-28 08:55:32

Many look agog with enthusiasm to enjoy modern and faster transport ridership as the maiden metro rail in Bangladesh is ready to roll in Dhaka today under a mass- rapid-transit project. Prime Minis...

Some useful tips for travelling on metro rail

Some useful tips for travelling on metro rail

-- 2022-12-27 21:07:44

The government is going to inaugurate the Uttara-Agargaon route of the metro rail, the first mass rapid transit system in Dhaka, on Wednesday. The next route from Agargaon to Motijheel is scheduled to...

Number of agriculture-based households increases to 16.88 million

Number of agriculture-based households increases to 16.88 million

-- 2022-12-27 20:45:52

The number of agriculture-based households in the country has increased to 16.88 million while the cropping intensity has also enhanced to 214 per cent, according to the report of the Agriculture Cens...

Four BNP leaders invited to metro rail opening ceremony

Four BNP leaders invited to metro rail opening ceremony

-- 2022-12-27 20:27:48

Four BNP leaders have been invited to attend the opening function of the metro rail service to be held at Diabari on Wednesday morning. "Four BNP leaders Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Gayeshwar Chandr...

BNP protests metro fares saying it’s too expensive

BNP protests metro fares saying it’s too expensive

-- 2022-12-27 20:08:09

BNP has denounced the fare structure of the Metro rail in Dhaka, saying it is much higher than that of metro rails in the neighbouring countries, including India and Pakistan. “The BNP Standing...

Cluster admission test: HC rules over decision to stop migration process

Cluster admission test: HC rules over decision to stop migration process

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-27 20:03:35

The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain in 10 days as to why the decision on stopping migration process in admitting students at public universit...

Young users of digital platforms feel uncomfortable sharing their views

Young users of digital platforms feel uncomfortable sharing their views

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-27 19:49:58

Young users on digital platforms feel uncomfortable sharing their thoughts on issues like the growing price hike of commodities out of fear of being harassed or coming under the digital security act,...

Election violence under present EC drops to zero, says CEC

Election violence under present EC drops to zero, says CEC

-- 2022-12-27 19:45:05

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal on Tuesday said election violence under the present Election Commission (EC) has dropped to zero. “The Election Commission wants to continue...

Chief Justice for speedy disposal of cases

Chief Justice for speedy disposal of cases

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-27 19:18:50

Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique has attached special importance to speedy disposal of the cases piled in the courts across the country. He said this while addressing District and Sessions Judges a...

‘India assures Bangladesh of uninterrupted supply of essential goods’

‘India assures Bangladesh of uninterrupted supply of essential goods’

-- 2022-12-27 18:53:00

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Tuesday said that India has assured Bangladesh of uninterrupted supply of essential goods round the year as New Delhi is setting an annual quota of exports to its imme...