FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier, has increased the number of domestic flights to facilitate its passenger service on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. It will operate nine additional (18 round trip) flights on different domestic routes. Tahera Khondoker, general...
The cabinet committee on law and order on Sunday recommended extension of the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays by one day from April 9 to ensure hassle-free journey of holidaymakers, reports UNB.The recommendation of the cabinet committee will be placed at the Cabinet...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Office-goers suffered much to avail metro rail in the capital on Sunday as its operation remained suspended for nearly two hours following a nor'wester that fell some materials on the catenary system.Officials said the first few trains could not be...
TAHMID SHAKIB | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The students have taken an oath to keep the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) free from all political and banned organisations. However, BUET Vice-Chancellor Satya Prasad Majumder has stirred a debate by indicating the potential reintroduction of student...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has stressed the need for implementation of the labour-reform roadmap and the national action plan to effectively resolve the article 26 complaint lodged against Bangladesh for its non-observance of three core conventions and also address...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The High Court on Sunday instructed the law-enforcement agencies not to arrest or harass three top officials of the Transcom Group for 72 hours of their return to the country, according to the lawyers concerned. The officials in question are...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has finally decided to shelve a flawed project to upgrade the country's important Akhaura-Sylhet line after nearly seven years of delays in negotiations over a costly Chinese proposal.At a recent meeting, the Ministry of Railways decided to...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The government has taken a number of initiatives to popularise Jamdani to the international market, including training of the artisans and providing incentives on export of the product.Besides, there are moves for quality packaging of the popular product and showcasing...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has asked the export-oriented sector to obtain fresh tax-exemption certificates to benefit from tax breaks at the latest rates.In a clarification, the tax authority said tax exemption certificates issued before March 4, 2024, are...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Amid inflation hovering around a double-digit level for around a year, the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FBCCI) has proposed exempting all agro-based essential commodities from source tax. The country's apex chamber called for the withdrawal of...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The government has reduced the prices of diesel and kerosene by Tk 2.25 per litre to Tk 106 under the automatic fuel-pricing formula.The new rate will come into effect today.However, the prices of octane and petrol have been kept unchanged...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Formal credits become costlier yet as the maximum lending rate in the banking sector rises to 13.55 per cent for April amid significant push from the reference-rate SMART.As the SMART (six-months moving average rate of treasury bill) rate climbed to...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Concern about the country's economic condition is now all over, claimed the finance minister on Sunday and presented before journalists a brief account of the latest macroeconomic developments.Mr Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told the economic reporters that due to higher...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Barishal divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office. Day and...
A moot court team from the Law Department of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) secured the "Best International Team Award" at the 12th Justice PN Bhagwati International Moot Court Competition on Human Rights-2024. The competition, held at the Bharati Vidyapeeth New...
SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
People are having a double whammy of a shutdown in the supply of birth-control products with stocks finished at family planning offices and a price hike on the open market.Field offices distribute birth control materials to able-bodied couples free of...
A 10-year-old boy was killed in a road crash in the city's Kamrangirchar area on Sunday morning, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as Mashruful Hasan, son of Md Mamun of Noakhali district.Quoting Tanvir Hossain, a pedestrian, Inspector Bachhu Mia, in-charge...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Land Minister Narayon Chandra Chanda has called for working together to prevent corruption in land service by building a social movement against corruption and taking coordinated initiatives."We're working by adopting a zero-tolerance policy against corruption under the leadership of the...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Bangladesh expects the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to extend greater support to accelerate the socioeconomic development of its people, reports UNB.She conveyed the expectation to ADB Vice President (Sector and Themes) Fatima...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
The government has asked the transport authorities to provide a list of public buses having over 20 years of their economic life, in an effort to control air pollution in the capital.Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury...
Two separate Dhaka courts on Sunday denied bail to BNP Joint Secretary General and Dhaka Metropolitan South BNP President Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and ordered to send him to jail, reports BSS.Sohel surrendered and applied for bail in the courts of...
JASHORE, Mar 31 (UNB): A court in Jashore on Sunday sent 51 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies to jail in sabotage cases filed at several police stations in Jashore.Jashore District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam...
Bangladesh Chhatra League activists hold a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Sunday, calling for lifting the ban on student politics at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology — FE photo
Foreign Minister (FM) Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said there is no credit in projecting the country negatively at home and abroad, reports UNB.He urged all to positively uphold the country, refraining from spreading propaganda."It's the responsibility of the media to...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the government is closely investigating the recent incident at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), involving activists from the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), reports UNB.Quader also expressed concerns over...
FE REPORT | 2024-04-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Sunday that the country's education system has been destroyed after the present Awami League government assumed power. He made the comment while addressing an iftar party jointly organised...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Sunday said the Information Commission of Bangladesh (ICB) should be proactive in performing its duties, reports UNB.The President gave the directive when a four-member ICB delegation handed over the "Information Commission's Annual Report 2023" to him...
LONDON, March 31 (Reuters): Britain's stock markets should halve the time it takes to settle a share trade to stay competitive and complete this shift by the end of 2027, a report recommended on Thursday, a step the UK government...
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