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34 at ‘Swamibag Ashrom’ test positive for coronavirus

34 at ‘Swamibag Ashrom’ test positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-04-26 18:51:48

A temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) at Swamibag in the city was put under lockdown after 34 of its followers tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, reports U...

PIAB urges govt for loans, other forms of financial assistance

PIAB urges govt for loans, other forms of financial assistance

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-26 18:38:26

Printing Industries Association of Bangladesh (PIAB) urged the Prime Minister to facilitate soft loan and financial assistance for providing four months salaries and festival allowance to its employee...

Govt plans to launch special cell to prevent dengue outbreak

Govt plans to launch special cell to prevent dengue outbreak

-- 2020-04-26 17:46:50

The government is planning to launch a dengue prevention cell to oversee the efforts to raise awareness on the disease and destroying breeding grounds of the virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes, reports b...

Rangpur road crash claims three lives

Rangpur road crash claims three lives

-- 2020-04-26 17:23:45

Three people were killed and five others injured when a truck hit two human haulers on Rngpur-Dinajpur highway at Paglapir in Rangpur on Sunday. Two of the deceased were identified as Morzina Begum,...

Chinese medical team en route to BD to fight COVID-19

Chinese medical team en route to BD to fight COVID-19

-- 2020-04-26 17:20:38

A Chinese medical team of experts comprising doctors, nurses and technicians is on the way to Bangladesh to help local physicians combat the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh...

Rain likely until Wednesday

Rain likely until Wednesday

-- 2020-04-26 17:17:36

Moderate to heavy rain is likely to continue until Wednesday across the country, including the capital, said Met office on Sunday. Omar Faruk, a meteorologist at Bangladesh Meteorological Department...

DMP realises Tk 64,250 as fine for breaching social distancing

DMP realises Tk 64,250 as fine for breaching social distancing

FE Online Report 2020-04-26 17:13:47

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Saturday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 64,250 for allegedly violating the government’s social distanci...

Hasina's efforts over COVID-19 lauded in Forbes article

Hasina's efforts over COVID-19 lauded in Forbes article

-- 2020-04-26 16:44:12

Forbes, an American business magazine, featured eight women global leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who ‘deserve to be recognised’ for their efforts in dealing with COVID-1...

Two die after taking toxic liquor in Jashore

Two die after taking toxic liquor in Jashore

-- 2020-04-26 16:43:15

Two young men died after taking toxic liquor in Jashore district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Bikash Sahani, 38, son of Domodore Sahani, resident of Bejpara area and Ojiar alias Olias,...

Quader warns against attempts to destabilise market

Quader warns against attempts to destabilise market

-- 2020-04-26 15:48:17

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday warned of strict action against traders who want to make the markets unstable during the Ramadan. He issued the warning at a briefing at his of...

RMG factories resume operations on limited scale

RMG factories resume operations on limited scale

-- 2020-04-26 15:43:26

A segment of garment factories affiliated with RMG entrepreneurs’ lobbies, BGMEA and BKMEA, have resumed operations on a limited scale on Sunday amid a nationwide lockdown over the coronavirus o...

Beijing with Dhaka to fight COVID-19 for better future: Envoy

Beijing with Dhaka to fight COVID-19 for better future: Envoy

-- 2020-04-26 15:33:06

China will continue to stand and work closely with Bangladesh and the world to fight together against the pandemic for a better and shared future, said Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming. "It...

Bangladesh records five more coronavirus deaths, 418 new cases

Bangladesh records five more coronavirus deaths, 418 new cases

FE Online Desk 2020-04-26 14:37:50

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 5,416 on Sunday as the country registered 418 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, five more people died from COVID-19 durin...

RMG workers demonstrate in Dhaka, Gazipur for back pay

RMG workers demonstrate in Dhaka, Gazipur for back pay

Agencies 2020-04-26 14:18:38

Disgruntled workers from a few garment factories have taken to the streets of Dhaka and Gazipur demanding payment of their dues. In the capital, the workers lined the streets near Abul Hotel and demo...

UK to operate five more special flights from Bangladesh

UK to operate five more special flights from Bangladesh

-- 2020-04-26 13:38:48

British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson on Sunday said they arranged five more special chartered flights to help British nationals return to the UK from Bangladesh. The flights w...

Coronavirus: 18,000 construction workers suffer in Jashore

Coronavirus: 18,000 construction workers suffer in Jashore

-- 2020-04-26 13:35:22

Thousands of construction workers in eight upazilas of Jashore district are going through a tough time without work and food as economic activities came to a halt because of the coronavirus outbreak,...

PM calls for ‘global coordination’ to fight future catastrophe

PM calls for ‘global coordination’ to fight future catastrophe

-- 2020-04-26 12:22:09

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for “global coordination” as well as “putting more policy and financial focus” to effectively deal with any future world catastrophe lik...

Two more test positive for coronavirus in Chattogram

Two more test positive for coronavirus in Chattogram

-- 2020-04-26 09:55:42

Two people were diagnosed with coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the number of confirmed cases in the district to 46 on Sunday. The new patients, aged 30-40 years, are from Agrabad and Halish...

PMO, ministries reopen partially today

PMO, ministries reopen partially today

FE REPORT 2020-04-26 09:54:19

The government has decided to reopen the activities of some ministries and Prime Minister's Office (PMO) from today (Sunday) considering the country's interests during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic...

Hundreds of clothing factory workers dash for Dhaka again

Hundreds of clothing factory workers dash for Dhaka again

-- 2020-04-26 09:48:46

Workers started for Dhaka in droves on packed vehicles in the wee hours of Sunday from Mymensingh after some readymade garment factories reportedly threatened to fire them if they did not join by earl...

Doctors, nurses face salary cuts, terminations

Doctors, nurses face salary cuts, terminations

SM Najmus Sakib 2020-04-26 09:28:12

The frontline fighters in the war against novel coronavirus, doctors and nurses, have started facing double whammy in the crisis due to corona pandemic. Health workers in the private services are now...

80pc jobless BD workers in dire straits in KSA

80pc jobless BD workers in dire straits in KSA

Arafat Ara 2020-04-26 09:24:18

Some 800,000 Bangladeshi workers, jobless and quarantined in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) north-western part, have been facing food crisis for the last two weeks, said insiders. At least 80 pe...

BD's COVID-19 recovery rate continues to be very low

BD's COVID-19 recovery rate continues to be very low

FE REPORT 2020-04-26 08:59:32

The rate of recovery of COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh continues to be very low, compared to that of the global one as well as some other South Asian Countries. Of the total 4998 people infected unt...

Nasrul asks officials to take up projects considering priority

Nasrul asks officials to take up projects considering priority

-- 2020-04-25 22:45:14

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has asked the energy division officials to take short-term and specific measures to implement essential projects in the energy secto...

72 upazilas still susceptible to malaria

72 upazilas still susceptible to malaria

FE Online Report 2020-04-25 22:00:26

The country’s 72 upazilas of 13 districts including Chattogram Hill Tracts are still vulnerable to malaria, a deadly mosquito-borne disease. In the last calendar year (2019) 17,225 malaria case...

‘Haor farmers harvested 44pc paddy’

‘Haor farmers harvested 44pc paddy’

-- 2020-04-25 21:08:53

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque on Saturday said farmers in haor areas have already harvested 44 per cent paddy from the field. He said this in a video message from his residence and hoped that f...

PM's videoconference with Rajshahi division officials Monday

PM's videoconference with Rajshahi division officials Monday

-- 2020-04-25 21:06:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a videoconference with public representatives and officials of the districts of Rajshahi division over the COVID-19 issue on Monday. The videoconference will ta...

Momen joins UN music video for COVID-19 fund

Momen joins UN music video for COVID-19 fund

-- 2020-04-25 20:23:47

Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen has joined the United Nations (UN) music video, paying tribute to medical professionals combating deadly coronavirus as well as encouraging donations to the WHO&rsq...

Kamal seeks IsDB support in food security, health, agriculture sectors

Kamal seeks IsDB support in food security, health, agriculture sectors

-- 2020-04-25 20:17:03

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought support from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) for food security, medical and development of the agricultural system and its mechanisation. Kamal sough...

DSCC waste management official dies of COVID-19

DSCC waste management official dies of COVID-19

-- 2020-04-25 19:55:48

An official of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has died from the coronavirus infection. Millatul Islam, DSCC advisor for waste management, was admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Fr...