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RMCH counts 17 more deaths at Covid-19 unit

RMCH counts 17 more deaths at Covid-19 unit

-- 2021-08-05 11:52:29

Some 17 more people died at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH)’s Covid-19 unit during the last 24-hour till 6am today, taking the death toll to 83 so far this month, adding to 566 in J...

Stone, limestone import through Sylhet border resumes today

Stone, limestone import through Sylhet border resumes today

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-05 10:17:15

Suspended since May 01 this year, the import of stones and limestones through Bholaganj LC station from the Indian state of Meghalaya would begin tomorrow (Thursday), official sources informed. Imp...

Indigenous women face wage discrimination

Indigenous women face wage discrimination

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-05 09:54:33

Indigenous women are playing a pioneering role in agriculture in addition to their household chores in the Barind region but they are facing wages discrimination in Bogura and Rajshahi districts. Our...

Health directorate worried over dengue situation

Health directorate worried over dengue situation

FE REPORT 2021-08-05 09:30:30

Health directorate has aired concern over the dengue situation that could deteriorate in the days ahead, as it reported 237 dengue patients hospitalised during the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning...

Bangladesh to procure 30 oxygen generator plants

Bangladesh to procure 30 oxygen generator plants

-- 2021-08-04 21:04:12

The government of Bangladesh is going to procure 30 oxygen generator plants under the direct procurement method (DPM). The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a proposal in principl...

Dengue surge: 237 more hospitalised in 24 hours

Dengue surge: 237 more hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2021-08-04 20:41:16

A total of 237 fresh dengue cases were reported in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. The outbreak of dengue fever –over 100 dengue patients reported daily for more than a...

RAB detains Pori Moni, seizes huge quantity of liquor from her residence

RAB detains Pori Moni, seizes huge quantity of liquor from her residence

-- 2021-08-04 19:41:00

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have detained actress Pori Moni from her Banani residence on Wednesday. The intelligence unit of the elite force, led by Lt Col Khairul Islam, started a dr...

Narayanganj factory fire: Families receive remains of 24 deceased

Narayanganj factory fire: Families receive remains of 24 deceased

-- 2021-08-04 19:15:13

Families on Wednesday received the remains of 24 people who were killed in the deadly fire at Hashem Food and Beverage Factory in Narayanganj. The bodies were handed over at the morgue of Dhaka Medic...

13,817 COVID-19 cases, 241 deaths recorded in 24 hours

13,817 COVID-19 cases, 241 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-08-04 18:13:13

Bangladesh has registered 241 new deaths from the COVID-19 illness in a day, taking the toll to 21,638. The caseload climbed to 1,309,910 after 13,817 people tested positive for the disease in the 24...

Lightning strike kills 17 in Chapainawabganj

Lightning strike kills 17 in Chapainawabganj

-- 2021-08-04 18:08:44

Seventeen people, including five women, were killed in a lightning strike at Telikharighat in Shibganj Upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday.  The deceased could not yet be identified...

RAB raids actress Pori Moni's residence in Banani

RAB raids actress Pori Moni's residence in Banani

-- 2021-08-04 17:54:13

The Rapid Action Battalion is conducting a raid on the residence of actress Pori Moni in Dhaka's Banani. A team of the elite police unit launched the drive on Wednesday afternoon, reports bdnews24.co...

Govt forms ad-hoc committee to run the Bangladesh Bar Council

Govt forms ad-hoc committee to run the Bangladesh Bar Council

-- 2021-08-04 17:35:17

The government has formed a 15-member ad-hoc committee to run the Bangladesh Bar Council. A notification was issued by the Law and Justice Department of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary...

Urgent support needed as thousands lose livelihoods in Cox’s Bazar, IOM says

Urgent support needed as thousands lose livelihoods in Cox’s Bazar, IOM says

FE Online Report 2021-08-04 17:14:18

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is concerned about over 80,000 members of the community in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts in Cox’s Bazar who have lost their income and posses...

Nine banks to collaborate with BRAC in Covid awareness and support

Nine banks to collaborate with BRAC in Covid awareness and support

-- 2021-08-04 16:53:58

Nine private banks have joined the non-government organization BRAC to strengthen its public awareness and emergency support campaign amid the new waves of Covid-19 pandemic hard hitting the country....

myGov' platform eases sufferings of govt service 'seekers

myGov' platform eases sufferings of govt service 'seekers

-- 2021-08-04 16:37:31

Fatema Akter Baby, a resident of Dhaka’s Ashulia area, has a great desire to set up a cattle farm aiming to become a woman entrepreneur but she has no land available to build it. Six months ago...

Covid deaths exceed 1,000 in Chattogram

Covid deaths exceed 1,000 in Chattogram

-- 2021-08-04 16:03:58

COVID-19 deaths in the Chattogram district have surpassed 1,000 on the back of 16 new fatalities from the disease in the past 24 hours. The death toll currently stands at 1,010, of which 597 were cit...

Minister withdraws comment on penalising unvaccinated 18 plus people for commuting

Minister withdraws comment on penalising unvaccinated 18 plus people for commuting

-- 2021-08-04 15:50:24

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque has retracted his previous claims that travel by unvaccinated adults after the end of lockdown would be deemed to be a “punishable offence&rdqu...

15 die after lightning strikes wedding party boat in Chapainawabganj

15 die after lightning strikes wedding party boat in Chapainawabganj

-- 2021-08-04 14:28:04

At least 15 members of a wedding party have died after lightning struck a boat on the Padma River in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. The incident occurred at around 12:00 pm on Wednesda...

Fire at leather factory in Narayanganj

Fire at leather factory in Narayanganj

FE Online Report 2021-08-04 14:24:05

A fire broke out at a leather factory in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila on Wednesday noon. Thirteen fire-fighting units rushed to the spot to douse the fire, according to fire service officials....

17 stranded fishermen rescued from Bay

17 stranded fishermen rescued from Bay

-- 2021-08-04 13:00:24

The Bangladesh Navy, in the small hours of Wednesday, rescued as many as 17 fishermen from a trawler that broke down in the Bay of Bengal. An officer from the naval headquarters said the fishing traw...

Health ministry says it never said ‘unvaccinated travel would be punishable’

Health ministry says it never said ‘unvaccinated travel would be punishable’

-- 2021-08-04 12:37:53

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare says it has not recommended that travels by adults after Aug 11 without receiving the COVID vaccine be treated as a ‘punishable offence’, contrary...

Aus paddy output may exceed target

Aus paddy output may exceed target

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-04 10:18:09

The harvest of Aus paddy has begun in Netrakona district and Rangpur region. Farmers are hopeful of getting a bumper production this year. Our Netrakona Correspondent says: Aus paddy harvest has star...

New study suggests raising project cost of railway bridge

New study suggests raising project cost of railway bridge

MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-08-04 10:00:00

The much-talked-about Kalurghat Railway Bridge will now be constructed on the outskirts of Chattogram city with laying of dual gauge single line track as per a fresh study. The fresh feasibility stud...

Many leave town vacating rented houses

Many leave town vacating rented houses

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-04 09:57:42

CHANDPUR: Lockdown is increasing sufferings of the people of all classes of life in Chandpur. Following the prolonged lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, many families who used to reside...

Call for strengthening Bangladesh's intellectual property system

Call for strengthening Bangladesh's intellectual property system

FE REPORT 2021-08-04 09:52:15

Speakers at a virtual discussion on Tuesday stressed the need for strengthening Bangladesh's intellectual property (IP) system, including the establishment of a policy and legal framework. They sug...

Bangladesh may get another 1.4m vaccine doses from Japan this month

Bangladesh may get another 1.4m vaccine doses from Japan this month

-- 2021-08-03 21:46:28

Japan is planning to send another 1.4 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh this month under the global COVID-19 vaccine-sharing initiative COVAX. Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka...

Refugee Policy Review done by UNHCR following its framework

Refugee Policy Review done by UNHCR following its framework

UNB 2021-08-03 21:13:53

The World Bank on Tuesday said the Refugee Policy Review was done by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) following the Refugee Policy Review Framework. UNHCR collected baseline...

Bangladeshi travellers can transit through UAE from Thursday

Bangladeshi travellers can transit through UAE from Thursday

-- 2021-08-03 20:42:49

Passengers from Bangladesh and India will be allowed to travel through the United Arab Emirates starting on Thursday as the Gulf state, a major international travel hub, lifts the ban on transit fligh...

First spell of increased rainfall likely to start from Thursday

First spell of increased rainfall likely to start from Thursday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-03 20:42:36

People in most parts of the country including the capital are expected to witness an increased rainfall from Thursday and it may continue until August 9 as monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and...

Teenage schoolgirl gang-raped in Panchagarh: Prime accused held

Teenage schoolgirl gang-raped in Panchagarh: Prime accused held

-- 2021-08-03 20:39:52

Police have arrested a 26-year-old married man in a case over gang rape of a teenage schoolgirl and were looking for four other accomplices in the grisly assault in in Panchagarh. The gang of five, l...