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Bangladesh to get $250m loan from ADB to strengthen social resilience programme

Bangladesh to get $250m loan from ADB to strengthen social resilience programme

-- 2021-06-22 16:50:07

Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a $250 million loan agreement to finance reforms for improving the inclusiveness and responsiveness of the country’s social developm...

Commuters suffer as long-haul bus services suspended

Commuters suffer as long-haul bus services suspended

-- 2021-06-22 16:36:41

No long-distance bus was allowed to leave or enter capital Dhaka on Tuesday as the government enforced tougher restrictions in an effort to beat the deadly Coronavirus. As many people were not aware...

Police arrest nine human trafficking suspects tied to Omi

Police arrest nine human trafficking suspects tied to Omi

-- 2021-06-22 16:28:36

Police have arrested nine accomplices of Tuhin Siddiqui Omi, a suspect in the attempted rape and murder case filed by actress Pori Moni, in connection with a human trafficking case, reports bdnews24.c...

BNP urges govt to send Khaleda abroad for better treatment

BNP urges govt to send Khaleda abroad for better treatment

-- 2021-06-22 15:32:27

BNP standing committee has demanded the government take prompt steps to send their party chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced treatment considering her critical health condition. “Though...

Train services with districts under lockdown suspended till June 30

Train services with districts under lockdown suspended till June 30

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-22 15:01:27

Bangladesh Railway has suspended all express and commuter train services running between Gazipur, Narayanganj, Gopalganj and Rajbari districts which have been put under lockdown till June 30...

Bus plunges into canal in Sunamganj, leaving one dead

Bus plunges into canal in Sunamganj, leaving one dead

-- 2021-06-22 14:59:22

A man in his early 20s died while five others sustained injuries after a passenger bus veered off the road and plunged into a canal in Sunamganj district on Tuesday morning, police said. The identity...

Ban on vessel movements in seven districts from Tuesday

Ban on vessel movements in seven districts from Tuesday

-- 2021-06-22 14:54:39

Authorities have suspended the movement of all passenger vessels in Narayanganj, Gazipur, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Madaripur, Rajbari, and Gopalganj districts since Tuesday morning to curb the spread of...

13 more Covid patients die at RMCH

13 more Covid patients die at RMCH

-- 2021-06-22 14:37:40

Amid an alarming spike in infections and deaths in the frontier districts, Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) on Tuesday recorded 13 more coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours. Among them,...

31 held while trying to sneak into India

31 held while trying to sneak into India

-- 2021-06-22 14:21:55

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Monday detained as many as 31 people, including women and children, while they were allegedly trying to sneak into India via the Jhenaidah border. All the detainees a...

Long-route buses denied entry to Dhaka amid lockdown nearby

Long-route buses denied entry to Dhaka amid lockdown nearby

-- 2021-06-22 14:13:52

Long haul buses are being denied entry to Dhaka city, as lockdowns have been imposed in seven nearby districts. The sudden decision has led to heavy traffic congestion on roads leading to the city, b...

UPL founder Mohiuddin Ahmed dies at 77

UPL founder Mohiuddin Ahmed dies at 77

-- 2021-06-22 12:30:18

Veteran publisher Mohiuddin Ahmed, the founder of University Press Limited (UPL), has died at the age of 77. Ahmed breathed his last at 12:59 am on Tuesday, said his daughter Mahrukh Mohiuddin, a dir...

AL plans to celebrate its 72nd foundation anniversary Sunday on limited scale

AL plans to celebrate its 72nd foundation anniversary Sunday on limited scale

-- 2021-06-22 12:10:52

The Awami League, the oldest and largest political party in Bangladesh, will celebrate its 72nd foundation day in a restricted manner on Sunday, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The anniversary program...

Cargo ship capsizes in Karnaphuli

Cargo ship capsizes in Karnaphuli

-- 2021-06-22 11:04:06

A lighter ship carrying cargo has sunk after crashing into an oil tanker on the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram. MV Ruhul Amin Khan sank near a private jetty - Jute Rally dock at Sadarghat around 7:45...

Teesta engulfs vast tract of cropland

Teesta engulfs vast tract of cropland

OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2021-06-22 10:25:43

Serious erosion, caused by upper stream of the Teesta river, engulfed a vast tract of cropland from the very beginning of monsoon under Sunderganj upazila in Gaibandha. The people will lose everyth...

Dragon fruit farming popular in Cumilla

Dragon fruit farming popular in Cumilla

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-22 10:22:52

Dragon fruit cultivation is becoming popular day by day in Cumilla. Besides, the demand for this foreign fruit in the market is increasing. At present five out of 17 upazilas of Cumilla are cultivati...

Govt to cut off rail links, water transport services to seven locked-down districts

Govt to cut off rail links, water transport services to seven locked-down districts

-- 2021-06-21 23:06:05

Seven districts surrounding Dhaka will be disconnected from rail and water transport services for nine days as part of the government's efforts to enforce a strict lockdown to contain the coronavirus...

Reserve heist started with a malfunctioning printer, BBC report says

Reserve heist started with a malfunctioning printer, BBC report says

BBC 2021-06-21 22:27:18

Hackers stole $81 million from the account of Bangladesh Bank at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York using fraudulent orders on the SWIFT payments system. Journalists Geoff White and Jean H Lee prepa...

UP election violence leaves two dead in Barishal

UP election violence leaves two dead in Barishal

-- 2021-06-21 21:50:16

Two people were killed and several others injured on Monday in election-related violence in Gournadi Upazila of Barishal district, police said. The deceased were identified as Mauje Ali Mridha, 65, a...

Hefazat leader Nasir arrested over Hathazari violence

Hefazat leader Nasir arrested over Hathazari violence

UNB 2021-06-21 21:13:36

Police have arrested Nasir Uddin Munir, former vice chairman of Hathazari Upazila Parishad and joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam's dissolved committee, in connection with a case over Hathazar...

Rohingya vaccination depends on arrival of COVAX vaccines

Rohingya vaccination depends on arrival of COVAX vaccines

UNB 2021-06-21 20:11:59

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and the humanitarian community are waiting for the arrival of vaccine doses under the COVAX facility to begin the vaccination of Rohingya in Bangladesh as it was original...

Call for legal reform to allow women councillors work smoothly

Call for legal reform to allow women councillors work smoothly

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-21 19:16:48

Women councillors are facing different types of barriers and discriminations to play an effective role in city corporations and to serve the city dwellers smoothly due to some provisions of existing l...

Germany to provide EUR 339.54 to Bangladesh under two deals

Germany to provide EUR 339.54 to Bangladesh under two deals

-- 2021-06-21 18:49:12

Germany will provide EUR 339.54 million technical and financial cooperation support to Bangladesh for development projects in various sectors. Bangladesh and Germany on Sunday signed the financial an...

USAID launches new clean energy project in Bangladesh

USAID launches new clean energy project in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-21 18:43:59

The US Agency for International Development (USAID), on Monday, announced the launch of a new clean energy project, Bangladesh Advancing Development Growth through Energy (BADGE).  USAID Missio...

102 Bangladeshis held in Malaysia

102 Bangladeshis held in Malaysia

-- 2021-06-21 18:29:06

The Malaysian Immigration Department arrested 309 illegal immigrants, including 102 Bangladeshis, during an integrated operation at a settlement near a construction site in Dengkil early Monday. The...

Bangladesh logs 4,636 new COVID cases, 78 deaths

Bangladesh logs 4,636 new COVID cases, 78 deaths

-- 2021-06-21 18:11:32

Bangladesh has registered 4,636 new coronavirus cases, the most in a day since Apr 14, raising the country’s total caseload to 851,668. Another 78 people died of the virus in the 24 hours to 8...

India’s Congress party plans to celebrate golden jubilee of Bangladesh

India’s Congress party plans to celebrate golden jubilee of Bangladesh

-- 2021-06-21 18:11:01

India’s Congress party plans to celebrate the golden jubilee celebrations of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh from July. The opposition party in India is considering district-level program...

Parliamentary body suggests codifying ecocide as crime like genocide

Parliamentary body suggests codifying ecocide as crime like genocide

-- 2021-06-21 17:51:08

A parliamentary committee has urged the government to bring the act of environmental destruction under the purview of the law by treating 'ecocide' similarly to genocide. In a meeting on Sunday, the...

Bangladesh imposes stricter pandemic restrictions in seven districts

Bangladesh imposes stricter pandemic restrictions in seven districts

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-06-21 16:49:22

Bangladesh has imposed stricter restrictions on work and movement in seven districts from Tuesday to June 30 as coronavirus cases and deaths are surging. In a notice on Monday, the Cabinet Division a...

16 ‘teen gang members’ held in city

16 ‘teen gang members’ held in city

-- 2021-06-21 16:35:22

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained 16 members of ‘Teen gang’ from different parts of Hazaribagh and Darus Salam areas of the capital. All the detainees are members of two lo...

Govt rolls out Pfizer vaccine at three hospitals in Dhaka

Govt rolls out Pfizer vaccine at three hospitals in Dhaka

-- 2021-06-21 14:44:47

Bangladesh has started administering the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at three centers in Dhaka to fight off Covid-19. The vaccine is being administered first at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Me...