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13 more die at Rajshahi hospital

13 more die at Rajshahi hospital

-- 2021-06-21 14:25:19

Thirteen more people have died at the coronavirus unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RNCH). Six of them tested positive for the coronavirus, while the others were displaying COVID symptoms. T...

UP polls: Man dies in clashes between candidates in Bhola

UP polls: Man dies in clashes between candidates in Bhola

-- 2021-06-21 13:55:08

A man has been shot dead during clashes between supporters of two candidates vying for Hazariganj Union Parishad seats in Bhola’s Charfesson Upazila. The man has been identified as 25-year-old...

Khulna set to go under 7-day strict lockdown

Khulna set to go under 7-day strict lockdown

-- 2021-06-21 13:09:02

The authorities have announced a strict seven-day lockdown in Khulna district, a COVID-19 hotspot, amid an alarming surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. Train services and public transports wi...

204 UPs elections, Laxmipur-2 by-polls begins Monday

204 UPs elections, Laxmipur-2 by-polls begins Monday

-- 2021-06-21 11:30:50

Preparations have been made to hold the elections to local government bodies and the unrepresented Laxmipur-2 parliamentary constituency amid the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Banglades...

Government urged to abrogate special power, energy act

Government urged to abrogate special power, energy act

FE REPORT 2021-06-21 10:34:12

The government has been urged to immediately discontinue the 'special energy law' for ensuring transparency and good governance in the power and energy sector. Speakers at a dialogue on Sunday argu...

Fugitive company owner detained over money laundering

Fugitive company owner detained over money laundering

FE REPORT 2021-06-21 10:22:11

A customs intelligence team on Sunday arrested the owner of an agro company for his alleged involvement in siphoning money worth Tk 10.13 billion. The arrested was identified as Abdul Motaleb, the ow...

Covid surge continues in frontier areas

Covid surge continues in frontier areas

FE REPORT 2021-06-21 08:53:20

The daily death tally due to coronavirus hit a fresh high of 82 in Bangladesh in recent weeks as the Covid-19 infections continued to surge in bordering areas including Rajshahi and Khulna divisions...

Bangladesh observes World Refugee Day

Bangladesh observes World Refugee Day

UNB 2021-06-20 21:51:01

World Refugee Day was observed in the country Sunday to raise awareness on the rights of refugees. Designed to celebrate and honour refugees from around the world, Refugee Day is an occasion to build...

Woman put on four-day remand over murders of parents, sister

Woman put on four-day remand over murders of parents, sister

-- 2021-06-20 21:32:53

A Dhaka court has sent Mehjabeen Islam, the woman accused of killing her parents and sister in Kadamtali, to four-day police custody for grilling. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debabrata Biswas passe...

Humanity will overcome pandemic soon, Modi writes to Hasina

Humanity will overcome pandemic soon, Modi writes to Hasina

UNB 2021-06-20 21:15:12

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina expressing his optimism that humanity will overcome the pandemic very soon. "I remain optimistic that human...

Health DG draws flak from parliamentary panel for missing meeting on COVID crisis

Health DG draws flak from parliamentary panel for missing meeting on COVID crisis

-- 2021-06-20 21:02:22

Director General of Health Services ABM Khurshid Alam has roused the ire of the parliamentary committee on the health ministry after failing to turn up to a meeting on pandemic-related matters. The m...

Once debt-ridden Bangladesh becomes loan-providing country, Obaidul Quader says

Once debt-ridden Bangladesh becomes loan-providing country, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-06-20 20:52:34

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh, a debt-ridden nation 12 years ago, has now become a loan-providing country by making un...

Road development and repairs cripple life for Cox's Bazar residents

Road development and repairs cripple life for Cox's Bazar residents

UNB 2021-06-20 20:25:56

The condition of the roads in Cox's Bazar city, including bypasses and alleyways, has been ravaged with the arrival of the monsoon season. Potholes are everywhere on the roads. During the monsoon, the...

PM asks army personnel to attain highest professional excellence

PM asks army personnel to attain highest professional excellence

BSS 2021-06-20 20:16:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged Bangladesh Army members to concentrate on attaining the highest professional skills and excellence keeping pace with the changed world security system. “I...

Govt to consider proposals to set up solar plant in Haor, wetlands

Govt to consider proposals to set up solar plant in Haor, wetlands

FE Online Report 2021-06-20 19:38:03

The government will welcome proposals to set up solar power plants on wetlands and Haor to meet the target of generating 40 per cent of the total electricity using renewable energy by 2041. Environme...

Prioritise clean energy, enhance efficiency of power sector, CPD says

Prioritise clean energy, enhance efficiency of power sector, CPD says

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-06-20 19:31:18

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has suggested prioritising clean energy and green growth in the national budget for the next fiscal year in the context of changing national and global perspective...

Commercial vaccine supply from China likely to begin in July, foreign secretary says

Commercial vaccine supply from China likely to begin in July, foreign secretary says

FE Online Report 2021-06-20 18:47:45

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said Bangladesh is expecting commercial vaccine supply from China in July. “The agreement is almost finalised and we are expecting vaccine supply from Chin...

Bangladesh reports 82 virus deaths, highest daily count in seven weeks

Bangladesh reports 82 virus deaths, highest daily count in seven weeks

-- 2021-06-20 18:28:25

Bangladesh has registered 82 new fatalities from the COVID-19 illness, the most in a day since Apr 29. Khulna, a recent virus hotspot, saw 32 deaths, the most among the eight divisions. This brings...

Bangladesh inaugurates single largest rooftop solar power plant in Korean EPZ

Bangladesh inaugurates single largest rooftop solar power plant in Korean EPZ

-- 2021-06-20 17:20:24

The country’s single largest rooftop solar plant was inaugurated on Sunday at the privately owned Korean Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Anwara upazila of Chattagram. The power plant, installed...

Floating hotels struggling to survive amid pandemic

Floating hotels struggling to survive amid pandemic

-- 2021-06-20 16:59:51

At first blush, a run-down double-decked boat crammed with stuffy cabins, anchored on the waste-ridden and stench-filled banks of the Buriganga River hardly corresponds with the idyllic scenes and set...

‘Track Two Diplomacy’ needed for sustainable solution of Rohingya crisis

‘Track Two Diplomacy’ needed for sustainable solution of Rohingya crisis

-- 2021-06-20 16:47:35

The ultimate solution to the Rohingya crisis is the sustainable solution, and to ensure that, track two diplomacy is needed for putting pressure on the Myanmar government. Speakers during a webinar o...

Bangladesh to start administering Pfizer vaccine Monday

Bangladesh to start administering Pfizer vaccine Monday

-- 2021-06-20 16:30:31

Inoculation with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will begin in Dhaka on Monday, aiming to fight the Cornavirus pandemic. Prof Shamsul Haq, Line Director of the Directorate General of Health Services(DGHS) an...

RAB arrests four members of illegal bitcoin trading group

RAB arrests four members of illegal bitcoin trading group

-- 2021-06-20 16:18:38

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested four people on charges of illegally trading cryptocurrency bitcoin. Hamim Prince Khan, 32, the mastermind of the group, was among the four arrested at Ma...

Recruiters demand reduction in airfares for outbound workers

Recruiters demand reduction in airfares for outbound workers

FE REPORT 2021-06-20 15:45:40

The manpower recruiters on Saturday demanded rationalising the airfares so that the outbound Bangladeshi workers can afford to travel to their job destination countries. The Recruiting Agencies Oikko...

Khulna sees record 28 deaths in a single day

Khulna sees record 28 deaths in a single day

-- 2021-06-20 15:28:32

Health authorities have recorded 28 deaths in Khulna division in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, the highest ever fatalities logged in a day, reports UNB. Of them, seven people died in Kushi...

Covid-19 cases surge in Jashore villages

Covid-19 cases surge in Jashore villages

-- 2021-06-20 15:07:39

COVID-19 cases are surging in villages near the border in Jashore’s Sharsha Upazila. Virus cases have been identified in about 50 villages in the upazila, as the disease is spreading to remote...

Rohingya artists tackle coronavirus fears amid refugees' wait for vaccines

Rohingya artists tackle coronavirus fears amid refugees' wait for vaccines

REUTERS 2021-06-20 13:20:36

Busy with his brushes beneath a tarpaulin roof, Rohingya artist Ansar Ullah works on a mural depicting a giant vial of Covid-19 vaccine towering over the ramshackle homes of the world's largest refuge...

Five holidaymakers killed in Narsingdi road crash

Five holidaymakers killed in Narsingdi road crash

-- 2021-06-20 12:03:20

Five people have been killed and nine others injured after a microbus of vacationers returning from Sylhet to Ashulia collided with a truck in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi district. The incident occurr...

Father, son electrocuted in Brahmanbaria

Father, son electrocuted in Brahmanbaria

-- 2021-06-20 11:51:20

A man and his seven-year-old son died from electrocution at Haturabari in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Golam Maula, 35, son of Khalek Mia and his...

Female school teacher, domestic help found dead in Sylhet

Female school teacher, domestic help found dead in Sylhet

-- 2021-06-20 11:15:48

Police have recovered the bodies of a female school teacher and a domestic help at her home in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet district. They suspect that domestic help Gouranga Baidya hanged himself a...