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Dhaka consumes country’s 46pc electricity

Dhaka consumes country’s 46pc electricity

-- 2021-06-12 20:18:18

Dhaka city alone consumes 46 percent of the electricity Bangladesh produces, while the remaining amount is consumed by the rest of the country. Disclosing the data, State Minister for Power and Energ...

‘Dhaka consumes 46pc of electricity Bangladesh generates’

‘Dhaka consumes 46pc of electricity Bangladesh generates’

-- 2021-06-12 19:38:27

Dhaka city alone consumes 46 per cent of the electricity Bangladesh produces, while the remaining amount is consumed by the rest of the country. Disclosing the data, State Minister for Power and Ener...

First-ever minimum monthly wages for security service sector fixed

First-ever minimum monthly wages for security service sector fixed

FE Online Report 2021-06-12 18:46:21

The government has fixed minimum monthly wages first time for the workers of the country’s security service sector with introducing five per cent annual increment. The Ministry of Labour and Em...

Rohingya woman, two children drown while crossing Naf River into Bangladesh

Rohingya woman, two children drown while crossing Naf River into Bangladesh

-- 2021-06-12 17:39:04

Police have recovered the bodies of three Rohingya people who drowned in the Naf River in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Upazila while attempting to cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. The victims...

Manikganj road crash leaves two bikers dead

Manikganj road crash leaves two bikers dead

-- 2021-06-12 17:30:38

Two persons were killed and another injured after an ambulance hit a motorcycle on the Dhaka-Aricha highway of Manikganj on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Abdul Alim of Pachuria village an...

18 held for violating fishing ban in Patuakhali

18 held for violating fishing ban in Patuakhali

-- 2021-06-12 17:23:36

As many as 18 fishermen were arrested during a river police operation against unauthorised fishing in the Megna River at Rabnabad in Patuakhali. Acting on a tip-off, a river police team conducted a d...

Mintu gets ruling party ticket for Dhaka-14, Habibur for Sylhet-3 and Hashem for Cumilla-5 by-polls

Mintu gets ruling party ticket for Dhaka-14, Habibur for Sylhet-3 and Hashem for Cumilla-5 by-polls

-- 2021-06-12 17:20:59

The Awami League has named its candidates to contest the by-elections to the vacant Dhaka-14, Sylhet-3 and Cumilla-5 parliamentary constituencies. Aga Khan Mintu secured the ruling party's ticket for...

Bangladesh reports 1,637 new COVID cases, 39 deaths in a day

Bangladesh reports 1,637 new COVID cases, 39 deaths in a day

-- 2021-06-12 16:52:55

Bangladesh has recorded 1,637 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 824,486. The death toll climbed by 39 in 24 hours to 13,071, according to the latest gov...

Police recover bodies of three Rohingya from Naf River

Police recover bodies of three Rohingya from Naf River

-- 2021-06-12 15:29:33

Police have recovered the bodies of three Rohingya people who drowned in the Naf River in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Upazila while attempting to cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. The victims...

Govt extends school shutdown to Jun 30

Govt extends school shutdown to Jun 30

-- 2021-06-12 14:18:41

Bangladesh has decided to extend the shutdown of schools and other educational institutions to Jun 30 as the coronavirus pandemic situation continues to deteriorate. “After consulting with the...

The beauty of the moon captured through the lens

The beauty of the moon captured through the lens

ZUBAYER WASIT 2021-06-12 13:33:14

EMK Center, in partnership with ‘Dhaka Photo Academy Awards’, has organised an online photography competition and exhibition on moon photography to celebrate World Full Moon Day.  Ar...

Mirpur Zoo to get a major facelift

Mirpur Zoo to get a major facelift

-- 2021-06-11 22:36:10

The quaint idea of having caged animals in a zoo just for the entertainment of people will be over soon for Bangladesh National Zoo in Dhaka’s Mirpur. The idea is now to have wild animals living...

EU adds another rare blood condition as potential side effect of AstraZeneca shot

EU adds another rare blood condition as potential side effect of AstraZeneca shot

-- 2021-06-11 21:08:22

Europe's drug regulator on Friday identified another rare blood condition as a potential side effect of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and said it was looking into cases of heart inflammation after in...

‘Bangladesh must keep on fighting against child labour’

‘Bangladesh must keep on fighting against child labour’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-11 17:44:01

Bangladesh must keep the fight against child labour at the top of the agenda as the number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in...

Bangladesh reports 43 more deaths from Covid-19

Bangladesh reports 43 more deaths from Covid-19

-- 2021-06-11 17:31:29

Covid-19 claimed 43 lives in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours until Friday morning as the upward march of the virus took the country's fatalities to 13,032. The positivity rate which was 13.25 per cen...

Lightning strikes kill 177 from March to June in Bangladesh

Lightning strikes kill 177 from March to June in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-11 17:09:12

At least 177 people were killed and 47 others injured by lightning strikes across the country from March to June 2021, according to a report. The report also said the victims include 28 women, 13 chi...

Cop crushed under drugs-laden microbus in Chattogram

Cop crushed under drugs-laden microbus in Chattogram

-- 2021-06-11 16:21:04

An Assistant Sub-Inspector of police was killed on Friday being hit by a microbus carrying drugs in Chandgaon area of Chattogram. The deceased was identified as Kazi Mohammad Salauddin, 38, a residen...

Bangladesh to receive over 1.0 million AstraZeneca vaccines from US

Bangladesh to receive over 1.0 million AstraZeneca vaccines from US

-- 2021-06-11 15:27:59

Bangladesh is set to receive more than 1 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from the United States under the global programme, COVAX. Announcing the development on Friday, Fo...

Rajshahi hospital sees 15 new virus deaths in 24 hours

Rajshahi hospital sees 15 new virus deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-06-11 12:56:28

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has registered 15 new fatalities from the coronavirus infection in a day. The dead were mostly patients from Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and Natore, who breathed their...

Govt suspends trains from Rajshahi

Govt suspends trains from Rajshahi

-- 2021-06-11 12:01:03

The government has suspended passenger trains from Rajshahi to the rest of the country for a week from Saturday midnight as it scrambles to contain COVID-19 outbreaks in the border districts. The rai...

Rajshahi goes into 7-day lockdown

Rajshahi goes into 7-day lockdown

-- 2021-06-11 11:28:05

Rajshahi city is entering a total lockdown beginning on Friday afternoon with shops and transports closed for seven days as the authorities grapple with an outbreak of the coronavirus in the border ar...

Corruption hits economic development, state security: HC

Corruption hits economic development, state security: HC

FE REPORT 2021-06-11 10:35:47

In a full text of a verdict the High Court has observed that corruption has engulfed our society to a great extent, and it undermines economic development of the country as well as its security. Th...

Minister Mannan backs independent statistical commission

Minister Mannan backs independent statistical commission

FE REPORT 2021-06-11 09:43:41

Planning Minister M A Mannan said on Thursday, for the first time, he is in favour of setting up an independent statistical commission in the country. This has been a long-time demand by many, includ...

Uncertainty looms over 2nd dose of vaccine

Uncertainty looms over 2nd dose of vaccine

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-06-11 08:29:56

Uncertainty over providing the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccines to the 1.5 million people, who already received the first dose, looms large as Bangladesh is yet to get any commitment from any count...

US delivers second shipment of emergency medical supplies

US delivers second shipment of emergency medical supplies

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-10 22:19:24

The United States, on Thursday, delivered a second shipment of emergency medical supplies to save lives, stop the spread of COVID-19, and meet the urgent health needs of the Bangladeshi people. The...

Experts seek more allocation on health, environment in FY22 budget

Experts seek more allocation on health, environment in FY22 budget

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-10 20:19:37

More allocation is needed in the health and environment sectors in the proposed budget as the crisis is deepening in the health sector while Bangladesh is largely vulnerable to climate change, experts...

‘Second batch of 0.6m doses of Chinese vaccine to arrive next week’

‘Second batch of 0.6m doses of Chinese vaccine to arrive next week’

-- 2021-06-10 20:05:34

Bangladesh is set to receive the second batch of 600,000 doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine as a gift from China next week. The government will dispatch two aircraft to bring home the vaccine...

Govt engaged in economic solvency of grassroots people, says PM  

Govt engaged in economic solvency of grassroots people, says PM  

UNB 2021-06-10 18:47:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government has been working to uplift the grassroots people in the relentless effort to make Bangladesh a poverty-free country. "If we want to make a...

Bangladesh names SM Shafiuddin Ahmed as new army chief

Bangladesh names SM Shafiuddin Ahmed as new army chief

-- 2021-06-10 18:24:18

The Defence Ministry has named Lt General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed as the new chief of the Bangladesh Army. Ahmed, the current quartermaster general, will serve as the army chief for three years, starti...

Bangladesh logs 2,576 new COVID cases in a day, death toll rises by 40

Bangladesh logs 2,576 new COVID cases in a day, death toll rises by 40

-- 2021-06-10 16:43:59

Bangladesh has recorded 2,576 new cases of the coronavirus, taking the tally of infections to 820,395. The death toll climbed by 40 in 24 hours to 12,989, according to the latest government data rele...