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Heat wave hits Bangladesh's mass people during Ramadan

Heat wave hits Bangladesh's mass people during Ramadan

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-04-27 10:31:14

People in the capital and across the country continued to suffer from scorching heat and humid weather in the fasting month of Ramadan amid the ongoing heatwave that might continue for a few more days...

Kuwait extends jail term of Shahid to seven years

Kuwait extends jail term of Shahid to seven years

-- 2021-04-26 22:32:14

Former MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul will have to serve three more years in Kuwaiti jail for human trafficking and money laundering. An appellate court in the Middle-Eastern country exten...

Armanitola warehouse fire: Two owners held

Armanitola warehouse fire: Two owners held

-- 2021-04-26 22:01:39

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Monday arrested two chemical warehouse owners from Bagura and Dhaka city in connection with a case filed over the blaze in old Dhaka's Armanitola Friday. The arrestees ar...

Liquid oxygen import from India suspended due to shortages there

Liquid oxygen import from India suspended due to shortages there

-- 2021-04-26 21:27:02

Liquid oxygen import from India remained suspended at Benapole check-post for the past four days as the neighbouring country has been struggling with shortages of oxygen amid the second wave of Corona...

Tough punishment for not wearing masks, warns govt

Tough punishment for not wearing masks, warns govt

-- 2021-04-26 21:04:29

The government had once again reminded the people of the absolute necessity of wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic as the number of COVID-19 patients has continued to rise rapidly. In a notic...

‘Vaccine won’t work if mask is not worn’

‘Vaccine won’t work if mask is not worn’

-- 2021-04-26 20:45:19

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has reminded everyone that vaccine is not the only solution to the coronavirus problem. "Vaccine won't work if you don't wear mask all the time," he said...

Power plants set new record for electricity generation

Power plants set new record for electricity generation

-- 2021-04-26 20:21:25

Power plants in Bangladesh have set a new record for electricity generation to meet the growing demand amid a sweltering summer heat wave. As much as 13,520 MW of electricity was produced around 9pm...

Boro procurement kicks off on Wednesday

Boro procurement kicks off on Wednesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-26 19:45:36

The government on Monday announced the procurement of rice and paddy during the current Boro harvesting season aiming to enrich the national food stock which declined to a decade’s low this mont...

10 India returnee Covid-19 patients flee Jashore hospital

10 India returnee Covid-19 patients flee Jashore hospital

-- 2021-04-26 17:54:37

Ten India returnees, who tested positive for coronavirus, have reportedly escaped from an isolated ward of the Jashore General Hospital. The escapees have been identified as Fatema, 19, Ruma, 30, She...

Eid congregation at mosques this time too

Eid congregation at mosques this time too

-- 2021-04-26 17:25:49

The government on Sunday urged Muslim devotees to offer Eid ul-Fitr prayer at mosques instead of open grounds or Eidgah to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. The Ministry of Religious issued a ci...

Bashkhali power plant victims to get Govt financial assistance

Bashkhali power plant victims to get Govt financial assistance

-- 2021-04-26 16:47:02

The government will provide Taka 0.2 million to each deceased and Tk 50,000 to injured workers’ families of Bashkhali under-construction power plant as financial assistance. State Minister for...

Hundreds throng Paturia Ghat to return to capital

Hundreds throng Paturia Ghat to return to capital

-- 2021-04-26 16:31:16

Hundreds of commuters gathered at the Paturia ghat on Monday as people started returning to Dhaka after the government has eased lockdown with reopening of shopping malls. Passengers from 21 district...

Lockdown to be extended up to May 5

Lockdown to be extended up to May 5

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-26 16:24:11

The government has decided to extend the current lockdown for another week until May 5. The ongoing lockdown will end on April 28. The government imposed countrywide lockdown on April 14 to tackle th...

Bangladesh reports 97 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 97 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-04-26 16:09:53

Bangladesh has registered 97 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a day, taking the death toll to 11,150. The caseload surged to 748,628 after 3,306 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the 24 ho...

Three months ban on fishing in Kaptai Lake

Three months ban on fishing in Kaptai Lake

-- 2021-04-26 15:53:15

The local administration has imposed a three-month ban on netting, marketing, and transportation of fish from Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district from May 1. The decision was taken on Monday at the off...

PM recommends measures for ESCAP to ensure quick recovery from pandemic

PM recommends measures for ESCAP to ensure quick recovery from pandemic

-- 2021-04-26 14:51:31

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday recommended the UN-ESCAP to take four measures, including one that will help the developed world, development partners and international financial institutions (...

Govt to purchase 1.15m tonnes Boro rice

Govt to purchase 1.15m tonnes Boro rice

-- 2021-04-26 14:40:23

The government has decided to procure 1.15 million metric tonnes of rice (boiled and non-boiled) and 0.65 million metric tonnes of paddy during the ongoing Boro season. Some 1.0 million metric tonnes...

Virtual courts grant bail to 17,056 in 9 working days

Virtual courts grant bail to 17,056 in 9 working days

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-26 13:52:49

Virtual courts and tribunals have granted bail to 17,056 people in the last 9 working days to Sunday after settling a total of 30,500 petitions. As many as 1,839 accused secured bail on Sun...

Compensation announced for Banshkhali victims

Compensation announced for Banshkhali victims

-- 2021-04-26 12:38:03

State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian has announced to compensate Tk 0.2 million (2 lakh) to the families of each victim who lost their lives in a clash with police at Banshkh...

Hefazat-e-Islam forms convening committee

Hefazat-e-Islam forms convening committee

-- 2021-04-26 11:52:14

Hefazat-e-Islam has formed a five-member convening committee within two hours of the dissolution of its central committee. The committee was formed early Monday after the embattled Hefazat-e-Islam...

Severe heatwave likely to continue for next two days

Severe heatwave likely to continue for next two days

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-26 11:05:21

Severe heatwave is sweeping over different parts of the country and will continue for the next two days until Wednesday, according to an official at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Howeve...

Imported valuables being stolen from Benapole land port!

Imported valuables being stolen from Benapole land port!

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-26 10:46:28

Valuable imported goods are being stolen from various sheds of Benapole port, the country's largest land port, traders have complained. The port users' organisations have not received any solution ev...

People of 30 villages use risky bridge to cross Kaonal river

People of 30 villages use risky bridge to cross Kaonal river

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-26 10:35:00

People in 30 villages have been suffering for a long time due to the lack of a bridge over Kaonal river of Asma union in Netrakona's Barhatta upazila. So millions of people are crossing the river thro...

More 2,000 journalists to get assistance from welfare trust

More 2,000 journalists to get assistance from welfare trust

-- 2021-04-25 21:09:07

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said that the government has taken a decision to provide assistance to 2,000 more journalists as part of its financial assistance to the...

Red Crescent to help 15,000 families with Ramadan food items

Red Crescent to help 15,000 families with Ramadan food items

-- 2021-04-25 20:59:03

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has started the distribution of Ramadan food packs among 15,300 poor families hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. With the support of Qatar Red Crescent...

Father of Mamunul’s ‘second wife’ in police custody

Father of Mamunul’s ‘second wife’ in police custody

UNB 2021-04-25 20:58:13

Waliyar Rahman, father of Hefazat-e-Islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque's "second wife" Jannat e Jharna, has been taken into police custody for interrogation. Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka M...

‘People involved with Hefazat violence to be punished’

‘People involved with Hefazat violence to be punished’

UNB 2021-04-25 20:39:26

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said that despite talks with the leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam, people who were involved in violence will be brought to book. He came up with the remarks a...

TIB blames lack of accountability behind chemical warehouse fire in Armanitola

TIB blames lack of accountability behind chemical warehouse fire in Armanitola

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-25 19:51:27

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), on Sunday, has blamed lack of political will and absence of coordination, accountability and justice as some of the vital reasons behind the recurrence of...

‘Hifazat’s Mamunul had links with Aug 21 grenade attack militants’

‘Hifazat’s Mamunul had links with Aug 21 grenade attack militants’

-- 2021-04-25 19:20:46

Mamunul Haque, a joint secretary general of Hifazat-e Islam, had links with the militants responsible for the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Aug 21, 2004, the police said. He had also gon...

Shopping malls in Dhaka to remain open until 9:00 pm

Shopping malls in Dhaka to remain open until 9:00 pm

-- 2021-04-25 19:06:41

Shopping malls and stores in Dhaka will be allowed to remain open until 9pm if they adhere to the coronavirus health rules.  Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday revised the notice on the shoppin...