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One Covid-19 hospital for 17 upazilas can't cope with pressure

One Covid-19 hospital for 17 upazilas can't cope with pressure

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CUMILLA 2021-04-19 10:38:10

The number of coronavirus infected people and deaths is increasing alarmingly in Cumilla. Fifty people have died of corona in the last 16 days in the district. Most of the dead were from Cumilla city...

People's presence on city roads increasing

People's presence on city roads increasing

FE REPORT 2021-04-19 09:45:39

People's presence increased notably on the city roads when the country was observing fifth day of the eight-day-long strict lockdown on Sunday. Increased crowd of customers was seen in the kitchen...

Myanmar quake sends tremors to Chattogram, Cox's Bazar

Myanmar quake sends tremors to Chattogram, Cox's Bazar

-- 2021-04-18 22:56:18

An earthquake centred in Myanmar has sent tremors in the southern regions of Bangladesh, including Chattogram and Cox's Bazar. The 5.0 magnitude quake struck at 7:24pm on Sunday, according to Zahirul...

12.5m families to receive food aid, says Quader

12.5m families to receive food aid, says Quader

-- 2021-04-18 21:48:03

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said 12.5 million families will receive food aid. He also said that 3.5 million will get Eid gift from the Pr...

Mirza Abbas accuses media of distorting his comments about Ilias

Mirza Abbas accuses media of distorting his comments about Ilias

-- 2021-04-18 21:25:17

BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas on Sunday claimed that some media distorted his remarks about the disappearance of their party leader M Ilias Ali. "It’s been published in a newspaper...

Holding numbers won’t be issued to buildings without fire safety, DNCC mayor says

Holding numbers won’t be issued to buildings without fire safety, DNCC mayor says

-- 2021-04-18 20:51:38

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will not provide holding numbers or trade licence to the buildings which will not install separate fire safety system from now on, said the mayor of Dhaka North...

Chief Justice says saving lives must come before livelihoods

Chief Justice says saving lives must come before livelihoods

-- 2021-04-18 20:49:02

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain believes it is more important now to prioritise saving lives than livelihoods as the coronavirus continues to pulverise Bangladesh. He was responding to a call to in...

PM to provide cash support to families affected by Covid, natural disasters

PM to provide cash support to families affected by Covid, natural disasters

-- 2021-04-18 20:30:56

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will provide financial assistance to some 3.6 million families who have been hit hard by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and recent natural disasters. The families inclu...

Move to set up naval police station to protect Halda River

Move to set up naval police station to protect Halda River

-- 2021-04-18 20:26:35

A naval police station will be set up to protect the Halda River, the only natural fish breeding river in the country. Chattogram Naval Police SP Mominul Islam Bhuiyan on Sunday told journalists that...

Bangladesh opens largest hospital dedicated to coronavirus treatment

Bangladesh opens largest hospital dedicated to coronavirus treatment

-- 2021-04-18 19:01:53

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has inaugurated DNCC COVID Hospital, the largest hospital dedicated to the treatment of coronavirus patients. The 1,000-bed hospital inaugurated on Sunday also has an in...

People continue to defy lockdown restrictions despite alarming spike in virus cases

People continue to defy lockdown restrictions despite alarming spike in virus cases

-- 2021-04-18 17:57:38

Despite an alarming spike in Covid-19 deaths in Bangladesh, people continue to defy restrictions on movement as a higher number of people and vehicles were seen on the streets in Dhaka on the 5th day...

Govt may extend ongoing lockdown by another week, says State Minister

Govt may extend ongoing lockdown by another week, says State Minister

UNB 2021-04-18 17:55:19

Bangladesh is likely to go under another weeklong lockdown right after the ongoing one as the Covid-19 situation keeps worsening in the country, said State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Ho...

India to deliver vaccine doses as per schedule, Momen believes

India to deliver vaccine doses as per schedule, Momen believes

-- 2021-04-18 17:46:14

Despite high demand of COVID-19 vaccine in India, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said he believes India will supply the rest of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine doses produced by Serum Ins...

Bangladesh brings new funding to boost production of anti-Covid tools

Bangladesh brings new funding to boost production of anti-Covid tools

-- 2021-04-18 17:26:05

The government has opened a new funding window to meet the growing demand of medical and personal protective equipment (MPPE) in local and international markets and to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. T...

Bangladesh reports another grim record of 102 Covid deaths

Bangladesh reports another grim record of 102 Covid deaths

-- 2021-04-18 16:55:16

Bangladesh has confirmed 102 new virus deaths, setting another record in the daily count. The grim data came on Sunday after the government reported 101 fatalities from the COVID-19 illness in the 24...

1,200 unemployed transport workers receive relief items in city

1,200 unemployed transport workers receive relief items in city

FE Online Report 2021-04-18 16:39:57

At least 1,200 transport workers, who became unemployed during the ongoing lockdown, received relief items on Sunday. Khondaker Enayet Ullah, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Malik...

Special flights carrying migrant workers leave Dhaka

Special flights carrying migrant workers leave Dhaka

-- 2021-04-18 16:32:15

Three special flights carrying migrant workers stuck in the lockdown have left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for their respective destinations. “Twelve special flights from different a...

2,500 sued over Banshkhali incident

2,500 sued over Banshkhali incident

-- 2021-04-18 16:23:46

Two cases have been filed against 2,500 people in connection with the clash at a coal-based power plant in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram that left five people dead on Saturday. Shafiul Kabir, offi...

Man stabbed dead in Jatrabari

Man stabbed dead in Jatrabari

-- 2021-04-18 15:42:02

A man was stabbed to death by allegedly by some extortionists at Jatrabari in Dhaka on Saturday night. The deceased is Mohammad Bablu ,32, son of late Abul Hossain of South Jatrabari. The extortioni...

Coronavirus patients are now dying faster, IEDCR report says

Coronavirus patients are now dying faster, IEDCR report says

-- 2021-04-18 14:27:28

The mortality rate and severity of the coronavirus infections have risen this year, according to government data. The data was part of a coronavirus situation report released by the Institute of Epid...

Hifazat-e Islam leader Mamunul Haque arrested

Hifazat-e Islam leader Mamunul Haque arrested

-- 2021-04-18 13:52:34

Hifazat-e Islam leader Mamunul Haque has been detained from a Dhaka madrasa in a case that involves his role in violence. Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Bra...

Nor'wester lashes different parts of the country

Nor'wester lashes different parts of the country

-- 2021-04-18 10:38:11

A fisherman  was killed at Ulipur Upazila in Kurigram as a nor'wester lashed across the country on  Friday night into early hours of Saturday, UNB reports. The deceased was identified as Mo...

Blast disease shatters Jashore Boro farmers' dream

Blast disease shatters Jashore Boro farmers' dream

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-18 10:33:16

BENAPOLE: Boro farmers' dreams have been shattered by the blast disease in their paddy fields at Manirampur upazila of the district like previous years. Many farmers have lost their way due to blast...

Special flights for expatriate Bangladeshis face initial hiccups

Special flights for expatriate Bangladeshis face initial hiccups

FE REPORT 2021-04-18 10:13:07

The Saudi authorities have finally given landing permission to the Biman Bangladesh Airlines for operating its flights to Riyadh and Dammam, a Biman official said on Saturday. Besides, the airlines w...

Some BNP leaders involved in Ilias Ali’s disappearance, Mirza Abbas says

Some BNP leaders involved in Ilias Ali’s disappearance, Mirza Abbas says

-- 2021-04-17 21:25:25

BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas on Saturday blamed several leaders of BNP, without taking any specific name, for the disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali. However, he did not mention any s...

Life of housewife cut short in ‘loan trap’

Life of housewife cut short in ‘loan trap’

-- 2021-04-17 21:17:37

A housewife was murdered by an interest trader named Kayesh Talukder at Joinkathi Upazila in Patuakhali on April 9. The deceased was identified as Purnima. Moreover, her husband was also forced to f...

Nine on three-day remand for marketing of fake medical testing kits

Nine on three-day remand for marketing of fake medical testing kits

-- 2021-04-17 19:25:46

A court in Dhaka on Saturday granted three-day remand for nine arrestees of three organisations in connection with manufacturing and marketing fake, date-expired and unlicensed COVID-19 testing kits a...

Covid patient takes own life

Covid patient takes own life

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-17 18:22:17

A coronavirus patient committed suicide on Friday night in the capital.  The deceased was identified as Hasib Iqbal Haque Moni (50) who allegedly took his life around 10:30 pm on Friday by jumpi...

Farmers expect bumper litchi production in Rangpur region

Farmers expect bumper litchi production in Rangpur region

-- 2021-04-17 17:53:31

Healthier growth of tender litchi amid favourable climatic conditions predicts a bumper production of the juicy fruit in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the Department...

Civil Society for global action on climate-displacement

Civil Society for global action on climate-displacement

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-17 17:21:35

Civil Society on Saturday urged the government to raise the demand for a precise global action to address the climate-displacement in the forthcoming Leaders’ Summit on climate. They at a vir...