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Bangladesh reports 7,626 virus cases, 63 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 7,626 virus cases, 63 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-04-07 16:12:33

Bangladesh has logged 7,626 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest count in a day, taking the tally to 659,278. The death toll climbed to 9,447 after 63 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours...

Singer Indra Mohan Rajbongshi dies of Covid-19

Singer Indra Mohan Rajbongshi dies of Covid-19

-- 2021-04-07 13:05:42

Indra Mohan Rajbongshi, a singer with an illustrious background in folk music, has died in a Dhaka hospital after his battle with COVID-19. The Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra musician breathed his last...

Bangladesh's healthcare system considered not fair, equitable

Bangladesh's healthcare system considered not fair, equitable

Kamrun Nahar 2021-04-07 08:29:38

Bangladesh observes the World Health Day 2021 as elsewhere in the world today (Wednesday), amid the country's health sector managers facing widespread criticism. This year's theme of the day is 'Buil...

Govt to open 200-bed ICU in Mohakhali soon, says Minister

Govt to open 200-bed ICU in Mohakhali soon, says Minister

-- 2021-04-06 21:03:03

The government is setting up an intensive care unit (ICU) with 200 beds at Dhaka North City Corporation Market in the capital's Mohakhali to treat critically ill coronavirus patients. The facility, w...

Govt shuts down madrasas that stayed open in coronavirus lockdown

Govt shuts down madrasas that stayed open in coronavirus lockdown

-- 2021-04-06 20:49:42

The government has ordered immediate closure of Qawmi madrasas and other religious schools that are open amid the coronavirus lockdown. The education ministry said on Tuesday that some residential an...

Health minister blames rule-breakers for worsening virus situation

Health minister blames rule-breakers for worsening virus situation

-- 2021-04-06 20:41:40

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has blamed public's disregard towards health directives for the recent upsurge in coronavirus cases and deaths. "You are seeing the consequences of carelessness. Those w...

Govt distributing 5,776 farming machines this FY

Govt distributing 5,776 farming machines this FY

-- 2021-04-06 20:26:10

The government is distributing 5,776 farming machines among farmers across the country in the current fiscal year under the Agricultural Mechanisation Project of the Agriculture Ministry. The machine...

PM stresses adequate policy support to expand Bangladesh-US trade

PM stresses adequate policy support to expand Bangladesh-US trade

-- 2021-04-06 20:02:47

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed adequate policy support to further expand the bilateral trade between the United States and Bangladesh. Bangladesh buys considerable amount of industrial raw...

Allocation for public servants' remuneration to witness rise from next fiscal

Allocation for public servants' remuneration to witness rise from next fiscal

UNB 2021-04-06 19:39:03

The allocation of money for salaries and allowances of the public servants will see an uptrend from the next fiscal after a span of four years. The government is going to allocate some 12.2 per cent...

Bangladesh mourns loss of lives in Indonesia, Timor-Leste flash floods

Bangladesh mourns loss of lives in Indonesia, Timor-Leste flash floods

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-06 19:24:47

Bangladesh expressed deep mourning over the lives lost in flash floods and landslides in different parts of Indonesia and Timor-Leste recently. In different messages sent to Foreign Minister of Indon...

Probe report against 17 Hefazat leaders on May 27

Probe report against 17 Hefazat leaders on May 27

-- 2021-04-06 18:56:12

A Dhaka court on Tuesday set May 27 for submitting probe report in a case lodged against 17 leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam including its joint secretary general Mamunul Haque for their role in clashes wit...

‘Facing Covid-19, resisting radicals are challenges before govt’

‘Facing Covid-19, resisting radicals are challenges before govt’

-- 2021-04-06 18:26:38

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader Tuesday said facing the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and resisting extreme communal forces are two challenges b...

Govt allows public transport in Dhaka, other cities from Wednesday

Govt allows public transport in Dhaka, other cities from Wednesday

-- 2021-04-06 17:15:25

The government has decided to allow public transport services in Dhaka and other city corporation areas from Wednesday amid the coronavirus lockdown. City bus services will be available from 6:00 am...

Bangladesh reports 7,213 virus cases, 66 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh reports 7,213 virus cases, 66 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-04-06 16:31:20

Bangladesh logged 7,213 new cases of the coronavirus in the 24 hours to 8 am Tuesday, taking the tally to 651,652. The death toll climbed to 9,384 after 66 fatalities, the highest count in a day, wer...

Death reference of 14 convicts who plotted to kill PM reaches High Court

Death reference of 14 convicts who plotted to kill PM reaches High Court

FE Online Report 2021-04-06 16:10:55

The death reference of 14 militant convicts, who plotted to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by planting a bomb at a public meeting in Gopalganj's Kotalipara, has reached the High Court. Confirming...

Stepmother kills  five-yr-old girl in Khulna

Stepmother kills  five-yr-old girl in Khulna

-- 2021-04-06 13:09:10

A five-year-old girl visiting her father's house was allegedly stabbed to death by her stepmother at Arkandi village in Terokhada upazila in Khulna district on Tuesday. Monday night. The deceased wa...

‘Unscientific and halfhearted’ lockdown unlikely to yield any positive result, experts say

‘Unscientific and halfhearted’ lockdown unlikely to yield any positive result, experts say

-- 2021-04-06 12:44:45

Though a nationwide lockdown has been enforced in Bangladesh for one week with a high hope to limit the spread of deadly Coronavirus, health experts think that this ‘unscientific and halfhearted...

Six Bangladeshis die in murder-suicide in Texas

Six Bangladeshis die in murder-suicide in Texas

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-04-06 12:41:51

Two brothers are accused of gunning down four family members inside their Texas home before turning the weapons on themselves in a chilling crime that they plotted months in advance, bdnews24.com repo...

10 shops gutted in Gaibandha

10 shops gutted in Gaibandha

-- 2021-04-06 12:00:00

At least 10 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Old Bazar in Gaibandha district town in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said. Enamul Haque, deputy director of Gaibandha Fire Service a...

Workers suffer for transport ban amid lockdown

Workers suffer for transport ban amid lockdown

-- 2021-04-06 11:21:42

With the factories staying open amid a lockdown over coronavirus, the workers have suffered to reach their workplaces due to a ban on public transports, bdnews24.com reports. People in Dhaka and Chat...

Hifazat leader Mamunul sued for violence in Baitul Mukarram area

Hifazat leader Mamunul sued for violence in Baitul Mukarram area

-- 2021-04-06 10:38:12

A Jubo League leader has charged Hifazat-e Islam leader Mamunul Haque with orchestrating the violent clashes in Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area on the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh...

Jashore farmer successful in Dragon farming

Jashore farmer successful in Dragon farming

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-06 10:13:03

BENAPOLE: Helal Khan, who returned from abroad at Chaugacha Upazila in Jashore, has been economically solvent by cultivating dragon. He has successfully cultivated dragon fruit for the first time in...

Netrakona Modern Hospital not ready for coronavirus treatment

Netrakona Modern Hospital not ready for coronavirus treatment

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-06 10:09:30

NETRAKONA: The coronavirus situation has been continuing for a long year. Netrakona Modern Hospital iscompletely unprepared to treat corona patients. Infection has been on the rise again. But the cen...

'Policy for returnee migrant workers' reintegration essential'

'Policy for returnee migrant workers' reintegration essential'

FE REPORT 2021-04-06 09:01:37

Speakers at a virtual conference on Monday stressed the need for forming a policy for reintegration of returnee migrant workers in order to improve their livelihoods and psychosocial condition. They...

Narayanganj launch capsize death toll hits 29, seven missing

Narayanganj launch capsize death toll hits 29, seven missing

-- 2021-04-05 21:44:58

Rescuers have retrieved 24 more bodies from a sunken launch on the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj, taking the death toll to 29. The bodies of more victims were found after the divers recovered the...

Speakers call for reintegration policy to support returnee migrant workers

Speakers call for reintegration policy to support returnee migrant workers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-05 20:28:14

Speakers at a virtual conference stressed on the need for forming a policy for reintegration support to returnee migrant workers to improve their livelihood and psychosocial condition. They also sugg...

Shipping ministry opens investigation into Narayanganj launch capsize

Shipping ministry opens investigation into Narayanganj launch capsize

-- 2021-04-05 20:21:53

The Ministry of Shipping has formed a seven-strong committee to investigate how a launch sank on the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj. The committee will identify the cause of the capsize and submit...

Govt publishes rules for monitoring TRP

Govt publishes rules for monitoring TRP

-- 2021-04-05 19:26:23

The government has published rules for monitoring television rating point (TRP) as well as selecting private institutions to give those the task of calculating and monitoring TRPs of registered media....

Supreme Court to hold proceedings on limited extent during lockdown

Supreme Court to hold proceedings on limited extent during lockdown

-- 2021-04-05 19:13:40

Both divisions of the Supreme Court (SC) will hold their proceedings on limited extent from April 5 to 11 during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The Supreme C...

Govt urges countrymen not to arrange iftar, sehri at mosques

Govt urges countrymen not to arrange iftar, sehri at mosques

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-05 18:51:33

The government has asked Muslims in the country to refrain from arranging iftar and sehri (fast breaking and night meal) at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan amid increasing trend of coronaviru...