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Bangladesh looking for more sources to get vaccines

Bangladesh looking for more sources to get vaccines

-- 2021-01-22 16:14:54

The government is sounding out other companies to immunise its 170 million-strong population after securing 30 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Bangladesh needs...

Bangladesh logs 619 new virus cases, 15 deaths

Bangladesh logs 619 new virus cases, 15 deaths

-- 2021-01-22 16:10:51

Bangladesh has recorded 619 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 530,890. The death toll climbed to 7,981 after 15 fatalities were registered in the...

Rohingya repatriation to begin as per 2017 deal, says Myanmar

Rohingya repatriation to begin as per 2017 deal, says Myanmar

-- 2021-01-22 16:03:13

Myanmar has said they are committed to begin the repatriation of Rohingya as per the bilateral agreement signed with Bangladesh in 2017. Myanmar's International Cooperation Affairs Minister Kyaw Tin...

Why people balk at Dhaka police’s ‘money escort’ service

Why people balk at Dhaka police’s ‘money escort’ service

-- 2021-01-22 14:53:52

The police are offering security during the transportation of large sums of cash in Dhaka, but the people appear to have little or no interest in the special service called ‘money escort’...

Bumper mustard production likely in Rangpur region

Bumper mustard production likely in Rangpur region

-- 2021-01-22 12:17:08

Officials and farmers are expecting an excellent production of mustard in Rangpur agriculture region as its harvest will begin in the next month during the current Rabi season. Officials of the Depar...

Tk 479m project to combat noise pollution

Tk 479m project to combat noise pollution

FE Report 2021-01-22 11:15:47

The government will conduct a total of 2,000 mobile courts across the country against the violators of existing laws with a view to combating noise pollution. Noise Pollution (Control) Rules, 2006...

Court seeks details of BB officials responsible for bankruptcy of institutions, money laundering

Court seeks details of BB officials responsible for bankruptcy of institutions, money laundering

FE REPORT 2021-01-22 10:55:01

The High Court (HC) sought details, including name, address and status, of the officials of the Bangladesh Bank's (BB) three departments, who were in charge of overseeing financial institutions (FIs...

Finance minister wishes he were first to take shot of COVID-19 vaccine

Finance minister wishes he were first to take shot of COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-01-21 22:48:35

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal appears excited about the arrival of the coronavirus vaccine from India as he says he would have been the first person to take the jab if offered, reports bdnews24.c...

Journalist Afzal Mohammad dies of Covid-19

Journalist Afzal Mohammad dies of Covid-19

-- 2021-01-21 22:01:51

Young journalist Afzal Mohammad on Thursday died of COVID-19 at a hospital in the capital. He was 31. The former Channel 9 reporter used to work as a senior research associate at Broadcast Journalist...

Fire at shopping mall

Fire at shopping mall

FE Online Report 2021-01-21 21:44:18

A fire broke out on Thursday at a shopping mall in the capital.  However, there was no report of casualties.  The incident of fire occurred at around 10:00 am at a mobile servici...

PM Hasina thanks Modi for sending vaccine as gift

PM Hasina thanks Modi for sending vaccine as gift

UNB 2021-01-21 21:29:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending the Oxford vaccine produced in India as a gift for Bangladesh. “I’m thanking Prime Minist...

UGC for extending 43rd BCS application deadline

UGC for extending 43rd BCS application deadline

-- 2021-01-21 20:28:26

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday requested the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) for extending the deadline of submitting applications for 43rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BC...

Writ seeks HC directives to open educational institutions

Writ seeks HC directives to open educational institutions

-- 2021-01-21 19:50:12

A writ was filed with the High Court (HC) on Thursday, seeking directives to open all the educational institutions across the country. Supreme Court lawyer Faruk Alamgir Chowdhury filed the writ peti...

Bangladesh approves import of 30m Oxford-AstraZeneca doses from Serum

Bangladesh approves import of 30m Oxford-AstraZeneca doses from Serum

UNB 2021-01-21 19:43:17

The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase approved a proposal of the Health Service Division to import 30 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India Pvt Ltd....

PM greets new US President Joe Biden

PM greets new US President Joe Biden

-- 2021-01-21 19:02:49

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Joe Biden, the 46th president of the US. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen termed Biden's win as a victory for democracy. Talking to reporters at Stat...

Bangladesh reports 584 new virus cases, 16 deaths

Bangladesh reports 584 new virus cases, 16 deaths

-- 2021-01-21 17:11:16

Bangladesh has recorded 584 new cases of coronavirus in daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 530,271. The death toll climbed to 7,966 after 16 fatalities were registered in the 24 ho...

45 BNP activists sued over Ctg BNP office attack

45 BNP activists sued over Ctg BNP office attack

-- 2021-01-21 16:36:12

A case has been filed against 45 BNP leaders and activists a day after an attack of BNP office in Chattogram city. Md Mosharaful Haque, Executive Member of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chattogram...

PK Halder's lawyer, his daughter arrested in money laundering case

PK Halder's lawyer, his daughter arrested in money laundering case

-- 2021-01-21 16:28:10

The Anti-Corruption Commission has detained infamous businessman Proshanta Kumar Halder's personal lawyer Sukumar Mridha and his daughter Anindita Mridha in connection with a case involving charges of...

Government plans to expand diplomatic zone to Purbachal

Government plans to expand diplomatic zone to Purbachal

-- 2021-01-21 14:47:01

The government plans to expand the diplomatic zone to Purbachal in Dhaka due to a shortage of land in Gulshan and Baridhara, according to Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. Responding to a question in...

Two new varieties of mango in Rajshahi get registration

Two new varieties of mango in Rajshahi get registration

OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2021-01-21 14:21:59

Two new varieties of mango – BARI Falsa-1 and BARI Mango-14 – in Rajshahi have recently been registered with the National Seed Board. Of them, BARI Falsa-1 is indigenous while BARI Mango-...

Bangladesh receives 2m Covid-19 vaccines from India

Bangladesh receives 2m Covid-19 vaccines from India

-- 2021-01-21 12:46:15

A consignment of around 2.0 million doses of a vaccine against the coronavirus (Covid-19) has arrived in Bangladesh as a gift from neighbouring India. An Air India flight touched down in Dhaka with t...

Met Office forecasts rain in parts of country

Met Office forecasts rain in parts of country

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-21 12:26:10

Some parts of the country are likely to see rainfall on Thursday and Friday, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). “Light rain/drizzle is likely to occur at one or two places...

'My village my town' to offer civic amenities

'My village my town' to offer civic amenities

FE REPORT 2021-01-21 09:20:57

The government decided on Wednesday to form cluster-wise committees to implement its 'My village my town' project, a venture to expand civic amenities in each of the villages. The decision was take...

Vaccination in Bangladesh begins on January 27

Vaccination in Bangladesh begins on January 27

FE REPORT 2021-01-21 08:19:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the vaccination programme in Dhaka city on January 27. Some eminent citizens will get the doses first. A consignment of 2.0-million doses of Oxford vac...

20 judicial magistrates to be deployed at CCC polls

20 judicial magistrates to be deployed at CCC polls

FE Online Report 2021-01-20 21:56:56

The Election Commission (EC) is going to deploy 20 judicial magistrates to hold the upcoming polls of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) scheduled for January 27. The magistrates will discharge their...

No ‘planning’ for proper distribution of vaccine, BNP says

No ‘planning’ for proper distribution of vaccine, BNP says

UNB 2021-01-20 20:45:16

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government has no ‘roadmap’ and ‘planning’ for the proper distribution of coronavirus vaccine....

25 people to be vaccinated on first day, health secretary says

25 people to be vaccinated on first day, health secretary says

-- 2021-01-20 20:23:29

Health Secretary Md Abdul Mannan has said the government will begin the COVID-19 vaccination drive by giving jabs to around 25 people on the first day. At a press conference at the Prime Minister&rsq...

Govt to hand over 66,189 houses to homeless families

Govt to hand over 66,189 houses to homeless families

-- 2021-01-20 18:33:52

The government has completed all preparations to hand over 66,189 houses to homeless and landless families in the first phase on January 23 on the occasion of the “Mujib Borsho”. Prime Mi...

Bangladesh to get 3.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses Thursday

Bangladesh to get 3.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses Thursday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-20 18:25:06

Bangladesh will get 3.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and manufactured by Serum Institute of India, in two separate consignments from India on Thurs...

Fish production increases by 50pc in 11 years, PM says

Fish production increases by 50pc in 11 years, PM says

-- 2021-01-20 17:56:56

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh has attained self-sufficiency in fish boosting up the production by over 50 per cent in last 11 years following the effective and time befitting meas...