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Five die with fever, cold related problems in Cumilla

Five die with fever, cold related problems in Cumilla

-- 2020-07-26 11:13:41

Five people suffering from fever and cold-related problems, died at Comilla Medical College Hospital in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning. A total of 111 patients, including 33 Covid-19 patients,...

Fishermen return to sea after two months

Fishermen return to sea after two months

Our Correspondent 2020-07-26 09:55:31

Fishermen returned to sea for fishing on Friday as a 65-day ban on sea fishing ended the previous day. More than 200 fishing trawlers, which remained docked since May 20 last because of the ban, went...

Paddy farming gets a boost in Jhenidah

Paddy farming gets a boost in Jhenidah

OUR CORRESPONDENTs 2020-07-26 09:49:04

Farmers in Jhenidah are bringing more land under paddy farming during the current T-Aman paddy season due to fair price of the staple crop, alongside favourable weather condition. Farmers said they f...

Jamuna devours several hundred houses in Sirajganj

Jamuna devours several hundred houses in Sirajganj

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2020-07-26 09:44:32

Hundreds of houses and mosques have been swallowed by the mighty Jamuna River in Sirajganj in a couple of days. Meanwhile, a good number of people have become homeless and destitute due to the river...

Lower testing to constrain virus control, warn experts

Lower testing to constrain virus control, warn experts

FE REPORT 2020-07-26 09:41:23

Lower testing will provide a misleading picture of coronavirus transmission in the country while making it difficult to take proper control measures, health experts warn. Although more than 150 days...

DNCC designates 256 spots to slaughter sacrificial animals

DNCC designates 256 spots to slaughter sacrificial animals

-- 2020-07-25 21:22:04

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has designated 256 places for Qurbani, sacrifice of animals, in the Eid-ul-Azha urging the citizens to slaughter sacrificial animals in those designated spots....

Flood conditions worsens, half a million people marooned in two days

Flood conditions worsens, half a million people marooned in two days

-- 2020-07-25 21:15:22

Flood conditions in the country's several regions worsened further as half a million people marooned afresh in the last two days amid swelling of major rivers. About 11 people died in a day between F...

Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020 to begin Monday

Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020 to begin Monday

-- 2020-07-25 20:51:08

Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020 to begin Monday Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the two-day celebration of ‘Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020’ on Monday with 100 local and 150 youths...

Former CMSD director dies of COVID-19

Former CMSD director dies of COVID-19

-- 2020-07-25 20:43:00

Brigadier General Md Shahidullah, who had been recently removed as the director of Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD) amid an N95 mask scam, has died from the coronavirus infection. He passed away a...

US reopens asylum case against Bangabandhu killer Rashed

US reopens asylum case against Bangabandhu killer Rashed

-- 2020-07-25 19:48:49

The United States has reopened a decades-old asylum case against MA Rashed Chowdhury, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The country’s Attorney General William Barr reopen...

Civil society organisations demand immediate release of Rayhan Kabir

Civil society organisations demand immediate release of Rayhan Kabir

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-25 18:43:20

Civil society organisations working on migration and development in Bangladesh demanded immediate release and protection of Bangladeshi migrant Rayhan Kabir who was arrested by Malaysian law enforcers...

Bandarban gets access to safe drinking water through 'Probaho'

Bandarban gets access to safe drinking water through 'Probaho'

FE Online Desk 2020-07-25 18:32:59

  More than 5,000 people in the hill tracts district ‘Bandarban’ are getting safe drinking water through BAT Bangladesh's CSR program 'Probaho' – the safe drinking water projec...

BR to get 10 locomotives from India on grant

BR to get 10 locomotives from India on grant

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-25 18:11:19

Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to receive 10 locomotives from India on grant through a ceremony at Darsana-Gede interchange point on Monday. BR officials from Pakshi railway division will receive the...

Former BCL leader remanded for three days over mask scam

Former BCL leader remanded for three days over mask scam

-- 2020-07-25 16:55:15

A Dhaka court has granted police three days to grill Sharmin Jahan, the owner of Aparajita International, following her arrest for supplying fake masks to health workers at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Me...

Regent Hospital MD on 10-day remand over COVID-19 test fraud

Regent Hospital MD on 10-day remand over COVID-19 test fraud

-- 2020-07-25 16:29:11

Police have arrested Mizanur Rahman, the managing director of Regent Hospital, for allegedly issuing fake COVID-19 test reports to 76 metro rail workers. Officers of Uttara West Police Station appreh...

Malaysia to deport Bangladeshi youth over Al-Jazeera report

Malaysia to deport Bangladeshi youth over Al-Jazeera report

-- 2020-07-25 15:17:11

Malaysian authorities on Saturday said they will deport the Bangladeshi youth who was detained over a television documentary on immigrants. The country will deport Mohamad Rayhan Kabir, 25, for criti...

Two Rohingyas among three killed in Cox’s Bazar, Kushita ‘gunfights’

Two Rohingyas among three killed in Cox’s Bazar, Kushita ‘gunfights’

-- 2020-07-25 15:03:56

Three suspected drug traders including two Rohinya youths were killed in separate gunfights in Cox’s Bazar and Kushtia on Friday night and early Saturday. In Cox’s Bazar, two suspected Ya...

Four die as pickup van runs over day labourers

Four die as pickup van runs over day labourers

-- 2020-07-25 14:56:24

Four day labourers were killed and two others injured as a pickup van ran over them in Matidhali area of Bogura district town on Saturday morning. Three of the deceased were identified as—Rashi...

Eid-ul-Azha: Flood, coronavirus set to play spoilers

Eid-ul-Azha: Flood, coronavirus set to play spoilers

UNB 2020-07-25 14:41:03

Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, is just around the corner but the coronavirus pandemic and floods have tightened the grip leaving thousands of people stranded and st...

BD registers 2,520 new virus cases, 38 more deaths

BD registers 2,520 new virus cases, 38 more deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-07-25 14:39:12

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 221,178 on Saturday as the country registered 2,520 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 38 more people died from Covid-19 d...

Burn injured child dies at DMCH

Burn injured child dies at DMCH

-- 2020-07-25 14:07:34

A four-year old minor girl who received burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house in the city’s Bongshal area on Thursday died at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institut...

Lockdown lifted from Wari

Lockdown lifted from Wari

-- 2020-07-25 12:56:39

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) lifted the lockdown from Wari on Friday midnight, 21 days after it was enforced.  Abu Naser, public relations officer of the DSCC, said the lockdown was l...

Government alone isn’t responsible for corruption, says new DG of health

Government alone isn’t responsible for corruption, says new DG of health

-- 2020-07-25 12:31:42

Abul Bashar Md Khurshid Alam, the new director-general of the health services directorate, has said everyone has to take responsibility for the corruption in the health sector. "We are all responsibl...

Migrant workers' families in a fix

Migrant workers' families in a fix

Arafat Ara 2020-07-25 11:04:22

The prolonged coronavirus pandemic has made the migrant workers' families in the country helpless, as many of them did not receive any remittance in the last three-four months. Such families are ta...

Malaysia arrests Bangladeshi who appeared in Al Jazeera’s documentary.

Malaysia arrests Bangladeshi who appeared in Al Jazeera’s documentary.

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-25 10:38:52

Malaysia has arrested Md Rayhan Kabir, the Bangladeshi national under fire for criticising Putrajaya’s handling of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Al Jazeera’s documentary, Malay...

Ctg General Hospital gets oxygen plant for Covid-19 patients

Ctg General Hospital gets oxygen plant for Covid-19 patients

Our Correspondent 2020-07-25 09:45:55

CHATTOGRAM: Chattogram General Hospital has received a central oxygen plant equipped for treatment of the coronavirus patients. Uninterrupted oxygen supply to the hospital beds started on Friday with...

Tackling Covid-19: BD lags behind S Asian peers

Tackling Covid-19: BD lags behind S Asian peers

FE REPORT 2020-07-25 09:35:35

Bangladesh has remained the worst performer in the region in tackling Covid-19 pandemic even after 139 days since the first case was reported. Higher rates of infections with lower recovery put the c...

Govt's cash aid reaches 2.4m people

Govt's cash aid reaches 2.4m people

FE REPORT 2020-07-25 09:27:47

The government has so far provided 2.4 million poor people with a cash assistance of Tk 2,500 each to help them survive the hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the ministry of financ...

‘BNP leaders talking absurdly after failing in elections, movements’

‘BNP leaders talking absurdly after failing in elections, movements’

-- 2020-07-24 21:47:42

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP leaders are now talking ridiculously after being boycotted by the people in elections and movements. “BNP is continuing its ill...

‘Emajuddin’s contribution will inspire in struggle for democracy’

‘Emajuddin’s contribution will inspire in struggle for democracy’

-- 2020-07-24 21:38:37

Recalling late Professor Emajuddin Ahmed’s contributions to nationalist politics, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said his works will inspire the nationalist forces in the...