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Appellate Division to hold virtual hearing regularly, from Sunday

Appellate Division to hold virtual hearing regularly, from Sunday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-18 13:51:33

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to start holding its virtual hearing on different cases on a regular basis from Sunday. Md Saifur Rahman, special officer of High Court Division, co...

Water Resources state minister Zahid Faruk recovers from Covid-19

Water Resources state minister Zahid Faruk recovers from Covid-19

-- 2020-07-18 13:30:12

State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruk has recovered from coronavirus. The state minister returned to his residence in Baridhara from Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on Saturday morning a...

Former whip Md Ashraf Hossain dies

Former whip Md Ashraf Hossain dies

-- 2020-07-18 13:07:00

Former whip Md Ashraf Hossain passed away at a private hospital in the capital early Saturday. He was 79. Ashraf, former BNP joint secretary, who had been suffering from cancer, was admitted to the U...

FE news editor Abdullah M Hasan laid to rest

FE news editor Abdullah M Hasan laid to rest

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-18 12:58:10

Senior journalist and news editor of The Financial Express Abdullah M Hasan has been laid to rest today. He was buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard in Dhaka around 12 noon. His first na...

Only two contractors hired to do the job!

Only two contractors hired to do the job!

Kamrun Nahar 2020-07-18 10:25:40

The government has taken decision to install central oxygen supply line and liquid oxygen tanks in 83 hospitals. Two contractors have been awarded the job installing Shortage of contractors has been...

Who are to blame for Covid testing scam?

Who are to blame for Covid testing scam?

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-07-18 10:22:25

While top bosses of the health ministry and directorate general of health services (DGHS) are blaming each other over the corona test scam, government rules suggest the minister, secretary and the DG...

BD workers buried in KSA despite families' reluctance

BD workers buried in KSA despite families' reluctance

Arafat Ara 2020-07-18 09:56:32

At least 700 Bangladeshi migrant workers were buried in Saudi Arabia in last three months due to travel ban and shortage of space at mortuaries there, officials said. Family members here said they...

President will travel to Kishoreganj Sunday for burial of brother

President will travel to Kishoreganj Sunday for burial of brother

-- 2020-07-17 21:53:29

President Md Abdul Hamid will travel to his ancestral home in Kishoregganj’s Mithamoin for the burial of his younger brother Md Abdul Hye, who died from COVID-19 at a Dhaka hospital. A helicopt...

Sub-registry offices collect Tk 5.30b as revenue in one month

Sub-registry offices collect Tk 5.30b as revenue in one month

-- 2020-07-17 21:17:24

The Directorate of Registration under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has collected around Taka 5.30 billion as revenue in one month despite the coronavirus pandemic. From May...

Prof Emajuddin Ahmed laid to rest

Prof Emajuddin Ahmed laid to rest

-- 2020-07-17 21:06:51

Prof Emajuddin Ahmed, former vice chancellor of Dhaka University, was laid to eternal rest on Saturday at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in the capital. He was buried beside his wife’s...

FE news editor Abdullah M Hasan no more

FE news editor Abdullah M Hasan no more

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-17 20:13:52

Senior journalist and News Editor of The Financial Express, Abdullah M Hasan died of coronavirus at 6:41pm on Friday. He was 72 years old. Mr Hasan was undergoing treatment at the city’s Labai...

NBR moves to freeze bank accounts of Shahed, Sabrina

NBR moves to freeze bank accounts of Shahed, Sabrina

-- 2020-07-17 16:32:29

The National Revenue Board has instructed banks to freeze the accounts held by Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed and JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, who have been arrested o...

Court places Sabrina on two-day fresh remand

Court places Sabrina on two-day fresh remand

-- 2020-07-17 16:16:07

A Dhaka court has placed JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury on two-day fresh remand in a case lodged over issuing fake coronavirus test reports. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masudur R...

Covid-19: BD sees nearly one positive case in five tests

Covid-19: BD sees nearly one positive case in five tests

-- 2020-07-17 16:08:35

With just over a million Covid-19 tests carried out since March, Bangladesh on Friday inched closer to 200,000 officially confirmed cases – which means nearly one in every five tests had turned...

No fine on late electricity bill payment until Jul 31

No fine on late electricity bill payment until Jul 31

-- 2020-07-17 15:58:35

The government has decided to exempt the five per cent surcharge for late payment of electricity bills by residential customers for another month in light of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The exemp...

Maldives repatriates 135 more Bangladeshis

Maldives repatriates 135 more Bangladeshis

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-17 15:40:39

The Maldives has repatriated another 135 Bangladeshi nationals, from the southernmost part of the island country, the Maldivian media reports. The national airline, Maldivian, carried out the repatri...

Fahim Saleh murder: NY police identify ‘person of interest’

Fahim Saleh murder: NY police identify ‘person of interest’

-- 2020-07-17 15:19:39

New York police on Thursday said they identified a “person of interest” in the murder of young tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh but the suspect was not in custody yet. NYPD sources declined...

Kushita doctor dies of Covid-19

Kushita doctor dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-07-17 14:57:55

A doctor, who was infected with Covid-19, died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka early Friday. The deceased was identified as Dr SM Nur Uddin Abu Al Baki Rumi, 48, assis...

Virus death toll tops 2,500

Virus death toll tops 2,500

FE Online Desk 2020-07-17 14:54:52

Death toll from the novel coronavirus has surged past 2,500-mark in Bangladesh as the country reported 51 more fatalities in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Friday. With the latest, Covid-19 death tol...

BD sees 1,776 deaths with Covid-19-like symptoms

BD sees 1,776 deaths with Covid-19-like symptoms

 SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-07-17 14:48:38

A total of 1,776 people died with Covid-19 like symptoms in the country during the period between March 22 and July 11, according to a latest report. A project styled 'Bangladesh Peace Observatory (B...

US Embassy in BD launches webinar series on dark web and cryptocurrency

US Embassy in BD launches webinar series on dark web and cryptocurrency

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-17 12:28:37

The US Embassy in Bangladesh and the US Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (DOJ-OPDAT) launched a three-part webinar series entitled &l...

Four of a family found dead in Tangail

Four of a family found dead in Tangail

-- 2020-07-17 12:27:09

Four members of a family were found dead in Madhupur Upazila of Tangail. The dead have been identified as Gani Mia, his wife and their two children. Local residents informed police after recovering...

Health Ministry for halting communication from four dists during Eid

Health Ministry for halting communication from four dists during Eid

-- 2020-07-17 11:51:19

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a notification with a suggestion to keep movement from four districts to other areas restricted during Eid-ul-Azha holidays. “Movement f...

President’s brother dies of Covid-19

President’s brother dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-07-17 11:37:16

President Md Abdul Hamid’s younger brother Md Abdul Hye has died in hospital care in Dhaka from novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection at the age of 67. Hye, who was also assistant private secr...

Power sector automation to check corruption: Minister

Power sector automation to check corruption: Minister

FE REPORT 2020-07-17 10:01:31

Automation of the state-run power sector entities has become necessary to bring about transparency and accountability, and check corruption, state minister for power, energy, and mineral resources Nas...

Former DU VC Emajuddin Ahmed dies

Former DU VC Emajuddin Ahmed dies

-- 2020-07-17 10:00:41

Educationist Prof Emajuddin Ahmed, a former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, has died in hospital care from brain haemorrhage at the age of 88. Ahmed fell sick at 2.30am and was taken to the Lab...

RMG sector likely to get add'l fund to pay workers' wages

RMG sector likely to get add'l fund to pay workers' wages

MONIRA MUNNI 2020-07-17 09:50:41

Export-oriented ready-made garment (RMG) sector is likely to get additional fund to pay their workers' wages for three more months beginning from July. Prime Minister's private sector industry and in...

Floods claim eight lives

Floods claim eight lives

 FE REPORT 2020-07-17 09:46:01

The ongoing flood in Bangladesh has so far claimed eight lives, said state minister for disaster management and relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman on Thursday. Four died in Jamalpur and one each in Lalmonirh...

Four out of five Covid victims in Bangladesh are male

Four out of five Covid victims in Bangladesh are male

FE REPORT 2020-07-17 09:38:24

Males are more vulnerable to the novel coronavirus compared to females in the country as 31 victims were male out of total 39 died from Covid-19 in the 24-hours to 8:00am Thursday. The Covid-19 pande...

Infection rate in Wari still same

Infection rate in Wari still same

FE Report 2020-07-17 09:36:39

Infection rate in Wari area under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), the second red-zone of the city implementing lockdown, has not changed from the previous situation despite 11 days of lockdown, f...