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Over 100,000 expatriate workers face uncertainty as visas expire

Over 100,000 expatriate workers face uncertainty as visas expire

FE Online Report 2020-07-15 20:30:59

More than 100,000 workers, who are in the pipeline of going abroad, remain in uncertainty as the visas of many of them have already been expired, said manpower recruiters on Wednesday. They also soug...

Govt asks factory owners to pay wages, allowances by July 25

Govt asks factory owners to pay wages, allowances by July 25

FE Online Report 2020-07-15 20:19:04

The government called on all factory owners of the country’s industrial sector including readymade garments (RMG) to pay wages for the month of July and festival allowances by July 25, sources s...

Govt, ADB to speed up project implementation

Govt, ADB to speed up project implementation

FE Online Report 2020-07-15 18:32:09

The government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday in Dhaka agreed for taking up specific and time-bound action plan to accelerating development project implementations further. At a tripar...

Govt to shut goods carrier vehicles for nine days during Eid

Govt to shut goods carrier vehicles for nine days during Eid

-- 2020-07-15 18:26:46

The government has announced a new plan to shut goods vehicles, not passenger transports, for nine days during Eid-ul-Azha. Public transports and those carrying sacrificial animals and daily staples...

Fazle Kabir reappointed as BB governor

Fazle Kabir reappointed as BB governor

-- 2020-07-15 17:57:20

Fazle Kabir has been reappointed as Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor on Wednesday for nearly two years after 12 days of his previous tenure ended on July 3. Mr Kabir has been reappointed as per the Bang...

Four die from fever, cold-related problems in Cumilla

Four die from fever, cold-related problems in Cumilla

-- 2020-07-15 16:49:46

Four people died from fever and cold-related problems at Comilla Medical College Hospital in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. A total of 86 patients, including 49 Covid-19 patients, are unde...

Concern over declining number of COVID-19 tests in BD

Concern over declining number of COVID-19 tests in BD

-- 2020-07-15 16:39:29

The number of sample tests for novel coronavirus infection has fallen in Bangladesh but the laboratories conducting the tests have grown paradoxically, betraying a fall in the rate of confirmed cases....

Andrew Kishore laid to rest in Rajshahi

Andrew Kishore laid to rest in Rajshahi

-- 2020-07-15 16:12:05

Andrew Kishore was buried around 11:30am at the Christian Cemetery. Earlier in the day, the body of the popular singer was taken to Rajshahi City Church from the cold storage of Rajshahi Medical Coll...

RAB raids Shahed’s office in Uttara

RAB raids Shahed’s office in Uttara

-- 2020-07-15 16:06:28

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has raided a house in Uttara following the arrest of disgraced businessman Mohammad Shahed, also known as Shahed Karim, over his involvement in a Covid-19 test scam th...

33 more Covid deaths, 3,533 daily cases

33 more Covid deaths, 3,533 daily cases

FE Online Desk 2020-07-15 14:43:58

Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 193,590 on Wednesday, a rise of 3,533 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 33 to 2,457; according to data released by...

BD to shut public transports for 9 days to curb contagion during Eid

BD to shut public transports for 9 days to curb contagion during Eid

-- 2020-07-15 14:41:58

Bangladesh has announced a plan to shut public transports for nine days in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus during Eid-ul-Azha. The shutdown will continue for five days prior and three...

PM to inaugurate plantation of 10 million saplings Thursday

PM to inaugurate plantation of 10 million saplings Thursday

-- 2020-07-15 14:21:24

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate the distribution and plantation of 10 million saplings across the country tomorrow as a part of the celebration of “Mujib Borsho” (Mujib Y...

United Hospital fire: HC orders compensation to families of victims

United Hospital fire: HC orders compensation to families of victims

-- 2020-07-15 13:31:00

The High Court has ordered the United Hospital to pay four families Tk 3 million each in 15 days as compensations for a fatal fire that killed five patients in May. Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed th...

LED bulb warehouse gutted in city fire

LED bulb warehouse gutted in city fire

-- 2020-07-15 11:42:33

A warehouse of LED bulbs was badly damaged in a fire that broke out at Bongshal area in Dhaka on Tuesday night. Mahfuz Riven, a duty officer at Fire Service and Civil Defence’s headquarters, sa...

Dam repair projects yield little for delayed implementation

Dam repair projects yield little for delayed implementation

FE Report 2020-07-15 09:35:12

Speakers at an event in the city on Tuesday observed that the projects undertaken for repair of the embankments are yielding little results as too much time is taken in their planning, application, ap...

RAB arrests Regent Hospital chairman Shahed

RAB arrests Regent Hospital chairman Shahed

-- 2020-07-15 08:53:02

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested Regent Hospital chairman Mohammed Shahed on the Satkhira frontier for his roles in a Covid-19 test scam that roiled Bangladesh’s healthcare sector. Shahe...

Greener option for energy supply

Greener option for energy supply

-- 2020-07-14 22:13:57

Of the different pandemic-affected productive sectors of the economy that drew a lot of media and consequent government attention to obtain financial stimulus to run their operation, the renewable ene...

UK raises pandemic donations for displaced people

UK raises pandemic donations for displaced people

-- 2020-07-14 20:34:40

The United Kingdom (UK) has taken initiatives to double the impact of British people’s donations and ensure that UK charities working on the ground can reach even more people in need specially t...

People prefer smaller, affordable houses for rental during pandemic

People prefer smaller, affordable houses for rental during pandemic

FE Online Report 2020-07-14 20:11:26

During Covid-19 pandemic, people have been opting for smaller and affordable houses for rent in Dhaka. Property solutions provider Bproperty has come out with a trend analysis which shows the current...

125,000 people marooned in Gaibandha as flooding worsens

125,000 people marooned in Gaibandha as flooding worsens

-- 2020-07-14 19:21:29

Around 125,000 people were stranded as Brahmaputra and Ghaghat rivers continued to swell, worsening the overall flood situation of Gaibandha on Tuesday. At least 26 unions in Sundarganj, Phulchhari,...

Support for women and girls are crucial in the time of COVID-19, says mayor of Gazipur

Support for women and girls are crucial in the time of COVID-19, says mayor of Gazipur

FE Online Report 2020-07-14 19:20:29

CARE Bangladesh has been distributing more than 50,000 packs of sanitary napkins among disadvantaged communities affected by COVID -19 in Gazipur, says a press release. In coordination with Gazipur C...

Ministry, directorate not at loggerheads: Zahid Maleque

Ministry, directorate not at loggerheads: Zahid Maleque

-- 2020-07-14 18:58:25

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said that the ministry and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) do not have any problem with each other. The minister came up with the remark whi...

BNP leader Shahjahan Siraj dies

BNP leader Shahjahan Siraj dies

-- 2020-07-14 18:30:23

BNP leader and former minister Shahjahan Siraj died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer at the age of 77. Shahjahan Siraj, also a former leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, breathed his last ar...

‘Govt preparing to tackle future challenges with technology-based innovations’

‘Govt preparing to tackle future challenges with technology-based innovations’

-- 2020-07-14 18:29:31

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Tuesday said the government is preparing to tackle future challenges with technology-based local innovations. The ICT Department is constantly working to...

64 physicians, 22 journalists die from COVID-19 infections

64 physicians, 22 journalists die from COVID-19 infections

FE Online Report 2020-07-14 17:55:16

At least 64 physicians died from coronavirus and 5,559 health workers were infected with the virus, according to the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA). One female doctor died in the past 24 hours....

Court sends seven Regent Hospital employees to jail

Court sends seven Regent Hospital employees to jail

-- 2020-07-14 17:47:10

A court in Dhaka has sent to jail seven employees of Regent Hospital Limited after end of their remand in a case lodged for issuing fake COVID-19 test results, certificates and realising money from pa...

Flood situation worsens in B’putra basin

Flood situation worsens in B’putra basin

-- 2020-07-14 17:23:34

The flood situation worsened further marooning over five lakh people in seven northern districts with significant improvement in Nilphamari during the last 24 hours ending at 9:00am in the Brahmaputra...

Jatiya Party observes first death anniversary of Ershad

Jatiya Party observes first death anniversary of Ershad

-- 2020-07-14 17:19:57

Jatiya Party observed the first death anniversary of its founder Hussein Muhammad Ershad with through various programmes in Rangpur on Tuesday. The programmes included hoisting of the party flag at h...

Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam laid to rest

Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam laid to rest

-- 2020-07-14 17:11:59

Jamuna Group chairman Md Nurul Islam Babul was laid to eternal rest with state honour in the capital’s Banani graveyard on Tuesday. Freedom fighter Nurul Islam was buried around 2:30pm, Mizan M...

Regulators await prospective Bangladeshi vaccine’s trial result

Regulators await prospective Bangladeshi vaccine’s trial result

-- 2020-07-14 16:50:38

Experts and drug regulators on Tuesday said they await subsequent trial results of Globe Biotech Ltd’s prospective COVID-19 vaccine as the company said the preliminary animal trial of their inoc...