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Govt endorses eight projects worth Tk 101b

Govt endorses eight projects worth Tk 101b

FE Online Report 2020-07-14 16:45:37

The government on Tuesday in Dhaka endorsed eight development projects at a combined cost of Tk 101.02 billion. Presided over by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of the Natio...

Livestock dept official Dr Emdadul Haque dies from coronavirus

Livestock dept official Dr Emdadul Haque dies from coronavirus

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

Dr Emdadul Haque, an official of the Department of Livestock Services, died from coronavirus infection at a private hospital in the capital on Tuesday. He was 57. Dr Haque passed away early in the mo...

Sabrina case transferred to Detective Branch

Sabrina case transferred to Detective Branch

-- 2020-07-14 15:13:06

The Detective Branch (DB) of Police is investigating the COVID-19 test scam involving Sabrina A Chaudhury, a government doctor with ties to JKG Health Care. A Dhaka court granted the police three day...

BD registers 3,163 new coronavirus cases, 33 more deaths

BD registers 3,163 new coronavirus cases, 33 more deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-07-14 14:48:07

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 190,057 on Tuesday as the country registered 3,163 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 33 more people died from Covid-...

CPJ names Shahidul Alam among four for Int’l Press Freedom Awards 2020

CPJ names Shahidul Alam among four for Int’l Press Freedom Awards 2020

-- 2020-07-14 13:57:27

The Committee to Protect Journalists named prominent Bangladeshi photo journalist Shahidul Alam and three others from Iran, Nigeria, and Russia for the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards, UNB rep...

Pandemic forces many to become ride-sharing bikers for a living

Pandemic forces many to become ride-sharing bikers for a living

-- 2020-07-14 13:47:03

He left the chalk and duster and held the handles of a motorbike. As the coronavirus pandemic upended the entire world, the founder and teacher of a kindergarten in Dhaka's Rampura opted to become a...

Covid-19: PSTU VC, his wife being airlifted to Dhaka

Covid-19: PSTU VC, his wife being airlifted to Dhaka

-- 2020-07-14 11:41:50

Coronavirus-infected Vice Chancellor of Patuakhali Science and Technology University Prof Dr Harun-Or-Rashid and his wife Kanika Mahfuz are being airlifted to Dhaka for better treatment.    ...

Tiger population at risk in Sundarbans: 38 tigers died in 20 years in BD

Tiger population at risk in Sundarbans: 38 tigers died in 20 years in BD

-- 2020-07-14 10:09:01

A total of 38 tigers died in the last 20 years in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans. Within a gap of five months, the Forest Department found two dead tigers one in the Sundarbans West Andharmanki Fo...

Benefits of IT not used to tackle covid: Experts

Benefits of IT not used to tackle covid: Experts

FE REPORT 2020-07-14 10:00:32

Experts at a event in Dhaka have deplored that the information technology is not being utilised adequately to rein in the incidence of covid-19 in the country. They opined that combined and coordinat...

France to provide 150m euro in soft loan to help BD fight Covid-19

France to provide 150m euro in soft loan to help BD fight Covid-19

FE REPORT 2020-07-14 09:49:30

France would provide a concessional loan worth 150 million euros to help Bangladesh overcome the adverse socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ambassador of France to Bangladesh Jean-Marin...

Flood situation worsens in Netrakona district

Flood situation worsens in Netrakona district

Our Correspondent 2020-07-14 09:33:29

Netrakona, Jul 13: Flood situation in Netrakona has taken an alarming turn as the Magra and Dhanu rivers are flowing above their danger levels. The rain-fed rivers associated with the waters rushing...

Is Covid weakening in Dhaka division?

Is Covid weakening in Dhaka division?

FHM HUMAYANKABIR 2020-07-14 09:27:18

The Covid deaths in Dhaka have showed a falling trend over the last five weeks compared to the total fatalities across the country. An FE analysis has found that the number of daily deaths from coron...

MP’s son, accused of fatal hit-and-run, slams into police car

MP’s son, accused of fatal hit-and-run, slams into police car

-- 2020-07-13 21:48:22

MP Ekramul Karim Chowdhury’s son Shabab Chowdhury, accused of killing a man in Dhaka in a hit-and-run two years ago, has driven his car into a police bus in Chattogram. The police took Shabab t...

Ershad’s first death anniversary Tuesday

Ershad’s first death anniversary Tuesday

-- 2020-07-13 21:25:40

Jatiya Party will observe the first death anniversary of its founder HM Ershad on Tuesday. The party has worked out elaborate programmes to mark the death anniversary with due respect. However, all...

Women trafficking kingpin Azam Khan gives confessional statement

Women trafficking kingpin Azam Khan gives confessional statement

-- 2020-07-13 21:16:17

Azam Khan, kingpin of a gang, which trafficked more than a thousand Bangladeshi girls and women to Dubai and forced them to prostitution there, gave confessional statement along with an accomplice bef...

‘Buy sacrificial animals from online markets’

‘Buy sacrificial animals from online markets’

-- 2020-07-13 20:39:39

Discouraging gathering at sacrificial animal markets amid the coronavirus pandemic, Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam on Monday urged people to use online platform...

Lazz Pharma fined Tk 2.9m for selling expired drugs

Lazz Pharma fined Tk 2.9m for selling expired drugs

-- 2020-07-13 20:36:28

A mobile court, run by the RAB, fined Kakrail Lazz Pharma, a franchise of the pharmacy chain in Dhaka, Tk 2.9 million for selling expired drugs. Polash Basu, executive magistrate of RAB-3, said the...

Flood situation worsens as Teesta swells over all-time high

Flood situation worsens as Teesta swells over all-time high

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-13 20:04:53

Flood situation in the country's northern districts had turned severe as Teesta swelled over all-time high of 55 centimetres (cm) over the danger mark on Monday early hours. Onrush of upstream water...

‘90pc river banks areas freed from illegal occupation’

‘90pc river banks areas freed from illegal occupation’

-- 2020-07-13 19:46:32

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Monday said 90 per cent river banks along the Dhaka city and its adjacent areas were freed from illegal encroachment. “Work on stretching...

Titas to install 120,000 prepaid gas metres in city

Titas to install 120,000 prepaid gas metres in city

-- 2020-07-13 19:06:21

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd is going to install some 120,000 more prepaid gas metres in the city with the unspent fund of JICA, a Japanese donor agency. According to official...

Banks to remain closed Tuesday in Bogura-1, Jashore-6 areas

Banks to remain closed Tuesday in Bogura-1, Jashore-6 areas

-- 2020-07-13 19:01:34

All branches of scheduled banks will remain closed on Tuesday in areas under Bogura-1 and Jashore-6 parliamentary seats which will go to by-polls. The decision was taken in compliance with the demand...

March 7 to be observed as National Historic Day every year

March 7 to be observed as National Historic Day every year

-- 2020-07-13 18:43:35

The cabinet has approved a proposal to announce March 7 as the “National Historic Day” to be observed every year nationally for recalling the memory of the 7th March Speech of Father of th...

Don’t leave workstations during Eid holidays

Don’t leave workstations during Eid holidays

-- 2020-07-13 18:07:59

Don’t leave workstations during Eid holidays The government has asked public servants not to leave their respective workstations during the upcoming Eid holidays due to the situation arising...

Sheikh Hasina Medical University to be built in Khulna

Sheikh Hasina Medical University to be built in Khulna

-- 2020-07-13 17:47:12

The government has decided to set up a medical university in Khulna division to be named after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The cabinet on Monday in principle gave a nod to a draft law to build the...

70pc COVID-19 hospital beds remain empty

70pc COVID-19 hospital beds remain empty

-- 2020-07-13 17:12:23

Bangladesh has increased the number of hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients but more than two-thirds of the hospital beds are now lying empty even as the caseload continues to climb. With the number...

Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul loses battle with COVID-19

Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul loses battle with COVID-19

-- 2020-07-13 16:58:46

Nurul Islam Babul, the chairman of Jamuna Group, died at a city hospital today (Monday). He was 74. He was diagnosed with COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Babul passed away whi...

ACC opens probe into Shahed’s ‘illegal wealth’

ACC opens probe into Shahed’s ‘illegal wealth’

-- 2020-07-13 16:48:15

The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has launched an investigation into the allegations of amassing illegal wealth against Mohammed Shahed alias Shahed Karim, chairman of Regent Hospital who is on th...

No mercy to those spoiling party’s image by graft: Quader

No mercy to those spoiling party’s image by graft: Quader

-- 2020-07-13 16:16:49

Issuing a note of warning, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said those who are spoiling the image of the party by accumulating wealth illegally will not be spared. Obaidul, als...

1200 veterinary teams to check sacrificial animals’ health

1200 veterinary teams to check sacrificial animals’ health

-- 2020-07-13 16:10:05

The government has taken an initiative to deploy a total of 1200 veterinary medical teams at the cattle markets across the country to monitor health condition of sacrificial animals ahead of the Eid-u...

Female garment workers more likely to make financial decisions consulting family: Study

Female garment workers more likely to make financial decisions consulting family: Study

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-13 15:02:27

Female garment workers are more likely than male workers to make financial decisions in consultation with other family or household members, according to a survey assessing the impact of the ongoing C...