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39 more virus death, 3099 fresh cases in BD

39 more virus death, 3099 fresh cases in BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-13 14:51:22

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 3099 new cases on Monday, taking the number of such cases in the country to 165,618. The state-run Directorate General of Health Services regist...

Covid-19 test scam: Dr Sabrina placed on three-day remand

Covid-19 test scam: Dr Sabrina placed on three-day remand

-- 2020-07-13 12:34:06

Police have been granted three days to grill Dr Sabrina Sharmeen Husain aka Sabrina A Chaudhury who was arrested over her alleged ties to a Covid-19 test scam involving JKG Healthcare, bdnews24.com re...

Buriganga launch capsize: Mayur-2 launch master held

Buriganga launch capsize: Mayur-2 launch master held

-- 2020-07-13 11:55:38

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the master of ‘Mayur-2’ launch from Dakhshin Keraniganj area early Monday in connection with Buriganga launch capsize that claimed live...

Vehicle documents renewal without penalty by Dec 31

Vehicle documents renewal without penalty by Dec 31

FE REPORT 2020-07-13 10:20:40

BRTA has allowed renewal of expired vehicle documents without penalty until December 31 next. Fitness certificates, tax token and route permit could be updated by paying only the regular taxes or c...

CMP DC Mizanur Rahman dies from Covid-19

CMP DC Mizanur Rahman dies from Covid-19

-- 2020-07-13 10:17:15

Mizanur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, has died from the coronavirus illness. Mizanur, who joined the police force through the 22nd BCS, was the first SP-rank officer...

Virtual AD bench sits from today

Virtual AD bench sits from today

FE REPORT 2020-07-13 09:46:03

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will resume its trial proceedings today (Monday), after a halt of around four months, through videoconferencing. A bench of the Appellate Division (AD) w...

Waterlogging a perennial problem at Bogura village

Waterlogging a perennial problem at Bogura village

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-07-13 09:45:39

BOGURA: Waterlogging has turned out to be a never-ending problem at Bhutbari village of Bhandarbari union in Dhunat upazila of Bogura district, especially during rainy season, in absence of a proper...

Flood situation in districts worsens

Flood situation in districts worsens

FE REPORT 2020-07-13 09:35:31

The continued rising of big rivers amid heavy rainfall and onrush of upstream water aggravated the flood situation in many districts in Bangladesh on Sunday. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre...

BD scientist Senjuti to advise WHO on polio transition

BD scientist Senjuti to advise WHO on polio transition

-- 2020-07-12 22:11:39

Bangladeshi microbiologist Dr Senjuti Saha, who led research on genome sequencing of the novel coronavirus, has become a member of the Independent Monitoring Board of Global Polio Eradication Initiati...

‘Offer Eid prayers at nearby mosques’

‘Offer Eid prayers at nearby mosques’

-- 2020-07-12 21:59:12

The government has urged the Muslims to offer Eid-ul-Azha prayers at their respective nearby mosques instead of Eidgah or open places to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The call was made...

CJ asks lower  courts to receive  complaint cases

CJ asks lower courts to receive complaint cases

FE Online Report 2020-07-12 21:56:21

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain asked all Women and Children Repression Prevention tribunals, Chief Judicial Magistrate courts and Chief Metropolitan Magistrate courts across the country to receive...

ACC summons six officials of CMSD

ACC summons six officials of CMSD

-- 2020-07-12 21:43:31

Six officials of Central Medicine Store Depot (CMSD) were asked to appear before the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to give statement about their alleged involvement in various irregularities in the...

Health ministry seeks explanation for DGHS’s statement

Health ministry seeks explanation for DGHS’s statement

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-12 20:50:14

Health ministry issued a show cause letter to the Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) regarding the latter’s press statement issued Saturday which stated ‘MoU...

Flood situation deteriorates

Flood situation deteriorates

FE Online Report 2020-07-12 20:25:09

Flood situation in several districts across the country deteriorated due to the continuous swelling of major rivers amid heavy rainfall as well as onrush of upstream water. Flood Forecasting and Warn...

COVID-19 test scam: Govt suspends Dr Sabrina

COVID-19 test scam: Govt suspends Dr Sabrina

-- 2020-07-12 19:48:00

The health ministry has suspended Sabrina Sharmeen Husain, a cardiac surgeon of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, hours after her arrest over a COVID-19 test report scam involving JKG...

Corona negative certificate must for outbound Bangladeshi travellers

Corona negative certificate must for outbound Bangladeshi travellers

FE Online Report 2020-07-12 19:23:14

The government on Sunday decided that all outbound Bangladeshi travellers must submit Covid-19 negative certificate. The certificate will be issued by the government-authorised Covid-19 testing cent...

368 killed, 518 injured in 358 road accidents in June: JKS

368 killed, 518 injured in 358 road accidents in June: JKS

-- 2020-07-12 18:54:24

FE Report At least 368 people were killed and 518 others injured in 358 road accidents across the country in June, said a passenger welfare association on Sunday. Besides, the incidents of road mi...

Vikram Doraiswami to be new Indian envoy in Dhaka

Vikram Doraiswami to be new Indian envoy in Dhaka

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-12 18:42:27

Vikram Doraiswami, presently Additional Secretary and head of International Organisations and Summits at the Indian foreign ministry, is selected to be the next High Commissioner (HC) of India in Dhak...

Child abuse, marriage witness alarming rise across country amid COVID-19: Survey

Child abuse, marriage witness alarming rise across country amid COVID-19: Survey

FE Online Report 2020-07-12 17:54:10

Child abuse and child marriage amid the Covid-19 crisis increased alarmingly in June compared to May and April, according to a survey of the Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF). As many as 2,896 children...

NICVD doctor shown arrested over fake COVID-19 tests

NICVD doctor shown arrested over fake COVID-19 tests

-- 2020-07-12 17:13:20

Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, a registrar of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and also chairman of JKG Health Care, has been arrested over the alleged involvement in a COVID-19 testi...

CID arrests three people on human trafficking charges

CID arrests three people on human trafficking charges

-- 2020-07-12 16:24:40

Police have arrested three men on charges of trafficking women to Dubai on the pretext of getting them jobs before forcing them into 'sex work', reports bdnews24.com. One of them owns four hotels in...

People astonished at fraudulence by two hospitals: Quader

People astonished at fraudulence by two hospitals: Quader

-- 2020-07-12 15:56:33

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said people have got astonished at the fraudulence by two hospitals in coronavirus sample testing. He made the remark while briefing reporters...

Rooppur nuclear power plant on ‘fast track’ despite pandemic

Rooppur nuclear power plant on ‘fast track’ despite pandemic

-- 2020-07-12 15:43:17

The Rooppur nuclear power project has completed 30 per cent of work at a time when the coronavirus pandemic stalled other “megaprojects” in Bangladesh, bdnews24.com reports. The governmen...

BD registers 2,666 new coronavirus cases,  47 more deaths

BD registers 2,666 new coronavirus cases, 47 more deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-07-12 14:51:18

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 1,83,795 on Sunday as the country registered 2,666 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 47 more people died from Covid-19 du...

12-hour gas outage in Banani, Mohakhali

12-hour gas outage in Banani, Mohakhali

-- 2020-07-12 14:23:07

The state gas transmission and distribution agency Titas has once again turned off the gas supply to Dhaka's Mohakhali and Banani for 12 hours, barely six days after conducting work on a distribution...

Malaysia cancels work permit of Bangladeshi featured in Al Jazeera show

Malaysia cancels work permit of Bangladeshi featured in Al Jazeera show

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-12 13:30:29

Malaysia has cancelled the work permit of the Bangladeshi national featured in an Al Jazeera programme on migrants, online news portal Free Malaysia Today reports. “As far as I know, the Immigr...

Covid-19 clearance mandatory for travel to Abu Dhabi, Dubai: Biman

Covid-19 clearance mandatory for travel to Abu Dhabi, Dubai: Biman

-- 2020-07-12 13:22:18

Travellers on Biman Bangladesh Airlines' flights to the UAE are required to have Covid-19 clearance certificates, the flag carrier has said. Only those who test negative for the coronavirus will be a...

Virtual court hearings: 54,677 secure bail in 40 days

Virtual court hearings: 54,677 secure bail in 40 days

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-12 12:53:20

Different lower courts in virtual hearings across the country granted bail to 54,677 people in 40 working days from May 11 to July 9. Md Saifur Rahman, special officer of High Court Division, confirm...

‘Yaba trader’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

‘Yaba trader’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

-- 2020-07-12 12:50:53

A suspected yaba trader was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) early Sunday in Keyali Canal area nearing No-14 Bridge in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar. The dece...

CU VC tests Covid-19 positive

CU VC tests Covid-19 positive

-- 2020-07-12 12:22:24

Chittagong University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Shirin Akhter, four family members and two caretakers of her residence have been infected with coronavirus. “Seven of the 12 people of the VC&rsquo...