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Govt rebuffs reports over automatic promotion of students

Govt rebuffs reports over automatic promotion of students

-- 2020-07-09 14:52:13

The government has dismissed reports in the media indicating that students would be promoted to the next class without taking any examination in order to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus epidemi...

BD’s virus tally tops 175,000, death toll 2238

BD’s virus tally tops 175,000, death toll 2238

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-09 14:50:40

The number of confirmed Covid-19 patients surpassed 175,000 in Bangladesh on Thursday, 124th day of the coronavirus outbreak in the country. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 336...

RAB arrest Regent employee over COVID-19 scam

RAB arrest Regent employee over COVID-19 scam

-- 2020-07-09 14:32:04

Member of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Tariq Shibli, the public relations officer of Dhaka's Regent Hospital which has been shut down for allegedly issuing fake Covid-19 test reports and...

Move Rohingyas from Bhasan Char to  refugee camps: HRW

Move Rohingyas from Bhasan Char to refugee camps: HRW

FE Online Report 2020-07-09 14:12:07

Human Rights Watch has urged the Bangladesh government to move 300 Rohingya refugees, including at least 33 children, from the silt island of Bhasan Char to the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps immedia...

River Police arrest owner of Moyur-2 over Buriganga launch capsize

River Police arrest owner of Moyur-2 over Buriganga launch capsize

-- 2020-07-09 12:28:21

The River Police have arrested Mosaddek Hanif Sowad, the owner of Moyur-2 launch that was involved in a fatal collision with another smaller vessel on the Buriganga River near Dhaka's Shyampur. He wa...

Nine more die with Covid-19 symptoms in Cumilla

Nine more die with Covid-19 symptoms in Cumilla

-- 2020-07-09 12:15:58

Nine people who had been suffering from fever and cold related problems died at Comilla Medical College hospital in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning. Doctor Sajeda Khatun, assistant direct...

Is Covid-19 reaching its peak in Bangladesh? Experts divided

Is Covid-19 reaching its peak in Bangladesh? Experts divided

-- 2020-07-09 10:35:39

Though four months have elapsed since the detection of the first three Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh, health experts are still divided over the coronavirus whether it is going through its peak in the c...

Hospitals mean to treat all patients: Physician

Hospitals mean to treat all patients: Physician

ADNAN HOSSAIN BHUIYAN 2020-07-09 09:44:39

Hospitals should provide treatment to all patients, regardless of Covid or non-Covid cases, to ensure people's basic right to primary health care, observed a noted physician. Health facilities shou...

Traffickers now luring job seekers to Vietnam

Traffickers now luring job seekers to Vietnam

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-07-09 09:32:59

Human traffickers are now presenting Vietnam as a promising job market to lure Bangladeshi nationals to go there. Recently dozens of Bangladeshis fell victim to the human traffickers, who took them t...

SCBA appeals to CJ to resume regular court, cut annual leave

SCBA appeals to CJ to resume regular court, cut annual leave

FE REPORT 2020-07-09 09:31:53

The leaders of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Wednesday appealed to the chief justice to resume the regular court activities immediately after ensuring the health protection for the jud...

Manufacturing of RPV at Rooppur plant achieves significant progress

Manufacturing of RPV at Rooppur plant achieves significant progress

-- 2020-07-08 22:49:58

Manufacturing of upper semi-vessel of Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) for the Unit 2 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Project (RNPP) has achieved significant progress. Welding of two shells of the upper semi-v...

Mirpur branch of Regent Hospital sealed off

Mirpur branch of Regent Hospital sealed off

-- 2020-07-08 21:22:08

The Rapid Action Battalion has shut down another branch of Regent Hospital in Dhaka’s Mirpur on charges of issuing fake COVID-19 test reports, reports bdnews24.com. The RAB has also launched a...

Cargo lighter ship sinks in Karnaphuli

Cargo lighter ship sinks in Karnaphuli

-- 2020-07-08 21:00:11

Lighterage ship MV Varniya Prince-2 laden with 2,267 tonnes of iron raw materials sank after colliding with Boya number two at Sadarghat area of Karnafuli River in Chattogram on Wednesday morning. MA...

TIB demands withdrawal of COVID-19 testing fee

TIB demands withdrawal of COVID-19 testing fee

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-08 20:10:39

The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has on Wednesday demanded an immediate withdrawal of the decision of charging fees for COVID-19 sample testing in the government-run healthcare facilit...

Regent amassed nearly Tk 20m from fake COVID-19 tests

Regent amassed nearly Tk 20m from fake COVID-19 tests

-- 2020-07-08 19:11:31

The authorities of Regent Hospital have submitted a bill of Tk 19.6 million to the health directorate after duping nearly 6,000 patients out of Tk 20.1 million by issuing fake COVID-19 tests reports,...

Bangladesh braces for more floods in July

Bangladesh braces for more floods in July

-- 2020-07-08 19:02:48

Heavy monsoon rains in the upstream have raised the risk of more floods in the low-lying northern districts of Bangladesh in July, according to the government’s Flood Forecasting and Warning Cen...

India backs sustainable Rohingya repatriation

India backs sustainable Rohingya repatriation

FE online Report 2020-07-08 18:50:52

India reiterates its commitment for an early, safe and sustainable repatriation of 'displaced persons' from Rakhine. This was expressed by Indian Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar in a recent letter t...

PM for ‘vigorous worldwide response’ to offset COVID fallouts on migrants

PM for ‘vigorous worldwide response’ to offset COVID fallouts on migrants

-- 2020-07-08 18:47:58

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called for a ‘vigorous worldwide response’ with the participation of all countries to combat the adverse impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on th...

Regent Hospital MD, 15 others sued

Regent Hospital MD, 15 others sued

-- 2020-07-08 17:05:47

A case was filed against 16 people, including the managing director and chairman of Regent Hospital, for their alleged involvement in issuing fake Covid-19 test certificates. Inspector Faisal of Rab...

Aedes larvae: DNCC fines houses Tk 1.15m

Aedes larvae: DNCC fines houses Tk 1.15m

FE Online Report 2020-07-08 17:05:20

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in the last five days of its combing operation found that a total of 40,349 houses and establishments had favourable environments for the breeding of Aedes mosquito...

We will find out irregularities in Regent Hospital: PM

We will find out irregularities in Regent Hospital: PM

-- 2020-07-08 16:54:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will find out all irregularities in Regent Hospital over coronavirus test though investigations. "The government has taken initiatives in...

Amu named coordinator of 14-party alliance

Amu named coordinator of 14-party alliance

-- 2020-07-08 16:33:01

Veteran politician Amir Hossain Amu has taken the charge of coordinator and spokesman for the Awami League-led 14-party Grand Alliance. He succeeds Awami League stalwart Mohammed Nasim who had been s...

144 Bangladeshis among 211 migrants rescued from North Macedonia border

144 Bangladeshis among 211 migrants rescued from North Macedonia border

-- 2020-07-08 15:50:46

Authorities in North Macedonia rescued 211 migrants, including 144 Bangladeshis packed into a truck near the country's southern border with Greece, said police on Tuesday. During a routine check on a...

46 more Covid deaths, 3,489 daily cases

46 more Covid deaths, 3,489 daily cases

FE Online Desk 2020-07-08 14:45:47

Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 172,134 on Wednesday, a rise of 3,489 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 46 to 2,197; according to data released by...

MP Shahid to lose seat if Kuwait citizenship proven: PM

MP Shahid to lose seat if Kuwait citizenship proven: PM

-- 2020-07-08 14:27:45

If independent MP Mohammad Shahid Islam, elected from Laxmipur-2, is a Kuwait citizen then his seat will be declared vacant, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday. "We’re in talks with...

Harsher punishment for using harmful chemicals in fish likely

Harsher punishment for using harmful chemicals in fish likely

Bill placed in JS seeking harsher punishment for marketing, exporting fish mixing chemicals 2020-07-08 14:13:21

The Fish and Fish Products (Inspection and Quality Control) Bill, 2020 has been placed in Parliament, aiming to ensure harsher punishment for marketing and exporting fish or fish products mixing harmf...

South Point School gets notice for running unapproved campuses

South Point School gets notice for running unapproved campuses

-- 2020-07-08 13:53:28

The government has ordered South Point School and College to explain the reason for running multiple “unapproved” campuses in parts of Dhaka. It sent a notice ordering the principal of th...

Govt facing pressure to bring back expatriate workers: PM

Govt facing pressure to bring back expatriate workers: PM

-- 2020-07-08 13:49:46

Mentioning that there is a diplomatic pressure on Bangladesh for bringing back Bangladeshi expatriate workers from the Middle Eastern countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her gove...

Veteran journalist D P Barua passes away

Veteran journalist D P Barua passes away

-- 2020-07-08 13:34:17

Nonagenarian journalist and former chief editor and managing director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Deba Priya Barua passed away on Wednesday at his Maghbazar residence in Dhaka. “He bre...

Feni Civil Surgeon dies of Covid-19

Feni Civil Surgeon dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-07-08 11:42:27

Dr Sazzad Hossain, the Civil Surgeon of Feni, died of Covid-19 on Tuesday at a hospital in the capital. He breathed his last at around 5:40pm at the ICU of Asgar Ali Hospital in Dhaka, said President...