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BD records highest single-day spike in virus cases

BD records highest single-day spike in virus cases

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-29 14:46:46

Bangladesh registered its highest single-day increase in the coronavirus cases with 4014 new infections in the last 24 hours today (Monday). Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 45...
Dhaka’s air quality ranks worst again

Dhaka’s air quality ranks worst again

-- 2020-06-29 14:32:36

After showing a marked improvement in its quality for the last few days, Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka  ranked worst again in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning, UNB reports. The m...
WFP, Australian High Commission hand over medical supplies to DGHS

WFP, Australian High Commission hand over medical supplies to DGHS

-- 2020-06-29 14:15:38

The United Nations’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the Australian High Commission on Monday jointly handed over some medical  supplies to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS),...
Buriganga launch capsize: 28 bodies recovered

Buriganga launch capsize: 28 bodies recovered

-- 2020-06-29 13:01:04

The authorities have pulled 30 bodies from the Buriganga River after a launch capsized when it collided with another vessel in Dhaka. The incident took place near Dhaka’s Shyambazar at around 9...
Launch capsizes after collision in Buriganga

Launch capsizes after collision in Buriganga

-- 2020-06-29 12:17:53

A launch has capsized in the Buriganga River with passengers on board after colliding with another vessel. The incident took place near Shyambazar area in Dhaka at around 9:30 am on Monday, said Fire...
Defence secretary dies from Covid-19

Defence secretary dies from Covid-19

-- 2020-06-29 11:54:02

Defence Secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury has died after being diagnosed with Covid-19, the illness caused by novel coronavirus. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Combined M...
Government to impose fees on coronavirus tests

Government to impose fees on coronavirus tests

-- 2020-06-29 11:08:18

Covid-19 tests at government facilities will no longer be free as the finance ministry has approved a health ministry proposal to impose fees on the tests, bdnews24.com reports. Once the decision bec...
Minister Mozammel's wife dies from Covid-19

Minister Mozammel's wife dies from Covid-19

-- 2020-06-29 11:06:45

Laila Arzumand Banu, wife of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, died from coronavirus on Monday morning. She was 71. Laila Banu, who was undergoing treatment at the Combined Military...
Tk 100m stone floating on river Padma rail link project

Tk 100m stone floating on river Padma rail link project

FE REPORT 2020-06-29 09:52:59

Stone worth Tk 100 million for the rail link project of Padma multipurpose bridge is floating on the river over the past several weeks as stone cargoes are not allowed to unload stone at Zajira point,...
Municipal cleaners remain neglected professionally, socially: Speakers

Municipal cleaners remain neglected professionally, socially: Speakers

FE Online Report 2020-06-28 22:49:45

Despite the immense importance of waste removal and safe disposal, the municipal cleaners have remained neglected professionally and socially neglected over the years. The cleaning profession should...
Poet Abul Hussain’s sixth death anniversary tomorrow

Poet Abul Hussain’s sixth death anniversary tomorrow

-- 2020-06-28 21:30:32

Tomorrow (Monday) is the sixth death anniversary of poet Abul Hussain, a pioneer of modernism in Bengali poetry. On this day in 2014, he breathed his last at the age of 92, Abul Hussain is a well-acc...
Kit shortage hampers effort to enhance COVID-19 testing

Kit shortage hampers effort to enhance COVID-19 testing

-- 2020-06-28 21:17:17

Experts have said shortage of kit supply is continuing to hamper government’s efforts to enhance testing facilities amid the rising cases of coronavirus. They said the daily sample collection a...
Papia case: ACC finds Tk 40m in illegal assets

Papia case: ACC finds Tk 40m in illegal assets

-- 2020-06-28 20:59:08

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found ‘illegal assets’ worth about Tk 40 million of disgraced Awami League operative Shamima Noor Papia. The commission is preparing to file a case ag...
Call for ensuring transparency in climate financing

Call for ensuring transparency in climate financing

FE Online Report 2020-06-28 19:31:55

Environment rights groups on Sunday called on the government to ensure transparency and accountability in climate financing. They also called for ensuring fund for climate vulnerable communities on p...
Govt has no roadmap to tackle corona: Fakhrul

Govt has no roadmap to tackle corona: Fakhrul

-- 2020-06-28 18:19:51

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government neither has any roadmap nor effective plan to prevent coronavirus. “The Directorate General of Health Ser...
JS to pass Finance Bill Monday

JS to pass Finance Bill Monday

-- 2020-06-28 18:13:09

The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) is set to pass the Finance Bill 2020 tomorrow (Monday) with some possible changes, including the withdrawal of the proposed supplementary duty on telecom services. Besides, th...
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway to remain shut for four days

Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway to remain shut for four days

-- 2020-06-28 17:56:15

Plying of all vehicles on Sherpur and Kagajpur bridges on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway will remain suspended for four days due to repair works, reports UNB. Ritesh Barua, executive engineer of Roads and High...
BD decides early retirement of 25,000 jute workers

BD decides early retirement of 25,000 jute workers

-- 2020-06-28 17:47:52

The government has decided to send about 25,000 workers of loss-making jute mills into early retirement under a programme known as golden handshake, reports bdnews24.com. Textiles and Jute Minister G...
Indifference to maintain social distancing costs lives

Indifference to maintain social distancing costs lives

-- 2020-06-28 17:47:38

Even as the COVID-19 caseload in the country keeps surging despite limited testing, the novel concept of social distancing remains the exception rather than the rule in capital Dhaka as well as in oth...
Feni AL leader Akramuzzaman dies from coronavirus

Feni AL leader Akramuzzaman dies from coronavirus

-- 2020-06-28 17:23:22

Akramuzzaman, president of the Awami League's Feni unit, has died after being diagnosed with COVID-19, reports bdnews24.com. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military H...
Govt finalises antibody test policy as virus cases on the rise

Govt finalises antibody test policy as virus cases on the rise

-- 2020-06-28 16:21:59

Bangladesh has finalised the policy on rapid antibody test kits amid rampant coronavirus cases, reports bdnews24.com. The Directorate General of Drug Administration will give the greenlight to the us...
BD to contribute $50,000 for Covid vaccine availability

BD to contribute $50,000 for Covid vaccine availability

-- 2020-06-28 14:47:21

Bangladesh has announced to contribute 50,000 US dollars, to ‘Global Citizen’ fund for supporting development and deploy Covid-19 vaccines in an equitable manner as well as rebuilding comm...
BD registers 3,809 new cases, 43 more coronavirus deaths

BD registers 3,809 new cases, 43 more coronavirus deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-06-28 14:42:40

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 137,787 on Sunday as the country registered 3,809 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 43 more people died from Covid-19 dur...
Qunatum Foundation inaugurates own ambulances for Covid-19 dead in Chattogram region

Qunatum Foundation inaugurates own ambulances for Covid-19 dead in Chattogram region

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-28 14:10:41

Quantum Foundation has inaugurated its own ambulances to further services for the Covid-19 dead in the greater Chattogram region. Organised by Quantum Foundation Chattogram Centre, the inaugurating c...
IOM opens new facilities for Covid-19 treatment in Cox’s Bazar

IOM opens new facilities for Covid-19 treatment in Cox’s Bazar

FE Online Report 2020-06-28 13:05:17

The UN migration agency has inaugurated two new healthcare facilities for the Rohingya refugees and the host community in Cox’s Bazar. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launche...
Another policeman dies of Covid-19

Another policeman dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-06-28 11:32:55

Bangladesh has registered the death of another police officer from Covid-19, bringing the body count in the law enforcement agency to 38. Md Atiar Rahman died while undergoing treatment at Rajarbagh...
Owners seek to keep super shops open till 8:00pm

Owners seek to keep super shops open till 8:00pm

FE REPORT 2020-06-28 10:52:32

Country's retail super shop owners have requested the government to extend opening hours across their retail shops to 8:00 pm aiming to facilitate purchase of different goods by consumers comfortabl...
Flooding unlikely to change

Flooding unlikely to change

SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2020-06-28 10:05:43

The flash flood in the country's north-east may last for three more days while floodwaters in six districts are likely to swell for seven more days. Floodwaters in north-eastern districts, including...
DNCC mayor seeks transfer of DWASA drainage circle to city corporation

DNCC mayor seeks transfer of DWASA drainage circle to city corporation

FE Report 2020-06-28 09:54:38

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam proposed Saturday that the manpower, infrastructure and other equipment of the drainage circle of DWASA be handed over to the city corporation....
School dropout rate to rise due to pandemic

School dropout rate to rise due to pandemic

FE REPORT 2020-06-28 09:38:00

There could be a substantial rise in the number of dropouts in the educational institutions due to the reverse trend in the country's poverty situation, triggered by the ongoing pandemic, a post-budge...

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