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Kushita man tests Covid positive without providing sample for test

Kushita man tests Covid positive without providing sample for test

-- 2020-06-26 15:52:08

Golam Rasul, a retired staff of Kushtia General Hospital and a resident of East Majampur in Kushita municipality, was extremely surprised when police came to his house to put it under lockdown sa...

Floods loom over eight northern districts

Floods loom over eight northern districts

-- 2020-06-26 15:18:25

Eight districts of Bangladesh are at risk of flash floods in the next 10 days as rivers in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna basin continued to swell due to heavy rains in the upstream. The northern regions of...

Govt to extend pre-primary education to two years

Govt to extend pre-primary education to two years

-- 2020-06-26 15:08:09

The government has decided to extend the term of pre-primary education in primary schools to two years from 2021. Children can now start their pre-primary learning from the age of 4 instead of 5, Ala...

Bangladesh moves up in anti-trafficking ranking

Bangladesh moves up in anti-trafficking ranking

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-26 14:59:00

Bangladesh’s position is upgraded to Tier-2 from watch list’ in the US ‘Trafficking in Persons’ report released on early Friday. The government demonstrated overall increasing...

40 more virus deaths, 3,868 new cases

40 more virus deaths, 3,868 new cases

FE Online Desk 2020-06-26 14:51:28

Bangladesh on Friday registered 40 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, the health directorate said, pushing the total death count to 1,661. Authorities also logged 3,868 fresh cases in the la...

Four die with fever, cold in Cumilla

Four die with fever, cold in Cumilla

-- 2020-06-26 14:09:54

Four people have died with fever and cold at Cumilla Medical College and Hospital in the last 24 hours till Thursday night.   Dr Sajeda Khatun, assistant director of Cumilla Medical College and H...

Child marriages in BD on the rise in pandemic

Child marriages in BD on the rise in pandemic

-- 2020-06-26 13:52:29

Child marriages have gone up significantly in Bangladesh due to impacts of the coronavirus epidemic on the socioeconomic situation. Rights organisations have cited an increased number of child marria...

Gas outage hits large parts of Dhaka

Gas outage hits large parts of Dhaka

-- 2020-06-26 12:39:52

The gas supply to large swathes of Dhaka has been turned off after a distribution line caught fire in the capital's Shewrapara. Residents of Mirpur, Mohammadpur, parts of Dhanmondi, Shyamoli and Kaly...

Former Islamic Foundation DG Shamim Mohammad Afzal dies

Former Islamic Foundation DG Shamim Mohammad Afzal dies

-- 2020-06-26 12:26:43

Former Director General of the Islamic Foundation Shamim Mohammad Afzal passed away at a city hospital on Thursday night. He was 65. “Mohammad Afzal breathed his last at 10pm while undergoing t...

Kuwait slaps travel ban on businesswoman over links to MP Shahid

Kuwait slaps travel ban on businesswoman over links to MP Shahid

-- 2020-06-26 11:48:46

Kuwait's public prosecution has imposed a travel ban on a local businesswoman over her suspected ties to Bangladeshi MP Muhammad Shahid Islam, nicknamed Papul, who has been detained on charges of huma...

US embassy Issues travel alert to its citizens for BD

US embassy Issues travel alert to its citizens for BD

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-26 11:28:38

The US embassy in Dhaka has issued a fresh travel alert for its citizens amid the outbreak of coronavirus Covid-19. “The US Embassy has learned GD Assist Ltd. is tentatively arranging a flight...

Gas line catches fire in city

Gas line catches fire in city

-- 2020-06-26 11:14:55

Firefighters have tamed a fire in a gas line after almost three hours of efforts at West Shewrapara area in Dhaka. The Dhaka North City Corporation is currently carrying out work on the sewage system...

Govt denies Gonoshasthaya kits approval

Govt denies Gonoshasthaya kits approval

-- 2020-06-26 10:20:36

The Directorate General of Drug Administration has denied the Gonoshasthaya Kendra the permission to market coronavirus testing kits on the grounds that these have failed sensitivity test. Minimum 90...

'Bring foreign consultants to speed up project implementation'

'Bring foreign consultants to speed up project implementation'

FE REPORT 2020-06-26 09:55:57

The taskforce on fast-track projects on Thursday directed all agencies concerned to take necessary measures for bringing back foreign consultants and experts to speed up the implementation of projects...

Don't raise launch fare on health rules' pretext: BJKS

Don't raise launch fare on health rules' pretext: BJKS

FE REPORT 2020-06-26 09:37:51

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS), a passengers' welfare organisation, called upon the launch operators on Thursday not to increase launch fare on the pretext of having to maintain health rules du...

Executive magistrates can't hold trial of children: HC

Executive magistrates can't hold trial of children: HC

FE REPORT 2020-06-26 09:31:01

The High Court in a verdict said mobile courts do not have any jurisdiction to conduct trial of the children's cases. "We have not found anything in the Mobile Court Act, 2009 which has empowered the...

Prof Maksud Kamal appointed new DU pro-VC

Prof Maksud Kamal appointed new DU pro-VC

FE Online Report 2020-06-25 22:03:25

Professor AKM Maksud Kamal has been appointed the new pro vice-chancellor (Academic) of Dhaka University. Dr Kamal was appointed to the post on Thursday for four years. According to the Act 13(1) of...

Dist judge dies  of coronavirus

Dist judge dies of coronavirus

FE Online Report 2020-06-25 20:52:40

Judge of the Lalmonirhat Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, Ferdous Ahmed, 58, died from Covid-19 virus infection. The judge, who holds district judge status, breathed his last at the...

Social security for domestic helps stressed

Social security for domestic helps stressed

FE Online Report 2020-06-25 20:46:34

Speakers at a webinar on Thursday called for strengthening social security supports to the country’s domestic helps who are badly affected by Covid-19 pandemic.   They said about 95 p...

Protest against empowering energy regulator to hike tariff as it wishes

Protest against empowering energy regulator to hike tariff as it wishes

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-25 20:36:52

The National Committee for the Protection of Oil-Gas-Mineral Resources Electricity and Port, in a statement on Thursday, protested the move to empower the country’s energy regulator to change po...

Measures within seven days  against those who made ‘ghost’ electricity bill

Measures within seven days against those who made ‘ghost’ electricity bill

FE Online Report 2020-06-25 20:05:56

Power Division on Thursday took a decision to take punitive measures within the next seven days against those involved with making ‘ghost’ electricity bills. A taskforce headed by an addi...

Study hours decline by 80pc due to school closure: Study

Study hours decline by 80pc due to school closure: Study

-- 2020-06-25 19:12:58

Since schools have shut down, there has been a significant reduction in the total time students spend studying from 10 hours to merely 2 hours a day, a staggering drop by 80 per cent, according to a r...

Jatri Kalyan Samity protests move to hike launch fare

Jatri Kalyan Samity protests move to hike launch fare

FE Online Report 2020-06-25 19:00:15

The Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samityon Thursday protested possible move to hike the launch fares during the coronavirus pandemic. The passengers' welfare association, terming such move as unethical and...

‘Cattle markets to be arranged following health guidelines’

‘Cattle markets to be arranged following health guidelines’

-- 2020-06-25 18:31:21

This year, permanent and makeshift markets of sacrificial animals will be arranged maintaining health guidelines and social distancing, said Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md T...

Stern action if hygiene rules breached at cattle markets, warns DSCC Mayor

Stern action if hygiene rules breached at cattle markets, warns DSCC Mayor

-- 2020-06-25 17:33:07

Necessary instructions will be given to ensure that hygiene rules are followed at cattle markets amid the coronavirus outbreak, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Ta...

More dengue cases reported in 24 hrs

More dengue cases reported in 24 hrs

-- 2020-06-25 17:20:36

Three new dengue cases were  reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Thursday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Currently, six dengue patients are being trea...

Fire guts valuables at Birdem Hospital-2

Fire guts valuables at Birdem Hospital-2

-- 2020-06-25 17:11:41

A fire broke out on the 2nd floor of Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (Birdem) Hospital-2 in the city’ s Segunbagicha area on We...

Nine districts get new DCs

Nine districts get new DCs

-- 2020-06-25 16:38:10

In a major reshuffle in the district level administration, the government on Thursday appointed new deputy commissioners (DCs) to nine districts. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazett...

1,271 people die with Covid-19 symptoms in Bangladesh: Report

1,271 people die with Covid-19 symptoms in Bangladesh: Report

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-25 16:14:10

A total of 1,271 people across the country have died with Covid-19 like symptoms from March 22 to June 20, according to a report released on Thursday. A project styled The Bangladesh Peace Observator...

Coronavirus testing facility to be expanded to all districts: Quader

Coronavirus testing facility to be expanded to all districts: Quader

-- 2020-06-25 15:39:17

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said coronavirus testing facility will gradually be expanded to all the districts. He made the disclosure while speaking at a regular b...