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Cash aid for farmers sought

Cash aid for farmers sought

FE REPORT 2020-06-24 10:25:11

The Bangladesh Safe Food Network (BSFN) has demanded direct cash subsidy for smallholder marginal farmers to boost crop production during the coronavirus pandemic. They said cash help is needed as fa...

Covid-19 testing shortages, long wait times for results trigger concerns

Covid-19 testing shortages, long wait times for results trigger concerns

-- 2020-06-24 10:14:28

Experts consider large-scale testing to detect coronavirus patients and isolate them as the most significant job in efforts to curb infection, but Bangladesh is suffering a woeful shortage of diagnost...

Sylhet hospitals not equipped enough to treat Covid-19

Sylhet hospitals not equipped enough to treat Covid-19

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-06-24 09:56:24

The hospitals in Sylhet division, both at the government and private levels, have not yet developed the full capacity to treat Covid-19 although the cases of infection of the disease still continues t...

Cropland submerged due to rise in Jamuna water level in Bogura

Cropland submerged due to rise in Jamuna water level in Bogura

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-06-24 09:55:00

BOGURA: Due to the steep slopes and rain water rolling down from the upper reaches, the water level of the Jamuna River in Bhandarbari Union under Dhunot upazila in Bogura has continued to rise. As...

Dispose of household, contagious wastes separately: DNCC mayor

Dispose of household, contagious wastes separately: DNCC mayor

FE REPORT 2020-06-24 09:50:45

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Tuesday urged the city-dwellers to dispose of typical household waste and contagious waste separately to help minimise the risk of virus sprea...

Jump in Covid-19 recovery rate 'surprises' experts

Jump in Covid-19 recovery rate 'surprises' experts

JUBAIR HASAN 2020-06-24 09:35:39

Bangladesh maintained a higher recovery rate of corona patients in the region despite controversy over the authenticity of statistics, officials and healthcare experts said. With 880 more people reco...

Rupali Bank’s former manager denied bail

Rupali Bank’s former manager denied bail

FE Online Report 2020-06-23 22:15:12

The High Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to Md Farid Uddin, former manager of Rupali Bank’s Altafnagar Branch of Bogura, in a corruption case filed over misappropriating Tk 2.64 million....

Rajabazar lockdown will last for 21 days

Rajabazar lockdown will last for 21 days

-- 2020-06-23 19:59:49

East Rajabazar, a coronavirus hotspot in the capital, will remain on lockdown for a total of 21 days. Dhaka North City Mayor Atiqul Islam announced the decision at an event to inaugurate waste manage...

‘Malaysia won’t recruit foreign workers this year’

‘Malaysia won’t recruit foreign workers this year’

FE Online Report 2020-06-23 19:34:24

Malaysia will not go for fresh recruitment of foreign workers this year, said the country’s human resources minister to local media. However, such a move will impact Bangladesh’s overseas...

Laxmipur civil surgeon infected with Covid-19

Laxmipur civil surgeon infected with Covid-19

-- 2020-06-23 19:24:27

Doctor Md Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, the civil surgeon of Laxmipur, has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Besides, 12 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24-hour. With these, co...

TIB terms involvement of lawmaker in human trafficking disrespectful

TIB terms involvement of lawmaker in human trafficking disrespectful

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-23 19:02:41

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has termed an alleged involvement of a lawmaker in human trafficking and money laundering a disrespectful example of mischief in Bangladesh's politics and p...

Prof Nazrul Islam, freedom fighter and former MP, dies at 80

Prof Nazrul Islam, freedom fighter and former MP, dies at 80

-- 2020-06-23 18:08:26

Prof ANM Nazrul Islam, a freedom fighter and former lawmaker, has died at the age of 80, his family said. Islam breathed his last at his home in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur around 8:30 am on Tuesday, s...

Two new dengue cases reported in 24 hrs: DGHS

Two new dengue cases reported in 24 hrs: DGHS

-- 2020-06-23 17:01:04

Two new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours until 8am on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Currently, four dengue patients are being treated at hosp...

Lychee growers make profit despite COVID-19 scare

Lychee growers make profit despite COVID-19 scare

-- 2020-06-23 16:51:15

The coronavirus crisis and natural disasters had raised concerns among lychee farmers over turning profits this season. But various government efforts have allayed their worries and farmers and trader...

It's wise decision to hold very limited hajj, says Dhaka

It's wise decision to hold very limited hajj, says Dhaka

FE Online Report 2020-06-23 16:27:25

The Saudi government has officially conveyed its decision to hold a ‘very limited’ Hajj this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic while Bangladesh finds the decision ‘wise’. Prin...

We’re sorry, seek unconditional apology: Anandabazar Patrika

We’re sorry, seek unconditional apology: Anandabazar Patrika

-- 2020-06-23 15:46:20

Indian daily Anandabazar Patrika has sought unconditional apology for using the word "khairati" in a recent report after China had granted more Bangladeshi products duty free access to its market. Th...

BMA president Mustafa Jalal contracts coronavirus

BMA president Mustafa Jalal contracts coronavirus

-- 2020-06-23 15:31:24

Bangladesh Medical Association President Dr Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin has been diagnosed with Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. The former MP from Dhaka tested positive...

BD registers 3,412 new cases, 43 more coronavirus deaths

BD registers 3,412 new cases, 43 more coronavirus deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-06-23 14:39:54

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 119,198 on Tuesday as the country registered 3,412 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 43 more people died from COVID-19 du...

26 judges among 123 court officials infected with coronavirus

26 judges among 123 court officials infected with coronavirus

FE Online Report 2020-06-23 14:25:21

A total of 26 judges and 71 staff of lower courts and 26 employees of the Supreme Court were infected with Covid-19 until Tuesday (June 23). They were infected with the coronavirus disease while work...

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Bill placed in JS

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Bill placed in JS

-- 2020-06-23 13:33:09

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was placed in Parliament on Tuesday to empower the BERC to make any change in tariff more than one time per financial year. Currentl...

Awami League’s 71st founding anniversary today

Awami League’s 71st founding anniversary today

-- 2020-06-23 12:51:40

Bangladesh Awami League, the country's oldest political party which led the nation in the Liberation War in 1971, is celebrating its 71st founding anniversary today amid a different reality due to the...

Bills placed in JS to set up two new universities

Bills placed in JS to set up two new universities

-- 2020-06-23 12:35:05

Two bills were placed in Parliament on Tuesday for setting up a science and technology university in Chandpur and an agriculture one in Habiganj. Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni placed the Bills in t...

Three die in Noakhali gas cylinder blast

Three die in Noakhali gas cylinder blast

-- 2020-06-23 12:24:13

Two businessmen and a salesman have died after a gas cylinder explosion sparked a fire in a fuel shop in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali district. The dead were identified as oil trader Mohibul Hasan Nipu...

UN asks Myanmar to take back Rohingya from BD

UN asks Myanmar to take back Rohingya from BD

-- 2020-06-23 12:14:19

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) on Monday adopted a resolution urging the repatriation of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. The Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to Geneva has said in a m...

DU resumes Covid-19 tests today

DU resumes Covid-19 tests today

DU correspondent 2020-06-23 09:39:17

The Dhaka University (DU) authorities will resume conducting coronavirus (Covid-19) tests at its own laboratory from today (Tuesday). Prof Sharif Akhterruzzaman, convener of DU coronavirus response...

Govt to lock down 11 more virus red zones Tuesday

Govt to lock down 11 more virus red zones Tuesday

-- 2020-06-22 22:17:44

The government has announced a general holiday in 11 more red zones across five districts, flagged on the basis of mortality and infection rates of the coronavirus, to contain the spread of the diseas...

DNCC conducts anti-mosquito drives at 34 more hospitals on Monday

DNCC conducts anti-mosquito drives at 34 more hospitals on Monday

FE Online Report 2020-06-22 21:44:06

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) continued its anti-mosquito drives at 34 more hospitals in its area on Monday for the third consecutive day of the mosquito eradication programme. Earlier...

Equal World campaigns for persons with disabilities

Equal World campaigns for persons with disabilities

FE Online Report 2020-06-22 20:28:14

The lives of people with disabilities are being put at greater risk due to insufficient action from governments around the world amid pandemic, said a rights organisation. Sightsavers Bangladesh has...

HC turns down Tufan’s bail in rape case

HC turns down Tufan’s bail in rape case

-- 2020-06-22 19:40:44

The High Court on Monday rejected the bail petition of expelled Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar of Bogura in a case filed over the rape and torture of a schoolgirl and her mother. Justice Jahangir...

Health workers get priority care

Health workers get priority care

SM Najmus Sakib 2020-06-22 19:30:47

Health workers who are infected with COVID-19 will get priority basis treatment at the Sheikh Russel Gastro Liver Institute and Hospital in Dhaka. The Health Ministry through the Directorate General...