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Govt to appoint 2,000 more physicians to tackle COVID-19: Minister

Govt to appoint 2,000 more physicians to tackle COVID-19: Minister

-- 2020-06-22 18:50:52

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Monday said if the number of COVID-19 patients continues to soar, the government will take steps to appoint additional 2,000 physicians to contain the situation. &ldq...

Free dengue tests at 13 more health centres in DNCC areas

Free dengue tests at 13 more health centres in DNCC areas

FE Online Report 2020-06-22 17:22:47

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) arranged free dengue tests at 13 more health centres to identify dengue patients. With these, a total of 40 health centres and urban maternity hospitals in the DNC...

BB official dies of coronavirus

BB official dies of coronavirus

-- 2020-06-22 16:52:13

A joint director of Bangladesh Bank died of COVID-19 on Monday. An official of the public relations department of Bangladesh Bank said Sheikh Farid Uddin Soad (37), who worked at Bangladesh Bank Trai...

AL to celebrate its 71st anniversary

AL to celebrate its 71st anniversary

-- 2020-06-22 16:47:04

Awami League, the oldest and largest political party of Bangladesh, will celebrate its 71st founding anniversary on June 23. The political party was established on this day in 1949 in Rose Garden, Dh...

Quader urges people to follow directives in locked down areas

Quader urges people to follow directives in locked down areas

-- 2020-06-22 15:19:39

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday urged people of those areas which have been put under lockdown to follow the government’s directives strictly and face the situation...

Virus death toll crosses 1500-mark in BD

Virus death toll crosses 1500-mark in BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-22 14:41:43

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday reported 38 deaths from the coronavirus (Covid-19), taking its total to over 1500. Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the DGHS,...

Key suspect held in murder of businessman in Uttara

Key suspect held in murder of businessman in Uttara

-- 2020-06-22 14:41:16

Police have arrested Charles Rupom Sarkar, the key suspect in the murder of a businessman in Uttara whose dismembered remains were recovered from three different areas of Dhaka, bdnews24.com reports....

High Court suspends a 25pc hike in water prices

High Court suspends a 25pc hike in water prices

-- 2020-06-22 14:02:34

The High Court has suspended a 25 per cent hike in water prices in response to a writ petition, and ruled that the injunction will remain in force until Aug 10. Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the or...

Six die with fever, cold related problems in Cumilla

Six die with fever, cold related problems in Cumilla

-- 2020-06-22 13:36:33

Six people died with fever and cold related problems in Cumilla in the last 24-hour till Monday morning.   With the new deaths, so far 88 people died with the same same symptoms, said Dr Sajeda K...

5.8 magnitude earthquake jolts Dhaka, other areas

5.8 magnitude earthquake jolts Dhaka, other areas

-- 2020-06-22 11:04:47

A moderate earthquake with 5.8 magnitude shook the capital and some other parts of the country early Monday.   The epicentre of the earthquake was in the India-Myanmar border region, about 301 km...

Govt flags 27 more areas in 10 districts as red zones

Govt flags 27 more areas in 10 districts as red zones

-- 2020-06-22 10:38:14

The government has announced a so-called general holiday in 27 more red zones, flagged as risky areas on the basis of mortality and infection rates of the coronavirus, to contain the spread of the dis...

Ensure effective use of climate-relevant budget

Ensure effective use of climate-relevant budget

 FE REPORT 2020-06-22 10:18:19

Civil society organisations have underscored the need to ensure effective utilisation of the climate-relevant allocations made in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020-21. They also suggested prio...

Confusion over red zone lockdown mounts up

Confusion over red zone lockdown mounts up

-- 2020-06-22 10:02:19

The overall situation regarding implementation of lockdowns in two city corporations of the capital has reached a chaotic state as DSCC and DNCC authorities are unable to lock down all red zones annou...

ACC seeks info on govt projects to fight pandemic

ACC seeks info on govt projects to fight pandemic

FE Report 2020-06-22 09:47:06

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday sent letters to three government organisations, including a ministry, seeking information about different procurement projects for tackling the Covid-1...

SC lawyers appeal to CJ for regular court activities

SC lawyers appeal to CJ for regular court activities

FE REPORT 2020-06-22 09:39:47

A group of Supreme Court lawyers have made an appeal to Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain to restart the regular activities in all the courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, in the in...

Suhrawardy hospital director Uttam, wife test positive for coronavirus

Suhrawardy hospital director Uttam, wife test positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-06-21 22:09:21

Dr Uttam Kumar Barua, director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, and his wife Nibedita Barua have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronaviru...

Govt designing catch-up plan to help pupils with learning losses

Govt designing catch-up plan to help pupils with learning losses

-- 2020-06-21 20:35:36

The government is devising a set of plans to make up for educational losses inflicted by the shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reports bdnews24.com. According to officials of the education minis...

SC lawyers appeal  to CJ for regular court activities

SC lawyers appeal to CJ for regular court activities

FE Online Report 2020-06-21 20:30:10

A group of Supreme Court lawyers on Sunday made an appeal to Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain to restart the regular activities in all the courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, in t...

5.1-magnitude earthquake hits Dhaka

5.1-magnitude earthquake hits Dhaka

-- 2020-06-21 20:26:03

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 shook the capital and other parts of the country on Sunday afternoon. The epicentre of the moderate earthquake was in the region of India-Myanmar border, about 279 km E...

COVID-19: Lack of awareness frustrates Chinese experts

COVID-19: Lack of awareness frustrates Chinese experts

FE Online Report 2020-06-21 19:16:41

The visiting Chinese expert team expressed deep frustrations over the poor level of awareness of coronavirus among the people of Bangladesh. This was disclosed during a virtual interaction between t...

Survey to identify Aedes mosquito breeding ground launched

Survey to identify Aedes mosquito breeding ground launched

FE Online Report 2020-06-21 18:45:41

National Malaria Elimination and Aedes-transmitted Disease Control Programme under DG Health, International Health Regulations (IHR) and Migration Health and Emerging Disease started an entomological...

Children in Rohingya camp face higher risk of social menace

Children in Rohingya camp face higher risk of social menace

FE Online Report 2020-06-21 17:59:15

Children living in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp are at higher risk of social menace including trafficking, child labour and marriage due to worsening socioeconomic conditions caused by Covid-19 pan...

Army to supervise isolation centre in Mohakhali

Army to supervise isolation centre in Mohakhali

-- 2020-06-21 17:23:22

Bangladesh Army will supervise the 1,000-bed isolation centre at the DNCC Market in Mohakhali, according to ISPR. COVID-19 patients without severe symptoms will be sent there from different hospitals...

DSCC Mayor talks tough on piling WASA garbage  

DSCC Mayor talks tough on piling WASA garbage  

FE Online Report 2020-06-21 17:10:09

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh on Sunday warned Dhaka WASA of penalising the authorities along with taking legal action if they pile up garbage after cleaning th...

Follow health guidelines to avoid virus: PM

Follow health guidelines to avoid virus: PM

-- 2020-06-21 16:07:31

Mentioning that many people, including a cabinet member, an MP and a good number of expatriate Bangladeshis, have lost their lives due to coronavirus, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all...

BD registers 3,531 new coronavirus cases, 39 more deaths

BD registers 3,531 new coronavirus cases, 39 more deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-06-21 14:42:25

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 112,306 on Sunday as the country registered 3,531 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 39 more people died from Covid-19 dur...

Kuwait to freeze Tk 1.38b in MP Shahid’s company account

Kuwait to freeze Tk 1.38b in MP Shahid’s company account

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-21 14:29:41

Kuwait’s Public Prosecutor has approached the Central Bank to freeze the bank accounts of Bangladeshi MP Shahid Islam and his company, according to Arab Times. Informed sources stated that the...

High cost of Covid-19 test at private hospitals raises concern

High cost of Covid-19 test at private hospitals raises concern

-- 2020-06-21 13:16:02

Although widespread testing to detect and isolate Covid-19 patients is crucial to combat the transmission of the disease, high testing cost at private hospitals has become a burden for many who are be...

Coronavirus fears run high in Rohingya camps

Coronavirus fears run high in Rohingya camps

-- 2020-06-21 13:00:47

As Bangladesh grapples with an unrelenting coronavirus epidemic, concerns over an explosion of Covid-19 cases in the densely populated Rohingya camps, the largest refugee settlements in the world, hav...

Rainfall may decrease by next three days: BMD

Rainfall may decrease by next three days: BMD

-- 2020-06-21 12:27:58

Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Sunday morning forecast that rainfall activity will decrease by the next three days commencing 9am. However, light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied...