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BD among 10 worst countries for workers

BD among 10 worst countries for workers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-18 14:07:48

Bangladesh, for the fourth consecutive year since 2017, has been ranked among the 10 worst countries in the world where labour rights are not guaranteed, according to a global survey. The Global Righ...

‘Criminal’ dies in Gazipur ‘gunfight’

‘Criminal’ dies in Gazipur ‘gunfight’

-- 2020-06-18 13:36:50

A suspected criminal was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Habibpur in Gazipur's Kaliakoir upazila early Thursday.   The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hanif, 30, son of Kanchan S...

Mayors brace for zone-based lockdowns

Mayors brace for zone-based lockdowns

-- 2020-06-18 13:24:52

The government has directed all mayors to prepare for zone-based lockdown restrictions to tackle the rampant coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh. Local Government Minister Md Tajul Islam handed out in...

ClimateLaunchpad for first time in BD, seeks ideas

ClimateLaunchpad for first time in BD, seeks ideas

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-18 13:22:54

ClimateLaunchpad, the world’s largest green business idea competition, has been launched worldwide and for the first time in Bangladesh, seeking ideas to tackle climate change. Gen Lab, a youth...

Enam Medical doctor dies of Covid-19

Enam Medical doctor dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-06-18 12:45:59

A doctor of Enam Medical College Hospital, who was suffering from fever and cold, died from coronavirus at his residence in the capital's Mirpur area on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified a...

ACC seeks income tax details of MP Shahid, family

ACC seeks income tax details of MP Shahid, family

-- 2020-06-18 12:14:19

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought income tax documents of Mohammad Shahid Islam, MP of Laxmipur-2 constituency (independent), his family and his sister-in-law from the National Board of...

Provide budgetary support for urban and newly poor, experts tell govt

Provide budgetary support for urban and newly poor, experts tell govt

FE Report 2020-06-18 09:47:17

Experts have called on the government to provide budgetary allocations for the urban poor as well as the newly poor across the country to tide them over during the coronavirus slowdown. They also p...

Padma bridge project installs corona unit

Padma bridge project installs corona unit

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-06-18 09:44:46

The Padma bridge project office has set up a corona unit on its construction site with an estimated fund of Tk 10 million to avoid viral infection. It is aimed at providing immediate medical care for...

Factories continue job cut amid virus

Factories continue job cut amid virus

MONIRA MUNNI 2020-06-18 09:22:53

Industrial units across the country barring those in Dhaka metropolitan area terminated nearly 11000 workers in the past two weeks, according to reliable sources. The factory owners took recourse to...

Icddr,b  begins clinical trial of Ivermectin for Covid-19 patients

Icddr,b begins clinical trial of Ivermectin for Covid-19 patients

FE Online Report 2020-06-17 22:51:44

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) Wednesday started a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of anti-p...

United Hospital officials face travel ban over fatal fire

United Hospital officials face travel ban over fatal fire

-- 2020-06-17 21:54:43

The top officials of the United Hospital in Dhaka cannot leave Bangladesh as they are charged with negligent death in a case over a fatal fire at its isolation unit for COVID-19 patients, police said....

Fund crunch stalls clinical trial of plasma therapy in BD

Fund crunch stalls clinical trial of plasma therapy in BD

-- 2020-06-17 18:41:29

The clinical trial of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh has hit a snag due to a shortage of funds as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. At the beginning of May, the expert p...

Commerce Minister tests positive for Covid-19

Commerce Minister tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2020-06-17 17:46:40

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has been infected with coronavirus. The minister is now undergoing treatment at Bashundhara Ever Care Hospital (formerly Apollo Hospital), his personal secretary Kamruzz...

PM issues directives to tackle Covid-19

PM issues directives to tackle Covid-19

-- 2020-06-17 17:08:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting on Wednesday discussed the Covid-19 situation in the country and issued directives to contain the pandemic. The meeting was held at the PM’s official r...

Two-drug combination awaits approval for COVID-19 treatment: DGHS

Two-drug combination awaits approval for COVID-19 treatment: DGHS

-- 2020-06-17 16:27:33

Healthcare authorities on Wednesday said experts concerned were asked to quicken examinations of efficacy of a two-drug combination developed recently by a team led by a senior Bangladeshi doctor, cla...

US-Bangla operates 32 flights on domestic routes

US-Bangla operates 32 flights on domestic routes

-- 2020-06-17 16:21:54

US-Bangla Airlines has been operating 32 domestic flights on different routes daily. US-Bangla is operating five daily flights from Dhaka to Chattogram, five to Jashore, four  to Saidpur and two...

Gonoshasthaya kits for Covid-19 not effective: BSMMU

Gonoshasthaya kits for Covid-19 not effective: BSMMU

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

Coronavirus rapid testing kits developed by Gonoshasthaya, known as “GR COVID-19 Dot Blot”, are not effective, BSMMU Vice-Chancellor Kanak Kanti Barua has said. The kits were capable to a...

BD logs 4,008 fresh corona cases, 43 additional deaths

BD logs 4,008 fresh corona cases, 43 additional deaths

FE Online Desk 2020-06-17 14:50:07

Bangladesh witnessed 4,008 new cases of novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the health directorate said, its biggest daily increase yet in infections, bringing the total case count to 98,489. Authorities...

Cattle trader killed by BSF in Naogaon

Cattle trader killed by BSF in Naogaon

-- 2020-06-17 14:01:51

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Dakkhin Patari village along Adatala border in Sapahar upazila of Naogaon on early Wednesday. The decease...

SME Foundation Chairperson KM Habib Ullah dies

SME Foundation Chairperson KM Habib Ullah dies

-- 2020-06-17 13:14:04

KM Habib Ullah, chairperson of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Foundation, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in India on Wednesday. He breathed his last around 2:30 am while undergoing treatme...

BD halts on-arrival visas for all countries

BD halts on-arrival visas for all countries

-- 2020-06-17 12:17:56

Bangladesh has suspended its visa-on-arrival services for nationals of all countries until further notice as the coronavirus outbreak in the country continued to intensify. However, the government ha...

Met office issues signal 3 for maritime ports

Met office issues signal 3 for maritime ports

-- 2020-06-17 11:38:46

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has asked maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal No. 3 due to a deep convection over North Bay and adjoining coastal areas. It has advised all fishin...

10 doctors suspended for refusing to treat Covid-19 patients

10 doctors suspended for refusing to treat Covid-19 patients

-- 2020-06-17 11:33:48

Ten physicians of different hospitals under Chattogram City Corporation have been suspended for refusing to provide treatment to Covid-19 patients. Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) issued a notice i...

Bangladeshi MP's visa trading scam rocks Kuwait

Bangladeshi MP's visa trading scam rocks Kuwait

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-06-17 11:04:44

The illegal visa trading scam involving millions of dollars by Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahidul Islam Papul, ruffle feathers among Kuwaiti high ups prompting Anas Al Saleh, the deputy prime minister an...

FRC steps in to better corporate reporting

FRC steps in to better corporate reporting

FE REPORT 2020-06-17 10:37:50

The state-run Financial Reporting Council or FRC has signed deals with three global accounting and auditing standards-setting organisations. With the agreement, a well-regulated structure will be int...

Wardboy held for harassing female corona patient in Khulna

Wardboy held for harassing female corona patient in Khulna

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-06-17 10:23:07

An outsourced wardboy of a hospital tried to rape a 26-year-old corona patient at Khulna Corona Hospital. The wardboy Nazrul was discharged from his job on Monday. Khulna Sonadanga Model Police arrest...

Protect women migrants from Covid-19 fallout

Protect women migrants from Covid-19 fallout

FE REPORT 2020-06-17 10:18:24

Rights activists have made an appeal to the government to protect women migrant workers from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. During this time of the pandemic, women domestic workers are being f...

Ex-JL leader Khalid on three-day remand

Ex-JL leader Khalid on three-day remand

FE REPORT 2020-06-17 10:10:07

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent expelled Jubo League (JL) leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan on a three-day remand in a money laundering case. Judge of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka, Md Ziaur...

Covid-19: Three new infections in a minute, two deaths in an hour

Covid-19: Three new infections in a minute, two deaths in an hour

FE REPORT 2020-06-17 10:09:24

The Covid-19 situation is deteriorating fast in the country as almost three persons in a minute are being infected with the deadly viral strains, officials and physicians said. Bangladesh recorded mo...

Physicians demand separate healthcare facility

Physicians demand separate healthcare facility

SM Najmus Sakib 2020-06-17 10:06:04

Physicians in the country are pressing home their demand for a separate healthcare facility amid rising infections among frontline health workers. The demand for separate healthcare facility is getti...