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Lockdown gets stuck in brazen bureaucracy

Lockdown gets stuck in brazen bureaucracy

Jubair Hasan 2020-06-17 09:39:22

The lack of coordination among authorities is delaying the execution of the zone-based lockdown for Dhaka aiming to contain contagion of deadly coronavirus, officials and experts said on Tuesday. T...

Fake virus certificates on sale

Fake virus certificates on sale

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-06-17 09:23:50

Several gangs are now actively involved in providing fake corona testing certificates to people, who need those for going abroad or getting admitted into hospitals. On Monday, a team of RAB-3, led by...

'Internet use rose by 50pc during Covid-19 pandemic'

'Internet use rose by 50pc during Covid-19 pandemic'

-- 2020-06-16 21:45:17

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Tuesday said that usage of internet has increased by 50 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic. Besides, online marketing has increased to 50 per cent w...

60m mobile subscribers were on move amid pandemic: AMTOB

60m mobile subscribers were on move amid pandemic: AMTOB

-- 2020-06-16 21:31:30

Tens of millions of people have travelled back and forth between cities and villages in Bangladesh during the coronavirus pandemic, raising the risk of contagion amid a worsening coronavirus epidemic,...

Covid-19: Four dead, 384 infected in six industrial zones

Covid-19: Four dead, 384 infected in six industrial zones

FE Online Report 2020-06-16 20:22:36

A total of 384 workers from 162 factories in six industrial zones were infected with coronavirus while four of them died till Tuesday. Industrial Police prepared the data from information of six zone...

15 areas of Sunamganj go under complete lockdown

15 areas of Sunamganj go under complete lockdown

-- 2020-06-16 20:17:55

Local administration has put 15 areas of eight upazilas of Sunamganj district under complete lockdown from Tuesday. According to the Civil Surgeon's Office, 15 areas under eight upazilas of total 11...

Areas of Kushtia to go under complete lockdown from Thursday

Areas of Kushtia to go under complete lockdown from Thursday

-- 2020-06-16 19:20:37

Local administration is going to put eight wards of Kushtia municipality, Hatosh Haripur union in Sadar upazila, seven wards of Bheramara municipality areas and Bahirchar and Chandgram union of the Ku...

Stress on urgent action for a gender-responsive Covid-19 relief

Stress on urgent action for a gender-responsive Covid-19 relief

FE Online Report 2020-06-16 18:41:14

Gender Monitoring Network called upon the government to take urgent action for a gender-responsive Covid-19 relief and response to ensure access to necessary information, supports and resources. The...

Skilled migrant workers send more remittances home than less-skilled ones: IOM study

Skilled migrant workers send more remittances home than less-skilled ones: IOM study

FE Online Report 2020-06-16 18:30:48

Higher skilled migrant workers send more remittances home than the less-skilled ones as the experienced workers are employed in better jobs, an IOM study has found. The study also revealed that due t...

Four remanded over COVID-19 certificate forgery

Four remanded over COVID-19 certificate forgery

-- 2020-06-16 17:15:00

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed four persons on three days of remand each in a case lodged over making and supplying false coronavirus (COVID-19) infection certificates. The four accused are: Fazal H...

Bhola primary edu officer, another die with coronavirus symptoms

Bhola primary edu officer, another die with coronavirus symptoms

-- 2020-06-16 17:00:46

Bhola district assistant primary education officer among two died with coronavirus symptoms on Tuesday morning, reports UNB.   The deceased were identified as ABM Khalilur Rahman, education offic...

Suspended Ctg jailer Sohel Rana gets HC bail

Suspended Ctg jailer Sohel Rana gets HC bail

-- 2020-06-16 16:45:32

The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Jail Sohel Rana in a graft case filed by Anti-corruption Commission. The virtual bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder pas...

BD registers 53 new virus deaths and 3,862 fresh cases, both daily records

BD registers 53 new virus deaths and 3,862 fresh cases, both daily records

FE Online Desk 2020-06-16 14:47:28

Bangladesh on Tuesday witnessed its highest single-day rise in both Covid-19 deaths and cases. A total of 53 people died of the deadly respiratory disease in the last 24 hours to 8:00am today, the he...

Former Suhrawardy hospital director dies of Covid-19

Former Suhrawardy hospital director dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-06-16 14:28:54

Dr Mujibur Rahman, former director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, has died in hospital care after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection. He lost the bat...

Flights on int'l routes resume

Flights on int'l routes resume

-- 2020-06-16 12:49:22

Flight operations on international routes from Bangladesh resumed on Tuesday after a suspension of more than two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. “International flights resumed today,&rd...

158 stranded Bangladeshis return from Dubai

158 stranded Bangladeshis return from Dubai

-- 2020-06-16 12:36:22

A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines has brought back 158 Bangladeshi nationals who were stranded in Dubai due to the outbreak of Covid-19. The flight landed at Shahjalal International Airport at 7...

Army to patrol virus red zones

Army to patrol virus red zones

-- 2020-06-16 11:49:32

The government has decided to deploy troops in the areas flagged as red zones to address the coronavirus outbreak. Members of the army are currently patrolling the East Rajabazar area of Dhaka which...

Covid-19: Uttar Kattali put under lockdown in Chattogram

Covid-19: Uttar Kattali put under lockdown in Chattogram

-- 2020-06-16 11:29:36

Although 10 areas were identified as ‘Red Zones’ in the port city of Chattogram, the local administration put Uttar Kattali in Ward-10 under complete lockdown for the next 21 days early Tu...

Mobile court seizes duplicate medicine worth Tk 100m in Barisal

Mobile court seizes duplicate medicine worth Tk 100m in Barisal

-- 2020-06-16 11:20:54

A mobile court has seized huge amount of duplicate medicines worth Tk 100 million from different local and Indian companies in Sagardi area of Barisal district town. Md Masum Billah, 27, and his asso...

What lockdown curbs will be imposed on virus hotspots

What lockdown curbs will be imposed on virus hotspots

-- 2020-06-16 10:17:26

The government has outlined the ways in which the restrictions aimed at strangling the coronavirus outbreak will be enforced in the three zones -- red, yellow and green -- divided on the basis of the...

Mismanagement marks pandemic handling: TIB

Mismanagement marks pandemic handling: TIB

FE REPORT 2020-06-16 09:50:35

Widespread irregularities and management weaknesses have surfaced in the government's handling of the Coivid-19 pandemic in the country, according to findings of a research conducted by the Transparen...

Writ challenges Dhaka Wasa's decision to raise water tariff

Writ challenges Dhaka Wasa's decision to raise water tariff

FE REPORT 2020-06-16 09:36:46

A writ petition was filed on Monday with the High Court seeking its directives upon the respondents on the decision of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to hike water tariff by 25 per...

Patient’s death for negligence in treatment is criminal offence: HC

Patient’s death for negligence in treatment is criminal offence: HC

-- 2020-06-15 21:56:18

The High Court (HC) on Monday said that people’s deaths due to negligence in providing treatment is a criminal offence and directed the authorities concerned to take legal action if patients are...

Six ambassadors get contract extension

Six ambassadors get contract extension

-- 2020-06-15 21:36:16

The government has extended contracts of ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Italy and Switzerland and the high commissioner to Brunei. The Ministry of Public Administration issued an order fo...

Govt, pvt offices to run until June 30 on limited scale

Govt, pvt offices to run until June 30 on limited scale

FE Online Report 2020-06-15 20:57:23

The government allowed on Monday further  functioning of public and private offices on a limited scale until June 30 by following the health safety guidelines due to the outbreak of coronavirus p...

DNCC finds 67pc houses, establishments mosquito breeding-prone

DNCC finds 67pc houses, establishments mosquito breeding-prone

FE Online Report 2020-06-15 19:27:45

Nearly 67 per cent of houses and establishments in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas were found suitable environment for the breeding of Aedes mosquito. Apart from this, the DNCC found Aedes...

US provides additional $173m to Bangladesh

US provides additional $173m to Bangladesh

-- 2020-06-15 18:16:00

The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than $173 million in new funding to complement Bangladesh’s ongoing efforts to respon...

General holidays for offices in red zones

General holidays for offices in red zones

-- 2020-06-15 17:46:34

The government will enforce a so-called general holiday in red zones, flagged as risky areas on the basis of mortality and infection rates of the coronavirus, to contain the spread of the disease, rep...

Supplementary budget for FY 2019-20 passed in JS

Supplementary budget for FY 2019-20 passed in JS

-- 2020-06-15 16:43:47

The supplementary budget of Tk 465.1611 billion (Tk 46,516.11 crore) for the 2019-20 fiscal has been passed in the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday aiming to meet the increased expenditures of different minis...

Two more policemen die of COVID-19

Two more policemen die of COVID-19

-- 2020-06-15 16:28:44

Two more members of the Bangladesh Police died due to COVID-19 infection while performing their duties. They are sub-inspector (SI) SM Mukul, 55, and constable Md Abul Hossain Azad, 51, both of them...