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Bangladesh reports 70 new COVID deaths, 2,430 cases in a day

Bangladesh reports 70 new COVID deaths, 2,430 cases in a day

-- 2021-09-05 18:14:18

Bangladesh has registered 70 new fatalities from COVID-19 in the latest daily count, raising the total death toll from the disease to 26,563. The caseload rose to 1,514,456 with 2,430 samples tested...

Schools, colleges to reopen on Sept 12

Schools, colleges to reopen on Sept 12

-- 2021-09-05 18:05:52

All primary, secondary and higher secondary-level educational institutions will reopen on September 12, said Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni. The minister said this after the decision was finalised a...

'Inspector Sohel Rana, held in India, is unlikely to be brought home'

'Inspector Sohel Rana, held in India, is unlikely to be brought home'

-- 2021-09-05 17:55:22

Police inspector Sheikh Sohel Rana, who has been held in India for illegal entry into the country, is unlikely to be brought back to Bangladesh as he is facing a case in the neighbouring country. Ind...

No decision yet on vaccinating under-18, DGHS says

No decision yet on vaccinating under-18, DGHS says

-- 2021-09-05 16:56:52

The government is yet to take any decision on bringing people below 18 years under Covid-19 vaccination, said the Directorate General of Health Services on Sunday, reports UNB. “So far we know,...

Dhaka University prepares to resume dormitories in early October

Dhaka University prepares to resume dormitories in early October

-- 2021-09-05 16:55:01

Preparations are underway at Dhaka University to welcome students back to dormitories in phases from the first week of October after a year-and-a-half closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, reports...

Flood still causing misery to over 0.167m people

Flood still causing misery to over 0.167m people

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-09-05 15:41:06

At least 167,337 people in Bogura, Tangail, Jamalpur and Kurigram districts are still suffering as the major rivers especially the Padma, Kaliganga, Jamuna, Brahmaputra, Dharla, Dhaleswari, Atrai and...

How govt plans to reopen schools and colleges

How govt plans to reopen schools and colleges

-- 2021-09-05 14:25:52

Students’ protection should be the highest priority when resuming in-person classes at educational institutions, which have been shut for the past one and a half years due to the coronavirus pan...

Rajshahi registers 10 more Covid deaths amid fall in cases, fatalities in country

Rajshahi registers 10 more Covid deaths amid fall in cases, fatalities in country

-- 2021-09-05 13:22:02

Ten more Covid patients have died at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) in the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday. Of the fresh deaths, six were confirmed Covid-19 patients, three show...

Two killed in Thakurgaon road crash

Two killed in Thakurgaon road crash

-- 2021-09-05 12:17:54

Two people were killed and another was injured when a truck hit a motorbike at Bhulli-Munshirhat Bazar on Thakurgaon-Panchagarh road in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon district on Saturday night. The dec...

Transporters worry as highway robberies rise in the north

Transporters worry as highway robberies rise in the north

-- 2021-09-05 10:27:38

With officials of bus companies complaining about a rise in the incidence of robbery on the highway to the northern districts from Dhaka, Ena Paribahan has issued a set of safety instructions to its w...

Padmachar cluster village lies vacant

Padmachar cluster village lies vacant

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-05 09:04:53

Even after two years of handover of the cluster village on Padmachar in Shibchar, Madaripur, no one lives in the habitats, built at a cost of millions of taka, mainly for a lack of habitable environs....

Joint efforts needed to conserve vultures

Joint efforts needed to conserve vultures

FE REPORT 2021-09-05 08:49:36

A combined effort is necessary to conserve vultures and other wildlife in the country, said Md Shahab Uddin, Minister for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change on Saturday. He also said the gover...

Nagad suspends 13,000 accounts, initiates probe

Nagad suspends 13,000 accounts, initiates probe

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2021-09-05 08:45:48

Mobile financial service Nagad has suspended around 13,000 accounts suspecting fraudulent transactions with e-commerce sites and set sleuths for a probe. The public-sector MFS outfit, Nagad, Saturd...

Only 7.0pc of Bangladesh target jabbed

Only 7.0pc of Bangladesh target jabbed

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-09-05 08:25:58

Bangladesh has so far received 38,913,730 vaccine doses from different global sources and administered 27,235,548 shots in the past eight months, covering only 7.0 per cent of the target. The governm...

Turkey restarts passenger flights from Bangladesh Saturday

Turkey restarts passenger flights from Bangladesh Saturday

-- 2021-09-04 22:50:05

Turkey will allow the entry of travellers from Bangladesh from Saturday, according to the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka. Now the passengers will be able to board flights of Turkish Airlines, among other a...

Experts for use of abandoned Sangu platform as storage for imported LNG   

Experts for use of abandoned Sangu platform as storage for imported LNG  

-- 2021-09-04 21:04:40

Abandoned seven years ago Sangu, the country's first offshore gas field platform, can be used as a storage for imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) before being supplied to the end users, energy exper...

Obaidul Quader seeks accurate information on corruption

Obaidul Quader seeks accurate information on corruption

-- 2021-09-04 20:35:40

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has refuted BNP’s allegation of corruption in COVID-19 vaccination as fictional. At a briefing from his official residence, Quader asked his BNP co...

Khaleda asks BNP leaders not to lose courage, Fakhrul says

Khaleda asks BNP leaders not to lose courage, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-09-04 20:33:26

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said their party chairperson Khaleda Zia asked them to continue the movement without losing courage and getting disappointed. "I met our...

Philippines to lift coronavirus travel ban on Bangladesh

Philippines to lift coronavirus travel ban on Bangladesh

-- 2021-09-04 19:38:10

The Philippines has decided to lift a coronavirus ban on travellers from Bangladesh and nine other countries. The ban, introduced in April then expanded to more countries in July to prevent the sprea...

Dengue death reaches 51 with two more deaths, 265 more hospitalised

Dengue death reaches 51 with two more deaths, 265 more hospitalised

-- 2021-09-04 19:08:07

Dengue claimed two more lives in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death tally to 51. Besides, 265 new Dengue patients were hospitalised during the period, said the Directorate General of...

Five power plants to be inaugurated on September 12

Five power plants to be inaugurated on September 12

-- 2021-09-04 18:52:05

Five power plants, having a total of 879 MW electricity generation capacity, will be inaugurated on September 12. "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate these power plants through a video conf...

EC gets greater leeway in new bill passed by parliament

EC gets greater leeway in new bill passed by parliament

-- 2021-09-04 18:36:04

Parliament has given the greenlight to the Delimitation of Constituencies Bill 2021, enabling the Election Commission (EC) to make new electoral rules under the constitution. The bill was presented b...

Army Chief begins three-day visit to India

Army Chief begins three-day visit to India

-- 2021-09-04 18:13:59

Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed left Dhaka for India on Saturday on a three-day official visit by a special Bangladesh Air Force aircraft. During the visit, he is leading an eight-mem...

Bangladesh logs 61 new virus deaths, 1,743 cases

Bangladesh logs 61 new virus deaths, 1,743 cases

-- 2021-09-04 17:32:21

Bangladesh has recorded 1,743 new COVID cases, the lowest daily count since Jun 12, and 61 fatalities, also the fewest since mid-June. The caseload currently stands at 1,512,026, while the death toll...

‘Govt planning to make schools, colleges take classes one day a week initially’

‘Govt planning to make schools, colleges take classes one day a week initially’

-- 2021-09-04 17:27:07

The Ministry of Education recommends schools and colleges take one class a week after reopening of educational institutes on September 12, said Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury No...

JS passes Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Bill

JS passes Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Bill

-- 2021-09-04 17:16:37

The Bangladesh Legal Practitioners and Bar Council (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed in Parliament on Saturday allowing the government to form an ad-hoc committee for maximum one-year tenure to arrang...

Bangladesh High Commission Malaysia introduces special phone numbers for expats

Bangladesh High Commission Malaysia introduces special phone numbers for expats

-- 2021-09-04 15:43:17

Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has introduced three dedicated mobile phone numbers to make its services easily available for the expatriate community, reports UNB.  All Bangladeshi e...

Bangladesh plans to inoculate school children with Pfizer, Moderna shots

Bangladesh plans to inoculate school children with Pfizer, Moderna shots

-- 2021-09-04 14:58:34

After lowering the minimum age for a COVID-19 vaccine shot to at least 18, the government is now planning to expand the immunisation exercise further to include school-going children as educational...

Fingerprint mismatch bars Jatiya Party candidate from casting vote in Sylhet-3 bypoll

Fingerprint mismatch bars Jatiya Party candidate from casting vote in Sylhet-3 bypoll

-- 2021-09-04 14:41:49

Jatiya Party parliamentary candidate Atiqur Rahman Atiq has been unable to vote in the Sylhet-3 bypoll because his fingerprints could not be recognised by the Electronic Voting Machine, or EVM, bdnews...

Bangladesh needs to be open to engagement with Taliban: Ambassador Humayun Kabir

Bangladesh needs to be open to engagement with Taliban: Ambassador Humayun Kabir

KHAWAZA MAIN UDDIN 2021-09-04 13:50:39

As decades of wars have destroyed Afghanistan’s society installing a war culture into communities, former ambassador Humayun Kabir thinks, Bangladesh has the scope to contribute to rebuilding th...