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Rooftop gardening becomes popular in Tangail town

Rooftop gardening becomes popular in Tangail town

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-08-10 10:12:42

TANGAIL: Rooftop gardening is becoming popular and increasing in Tangail town day by day. Rooftop gardening has been changing the scenarios recently in the town areas. People are trying to cultivat...

PM congratulates Tigers on winning fifth T20i

PM congratulates Tigers on winning fifth T20i

UNB 2021-08-09 22:59:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday congratulated Bangladesh cricket team on winning the 5thand last T20 by a big margin over Australia and sweeping the five-match series 4-1. The Tigers beat the Aus...

HC releases full text of Kotalipara bomb planting case judgement

HC releases full text of Kotalipara bomb planting case judgement

-- 2021-08-09 20:43:25

The High Court on Monday released the full text of its judgement that upheld the death sentence for 10 people, convicted by the lower court concerned in a case lodged over an attempt to murder Prime M...

Owners want to run buses at half capacity, say new rules are complex

Owners want to run buses at half capacity, say new rules are complex

-- 2021-08-09 20:12:06

Transport owners have demanded that they be allowed to keep all buses transporting passengers at half the capacity instead of using half the buses they have in rotation.   They say the new...

Dhaka seeks more UN role in Afghanistan to avert people’s sufferings

Dhaka seeks more UN role in Afghanistan to avert people’s sufferings

UNB 2021-08-09 19:13:08

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Monday said the United Nations (UN) should step up efforts at this critical juncture in Afghanistan as Bangladesh does not want to see people in Afghanistan suffer...

210 more hospitalised in 24 hrs as dengue cases continue to upsurge

210 more hospitalised in 24 hrs as dengue cases continue to upsurge

UNB 2021-08-09 18:33:51

As many as 210 new patients were hospitalised in 24 hours until Monday morning amid a growing concern over a spike in dengue cases. Bangladesh started seeing an uptrend in dengue cases from June with...

Bangladesh logs 11,463 virus cases, 245 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 11,463 virus cases, 245 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-08-09 18:20:50

Bangladesh has registered 245 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 22,897. The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,365,158 after 11,463 people tested positive for the disease in the...

Govt may impose tough lockdown if situation deteriorates: Quader

Govt may impose tough lockdown if situation deteriorates: Quader

-- 2021-08-09 16:54:19

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said that the strict lockdown has been relaxed for the sake people’s lives and livelihoods, but it may be re-imposed if Covid...

5.4m more vaccine doses to arrive by Aug 15, says health minister

5.4m more vaccine doses to arrive by Aug 15, says health minister

-- 2021-08-09 16:39:36

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said another 5.4 million doses of coronavirus vaccine will arrive in Bangladesh by August 15, "By Aug 15, we'll receive 3.4 million of the vaccines from COVAX and on...

Shortage in daily vaccine supply as Bangladesh sees new rush for inoculation

Shortage in daily vaccine supply as Bangladesh sees new rush for inoculation

-- 2021-08-09 16:29:37

Health workers are having to cope with demand that far exceeds their daily allocation of COVID vaccine doses during Bangladesh’s latest mass vaccination push, reports bdnews24.com. Monday, the...

Covid cases reach 88,891 with 551 new in Rajshahi division

Covid cases reach 88,891 with 551 new in Rajshahi division

-- 2021-08-09 14:56:03

A total of 551 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in all eight districts in the division on Sunday, taking the caseload to 88,891 since the pandemic began, BSS reports. With five more Covi...

Bangladesh Railway resumes advance train ticket sale

Bangladesh Railway resumes advance train ticket sale

-- 2021-08-09 12:20:06

Bangladesh Railway has resumed the sale of advance train tickets after a month as lockdown restrictions imposed to fight a spike in COVID cases were eased. The sale of advance tickets kicked off at 8...

All 53 HC benches to conduct virtual hearings from Wednesday

All 53 HC benches to conduct virtual hearings from Wednesday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-09 11:58:30

All the High Court (HC) benches are set to conduct virtual hearings from Wednesday (August 11) as the government announced the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, allowing the normal operation of offices...

Man held with foreign currencies worth Tk 2.2m at Dhaka airport

Man held with foreign currencies worth Tk 2.2m at Dhaka airport

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-09 11:42:46

Customs officials arrested a man along with foreign currencies equivalent to Tk 2.2 million at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Sunday night, Prothom Alo reports. Habibur Rahman, 43...

US announces additional $11.4m for urgent Covid assistance in Bangladesh

US announces additional $11.4m for urgent Covid assistance in Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-09 11:40:13

The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced an additional $11.4 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance for Bangladesh. This assistance will...

Bangladesh allows COVID vaccination for pregnant

Bangladesh allows COVID vaccination for pregnant

-- 2021-08-09 10:47:58

The Bangladesh government will vaccinate pregnant and breastfeeding women against COVID-19 amid the pandemic following recommendations by an expert panel. The Directorate General of Health Services (...

Bangladesh panel scraps proposal to bar female officials from guard of honour

Bangladesh panel scraps proposal to bar female officials from guard of honour

-- 2021-08-08 22:57:43

Amidst intense criticism and howls of protest, a parliamentary committee has scrapped its recommendation to bar female officials from giving the guard of honour to freedom fighters when they die. The...

High Court division to hold hearings virtually from Aug 11

High Court division to hold hearings virtually from Aug 11

-- 2021-08-08 22:30:18

All the judicial activities of benches under the High Court division of the Supreme Court will operate virtually from August 11. The High Court Division issued a notification in this regard following...

TIB seeks steps against anomalies in procurement for temporary lab

TIB seeks steps against anomalies in procurement for temporary lab

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-08 21:06:26

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed concern and outrage over graft and anomalies in the public procurement in the name of establishing a temporary lab before starting infrastruct...

Bangamata was source of inspirations for Bangabandhu, Obaidul Quader says

Bangamata was source of inspirations for Bangabandhu, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-08-08 20:58:18

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib was not only the wife of Bangabandhu but also his co-fighter in his entire life. The road transport a...

Jobless families should get Tk 10,000 per month, GM Quader says

Jobless families should get Tk 10,000 per month, GM Quader says

-- 2021-08-08 20:48:46

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday demanded the government provide Tk 10,000 per month to each family of those who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, he said, &ld...

Police investigating reports on Pori Moni’s links to banker

Police investigating reports on Pori Moni’s links to banker

-- 2021-08-08 20:40:55

The police are investigating reports that actress Pori Moni and others recently arrested with liquor and drugs had links to a banker and people from other professions. “The suspects gave import...

‘Uninterrupted affordable energy main challenge in future’

‘Uninterrupted affordable energy main challenge in future’

UNB 2021-08-08 20:22:37

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that providing uninterrupted electricity and gas at affordable and sustainable price is future challenge for the country....

241 arrested in Dhaka on day 17 for breaching lockdown rules

241 arrested in Dhaka on day 17 for breaching lockdown rules

UNB 2021-08-08 20:03:46

Police arrested 241 more people in Dhaka on Sunday for violating lockdown restrictions on the 17th day of the countrywide lockdown aimed at reducing the Covid-19 spread. The arrestees failed to show...

BSF hands over five Bangladeshis held in Fulbari border

BSF hands over five Bangladeshis held in Fulbari border

-- 2021-08-08 19:01:54

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over five Bangladeshi citizens who illegally entered India to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after holding a flag meeting on Saturday evening. The arrestees w...

Lightning strike kills 1,178 people in eight years, DGHS says

Lightning strike kills 1,178 people in eight years, DGHS says

FE Online Report 2021-08-08 18:59:49

Deaths from lightning strikes have increased in monsoon in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Lightning strike is another concern during the monsoon in Bangl...

224 more hospitalised in 24 hrs as dengue cases surge

224 more hospitalised in 24 hrs as dengue cases surge

UNB 2021-08-08 18:28:05

As many as 224 new patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Sunday morning amid growing concern over a spike in dengue cases. Since August 1, the country has been seeing over 200 dengue cases ever...

10,299 new COVID-19 cases, 241 deaths recorded in 24 hours

10,299 new COVID-19 cases, 241 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-08-08 18:26:44

Bangladesh has registered 241 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 22,652. The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,353,695 after 10,299 people tested positive for the disease in the...

Businessman Bazlur Rahman passes away

Businessman Bazlur Rahman passes away

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-08 17:57:01

Bazlur Rahman, a renowned businessman, died of old age complication at his residence in Banani on Saturday morning. He was 82. Owner of Shitatop Limited, late Bazlur Rahman was lifetime member of Dha...

Bangladesh to reopen almost all economic activities from Aug 11

Bangladesh to reopen almost all economic activities from Aug 11

-- 2021-08-08 17:37:05

Bangladesh has announced plans to lift most lockdown restrictions on August 11, allowing public transport, offices and shopping malls to reopen. The Cabinet Division issued a notice on Sunday, outlin...