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Rains spark fear of dengue outbreak in Dhaka amid Covid-19

Rains spark fear of dengue outbreak in Dhaka amid Covid-19

-- 2021-07-24 09:26:04

Dengue cases are threatening to overwhelm Dhaka’s stretched healthcare system amid the coronavirus outbreak, with the hospitals admitting the highest number of patients with the mosquito-borne d...

Hasina sends mangoes to Imran Khan

Hasina sends mangoes to Imran Khan

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-07-23 19:58:35

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent special Bangladeshi mangoes as gift to the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan. The mangoes were handed over to the Pakista...

Bangladesh reports 6,364 new virus cases, 166 deaths

Bangladesh reports 6,364 new virus cases, 166 deaths

-- 2021-07-23 17:55:59

Bangladesh has registered 166 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the toll to 18,851. The caseload surged to 1,146,564 after 6,364 people tested positive for the disease until 8 am Friday, repo...

Dhaka streets largely deserted as 'strictest' lockdown begins

Dhaka streets largely deserted as 'strictest' lockdown begins

-- 2021-07-23 16:52:21

The streets of Dhaka city were found largely deserted as only a smattering of vehicles dotted the streets following the onset of another lockdown, with curbs dubbed the 'strictest' yet, to rein in a r...

India working to resume vaccine export to Bangladesh, reiterates envoy

India working to resume vaccine export to Bangladesh, reiterates envoy

-- 2021-07-23 16:36:31

India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, is working to resume the export of Covid vaccine jabs to Bangladesh as vaccine production in India is growing rapidly. Indian High Commissioner to Bang...

Govt to lower vaccination age limit to 18 years soon: Health DG

Govt to lower vaccination age limit to 18 years soon: Health DG

FE Online Report   2021-07-23 16:16:40

The government on Friday said it will lower the age limit for the Covid-19 vaccination to 18 years from the existing 30 years. Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director-general of the Directorate...

Bangladesh to receive 245,200 AstraZeneca doses from Japan Saturday

Bangladesh to receive 245,200 AstraZeneca doses from Japan Saturday

-- 2021-07-23 15:25:31

Some 2,45,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Saturday from Japan. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will receive the vaccine doses that will come under COVAX facilit...

ময়মনসিংহ মেডিকেলে করোনা ও উপসর্গ নিয়ে ২০ জনের মৃত্যু

ময়মনসিংহ মেডিকেলে করোনা ও উপসর্গ নিয়ে ২০ জনের মৃত্যু

-- 2021-07-23 14:55:49

ময়মনসিংহ মেডিকেল কলেজ হাসপাতালে গত ২৪ ঘণ্টায় কোভিডে আরও নয়জনের মৃত্যু হয়েছে; এছাড়া উপসর্গ নিয়ে মারা গছেন ১১ জন। বৃহস্পতিবার সকাল থেকে শুক্রবার সকালের মধ্যে তারা মারা যান বলে হাসপাতালের চিকিৎসক মহিউদ্...

20 injured as ferry hits Padma bridge pillar

20 injured as ferry hits Padma bridge pillar

-- 2021-07-23 13:57:21

At least 20 people have been injured in a ferry accident in the Padma river in Munshiganj, officials said on Friday. The accident occurred when a Ro-Ro ferry, named Shahjalal, crashed into a pillar o...

Met office issues cautionary signal 3 for maritime ports

Met office issues cautionary signal 3 for maritime ports

-- 2021-07-23 13:24:03

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number three as a low pressure area has formed over northwest bay and adjoining are...

Pick-up truck rams into easy bike in Bagerhat, killing six

Pick-up truck rams into easy bike in Bagerhat, killing six

-- 2021-07-23 12:18:43

At least six people were killed after a head-on collision between a pick-up truck and an easy bike, a local passenger vehicle, in Bagerhat's Fakirhat Upazila on Friday. The accident occurred on the K...

PM Hasina congratulates new Nepalese PM Deuba

PM Hasina congratulates new Nepalese PM Deuba

-- 2021-07-23 10:24:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated newly appointed Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba, BSS reports. In a congratulatory message to her Nepalese...

Bangladesh re-enters its ‘strictest’ lockdown after Eid break

Bangladesh re-enters its ‘strictest’ lockdown after Eid break

-- 2021-07-23 08:01:01

The Bangladesh government is reimposing a lockdown on Friday with curbs dubbed “strictest yet” after a nine-day break for Eid-ul-Azha in a desperate intervention to stem the tide of record...

35 shops gutted in Chapainawabganj fire

35 shops gutted in Chapainawabganj fire

-- 2021-07-22 22:49:28

A devastating fire broke out at Tahabazar of Chapainawabganj’s Puratanbazar area on Thursday afternoon. At least 35 shops were burnt in the blaze. However, no casualties were reported. Accordi...

New application link for vaccination of outbound students

New application link for vaccination of outbound students

-- 2021-07-22 21:36:18

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to change the application link for the vaccination of the outbound students due to some technical reasons. All other conditions and statements of the earli...

Ferry-launch suspended from Friday morning

Ferry-launch suspended from Friday morning

-- 2021-07-22 19:34:41

All water transports, including ferries, launches, speedboats and trawlers, will halt operation from 6:00am on Friday as the country begins another round of strict lockdown fearing a spread of the cor...

Vaccination: Public health experts suggest elderly first to curb deaths   

Vaccination: Public health experts suggest elderly first to curb deaths   

SM Najmus Sakib 2021-07-22 19:26:02

The government has recently dropped the vaccination age limit to 30 years, gradually from 55 years, in order to cover more citizens under the mass vaccination campaign. Public health experts, however...

New type of rice brings new hope for coastal farmers

New type of rice brings new hope for coastal farmers

THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION 2021-07-22 17:52:59

Farmer Dilip Chandra Tarafdar was tired of fighting to keep his rice crop alive in the coastal village of Chandipur in Satkhira’s Shyamnagar. If the plants managed to grow in soil made salty by...

COVID-19: 3,697 people test positive, 187 patients die in 24 hours

COVID-19: 3,697 people test positive, 187 patients die in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-22 17:32:22

Bangladesh has registered 187 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the toll to 18,685. The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,140,200 after 3,697 people have tested positive for the disease until 8:0...

Benapole: BGB on high alert to prevent rawhide smuggling

Benapole: BGB on high alert to prevent rawhide smuggling

-- 2021-07-22 17:20:16

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was on Thursday put on high alert to prevent rawhide smuggling, a day after Eid-ul-Azha, a holy festival during which Muslims sacrifice animals. BGB Commander (49th Batt...

‘Strictest’ lockdown from Friday

‘Strictest’ lockdown from Friday

-- 2021-07-22 16:56:13

Bangladesh is sticking to its plan to reimpose a nationwide lockdown on July 23, with the latest restrictions set to be tougher than at any time before to contain a resurgent coronavirus pandemic, Sta...

22 more die of Covid at Rajshahi hospital

22 more die of Covid at Rajshahi hospital

-- 2021-07-22 16:56:08

As many as 22 more Covid patients have died at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) in the past 24 hours, officials said on Thursday, reports UNB.  Director Brigadier General Shamim Yazd...

25 new Dengue cases reported in 24 hours

25 new Dengue cases reported in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-22 16:43:21

Amid an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases, there is a growing concern over the dengue situation in the country too. Health authorities on Thursday reported 25 new dengue cases in 24 hours. Some 412 de...

Eid returnees crowd Shimulia ferry port

Eid returnees crowd Shimulia ferry port

-- 2021-07-22 13:56:39

The Shimulia ferry port in Munshiganj is teeming with crowds of people heading back to Dhaka. Many others are leaving the capital, heading home with the meat from ritual sacrifices. Passengers lookin...

Three die as microbus falls into ditch in Munshiganj

Three die as microbus falls into ditch in Munshiganj

-- 2021-07-22 12:20:12

Three people were killed on Thursday after a Dhaka-bound microbus veered out of control and plunged into a roadside ditch on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Munshiganj's Gajaria. The accident occurre...

22 more die at RMCH Covid unit

22 more die at RMCH Covid unit

-- 2021-07-22 11:17:18

A number of 22 more people, including nine females, died at Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) during the last 24 hours till 6 am today, taking the death toll to 389, so far...

India facilitates medical oxygen supply to Bangladesh

India facilitates medical oxygen supply to Bangladesh

-- 2021-07-22 09:08:59

Bangladesh has received 180 tonnes of liquefied medical oxygen from India, a supply facilitated on an emergency basis on the day of Eid-ul-Azha amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic, bdnews24.com r...

Dhaka hospitals fear worst Covid wave in August  

Dhaka hospitals fear worst Covid wave in August  

-- 2021-07-22 08:56:10

With 10 days to go, July already has the dubious distinction of being the worst month for Bangladesh during the pandemic with deaths and infections regularly hitting record peaks, but the hospitals in...

At least 17 Bangladeshi migrants drown off Tunisia in shipwreck

At least 17 Bangladeshi migrants drown off Tunisia in shipwreck

REUTERS 2021-07-22 08:44:54

At least 17 Bengali migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy from Libya, while more than 380 were rescued by the coastguard, the Tunisian Red Cresc...

Bangladesh celebrates fourth Eid festival in subdued mood amid pandemic

Bangladesh celebrates fourth Eid festival in subdued mood amid pandemic

-- 2021-07-21 22:25:40

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, one of the major religious festivals of the Muslims, was celebrated on Wednesday across the country amid growing concerns about the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronav...