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FM-level Bangladesh-Kuwait Joint Commission proposed

FM-level Bangladesh-Kuwait Joint Commission proposed

-- 2021-07-18 16:39:30

Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Dr Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah has proposed Bangladesh forming a Joint Committee at Foreign Ministers level to take forward the relations through joint efforts....

Working to build a service-oriented administration, says PM

Working to build a service-oriented administration, says PM

-- 2021-07-18 16:12:10

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the aim of her government is to build a fully service-oriented administration to ensure the welfare of people. “Our aim is to build an administration...

Huge rush of homebound people slows down traffic on highways

Huge rush of homebound people slows down traffic on highways

SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2021-07-18 14:36:18

Roads and highways continue to witness unusual traffic congestion as thousands of homebound people have started leaving Dhaka ahead of Eid-al-Adha. The government on Thursday last eased the ongoing s...

Five Eid jamaats to be held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque

Five Eid jamaats to be held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque

-- 2021-07-18 14:04:56

Five Eid jamaats will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque from 7 am on the day of Eid-ul-Azha. Islamic Foundation, Bangladesh revealed the schedule in a press release on Sunday. The first...

Bangladesh will get more vaccine doses when supply eases in India, says Doraiswami

Bangladesh will get more vaccine doses when supply eases in India, says Doraiswami

-- 2021-07-18 13:35:52

Bangladesh will get more COVID-19 vaccine doses after India’s supply of the shots increases, said Indian High Commissioner Vikram Kumar Doraiswami. Doraiswami, who is travelling to India to lea...

Another 2 million Sinopharm vaccine doses arrive in Bangladesh

Another 2 million Sinopharm vaccine doses arrive in Bangladesh

-- 2021-07-18 13:35:08

Another two million doses of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Bangladesh. The first of these shipments, consisting of one million doses, arrived on a Biman Bangladesh flight...

Five killed as two buses collide in Rangpur

Five killed as two buses collide in Rangpur

-- 2021-07-18 12:53:42

At least five people have died in a collision between two buses in Rangpur’s Mithapukur Upazila, police say. A child was among the dead. The accident that occurred in the Boldipukur area around...

PM sends mangoes to Sri Lankan counterpart as goodwill gesture

PM sends mangoes to Sri Lankan counterpart as goodwill gesture

-- 2021-07-17 21:33:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent her beautiful gift of Bangladeshi mangoes as a goodwill gesture to her Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa. Bangladesh High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Tareq...

Awami League to observe month of mourning by helping distressed people

Awami League to observe month of mourning by helping distressed people

-- 2021-07-17 21:26:19

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the main programme of the upcoming month of mourning (August) is to stand by the distressed, working-class and poor people amid the coron...

Special cattle train starts operations on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route

Special cattle train starts operations on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route

-- 2021-07-17 20:18:42

A special cattle train left Chapainawabganj on Saturday carrying 77 cows and six goats in its inaugural service for markets in the capital city ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, officials said. The special servi...

Legal action against Covid rule violators in cattle markets, says Atiqul

Legal action against Covid rule violators in cattle markets, says Atiqul

UNB 2021-07-17 20:05:10

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam on Saturday said strict legal action would be taken if the hygiene rules and regulations were not followed properly at the sacrificial animal markets....

GM Quader demands probe into vaccine, Covid test costs

GM Quader demands probe into vaccine, Covid test costs

UNB 2021-07-17 19:09:23

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday demanded an investigation into the allegation of 'unusual expenditures' in coronavirus vaccine procurement, inoculation, and the Covid testing processes. "...

Tailbacks are delaying arrivals of cattle in city markets, pushing up prices

Tailbacks are delaying arrivals of cattle in city markets, pushing up prices

UNB 2021-07-17 18:55:13

Markets for sacrificial animals officially opened in the capital city on Saturday, but their arrivals are very slow as huge tailbacks on highways and ferry terminals stranded hundreds of cattle-carryi...

20 Rohingya detained in Chattogram after fleeing Bhasan Char

20 Rohingya detained in Chattogram after fleeing Bhasan Char

-- 2021-07-17 17:47:46

Twenty Rohingya refugees have been caught by members of the Ansar force in Chattogram after fleeing the settlement on Noakhali's Bhasan Char island. They were subsequently handed over to the police o...

Bangladesh logs 8,489 new virus cases, 204 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 8,489 new virus cases, 204 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-17 17:46:17

Bangladesh has registered 204 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 17,669. The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,092,411 after 8,489 people tested positive for the disease until 8...

Exodus from Dhaka creates tailback on highways   

Exodus from Dhaka creates tailback on highways  

FE Online Report   2021-07-17 16:58:03

As countrywide lockdown has been relaxed for holidaymaking during Eid-ul-Azha, national highways are jammed with vehicles carrying homebound people.  A long tailback is created near the Bang...

Body of medical student found hanging in Gulshan flat

Body of medical student found hanging in Gulshan flat

-- 2021-07-17 16:52:46

The body of a woman has been found hanging in a flat in Dhaka's Gulshan, reports bdnews24.com. The woman, identified as 21-year-old Faria Haider, was a first-year student at a medical college in Mala...

Garment workers block Gazipur road demanding salaries

Garment workers block Gazipur road demanding salaries

-- 2021-07-17 16:47:33

Hundreds of garment workers on Saturday blocked the busy Dhaka-Gazipur Road, demanding the immediate release of their salaries and other dues. The workers of ‘Style Craft Garment’ took to...

Evaly chairman, managing director barred from travelling abroad

Evaly chairman, managing director barred from travelling abroad

-- 2021-07-17 15:07:04

A Dhaka court has barred Mohammad Rassel, the managing director of Evaly, and his wife Shamima Nasrin, also the chairman of the company, from travelling overseas amid an ongoing probe into charges of...

Bangladesh, Uzbekistan discuss prospects for expansion of bilateral ties

Bangladesh, Uzbekistan discuss prospects for expansion of bilateral ties

-- 2021-07-17 13:37:59

Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have discussed the prospects for expansion of multifaceted cooperation between the two countries. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen had a meeting with Uzbekistan President...

Homebound people crowd Shimulia ferry terminal

Homebound people crowd Shimulia ferry terminal

-- 2021-07-17 13:30:11

Munshiganj's Shimulia ferry terminal has been teeming with large crowds as south-bound travellers crammed ferries and launches to return home for the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. As many as 14 ferries and 8...

DRP COVID-19 Response: A campaign by Footsteps to help Bangladesh breathe

DRP COVID-19 Response: A campaign by Footsteps to help Bangladesh breathe

SHAIMA MAHMUD HIMI 2021-07-17 13:18:50

Footstep Bangladesh, a renowned next-generation organisation, is extensively working to address the COVID-19 crisis in southwestern and northern bordering districts of Bangladesh under their DRP (Disa...

40 die of Covid-19 in Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal

40 die of Covid-19 in Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal

-- 2021-07-17 13:15:00

Forty more people have died of Covid-19 at several hospitals in Rajshahi, Khulna districts, and Barisal division in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Saturday. In Rajshahi, at least sixteen...

16 more Covid patients die in Rajshahi

16 more Covid patients die in Rajshahi

-- 2021-07-17 12:13:06

Sixteen more people have died of Covid at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) in the past 24 hours, hospital authorities said on Saturday. Of the deceased, eight had tested positive for Covi...

3.5m Moderna vaccine doses likely to arrive in Dhaka Monday

3.5m Moderna vaccine doses likely to arrive in Dhaka Monday

-- 2021-07-17 12:00:11

The United States plans to send 3.5 million Moderna doses to Bangladesh, a White House official said on Friday. The doses for Bangladesh will arrive on Monday, reports Reuters citing the official. T...

Will Bangladesh be able to break deadly Covid cycle?

Will Bangladesh be able to break deadly Covid cycle?

-- 2021-07-17 10:46:52

The government’s efforts to ensure self-isolation and quarantine has slowed own and public health experts fear this decline could make the surging coronavirus infection rate even more dangerous....

Bangladesh to receive 2m doses of Sinopharm vaccine Saturday

Bangladesh to receive 2m doses of Sinopharm vaccine Saturday

-- 2021-07-17 10:13:21

Bangladesh is set to receive two million more doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China on Saturday. Shamsul Haque, a line director at the Directorate General of Health Services, said on...

Mad rush from Dhaka continues for Eid

Mad rush from Dhaka continues for Eid

FE REPORT 2021-07-17 08:29:48

Flouting the Covid-19 health guideline, a large number of people on Friday started leaving Dhaka city for their roots to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha. Taking advantage of the government's periodic withdrawa...

Uncertainty looms over  Covid-19 vaccination

Uncertainty looms over Covid-19 vaccination

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-07-17 08:25:30

Achieving the target to administer covid vaccine to 10 million people per month remains a distant dream as the country is still struggling to build sufficient vaccine reserve to bridge the demand gap....

Bangladesh plans separate agency to ensure industrial safety

Bangladesh plans separate agency to ensure industrial safety

-- 2021-07-16 21:01:12

The government is considering setting up a separate agency to ensure fire, building structure and environmental compliance of all industrial plants in the country The new agency is likely to be forme...