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9,964 new coronavirus cases, 164 deaths recorded in 24 hours

9,964 new coronavirus cases, 164 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-05 17:52:45

Bangladesh has reached grim records in both COVID-19 deaths and new cases, with 164 fatalities and 9,964 cases counted over a 24-hour period. This takes the total death toll from the disease to 15,22...

Khulna Division sees record 51 Covid deaths in 24 hours

Khulna Division sees record 51 Covid deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-05 17:09:55

Covid-19 claimed 51 lives in Khulna division in 24 hours until Monday morning, the highest single-day fatalities in the region, said divisional health authorities. During this period, 1,470 people we...

Rural areas account for half of COVID patients, DGHS DG says

Rural areas account for half of COVID patients, DGHS DG says

-- 2021-07-05 16:59:08

The community transmission of COVID-19 has reached villages across Bangladesh and 50 per cent of the current caseload comes from rural areas, according to a government calculation. Infections have sp...

DGHS lowers Covid vaccination age to 35

DGHS lowers Covid vaccination age to 35

-- 2021-07-05 16:04:41

The Directorate General of Health Services has lowered the minimum age for Covid-19 vaccines by five years to 35, as Bangladesh resumes its inoculation drive. DGHS will resume the Covid-19 vaccine re...

Quader says there is no oxygen crisis in country

Quader says there is no oxygen crisis in country

-- 2021-07-05 15:22:26

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said there is no oxygen crisis in the country. He said this at a briefing at his official residence this morning. "There is no oxygen crisis i...

Govt extends lockdown by a week to Jul 14

Govt extends lockdown by a week to Jul 14

-- 2021-07-05 14:15:14

Bangladesh government has extended the current stringent lockdown by a week to Jul 14 at the advice of experts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. All current restrictions have been extended in conside...

Dhaka streets see more people, vehicles on fifth day of lockdown

Dhaka streets see more people, vehicles on fifth day of lockdown

-- 2021-07-05 13:41:34

The fifth day of the nationwide lockdown sees more people and vehicles on the streets of Dhaka city. Stores have also reopened in some areas outside the notice of law enforcers. There was heavier tra...

Rajshahi hospital records 18 Covid-related deaths in a day

Rajshahi hospital records 18 Covid-related deaths in a day

-- 2021-07-05 11:39:28

Eighteen more Covid-19 related deaths were reported at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in the last 24 hours till Monday morning as the country continues to reel from a devastating 2nd wave of...

Rendered jobless by lockdown, low-income people leaving Dhaka at night

Rendered jobless by lockdown, low-income people leaving Dhaka at night

-- 2021-07-05 10:54:13

It was 11:45 on Saturday night. A group of people from low-income families rushed and gathered around a slow-moving pickup on its way to Pantha Path from Karwan Bazar in Dhaka, bdnews24.com reports....

Govt allocates Tk 77m for Covid, disaster-hit families

Govt allocates Tk 77m for Covid, disaster-hit families

-- 2021-07-05 10:39:27

The government has allocated Tk 77.0 million and 22,830 tonnes of rice for the people who have been walloped by natural disasters and Covid-19 restrictions. The Ministry of Disaster Management and Re...

Muddy road causes suffering to Kalmakanda border people

Muddy road causes suffering to Kalmakanda border people

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-07-05 09:33:10

The road on the Kalmakanda border upazila in Netrakona has become dilapidated. This important road under the Roads and Highways Department is used by various modes of transports and people cannot proc...

Digital cattle market launched

Digital cattle market launched

FE REPORT 2021-07-05 09:20:16

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) launched the country's lone digital cattle market on Sunday with an aim to sell 0.1 million sacrificial animals from nine markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Last year...

Gas leaks detected at Moghbazar blast site

Gas leaks detected at Moghbazar blast site

FE REPORT 2021-07-05 09:15:33

A gas leakage was detected at the explosion site in the city's Moghbazar area on Sunday morning, a week after a huge blast occurred there claiming ten lives. Following the detection, a team of Titas...

Advisory Committee seeks one more week of lockdown

Advisory Committee seeks one more week of lockdown

FE REPORT 2021-07-05 08:41:10

The National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Covid-19 has recommended the continuation of the ongoing countrywide lockdown for one more week as both spread and fatalities from the virus continu...

BNP, NGO men cannot be found beside people, Hasan Mahmud says

BNP, NGO men cannot be found beside people, Hasan Mahmud says

BSS 2021-07-04 22:27:10

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP and NGO personalities, who are always busy criticising the government, cannot be found beside the countrymen during the COVID-1...

HC directs to prioritise jabs for students going abroad

HC directs to prioritise jabs for students going abroad

UNB 2021-07-04 22:26:08

The High Court on Sunday asked the authorities to administer coronavirus vaccines to Bangladeshi students going abroad for studies on priority basis. The single-judge bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahi...

Fakhrul describes PM’s statement as unexpected, indecent

Fakhrul describes PM’s statement as unexpected, indecent

-- 2021-07-04 22:17:19

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday termed ‘unexpected, indecent and devoid of political etiquettes’ the Prime Minister's statements in parliament about Ziaur Rahma...

Japan, ASEF provides PPE for COVID-19 response in Bangladesh

Japan, ASEF provides PPE for COVID-19 response in Bangladesh

UNB 2021-07-04 20:26:15

Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) on Sunday donated a substantial delivery of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Bangladesh for COVID-19 pandemic...

309 vehicles fined Tk 0.86m in Dhaka for violating lockdown rules

309 vehicles fined Tk 0.86m in Dhaka for violating lockdown rules

UNB 2021-07-04 19:03:12

On the fourth day of the seven-day strict lockdown the Traffic Division fined 309 vehicles for violating the lockdown rules in the capital. Total amount of Tk 8,69,500 was collected in penalties fro...

8,661 new coronavirus cases, 153 deaths recorded in 24 hours

8,661 new coronavirus cases, 153 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-04 18:50:41

Bangladesh has registered 153 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, a record high, taking the total toll from the disease to 15,065. Khulna, a recent hotspot, tallied 51 fatalities in a 24-hour count, t...

Khulna logs record 46 COVID deaths in a day

Khulna logs record 46 COVID deaths in a day

-- 2021-07-04 18:00:12

Khulna has registered 46 fatalities from COVID-19 in a day, the highest on record, raising the toll in the administrative division to 1,214. The division also logged 1,304 new cases over the same per...

Bangladesh plans to upgrade rural roads to reboot economy

Bangladesh plans to upgrade rural roads to reboot economy

-- 2021-07-04 17:28:55

The government has planned to upgrade the country’s important rural roads to double-lane ones, aiming to unlock the potentials of rural Bangladesh and thus reboot its economy and ensure improved...

12 more die of Covid-19 at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital

12 more die of Covid-19 at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital

-- 2021-07-04 16:58:23

Twelve more Covid-19 related deaths were reported at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning as the country is witnessing a devastating 2nd wave of the virus....

Army gets Saiful Alam as quartermaster general; Tabrej Shams is new chief of DGFI

Army gets Saiful Alam as quartermaster general; Tabrej Shams is new chief of DGFI

-- 2021-07-04 16:50:33

Major General Md Saiful Alam, the current chief of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, has been appointed as the quartermaster general (QMG) of Bangladesh Army, reports bdnews24.com. Alam...

Long queues for OMS food, but many leaving empty-handed

Long queues for OMS food, but many leaving empty-handed

-- 2021-07-04 13:13:27

Shahnaz Begum lined up outside the TCB market in Dhaka’s Malibagh on Saturday morning. She has been coming to the market for several days now, but hasn’t made it before they run out of sto...

Kushtia records 21 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours

Kushtia records 21 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-04 12:05:14

Twenty-one more Covid-related deaths were recorded in Kushtia in 24 hours till Sunday morning, the district's highest single-day deaths this year. Of the total deaths, 19 people died at the Corona un...

Worried relatives crowd court as police arrest hundreds for defying lockdown

Worried relatives crowd court as police arrest hundreds for defying lockdown

-- 2021-07-04 11:37:55

Monowara Begum stayed over at Dhaka Medical College Hospital with her elder daughter who was struggling with some complications after recently bringing a baby boy into the world, bdnews24.com reports....

Nasal cannula crisis acute in Bogura

Nasal cannula crisis acute in Bogura

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-07-04 09:26:06

Acute nasal cannula crisis has brought agony among corona patients and the hospital authorities in Bogura. The nasal cannula crisis has been persisting at corona dedicated Government Mohammad Ali H...

Bangladesh to become cashless country soon: Minister

Bangladesh to become cashless country soon: Minister

FE REPORT 2021-07-04 09:08:36

Post and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar on Saturday said Bangladesh is going to become a cashless country very soon due to the advancement in digital financial services. He also urged th...

Bangladesh Railway projects in slow lane, costs doubled

Bangladesh Railway projects in slow lane, costs doubled

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2021-07-04 08:59:00

A delay in creating the post of gatekeepers in the past three years has chucked two level-crossing gate uplift projects in the slow lane and doubled their costs. Insiders said on Saturday the Banglad...