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Open market sales of essentials to start Monday

Open market sales of essentials to start Monday

FE REPORT 2021-07-04 08:40:32

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling essential commodities to consumers at subsidized rates from tomorrow (Monday). Designated dealers will sell the products like sugar, lenti...

Foul smell hits passers-by in Moghbazar days after building collapse

Foul smell hits passers-by in Moghbazar days after building collapse

-- 2021-07-03 22:31:07

Zahir Hossain, the security guard of a building next to the collapsed one in Dhaka’s Moghbazar, used to wear one facemask for protection against the coronavirus. Now he is using two, but they ar...

Rampal power plant will not use Indian coal as fuel, authorities say

Rampal power plant will not use Indian coal as fuel, authorities say

-- 2021-07-03 21:50:32

The coal imported from India will not be used as fuel for the thermal power plant in Bagerhat’s Rampal, the authorities have said. The consignment of 3,800 tonnes of coal will be used for the c...

Covid-19 burials: Quantum volunteers busy during this lockdown too

Covid-19 burials: Quantum volunteers busy during this lockdown too

-- 2021-07-03 21:39:57

The Quantum Foundation, one of the voluntary organisations in the country, is actively involved in the burials of coronavirus victims, even amidst an all-out lockdown across the country, reports UNB....

Covid-19 patient ‘commits suicide’ in Satkhira

Covid-19 patient ‘commits suicide’ in Satkhira

-- 2021-07-03 21:39:13

A man, who tested positive for Covid-19 a week ago, reportedly committed suicide in Satkhira on Saturday. The 55-year-old patient, Azgar Ali, was a resident of Ilishpur village at Kalaroa upazila in...

Australian journal highlights Bangladesh’s weakness in implementing laws

Australian journal highlights Bangladesh’s weakness in implementing laws

-- 2021-07-03 21:05:24

The Australian Journal of Asian law, a peer-reviewed journal of the University of Melbourne, has published a special issue highlighting the ‘serious weaknesses’ of Bangladesh in enacting a...

DMP arrest 621 for breaching rules on third day of lockdown

DMP arrest 621 for breaching rules on third day of lockdown

-- 2021-07-03 20:58:19

The police have arrested 621 people in Dhaka for the breach of restrictions on the third day of a lockdown imposed to curb a surge in coronavirus infections. The number of arrests rose on Saturday wi...

Experts call for banning single-use plastic to protect lives, environment

Experts call for banning single-use plastic to protect lives, environment

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-07-03 19:42:13

Experts on Saturday urged the authorities concerned to immediately impose a ban on the single-use plastic in the country to protect the ecosystem and public health. Single-use plastic (SUP) is t...

Patient in Natore flees clinic, dies on street gasping for air

Patient in Natore flees clinic, dies on street gasping for air

-- 2021-07-03 19:30:51

A primary school employee, who fled a private clinic after being told of giving samples for coronavirus test, died on the road, gasping for air and his plea to take him to hospital refused by an easy...

Bangladesh registers 134 new COVID deaths, 6,214 cases

Bangladesh registers 134 new COVID deaths, 6,214 cases

-- 2021-07-03 19:10:45

Bangladesh has registered 134 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the toll to 14,912. Khulna, a recent hotspot, tallied 39 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the most among the eight divisions in...

‘Bangladesh will buy as many vaccines as needed’

‘Bangladesh will buy as many vaccines as needed’

-- 2021-07-03 19:05:14

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh will buy “as many vaccines as needed” in order to protect people from the COVID-19 pandemic. Bangladesh has attempted to obtain vaccines since...

Parliament’s budget session prorogued

Parliament’s budget session prorogued

-- 2021-07-03 16:44:35

The 13th session of the 11th Parliament, which was the budget session, was prorogued on Saturday, after 12 sittings. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation of the President at 2...

We cannot put lives of students in danger, PM says

We cannot put lives of students in danger, PM says

-- 2021-07-03 16:31:12

Admitting the losses Bangladesh’s education sector has suffered for the prolonged closure of educational institutions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government cannot put the...

Bangladesh lawmakers slam health minister, call for resignation   

Bangladesh lawmakers slam health minister, call for resignation  

-- 2021-07-03 16:29:42

Members of the opposition have lambasted Health Minister Zahid Maleque in parliament, going so far as to call for his resignation, over the oxygen crisis during the coronavirus pandemic and irregula...

Metro rail begins functional test

Metro rail begins functional test

-- 2021-07-03 15:26:59

Authority of Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Limited (DMTCL) has begun functional test of metro rail inside the depot at Uttara. “We will start its mainline test on viaduct in August,” Managing...

Bangladesh bags first-ever Maths Olympiad gold

Bangladesh bags first-ever Maths Olympiad gold

-- 2021-07-03 15:13:00

For the first time ever, Bangladesh has bagged a gold medal in the Asia-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad (APMO). The result was published on June 29.  Md Maruf Hasan, a student of Government Ananda...

Vaccine crisis eases with arrival of 4.5m doses

Vaccine crisis eases with arrival of 4.5m doses

-- 2021-07-03 12:36:36

Bangladesh has received 4.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in four shipments, all of which arrived in the course of a few hours. The boost in supply is expected to ease the vaccine crisis in t...

Five killed, five injured in Tangail road accident

Five killed, five injured in Tangail road accident

-- 2021-07-03 12:21:51

Five people were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a speeding truck and an ambulance ferrying passengers in Kalihati upazila of Tangail on Saturday, police said. All the v...

13 more deaths reported at RMCH Covid unit

13 more deaths reported at RMCH Covid unit

-- 2021-07-03 11:56:02

Amid concerns over the spread of the Delta variant, Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) has recorded 13 more Covid-related deaths in 24 hours. Among them, five were confirmed Covid-19 patien...

TikTok female model arrested with 600 gm heroin

TikTok female model arrested with 600 gm heroin

-- 2021-07-03 10:07:08

Rapid Action Battalion of Rajshahi (RAB-5) arrested a 'TikTok model' with 600 gm heroin from the Gopalpur area in Gadagari upazila of Rajshahi. She was held during a raid on Thursday night, reports U...

1m doses of Sinopharm vaccine reach from China

1m doses of Sinopharm vaccine reach from China

-- 2021-07-03 09:44:25

The first commercial shipment of 1.0 million Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines from China has reached Bangladesh. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines jet carrying the vaccines touched down at Shahjalal Internat...

Bangladesh receives 1.3m doses of Moderna vaccine

Bangladesh receives 1.3m doses of Moderna vaccine

-- 2021-07-03 09:32:18

Bangladesh has received the first batch of 1.25 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US firm Moderna. The US is sending total 2.5 million doses of the vaccine under the international va...

Stipends elude migrant workers' children

Stipends elude migrant workers' children

ARAFAT ARA 2021-07-03 08:54:21

Migrants' children are hardly receiving stipends from the welfare board's scholarship programme mainly due to a lack of publicity campaign, experts and workers said. They think if the workers get f...

Five oil-fired quick rental power plants may be given extension of tenure again

Five oil-fired quick rental power plants may be given extension of tenure again

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2021-07-03 08:37:22

The government is considering again extension of the tenure of five oil-fired quick rental power plants, having a total generation capacity of around 457 megawatts (MW). This time the tenure of the...

Dhaka turns into a ghost city, thanks to lockdown

Dhaka turns into a ghost city, thanks to lockdown

FE REPORT 2021-07-03 08:26:36

Dhaka virtually became a city of ghosts on Friday as the ongoing hard lockdown coupled with consistent rainfall forced its residents to stay indoors. On the second day of the weeklong nationwide stri...

Two million doses of purchased Sinopharm vaccine to reach Dhaka soon

Two million doses of purchased Sinopharm vaccine to reach Dhaka soon

UNB 2021-07-02 22:45:08

Commercially purchased two million doses of Sinopharm vaccine are on the way to reaching Bangladesh from China. The consignment is expected to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 1am...

India sends first consignment of coal for Rampal Power Plant

India sends first consignment of coal for Rampal Power Plant

-- 2021-07-02 21:00:21

India has shipped the first consignment of about 4,000 tonnes of coal to Bangladesh for Rampal Power Plant in Khulna. The consignment left the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port or SMP of Kolkata for Bangla...

320 arrested in Dhaka for going outside without valid reason 

320 arrested in Dhaka for going outside without valid reason 

-- 2021-07-02 20:03:37

Police have continued to make arrests across Dhaka for breach of stay-at-home orders on the second day of the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. Although the st...

8,483 new COVID-19 cases, 132 deaths reported in 24 hours

8,483 new COVID-19 cases, 132 deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2021-07-02 18:48:00

Bangladesh has registered 132 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the toll to 14,778. Khulna, a recent hotspot, tallied 35 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the most among the eight divisions in...

‘Bangladesh far off from reaching herd immunity anytime soon’

‘Bangladesh far off from reaching herd immunity anytime soon’

UNB 2021-07-02 18:47:21

Although its study suggests around 71 per cent of Dhaka city dwellers have already gained antibodies for coronavirus, an icddr,b scientist says the herd immunity threshold is still out of reach in Ban...