FE REPORT 2021-07-01 09:09:27
The TRIPS transition period for least-developed countries (LDCs) has been extended by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for a period of another 13 years. After long and intense negotiations among...
FE REPORT 2021-07-01 08:54:51
Health Minister Zahid Maleque told the parliament on Wednesday that 80 per cent of the country's population would get Covid vaccines within March 2022. "We will be able to vaccinate 80 per cent of ou...
FE REPORT 2021-07-01 08:29:08
A week-long 'strict lockdown' begins across the country today (Thursday) to rein in the surging infections and death during the second wave of the Covid-19. The country has been witnessing the record...
-- 2021-06-30 22:15:17
Real estate businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmood, the main suspect in a case filed by actress Pori Moni over ‘attempted rape and murder’, has secured bail in a separate narcotics case. Dhaka M...
-- 2021-06-30 21:59:28
Health Minister Zahid Maleque’s speech on irregularities in the health sector has triggered a commotion in the parliament, reports bdnews24.com. Responding to the words of an opposition MP, Mal...
-- 2021-06-30 20:48:26
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said Bangladesh will receive 2.5 million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine under the COVAX facility in two consignments on July 2 and July 3 respectivel...
-- 2021-06-30 20:19:57
Bangladesh will deploy armed forces for seven days to help the civil administration to enforce a strict lockdown in preventing the coronavirus outbreak. After the Cabinet Division, the Inter Services...
-- 2021-06-30 19:58:27
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has to first confess her corruption offence and seek pardon from the president before she can be allowed to go abroad for medical treatment, Law Minister Anisul Haq said on...
-- 2021-06-30 19:55:16
The Supreme Court authorities have decided to keep all the courts shut until July 7 during a strict lockdown with coronavirus cases rising to a record level. Everyone must stay at home during the loc...
-- 2021-06-30 19:38:25
Workers have demonstrated in Chattogram in protest against a decision to keep factories and offices open with the public transport system shut ahead of a strict lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak....
-- 2021-06-30 18:41:33
The government has allowed people to pray at mosques and other places of worship during a strict lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak starting on Thursday. The worshippers will have to follow some...
-- 2021-06-30 18:10:22
The High Court on Wednesday banned all commercial establishments -- hotels, restaurants and shops _ from Hatirjheel-Begunbari area and ordered their eviction in 60 days. The decision came in a 10-poi...
-- 2021-06-30 18:04:20
Bangladesh has registered 8,822 new cases of COVID-19, a daily record, taking the total caseload from the disease to 913,258. A division-wide breakdown showed Dhaka logging 4,362 new cases, nearly ha...
-- 2021-06-30 17:54:11
The Bangladesh Bank has ordered commercial banks to allow transactions for three and a half hours daily during a strict lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak starting on Thursday. Besides weekly hol...
-- 2021-06-30 17:22:16
The government has moved to amend the existing Evidence Act 1872 to remove the ability of the defence in a rape case to bring up ‘negative remarks’ regarding a victim’s character or...
-- 2021-06-30 15:27:01
The Khulna Division has registered 27 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours and logged 1,277 new cases of the disease, according to Rasheda Sultana, director of the local Directorate General of He...
-- 2021-06-30 14:09:27
Anyone leaving home without sufficient cause during the weeklong lockdown from Thursday will be sued and may face arrest, says Md Shafiqul Islam, the chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. “If we...
FE Online Desk 2021-06-30 13:43:55
The country's early childhood education, considered the pillar of future success of children, is lagging far behind the developed countries, a local consulting firm has concluded in a policy brief. I...
-- 2021-06-30 13:35:24
Twelve more patients have died of Covid-19 at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) in the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. Of them, five were confirmed Covid-19 patients while the...
-- 2021-06-30 12:42:01
The Bangladesh army will be deployed alongside other law enforcement agencies to enforce the ‘strictest lockdown’ imposed by the government in its effort to curb the recent surge in corona...
-- 2021-06-30 12:25:01
Bangladesh has moved up by 25 places from its previous year's rank in the latest edition of the Global Cybersecurity Index, maintained by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Scoring an i...
-- 2021-06-30 10:34:50
The death toll in the Moghbazar explosion that led to the collapse of a three-storey building has reached nine, as another victim died from burn injuries. Imran Hossain, 25, who suffered burns on 90...
-- 2021-06-30 10:04:22
Three people have died after a motorbike hit an electricity pole at Parulia union in Debhata upazila of Satkhira district. The three men were travelling to Satkhira on a motorbike and rammed a roadsi...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-30 09:29:19
In the absence of radiologists and radiographers at the Sunamganj District Hospital, hundreds of treatment-seekers have been suffering much for a long. Besides, four X-ray machines had long been ly...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-30 09:14:15
Khanpur Union Health and Family Welfare Centre (KUHFWC) building under Sherpur upazila in Bogura is on the verge of collapse. But medicare services is being provided to the patients amid fear of the...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-06-30 09:01:05
The backlog in funding need for maintenance work on the country's road network has increased to 315 per cent this fiscal year in the absence of required budgetary allocation in the last fiscal year,...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2021-06-30 08:57:00
Bangladesh will load maiden nuclear fuel into first 1,200-megawatt (MW) unit of Rooppur 2,400MW nuclear power plant in February 2023 to start its operations. Fuel loading into another 1,200MW unit of...
-- 2021-06-29 22:04:05
Some 170,000 primary and secondary schools will be connected with high speed fibre optic internet connectivity within 2030, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said Monday. The state minister i...
-- 2021-06-29 21:15:32
The government has decided to inoculate workers travelling to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait with the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. The vaccination drive will begin on Thursday, Health Mini...
-- 2021-06-29 20:55:08
Two military-officer-turned BNP leaders have resigned from the party on personal and health grounds. BNP’s ex-forest and environment affairs secretary Col (retd) Shahjahan Mia and the party&rsq...
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