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10 more die in 24 hours at RMCH Covid unit

10 more die in 24 hours at RMCH Covid unit

-- 2021-06-27 13:17:26

Ten more patients have died in the last 24 hours to Sunday morning at the Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH), raising the toll at the facility to 301 since the start of June. T...

Thousands gather at Shimulia terminal after lockdown notice

Thousands gather at Shimulia terminal after lockdown notice

-- 2021-06-27 13:07:41

Thousands of people have gathered at Shimulia ferry port in Munshiganj district after the announcement of a lockdown in Dhaka and its surrounding districts. Fifteen of the 16 ferries on the Shimulia-...

32 get Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award

32 get Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award

-- 2021-06-27 12:03:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has awarded the prestigious Bangabandhu Jatiya Krishi Puroshkar-1424, the highest state recognition for achievements in the agriculture sector, to 32 individuals and organ...

Digital Bangladesh requires convergence of SMEs, ICT

Digital Bangladesh requires convergence of SMEs, ICT

FE REPORT 2021-06-27 10:36:09

Covid-19 has impacted all aspects of our lives and continues to do so in profound ways. As much as everyone talks about moving into the 'new normal' and adapting to all the seemingly alien protocols....

Bangladesh war crimes prosecutor Zead-al Malum dies

Bangladesh war crimes prosecutor Zead-al Malum dies

-- 2021-06-27 10:22:22

Zead-al Malum, the International Crimes Tribunal counsel who was involved in the prosecution of top war criminals, has died in hospital care. He breathed his last at the Combined Military Hospital in...

Char lands in Tangail make poor farmers self-reliant

Char lands in Tangail make poor farmers self-reliant

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-27 10:09:23

A few upazilas of Tangail district are surrounded by the Jamuna and Dhaleshwari rivers. Once the Jamuna and Dhaleshwari rivers were mighty. At present, many sandy chars have emerged on the rivers. The...

Rajshahi cattle rearers apprehend huge loss for coronavirus pandemic

Rajshahi cattle rearers apprehend huge loss for coronavirus pandemic

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-27 10:01:02

With nearly one month left ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, cattle rearers engaged in fattening bulls and cows are now busy taking care of their animals at their farms of Durgapur upazila of Rajshahi di...

Tk 50m road lying unused!

Tk 50m road lying unused!

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-27 09:53:11

The 11-km road constructed at a cost of Tk 50 million has been lying unused for three years as only half a kilometre couldn't be completed for negligence of the authority concerned. This is why over...

TIB praises decision to scrap 10 coal-based power plants

TIB praises decision to scrap 10 coal-based power plants

FE REPORT 2021-06-27 09:12:20

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has welcomed a decision taken by the government to discard 10 coal-based power plant projects in the country. The anti-corruption watchdog also expressed c...

Mad rush home ahead of strict lockdown

Mad rush home ahead of strict lockdown

FE REPORT 2021-06-27 08:22:03

People continued to leave the city in a mad rush on Saturday, ahead of a strict lockdown to be imposed by the government from July 1 to rein in the spread of coronavirus. But most of all had to suffe...

Vaccination of most adults key to saving Bangladesh's private sector: Experts

Vaccination of most adults key to saving Bangladesh's private sector: Experts

FE REPORT 2021-06-27 08:04:03

Vaccination to the extent 70 per cent of the adult population can help save the private sector from the Covid-induced economic losses, experts said at a virtual discussion on Saturday. Without vaccin...

Govt alters lockdown plans, strict curbs to start on Jul 1

Govt alters lockdown plans, strict curbs to start on Jul 1

-- 2021-06-26 22:51:24

The government has altered its new lockdown plan, with COVID-19 restrictions starting on a limited scale on Monday, followed by a stricter lockdown for seven days from Jul 1, reports bdnews24.com The...

Experts share insights on budget

Experts share insights on budget

Imrul Hasan 2021-06-26 22:32:49

The Chittagong University (CU) Bureau of Business Research (BBR) from business faculty, arranged a webinar on June 24, 2021, with the theme- ‘National Budget 2021-2022 for protecting lives and L...

Health Minister defends lockdown amid vaccine supply crunch

Health Minister defends lockdown amid vaccine supply crunch

-- 2021-06-26 22:08:26

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has defended his government’s plan to tighten the lockdown and said it is the only alternative to immunisation amid a lack of COVID-19 vaccines. Bangladesh has mov...

Obaidul Quader describes BNP as party of repressors, looters

Obaidul Quader describes BNP as party of repressors, looters

-- 2021-06-26 20:30:16

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has described BNP as a political party of branded repressors and looters of people’s property. The road transport and bridges minister came up with...

1,557 journalists urge government to show sympathy towards Khaleda

1,557 journalists urge government to show sympathy towards Khaleda

-- 2021-06-26 20:25:08

A group of journalists have urged the government to show sympathy towards former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia by allowing her to take advanced treatment abroad considering her overall contributions to t...

Export oriented factories to not remain under purview of ‘strict lockdown’

Export oriented factories to not remain under purview of ‘strict lockdown’

UNB 2021-06-26 20:22:04

Readymade garment and all other export-oriented factories will remain open during the nationwide 'strict lockdown' which is set to begin on Monday.Sources Bangladesh Garment Exporters and Manufacturer...

Bangladesh hopes to get 110m vaccine doses by December

Bangladesh hopes to get 110m vaccine doses by December

-- 2021-06-26 20:03:13

Bangladesh hopes to procure 110 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines from different sources by December enabling it to provide the jabs to over 50 million people, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said on S...

TIB welcomes decision to scrap 10 coal-based power projects

TIB welcomes decision to scrap 10 coal-based power projects

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-26 19:16:08

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has welcomed a decision taken by the government to scrap 10 coal-based power plant projects in the country. The anti-corruption watchdog also expressed con...

Bangladesh Agricultural Journalist Forum gets new committee

Bangladesh Agricultural Journalist Forum gets new committee

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-26 19:09:35

Bangladesh Agricultural Journalist Forum (BAJF) gets new committee for the period of 2021-2022. Daily Prothom Alo Senior Reporter Golam Iftekhar Mahmud has been elected as President and Daily Bonik B...

Health complexes to get specialist doctors

Health complexes to get specialist doctors

UNB 2021-06-26 18:24:33

All the 50-bed health complexes across the country are going to have 10 specialist physicians each under a government programme to reach quality healthcare to the common people. According to an offic...

Bangladesh reports 4,334 new cases, 77 deaths

Bangladesh reports 4,334 new cases, 77 deaths

-- 2021-06-26 18:16:35

Bangladesh has reported 4,334 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the tally of infections to 883,138. The death toll surged by 77 in the same period to 14,053, according to the latest government r...

Indian Air Chief  Rakesh  to review BAFA parade

Indian Air Chief Rakesh to review BAFA parade

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-26 17:29:58

Indian Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria arrived in Dhaka on Saturday, on a three day visit on invitation from the chief of Air Staff, Bangladesh Air Force. The Indian Air Force chief is...

COVID-19 death rates higher in Chandpur, Cumilla, Brahmanbaria, Munshiganj

COVID-19 death rates higher in Chandpur, Cumilla, Brahmanbaria, Munshiganj

-- 2021-06-26 17:03:10

Chandpur, Cumilla, Brahmanbaria and Munshiganj have a morality rate of over 4 per cent among COVID-19 patients, while the average rate in all 64 districts is 1.59 per cent. The four districts lie clo...

Bangladesh to get 2.5m Moderna vaccine doses under COVAX

Bangladesh to get 2.5m Moderna vaccine doses under COVAX

-- 2021-06-26 16:43:59

Bangladesh is set to receive 2.5 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by US biotech company Moderna. The doses would to arrive within seven to 10 days under the global vaccine-sharing p...

Nine more die of Covid-19 in Khulna

Nine more die of Covid-19 in Khulna

-- 2021-06-26 15:17:26

Nine more people have died of Covid-19 at two different hospitals in Khulna in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Saturday. While seven people died at the dedicated Covid facility of Khulna...

Shutdown triggers exodus from Dhaka

Shutdown triggers exodus from Dhaka

-- 2021-06-26 14:02:19

The announcement of a strict lockdown across Bangladesh has triggered a rush at Shimulia ferry terminal as droves of people look to leave Dhaka amid a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. A gl...

All citizen services will be available online by 2025, Palak says

All citizen services will be available online by 2025, Palak says

-- 2021-06-26 13:32:55

By 2025, all public and private services in the country will be available online. This has been announced by State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak. “The government is working to ma...

Coronavirus: Rajshahi hospital registers 17 more deaths in a day

Coronavirus: Rajshahi hospital registers 17 more deaths in a day

-- 2021-06-26 12:36:43

Seventeen more people have died at the COVID unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in the past 24 hours. Nine of the dead were from Rajshahi, four were from Chapainawabganj, two from Nator...

People defy lockdown

People defy lockdown

FE REPORT 2021-06-26 09:50:44

Despite the ongoing lockdown in seven districts around Dhaka, people were seen entering and leaving the capital city on Friday. They were seen moving on foot to cross police check-posts at all entry...