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Database can stop corruption in safety net schemes

Database can stop corruption in safety net schemes

SAIF UDDIN 2021-06-20 10:21:56

Official social safety-net programmes are still to fully cover the destitute despite some progress made in the electronic transfer of funds to the beneficiaries. For this, development activists have...

Intercropping with mango, guava orchards benefits farmers

Intercropping with mango, guava orchards benefits farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2021-06-20 10:10:20

Inter-cropping inside mango and Guava orchards in various villages under Durgapur upazila is benefitting the farmers financially. Ripon and Khokon, two brothers of the village Raipara of the upazila,...

Naogaon Amrapali being exported to UK

Naogaon Amrapali being exported to UK

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-20 09:07:03

NAOGAON: Meeting the local demand, the popular Amrapali variety of mangoes of the district are being exported to the United Kingdom. The first consignment of the dainty fruit has already left the cou...

Jute mill workers demand reopening of factories

Jute mill workers demand reopening of factories

FE REPORT 2021-06-20 09:01:15

The closed state-run jute mills workers and employees demanded on Saturday to the government for reopening of the mills through modernisation and pay their due salaries without delay. They said that...

Recruiting agencies demand rationalised airfare for outbound d Bangladeshi workers

Recruiting agencies demand rationalised airfare for outbound d Bangladeshi workers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-19 21:44:27

Manpower recruiting agencies, on Saturday, demanded rationalising air fare for outbound Bangladeshi workers so that they can avail it to go to job destination countries without any hassle. A panel of...

Bangladeshis’ deposits in Swiss banks increased by 62.6pc in 2020, says BNP

Bangladeshis’ deposits in Swiss banks increased by 62.6pc in 2020, says BNP

-- 2021-06-19 19:56:33

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the accounts of Bangladeshis in Swiss banks are increasing as the government has introduced an “economy of looting&rdqu...

Woman called 999 after killing three of her family, police say

Woman called 999 after killing three of her family, police say

-- 2021-06-19 19:10:38

A police official has said a woman threatened to murder her husband and daughter in a call to 999, the national helpline, after killing her parents and sister out of anger over her family’s acti...

Khaleda to return home from hospital Saturday evening

Khaleda to return home from hospital Saturday evening

-- 2021-06-19 18:14:29

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to return home this (Saturday) evening from the capital's Evercare Hospital after a long treatment for Covid infections and other physical complications. "The med...

Full fledge Monsoon showers drench Dhaka, most of the country

Full fledge Monsoon showers drench Dhaka, most of the country

UNB 2021-06-19 18:00:06

Dhaka woke up to another drenched morning Saturday as intermittent monsoon rains continued across the country. Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecasted Saturday, Monsoon trough is active over...

Ten organisations for persons with disabilities seek increase in allocation for employment

Ten organisations for persons with disabilities seek increase in allocation for employment

FE Online Report 2021-06-19 17:16:36

Country’s ten different organisations for Persons with Disabilities sought an increase in allocation for employment and social safety-net scheme in the proposed national budget for the fiscal ye...

Bangladesh reports 67 virus deaths; Khulna emerges as new hotspot

Bangladesh reports 67 virus deaths; Khulna emerges as new hotspot

-- 2021-06-19 17:00:57

Bangladesh has registered 67 new fatalities from the COVID-19 illness, the most in a day since May 2, with 24 of them reported in Khulna, a new coronavirus hotspot. This brings the death toll to 13,4...

PM to distribute over 53,000 houses to homeless Sunday

PM to distribute over 53,000 houses to homeless Sunday

UNB 2021-06-19 16:56:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's pledge to provide housing to the country's homeless people rolls on in full swing defying odds of pandemic and inclement weather. The long-time dream of over 53,340 hom...

Bangladesh resumes vaccine drive with Sinopharm doses

Bangladesh resumes vaccine drive with Sinopharm doses

-- 2021-06-19 16:15:51

Bangladesh has resumed its coronavirus vaccination drive by administering doses of the Sinopharm vaccine gifted by China. The government opened the second stage of the campaign on Saturday by vaccinat...

1,160 juveniles get bail during virtual hearing in 46 days

1,160 juveniles get bail during virtual hearing in 46 days

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-19 16:12:18

Virtual courts and tribunals have granted bail to 1,160 juveniles in the last 46 working days to Thursday amid the countrywide strict lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. Apart from this, a to...

Couple, daughter found dead in Dhaka

Couple, daughter found dead in Dhaka

-- 2021-06-19 16:10:04

Police have recovered the bodies of three members of a family from a house in Dhaka’s Kadamtali. After being informed, the law enforcers went to the scene and found the bodies on Saturday. The...

Rajshahi hospital sees 10 more Covid deaths in a day

Rajshahi hospital sees 10 more Covid deaths in a day

-- 2021-06-19 12:43:56

Ten more people have died of Covid-19 at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) in the past 24 hours, officials said Saturday. Among them, three were confirmed Covid cases, while the remaining...

Sinopharm doses reach Sylhet, Sherpur, Chattogram

Sinopharm doses reach Sylhet, Sherpur, Chattogram

-- 2021-06-18 22:03:49

Some 37,200 doses of China-made Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Sylhet on Friday for resuming the second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme. Premananda Mandal, Civil Surgeon of Sylhet, received...

Abu Taw Haa was ‘in hiding’ for personal reasons, police say

Abu Taw Haa was ‘in hiding’ for personal reasons, police say

-- 2021-06-18 21:00:54

Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan, who has been found a week after he mysteriously disappeared, was “hiding in a friend’s home due to personal reasons”, the police say. He...

Met office forecasts light, heavy rainfall on Saturday

Met office forecasts light, heavy rainfall on Saturday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-18 19:46:24

Light to heavy rainfall is likely to occur across the country including Dhaka on Saturday, according to a Met office bulletin. A 24- hour bulletin, issued by Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD...

Jashore, Kushtia register record COVID cases

Jashore, Kushtia register record COVID cases

-- 2021-06-18 19:16:55

Jashore and Kushtia have reported a record rise in coronavirus cases in daily count with four deaths each. The number of cases reported in Jashore in the 24 hours to Friday morning was 291 after the...

BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury freed from jail

BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury freed from jail

-- 2021-06-18 18:35:31

BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury has been released from jail on bail two and a half months after she was arrested in a case tied to the violence in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan. A member of the party&rsqu...

Bangladesh's COVID cases rise by 3,883, another 54 die

Bangladesh's COVID cases rise by 3,883, another 54 die

-- 2021-06-18 18:19:17

Bangladesh has recorded 3,883 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 844,970. The death toll climbed by 54 in 24 hours to 13,399, according to the latest gov...

Dhaka seeks incentive-based package for sustainable graduation of LDCs

Dhaka seeks incentive-based package for sustainable graduation of LDCs

-- 2021-06-18 16:54:48

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday called for an incentive-based and long-term package for the graduating and graduated countries from LDCs as they are at a high risk of sliding back -- both...

Lightning strike turns into deadliest disaster, experts say

Lightning strike turns into deadliest disaster, experts say

-- 2021-06-18 16:37:35

Lightning strikes have turned into one of the deadliest natural disasters in Bangladesh claiming over 200 lives every year due to the loss of natural defence and lack of precautionary measures, say ex...

Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa returns home

Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa returns home

-- 2021-06-18 16:27:44

Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan has returned home a week after he mysteriously disappeared on his way back to Dhaka from Rangpur, his family said. He returned to his home in Rangpur after...

Transporters engaged in export, import at Benapole violating health rules

Transporters engaged in export, import at Benapole violating health rules

-- 2021-06-18 16:10:20

Most of the drivers and their assistants from India, along with the transport workers of Bangladesh, are not following the health rules at Benapole Land Port properly and this lax enforcement of rules...

Rajshahi hospital records 12 more Covid deaths in a day

Rajshahi hospital records 12 more Covid deaths in a day

-- 2021-06-18 15:54:11

The coronavirus unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has reported another 12 deaths from the Covid-19 illness in a daily count. Six of them tested positive for the coronavirus, while others died...

Three die after bus rams car in Cumilla

Three die after bus rams car in Cumilla

-- 2021-06-18 14:54:54

Three people have been killed and another injured in a collision between a bus and a car in Cumilla. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in the district's Sadar Dakshin Upazila ea...

Tk 27m missing from Dhaka Bank vault, two held

Tk 27m missing from Dhaka Bank vault, two held

-- 2021-06-18 13:14:04

A sum of Tk 27.8 million has purportedly vanished from the vault of Dhaka Bank's Bangshal branch in Dhaka. Two people, including the vault supervisor 'Rifat', were arrested over the missing fund foll...

Jute mills workers in Khulna demand payment of arrear salaries

Jute mills workers in Khulna demand payment of arrear salaries

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-18 10:40:34

Two state-owned jute mills workers' organisations at a press conference at the Khulna Press Club on Thursday demanded payment of their arrear salaries and reopening of closed jute mills The angry w...