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BNP wants permanent accommodation for slum dwellers

BNP wants permanent accommodation for slum dwellers

UNB 2021-06-08 18:21:31

BNP on Tuesday demanded the government arrange permanent accommodation for slum dwellers. ""The government's first priority should be to ensure permanent accommodation for them (slum dwellers). Adequ...

BNP chose path of conspiracy, accuses Quader

BNP chose path of conspiracy, accuses Quader

UNB 2021-06-08 18:14:58

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said that the BNP has chosen the path of conspiracy to avenge its defeat in both elections and movement. "If any violent situation is created...

Speakers call for ensuring safe and healthy food for consumers    

Speakers call for ensuring safe and healthy food for consumers    

-- 2021-06-08 17:12:56

Expressing grave concern over the excess use of insecticide in agriculture, antibiotic in poultry birds and harmful elements in food, speakers at an event called for ensuring safe and healthy foods...

COVID-19: 2,322 new cases, 44 deaths recorded in 24 hours

COVID-19: 2,322 new cases, 44 deaths recorded in 24 hours

-- 2021-06-08 16:45:12

Bangladesh has recorded 2,322 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily count since April 29, taking the tally of infections to 815,282. The death toll jumped to 12,913 after 44 people died from the illn...

High Court rejects writ challenging gazette on Papul’s MP post

High Court rejects writ challenging gazette on Papul’s MP post

-- 2021-06-08 14:41:00

The High Court on Tuesday rejected a writ petition filed by ex-Laxmipur-2 lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul's wife challenging the gazette notification that declared the MP’s seat vacant. The bench o...

New restrictions imposed in Chapainawabganj to curb virus

New restrictions imposed in Chapainawabganj to curb virus

-- 2021-06-08 14:26:21

After the end of a 14-day lockdown in Chapainawabganj district, the local administration has imposed some restrictions on public movement to break the chain of Covid-19 transmission. Deputy Commissio...

Rain, thunderstorms likely to lash parts of country

Rain, thunderstorms likely to lash parts of country

-- 2021-06-08 14:08:55

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by the temporary gusty wind in many parts of the country commencing around 9:00 am on Tuesd...

Irregularities, corruption continue in public hospitals, says TIB

Irregularities, corruption continue in public hospitals, says TIB

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-08 13:39:26

Irregularities and corruption continue in the country’s various public hospitals in the expenditure of allocation for tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study report. The study, con...

Eight more Covid patients die at Rajshahi hospital in a day

Eight more Covid patients die at Rajshahi hospital in a day

-- 2021-06-08 13:15:03

Eight more Covid patients died in the past 24 hours at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH), health officials said on Tuesday. "Of the deceased, three had tested positive for Covid-19. Among...

Week-long lockdown imposed in Natore, Singra

Week-long lockdown imposed in Natore, Singra

-- 2021-06-08 12:04:52

Authorities have decided to enforce a week-long lockdown in Natore and Singra municipality areas starting Wednesday to contain the spread of Covid-19. Natore Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Shahriaz too...

Jamuna erosion threatens 13 villages

Jamuna erosion threatens 13 villages

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-08 11:45:24

Serious erosion, caused by the upper stream of the Jamuna River, has threatened 13 villages of four unions under Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj district. Meanwhile, hundreds of homes and croplands h...

OSD placement for an indefinite time unjust: HC

OSD placement for an indefinite time unjust: HC

FE REPORT 2021-06-08 11:35:48

The High Court has observed in a full verdict that keeping a government official as officer on special duty (OSD) for an indefinite period is grossly unfair, unjust and an infraction of a person's f...

Gas supply to remain suspended in city Tuesday

Gas supply to remain suspended in city Tuesday

UNB 2021-06-07 22:42:35

The supply of gas will remain suspended for 12 hours from (9 am to 9 pm) at some areas of the city on Tuesday. According to Titas Gas Supply and Transmission Company Ltd, the areas include Kamlapur R...

‘Registered people will get Pfizer vaccine first’

‘Registered people will get Pfizer vaccine first’

UNB 2021-06-07 22:10:54

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said that Pfizer vaccine shots for Covid-19 will be given at four centres in Dhaka to those who have already registered. He added that the Pfizer vaccine diluents wi...

Bangladesh to keep advancing with dignity, says PM

Bangladesh to keep advancing with dignity, says PM

-- 2021-06-07 21:31:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh will continue advancing as a nation with dignity and will be established as a developed and prosperous country in the global arena. “We ha...

Sylhet again jolted by successive earthquakes  

Sylhet again jolted by successive earthquakes  

UNB 2021-06-07 20:21:08

Two earthquakes in two minutes jolted Sylhet on Monday evening, reports our local correspondent. The tremors were felt at 6:27 pm and 6:29 pm, according to the report. The magnitude of the quakes co...

Govt selects four centres in Dhaka to administer Pfizer vaccine

Govt selects four centres in Dhaka to administer Pfizer vaccine

-- 2021-06-07 19:51:07

The government has selected four centres in Dhaka to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after Jun 13, the health minister has said. The diluents for the frozen Pfizer doses are expected...

Payment for environmental clearance certificate to come under automation

Payment for environmental clearance certificate to come under automation

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-07 19:22:26

The environment ministry has decided to introduce an online payment method in order to deliver services quickly, including providing the environmental clearance certificate to service seekers. ...

Around 58,000 people secured bail in 36 working days through virtual court

Around 58,000 people secured bail in 36 working days through virtual court

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-07 18:04:28

A total of 57,917 people secured bail in the 36 working days until Monday as the virtual courts and tribunals settled a total of 112,181 petitions. The virtual courts and tribunals have granted bail...

Bangladesh to run 19 more trains in pandemic

Bangladesh to run 19 more trains in pandemic

-- 2021-06-07 17:37:13

Bangladesh Railways is resuming services on nine more inter-city and 10 mail and commuter trains after easing pandemic restrictions from Wednesday, Jun 9. Tickets, previously sold online amid pandemi...

Budgetary allocation for persons with disabilities is insufficient

Budgetary allocation for persons with disabilities is insufficient

-- 2021-06-07 16:56:24

Referring that allocation on disability head is only 2.07 per cent of total allocation for social safety net program and only 0.37 per cent of total national budget, experts at a webinar on Sunday obs...

1,970 new coronavirus cases, 30 deaths reported in 24 hours

1,970 new coronavirus cases, 30 deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2021-06-07 16:10:46

Bangladesh has recorded 1,970 new cases of coronavirus infection and 30 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am on Monday. With the latest figures, the COVID-19 caseload has surged...

‘Give me the names’: Kamal seeks help from opposition to curb money laundering

‘Give me the names’: Kamal seeks help from opposition to curb money laundering

-- 2021-06-07 14:34:15

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says that he does not have any information on people involved in money laundering from Bangladesh. Kamal called on the opposition to provide the government with any...

New Hifazat committee drops Mamunul, but keeps Babunagari as chief

New Hifazat committee drops Mamunul, but keeps Babunagari as chief

-- 2021-06-07 13:09:39

Hifazat-e Islam has announced a new 33-member central committee, excluding ‘controversial’ leaders such as former Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque and Organising Secretary Azizul Hoqu...

Strict restrictions imposed in Kushtia to curb virus

Strict restrictions imposed in Kushtia to curb virus

-- 2021-06-07 12:47:17

Amid the worsening Covid-19 situation in the frontier districts of the country, the local administration in Kushtia has imposed strict restrictions on public movement. The local administration has is...

Lightning strikes claim three more lives in three districts

Lightning strikes claim three more lives in three districts

-- 2021-06-07 12:11:38

Three people, including two women, were killed in lightning strikes in Magura, Khulna, and Madaripur districts on Sunday. In Magura, Sakiron Nesa, 50, wife of Surman Sheikh of Ghullia village in Moha...

Fire guts over 100 shanties at Mohakhali slum

Fire guts over 100 shanties at Mohakhali slum

-- 2021-06-07 11:46:05

Over 100 shanties were gutted in a fierce fire at a slum in Mohakhali area of Dhaka on Monday. Quamrul Ahsan, duty officer at the Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters control room, said the fi...

Aurangzeb era mosque needs a facelift

Aurangzeb era mosque needs a facelift

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-06-07 10:32:45

Renovation work of the newly-discovered historical mosque of Aurangzeb era at Chhoto Soondar village in Rampur union of Chandpur Sadar Upazila has remained suspended for three years- to the surprise o...

US will give Bangladesh COVID vaccine 'soon', says minister

US will give Bangladesh COVID vaccine 'soon', says minister

-- 2021-06-06 22:23:10

The United States government has agreed to supply coronavirus vaccines from its own stocks to help crisis-stricken Bangladesh, according to Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. However, the minister did...

Bangabandhu killers' gallantry awards revoked

Bangabandhu killers' gallantry awards revoked

UNB 2021-06-06 21:24:39

The government issued a gazette notification Sunday revoking the state gallantry awards of four convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The gazette issued from the Ministry of Liberat...