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Celebrate Eid where you are, PM says

-- 2021-05-06 15:18:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked Muslims to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul Fitr in their present locations to help check the spread of coronavirus across the country. “We all shouldn&rsquo...

Two militants arrested for plotting to attack parliament with ‘swords’

-- 2021-05-06 14:37:17

The police’s counterterrorism unit has arrested two people for ‘planning and instigating’ an attack on the parliament building with swords. One of the two arrestees, Abu Sakib, 22,...

Heavy traffic congestion on Dhaka roads as public transports resume

-- 2021-05-06 13:22:44

After 22 days of shutdown, public transport services resumed in the district and metropolitan areas across Bangladesh on Thursday. The government imposed a lockdown on Apr 5 to curb the spread of the...

River vessel workers seek permission to run passenger launches

FE REPORT 2021-05-06 10:05:31

The leaders of Bangladesh River Vessel Workers' Federation (BRVWF) demanded on Wednesday to the government to allow them to operate passenger launches by maintaining health safety guidelines. They al...

Tk 3.13m a km required for traffic signals!

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2021-05-06 10:01:40

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will spend a whopping Tk 3.13 million per kilometre for installing traffic signs and signals on a zonal road in Tangail. The road developer proposed to invest...

Woman loses life to muggers in city

-- 2021-05-05 20:42:21

A woman died falling off a rickshaw as hijackers tried to snatch her bag from a private car at Kamlapur in the capital. The deceased was identified as Sunita Rani Das, 50. "I was going for a job int...

Orion Pharma initiates move to produce Russian vaccine in Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-05 20:13:10

Bangladeshi drugmaker Orion Pharma Ltd has initiated a move to manufacture Russian coronavirus vaccine in Bangladesh. The company disclosed the development on the Dhaka Stock Exchange on Wednesday, s...

'Serum to return money if fails to provide vaccine'

-- 2021-05-05 19:20:32

Serum Institute of India will return the money paid by Bangladesh for purchasing the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine if it fails to supply it, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. “We don&...

President to take second dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday

-- 2021-05-05 19:17:19

President M Abdul Hamid will receive the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Thursday. “The President will take the second first of coronavirus vaccine at 1 pm at Bangabh...

Covid vaccine stock running out: DGHS

-- 2021-05-05 18:18:32

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday said the stock of the Covid-19 vaccine is running out in Bangladesh as there are only 14 lakh jabs in government hands with no sign in si...

Two ‘Neo-JMB members’ held in city

-- 2021-05-05 17:55:04

Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested two suspected members of the banned militant group ‘Neo-JMB’ from the city&r...

Lawyer challenges Bangladesh lockdown in court, judges fine him for wasting time

-- 2021-05-05 16:52:50

The High Court has turned down a lawyer’s petition that challenged the legality of the government’s coronavirus ‘lockdown’ restrictions Supreme Court Advocate Yunus Ali Akhand...

Raihan’s death: SI Akbar among six charge-sheeted 

-- 2021-05-05 16:33:07

Police pressed charges against six people, including the sacked sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiya of Bandarbazar Police outpost in connection with the death of Raihan Ahmed at the outpost last year....

Bangladesh logs 1,742 virus cases, 50 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-05 16:23:57

Bangladesh has registered 50 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a day, taking the death toll to 11,755. The caseload jumped by 1,742 in a 24-hour count on Wednesday to 767,338, according to the l...

Efforts intensified to get AstraZeneca vaccines from US, foreign minister says

-- 2021-05-05 15:45:56

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said the government has intensified its efforts to get vaccine from the United States (US) as it will share up to 60 million doses of its Oxford-AstraZe...

Another 160 Bangladeshi workers return from Libya

FE Online Report 2021-05-05 14:46:58

Around 160 Bangladeshi workers who remained stranded in Libya were brought back home on Wednesday morning. The government has repatriated them with the support of International Organization for Migra...

Govt extends virus lockdown to May 16

-- 2021-05-05 13:50:45

The Bangladesh government has extended its current pandemic restrictions to May 16, taking into account the current pandemic situation, but eased the ban on public transport. Intra-district and...

Mamata Banerjee takes oath as Bengal CM

-- 2021-05-05 13:22:28

Mamata Banerjee, affectionately called Didi, on Wednesday took her oath as the chief minister of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal for the third time. The 66-year-old firebrand politician was a...

Boro harvesting begins amid labour shortage

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-05-05 10:17:54

Boro paddy harvesting has begun in Bogura district amid an acute shortage of farm labourers as the labourers from different adjacent districts could not visit the region due to the ongoing pandemic-in...

Stakeholders suggest making websites accessible to persons with disabilities

FE Report 2021-05-05 10:04:55

Speakers at a programme on Tuesday urged the authorities concerned to make all the websites of different local organisations accessible to persons with disabilities. They said all websites should be...

Youth shot dead by Indian locals along Sylhet border

-- 2021-05-04 21:54:26

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead Tuesday allegedly by members of the Indian indigenous Khasia community near the border in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet. The deceased was identified as Moqbul Ali, 28,...

SCBA meeting to pick new president descends into chaos

-- 2021-05-04 21:04:58

An extraordinary general meeting of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to pick its new president after the death of Abdul Matin Khasru has ended in chaos. Pro-Awami League lawyers declared former p...

GM Quader for mega projects to improve healthcare

UNB 2021-05-04 20:44:38

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Tuesday urged the government to make adequate allocations in the upcoming budget for taking mega projects to improve the country's healthcare system. "Mega projects...

Govt gets no application for Khaleda’s treatment abroad, home minister says

BSS 2021-05-04 20:38:18

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday said the government has not received any request so far to take BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia abroad for her medical treatment. “We have not...

Virtual courts, tribunals grant bail to 345 juveniles

FE Online Report 2021-05-04 20:08:21

Virtual courts and tribunals have granted bail to 345 juveniles in the last 15 working days to Monday.   Besides, a total of 26, 308 people secured bail in the last 15 working days as the courts...

AMR can even threaten food security, says PM

UNB 2021-05-04 19:46:17

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) will not only endanger human, animal and plant health, but also threaten food security and the progress achieved in SDGs. "...

More 53,500 homeless families to get land, houses in June

-- 2021-05-04 19:34:33

The government will build houses for more 53,500 families, who have no land or home, in June as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gift in Mujib Year. The poor families will get the homes and land...

Boat crash survivor child is alone with grief after burial of family members

-- 2021-05-04 19:23:29

After losing her parents and two sisters in a boat crash on the Padma River in Madaripur, grief is the only thing left to nine-year-old Meem. Quiet, staring blankly at the people around her, the orph...

Court orders release of Ctg woman wrongly put behind bars  

-- 2021-05-04 19:18:34

A Chattogram court on Tuesday ordered the release of Hasina Begum put behind bars wrongly one and a half years back. Additional Metropolitan Session Court-4 Judge Shariful Alam Bhuiyan passed the ord...

PM asks state-owned companies to be self-reliant

-- 2021-05-04 19:15:29

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked state-owned companies like Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) to be self-reliant so that they do not have to depend on government funds. Th...