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Probe body formed over speedboat capsize in Padma

Probe body formed over speedboat capsize in Padma

-- 2021-05-03 14:39:42

A six-member committee was formed on Monday to investigate the speedboat capsize in the Padma River that claimed the lives of 26 people in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district. The local administra...

School teacher ‘kills self’ in Thakurgaon

School teacher ‘kills self’ in Thakurgaon

-- 2021-05-03 12:32:18

A school teacher reportedly committed suicide by taking poison in Pirganj upazila of Thakurgaon district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Jebunnesa, 45, an assistant teacher of Basbhanga Beg...

Padma speedboat capsize leaves 26 dead

Padma speedboat capsize leaves 26 dead

FE Online Report 2021-05-03 11:02:53

At least 26 people were killed as a passenger speedboat sank on the river Padma after it was hit by a sand-carrying trawler in Madaripur's Shibchar Upazila on Monday morning. An official of the Fire...

Number of Rotavirus-infected children increasing in Cumilla

Number of Rotavirus-infected children increasing in Cumilla

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-05-03 09:43:11

The number of children infected with rotavirus is increasing day by day in Cumilla. The outbreak of the virus has increased in Chauddagram upazila of the district, health department sources said. At...

Mobile internet users rise 3m in a month: BTRC

Mobile internet users rise 3m in a month: BTRC

FE REPORT 2021-05-03 09:30:16

The country's mobile internet users increased by three million in a month, according to Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) data. The data released on Sunday shows that the...

Minister, experts have difference of opinion on health sector progress

Minister, experts have difference of opinion on health sector progress

FE REPORT 2021-05-03 09:24:44

The health minister and experts at a programme on Sunday differed on the actual progress in the health sector and other issues after 50 years of the country's independence. Health minister Zahid Male...

Bangladeshi stabbed to death in Malaysia

Bangladeshi stabbed to death in Malaysia

-- 2021-05-02 21:50:43

A Bangladeshi man died while two others were injured after being stabbed with a screwdriver in a brawl with fellow countrymen at a workers' dormitory in Mahkota Industrial Park, Banting last Friday....

24-day remand sought for Mamunul Haque

24-day remand sought for Mamunul Haque

UNB   2021-05-02 21:19:42

Police have sought remand of 24 days for former Hefazat-e-Islam joint general secretary Mamunul Haque in three different cases of violence and rape lodged in Sonargaon police station. District police...

Experts say lockdown likely to pay off in containing Covid surge

Experts say lockdown likely to pay off in containing Covid surge

UNB 2021-05-02 21:12:42

Experts think that the ongoing lockdown in Bangladesh appears to be paying off as both the active coronavirus cases and death toll have marked a sharp fall over the last few days in the country. They...

Benapole, Narail hotels filled with India returnees

Benapole, Narail hotels filled with India returnees

-- 2021-05-02 20:59:22

Bangladeshis returning from India through Benapole checkpost are being sent to hotels in Khulna for 14-days quarantine. Since Saturday, India-returnees have been sent to Khulna. After all the 12 hot...

Sharun Chowdhury faces charges of murdering Muniya 

Sharun Chowdhury faces charges of murdering Muniya 

-- 2021-05-02 20:53:26

The brother of Mosarat Jahan Muniya has filed a petition to start a case accusing Sharun Chowdhury, son of whip Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury, of murdering the college student, reports bdnews24.com. The la...

It is very difficult to understand character of corona, Obaidul Quader says

It is very difficult to understand character of corona, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-05-02 20:20:24

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged countrymen to pay more attention to strict hygiene as it is very difficult to understand the character of coronavirus. "It is very difficu...

ASI killed in Bhola road crash

ASI killed in Bhola road crash

-- 2021-05-02 19:48:29

At least one person was killed in a road crash in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Borhanuddin Police Station ASI Aklima Akhter (38), wife of SI Jasim Uddin...

PM donates Tk 100 million for Covid-hit homeless people

PM donates Tk 100 million for Covid-hit homeless people

-- 2021-05-02 19:15:09

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday provided Tk 100 million to two separate funds for helping Covid-hit people and the rehabilitation of landless and homeless people. She provided the financial as...

CMCH interns withdraw strike after four days

CMCH interns withdraw strike after four days

-- 2021-05-02 18:27:00

Interns of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH), who went on work abstention demanding punishment of the attackers on their fellows, withdrew their strike on Sunday. This decision was taken at...

High Court clears way to hold FBCCI polls

High Court clears way to hold FBCCI polls

-- 2021-05-02 18:19:40

The High Court (HC) has removed all the legal bars to hold election of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). A High Court division virtual bench of Justice M Enayetur Ra...

Rain likely in parts of country

Rain likely in parts of country

-- 2021-05-02 17:07:49

Dhaka and seven other divisions are likely to witness rain in the next 24 hours commencing 9:00am on Sunday. Bangladesh Meteorological Department made the forecast on Sunday. “Rain/thunder sho...

Transport workers demand resumption of public transport

Transport workers demand resumption of public transport

-- 2021-05-02 16:49:31

Transport workers on Sunday brought out a procession in the city's Sayedabad area to press home their three-point demand including the resumption of public transport maintaining health protocols. The...

1.5m families getting PM’s Eid gifts through Nagad

1.5m families getting PM’s Eid gifts through Nagad

-- 2021-05-02 16:36:40

Nagad, the mobile financial service arm of Bangladesh Post Office, has started disbursing Prime Minister’s financial assistance as Eid gifts to some 1497,000 families of the country whose liveli...

SC extends all interim bail orders for next four weeks

SC extends all interim bail orders for next four weeks

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-02 16:35:55

The Supreme Court (SC) authorities extended all the High Court (HC) ad-interim bail orders and effectiveness of all others ad-interim orders for the next four weeks amid the prevailing Covid-19 pandem...

Bangladesh logs 1,359 virus cases, 69 deaths in 24 hours

Bangladesh logs 1,359 virus cases, 69 deaths in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-02 16:28:38

Bangladesh has registered 69 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a day, taking the death toll to 11,579. The caseload rose by 1,359 in a 24-hour count on Sunday to 760,584, according to data relea...

Road accidents in Bangladesh claim 468 lives in April

Road accidents in Bangladesh claim 468 lives in April

-- 2021-05-02 16:21:06

At least 468 people were killed and 507 others injured in 432 road accidents across the country in the last month amid the nationwide lockdown, said Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers' welfa...

78 Bangladeshis, foreign nationals arrive in Dhaka from Thailand

78 Bangladeshis, foreign nationals arrive in Dhaka from Thailand

-- 2021-05-02 16:07:23

A group of 78 Bangladeshis, Thai, and other foreign nationals arrived in Dhaka from Thailand on Saturday. Bangladesh Embassy in Bangkok facilitated the repatriation of the passengers by a special Bim...

Govt will procure vaccines at any expense, PM says

Govt will procure vaccines at any expense, PM says

-- 2021-05-02 14:18:53

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the government will procure vaccines at any cost to protect people from coronavirus. "We’re bringing more vaccines, no matter how much money is requi...

Five of a family among six killed in Sylhet road crash

Five of a family among six killed in Sylhet road crash

-- 2021-05-02 13:55:31

Six people, including five members of a family, were killed in a road accident in Ferighat area on Sylhet-Tamabil road under Jointapur upazila of the district this morning. The deceased were identifi...

Son allegedly kills father in Feni

Son allegedly kills father in Feni

-- 2021-05-02 10:47:48

A man was beaten to death allegedly by his son over a family feud at Purba Debipur in Sadar upazila of Feni district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Saidul Haque, 80 of the village, repor...

Truck ploughs into autorickshaw in Sylhet, killing five

Truck ploughs into autorickshaw in Sylhet, killing five

-- 2021-05-02 10:34:00

A truck has ploughed into an autorickshaw in Jaintapur Upazila of Sylhet, leaving at least five people dead and two others injured. The incident occurred on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway in Ferighat are...

Muniya’s sister alleges death threat

Muniya’s sister alleges death threat

-- 2021-05-02 10:16:19

The sister of Mosarat Jahan Muniya, who allegedly took her own life following instigation by Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, has filed a police complaint saying that she has be...

Bangladesh witnesses 2,404 COVID-19 deaths  in April

Bangladesh witnesses 2,404 COVID-19 deaths in April

-- 2021-05-01 22:53:07

April has proved to the cruellest month for Bangladesh in terms of deaths from COVID-19 with the government reporting 2,404 deaths, the most in a month since the coronavirus outbreak began ove...

Students should read all kinds of books, Dipu Moni says

Students should read all kinds of books, Dipu Moni says

-- 2021-05-01 21:46:23

Education Minister Dipu Moni has it is necessary to create opportunities for students to read all kinds of books including art-literature, science and history besides textbooks to build students as hu...