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Blast disease damages vast tracts of paddy field

Blast disease damages vast tracts of paddy field

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-30 10:52:30

Hundreds of farmers of Lalmonirhat district have become frustrated about the attack of blast diseases in their paddy fields. Just before the ripening blast diseases are damaging the whole paddy fields...

Urban planners call for pragmatic decision on subway

Urban planners call for pragmatic decision on subway

FE REPORT 2021-04-30 10:26:58

Urban experts have said the decision to implement the costly subway project in Dhaka should be more pragmatic, given the country's socio-economic status. There is no strategic direction for such subw...

Apparel workers’ woes mounted during lockdown: Report

Apparel workers’ woes mounted during lockdown: Report

FE REPORT 2021-04-30 09:35:23

Vulnerability of garment workers, who underwent a significant pay cut during the last coronavirus lockdown months, multiplied in Bangladesh due to the pandemic, according to a latest report. The repo...

Minister admits negligence in health sector development

Minister admits negligence in health sector development

FE REPORT 2021-04-30 09:24:49

Health minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday acknowledged negligence on part of the authorities in developing the health sector as the result of which was being experienced amid the coronavirus pandemic....

Health experts ask authorities to find alternative sources of oxygen

Health experts ask authorities to find alternative sources of oxygen

SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2021-04-30 09:16:20

Health experts have urged the government to urgently look for alternative sources of oxygen import and adopt medium-and long-term national plans to increase local production and supply of the lifesavi...

Auto-rickshaw, light vehicle workers demand food support

Auto-rickshaw, light vehicle workers demand food support

-- 2021-04-29 22:27:03

Auto-rickshaw drivers and light vehicle workers organised a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Thursday demanding food support and allowing their operation by ensuring health safety ru...

Bangladesh allows changing Covid vaccination centre for second dose

Bangladesh allows changing Covid vaccination centre for second dose

-- 2021-04-29 22:03:01

Citizens who have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine can change the immunisation centre for their second dose, reports bdnews24.com. But the changed centre for the second dose cannot...

Quader for quick start of Chittagong-Cox's Bazar four-lane works

Quader for quick start of Chittagong-Cox's Bazar four-lane works

-- 2021-04-29 19:22:45

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to begin work as soon as possible to upgrade the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar road into a four- lane one. He s...

Govt instructs industrial units to pay salary, bonus by May 10

Govt instructs industrial units to pay salary, bonus by May 10

FE Online Report 2021-04-29 18:02:40

The government has asked all industrial units to pay workers’ monthly wages and festival allowance by May 10. The instruction came at a meeting held Thursday at Srama Bhaban in the city. State...

USAID-funded 61 multipurpose cyclone shelters ready to be used

USAID-funded 61 multipurpose cyclone shelters ready to be used

FE Online Report 2021-04-29 17:25:42

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over 61 USAID-refurbished and renovated multi-purpose cyclone shelters (MPCS) to the Government of Bangladesh on Thursday to mark...

Bangladesh reports 88 Covid deaths, 2,341 new cases

Bangladesh reports 88 Covid deaths, 2,341 new cases

-- 2021-04-29 16:49:28

Bangladesh has registered 88 new fatalities from the coronavirus in a day, taking the death toll to 11,393. The caseload surged to 756,955 after 2,341 people, the lowest since March 21, tested positi...

Army recovers weapons, ammunition in Bandarban

Army recovers weapons, ammunition in Bandarban

FE Online Report 2021-04-29 16:34:34

A cache of weapon, ammunition, uniforms and money were recovered from a hideout of a local insurgent group at Noapatang union of Rowangchhari Upazila in Bandarban district in an army operation recentl...

Hifazat leader Harun Izhar held for links to violence

Hifazat leader Harun Izhar held for links to violence

-- 2021-04-29 16:20:14

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Mufti Harun Izhar, education and cultural affairs secretary of the now defunct central committee of radical Islamist group Hifazat-e Islam. Harun was arrested on T...

In first, Bangladesh, Indonesia hold Foreign Office Consultations

In first, Bangladesh, Indonesia hold Foreign Office Consultations

FE Online Report 2021-04-29 15:51:57

Bangladesh and Indonesia held their first-ever Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) on Thursday with two sides comprehensively reviewing the present status of the bilateral relation. Bangladesh Foreign...

Bangladesh approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine

Bangladesh approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine

-- 2021-04-29 14:55:45

Bangladesh has approved the emergency use of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine amid a supply squeeze. Director General of Drug Administration Maj Gen Mahbubur Rahman announced the approval on...

Bangladesh offers emergency medical aid to India

Bangladesh offers emergency medical aid to India

-- 2021-04-29 13:55:01

Bangladesh has offered to send emergency medicines and medical equipment to India as COVID-19 cases in the neighbouring country crossed 18 million. The support will include 10,000 anti-viral vials, 3...

Heatwave to continue till Friday   

Heatwave to continue till Friday  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-04-29 13:28:20

The mild to moderate heatwave that is sweeping over the four divisions and different regions of the country may continue till tomorrow (Friday), said an official at Bangladesh Meteorological Departmen...

Matin Saikot, a real friend of farmers

Matin Saikot, a real friend of farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-29 11:15:28

CUMILLA: Matin Saikot, a college teacher from Adampur village of Elliotganj South Union in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila, has been irrigating his and others' agricultural land since 1997. In 1997, Ma...

Adulterated, substandard foods flood Chattogram market

Adulterated, substandard foods flood Chattogram market

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-04-29 11:09:56

Food adulteration in Chattogram has increased alarmingly in the last few months. Basic food items adulterated with poisonous residues and manufactured food, including milk, butter, Ghee and soft drin...

Police groping for clues to Munia's death

Police groping for clues to Munia's death

FE REPORT 2021-04-29 10:00:57

Police are still trying to unearth the motive and evidence behind death of Mosarat Jahan Munia, whose dead body was recovered from an apartment in Gulshan on Tuesday. Investigation supervising office...

Cabinet committee approves local production of Chinese, Russian vaccines

Cabinet committee approves local production of Chinese, Russian vaccines

FE REPORT 2021-04-29 09:44:32

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved a proposal to produce Russian and Chinese vaccines locally. The Ministry Health and Family Welfare had placed the proposal. Following...

10-member medical board formed for Khaleda's treatment

10-member medical board formed for Khaleda's treatment

-- 2021-04-28 23:21:37

A 10-member medical board was formed on Wednesday for the treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda at Evercare Hospital in the capital. She was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday night. “A 10-mem...

What we know about China’s Sinopharm COVID vaccine   

What we know about China’s Sinopharm COVID vaccine  

-- 2021-04-28 22:03:52

Bangladesh is set to give emergency use approval to a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine that will pave the way for import of the shots produced by state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group or Sinopha...

Sea-level rise may affect 1.3m Bangladeshis by 2050, study says

Sea-level rise may affect 1.3m Bangladeshis by 2050, study says

-- 2021-04-28 21:27:21

Migration of people to escape sea-level rise in Bangladesh will ultimately affect at least 1.3 million people across the country by 2050, according to a new study. A new mathematical model predicts t...

Bangladesh, China agree to increase military cooperation

Bangladesh, China agree to increase military cooperation

-- 2021-04-28 19:40:06

President Abdul Hamid has expressed his hope that militaries of Bangladesh and China will continue to strengthen their practical cooperation in various fields, pushing for greater progress in their re...

Setting up 15MW HFO-power plant, 40,000 SHS on cards

Setting up 15MW HFO-power plant, 40,000 SHS on cards

-- 2021-04-28 19:29:00

The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase in a virtual meeting on Wednesday approved 5 proposals including one for setting up a 15MW Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO)-fired power plant in Hatiya island of Noakhal...

‘Bangladesh fares better than Pakistan in tackling extremism’

‘Bangladesh fares better than Pakistan in tackling extremism’

-- 2021-04-28 19:22:22

An EU-accredited non-profit think tank has lauded Sheikh Hasina government’s “robust” handling of terrorism and religious extremism in Bangladesh while ripping into Pakistan, saying...

Intelligence agencies to identify Hefazat financers, home minister says

Intelligence agencies to identify Hefazat financers, home minister says

-- 2021-04-28 18:46:03

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday said intelligence agencies are trying to identify the financers of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. “Intelligence agencies are working to identify t...

Vaccine deal will be signed with China soon, health minister says

Vaccine deal will be signed with China soon, health minister says

-- 2021-04-28 18:13:13

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said Bangladesh will soon sign a contract with China to import the coronavirus vaccine made by China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation, commonly known as Sino...

Countrywide Boro paddy procurement begins

Countrywide Boro paddy procurement begins

-- 2021-04-28 18:12:05

The government on Wednesday started the procurement of Boro paddy and rice across the country. Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder inaugurated the nationwide procurement of Boro paddy through a vid...