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Bangladesh reports two more dengue deaths this season

Bangladesh reports two more dengue deaths this season

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-17 18:29:44

At least two more dengue patients died and 53 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne disease across the country in the last 24 hours. On June 21 this year, the country’s first...

Heat wave may continue for two more days

Heat wave may continue for two more days

-- 2022-07-17 17:41:15

Monsoon means the season of heavy downpour for days together. But this year’s monsoon is largely dry with a heat wave sweeping across the country. Generally, the monsoon in Bangladesh prevail...

Covid claims four lives, infects 900 more

Covid claims four lives, infects 900 more

-- 2022-07-17 16:45:21

Bangladesh has recorded 900 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,996,340. The death toll from the disease climbed by four in 24 hours to 29,234, according to the la...

Private power producers urge govt to pay $1.5b in arrear

Private power producers urge govt to pay $1.5b in arrear

-- 2022-07-17 16:41:08

Despite an improvement in payment the government still owes $1.5 billion to the private power plant operators for the purchase of electricity, according to official sources.  The sources confirm...

Narail student arrested over Facebook post hurting religious sentiments

Narail student arrested over Facebook post hurting religious sentiments

-- 2022-07-17 15:34:58

Police have arrested a Hindu youth in Narail’s Lohagara over a Facebook post that allegedly hurt religious sentiments. The post, by a college student named Akash Saha, sparked violence that led...

Padma Bridge: Tk 525.5 million toll realised since opening

Padma Bridge: Tk 525.5 million toll realised since opening

-- 2022-07-17 15:15:12

The Bangladesh Bridge Authority says that Padma Bridge has earned about Tk 525.5 million in tolls in the first 20 days since it was opened to traffic. Officials involved in the project also say that...

Cargo plane carrying munitions to Bangladesh crashes in Greece

Cargo plane carrying munitions to Bangladesh crashes in Greece

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-17 15:06:05

A Ukrainian cargo plane carrying munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece late on Saturday, Serbian authorities said on Sunday. Drone images from the sce...

Parts of Sylhet city go under knee-deep water after 1.0 hr rain

Parts of Sylhet city go under knee-deep water after 1.0 hr rain

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-17 14:54:14

The residents of Sylhet city woke up to waterlogged streets on Sunday morning after one hour monsoon showers. On Saturday, a heavy bout of rainfall brought much-awaited relief in the district aft...

SSC exams to start Sept 15, HSC exams in Nov: Minister

SSC exams to start Sept 15, HSC exams in Nov: Minister

-- 2022-07-17 13:53:59

Education Minister Dipu Moni says the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations will start on Sept 15. The government is also planning to hold the Higher Secondary Certificate and eq...

ICU, HDU in Chuadanga Sadar Hospital hit hard by manpower shortage

ICU, HDU in Chuadanga Sadar Hospital hit hard by manpower shortage

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-17 10:37:19

Medicare services of ICU and HDU units at Chuadanga sadar hospital remain suspended for around nine months due to lack of manpower causing a grave concern in the district as the fourth wave of the Cov...

No more caretaker government in Bangladesh: Law Minister

No more caretaker government in Bangladesh: Law Minister

-- 2022-07-16 21:51:09

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Saturday said that as the highest court of the country has declared the caretaker government system illegal, there won’t be any such government in the country before t...

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to participate in fields of politics, elections

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to participate in fields of politics, elections

-- 2022-07-16 20:45:02

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged the leaders of BNP to participate in the fields of elections and politics. “The game will be played in the political field. It (game...

BNP getting ready to oust govt, not to join polls under Hasina: Mirza Abbas

BNP getting ready to oust govt, not to join polls under Hasina: Mirza Abbas

-- 2022-07-16 20:40:30

BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Saturday said their party is preparing for ousting the Awami League government, not for joining the national election under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “BNP i...

Covid-19 booster dose campaign across Bangladesh on July 19

Covid-19 booster dose campaign across Bangladesh on July 19

-- 2022-07-16 20:12:50

The nationwide daylong Covid-19 booster dose campaign will be observed on July 19 to expedite the vaccination programme to combat the outbreak of the deadly virus. "The people aged 18 years and above...

Homes, temple attacked in Narail over Facebook post

Homes, temple attacked in Narail over Facebook post

-- 2022-07-16 18:58:37

Angry people have attacked Hindu homes and a temple in Narail’s Lohagara over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious minorities of Ban...

Buet student’s body recovered from Padma River, 15 friends put on remand

Buet student’s body recovered from Padma River, 15 friends put on remand

-- 2022-07-16 18:53:29

The body of a final-year student at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) was recovered from the Padma River on Friday. The student, Tariquzzaman Sunny, went missing while bathin...

Road crashes claim 23 lives in nine districts on Saturday

Road crashes claim 23 lives in nine districts on Saturday

-- 2022-07-16 18:36:47

At least 23 people, including eight members of three families, were killed and 40 others injured in separate road accidents in nine districts on Saturday. The accidents were reported in Tangail, Bogu...

20 Bangladeshis die so far during hajj pilgrimage this year

20 Bangladeshis die so far during hajj pilgrimage this year

-- 2022-07-16 17:16:21

Another Bangladeshi pilgrim has died in Saudi Arabia during this year's Hajj, raising the toll to 20. Farzeen Sultana, 40, passed away in Madinah on Jul 14, two days after the completion of the annua...

1,007 Covid-19 cases, five deaths reported in 24 hours

1,007 Covid-19 cases, five deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-07-16 16:42:28

Bangladesh has recorded 1,007 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,995,440. The death toll from the disease climbed by five in 24 hours to 29,230, according to the...

60 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

60 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 16:39:03

Sixty more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Saturday morning amid a rise in the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)....

Dhaka’s rail link with northern districts restored after five hours

Dhaka’s rail link with northern districts restored after five hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 16:26:24

Rail communications between Dhaka and northern districts were restored Saturday morning after five hours of suspension following derailment of a bogie of a  train in Joypurhat. The rail communic...

Job open at an international organisation

Job open at an international organisation

FE Online 2022-07-16 15:22:27

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is an international organization that works on global sustainable development. It works with the German embassy and is worki...

No respite from heatwave in next 24 hours

No respite from heatwave in next 24 hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 14:35:25

A mild to moderate heatwave sweeping through Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions, and Tangail, Sylhet and Chuadanga districts may not abate in the next 24 hours, the weather office has said. However, ligh...

Man throttles wife, daughters to death in Jashore

Man throttles wife, daughters to death in Jashore

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 13:58:12

A man allegedly throttled his wife and their two daughters to death over a family feud in Avhoynagar upazila of Jashore district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Sabina Yeasmin Bithi, 28, w...

Four dead, 9 hurt after bus rams truck in Tangail

Four dead, 9 hurt after bus rams truck in Tangail

-- 2022-07-16 11:54:38

At least four people have died after a bus ploughed into a truck from behind in Tangail's Mirzapur Upazila. Nine others were injured in the incident that occurred on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway aroun...

BRT project worker dies after crane collapses in Gazipur 

BRT project worker dies after crane collapses in Gazipur 

-- 2022-07-15 21:07:31

A construction worker of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project died after a crane fell on him in Chandna Chourasta area on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur on Friday.  The identity of the w...

Mystery vessel with no sailors found adrift in Monpura

Mystery vessel with no sailors found adrift in Monpura

-- 2022-07-15 20:04:55

A mystery vessel containing stones has been found adrift at an estuary of the Bay of Bengal in Monpura, Bhola with no sailors on board.As the residents were excited by the vessel, the authorities were...

Three killed in Gazipur road crash 

Three killed in Gazipur road crash 

-- 2022-07-15 19:53:38

A head-on collision between a car and a motorcycle driving on the wrong side of the Konabari flyover has left three people dead and a child injured in Gazipur.  The incident occurred on the flyo...

Seven more Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrimages die in Saudi Arabia 

Seven more Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrimages die in Saudi Arabia 

-- 2022-07-15 19:32:50

Seven more Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia during July 3-14, according to Bangladesh Hajj Management Portal.  Mustafigur Rahman, 61, was from Tangail, Azizul Haque, 65, from Kusht...

Sujan hopes to start rail track installation work on Padma Bridge next week 

Sujan hopes to start rail track installation work on Padma Bridge next week 

-- 2022-07-15 19:22:15

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan has hoped that the work of installing rail tracks on Padma Bridge would begin from next week.   “The installation of the railway line on Padma Bridge...