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128 doctors recover from coronavirus across country

128 doctors recover from coronavirus across country

-- 2020-05-08 22:44:31

The Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF) said 128 physicians who were diagnosed with coronavirus have recovered until Friday. “Altogether, 633 doctors, 403 nurses and 132 other health workers in...

Met office predicts rain for parts of country

Met office predicts rain for parts of country

-- 2020-05-08 21:00:13

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Friday predicted rain or thundershowers for different parts of the country in the next 24 hours commencing 6:00pm.  “Rain or thundershower...

HRW urges govt to drop charges against all for spreading ‘rumour’

HRW urges govt to drop charges against all for spreading ‘rumour’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-08 20:51:49

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the authorities to immediately drop all charges, which appear to violate freedom of expression, release the four people in custody, and repeal the draconian Digital Secu...

‘3rd week of May to be peak COVID-19 infection period’

‘3rd week of May to be peak COVID-19 infection period’

-- 2020-05-08 20:19:26

Health experts predict the 3rd week of the current month to be the peak COVID-19 infection period, while the scenario to remain static for subsequent several days and expected the number of cases to c...

Momen terms diplomats' media freedom remarks unfortunate, unacceptable

Momen terms diplomats' media freedom remarks unfortunate, unacceptable

-- 2020-05-08 19:17:59

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday berated statements posted on social media by some diplomats on media freedom issue terming them "unfortunate, disappointing and unacceptable". "They could...

Street vendors find their livelihoods devastated

Street vendors find their livelihoods devastated

-- 2020-05-08 18:11:25

Abu Bakar Mollah with a pale face was sitting idle on a footpath in Old Dhaka the other day. He is one of those poor street vendors whose livelihoods have been devastated by the COVID-19 fallout. &ld...

India flies back first batch of students from Bangladesh

India flies back first batch of students from Bangladesh

-- 2020-05-08 18:02:32

A special flight, carrying 167 medical students hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, reached Srinagar airport from Dhaka on Friday as part of India’s efforts to bring back its citizens stranded abroa...

Impulse Hospital booked for treatment of police personnel

Impulse Hospital booked for treatment of police personnel

-- 2020-05-08 17:24:10

Bangladesh Police has booked Impulse Hospital in the capital for the treatment of coronavirus-infected police members. “The 250-bed hospital will treat only police members infected with coronav...

Woman, children die in septic tank explosion in Narayanganj

Woman, children die in septic tank explosion in Narayanganj

-- 2020-05-08 16:18:13

A woman and two children have died after a septic tank exploded in a five-storey residential building in Narayanganj. At least five others were injured in the blowout that took place on the ground fl...

India starts taking its stranded citizens back from Bangladesh

India starts taking its stranded citizens back from Bangladesh

-- 2020-05-08 16:08:38

India on Friday started repatriating its nationals who have been stranded in Bangladesh due to restrictions on flight operations. In the first phase, a special Air India flight, with 170 students abo...

US provides $22m to complement BD’s efforts in fighting COVID-19

US provides $22m to complement BD’s efforts in fighting COVID-19

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-08 15:37:53

The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has provided over $22 million to complement Bangl...

BD coronavirus deaths top 200

BD coronavirus deaths top 200

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-08 14:49:57

The death toll from coronavirus in Bangladesh rose to 206 as the health directorate confirmed seven more fatalities on Friday. Besides, the tally of positive infections also soared to 13,134 after 70...

Muslims in BD join Jum’a prayers at mosques after a month

Muslims in BD join Jum’a prayers at mosques after a month

-- 2020-05-08 14:42:06

Many Muslims took part in Jum’a prayers at mosques in Dhaka, as elsewhere in Bangladesh, on Friday, a month after the restriction on congregations was withdrawn subject to abiding by necessary m...

DMP fines Tk 64,400 for violating traffic rules

DMP fines Tk 64,400 for violating traffic rules

FE ONLINE REPORT        2020-05-08 14:37:32

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Thursday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 66,400 for violating the government’s social distancing measures amid the ongoing shutdown. Se...

BD quarantines hundreds of Rohingyas

BD quarantines hundreds of Rohingyas

-- 2020-05-08 13:36:40

The Bangladesh navy has rescued around 280 Rohingya Muslims from the Bay of Bengal, towing their stranded boat to an island where they will be quarantined, coast guard and naval officials have said....

20 more people infected with coronavirus in Keraniganj

20 more people infected with coronavirus in Keraniganj

-- 2020-05-08 13:32:34

Twenty more people including two children were infected with coronavirus in Keraniganj in the last 24 hours till Thursday night. Dr Mir Mobarak Hossain, Upazila Health and Family Planning officer, sa...

Govt plans to revive small rivers, canals, wetlands

Govt plans to revive small rivers, canals, wetlands

-- 2020-05-08 11:41:51

The government has taken a massive plan to recover canals, wetlands and small rivers across the country and re-excavate those to increase their navigability and water reservation capacity, groundwater...

Tagore’s birth anniversary today

Tagore’s birth anniversary today

-- 2020-05-08 10:51:50

The 159th birth anniversary of the Rabindranath Tagore is being be celebrated on Friday. Tagore was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, as well as a composer whose works reshaped Bangla lite...

Notre Dame College teacher dies of pneumonia, lung complications

Notre Dame College teacher dies of pneumonia, lung complications

-- 2020-05-08 10:10:40

A teacher of Notre Dame College in Dhaka, who was suffering from pneumonia, fever and lung complications, died on the way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) from Chandpur on Thursday evening. N...

2.4m babies to be born in BD under shadow pandemic

2.4m babies to be born in BD under shadow pandemic

-- 2020-05-07 23:35:03

An estimated 2.4 million babies will be born in Bangladesh under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, said UNICEF on Thursday. The country ranks 9 in terms of the highest expected number of births f...

No image-tarnishing posts against VIPs on social media: Govt

No image-tarnishing posts against VIPs on social media: Govt

-- 2020-05-07 22:11:41

The government has instructed public servants not to upload, share, comment on or react to social media posts, including image, audio or video, with ‘damaging’ messages on any state or its...

97 RMG workers infected with coronavirus

97 RMG workers infected with coronavirus

FE Online Report 2020-05-07 21:15:56

A total of 97 garment workers and employee from 24 districts and nine industrial belts were infected with corona virus as of Thursday, according to findings of a right group. They alleged that non-ef...

Nor’wester lashes capital

Nor’wester lashes capital

-- 2020-05-07 20:51:00

A nor’wester accompanied by rain swept over the capital on Thursday evening. The seasonal storm hit around 7:30pm with a downpour and gusty wind that lasted for a few minutes, said meteorologis...

Penalties waived for late income tax filing

Penalties waived for late income tax filing

-- 2020-05-07 20:43:57

Taxpayers will not be fined or levied interests if they fail to file income tax returns on time during the coronavirus outbreak or in times of war and disasters. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) w...

UGC publishes online teaching guideline for private universities

UGC publishes online teaching guideline for private universities

-- 2020-05-07 20:24:29

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday published a guideline on conducting courses online in light of the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, including teaching, taking examinations, their as...

13 more die of COVID-19

13 more die of COVID-19

-- 2020-05-07 18:48:50

Bangladesh on Thursday reported deaths of 13 coronavirus patients in 24 hours -- its highest single-day fatality so far -- as the death toll rose to 199. The Directorate General of Health Services an...

Govt suspends rice procurement through app

Govt suspends rice procurement through app

-- 2020-05-07 18:22:36

The government has backtracked on its decision to buy Boro rice from farmers this year in 18 Upazilas through a mobile app amid the coronavirus crisis. The Ministry of Food sent a letter to the Direc...

Govt procuring Boro paddy at Tk 26 per kg

Govt procuring Boro paddy at Tk 26 per kg

-- 2020-05-07 17:27:30

The government has started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 26 per kg. Boiled rice is being bought at the rate of Tk 36 and ‘Atap rice’ at Tk 35 per kg from the millers....

Govt initiates court proceedings via videoconferencing

Govt initiates court proceedings via videoconferencing

-- 2020-05-07 16:54:49

The government has approved an ordinance to introduce court proceedings via videoconferencing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the cabinet has given the final approval to the 2020...

Gazipur RMG workers stage demo protesting job cut

Gazipur RMG workers stage demo protesting job cut

-- 2020-05-07 16:45:09

Workers of a garment factory staged demonstrations at Bhannara of Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur on Thursday morning, protesting their retrenchment. Workers of Deiyu Fashion Limited gathered in front o...