-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
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