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ADB to provide $500m more to fight COVID-19 in BD  

ADB to provide $500m more to fight COVID-19 in BD  

-- 2020-05-07 16:37:20

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday approved an additional $500 million loan to bolster the efforts of the government of Bangladesh to manage the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVI...
DMP sets up disinfectant tunnels at all police stations

DMP sets up disinfectant tunnels at all police stations

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-07 16:05:35

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has installed disinfectant tunnels at the entrance of each and every police station in efforts to protect its staff and service seekers from the infection of the COVID...
Fareast University VC dies from COVID-19

Fareast University VC dies from COVID-19

-- 2020-05-07 15:34:44

Nazmul Karim Chowdhury, vice-chancellor of Fareast International University in Dhaka, has died from the COVID-19 disease at the age of 71. He breathed his last on early Thursday morning in the ICU of...
706 more test positive for COVID-19 in BD

706 more test positive for COVID-19 in BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-07 14:57:55

A total of 706 more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Thursday, according to the DGHS official. With the latest victims the number of...
Reopening markets not mandatory, says commerce minister

Reopening markets not mandatory, says commerce minister

-- 2020-05-07 13:55:55

Commerce minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday said reopening markets is not mandatory for businesspeople. “The market owners who don’t want to reopen shopping malls can keep those shut&hellip...
Malaysia looking for three Bangladeshis who escaped from quarantine centre

Malaysia looking for three Bangladeshis who escaped from quarantine centre

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-07 13:23:21

Three Bangladeshis have reportedly run away from a COVID-19 quarantine centre in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. They are among the nine foreigners who left the quarantine centre located at th...
Two health workers among nine infected with COVID-19 in Chapainawabganj

Two health workers among nine infected with COVID-19 in Chapainawabganj

-- 2020-05-07 13:13:13

Nine people, including two health workers, were infected with coronavirus in Chapainawabganj, raising the number of such cases in the district to 11.   Civil Surgeon Dr Zahid Nazrul Chowdhury, sa...
DMP fines businesses, people for lockdown breaches

DMP fines businesses, people for lockdown breaches

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-07 12:58:09

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Wednesday fined different people and business entities a total of Tk 39,300 for allegedly violating the government’s socia...
RAB arrests DSE Director Minhaz

RAB arrests DSE Director Minhaz

-- 2020-05-07 10:18:37

The RAB has arrested Minhaz Mannan Emon, a director of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), on charges of spreading disinformation against the government in a Digital Security Act case. The 52-year-old wa...
Silent corona carriers to become ‘super spreaders’ with market reopening: Experts

Silent corona carriers to become ‘super spreaders’ with market reopening: Experts

-- 2020-05-07 09:53:07

The reopening of shops and shopping malls ahead of Eid will surely help the stalled wheel of economy move again, but health experts warned that it will also lead to a stark rise in coronavirus cases,...
Another Shomoyer Alo newsman with Covid-19  signs dies

Another Shomoyer Alo newsman with Covid-19  signs dies

-- 2020-05-06 22:19:31

Mahmudul Hakim Apu, a senior sub-editor of The Daily Shomoyer Alo, died at his residence in Dhaka’s Banasree early on Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com. He was suffering from respiratory problems...
‘Undetected COVID-19 patients to become super spreaders’

‘Undetected COVID-19 patients to become super spreaders’

-- 2020-05-06 20:43:29

The reopening of shops and shopping malls ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr will surely help the stalled wheel of economy move again, but health experts warned that it will also lead to a stark rise in coronavirus...
‘Journalists risking lives to perform duties during pandemic’

‘Journalists risking lives to perform duties during pandemic’

-- 2020-05-06 19:45:28

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said journalists are risking their lives to perform their duties during the coronavirus pandemic.  “So far, 60 journalists were infected with coron...
Lax lockdown taken as leeway to ignore social distancing

Lax lockdown taken as leeway to ignore social distancing

UNB 2020-05-06 19:32:49

With the opening of RMG factories, shops and food joints despite no observable downward trend in COVID-19 cases in the country, increasingly large numbers of people have been seen emerging from the lo...
Over 28,000 BD workers to return from ME in few weeks

Over 28,000 BD workers to return from ME in few weeks

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-06 18:17:28

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said 28,849 Bangladeshi workers will return home from the Middle East in next few weeks. Briefing the media about the inter-ministerial meeting on the bringing...
India hands over third tranche of virus aid

India hands over third tranche of virus aid

FE Online Report 2020-05-06 17:08:09

India on Wednesday handed over the third tranche of emergency medical assistance to Bangladesh. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Riva Ganguly Das handed over RT-PCR COVID-19 testing kits, capable of...
Nor’wester leaves one dead in Bagerhat

Nor’wester leaves one dead in Bagerhat

-- 2020-05-06 17:00:03

A teenage boy was killed after a tree collapsed on his room during a nor’wester that wreaked havoc in Chitalmari upazila of Bagerhat district on Tuesday night. Besides, around 20 houses and som...
Cartoonist Kishore, writer Mushtaq arrested

Cartoonist Kishore, writer Mushtaq arrested

-- 2020-05-06 16:50:37

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and author Mustak Ahmed in a case started under the Digital Security Act. The elite police unit apprehended Kishore from K...
500 poor families become self-reliant through pineapple farming

500 poor families become self-reliant through pineapple farming

-- 2020-05-06 16:31:18

Over 500 poor families in Narsingdi’s Polash upazila have become self-reliant through commercial farming of pineapple. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said, a good number of f...
Govt intensify efforts to complete development works at district level

Govt intensify efforts to complete development works at district level

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-06 16:14:52

The government has intensified its efforts to complete this 2019-20 fiscal year’s development works at the district level amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, an official said. The local gove...
135 more Bangladeshis return home through Benapole

135 more Bangladeshis return home through Benapole

-- 2020-05-06 16:14:20

135 more Bangladeshi nationals who got stuck in India due to coronavirus lockdown returned home through Benapole check post on Wednesday morning. With this, a total of 1,300 Bangladeshis have so far...
Another policeman dies from coronavirus in city

Another policeman dies from coronavirus in city

-- 2020-05-06 15:20:37

Another policeman died from coronavirus at Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital in the capital on Wednesday morning. With the latest, a total of six policemen have so far died from the virus. The decea...
Prayers at mosques could be offered from Thursday

Prayers at mosques could be offered from Thursday

-- 2020-05-06 15:16:49

After one month of restrictions amid coronavirus outbreak, the government has decided to allow people to offer prayers, including Tarabi, at mosques from Thursday’s Zohr prayers subject to follo...
DGHS reports three more virus deaths, 790 fresh cases

DGHS reports three more virus deaths, 790 fresh cases

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-06 14:49:49

Three more people died from novel coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the body count to 186. Besides, 790 others were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the sa...
Coronavirus cases shoot up among policemen as lockdown wears on

Coronavirus cases shoot up among policemen as lockdown wears on

-- 2020-05-06 14:39:40

Police officers tasked with ensuring the safety of citizens on the ground are growing increasingly susceptible to the coronavirus as infections continue to trend upwards within the law enforcement age...
Sylhet confirms 12 more corona cases

Sylhet confirms 12 more corona cases

-- 2020-05-06 11:38:09

Twelve more people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in tests conducted at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital. Dr Himanshu Lal Roy, deputy director of the hospital, made the disclosure on...
Buddha Purnima being celebrated at home

Buddha Purnima being celebrated at home

-- 2020-05-06 11:29:02

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated at their respective homes in the country today (Wednesday) in view of the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic....
People pack ferries to return to Dhaka as govt eases shutdown

People pack ferries to return to Dhaka as govt eases shutdown

-- 2020-05-06 11:16:06

People have begun flooding back into Dhaka after the government relaxed the shutdown over coronavirus with the Eid-ul-Fitr approaching. The Kathalbari-Shimulia route was packed with Dhaka-bound ferri...
AL MP Habibur Rahman Mollah passes away

AL MP Habibur Rahman Mollah passes away

-- 2020-05-06 10:53:50

Habibur Rahman Mollah, MP, elected from Dhaka-5, died in a city hospital on Wednesday morning. He was 82.  He breathed his last around 10:05am while undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals, sai...
Six test positive for Covid-19 in Nilphamari

Six test positive for Covid-19 in Nilphamari

-- 2020-05-06 10:45:38

Six people, including two bank officials, have been diagnosed with coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Nilphamari district. Civil Surgeon of the district Dr Ranjit Kumar Barman said two officials...

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