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Eight members of RAB, police in Keraniganj test positive for COVID-19

Eight members of RAB, police in Keraniganj test positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-05-06 10:42:17

Seven members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and one policeman in Keraniganj have been infected with coronavirus, raising the number of virus cases in the district to 235. Dr Mir Mobarak Hossain, up...

79 held for spreading rumour over COVID-19

79 held for spreading rumour over COVID-19

UNB 2020-05-06 09:58:23

The law enforcement agencies arrested 79 people since March for spreading rumour and disinformation on social media, the Centre for Genocide Studies has said.  But the nationwide number of rumou...

Bangladeshis stranded in USA to be brought back on May 14 or 15

Bangladeshis stranded in USA to be brought back on May 14 or 15

-- 2020-05-06 09:53:01

The government has taken an initiative to bring back the Bangladeshis, stranded in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a chartered flight either on May 14 or 15. Bangladesh Embassy in...

DNCC offers free dengue tests from May 11

DNCC offers free dengue tests from May 11

-- 2020-05-05 23:53:44

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is going to launch free dengue tests from May 11. According to UNB, the free dengue tests will be available at five city maternity clinics and 22 city health c...

President, PM greet Buddhists on Buddha Purnima

President, PM greet Buddhists on Buddha Purnima

-- 2020-05-05 23:46:22

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have greeted the Buddhist community members on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. Greeting the Buddhist community as well as the countrymen on th...

BNP is infected with virus of criticism: Obaidul Quader

BNP is infected with virus of criticism: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-05-05 23:32:11

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the BNP’s politics is infected with the ‘virus of criticism against the government’. “The BNP’s politics is...

DAP fertiliser factory exceeds production target

DAP fertiliser factory exceeds production target

-- 2020-05-05 22:11:08

DAP Fertiliser Company Limited, operating under the Ministry of Industries, has exceeded its production targets for the fiscal 2019-20 (FY20). The factory, situated at Rangadia in Chattogram, had set...

Educational institutions to remain shut until May 30

Educational institutions to remain shut until May 30

-- 2020-05-05 20:37:35

All educational institutions in Bangladesh will remain shut until May 30. The secretary of secondary and higher secondary education made the announcement Tuesday, reports UNB.  

Infections rising due to restart of economy: Health Minister

Infections rising due to restart of economy: Health Minister

-- 2020-05-05 20:13:34

The Health Minister Zahid Malik has said the reopening of the economy is giving rise to coronavirus infections as the officially confirmed daily cases jumped by a record 786 on Tuesday. He noted the...

Shops, shopping malls to remain open from 10am to 4pm

Shops, shopping malls to remain open from 10am to 4pm

-- 2020-05-05 20:13:27

Businessmen will be allowed to keep shops and shopping malls open for six hours from 10:00am to 4:00pm every day from May 10, after maintaining health guidelines during the general holidays, reports U...

Mosques feel the squeeze as donations dry up

Mosques feel the squeeze as donations dry up

Bdnews24.com 2020-05-05 18:11:35

Sarkarbari Central Jam-e-Mosque in Gazipur’s Painshail saves around Tk 250,000 after paying clerics from the charitable donations it receives during the month of Ramadan every year. “We w...

Stress on easing procedures for stimulus package implementation

Stress on easing procedures for stimulus package implementation

-- 2020-05-05 17:45:49

Leaders of the different business associations of leather and leather goods, plastic products, accumulator battery and light engineering sector today called for easing the stringent procedures to help...

No flight operation until May 16

No flight operation until May 16

-- 2020-05-05 17:11:42

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) on Tuesday extended the suspension of all international and domestic flights unil May 16, aiming to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The restrict...

Khulna jute mill workers start receiving arrears

Khulna jute mill workers start receiving arrears

-- 2020-05-05 16:47:43

The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) started clearing the dues of the workers of state-owned jute mills in Khulna region following their hunger strike. “We've already started paying abo...

16 interns of SOMCH test positive for COVID-19

16 interns of SOMCH test positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-05-05 16:15:50

16 interns of 53rd batch of the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) have tested positive for coronavirus. Dr Anisur Rahman, assistant director, district Directorate General of Health Servi...

One new dengue case reported in 24 hrs

One new dengue case reported in 24 hrs

-- 2020-05-05 15:57:27

One new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). A daily update from DGHS said no new dengue patient is no...

Mango growers worry over marketing amid virus restrictions

Mango growers worry over marketing amid virus restrictions

UNB 2020-05-05 15:33:12

Mango growers in Chapainawabganj, known as the mango capital of the country, are passing their days in great worries as the marketing of their produce has become uncertain amid the restrictions impose...

Medical board to oversee historian Muntassir Mamoon’s treatment for COVID-19

Medical board to oversee historian Muntassir Mamoon’s treatment for COVID-19

-- 2020-05-05 15:23:46

A six-member medical board has been constituted to oversee the treatment of Dhaka University history professor Muntassir Mamoon at Dhaka's Mugda Medical College Hospital after he tested positive for t...

17 JMB suspects arrested

17 JMB suspects arrested

-- 2020-05-05 14:55:38

Police have arrested 17 suspected members of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Dhaka. The arrests were made by an anti-terrorism police unit in Kakarail at around 7:...

Bangladesh sees highest single day spike in COVID-19 cases

Bangladesh sees highest single day spike in COVID-19 cases

FE Online Desk 2020-05-05 14:38:55

Bangladesh confirmed 786 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 10,929. This is the biggest single day spike in infections since the first cases o...

Farmers harvest 90pc of Haor paddy

Farmers harvest 90pc of Haor paddy

-- 2020-05-05 14:18:18

Farmers have already harvested about 90.02 per cent of the Boro paddy sowed in the Haors or backswamps of Bangladesh amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the government. Agricultural M...

Rohingya refugees in risky COVID-19 quarantine on Bhasan Char: HRW

Rohingya refugees in risky COVID-19 quarantine on Bhasan Char: HRW

FE Online Report 2020-05-05 13:29:58

Bangladesh authorities have quarantined 29 Rohingya refugees without adequate access to aid on an unstable silt island in the Bay of Bengal, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Tuesday. &...

DMP fines businesses, vehicles for lockdown breaches

DMP fines businesses, vehicles for lockdown breaches

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-05 12:53:08

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Monday fined different vehicles and business entities a total of Tk 67,000 for allegedly violating the government’s social...

'Share Your Fare’ an initiative to support the helpless Rickshaw Pullers

'Share Your Fare’ an initiative to support the helpless Rickshaw Pullers

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-05 12:40:13

In Bangladesh, the impact of coronavirus outbreak is much more severe than others, as a lot of people work in the informal sector, who do not have access to earning their incomes by working from home....

Telemedicine service stopped in Natore as health worker infected

Telemedicine service stopped in Natore as health worker infected

-- 2020-05-05 12:30:25

Telemedicine service was stopped at Lalpur Upazila Health Complex in Natore district as a health worker tested positive for coronavirus on Monday night. District Directorate General of Health Service...

ACC chairman warns against corruption in MPO scheme

ACC chairman warns against corruption in MPO scheme

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-05 12:26:10

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Tuesday warned of stern action against any corruption or harassment of teachers and employees in new inclusion of the monthly payment o...

Coronavirus pandemic likely to peak in mid-May, warn experts

Coronavirus pandemic likely to peak in mid-May, warn experts

-- 2020-05-05 10:33:42

The coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh is likely to peak in mid-May, taking the infection cases to a much higher level at the end of the month, according to projections made by a panel of eight health...

112 people recover from COVID-19 in Kishoreganj

112 people recover from COVID-19 in Kishoreganj

-- 2020-05-05 10:26:14

A total of 112 among 188 coronavirus-infected patients made recovery so far in Kishoreganj district while four more people tested positive for the virus on Monday night.  Civil Surgeon Dr Md M...

Govt appoints 2,000 doctors

Govt appoints 2,000 doctors

-- 2020-05-05 10:10:49

Bangladesh government has appointed 2,000 doctors from those who passed the special exams of 39th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) on an emergency basis to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. The public admin...

AQI: Dhaka's air quality improves

AQI: Dhaka's air quality improves

-- 2020-05-05 09:55:26

Dhaka’s air quality showed improvement on Tuesday morning with the capital city ranking 8th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI). It had an AQI score of 98 at 08:37am. Dhaka’s air was cl...