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Two more UP chairmen to be suspended over relief distribution

Two more UP chairmen to be suspended over relief distribution

-- 2020-04-18 19:00:43

The Local Government Division (LGD) is going to suspend two union parishad chairmen and three members over irregularities during relief distribution following the coronavirus outbreak in the country.&...

BHRC for extending kitchen market duration

BHRC for extending kitchen market duration

-- 2020-04-18 18:49:58

Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) on Saturday urged the concerned authorities to extend the duration of kitchen market by three more hours to lessen the pressure in the morning. BHRC proposed...

DMP files over 3,000 cases for not abiding lockdown

DMP files over 3,000 cases for not abiding lockdown

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-18 18:36:33

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) filed a total of 3,445 cases against different modes of vehicles as people came out of their homes unnecessarily amid the coronavirus pandemic a...

Sunamganj man sells vegetables to poor at token price

Sunamganj man sells vegetables to poor at token price

-- 2020-04-18 17:52:09

There are many ways to help people in need. A man in Tahirpur upazila has come up with a noble initiative to stand by the poor people of his locality in this time of coronavirus crisis. Abul Bashar,...

UK arranges four charter flights to bring back 850 British nationals

UK arranges four charter flights to bring back 850 British nationals

FE Online Report 2020-04-18 17:45:01

Four chartered flights from Bangladesh to the UK will take 850 British nationals home. The charter flights will depart for London from Dhaka on 21, 23, 25 and 26 April, with accompanying transfers fr...

Coronavirus: Where to call during emergency

Coronavirus: Where to call during emergency

-- 2020-04-18 17:20:57

As the coronavirus outbreak intensifies in Bangladesh, the government has launched several emergency hotlines for citizens seeking guidance and forwarding concerns about the diease. Testing for COVID...

JPC forms doctors’ panel for its members

JPC forms doctors’ panel for its members

-- 2020-04-18 17:11:33

The Jatiya Press Club (JPC) has constituted a panel of five doctors for providing emergency medical services to its members during this time of coronavirus crisis. JPC members can call the doctors an...

JS session opens amid shutdown

JS session opens amid shutdown

-- 2020-04-18 16:57:52

The seventh session of the National Parliament is set to open on Saturday evening in order to fulfil its ‘constitutional obligation’ amid a worsening coronavirus crisis in Bangladesh. The...

Lightning strikes kill four farmers in Sunamganj

Lightning strikes kill four farmers in Sunamganj

-- 2020-04-18 16:01:02

Four farmers were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in four upazilas of Sunamgan district on Saturday. In Shalla upazila, the farmer Shangkar Sarker, 28, son of Surendra Sarker of N...

GD Assist evacuates 48 Bangladeshis from Thailand

GD Assist evacuates 48 Bangladeshis from Thailand

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-18 15:48:03

GD Assist, a subsidiary of Green Delta Insurance Company, has arranged the evacuation of 48 nonresident Bangladeshis stranded in Bangkok of Thailand and brought them back home on Friday. A chartered...

Thousands join Janaza in Brahmanbaria

Thousands join Janaza in Brahmanbaria

-- 2020-04-18 15:45:09

Several thousand people attended the namaz-e-janaza of Mawlana Jubayer Ahmed Ansari at Bertola village in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria on Saturday ignoring the risk of coronavirus transmission. Maw...

US plans final chartered flight for its citizens from Dhaka

US plans final chartered flight for its citizens from Dhaka

FE Online Report 2020-04-18 15:15:42

The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh are planning to arrange a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families who voluntarily want to leave Bangladesh. The flight, l...

BD records nine more COVID-19 deaths, 306 infections in 24 hours

BD records nine more COVID-19 deaths, 306 infections in 24 hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-18 14:41:34

Bangladesh recorded nine more coronavirus deaths and 306 positive cases in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Saturday. With the latest, the total death and case count reaches 84 and 2,144 respectively,...

Youth dies in Rajshahi hospital isolation

Youth dies in Rajshahi hospital isolation

-- 2020-04-18 13:27:57

A young man died from fever at the isolation unit in Rajshahi Infectious Disease Hospital on Saturday morning. Doctor Azizul Haque, associate professor of medicine department of Rajshahi Medical Coll...

Salaries, wages of 95.89pc workers cleared: BGMEA

Salaries, wages of 95.89pc workers cleared: BGMEA

-- 2020-04-18 13:25:33

Around 95.89 per cent readymade garment workers of its member factories have received salaries and wages for the month of March, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has...

WB disburses funds to help BD battle pandemic

WB disburses funds to help BD battle pandemic

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-18 12:54:08

The World Bank (WB) is providing emergency funds to Bangladesh and other countries like developing and low-income ones across the world to strengthen their efforts to battle the rapidly spreading coro...

Law Minister Anisul Huq’s mother passes away

Law Minister Anisul Huq’s mother passes away

-- 2020-04-18 12:05:24

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq’s mother, Jahanara Huq, has died of old-age complications at a hospital in Dhaka city. She was 85. She died around 3.40am at Evercare...

Dhaka's air quality shows no improvement

Dhaka's air quality shows no improvement

-- 2020-04-18 10:43:46

Dhaka ranked 4th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. The capital city of Bangladesh had a score of 153 at 8:02 am, indicating that the air quality was ‘unhealthy’....

Bangladesh Labour Counsellor in Jeddah mission infected with coronavirus

Bangladesh Labour Counsellor in Jeddah mission infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-04-18 10:35:02

M Aminul Islam, Labour Counsellor of Bangladesh Mission in Jeddah, tested positive for coronavirus, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen prayed for his...

Man dies from coronavirus in Keraniganj

Man dies from coronavirus in Keraniganj

-- 2020-04-18 10:14:31

A man who tested positive for coronavirus died at Kolatia area on Friday night, raising the death toll to three in Keraniganj upazila. The deceased was identified as Abul Hannan (55). Kazi Mainul Is...

Sherpur OC tests positive, two hospitals locked down

Sherpur OC tests positive, two hospitals locked down

-- 2020-04-18 09:28:21

Officer-in-Charge of Jhenaigati Police Station in Sherpur has been tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19), said Qazi Ashraful Azim, superintendent of district police. The local administration has...

UK to operate four special flights from Dhaka for British citizens

UK to operate four special flights from Dhaka for British citizens

-- 2020-04-18 09:13:21

The UK will operate four special flights from Dhaka to London for British tourists, short term visitors and their direct dependants to return to the UK from Tuesday (April 21-26). British visitors cu...

Govt opts for auto release of funds for autonomous entities

Govt opts for auto release of funds for autonomous entities

FE REPORT 2020-04-18 09:04:04

The government has waived certain formalities involved in the disbursement of funds meant for autonomous bodies to help meet their expenditures on development and non-development activities without an...

Health minister says 80pc COVID-19 patients don’t need treatment

Health minister says 80pc COVID-19 patients don’t need treatment

-- 2020-04-17 21:50:31

Health Minister Zahid Malik has urged COVID-19 patients not to hide information so that doctors can get protection, claiming that 80 per cent cases do not need treatment for recovery. “More tha...

Fire at Gazipur spinning mill

Fire at Gazipur spinning mill

-- 2020-04-17 20:53:28

A spinning mill caught fire at Konabari of Gazipur city on Friday afternoon, reports UNB. Md Mamunur Rashid, deputy director at Gazipur Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire erupted on a floo...

Three doctors among 27 more test virus positive in Narsingdi

Three doctors among 27 more test virus positive in Narsingdi

-- 2020-04-17 20:43:38

27 more people, including three physicians, tested positive for coronavirus in Narsingdi district in the last 24 hours till Friday. With this, the total coronavirus cases in the district has risen to...

16 journalists tested positive for coronavirus: DUJ

16 journalists tested positive for coronavirus: DUJ

-- 2020-04-17 19:46:29

Leaders of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) on Friday expressed deep concerns as 16 journalists, including nine in Dhaka alone, contracted coronavirus disease. In a statement, DUJ President Quddus Af...

Four arrested for smuggling coronavirus treatment stuff

Four arrested for smuggling coronavirus treatment stuff

-- 2020-04-17 19:18:13

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested four people for illegally smuggling large quantities of materials used for the treatment and prevention of the coronavirus disease. The arrestees are...

Quader wants national unity to fight coronavirus

Quader wants national unity to fight coronavirus

-- 2020-04-17 18:52:45

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said that it is not desirable to split as a nation during this crisis moment of coronavirus outbreak. Quader, also Road, Transport and Bridges...

Minister’s bodyguard arrested over shooting death

Minister’s bodyguard arrested over shooting death

-- 2020-04-17 17:18:05

Police have arrested a sub-inspector over his alleged links to the shooting death of a man in Gazipur. Kishore Kumar, a bodyguard to Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, has been arres...