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All procedures completed to free Khaleda from jail shortly: Home Minister

All procedures completed to free Khaleda from jail shortly: Home Minister

-- 2020-03-25 15:21:05

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to be released from jail shortly as all the necessary procedures in this regard have already been completed. ...

BD receives Indian assistance in fighting coronavirus

BD receives Indian assistance in fighting coronavirus

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-03-25 15:06:36

Bangladesh received an Indian assistance in the form of 30,000 surgical masks and 15,000 head-covers on Wednesday, while fighting the Covid-19 outbreak. The assistance is intended to support the effo...

Khaleda Zia to return to Gulshan home

Khaleda Zia to return to Gulshan home

-- 2020-03-25 14:35:33

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who left her Gulshan residence ‘Feroza’ about 25 months ago, will be returning there as the government has moved to release her from jail. Staffers are busy c...

Bangladesh reports fifth death from coronavirus

Bangladesh reports fifth death from coronavirus

-- 2020-03-25 13:17:40

Another elderly man has died from the coronavirus in Bangladesh, taking the total death toll from COVID-19 disease in the country to five, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Resea...

Four dead in Rajshahi, Kushtia road crashes

Four dead in Rajshahi, Kushtia road crashes

-- 2020-03-25 12:57:19

Four people were killed and many others injured in road crashes in Rajshahi and Kushtia districts on Wednesday. In Rajshahi, a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj...

DMP to spray disinfectants to fight spread of coronavirus

DMP to spray disinfectants to fight spread of coronavirus

-- 2020-03-25 12:51:58

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will spray disinfectants through water cannons in city areas twice a day in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus. The arrangement was ordered by DMP Commis...

Coronavirus: Armed Forces start fieldwork

Coronavirus: Armed Forces start fieldwork

-- 2020-03-25 12:30:26

Members of the Armed Forces started their fieldwork in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Wednesday morning to help the civil administration ensure that people maintain social...

Genocide Day being observed today

Genocide Day being observed today

-- 2020-03-25 11:38:17

The 'Genocide Day' is being observed in the country today (Wednesday) commemorating the brutalities and cowardly attacks carried out by the Pakistani occupation forces on the unarmed Bangalees on the...

Virus scares patients away from city hospitals

Virus scares patients away from city hospitals

JUBAIR HASAN 2020-03-25 11:02:23

The fear of getting infected by the highly contagious COVID-19 dealt a serious blow to the city's healthcare centres, which witnessed a massive fall in the number of admitted patients over the last fe...

Virus forces Sylhet newspapers to suspend publication

Virus forces Sylhet newspapers to suspend publication

-- 2020-03-25 10:59:42

Sylhet-based editors have decided to stop the publication of newspapers as coronavirus cases surged in Bangladesh, according to a statement released on Tuesday. The suspension will be effective from...

Two houses under lockdown in Chattogram

Two houses under lockdown in Chattogram

-- 2020-03-25 10:03:21

The local administration has put two houses under lockdown in Chattogram city as a woman who tested positive for coronavirus visited those. Civil Surgeon of the district Sheikh Fazle Rabbi Mia said t...

Genocide Day on Tuesday

Genocide Day on Tuesday

-- 2020-03-24 22:01:47

The ‘Genocide Day’ is tomorrow. On the black night of March 25 nearly five decades ago, Pakistani occupation forces launched brutal genocide codenamed ‘Operation Searchlight’ o...

BD begins deploying army to fight coronavirus spread

BD begins deploying army to fight coronavirus spread

-- 2020-03-24 21:07:12

Deployment of the army has begun on Tuesday across Bangladesh to assist the civil administration at the field level in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak as dozens of cases have been reported...

First coronavirus case detected in Cox’s Bazar

First coronavirus case detected in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2020-03-24 21:00:44

The first case of the coronavirus infection has been detected in Cox’s Bazar, the most popular tourist hotspot in Bangladesh. A woman, who is over 60 years old and returned form Saudi Arabia on...

Govt incorporates COVID-19 in Communicable Diseases Act

Govt incorporates COVID-19 in Communicable Diseases Act

FE Online Report 2020-03-24 20:13:58

The government has incorporated the life-threatening novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in 'The Communicable Diseases (Prevention, Control and Eradication) Act, 2018’ to take legal action to check the...

All courts to remain suspended from Mar 29 to Apr 2

All courts to remain suspended from Mar 29 to Apr 2

-- 2020-03-24 20:13:42

Activities of all courts of the country will remain suspended from March 29 to April 2 to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. A notification signed by the Supreme Court registrar General Md Ali Akb...

BD in talks with EU, US to offset export loss

BD in talks with EU, US to offset export loss

FE Online Report 2020-03-24 20:08:12

The government has started discussions with major importer countries for Bangladeshi goods on how to offset the loss incurred from the coronavirus spread. “We are in discussion with the EU, the...

10 doctors, 11 others sent to home quarantine in Cox’s Bazar

10 doctors, 11 others sent to home quarantine in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2020-03-24 19:41:01

10 physicians, eight nurses and three conservancy workers -- were sent to home quarantine in Sadar upazila on Tuesday as they came in contact with an elderly woman who was found to be infected with co...

Rizvi urges BNP leaders not to crowd at BSMMU

Rizvi urges BNP leaders not to crowd at BSMMU

-- 2020-03-24 19:07:30

BNP’ senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has urged the his party leaders and activists not to crowd at the BSMMU hospital, from where their chief Khaleda Zia is set to be freed from...

Over 100 Indians stuck at Benapole over lockdown in Benapole

Over 100 Indians stuck at Benapole over lockdown in Benapole

-- 2020-03-24 19:04:16

Over 100 Indian nationals got stuck at the Benapole checkpost on Tuesday as Petrapole immigration authorities in India did not allow them to enter their country following a lockdown in West Bengal, re...

Banking transactions reduced to two hours

Banking transactions reduced to two hours

FE Online Report 2020-03-24 18:42:02

Banking transactions across the country will remain open for two hours during the government-declared general holidays, said a Bangladesh Bank circular on Tuesday. As per circular, transactions in ba...

10,000 coronavorus testing kits, PPEs to arrive from China on Thursday

10,000 coronavorus testing kits, PPEs to arrive from China on Thursday

-- 2020-03-24 18:08:58

The second batch of medical logistics including 10,000 testing kits, 10,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) and 1,000 infrared thermometers will arrive in the city from Kunming, China on Thursday....

Modi expresses gratitude to Hasina for contribution to emergency fund

Modi expresses gratitude to Hasina for contribution to emergency fund

-- 2020-03-24 18:08:37

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her contribution to the Saarc Covid-19 Emergency Fund to fight the deadly coronavirus. “Grateful...

Govt appoints Riaz as new Bangladesh Ambassador to Netherlands

Govt appoints Riaz as new Bangladesh Ambassador to Netherlands

-- 2020-03-24 17:29:24

The government has appointed M Riaz Hamidullah, currently serving as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, as the new Ambassador to the Netherlands. Ambassador Hamidullah is a career dipl...

‘Stay at home, general holidays not for enjoyment’

‘Stay at home, general holidays not for enjoyment’

-- 2020-03-24 17:22:31

The countrymen should stay at home during the general holidays as the government declared the holidays to curb the spread of COVID-19, not for enjoyment. “The aim of declaring general holidays,...

Govt decides to release Khaleda considering humanitarian ground

Govt decides to release Khaleda considering humanitarian ground

-- 2020-03-24 16:43:38

The government has decided to release BNP chief Khaleda Zia from prison suspending her conviction orders for six months upon two conditions. Law Minister Annisul Huq came up with the announcement at...

All expatriate returnees asked to report to local police stations

All expatriate returnees asked to report to local police stations

FE Online Report 2020-03-24 16:25:41

The Police Headquarters asked all expatriate returnees, who came to the country since March 01, to inform local police stations about their current addresses. Even they have been asked to provide the...

Rail services, except freight trains, suspended indefinitely

Rail services, except freight trains, suspended indefinitely

-- 2020-03-24 16:18:28

The government shut down all passenger train services, except freight trains, from Tuesday to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh. Railway Minister Nurul Islam made the announcement in a...

Bangladesh reports fourth coronavirus death

Bangladesh reports fourth coronavirus death

-- 2020-03-24 15:51:30

Another person has died from the coronavirus in Bangladesh, taking the total death toll from Covid-19 disease in the country to four, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (...

Govt extends closure of schools till Apr 9

Govt extends closure of schools till Apr 9

-- 2020-03-24 15:46:21

The Ministry of Education has extended the shutdown of all schools to April 09 from March 31 amid virus fears, reports bdnews24.com The government previously announced the shutdown of schools until M...