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All domestic flights to be suspended from midnight

All domestic flights to be suspended from midnight

-- 2020-03-24 15:40:38

All flights on the domestic routes — Barishal, Chattogram, Saidpur, Cox's Bazar, Jashore, Rajshahi and Sylhet — will be suspended from this midnight. The suspension will take off at 12:01...

Govt scraps leave for TCB, consumer rights officials to keep prices stable

Govt scraps leave for TCB, consumer rights officials to keep prices stable

-- 2020-03-24 15:36:52

The government has cancelled leave for all employees in the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh and the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection amid growing concerns over the outbreak of the...

All passenger train services to be suspended from this evening

All passenger train services to be suspended from this evening

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-03-24 14:44:14

All passenger train services will be suspended from this evening until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak. Railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan announced this at a press conference at Rail...

Virus outbreak: Overseas returnees asked to contact police

Virus outbreak: Overseas returnees asked to contact police

-- 2020-03-24 14:31:24

People who have returned from abroad since March 1 and staying at addresses different than the ones in their passports have been asked to contact nearby police stations. All returnees must inform pol...

555 Jashore overseas returnees quarantined in 24 hours

555 Jashore overseas returnees quarantined in 24 hours

-- 2020-03-24 14:07:13

Jashore’s district administration sent another 555 overseas returnees to home quarantine in the last 24 hours until Monday night to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Among them, 414 returnees...

River transportation to be shut from Tuesday

River transportation to be shut from Tuesday

-- 2020-03-24 13:19:23

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has decided to shut river transportation from today (Tuesday) afternoon to prevent the spread of coronavirus. “Vessels, including launches, w...

Public transport to be shut from March 26

Public transport to be shut from March 26

-- 2020-03-24 13:06:29

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said that mass transportation will remain shut from March 26 to April 4 to prevent the spread of coronavirus. He made the announcement a...

Man with coronavirus symptoms flees home in Feni

Man with coronavirus symptoms flees home in Feni

-- 2020-03-24 12:19:29

A youth showing coronavirus symptoms fled his home in Feni Sadar upazila and travelled to Dhaka by bus for tests. Feni Civil Surgeon Dr Sajjad Hossain said the man’s house has now been put unde...

Sylhet woman’s death not linked to coronavirus: IEDCR

Sylhet woman’s death not linked to coronavirus: IEDCR

-- 2020-03-24 11:08:07

The elderly woman who died in Sylhet was not infected with the novel coronavirus, says IEDCR, the government’s disease control agency. IEDCR Chief Scientific Officer ASM Alamgir confirmed the m...

BR suspends all local, commuter, mail train services

BR suspends all local, commuter, mail train services

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-03-24 11:04:18

Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities have suspended all 257 local, commuter and mail trains across the country due to the prevailing coronavirus situation. The suspension took effect from Mo...

BUET ‘locks down’ Dhakeshwari area after resident is infected

BUET ‘locks down’ Dhakeshwari area after resident is infected

-- 2020-03-24 09:45:37

All inhabitants of a residential area of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, or BUET, have gone into home quarantine after one of them tested positive for the coronavirus. The En...

Chinese medical supplies on the way

Chinese medical supplies on the way

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-03-24 09:08:43

Bangladesh is in close touch with China in an attempt to stem further spread of novel coronavirus in the country. Both the foreign minister and the health minister had several meetings with the Chi...

Govt lists COVID-19 as communicable disease

Govt lists COVID-19 as communicable disease

-- 2020-03-23 22:20:05

The government has put COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, on its list of communicable diseases in a move that is expected to scale up efforts to contain the outbreak. The Director...

UGC suggests universities introducing online education

UGC suggests universities introducing online education

FE Online Report 2020-03-23 21:05:32

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday suggested all the public and private universities introducing online education to run academic activities during the coronavirus pandemic. The UGC als...

Banks to stay open on limited scale during Mar 26-Apr 4 holidays

Banks to stay open on limited scale during Mar 26-Apr 4 holidays

-- 2020-03-23 20:07:07

Banks will remain open during the Mar 26-Apr 4 general holidays announced to stem the coronavirus spread, according to Bangladesh Bank. But their operations will be scaled back in this period to redu...

Army to assist civil administration in coronavirus fight

Army to assist civil administration in coronavirus fight

-- 2020-03-23 19:38:13

Bangladesh Army will assist the civil administration at the field level in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak as Bangladesh has confirmed 33 infections with three deaths. Cabinet Secretary Kh...

‘Follow WHO directives on coronavirus victim burial’

‘Follow WHO directives on coronavirus victim burial’

-- 2020-03-23 19:06:58

The Islamic Foundation (IF) of Bangladesh has urged all to follow the directives of the World Health Organization (WHO) for performing janaza and burial of coronavirus victim. The Islamic Foundation...

HC stays mobile court sentence against journo Ariful Isalm

HC stays mobile court sentence against journo Ariful Isalm

FE Online Report 2020-03-23 18:48:20

The High Court (HC) on Monday stayed for six months the sentence of Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam who was convicted by a mobile court for one-year imprisonment after the law enforcers led by a magi...

Two garment factories shut down in Savar

Two garment factories shut down in Savar

-- 2020-03-23 18:19:44

Two garment factories were shut down in Savar on the outskirts of the capital in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The decision taken on Monday is the first instance of factory a...

17 among 860 Chowgachha returnees in home quarantine

17 among 860 Chowgachha returnees in home quarantine

-- 2020-03-23 18:02:58

Though 860 Bangladeshis returned from overseas in Chowgaccha upazila of Benapole in one month, only 17 people are under home quarantine. After getting a list of returnees from Home Ministry, police a...

Two Brunei returnees fined for breaching home quarantine rules

Two Brunei returnees fined for breaching home quarantine rules

-- 2020-03-23 18:02:38

A mobile court fined two returnees from Brunei Tk 7,000 for breaching home quarantine rules at Chandipur village in Joypurhat district on Sunday night. According to UNB, Sobuj Ali and Saheb Ali of th...

Govt and private offices closed from March 26 to April 4

Govt and private offices closed from March 26 to April 4

-- 2020-03-23 17:35:21

All governmen and private offices and courts will be closed from March 26 to April 4 to contain the spread of coronavirus, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam announced on Monday. The shutdown w...

Educationist Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir passes away

Educationist Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir passes away

-- 2020-03-23 17:23:43

Renowned educationist and writer Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir died of old age complications at his Gulshan residence in the city on Monday. He was 84. The Ekushey Padak winning author had been suffering...

Govt offices closed from March 26 to April 4

Govt offices closed from March 26 to April 4

-- 2020-03-23 17:12:25

All government offices will be closed from March 26 to April 4 to contain the spread of coronavirus, Cabinet Secretary said on Monday.  The shutdown will not affect emergency services. Public t...

BD confirms third coronavirus death

BD confirms third coronavirus death

-- 2020-03-23 16:23:54

Another person has died in Bangladesh after testing positive for Covid-19, taking the total death toll to three, said Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR). Besides, six mor...

500-member committee formed to fight coronavirus: Quader

500-member committee formed to fight coronavirus: Quader

-- 2020-03-23 16:05:09

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said a 500-member committee has been formed to tackle the coronavirus situation in the country. The committee has been formed with prominent doc...

US court dismisses Bangladesh Bank’s case against RCBC

US court dismisses Bangladesh Bank’s case against RCBC

-- 2020-03-23 15:49:39

A US court has dismissed a civil case filed by Bangladesh Bank against Manila-based bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp, individuals and firms over $81m cyber-hacking in 2016. Bloomberry Resorts Corp...

Long-route bus services in Khulna to remain suspended from Wednesday

Long-route bus services in Khulna to remain suspended from Wednesday

-- 2020-03-23 15:39:34

Bus services from Khulna to others parts of the country including the capital will remain suspended from Wednesday due to growing concern over coronavirus. Khulna Motor Workers Union and Bus Owners a...

BD stops receiving applications for new passports amid virus spread

BD stops receiving applications for new passports amid virus spread

-- 2020-03-23 14:14:56

The Department of Immigration and Passports has stopped receiving new applications for passports due to the coronavirus outbreak. The decision was effective from Monday, said the government agency's...

Italy-returnee with coronavirus symptoms dies

Italy-returnee with coronavirus symptoms dies

-- 2020-03-23 13:53:57

A 60-year-old man, who returned from Italy recently, died at a private hospital in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district on Sunday night with coronavirus symptoms, doctors said. Abdul Khalek return...