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122 people in home quarantine in Cumilla, Bogura districts

122 people in home quarantine in Cumilla, Bogura districts

Our Correspondent 2020-03-15 21:20:19

CUMILLA, Mar 15: About 92 people from various places in the district have been placed in home quarantine on suspicion of having coronavirus. This information was confirmed by Cumilla District Civil...

Students suffer in absence of approach roads of bridge

Students suffer in absence of approach roads of bridge

ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2020-03-15 21:19:06

SIRAJGANJ, Mar 15: Students of a government primary school in Royganj upazila of Sirajganj district have been facing untold suffering as they cannot use a bridge for lack of approach roads. Sources...

69pc of displaced Rohingya poor now

69pc of displaced Rohingya poor now

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-03-15 20:10:03

About 69 per cent of forcibly - displaced Myanmar nationals (FDMNs) are currently poor compared to the 26 per cent five years ago, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by Bangladesh In...

PM for constructive talks among SAARC countries to battle coronavirus

PM for constructive talks among SAARC countries to battle coronavirus

-- 2020-03-15 19:53:59

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina welcomed her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s proposal on strategies to battle coronavirus in SAARC region and said will look forward to a constructive dialogue wi...

Abhijit murder: Trial hearing postponed in absence of witnesses

Abhijit murder: Trial hearing postponed in absence of witnesses

-- 2020-03-15 18:54:49

A special tribunal on Sunday adjourned till March 24 the hearing in the case lodged over murder of blogger and writer Abhijit Roy. Dhaka Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Md Mujibur Rahman set th...

ADB provides €360m to upgrade Dhaka-Northwest int'l road corridor

ADB provides €360m to upgrade Dhaka-Northwest int'l road corridor

-- 2020-03-15 17:54:33

The Government on Sunday signed €360 million ($400 million) loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help upgrade the Dhaka - Northwest international trade corridor in Bangladesh....

BD imposes temporary ban on Indian visitors

BD imposes temporary ban on Indian visitors

FE Online Report 2020-03-15 17:54:16

In a reciprocal move, Bangladesh has decided to stop entry of Indian visitors to Bangladesh temporarily, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen disclosed on Sunday On Wednesday last, India suspended visa...

'Govt mulls shutting educational institutions'

'Govt mulls shutting educational institutions'

-- 2020-03-15 17:46:12

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the government is mulling over closing the educational institutions in view of the outbreak of coronavirus. “Closing the school...

Govt wants to protect 160m people halting ‘imported’ virus

Govt wants to protect 160m people halting ‘imported’ virus

-- 2020-03-15 17:41:05

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said the government wants to protect over 160 million people of the country by not allowing expatriate Bangladeshis with "imported" coronavirus. He said...

Ex-Bangla Academy DG undergoing treatment at city hospital

Ex-Bangla Academy DG undergoing treatment at city hospital

-- 2020-03-15 15:51:25

Dr Ashraf Siddiqui, a noted poet, folklorist and former director general of Bangla Academy, is undergoing treatment at a city hospital with respiratory problems. Farhad, an official of customer care...

Kurigram DC to be withdrawn: State minister

Kurigram DC to be withdrawn: State minister

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-03-15 15:11:43

Kurigram’s deputy commissioner Sultana Pervin will be withdrawn over her involvement in the midnight arrest and jailing of a local journalist, said state minister for public administration Farha...

2,314 people currently in home quarantine: IEDCR

2,314 people currently in home quarantine: IEDCR

-- 2020-03-15 14:52:40

Across Bangladesh, 2,314 people are currently in home-quarantine as part of a countrywide effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19. "All of them are from abroad... so far, there has be...

Four madrasa students die in Sirajganj road crash

Four madrasa students die in Sirajganj road crash

-- 2020-03-15 13:46:21

At least four madrasa students were killed and 16 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Talukdar Bazar in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj on early Sunday. The deceased we...

First three coronavirus patients discharged: IEDCR

First three coronavirus patients discharged: IEDCR

-- 2020-03-15 13:10:09

The first three coronavirus patients detected in Bangladesh have recovered and been discharged, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) announced Sunday. IEDCR director Pr...

Four JMB militants to die for murder of Hindu priest in Panchagarh

Four JMB militants to die for murder of Hindu priest in Panchagarh

-- 2020-03-15 13:01:55

Four members of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been sentenced to death for the murder of a Hindu priest, Jagneshwar Roy, in Panchagarh in 2016. Rajshahi's Speedy Tr...

Kurigram journalist gets bail

Kurigram journalist gets bail

-- 2020-03-15 12:42:09

A court on Sunday granted bail to journalist Ariful Islam Rigan, who was jailed for one year for ‘possessing narcotics’. He is the district correspondent of online news portal Bangla Trib...

152 Bangladeshis return from Italy

152 Bangladeshis return from Italy

-- 2020-03-15 11:26:53

A total of 152 Bangladeshi nationals have returned home from Italy, the European epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. An Emirates flight carrying the evacuees landed in Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal Int...

Acreage of Boro farming reduced in Faridpur

Acreage of Boro farming reduced in Faridpur

Our Correspondent 2020-03-15 00:00:00

FARIDPUR, Mar 15: Over the past seven years, the acreage of Boro paddy has reduced to twenty thousand hectares of land in the district due to low market price of the produce and high cost of productio...

Flights from all European nations except Britain suspended

Flights from all European nations except Britain suspended

-- 2020-03-14 22:20:26

Bangladesh suspends flights with passengers from European nations, except Britain The government has suspended flights carrying passengers from all European countries, except Britain, for two weeks d...

Two new coronavirus patients detected in Bangladesh

Two new coronavirus patients detected in Bangladesh

-- 2020-03-14 22:00:27

Two new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in Bangladesh, taking the total number of COVID-19 patients reported in the country to five. The infected patients arrived in the country...

Pharmacy students of DU prepare low-cost hand sanitiser

Pharmacy students of DU prepare low-cost hand sanitiser

-- 2020-03-14 21:14:47

Students and teachers of Dhaka University’s Pharmacy department have prepared low-cost hand sanitiser, aiming to prevent the spread of infectious coronavirus or COVID-19. Two hundred bottles we...

23 Bangladeshis from Wuhan return home via India

23 Bangladeshis from Wuhan return home via India

-- 2020-03-14 19:57:07

The government has brought back 23 Bangladeshi students, who were evacuated by India along with its nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus pandemic. They arrived at...

Bus-truck collision claims five lives in Bagerhat

Bus-truck collision claims five lives in Bagerhat

-- 2020-03-14 19:48:13

A collision between a bus and a truck has left at least five people killed and 10 others injured in Fakirhat Upazila of Bagerhat. The Barishal-bound bus from Khulna collided head-on with the goods-la...

35 journalists harassed in Jan-Feb

35 journalists harassed in Jan-Feb

FE Online Report 2020-03-14 18:22:50

At least 35 journalists fell victim to harassment in January-February 2020, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them, eight received death threats over phone during the period, th...

Minor boy killed in Chattogram elephant attack

Minor boy killed in Chattogram elephant attack

-- 2020-03-14 18:06:23

A minor boy was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Boalkhali upazila in Chattogram on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Akib, 2, son of Shamshul Alam of Koroldonga village in the upaz...

Nine in isolation with coronavirus like symptoms: IEDCR

Nine in isolation with coronavirus like symptoms: IEDCR

-- 2020-03-14 17:47:26

Nine people are currently in isolation at different hospitals after showing symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection with four others in institutional quarantine, according to the government's dis...

Two dengue patients hospitalised in 24hr

Two dengue patients hospitalised in 24hr

-- 2020-03-14 17:28:32

Two new dengue patients was hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Saturday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to daily update from DGHS, eight dengue patien...

India sends back 45 Bangladeshis with COVID19-like symptoms

India sends back 45 Bangladeshis with COVID19-like symptoms

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-03-14 14:55:52

India sent back around 40-45 Bangladeshis with COVID19-like symptoms, just as they entered its state of Tripura through Akhaura check-post on Friday. All of them had valid travel documents, officials...

Fire breaks out at Mirpur Jhut Patti

Fire breaks out at Mirpur Jhut Patti

-- 2020-03-14 14:33:17

A fire broke out at a Jhut Patti at block A of Mirpur’s section 10 in Dhaka on Saturday. The fire broke out around 1:25pm, UNB reported citing fire service officials. “Ten firefighting u...

Couple suffers burn injuries in N’ganj fire

Couple suffers burn injuries in N’ganj fire

-- 2020-03-14 13:22:22

A couple suffered burn injuries following a fire that originated from a gas line leakage at Kanchpur of Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj district on Saturday. The victims are – Ashraf, 45 and h...