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Wait for metrorail may get longer

Wait for metrorail may get longer

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-02-09 10:02:44

The construction of metrorail line 6 could be delayed further as the state-run transit agency has proposed refunding 40 per cent of its annual allocations, people familiar with the development say. T...

VAT project implementation: WB could pull out funds, partially

VAT project implementation: WB could pull out funds, partially

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-02-09 09:58:12

The World Bank is unlikely to release the remaining 40 per cent of the NBR's struggling online VAT project. Of the $60 million pledged fund, the multilateral lending agency has so far provided $36 mi...

Govt cancels plans to bring back 171 Bangladeshis from China

Govt cancels plans to bring back 171 Bangladeshis from China

-- 2020-02-08 20:03:12

The failure to arrange a flight has forced the government to scrap its plans to bring back 171 Bangladeshis from the locked-down cities in China amid a deadly coronavirus outbreak.  Foreign Min...

BNP to stage countrywide demo Feb 15

BNP to stage countrywide demo Feb 15

-- 2020-02-08 19:59:14

BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on February 15, demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the progr...

Coronavirus: Screening of inbound travellers starts at HSIA

Coronavirus: Screening of inbound travellers starts at HSIA

-- 2020-02-08 18:31:17

Screening of passengers of all flights started at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) as coronavirus cases were detected in more than two dozens of countries including China. “Passeng...

No new dengue patient in last 24hrs

No new dengue patient in last 24hrs

-- 2020-02-08 18:17:31

No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Saturday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. According to the daily update from DGHS, ten dengue patients, in...

BRTA lodges 864 cases in Jan for violating traffic rules

BRTA lodges 864 cases in Jan for violating traffic rules

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-02-08 18:17:27

Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) filed 864 cases against vehicles and realised over Tk 1.925 million in fines for violating traffic rules in January 2020. The BRTA conducts...

Four more held over attack on journalist Sumon

Four more held over attack on journalist Sumon

-- 2020-02-08 17:55:20

Members of Rapid Action Battalion-2 (RAB-2) in separate drives on Saturday arrested four more people from the city’s different areas over the attack on journalist Mustafizur Rahman Sumon during...

Teenager commits suicide in Magura

Teenager commits suicide in Magura

-- 2020-02-08 17:49:48

A teenage girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Choto Nawbhanga village in Mohammadpur upazila of in Magura on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Anna Khatun, 17, a re...

Cox’s Bazar road crash leaves four dead

Cox’s Bazar road crash leaves four dead

-- 2020-02-08 17:22:59

At least four people were killed and 22 others injured in a road accident on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram Highway in Baniarchhora area under Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Friday night. The...

Coronavirus: All inbound travellers to undergo screening

Coronavirus: All inbound travellers to undergo screening

-- 2020-02-08 13:42:19

Temperature screening measures at airports and other ports of entry into Bangladesh have been extended to cover all inbound travellers in a bid to prevent a deadly coronavirus from spreading. The Ins...

Garment worker found dead in Savar

Garment worker found dead in Savar

-- 2020-02-08 12:35:57

Police recovered the body of a garment worker from Ulail area in Savar on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Yasmin Akter, 18, daughter of Mukul Miah, hailing from Jamalpur village in Kal...

BD largely relies on KSA for manpower export

BD largely relies on KSA for manpower export

Arafat Ara 2020-02-08 12:13:01

Bangladesh is now heavily dependent on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for overseas employment, as other traditional job markets slashed manpower recruitment from the country, officials statistics...

200 shanties gutted in Banani slum fire

200 shanties gutted in Banani slum fire

-- 2020-02-08 11:49:42

At least 200 shanties were destroyed when a fire tore through two slums in the capital's Banani T&T area early Saturday. Rasel Shikder, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters...

Rohingya funding falling steadily

Rohingya funding falling steadily

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-02-08 10:32:48

Donor funding to meet the expenses of the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is in a declining trend. The UN agencies along with Dhaka launched an appeal, known as the Joint...

Move to rein in spending spree in BD missions

Move to rein in spending spree in BD missions

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-02-08 10:25:00

The government has introduced an online accounting system for Bangladesh missions abroad, a move that may help contain the higher spending on health and education grounds. Apart from this, the system...

Saudi firm to ink deal on largest cement unit

Saudi firm to ink deal on largest cement unit

JUBAIR HASAN 2020-02-08 10:19:49

The signing a deal on investment of US$ 321 million by a Saudi firm in the country's largest clinker-cement production facility at Chhatak in Sunamganj is in the final stage, officials concerned said....

PM returns home from Italy

PM returns home from Italy

-- 2020-02-08 10:10:33

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this morning from Milan concluding her four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte. An Emirates Airlines fl...

Coronavirus: BD ill-prepared to fight potential outbreak

Coronavirus: BD ill-prepared to fight potential outbreak

Saif Uddin and SM Najmus Sakib 2020-02-08 10:08:43

Bangladesh's healthcare system remains inadequately prepared to cope with the potential outbreak of fatal coronavirus, which has so far killed more than 600 people. While state-backed hospitals have...

Bangladeshi students in Yichang appeal for evacuation

Bangladeshi students in Yichang appeal for evacuation

bdnews24.com 2020-02-07 21:51:24

A group of Bangladeshi students stuck in Yichang, a city in Hubei province of China, have appealed for evacuation citing a shortage of food and lockdown for a coronavirus outbreak. As many as 172 Ban...

Bangabandhu’s birth centenary: India wants Modi's visit to be mutually beneficial

Bangabandhu’s birth centenary: India wants Modi's visit to be mutually beneficial

-- 2020-02-07 20:38:59

India wants to its Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh to be mutually beneficial, said newly-appointed Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday. The Bangladesh...

PM wraps up Italy tour, leaves for Dhaka

PM wraps up Italy tour, leaves for Dhaka

-- 2020-02-07 20:22:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrapped up her four-day visit to Italy and left for Dhaka on Friday. A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the Prime Minister departed Milan Malpensa International Airpo...

BASIS SoftExpo draws huge crowd on Friday

BASIS SoftExpo draws huge crowd on Friday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-02-07 19:43:15

The four-day BASIS SoftExpo 2020 witnessed a large crowd on Friday, the second day of the ICT fair. The exhibitors and organisers were happy and expressed their satisfaction as hundreds of people gat...

Coronavirus: Country’s only thermal scanner at Benapole faulty

Coronavirus: Country’s only thermal scanner at Benapole faulty

UNB 2020-02-07 18:24:58

Bangladesh has put its key land port Benapole on high alert to identify coronavirus patients but its lone thermal scanner is dysfunctional. Authorities at Burimari land port, on the other hand, lack...

11 returnees test negative for China virus

11 returnees test negative for China virus

-- 2020-02-07 14:53:26

Eleven of the 312 Bangladeshis evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, have tested negative for the coronavirus. Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, the director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease C...

Dhaka seeks European Parliament's help for Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka seeks European Parliament's help for Rohingya repatriation

-- 2020-02-07 14:33:02

State minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam has urged the European Parliament to remain seized with the Rohingya issue through its various monitoring mechanisms and tools towards facilitating t...

Air Quality Index: Dhaka ranks fourth worst

Air Quality Index: Dhaka ranks fourth worst

-- 2020-02-07 12:38:58

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked the fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. It had an AQI score of 196 at 08:27am. The air was classified as ‘unhealthy’. M...

DAE growing BRRI Dhan- 58 in three Gopalganj unions

DAE growing BRRI Dhan- 58 in three Gopalganj unions

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-02-07 00:24:47

GOPALGANJ, Feb 06: Gopalganj Sadar upazila agriculture extension department has taken an initiative to cultivate BRRI Dhan-58 under three unions here this season. DAE office sources said a total of 1...

Jashore florists eye Tk 700m business this month

Jashore florists eye Tk 700m business this month

-- 2020-02-07 00:23:58

JASHORE, Feb 06 (UNB): Flower farmers in Jashore's Jhikorgachha say they expect to sell flowers worth Tk 700-800 million ahead of Pahela Falgun, Valentine's Day and International Mother Language Day t...

Not all need to use face masks: IEDCR

Not all need to use face masks: IEDCR

bdnews24.com 2020-02-06 20:59:45

In the wake of rises in prices of face masks amid coronavirus scare, the government’s disease control agency says not everyone needs protection as no returnees from China has tested positive a...