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COVID-19: Govt to recruit 5,000 more doctors, health workers

COVID-19: Govt to recruit 5,000 more doctors, health workers

-- 2020-05-29 11:36:27

The government is hiring another 2,000 doctors and 3,000 medical technologists, technicians and radiographers to tackle an aggressive coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangladesh. Prime Minister She...

KMCH starts Plasma Therapy trial to treat COVID-19 patients

KMCH starts Plasma Therapy trial to treat COVID-19 patients

-- 2020-05-29 11:14:58

After Dhaka Medical College Hospital, now Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) on experimental basis, aiming to save lives of COVID-19 infected patients...

10 RAB men test positive for COVID-19 in Nilphamari

10 RAB men test positive for COVID-19 in Nilphamari

-- 2020-05-29 10:28:53

Ten more members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been infected with coronavirus in Nilphamari district. District Civil Surgeon Dr Ranjit Kumar Barman came up with the information on Thursday nig...

Country witnesses a different Eid for corona pandemic

Country witnesses a different Eid for corona pandemic

FE REPORT 2020-05-29 09:56:02

The country's people like elsewhere in the world have celebrated the Eid-ul-Fitr this time amid pandemic COVID-19 that shrunk the festivities unprecedentedly with regulated and indoor congregations, s...

Ctg hospitals striving to deal with increased COVID-19 cases

Ctg hospitals striving to deal with increased COVID-19 cases

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-05-29 09:39:42

CHATTOGRAM: The number of COVID-19 patients is increasing alarmingly in Chattogram further intensifying the accommodation crisis at the hospitals here. Sources said the hospitals in the district are...

BAF to send team to MINUSCA   

BAF to send team to MINUSCA  

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-29 09:37:26

Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is going to send a contingent consisting of three Armed Version MI-171 helicopters equipped with Night Vision System and 125 personnel for United Nations Peacekeeping Missio...

26 Bangladeshis killed in ‘revenge attack’ in Libya

26 Bangladeshis killed in ‘revenge attack’ in Libya

-- 2020-05-29 09:29:15

The family of a slain Libyan human trafficker killed 26 Bangladeshi and four African migrants in revenge; Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) said on Thursday....

Internal migrant women workers at high risk of virus infection

Internal migrant women workers at high risk of virus infection

FE Report 2020-05-29 09:20:51

Unavailability of proper water supply and sanitation facilities is making the internal migrant women workers in the capital vulnerable to infection of deadly coronavirus, according to a study. Cent...

Govt orders office-goers to wear masks, sanitise hands

Govt orders office-goers to wear masks, sanitise hands

-- 2020-05-28 21:24:59

The government has ordered all its employees to wear masks to offices, sanitise hands frequently and follow some other health safety rules after they reopen. In the order on reopening from May 31 to...

HC wants to know steps  taken to protect biodiversity  in Halda river   

HC wants to know steps taken to protect biodiversity in Halda river  

FE Online Report 2020-05-28 21:23:32

The High Court on Thursday wanted to know about the steps taken by the committee led by the deputy commissioner (DC) of Chattogram to protect the biodiversity, environment and the aquatic life, includ...

Govt to take Tk 1.0b project to repair embankments: Zahid

Govt to take Tk 1.0b project to repair embankments: Zahid

-- 2020-05-28 20:53:13

State minister for water resources Zahid Faruk on Thursday said the government is going to take a project involving Tk 1.0 billion to repair the embankments damaged by the recent super cyclone Amphan,...

‘70m people brought under govt aid schemes’

‘70m people brought under govt aid schemes’

-- 2020-05-28 20:48:01

An estimated 70 million people were brought under the government relief scheme during the coronavirus outbreak, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud said Thursday. The minister came up with the remarks...

DNCC distributes relief to over 0.5m families

DNCC distributes relief to over 0.5m families

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-28 20:08:28

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) until has distributed its relief to more than 500,000  families and sprayed liquid disinfectants on the areas of 120 million square feet to stem the coronaviru...

Another policeman dies of coronavirus in city

Another policeman dies of coronavirus in city

-- 2020-05-28 19:49:38

Another member of Bangladesh Police died of coronavirus at a hospital in the capital on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Md Rasel Biswash, 35, sub-inspector of Special Branch (SB), said a pre...

Experts differ on expansion of COVID-19 treatment at all hospitals

Experts differ on expansion of COVID-19 treatment at all hospitals

-- 2020-05-28 19:34:16

The government's decision to expand the treatment of COVID-19 at all hospitals in Bangladesh has drawn mixed reactions from health experts and hospital authorities. On May 24, the health ministry ord...

Nor’wester destroys 250 houses in Bhola

Nor’wester destroys 250 houses in Bhola

-- 2020-05-28 19:29:55

Powerful seasonal storms destroyed at least 250 houses and damaged two educational institutions in Bhola’s Lalmohon and Charfesson upazilas on Wednesday night. Five people were injured after tr...

Deaths from consuming toxic liquor: Police arrest homeopath

Deaths from consuming toxic liquor: Police arrest homeopath

-- 2020-05-28 19:16:44

Police have arrested a homeopath in Dinajpur over his suspected role in the deaths of 17 people from drinking bootleg liquor in the neighbouring districts of Dinajpur and Rangpur during the Eid-ul-Fit...

'United Hospital lacks proper fire safety measures'

'United Hospital lacks proper fire safety measures'

-- 2020-05-28 18:42:53

The probe panel looking into the fatal fire that broke out at Dhaka's United Hospital has found that the hospital lacked proper fire safety measures. Five people were killed on Wednesday after the fi...

Govt undertaking Tk 1.0b project to repair embankments: Minister

Govt undertaking Tk 1.0b project to repair embankments: Minister

-- 2020-05-28 18:25:47

The government is taking a Tk 1.0 billion project to repair embankments damaged during cyclone Amphan, State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruk said Thursday. He made the remarks while visiting...

Case filed over United Hospital fire

Case filed over United Hospital fire

-- 2020-05-28 16:35:31

A case was filed in connection with the death of five patients at the isolation unit of the city’s United Hospital on Wednesday night following a fire incident, reports UNB. Major (retd) Moinul...

Two UP chairmen, three members suspended for relief embezzlement

Two UP chairmen, three members suspended for relief embezzlement

-- 2020-05-28 16:20:02

The Local Government Ministry has suspended two union parishad chairmen and three members for their involvement in relief embezzlement. The Local Government Division of the ministry issued separate n...

United Hospital fire: Five-member probe body formed

United Hospital fire: Five-member probe body formed

-- 2020-05-28 16:16:15

Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters has formed a five-member committee to investigate the death of five patients at the isolation unit of city’s United Hospital on Wednesday night follow...

Public transport services to resume from May 31

Public transport services to resume from May 31

-- 2020-05-28 14:47:02

Bangladesh will allow public transport services such as buses, trains and launches to restart operations with a fixed number of passengers from May 31, the day after the nationwide lockdown over the c...

BD coronavirus cases cross 40,000-mark

BD coronavirus cases cross 40,000-mark

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-28 14:45:41

Bangladesh has recorded another highest single day coronavirus cases today (Thursday), crossing the total number of the cases to 40,000 mark, according to the DGHS official. Fifteen more people died...

Cop dies at SBMCH corona unit

Cop dies at SBMCH corona unit

-- 2020-05-28 13:29:34

A police constable died at corona unit of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) early Thursday.   Sohel Mahmud, 35, hailing from Pangasia area in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali dis...

Dhaka-bound people’s rush raises fear of virus spread

Dhaka-bound people’s rush raises fear of virus spread

-- 2020-05-28 12:56:09

Hundreds of people gathered at Shimulia ferry ghat on Thursday morning for returning to Dhaka after celebrating of Eid-ul Fitr, raising the fear of coronavirus spread. A large number of people are re...

BD requires China's tech expertise in Covid-19 testing: Envoy Mahbub

BD requires China's tech expertise in Covid-19 testing: Envoy Mahbub

-- 2020-05-28 12:23:26

Bangladesh requires China's technological expertise and experience in coronavirus (COVID-19) testing and contact tracing, said Bangladeshi Ambassador to China Mahbub Uz Zaman. He said that the countr...

Probe opens into United Hospital fire

Probe opens into United Hospital fire

-- 2020-05-28 11:08:58

The Bangladesh Fire Service has formed a four-member panel to investigate the fire that burned down the isolation unit and killed five patients at the United Hospital in Dhaka. Debashish Vardhan, dep...

Tributes paid to the iconic teacher Niloufer Manzur

Tributes paid to the iconic teacher Niloufer Manzur

Khawaza Main Uddin 2020-05-28 10:46:13

From dignitaries to middle class men and women, from present and former students to the ones who have known and even heard of Niloufer Manzur, many have come up with rich tributes to the founder Princ...

Air quality: Dhaka ranks 2nd worst again

Air quality: Dhaka ranks 2nd worst again

-- 2020-05-28 10:42:33

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, again ranked second worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday. It had an AQI score of 138 at 10:00 am and its air quality was classified as ‘unheal...