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COVID-19: 3,574 policemen test positive, 12 die, 722 recover

COVID-19: 3,574 policemen test positive, 12 die, 722 recover

-- 2020-05-23 23:21:58

A total of 3,574 policemen were infected with coronavirus and 12 members of the force have died across the country from the COVID-19 until Saturday. Among the total infected police members, 722 cops...

Bhutanese PM extends Eid greetings to Sheikh Hasina

Bhutanese PM extends Eid greetings to Sheikh Hasina

-- 2020-05-23 23:00:58

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering on Saturday extended greetings to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr over a telephonic conversation “The Bh...

Protecting next crop needs emergency embankments in coastal areas

Protecting next crop needs emergency embankments in coastal areas

FE Online Report 2020-05-23 22:42:31

Cyclone Amphan has severally affected coastal areas, and protecting next crop in the monsoon will be a major challenge. Tk 4 billion can be allocated in repairing embankments to protect next crop. L...

PM to join virtual Global Vaccine Summit on June 4

PM to join virtual Global Vaccine Summit on June 4

-- 2020-05-23 21:42:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to join the Global Vaccine Summit virtually to be hosted by the UK on June 4 as the countries across the globe want to stop future waves of infection. The Globa...

PM to address nation Sunday evening

PM to address nation Sunday evening

-- 2020-05-23 20:43:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Sunday evening on the occasion of Eid-ul- Fitr, reports UNB. "The Prime Minister will address the nation at 7:30 pm on the occasion of Holy Eid...

Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday

Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday

-- 2020-05-23 20:19:24

Muslims in Bangladesh will celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday as the moon of the Islamic calendar month of Shawwal was not sighted on Saturday. The National Moon-Sighting Committee announced the dec...

Power division preparing bills considering bills of previous months

Power division preparing bills considering bills of previous months

-- 2020-05-23 20:06:39

Estimated electricity bills are being served to the consumers as officials are not being able to visit the consumers’ meters for health safety concerns due to Covid-19 situation. “If ther...

Arrange special incentives for charland extreme people: National Char Alliance

Arrange special incentives for charland extreme people: National Char Alliance

FE Online Report 2020-05-23 19:38:19

National Char Alliance (NCA) has asked for a separate Covid-19 testing booth in remote charlands to ensure health security of char people, said a press relase. The NCA has placed a seven-point propos...

Celebrate Eid following health guidelines: Obaidul Quader

Celebrate Eid following health guidelines: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-05-23 19:28:27

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged all to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr following health guidelines to contain coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission and check deaths from the disease. &nbs...

Allowing private vehicles for Eid journey is suicidal: JKS

Allowing private vehicles for Eid journey is suicidal: JKS

-- 2020-05-23 19:20:37

At a time when public transport movement remains suspended across the country, the government’s decision allowing Eid holiday makers to travel in private vehicles is apparently suicidal, said Ja...

‘Officials to work in Amphan-hit areas during Eid holidays’

‘Officials to work in Amphan-hit areas during Eid holidays’

-- 2020-05-23 19:12:52

Deputy Minister of Water Resources AKM Enamul Haque Shamim on Saturday said all the officials of the Water Development Board as well as public representatives have been instructed to continue rehabili...

‘Amphan’ causes Tk 100m loss in electricity sector

‘Amphan’ causes Tk 100m loss in electricity sector

-- 2020-05-23 17:55:01

Cyclone ‘Amphan’ caused a loss of Taka 100.0 million in power sector at 21 districts of Khulna and Barisal divisions as well as partial of Dhaka division, according to primary estimation o...

Thakurgaon poultry farmers brace for huge loss

Thakurgaon poultry farmers brace for huge loss

-- 2020-05-23 17:28:26

Supply chain disruption and lack of effective measures by authorities concerned during the coronavirus pandemic have led to the closure of dozens of poultry farms in Thakurgaon. Besides, restriction...

BSF shoots dead BD national along Sylhet border

BSF shoots dead BD national along Sylhet border

-- 2020-05-23 16:53:52

A Bangladeshi man was gunned down by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Jaflong of Gowainghat Upazila in Sylhet on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Kala Miya, 37, a stone quarry worker and...

1,020 Armed Forces members infected with coronavirus

1,020 Armed Forces members infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-05-23 16:50:18

A total of 1,364 members of Armed Forces both in-service and retired, their families, and civilians and others, who are employed in various organisations under the Armed Forces, were infected with COV...

Amphan: Bagerhat suffers losses worth Tk 4b

Amphan: Bagerhat suffers losses worth Tk 4b

-- 2020-05-23 16:19:32

Cycone Amphan, which made landfall in the coastal districts on Wednesday, has caused an estimated loss of Tk 4.0 billion in Bagerhat district alone. Md Mamunur Rashid, the deputy commissioner, said t...

154 more Thai citizens leave Dhaka for Bangkok

154 more Thai citizens leave Dhaka for Bangkok

-- 2020-05-23 15:31:31

Some 154 more Thai nationals left Bangladesh for Bangkok on Saturday by a special flight. The Royal Thai Embassy in Dhaka arranged the third repatriation flight of the Thai Lion Air, which departed f...

DGHS reports 20 more coronavirus deaths, 1873 cases in 24 hours

DGHS reports 20 more coronavirus deaths, 1873 cases in 24 hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-23 14:41:00

Twenty people died of coronavirus and 1,873 tested positive in the country in the 24 hours to 8:00am, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Saturday. With the latest, the number o...

After ex-MP’s death in Bogura, four family members test positive for virus

After ex-MP’s death in Bogura, four family members test positive for virus

-- 2020-05-23 13:15:35

Four family members of former MP Begum Kamrunnahar Putul, who died from coronavirus in Bogura, have been diagnosed with coronavirus (COVID-19). A total of 24 people, including the former MP and her f...

Govt changes CMSD director after N95 mask scam

Govt changes CMSD director after N95 mask scam

-- 2020-05-23 12:08:42

The government has moved to appoint a new director to the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD) which came under scanner for delivering ordinary masks mislabelled as N95 masks to government hospitals du...

Truckers outfox police in pandemic

Truckers outfox police in pandemic

Bdnews24.com 2020-05-23 11:57:46

It has been nearly two months since the government suspended inter-district transport services in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). And people still continue to take the long rou...

Cop dies from COVID-19 in Rajshahi

Cop dies from COVID-19 in Rajshahi

-- 2020-05-23 11:50:17

A policeman died from coronavirus while undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Christian Mission Hospital on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Sub-Inspector Mosharraf Hossain, 57, hailing from P...

Journalist Sumon Mahmud passes away

Journalist Sumon Mahmud passes away

-- 2020-05-23 11:03:24

Sumon Mahmud, a former joint news editor at the daily Bhorer Kagoj, has died at a hospital in Dhaka. A former leader of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSoD), the septuagenarian breathed his last at th...

Zakat fund not enticing the rich much

Zakat fund not enticing the rich much

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-05-23 10:01:18

The state-run Zakat fund has hardly played any role in bringing equality and eradicating poverty in the society as it fails to collect a significant amount of Zakat over the years. But the country...

Poverty-ridden people turn beggars in Dhaka

Poverty-ridden people turn beggars in Dhaka

 ADNAN HOSSAIN BHUIYAN 2020-05-23 09:51:52

Detached from income sources due to the coronavirus pandemic, many poverty-stricken people in Dhaka city have turned beggars as part of a survival strategy. For the last one month and a half, their n...

BD takes hard-line on Rohingya issue

BD takes hard-line on Rohingya issue

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-05-23 09:48:42

Apparently sensing no immediate solution to the Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh takes hard-line in this regard by urging the big countries to share the burden of the huge number of Rohingya refugees inste...

Covid-19 testing facilities still very low in remote areas

Covid-19 testing facilities still very low in remote areas

Kamrun Nahar 2020-05-23 09:35:06

Covid-19 testing facilities and number of tests are still very low in the remote areas of the country with people heading towards their village homes to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. According to governme...

Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace for Bangabandhu: 47th anniversary today

Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace for Bangabandhu: 47th anniversary today

FE DESK REPORT 2020-05-23 09:34:52

Today (May 23) marks the 47 years of Bangabandhu's receipt of the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace, the first ever international award for Bangladesh. The Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur R...

Pandemic to rob Eid's festivity

Pandemic to rob Eid's festivity

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2020-05-23 09:28:01

Bangladeshis like Muslims around the world are going to celebrate the largest Eid festival in an unprecedented lockdown aimed to thwart the spread of coronavirus pandemic. Depending on the sighting o...

Women in BD producer households more empowered: IFPRI study

Women in BD producer households more empowered: IFPRI study

FE Report 2020-05-23 09:22:51

Women in Bangladesh's producer households were found to be more empowered than those in entrepreneur or wage-work households, according to a study of the International Food Policy Research Institute...