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SSC results to be published on May 31

SSC results to be published on May 31

-- 2020-05-21 19:12:38

The results of the SSC and equivalent examinations will be declared by the government on May 31. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will announce the results at 10 am that day via video conference from her...

COVID-19: Another police officer dies

COVID-19: Another police officer dies

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-21 18:07:05

Another member of Bangladesh Police died from coronavirus on around on Tuesday. With the latest, a total of 10 policemen died after contracting the virus in the country. The deceased was identified...

PM directs authorities to take prompt measures to help Amphan-hit people

PM directs authorities to take prompt measures to help Amphan-hit people

-- 2020-05-21 17:53:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to take prompt measures to provide money and relief materials to Amphan-affected people, and reconstruct their houses. ...

Govt tells dev partners to make aid expenditure public

Govt tells dev partners to make aid expenditure public

FE Online Report 2020-05-21 17:43:28

Bangladesh has urged the development partners to disclose details of the aid money expenditure for ensuring transparency, foreign ministry said on Thursday. “During a video conference with the...

Department of Social Services provides food, cash to 196,000 people

Department of Social Services provides food, cash to 196,000 people

FE Online Report 2020-05-21 17:03:24

The Department of Social Services under the Ministry of Social Welfare has provided food and cash to some 196,000 people until May 11 amid the COVID-19 crisis.Both the Ministry of Social Welfare and t...

Ctg cop dies within two hrs of entering hospital

Ctg cop dies within two hrs of entering hospital

-- 2020-05-21 17:03:18

Another  policeman died of coronavirus while performing duties in Chattogram. Md Mukhlesur Rahman, constable of Chattogram court police was taken to Chattogram Medical College around 3:00am on T...

BJRI, CVASU jointly sequence coronavirus genome

BJRI, CVASU jointly sequence coronavirus genome

-- 2020-05-21 16:49:07

Bangladesh Jute Research Institute and Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) have jointly sequenced the complete genome of a SARS-CoV-2 sample from Bangladesh. Following the in...

PM allocates Tk 250m for municipal staff

PM allocates Tk 250m for municipal staff

-- 2020-05-21 16:20:06

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has allocated Tk 250 million for the country’s 328 municipalities to pay the salaries and allowances of their officials and employees amid the coronavirus crisis. &...

13 dead as truck overturns in Gaibandha

13 dead as truck overturns in Gaibandha

-- 2020-05-21 15:49:21

At least 13 people have died after a goods-laden truck overturned in Gaibandha's Palashbari Upazila. The passengers were returning home from Dhaka when the truck veered out of control and crashed on...

BD reports highest-ever spike in corona deaths, cases

BD reports highest-ever spike in corona deaths, cases

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-21 14:47:59

Bangladesh breached the 400 mark of coronavirus deaths, with the highest case and death from COVID-19 in a single day, on Thursday. Twenty-two more people died from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the coun...

Police to issue travel pass to control movement during lockdown

Police to issue travel pass to control movement during lockdown

-- 2020-05-21 14:46:13

Police are set to issue travel passes to the public in an effort to regulate emergency movements, including transportation of goods and services, during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. The law-enfo...

Cyclone death toll in BD rises to 12

Cyclone death toll in BD rises to 12

-- 2020-05-21 13:38:17

Cyclone Amphan has killed at least 12 people in seven coastal districts, including Patuakhali, Satkhira, Pirojpur, Bhola and Barguna, before turning into a land depression, bdnews24.com reports. The...

IOM assists vulnerable migrants impacted by COVID-19 pandemic

IOM assists vulnerable migrants impacted by COVID-19 pandemic

-- 2020-05-21 13:23:34

International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nation’s Migration Agency, provides immediate and mid- to long-term assistance to vulnerable migrants returning from the European Union...

Maritime ports asked to lower danger signals

Maritime ports asked to lower danger signals

-- 2020-05-21 12:17:38

The maritime ports of Mongla, Payra, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar have been advised to lower their great danger signals and instead hoist local cautionary signal three as cyclone Amphan weakened i...

Bangabandhu’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq turns 40

Bangabandhu’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq turns 40

-- 2020-05-21 11:49:25

Radwan Mujib Siddiq, a grandson of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has turned 40. He is also a trustee of the Awami League’s Centre for Research and Information (CRI)), reports bdnews24.com....

Changing global supply chains may benefit BD: US official

Changing global supply chains may benefit BD: US official

-- 2020-05-21 11:44:11

Top US state department official for South and Central Asia Alice Wells has said a changing order in global supply chains in view of COVID-19 could benefit Bangladesh economy as she appeared on a regi...

COVID-19 shows silver linings on change of global climate efforts: PM

COVID-19 shows silver linings on change of global climate efforts: PM

-- 2020-05-21 11:35:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that although COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected economy along with the health issues, it is also showing some silver linings on the change of global...

Australia plans 3rd chartered flight for its citizens from Dhaka in June

Australia plans 3rd chartered flight for its citizens from Dhaka in June

-- 2020-05-21 10:55:59

Australian High Commission in Dhaka has said they need to re-schedule the special flight, initially scheduled for May 28, and are currently working with the airline to arrange a departure in the secon...

Goods trains to carry mango consignments from Rajshahi

Goods trains to carry mango consignments from Rajshahi

OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2020-05-21 10:03:22

Consignments of mangoes from Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj will go to Dhaka, Chattogram and other places of the country through goods trains this time as bus and train services are not in operation dur...

Legal notice served to stop use of disinfectants on human body

Legal notice served to stop use of disinfectants on human body

FE REPORT 2020-05-21 09:57:48

A legal notice has been served to the government to stop the use of disinfectants, which have reportedly been found to be harmful for health, on the human body as a measure against COVID-19. Differ...

HC stays Rashedul Haque Chisty’s bail

HC stays Rashedul Haque Chisty’s bail

FE REPORT 2020-05-21 09:57:08

The High Court on Wednesday stayed till May 28 a lower court order that granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of the former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty, in a...

'Amphan' kills 16 in Bangladesh, India leaving trail of destruction

'Amphan' kills 16 in Bangladesh, India leaving trail of destruction

-- 2020-05-21 09:50:40

Cyclone Amphan has carved a merciless path of destruction through Bangladesh and eastern India, killing at least 16 people, destroying thousands of homes and raising fears that the coronavirus could s...

Cyclone Amphan loses intensity as it crosses Bangladesh

Cyclone Amphan loses intensity as it crosses Bangladesh

-- 2020-05-21 09:37:16

Cyclone Amphan which was centred over the district of Satkhira and adjoining areas has moved northwards to Jhenaidah on early Thursday, bdnews24.com reports. It is likely to move in a north-northeast...

How cyclone Amphan got its name?

How cyclone Amphan got its name?

UNB 2020-05-20 21:54:44

Super cyclone Amphan, pronounced as "Um-pun", means sky. The name  was given by Thailand in 2004, years ago. The names of cyclones are chosen from a list by a host of member countries part of th...

Inflated electricity bills irk consumers

Inflated electricity bills irk consumers

FE Online Report 2020-05-20 21:43:51

A good number of electricity consumers across the country allegedly got exorbitant bills over the past couple of months during the nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them al...

Power outage hits 1.0m people as Amphan hits BD coast

Power outage hits 1.0m people as Amphan hits BD coast

-- 2020-05-20 21:09:19

With Cyclone Amphan descending on the coast of Bangladesh, heavy winds and rains snapped power supply to much of the coastal zone on Wednesday evening. More than one million consumers in at least 17...

Shab-e-Qadr tonight

Shab-e-Qadr tonight

-- 2020-05-20 20:25:56

The Lailatul Qadr or Shab-e-Qadr, the holiest and most blessed night for Muslims, will be observed across the country tonight with due solemnity and religious fervour. Muslim devotees will spend the...

Amphan heading towards Bangladesh

Amphan heading towards Bangladesh

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

The extremely severe cyclone Amphan has started barrelling towards Kolkata in India and spanned to Bangladesh after making landfall in West Bengal coast near the Sundarbans. It started crossing the B...

Cyclone Amphan: Shipping Ministry opens control room

Cyclone Amphan: Shipping Ministry opens control room

-- 2020-05-20 19:43:55

The Shipping Ministry on Wednesday launched a control room to deal with various issues centring Cyclone Amphan. The control room central number is 9546072, said a press release. It started operating...

Amphan likely to make landfall by 8pm

Amphan likely to make landfall by 8pm

UNB 2020-05-20 18:24:19

Cyclone ‘Amphan’ is likely to make landfall on the coast by 8pm tonight, with a 180-200 kph wind speed at its centre. The maritime ports of Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist gre...