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Businesses, people fined for defying social distancing rules

Businesses, people fined for defying social distancing rules

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-10 12:11:03

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Saturday fined different people and business entities a total of Tk 94,300 for allegedly violating the government’s social dist...

Some shopping malls, markets reopen amid virus fear

Some shopping malls, markets reopen amid virus fear

-- 2020-05-10 11:29:29

As businesspeople have been permitted to keep shopping malls and markets open on a limited scale from Sunday, some of them reopened their shops in different parts of the country, including Dhaka and C...

DGHS advises to test dengue of patients with COVID-19 symptoms

DGHS advises to test dengue of patients with COVID-19 symptoms

FE Report 2020-05-10 10:11:55

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Saturday advised the civil surgeons and upazila health and family planning officials to test dengue of suspected patients who will come with Covid-19 s...

Stranded Bangladeshi students to return home from UK Monday

Stranded Bangladeshi students to return home from UK Monday

-- 2020-05-10 09:56:30

More than 130 Bangladeshi students, stranded in the United Kingdom since the suspension of international flights between Dhaka and London in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to retu...

BFUJ, DUJ demand Tk 5m as compensation for journalists died of COVID-19

BFUJ, DUJ demand Tk 5m as compensation for journalists died of COVID-19

-- 2020-05-09 22:09:14

The Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and its main affiliate Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) have demanded compensation of at least Taka 5.0 million for every newsman died of COVID-19....

Most malls in New Market area to be shuttered till Eid

Most malls in New Market area to be shuttered till Eid

-- 2020-05-09 21:00:35

Almost all the malls in Dhaka’s New Market area have decided to keep the shutters down until Eid-ul-Fitr fearing spread of coronavirus. The owners’ associations of New Market, Chandni Cha...

Donate Eid shopping money to poor, Quader urges AL men

Donate Eid shopping money to poor, Quader urges AL men

-- 2020-05-09 20:47:34

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged his party leaders and activists to stand by the poor and destitute people with the money they are supposed to spend for shopping in the...

Interests of big businesspeople behind shutdown ease: Rizvi

Interests of big businesspeople behind shutdown ease: Rizvi

-- 2020-05-09 20:44:13

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government is easing the shutdown only to protect the interests of big businesspeople ignoring the threat to people&rs...

Turkey to raise Rohingya issue at next UNSC meeting

Turkey to raise Rohingya issue at next UNSC meeting

-- 2020-05-09 20:37:34

Turkey has assured Bangladesh of raising the Rohingya issue at the next meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) as Rohingya problem remains unresolved and it is putting much burden on Bangladesh. T...

220 Australians leave Dhaka on second special flight

220 Australians leave Dhaka on second special flight

-- 2020-05-09 20:30:46

As many as 220 more Australians have left Dhaka for home on a second special flight. They were stranded in Bangladesh due to a travel ban over the coronavirus pandemic. A special SriLankan Airlines j...

0.1m RMG workers to get free telemedicine service

0.1m RMG workers to get free telemedicine service

-- 2020-05-09 20:25:56

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Common Health Bangladesh have signed an agreement to provide free telemedicine service to 100,000 garment workers. BGMEA Preside...

Transportation of essentials from India by train begins

Transportation of essentials from India by train begins

-- 2020-05-09 19:58:10

The first freight train loaded with onions was handed over by Indian Railway to Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities at Gede (India) - Darsana (Bangladesh) interchange point on Saturday. After customs...

Senior public servant dies, daughter alleges lack of healthcare

Senior public servant dies, daughter alleges lack of healthcare

-- 2020-05-09 19:52:54

Gautam Aich Sarker, an additional secretary of the government, has died a day after being admitted to the Kurmitola General Hospital with kidney complications. He did not show symptoms of COVID-19, b...

Krishak Bondhu Postal Service to transport agro products free of cost

Krishak Bondhu Postal Service to transport agro products free of cost

-- 2020-05-09 19:47:04

The Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has launched Krishak Bondhu Postal Service (KBPS) for transportation of agriculture products of marginal farmers into the wholesale markets of capital city without any...

Another ACC employee dies of COVID-19

Another ACC employee dies of COVID-19

-- 2020-05-09 19:12:15

Another employee of the Anti-Corruption Commission has died from the COVID-19 disease.  Khalilur Rahman, an employee of the commission, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical Colle...

Army’s vegetable procurement reduces Kushtia farmers’ woes

Army’s vegetable procurement reduces Kushtia farmers’ woes

-- 2020-05-09 18:04:43

When vegetables growers of Kushtia were passing days in great worries about marketing of the produces, the army came forward to give them relief to some extent by buying vegetable directly from the fi...

‘Combined harvester reduces paddy harvesting cost by 50pc’

‘Combined harvester reduces paddy harvesting cost by 50pc’

-- 2020-05-09 17:43:05

Agriculturists at a Boro harvesting ceremony have said that the farmers could successfully face labour-shortage and reduce harvesting cost of Boro paddy by 50 per cent using the combined harvester mac...

Upcoming budget to give greater weight to ‘rehabilitation of low-income people’ 

Upcoming budget to give greater weight to ‘rehabilitation of low-income people’ 

-- 2020-05-09 17:33:46

The national budget for 2020-21 fiscal year, which is likely to be around Tk 565,000 crore, is going to give priority to reviving the economy with the rehabilitation of low-income people, the worst su...

‘Youths affected in six transmission mechanisms due to COVID-19’

‘Youths affected in six transmission mechanisms due to COVID-19’

-- 2020-05-09 17:04:10

A research conducted by the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) identified six transmission mechanisms through which the youths of the country are being affected - health, education, empl...

HRW urges govt to extend support to trans people amid Covid-19

HRW urges govt to extend support to trans people amid Covid-19

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-09 16:06:06

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Bangladesh government to extend its support to hijras, kothis, or transgender people, amid the Covid-19 crisis. They urgently need food, cleaning supplies, medi...

DMP fines people, organisations for lockdown breaches

DMP fines people, organisations for lockdown breaches

FE Online Report 2020-05-09 15:06:17

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Friday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 24,700 for allegedly violating the government’s social dista...

DGHS reports eight more coronavirus deaths, 636 cases in 24 hrs

DGHS reports eight more coronavirus deaths, 636 cases in 24 hrs

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-09 14:45:32

Eight people died of coronavirus and 636 tested positive in the 24 hours to 8:00am, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Saturday. With the latest, the number of coronavirus deat...

Bangladesh extends ban on visas-on-arrival for all visitors to May 16

Bangladesh extends ban on visas-on-arrival for all visitors to May 16

-- 2020-05-09 14:34:21

Bangladesh has extended a ban on visas-on-arrival for nationals from all countries to May 16 amid the coronavirus crisis, according to a home ministry notice. Earlier, the ban remained in force until...

Policeman with COVID-19 symptoms dies in Dhaka hospital

Policeman with COVID-19 symptoms dies in Dhaka hospital

-- 2020-05-09 13:21:02

A constable of the police station in Tejgaon industrial area, showing symptoms of the coronavirus, has died in a Dhaka hospital. Constable Enamul Haque, 45, breathed his last at the National Institut...

Lone Khagrachhari coronavirus patient recover

Lone Khagrachhari coronavirus patient recover

-- 2020-05-09 12:49:02

Ershad Chakma, the only confirmed coronavirus patient in Khagrachhari, has recovered. His sample tested negative for the third time and he is now doing well, said Civil Surgeon Nupur Kanti Das on Sat...

Stranded Bangladeshis return home from Australia

Stranded Bangladeshis return home from Australia

-- 2020-05-09 12:34:33

A total of 157 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Australia due to the ban on international flights amid the coronavirus outbreak, returned home from Melbourne on early Saturday, UNB reports....

ICRC steps up support beyond Rohingya camps to help BD fight coronavirus

ICRC steps up support beyond Rohingya camps to help BD fight coronavirus

-- 2020-05-09 11:49:41

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stepped up its support to Bangladesh going beyond Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar to help address the challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic and the...

Internet use in BD hits new height

Internet use in BD hits new height

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-05-09 09:52:50

Internet use in Bangladesh has climbed to a new height for higher traffic on online platforms due to shutdown of offices and other activities during COVID-19 pandemic, insiders said on Friday. Expert...

Corona lockdown batters public transport

Corona lockdown batters public transport

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-05-09 09:40:32

Public transport has been facing a severe crisis due to coronavirus lockdown, with thousands of vehicles lying idle for over a month now with no plan of survival. Even ways to minimise health risks b...

DGHS issues comprehensive guidelines to contain COVID-19

DGHS issues comprehensive guidelines to contain COVID-19

-- 2020-05-08 23:30:12

The Directorate General and Health Services has issued a comprehensive technical guidelines incorporating all sectors to reopen businesses, other necessary services and maintain health rules to contai...