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FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-17 14:47:02
The death toll from coronavirus rose to 75 in Bangladesh as the country confirmed 15 more deaths on Friday. This is the largest single day death toll due to the virus in the country. The tally of in...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-17 14:36:22
A man in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been arrested after a video went viral showing him making comments, widely seen as racially derogatory and divisive, about Bangladeshi labour workers and ot...
-- 2020-04-17 13:49:51
Hundreds of dairy farmers in Satkhira are counting huge losses as they have to dump over 50,000 litres of milk every day for lack of demand at every day amid the virtual lockdown in the country after...
-- 2020-04-17 12:15:14
The first case of the coronavirus infection was detected in Feni after test result of a man there came out positive on Thursday. The victim, who used to work in a mobile phone company in Dhaka, is a...
-- 2020-04-17 11:28:19
Two youths who had been suffering from fever and cold in separate places of Rangamati district died on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Thuisasing Marma, 21 of Rajosthali upazila and Imam Ud...
-- 2020-04-17 11:16:09
As the country’s economy has come to a standstill due to the ongoing public holiday aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, experts have urged the government to look both at saving lives and...
-- 2020-04-17 10:15:25
Dhaka on Friday morning ranked 4th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) amid the ongoing national shutdown for novel coronavirus. The capital city of Bangladesh had a score of 153 at 8:18 am, indicat...
-- 2020-04-17 09:56:18
A young man has been shot dead allegedly by one of his friends, who is the bodyguard of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur district, police say. Another...
-- 2020-04-17 09:45:38
Fifty-seven Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in India due to coronavirus lockdown, returned home through Benapole check-post under a special arrangement on Thursday. Subhankar Kumar Mandal, medic...
JUBAIR HASAN 2020-04-17 09:33:44
Bangladesh is preparing a list of the healthcare professionals who refrained themselves from caring patients since it reported COVID-19 fatalities from mid-March, officials concerned said. The move c...
-- 2020-04-17 09:31:53
The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed today (Friday), marking the formation of Bangladesh's first government that led the War of Liberation in 1971. Senior leaders of Awami League assembled a...
FE REPORT 2020-04-17 08:50:22
Daily income of poverty-stricken population in the country plummeted by 76 per cent during the first week of April compared to February in the wake of virus-induced lockdown, a new survey says. As a...
-- 2020-04-16 22:57:38
The government has once again extended the deadline for hajj registration until April 30 considering the outbreak of coronavirus. The Religious Affairs Ministry issued a notice on Thursday in this re...
-- 2020-04-16 21:54:29
Four workers of the government’s disease control agency IEDCR have tested positive for the coronavirus, sending their close contacts and the institute’s chief Meerjady Sabrina Flora into q...
-- 2020-04-16 21:32:25
Work on a 2,000-bed isolation centre at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) for coronavirus patients is going on in full swing. Visiting the establishment on Thursday, a UNB corresponden...
-- 2020-04-16 21:17:35
Five more people tested positive for coronavirus at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday. Dr Gopendra Nath Acharya, divisional director of Health, said one of them is a woman from Moh...
-- 2020-04-16 20:24:41
The whole of Bangladesh is at risk of coronavirus infection now that COVID-19 patients have been detected in 43 of the 64 districts, the Directorate General of Health Services has said. The authoriti...
-- 2020-04-16 20:20:03
The government has allocated Tk 90 billion to subsidize farmers aiming to increase agricultural production amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reports BSS. “To meet the country’s food...
-- 2020-04-16 19:50:08
The government is considering engaging retired physicians and nurses by giving them proper training to ensure treatment for all the COVID-19 patients. “We can make better use of the retired phy...
-- 2020-04-16 19:35:50
An aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force with 16 aircrew aboard will depart Shah Amanat International Airport, Chattogram for China on Friday to bring essential healthcare aids from China. Air Commodore M...
-- 2020-04-16 19:16:49
An earthquake epicentred along India-Myanmar border sent tremors to different parts of Bangladesh. The 5.9 magnitude quake took place at 5:45pm on Thursday, according to the United States Geological...
-- 2020-04-16 19:06:40
A man, who recently attended an event of Tablig Jamaat, tested positive for coronavirus in Bandarban, the first such case in the hill district. The patient is a 70-year old man and a resident of Tumb...
-- 2020-04-16 18:51:47
Newly-appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and new Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun met President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursda...
-- 2020-04-16 18:37:06
Even in the oldest profession in the world, they have seen nothing like it. Sex workers over the world have historically battled stigmatisation, outright bans or criminalisation, false accusations of...
-- 2020-04-16 17:58:32
Rohingya community volunteers and Imams are disseminating awareness messages on coronavirus among the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in their camps in Cox’s Bazar so that they can protect...
-- 2020-04-16 17:58:24
A member of Bangladesh Army was killed and 21 others were injured in a road accident near Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sainik...
-- 2020-04-16 17:02:39
Around 1,000 people, who have become jobless amid the ongoing shutdown, staged demonstrations in front of Satkhira Medical College Hospital in the town on Thursday demanding relief. The residents of...
-- 2020-04-16 16:55:48
The government has again allocated 24,103.04 metric tonnes of rice under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme to assist the families of 3, 01,288 registered fishermen in 96 upazilas of 20 dist...
-- 2020-04-16 16:42:00
Bangladesh Bank has once again extended the banking hours for customers by 30 minutes to 1:00pm amid the lockdown imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The central bank on Thursday issued a...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-16 16:05:52
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent two consignments of emergency medicines for the senior citizens in Bhutan to help protect themselves from attacks of the novel coronavirus, Bangladesh’s Foreign...
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