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14pc of low-income people do not have food: Survey

-- 2020-04-10 21:24:52

Low-income people of the country are suffering great losses in their earnings since the enforcement of social distancing and lockdowns to fight the novel coronavirus. Extreme poverty has risen 60 per...

Family members meet Bangabandhu’s killer Mazed in jail

-- 2020-04-10 21:03:44

Family members of Abdul Mazed, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, have visited him in jail ahead of his imminent execution. Keraniganj Police chief Shah Zaman on Friday said tha...

Two Chinese institutions donate 2,000 testing kits

-- 2020-04-10 20:46:00

The Belt and Road Forum Initiative and Chinese Institute of Traditional Medicine have donated 2,000 COVID-19 testing kits to Bangladesh. Bangladesh Ambassador to China Mahbub Uz Zaman received the ki...

200 people held while entering Satkhira

-- 2020-04-10 20:18:05

Locals on Friday caught at least 200 people who were trying to enter Satkhira in trucks from Madhabkati Bazar under Sadar upazila in Satkhira. They were later handed over to police, said Inspector Mi...

Gaibandha, Cumilla under lockdown

-- 2020-04-10 19:09:00

The spread and rising number of coronavirus cases have forced the local administration to put two districts and a number of areas across the country under lockdown to prevent further transmission. Lo...

Four theft suspects held in city

FE Online Report 2020-04-10 18:26:56

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested four suspects and recovered gold, cash and laptop which were stolen from a flat in the capital’s Kalabagan Central market road area on March 31. They we...

School closure extended until April 25

-- 2020-04-10 17:55:01

The government has extended the shutdown of educational institutions for the fourth time as the country grapples with coronavirus outbreak. Schools will now remain closed until Apr 25 in line with th...

Dial 16430 to get emergency legal aid services

-- 2020-04-10 17:39:07

The government has introduced a hotline number, 16430, to provide emergency legal aid services to people free of cost amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Information gave the messa...

Elderly man arrested on rape charge in Jashore

-- 2020-04-10 17:21:54

A 60-year-old man was arrested for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at Gaidghat of Bagharpara upazila in Jashore. “Jafar Ali Molla had been raping the child for the past four months,&rdquo...

ACC to monitor relief distribution

FE Online Report 2020-04-10 17:11:26

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will monitor disbursement of relief goods for needy people under different social safety net programmes to detect potential irregularities and misappropriation. T...

‘General holidays until April 25, don’t go out of home after 6pm’

-- 2020-04-10 16:59:28

The government has instructed all citizens of the country not to come out of home after 6:00pm and if anyone defies this will be brought under legal action. “Moving from one area to other is al...

No tolerance of graft in relief programmes amid COVID-19: ACC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-10 16:13:03

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has said it will not tolerate any corruption in the government-run relief programmes amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country. “The Commissio...

Over 100 Europeans leave Dhaka for home

-- 2020-04-10 16:01:06

A total of 123 European citizens left Dhaka for their country on Friday. A special chartered flight of German government carrying its citizens took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at...

Six more die from coronavirus in BD, 94 new cases

FE Online Desk 2020-04-10 14:54:32

The death toll from coronavirus rose to 27 in Bangladesh as the country confirmed six more deaths on Friday. This is the largest single-day death toll due to the virus in the country. The tally of i...

Govt likely to extend holidays to April 25

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-10 14:41:12

The government is likely to extend its holidays by 11 more days to April 25 from April 14 in an effort to contain the coronavirus spread in the country. A discussion at the government level has been...

12 Bangladeshis infected with coronavirus in Malaysia

-- 2020-04-10 14:17:09

Twelve Bangladeshi migrants have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus infection in Malaysia, The Star, a Kuala Lumpur-based newspaper, reports. As many as 416 foreigners in the country have test...

In Air Quality Index, Dhaka ranks worst again

-- 2020-04-10 13:55:47

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka again ranked the worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. Dhaka had a score of 186 at 08:07am, indicating that the air quality was ‘unhealthy&rsq...

Dhaka again worst in Air Quality Index

-- 2020-04-10 13:53:51

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka again ranked the worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. Dhaka had a score of 186 at 08:07am, indicating that the air quality was ‘unhealthy&rsq...

DMP fines people for violating social distancing in city

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-10 13:38:50

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been conducting mobile courts across capital to check that people do not come out of their homes unnecessarily amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown. A DMP team...

US to send ‘final flight’ to bring back citizens from Bangladesh

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-10 13:14:21

The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh have arranged a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families. The flight, the final US government-organised flight returning to the...

Ventilator shortage may pose a setback for BD in coronavirus fight: Physicians

-- 2020-04-10 11:45:35

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to spike in Bangladesh, health experts have warned that the country’s fight against the deadly virus may suffer a big blow due to an acute shortage o...

One Cumilla village goes under lockdown after

-- 2020-04-10 11:40:51

Local administration put Biramkadi village in Titas upazila of Cumilla district under lockdown as a resident of the village tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on Thursday. Rasheda Akter, Upaz...

Madrasha teacher dies of coronavirus symptoms in Laxmipur

-- 2020-04-10 10:18:53

A madrasha teacher died after showing flu-like symptoms at Sadar hospital in Laxmipur  district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased aged about 61 was an assistant teacher of Sufia Darul Aman Isl...

Sexagenarian man with fever, breathing problem dies in Feni

-- 2020-04-10 09:49:23

A sexagenarian man with fever and breathing problem died at Shibpur in Feni sadar upazila on Thursday evening. The deceased used to work at a fish enclosure and returned home from Narayanganj on Marc...

Jamuna TV reporter tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-04-10 09:42:51

A senior reporter of Jamuna TV has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), prompting the authorities of the private television station to put 34 of his colleagues into quarantine in Dhaka. Roks...

RMG factory owner dies from COVID-19

-- 2020-04-10 09:24:10

The owner of a readymade garment factory (RMG) with underlying health conditions has died from coronavirus (COVID-19) at a hospital in Dhaka. Mohammad Taslim Akhter, the managing director of Prince...

Coronavirus: BSMMU professor tests positive

-- 2020-04-10 09:00:30

Prof Dr Shahidullah Sikder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has tested positive for coronavirus. BSMMU vice-chancellor Kanak Kanti Barua confirmed the matter in the evening, UNB...

2,000-bed isolation unit at Bashundhara Convention Centre soon

-- 2020-04-09 22:23:05

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said a decision has been made to set up a 2,000-bed isolation unit at Bashundhara Convention Centre. “The work will begin within 15-20 days after the c...

Bangladesh, Singapore hold talks over voluntary repatriation

-- 2020-04-09 21:46:19

Bangladesh and Singapore have agreed to work together to facilitate the repatriation of Bangladeshi nationals and workers who want to return home, and to bring Singaporeans back home from Bangladesh t...

Mosque, neighbourhood in Rayer Bazar under lockdown

-- 2020-04-09 21:39:56

The authorities have put a mosque and the adjacent neighbourhood in Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar on lockdown after a “Khadem” tested positive for COVID-19. All people of the mosque, includin...