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Coronavirus: PM calls for int’l cooperation

Coronavirus: PM calls for int’l cooperation

-- 2020-04-09 20:12:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinaon Thursday has called for boosting international cooperation to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Prime Minister made the call in a letter she wrote to Chinese Pr...

Covid-19: BD locks down a million in Rohingya camps

Covid-19: BD locks down a million in Rohingya camps

-- 2020-04-09 19:38:24

Bangladesh has imposed a lockdown on a southern district, home to refugee camps housing more than a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar, to prevent the spread of coronavirus, reports BBC. O...

DNCC opens hotline numbers to distribute relief goods

DNCC opens hotline numbers to distribute relief goods

-- 2020-04-09 19:34:52

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Thursday launched hotline numbers to ensure smooth distribution of relief goods among the disadvantaged, unemployed and poor people in its area in the wake of co...

Chandpur under complete lockdown

Chandpur under complete lockdown

-- 2020-04-09 18:44:46

The district administration has decided to put Chandpur under complete lockdown from Thursday evening to limit the transmission of coronavirus. Deputy Commissioner Md Mazedur Rahman announced the dec...

Fear grips bankers as coronavirus cases rise in Bangladesh

Fear grips bankers as coronavirus cases rise in Bangladesh

bdnews24.com 2020-04-09 18:38:52

Fears of contracting the novel coronavirus are running rife among bankers in Dhaka following a recent surge in the number of infections, reports bdnews24.com. Banks have continued offering services t...

Emergency services, supply chain to remain normal during shutdown

Emergency services, supply chain to remain normal during shutdown

-- 2020-04-09 18:22:09

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has issued a directive, saying that some emergency services and the supply chain will remain out of the purview of the nationwide shutdown declared in the wake...

Information minister warns of tough actions against COVID-19 rumour

Information minister warns of tough actions against COVID-19 rumour

-- 2020-04-09 17:59:53

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has warned that the government would take stern actions against those involved in spreading rumours over coronavirus-induced disease, COVID-19. “No matter w...

Khaleda to remain in isolation until situation improves: Fakhrul

Khaleda to remain in isolation until situation improves: Fakhrul

-- 2020-04-09 17:10:37

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was recently released from jail for six months, will remain in self-isolation until the coronavirus situation improves in Bangladesh.  “The entire country...

‘BD to bring back citizens stranded in different countries’

‘BD to bring back citizens stranded in different countries’

-- 2020-04-09 17:02:18

Bangladesh will bring back its nationals stranded in different countries due to deadly COVID-19 pandemic whenever the situation permits. Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen gave the information after...

DU suspends academic activities for indefinite period

DU suspends academic activities for indefinite period

-- 2020-04-09 16:40:32

The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) on Thursday suspended all classes and examinations for an indefinite period due to the crisis  created over coronavirus pandemic. Notice will be issued a...

Ministry extends land tax payment deadline

Ministry extends land tax payment deadline

-- 2020-04-09 16:25:58

The land ministry has extended the deadline for paying dues and the current year’s land development tax by May 13. The minister also postponed the Land Service Week and the Land Development Tax...

215 sent to institutional quarantine in Bhola

215 sent to institutional quarantine in Bhola

-- 2020-04-09 16:15:19

Local administration on Thursday sent 215 people to institutional quarantine and kept three houses under lockdown in Manpura upazila of Bhola district, reports UNB.  Bozla Rahman, officer-in-cha...

Two children in Cumilla test positive for coronavirus

Two children in Cumilla test positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-04-09 14:47:29

Two children at Ziapur village in Burichang upazila of Cumilla found coronavirus positive in IEDCR test after the death of their grandmother from the virus infection. Civil Surgeon Dr Abul Fazal Mir...

BD confirms one more coronavirus death, 112 new cases

BD confirms one more coronavirus death, 112 new cases

FE Online Desk 2020-04-09 14:41:18

The highly infectious coronavirus disease has killed one more person in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 21 in the country. Meanwhile, the total number of infections has soar...

Sylhet shuts all types of transport

Sylhet shuts all types of transport

-- 2020-04-09 13:41:47

The local administration has imposed a restriction on the plying of all kinds of vehicles, including rickshaws and auto-rickshaws, in Sylhet for two days from Thursday. The restriction which will end...

No bar to executing Bangabandhu killer Majed: Home minister

No bar to executing Bangabandhu killer Majed: Home minister

-- 2020-04-09 13:22:04

President Abdul Hamid has turned town the mercy petition of Capt (retd) Abdul Majed, one of the convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, clearing the way for his ex...

Restrictions imposed on vehicular movement in Khulna

Restrictions imposed on vehicular movement in Khulna

-- 2020-04-09 12:41:11

As the number of COVID-19 cases is on a gradual rise in the country, the local administration of Khulna has imposed restrictions on the movement of vehicles throughout the district. Deputy Commission...

US embassy issues travel alert for its citizens in BD

US embassy issues travel alert for its citizens in BD

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-09 12:34:22

The US embassy in Dhaka has issued a travel alert for its citizens in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus outbreak. To this effect, the embassy and the US Department of State are working to arrange a pot...

Cumilla HSC examinee dies from fever, cold

Cumilla HSC examinee dies from fever, cold

-- 2020-04-09 11:59:22

A Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinee died from fever and cold at Nabinagar Upazila Health Complex in Brahmanbaria district on Wednesday. The deceased, Mohammad Raihan, 20, son of Mokhlesur R...

President refuses to pardon Bangabandhu killer Abdul Majed

President refuses to pardon Bangabandhu killer Abdul Majed

-- 2020-04-09 10:21:38

President Md Abdul Hamid has thrown out the appeal for mercy by Abdul Majed, the death row killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, removing the last hurdle to the former serviceman's hanging. Ha...

Banker, RMG worker among three new virus cases in Chattogram

Banker, RMG worker among three new virus cases in Chattogram

-- 2020-04-09 09:39:08

A banker and a readymade garment worker are among three people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Chattogram, taking the number of confirmed cases in the port city to five. The RMG worker wo...

Sabrina Flora warns of COVID-19 epidemic in Bangladesh

Sabrina Flora warns of COVID-19 epidemic in Bangladesh

-- 2020-04-09 08:49:08

Meerjady Sabrina Flora, the director at the government’s disease control agency IEDCR, has warned that the coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh will become an epidemic if people do not follow the...

Slack quarantine at land ports poses major risk

Slack quarantine at land ports poses major risk

Doulot Akter Mala and Tanvir Mohsin 2020-04-09 08:18:53

The number of inbound passengers from India through Benapole land customs stations has increased significantly in recent days, thus, heightening the risk of coronavirus spread further, said official...

178 Russians employees of RNPP leave Bangladesh

178 Russians employees of RNPP leave Bangladesh

-- 2020-04-08 22:47:52

Some 178 Russians employees of Rooppur Nuclear Power Project (RNPP)left Bangladesh on April 6 on a chartered flight from Dhaka, said a press release of Rosatom, the Russian contractor of the project,...

BD, China discuss bringing medical teams, ventilators

BD, China discuss bringing medical teams, ventilators

-- 2020-04-08 22:40:26

Bangladesh and China have discussed the possibility of importing ventilation machines from China during this critical moment of coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh. The two sides also discussed the is...

Bangabandhu's killer Mazed seeks mercy from President

Bangabandhu's killer Mazed seeks mercy from President

-- 2020-04-08 21:51:12

Abdul Mazed, a convicted killer of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has sought mercy from President Md Abdul Hamid. The jail authorities sent the mercy petition to the home min...

Agrani Bank’s principal branch under lockdown

Agrani Bank’s principal branch under lockdown

-- 2020-04-08 21:37:04

The authorities have imposed a lockdown on the principal branch of Agrani Bank in Dhaka after an official tested positive for the novel coronavirus. All employees of the branch were also ordered to m...

Two patients flee from coronavirus unit in Barishal

Two patients flee from coronavirus unit in Barishal

-- 2020-04-08 21:22:04

Two patients with fever and cold related issues fled from the coronavirus unit of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College this week. Doctor Bakir Hossain, director of the hospital, said that they info...

UK to charter flights to take back citizens from BD

UK to charter flights to take back citizens from BD

-- 2020-04-08 21:11:00

Due to the drastic increase of the number COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh, the British government has moved swiftly to move its citizens out of the country.  The British High Commission in Dhaka i...

Coronavirus: 102 Bangladeshis infected in Singapore in two days

Coronavirus: 102 Bangladeshis infected in Singapore in two days

-- 2020-04-08 20:20:41

As many as 102 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore are among the 248 new coronavirus cases reported by the city state in two days. Most of the newly confirmed Bangladeshi COVID-19 patients in th...