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World Bank fast-tracks $100m loan for BD

World Bank fast-tracks $100m loan for BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-04 13:40:48

The World Bank has approved a fast-track $100 million financing to help Bangladesh prevent, detect, and respond to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and strengthen its national systems for public he...

Dhaka offers condolences as Beijing mourns COVID-19 victims

Dhaka offers condolences as Beijing mourns COVID-19 victims

-- 2020-04-04 13:02:43

Bangladesh has expressed deep condolences at the loss of lives due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in China as the latter is observing Mourning Day this day or Saturday, UNB reports. "I'm...

BD confirms two more deaths from coronavirus

BD confirms two more deaths from coronavirus

-- 2020-04-04 12:36:11

Two more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to eight. Besides, nine other people were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the period, raising the numbe...

Lakshmipur house under lockdown over minor’s death

Lakshmipur house under lockdown over minor’s death

-- 2020-04-04 11:14:21

Local administration put a house under lockdown after the death of a two-year old boy at Torabganj village in Kamalnagar upazila of Lakshmipur on Friday night with breathing complications. Following...

Main concern now health logistics, not finance: Zaid Bakht

Main concern now health logistics, not finance: Zaid Bakht

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-04 10:43:30

It is not the financing, but the poor condition of health logistics and infrastructure that has now become the main concern of the country in its fight against the deadly coronavirus disease. A senio...

'Wrong' report after burial as coronavirus patient

'Wrong' report after burial as coronavirus patient

-- 2020-04-04 10:36:25

The family members of a man have alleged the authorities forced them away to bury him after his death as a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka....

Coronavirus fallout: City street animals facing severe food crisis

Coronavirus fallout: City street animals facing severe food crisis

FE REPORT 2020-04-04 10:04:22

Animals of the Dhaka city streets, especially the dogs, are facing a severe food crisis in the prevailing situation amid the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis has been triggered in the city after the...

321 foreigners put into two mosques

321 foreigners put into two mosques

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

The authorities in Bangladesh have put 321 foreign members of the Tabligh Jamaat into two mosques in Dhaka as India has quarantined thousands after hundreds linked to a gathering of the organisatio...

Navy man with fever, cough dies in Meherpur   

Navy man with fever, cough dies in Meherpur  

-- 2020-04-04 08:35:40

A member of Bangladesh Navy, who was suffering from fever and cough, died in Meherpur sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Md Nazmus Salehin, 33, of Faridpur village in A...

81 stranded Bangladeshis return from India

81 stranded Bangladeshis return from India

-- 2020-04-03 21:51:47

Eighty-one Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in different areas of West Bengal during the ongoing lockdown in entire India, returned home through Benapole Check-post on Friday. They entered Bangla...

PMO trashes report on relief distribution by only Army, Navy  

PMO trashes report on relief distribution by only Army, Navy  

-- 2020-04-03 21:43:19

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Friday refuted a report that only Army and Navy will distribute government-provided relief materials from now on. "This is totally false and fabricated," PM's Pre...

Samples of 10 people collected in Sherpur for Covid-19 test

Samples of 10 people collected in Sherpur for Covid-19 test

-- 2020-04-03 20:38:06

Samples of 10 people have been collected in Sherpur to ascertain whether they are infected with coronavirus.  Dr Mobarak Hossain, health and family planning officer of Sadar upazila, said the s...

TV reporter tests positive for coronavirus

TV reporter tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-04-03 19:11:28

A reporter of Independent TV, a private television channel in Bangladesh, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. He is being treated at Dhaka's Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospita...

Bangladeshis in India to be brought back after ‘normalisation’ of situation  

Bangladeshis in India to be brought back after ‘normalisation’ of situation  

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-03 18:48:40

The 2,500 Bangladeshis, who are stuck in India, will be brought back after normalisation of the current situation there, said the government on Friday. All kinds of domestic travel has been closed fr...

‘Private hospitals, clinics to face punishment if remain closed’

‘Private hospitals, clinics to face punishment if remain closed’

-- 2020-04-03 18:39:47

Private hospitals, clinics and doctors’ chambers will face punishment if these remain closed during the coronavirus outbreak, Health Minister Zahid Malik said on Friday. Many doctors are not pr...

China commits to help BD in containing corona situation 

China commits to help BD in containing corona situation 

FE Online Report 2020-04-03 18:24:21

China has expressed its deep commitment to implement the key development projects in Bangladesh and to continue bilateral supply chain to help Bangladesh fighting the onslaught of corona outbreak. Ch...

‘Khaleda is in stable condition at Gulshan residence’

‘Khaleda is in stable condition at Gulshan residence’

-- 2020-04-03 16:49:49

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is receiving treatment at her Gulshan residence after her jail sentence was suspended, is now in stable physical condition. Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife of the party's...

‘Visit to retail shops, recreational locations slump 68pc’

‘Visit to retail shops, recreational locations slump 68pc’

-- 2020-04-03 16:45:10

Visits to retail shops and recreational locations in Bangladesh slumped 68 per cent between February 16 and March 29 as the impact of the nationwide shutdown panned out, according to Google's analysis...

Special chartered flights for US citizens, families on Sunday

Special chartered flights for US citizens, families on Sunday

-- 2020-04-03 15:53:02

The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh have arranged a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families which will depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on...

Govt to bring back BD citizens stranded abroad: MoFA

Govt to bring back BD citizens stranded abroad: MoFA

-- 2020-04-03 15:34:21

The government will bring back Bangladeshi citizens who remain stranded in various countries including India due to lockdown there once the situation becomes convenient, said the Ministry of Foreign A...

College student suffering from fever, cold dies in Satkhira

College student suffering from fever, cold dies in Satkhira

-- 2020-04-03 15:17:56

A college student, suffering from fever, cold and respiratory problem, died at his own residence at Narayanpur village in Satkhira Sadar upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Hasan Ali...

Govt urged to lift internet restrictions at Rohinga refugee camps

Govt urged to lift internet restrictions at Rohinga refugee camps

-- 2020-04-03 14:36:54

Human Rights Watch (HRW) along with 50 other organisations in a joint letter urged the government to lift ongoing mobile internet restrictions and halt the construction of barbed wire fencing around t...

DMP continues spraying disinfectants Friday

DMP continues spraying disinfectants Friday

FE Online Report 2020-04-03 13:56:52

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), for the 10th consecutive day on Friday, continued spraying disinfectants in the capital in an attempt to contain the spread of coronavirus. The DMP is spraying th...

Bangladesh reports five more coronavirus cases

Bangladesh reports five more coronavirus cases

-- 2020-04-03 12:50:24

Bangladesh on Friday announced the detection of five new coronavirus patients, raising the number of such cases in the country to 61. Health Minister Zahid Maleque said this through a video conferenc...

Dhaka ranks worst in air quality index despite shutdown

Dhaka ranks worst in air quality index despite shutdown

-- 2020-04-03 11:50:56

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked first among cities with the worst quality in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning despite the ongoing shutdown enforced by the government to contain th...

Coronavirus: ‘What option do you have when you’re hungry?’

Coronavirus: ‘What option do you have when you’re hungry?’

-- 2020-04-03 10:14:48

For many like Abul Kalam, a rickshaw-puller in the capital city for over three decades, Dhaka is now a ghostlike place as it has fallen silent amid the coronavirus scare, UNB reports. Kalam, 67, says...

PM issues 31-point directive, says consult doctors if virus symptoms arise

PM issues 31-point directive, says consult doctors if virus symptoms arise

-- 2020-04-03 10:06:30

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the people to visit physicians if any symptom of coronavirus arises and not to pay heed to any rumour about it as she issued a 31-point directive in view of the...

Narayanganj area on lockdown over COVID-19

Narayanganj area on lockdown over COVID-19

-- 2020-04-03 09:07:30

The authorities in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj district have put an area on lockdown after a test confirmed a woman had died of coronavirus (COVID-19). The district’s Civil Surgeon Mohammad I...

Illegal migrants in Brunei exposed to pandemic

Illegal migrants in Brunei exposed to pandemic

Arafat Ara 2020-04-03 08:14:44

Bangladeshi migrants, staying in Brunei without documents, are at high risk of getting infected with coronavirus as many of them are reluctant about tests to avoid detention by the authorities concern...

DSCC CEO under fire for tossing cash at the poor

DSCC CEO under fire for tossing cash at the poor

-- 2020-04-02 22:17:11

The chief executive officer of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has come under heavy criticism after sprinkling money towards people seeking aid a week into the general holidays due to the coronavi...