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Control room opens to monitor rawhide collection

Control room opens to monitor rawhide collection

-- 2020-07-30 17:20:15

The Ministry of Commerce has opened a control room to monitor preservation, buy and sale of rawhide of the sacrificial animals during the Eid-ul-Azha, reports BSS. For taking necessary support, anyon...

DSCC Mayor places Tk 61.19b budget for FY21

DSCC Mayor places Tk 61.19b budget for FY21

-- 2020-07-30 17:04:15

With priority to infrastructure development, waste management and mosquito control, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has announced a budget of Tk 61.19 bill...

Another different Eid

Another different Eid

-- 2020-07-30 16:42:16

Jesmine Ara Begum, an executive officer of a private insurance company, became apprehensive about going home after hearing about the community transmission of COVID-19 at her village in Cumilla. She...

Lead exposure: Bangladesh fourth worst-hit in terms of child deaths

Lead exposure: Bangladesh fourth worst-hit in terms of child deaths

-- 2020-07-30 15:34:48

Bangladesh is the fourth most-seriously hit in terms of the number of children affected as lead poisoning is affecting them on a massive and previously unknown scale in the world, says a new global re...

48 more Covid deaths, 2,695 fresh cases

48 more Covid deaths, 2,695 fresh cases

FE Online Desk 2020-07-30 14:41:50

Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh reached 234,889 on Thursday, a rise of 2,695 from the previous day, while related deaths increased by 48 to 3,083; according to data released by...

Three of a family killed in Gopalganj road crash

Three of a family killed in Gopalganj road crash

-- 2020-07-30 12:59:10

Three members of a family were killed after a private car crashed into the railing of a railway flyover on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj district on Thursday morning. The dece...

Six Eid jamaats to be held at National Mosque from 7am

Six Eid jamaats to be held at National Mosque from 7am

-- 2020-07-30 11:55:40

Six Eid-ul-Azha congregations will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque from 7am on the Eid day. This year there will be six jamaats on the Eid day at the National Mosque, said a press rele...

Kuwait bars residents coming from BD

Kuwait bars residents coming from BD

REUTERS 2020-07-30 10:41:03

Kuwait will allow citizens and residents to travel to and from the country, starting August 01 (Sunday), the government communication centre tweeted on early Thursday, citing a cabinet decision. The...

Govts asks workers not to leave place

Govts asks workers not to leave place

FE REPORT 2020-07-30 09:50:31

Industrial units have been instructed to make sure that no worker leave his or her respective dwelling places near workstations during Eid to help contain coronavirus transmission. The government h...

Rights activists demand immediate release of Rayhan Kabir

Rights activists demand immediate release of Rayhan Kabir

FE Online Report 2020-07-29 22:59:54

Rights activists demanded immediate release of Rayhan Kabir who was arrested by Malaysian law enforcers recently for speaking in a documentary broadcasted by Al Jazeera. They also urged to stop all k...

DMP forms probe body over Pallabi explosion

DMP forms probe body over Pallabi explosion

-- 2020-07-29 22:41:12

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member probe body to investigate the incident of explosion inside the Pallabi Police Station in the capital Wednesday morning. Md Walid Hossain, deput...

Next CVF conference to be held in Dhaka

Next CVF conference to be held in Dhaka

-- 2020-07-29 22:31:48

The next Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) conference will be held in 2021 commemorating the ‘Mujib Borsho’ (Mujib Year). "Chair of the Global Centre on Adaptation and ex-UN Secretary Genera...

Flood conditions worsen in Dhaka, northern regions

Flood conditions worsen in Dhaka, northern regions

FE Online Report 2020-07-29 20:43:12

Flood conditions might deteriorate further in many northern districts and surrounding areas of Dhaka amid continued swelling of many major rivers on Wednesday. A total of 5.04 million people have bee...

BD witnesses rise in crimes after lockdown

BD witnesses rise in crimes after lockdown

-- 2020-07-29 20:17:01

The number of crimes across Bangladesh has been on the rise from June after a significant drop-off during the two months of lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic. One-third of the cases filed with 6...

Experts for creating job opportunities at home to combat human trafficking

Experts for creating job opportunities at home to combat human trafficking

FE Online Report 2020-07-29 19:30:53

Speakers at a webinar on Wednesday stressed the need for creating job opportunities at home to help combat human trafficking. To this effect, it is needed to ensure necessary investment as well as in...

BD makes progress in tackling human trafficking

BD makes progress in tackling human trafficking

-- 2020-07-29 19:12:39

Bangladesh has been at Tier 2 in the newly-released 2020 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report of the US Department of State’s, up from the Tier 2 Watch List. The US Department of State’s...

BR to purchase 150 modern carriages from S Korea   

BR to purchase 150 modern carriages from S Korea  

FE Online Report 2020-07-29 18:17:09

Bangladesh Railway (BR) will purchase 150 metre-gauge carriages from South Korea to meet its growing demand for passenger trains by replacing old ones gradually. Bangladesh signed a contract of Tk...

Educational institutions closed until Aug 31

Educational institutions closed until Aug 31

-- 2020-07-29 18:02:09

The government has again extended the closure of all the educational institutions of the country until August 31 considering the coronavirus situation. Mohammad Abul Khayer, public relations officer...

Govt forms 12 committees to oversee agri rehab programme

Govt forms 12 committees to oversee agri rehab programme

-- 2020-07-29 15:46:51

In an effort to keep up food production target, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has formed a total of 12 committees to reinforce and supervise the rehabilitation programme aiming to compensate the f...

PM greets people on Eid-ul-Azha

PM greets people on Eid-ul-Azha

-- 2020-07-29 15:36:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has extended her greetings to the people of the country on the auspicious occasion of the Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, to be celebrat...

35 more virus death, 3009 fresh cases in BD

35 more virus death, 3009 fresh cases in BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-29 14:49:52

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday reported 35 deaths and 3009 new cases from coronavirus (Covid-19) in the 24 hours to 8:00 am today, 144th day of the virus outbreak in the co...

Six more die with Covid symptoms in Cumilla

Six more die with Covid symptoms in Cumilla

-- 2020-07-29 11:45:18

Six people suffering from fever and cold-related problems died at Comilla Medical College Hospital in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. A total of 103 patients, including 45 Covid-19 patients...

HRW urges Malaysia to free outspoken Bangladeshi migrant worker

HRW urges Malaysia to free outspoken Bangladeshi migrant worker

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-29 11:41:03

Human Rights Watch has called on the Malaysian authorities to release the Bangladeshi migrant worker who was arrested for criticising government policies towards migrants by appearing in an Al Jazeera...

Explosion occurs inside Pallabi Police Station; five cops hurt

Explosion occurs inside Pallabi Police Station; five cops hurt

-- 2020-07-29 11:08:07

Five policemen were injured as an explosion occurred inside the Pallabi Police Station in the city on Wednesday morning. The explosion took place around 7am when a weight-machine like object went off...

Natore DC, Civil Surgeon among 30 infected with coronavirus

Natore DC, Civil Surgeon among 30 infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-07-29 10:54:23

Thirty people, including the Deputy Commissioner and Civil Surgeon of Natore, have been found infected with coronavirus. According to sources at the Civil Surgeon's office, Civil Surgeon Dr Kazi Miza...

Pandemic comes as ‘blessing in disguise’ for the tigers of the Sundarbans

Pandemic comes as ‘blessing in disguise’ for the tigers of the Sundarbans

-- 2020-07-29 10:10:19

Poachers still stalk the Sundarbans, but the rate of tiger death has decreased thanks to drives and patrols by law-enforcement agencies and government efforts. More recently, the coronavirus pandemic...

Dedicated Covid hospitals: Suspension of operations not timely, experts say

Dedicated Covid hospitals: Suspension of operations not timely, experts say

-- 2020-07-29 09:44:23

The government's decision to suspend operations of the 'dedicated' COVID-19 hospitals on the ground of low- attendance of patients against a large number of beds has given rise to mixed reactions am...

Commercial contracts: Experts for prudent invocation of 'force majeure' clause

Commercial contracts: Experts for prudent invocation of 'force majeure' clause

FE REPORT 2020-07-29 09:42:29

Experts in a webinar on Monday emphasised prudent invocation of 'force majeure' clause in commercial contracts at this critical time of growing spread of Covid-19 pandemic throughout the globe. They...

Neo-JMB operative arrested over bomb blast at Ctg police box

Neo-JMB operative arrested over bomb blast at Ctg police box

-- 2020-07-28 21:45:07

The Counter Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has arrested an operative of an outlawed militant group, Neo-JMB, for his suspected ties with a bomb blast at a traffic police box Sh...

PM allocates Tk 2.76m for people with disabilities in four Sylhet villages

PM allocates Tk 2.76m for people with disabilities in four Sylhet villages

-- 2020-07-28 21:20:27

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday allotted Tk 2.76 million for the persons with disability and their family members of four villages in Rampasha union of Biswanath upazila in Sylhet. Each 461 p...