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Covid-19: 260 agriculture ministry employees infected, 5 die

Covid-19: 260 agriculture ministry employees infected, 5 die

-- 2020-07-27 16:22:04

A total of 260 employees of Ministry of Agriculture and its subordinate offices have been infected with Covid-19 and five of them have died, said a PID handout released Monday. A total of 116 staffer...

All employees of RAKUB Haripur branch infected with Covid-19

All employees of RAKUB Haripur branch infected with Covid-19

-- 2020-07-27 16:00:21

All seven employees of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) Jadurani Haat Branch in Haripur upazila under Thakurgaon district have been infected with Covid-19. The test result of 15 people includ...

Bangladesh sees zero new dengue case in 24 hrs

Bangladesh sees zero new dengue case in 24 hrs

-- 2020-07-27 15:22:11

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday reported no new dengue case in the country in the last 24 hours. Currently, three patients are undergoing treatment at a hospital in the ca...

37 more die, 2772 test positive, 1801 recover: DGHS

37 more die, 2772 test positive, 1801 recover: DGHS

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-27 14:47:44

Thirty-seven more people died from coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Monday, according to the statistics of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). With this, the...

DGHS witnesses major reshuffle: 28 officials transferred

DGHS witnesses major reshuffle: 28 officials transferred

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-27 14:43:23

The directorate general of health services (DGHS) has transferred 28 of its officials — all recruited during the 39th BCS. Of them, nine were transferred to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airpo...

Fire hits Chattogram chips factory

Fire hits Chattogram chips factory

-- 2020-07-27 13:26:01

A fire broke out at a chips factory in Kalurghat area of the port city early Monday. The fire erupted at around 5:30am in the factory of Meridian Chips, said Farid Ahmmed Chowdhury, the deputy as...

President, PM mourn death of AL MP Israfil

President, PM mourn death of AL MP Israfil

-- 2020-07-27 12:32:12

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed profound shock at the death of Israfil Alam MP of Naogaon-6 constituency. Israfil Alam MP passed away at a city hospital ear...

Two die as truck rams into motorcycle in Chandpur

Two die as truck rams into motorcycle in Chandpur

-- 2020-07-27 12:04:23

Two motorcycle riders have died after the vehicle collided with a truck in Chandpur’s Faridganj Upazila. The incident took place in the petrol pump area of Faridganj municipality at 11:30pm on...

Two suspected robbers die in Gazipur ‘gunfight’

Two suspected robbers die in Gazipur ‘gunfight’

-- 2020-07-27 11:07:28

Two suspected robbers were killed in a reported gunfight with a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Gazipur Bhawal Jatiya Udyan area early Monday. The deceased could not be identified yet, report...

MP Israfil Alam dies after initial recovery from Covid-19

MP Israfil Alam dies after initial recovery from Covid-19

-- 2020-07-27 10:05:59

Israfil Alam, Awami League member of parliament from the Naogaon-6 constituency, has died in hospital care from respiratory complications. He was 54. Alam earlier recovered from the Covid-19 illness,...

BNP forms relief committee to assist flood victims

BNP forms relief committee to assist flood victims

FE REPORT 2020-07-27 09:40:52

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formed on Saturday a relief committee to assist the flood-affected people of the country. Standing committee member of the party Iqbal Hassan Mahmud Tuku was ma...

19 veterinary medical teams for city cattle markets

19 veterinary medical teams for city cattle markets

FE Report 2020-07-27 09:39:15

As many as 19 veterinary medical teams will be deployed in the cattle markets in both the south and north city corporations (DSCC and DNCC) this year to prevent entrance of sick animals. The Minist...

Medical technologists end hunger strike

Medical technologists end hunger strike

-- 2020-07-26 20:24:43

More than 50 medical technologists demanding permanent jobs after working as volunteers amid the coronavirus pandemic have called off their hunger strike on assurances from the new director general of...

CPD to organise special lecture as part of Mujib Barsho celebration

CPD to organise special lecture as part of Mujib Barsho celebration

-- 2020-07-26 19:19:50

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will organise a special lecture virtually to celebrate the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by November this year. This...

Lack of coordination behind poor drainage system, waterlogging: TIB

Lack of coordination behind poor drainage system, waterlogging: TIB

FE Online Report 2020-07-26 19:12:29

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Sunday said Dhaka WASA, two city corporations and all concerned institutions have failed to address the drainage system, rainwater drainage and waste man...

Speaker opens tree plantation drive on Parliament premises

Speaker opens tree plantation drive on Parliament premises

-- 2020-07-26 19:02:30

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Sunday inaugurated a tree plantation programmes on Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises marking Mujib Borsha (Mujib Year). She planted three saplings – mango, a...

DMP chief asks leaseholders to not allow hawkers into cattle markets

DMP chief asks leaseholders to not allow hawkers into cattle markets

-- 2020-07-26 18:57:52

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam on Sunday asked the leaseholders not to allow hawkers or makeshift shops inside the cattle markets. Sometimes (muggers or dope party mem...

Biman to resume flight to Kuwait from August 4

Biman to resume flight to Kuwait from August 4

-- 2020-07-26 18:47:53

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided to reopen its flight operation to Kuwait from August 4 as well as increase flight frequency on Dubai route from now on to weekly five flights from existing three....

Fake Covid test: JKG CEO gives confessional statement

Fake Covid test: JKG CEO gives confessional statement

-- 2020-07-26 18:06:00

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JKG Healthcare Shafikul Islam on Sunday gave confessional statement before a Dhaka court in a case lodged over issuing fake coronavirus (Covid-19) test reports. Dhaka...

Joy is architect of Digital Bangladesh, Obaidul Quader says

Joy is architect of Digital Bangladesh, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2020-07-26 17:47:01

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser and Bangabandhu’s grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy is making his all-out strides from behind...

First container-train arrives from India 

First container-train arrives from India 

-- 2020-07-26 17:15:58

The first container train arrived from India on Sunday via Benapole-Petrapole rail link carrying FMCG cargo and fabrics loaded in 50 containers, which were handed over to Bangladesh. India has said...

Bablu new JaPa secretary general

Bablu new JaPa secretary general

-- 2020-07-26 16:48:27

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday made party co-chairman Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu as its secretary general removing Moshiur Rahman Ranga from the post. GM Quader took the decision as per section...

Virtual courts grant bail to 6,822 in three days

Virtual courts grant bail to 6,822 in three days

-- 2020-07-26 15:31:38

A total of 6,822 people secured bail after their petitions were heard by virtual courts between July 19 and July 23. Hearing on 15,495 bail petitions were held during the period, Md Saifur Rahman, sp...

Four killed in Cumilla road crash

Four killed in Cumilla road crash

-- 2020-07-26 15:13:18

Four people, including two siblings, were killed and 10 others injured when a truck hit a human hauler on the Cumilla-Sylhet Highway at Harindhara in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on Sunday. The decea...

Covid-19 deaths cross 2900-mark in BD

Covid-19 deaths cross 2900-mark in BD

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-26 14:39:26

The death toll from coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh crossed 2900 mark on Sunday, 141st day of the virus outbreak in the country. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 54 deaths...

Food, work shortage hits Kurigram flood victims hard

Food, work shortage hits Kurigram flood victims hard

-- 2020-07-26 14:35:59

People in the flood-affected areas in Kurigram are complaining of shortage of food and government assistance as they struggle to survive and worry over a bleak future, UNB reports. The inundation of...

New Navy Chief adorned with vice-admiral rank badge

New Navy Chief adorned with vice-admiral rank badge

-- 2020-07-26 14:20:25

Newly-appointed Chief of Naval Staff Mohammad Shaheen Iqbal was adorned with the rank badge of Vice-Admiral at a function in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban this morning. &...

Shahed placed on fresh 28-day remand on fraud, embezzlement charges

Shahed placed on fresh 28-day remand on fraud, embezzlement charges

-- 2020-07-26 13:44:53

Police have been granted 28 more days to grill Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed in four cases carrying charges of fraud and embezzlement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Choudhury issued...

30 kg deer meat, two heads seized in Bagerhat

30 kg deer meat, two heads seized in Bagerhat

-- 2020-07-26 13:09:30

Forest Department officials in a drive seized 30kg deer meat, eight legs of deer and two heads from two boats at Charakhali canal in Sundarbans east zone in Mongla upazila on Sunday. Mohammad Belayet...

Rail links to north, south restored nine hours after derailment

Rail links to north, south restored nine hours after derailment

-- 2020-07-26 12:19:27

Rail links between Dhaka and Bangladesh's northern and southern regions have been restored nine hours after the derailment of a Kurigram Express train in Tangail. The train's engine and three coaches...