-- 2020-04-22 20:04:27
Food Department will procure 17,002 tonnes of Boro paddy from farmers in Jamalpur this year. According to the office of District Food Controller, 4,520 tonnes of paddy will be procured from farmers i...
-- 2020-04-22 19:23:43
Bangladesh has said the OIC Member States require a regional and global response based on unity, solidarity and compassion to overcome the challenges of coronavirus pandemic. "Intensified global and...
-- 2020-04-22 18:25:44
The government will consider relaxing the age limit for job applicants, who cross the threshold during the ongoing coronavirus shutdown, when fresh circulars are issued. The authorities are exploring...
-- 2020-04-22 17:11:04
The district of Meherpur on Wednesday confirmed the first coronavirus case which was reported in Mujibnagar upazila. The upazila administration put 10 houses under lockdown in the upazila after the u...
-- 2020-04-22 17:02:22
The government on Wednesday brought back its 349 nationals who were stranded in India and Singapore due to flight suspension amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to BSS, a total of 164 Bangladeshi n...
-- 2020-04-22 16:21:42
The government may extend the nationwide shutdown of offices and workplaces until May 5 amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain has said. A form...
-- 2020-04-22 15:10:22
Responding to the call of the upazila nirbahi officer, some 1,500 people from different walks of life have joined farmers voluntarily in harvesting Boro paddy in Jamalpur upazila of Sunamganj district...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-22 14:49:25
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 3,772 on Wednesday as the country registered 390 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, 10 more people died from COVID-19 duri...
-- 2020-04-22 14:32:33
Two people, including a bank official, were infected with coronavirus (COVID-19)-19 in Kushtia on Tuesday, Civil Surgeon Dr HM Anwarul Islam has said. The infected patients are Mahbub Ahmed Chappal,...
-- 2020-04-22 14:09:16
The third batch of 164 Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in India due to the nationwide lockdown there, are set to return home from Chennai this afternoon (Wednesday afternoon). A flight of US-Ban...
-- 2020-04-22 13:54:05
Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sending medical equipment and relief materials to the Maldives to face the coronavirus (COVID-1...
-- 2020-04-22 13:44:52
Workers of Eton Fashions have taken to the streets of Dhaka's Paltan in protest after the garment factory announced 'layoffs' amid the ongoing coronavirus shutdown. Almost 150 disgruntled workers dem...
-- 2020-04-22 13:22:35
A sexagenarian man has been killed in a clash between two groups of villagers over a cricket match amid the ongoing lockdown at Dadpur in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur district. The deceased was ident...
-- 2020-04-22 11:34:47
The first case of the coronavirus infection was detected in Magura after test result of a man there came out positive late on Tuesday. The man, a resident of Atharokhada union in Sadar upazila, has b...
-- 2020-04-22 11:07:09
Police have shut down Karwan Bazar Wholesale Market, one of the largest kitchen markets in the capital, for retailers in a bid to prevent the transmission of coronavirus. Inspector (Operations) of Te...
-- 2020-04-22 11:06:43
Four more people, including a 10-month-old baby, have been infected with coronavirus in Chattogram, said an official. Dr Hasan Shahriar Kabir, divisional director of the Directorate General of Health...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-22 10:37:14
An aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force returned to Bangladesh on Tuesday with 70 Bangladeshi nationals residing in Maldives. The mission consisting of a 15 BAF aircrew was led by Group Captain Md Enamul...
UNB 2020-04-22 10:29:31
The nationwide shutdown aimed at curbing coronavirus has left her day-labourer husband jobless, leading their family, including her toddler, to starvation. As the family is new in the locality, no-one...
-- 2020-04-22 09:42:09
With the 60+ age group making up half of the coronavirus fatalities in Bangladesh, the retirement homes in the country are at high risk of becoming hotspots for infection. People aged 60 or above mak...
JUBAIR HASAN AND SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2020-04-22 09:33:37
The number of coronavirus-infected healthcare professionals keeps rising, posing a challenge to the handling of a growing number of COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh, insiders in the public service sa...
-- 2020-04-21 22:00:07
A prison guard of Dhaka Central Jail tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, forcing the authorities concerned to send his three roommates on quarantine. Contacted, Jailer Mahbub Islam told UNB t...
-- 2020-04-21 21:48:27
As many as 269 Britons, who were stranded in Bangladesh due to a travel ban amid lockdowns over the coronavirus pandemic, have left Dhaka for home on a special flight. A chartered British Airways pla...
-- 2020-04-21 21:09:02
Bangladesh has been ranked 151st among 180 countries in this year’s World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) by Reporters Without Borders. In a general analysis of the situation of press freedom, it sa...
-- 2020-04-21 20:34:51
A young man, who was diagnosed with coronavirus as the first case of Narail district, has recovered from the disease as the first patient. Syed Sujon, son of Syed Ashraf Ali of Parchatora village in...
-- 2020-04-21 20:28:00
A mobile court run by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has handed five people penalties for stashing away coronavirus testing kits in Dhaka. The kits were seized in a drive around Rajarbagh and Nikun...
-- 2020-04-21 20:22:24
As both the death toll and infections from coronavirus continue to surge in Bangladesh, the government is likely to extend the ongoing general holidays in a bid to tackle the worsening situation. The...
-- 2020-04-21 19:57:38
Though the people of 60 years of age or above make up only 10 per cent of coronavirus patients in Bangladesh, they account for 50 per cent of deaths from the virus. According to UNB, experts have att...
-- 2020-04-21 19:32:44
Hundreds of people from the Murapara camp took position in front of Government Women’s College in Pallabi in the capital on Tuesday. They said they will continue the demonstration until the gov...
-- 2020-04-21 19:08:39
The authorities have completed the installation of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine - a requisite for the ‘gold standard’ method of testing for COVID-19- at the Microbiology Dep...
-- 2020-04-21 19:08:15
A mobile team of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) on Tuesday fined two pharmacies including chain medicine shop Lazz Pharma Ltd Tk 40,000 for selling date- expired medici...
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