Bangladesh has decided to extend the ongoing lockdown restrictions by five days to Aug 10, as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to spike.Stores, businesses and offices will reopen and public transport will resume on a limited scale on Aug 11. The government also said that it would push the COVID-19 vaccination drive in the coming week.No one without a vaccine would be allowed to join work, said Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque. The minister made the remarks after...
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Saiful Alam’s design and printing shop in Dhaka’s Purana Paltan was doing well enough to earn a living for his family, and also provide livelihoods for two of his employees.But as the government imposes intermittent lockdowns to cope with the pandemic, it has become quite difficult for him to even afford food for his family, let alone pay for his home and office space and other essential expenditures.Saiful has managed to survive by taking out loans, which have now totalled...
Disgruntled inmates of Jashore Child Development Centre (JCDC) have staged protests overnight over a meagre food supply at the government facility.An inmate and a policeman have been injured in the incident that occurred on early Sunday. Jashore Deputy Commissioner Tamizul Islam Khan and senior police officers intervened and brought the situation under control at around 1 am on Sunday. Additional District Magistrate Kazi Sayemuzzaman and Executive Magistrate AM Mamunur Rashid also visited the scene.The inmates began to vandalise the centre...
Excitement had gripped the football fans of Brahmanbaria over the final match of the Copa America between Brazil and Argentina. The district town in central Bangladesh fell quiet after the end of the closely-watched match.Argentina won their first major title in 28 years on Saturday and Lionel Messi finally won his first medal in a blue-and-white shirt when an Angel Di Maria goal gave them a 1-0 win over Brazil and a record-equalling 15th Copa America.But celebrations in Brahmanbaria, often...
The Bangladesh government has further tightened health restrictions from Jun 28 to Jul 1 in an effort to fight a rising wave of COVID infections across the country.All public transport, aside from freight vehicles and rickshaws, is suspended and all shopping malls, markets, tourism centres, resorts, community centres and sites of entertainment are closed for this duration, the Cabinet Division said in a notice on Sunday.Law enforcers will also be deployed on regular patrols to enforce restrictions, the notice said.Public...
Foreign direct investment flows to Bangladesh declined 11 percent to $2.6 billion in 2020 from a year earlier, according to UNCTAD’s latest World Investment Report.Both general economic activities and FDI shrank in the country’s export-oriented garment manufacturing, as $3 billion worth of export orders, primarily from the United States and European Union were cancelled, UNCTAD said in the report published on Monday. “Foreign investment inflows are shifting away from large non-renewable energy and finance projects towards fintech, the pharmaceutical industry,...
Bangladesh has registered 235 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 21,397.The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,296,093 after 15,776 people tested positive for the disease until 8 am on Tuesday, according to the latest government data.Dhaka registered the most daily deaths and new cases among the eight divisions, logging 73 fatalities and 7,735 infections. Chattogram tallied 65 deaths and 3,734 cases, Khulna 32 deaths and 946 cases, Rajshahi 21 deaths and 771 cases. Nationwide, another...
Md Abul Hashem, chairman of Sajeeb Group, and six others, including his two sons, have been sent to jail after their bail pleas were rejected in a case over a deadly factory fire that claimed more than 50 lives in Narayanganj.However, Hashem’s two other sons secured bail in the homicide case started by the police.Narayanganj’s Senior Judicial Magistrate Fahmida Khatun passed the orders on Wednesday after the eight suspects were produced in court at the end of a 4-day remand,...
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned acting British High Commissioner Javed Patel to express its “disappointment” with a recent rights report from the UK government.The Human Rights and Democracy Report 2020 was released by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office agency on Thursday and included a chapter on Bangladesh.The report’s description of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s current situation as “house arrest” was disputed by Bangladesh.The ministry also told the acting high commissioner to “consult the concerned authorities” if there...
As the fire broke out at the factory of Hashem Foods Ltd in Narayanganj’s Rupganj, 28-year-old senior operator Mohammad Ali...
The government has suspended a plan to register students for the Higher Secondary Certificate exams of 2021 as a surge in coronavirus infections has reached a worrying level.A new schedule will be announced later after reviewing the situation, said Exam Controller SM Amirul Islam of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka in a notice on Sunday. The government in a previous notice on Jun 25 asked the students to complete the registration between Jun 29 and Jul 11...
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested four people on charges of illegally trading cryptocurrency bitcoin.Hamim Prince Khan, 32, the mastermind...
