After Abdus Samad, 68, and his wife Husne Laila, 58, from Thakurgaon were diagnosed with COVID-19, Samad ended up in Thakurgaon General Hospital.A sexagenarian with comorbidity, including diabetes, Samad required high flow oxygen, which is available in Rangpur.But he had to stay back in Thakurgaon as no bed at the Intensive Care Unit was available in Rangpur with his oxygen saturation dropping below 90, a worrying level, for the past four days.“He became quite feeble as he could not eat...
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The government is planning to launch an educational TV channel for students to prevent any further loss of learning due to the coronavirus pandemic.The channel will allow students to participate in digital classes throughout the year, Education Minister Dipu Moni told parliament on Thursday.Educational institutions across the country were shut down in March last year, after Bangladesh reported its first cases of the coronavirus.Students are yet to return to the brick-and-mortar schoolhouses, despite repeated attempts to reopen them. Last year’s...
Bangladesh is set to receive a second batch of 600,000 doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine as a gift from China next week. The government will dispatch two aircraft to bring home the vaccines on Jun 13, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Thursday.The vaccine, one of two main Chinese coronavirus vaccines that have been given to hundreds of millions of people in China and elsewhere, is the first developed by a non-Western country to win the backing of...
Bangladesh Export Import Company (Beximco) has been awarded three IT-related contracts by the government worth an estimated Tk 3.57 billion.The conglomerate’s IT Division signed the agreements with three separate government agencies on Jun 6, Beximco said.“These achievements reinforce Beximco’s IT Division’s commitment to participate and contribute to the digital transformation of Bangladesh initiated by the government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” Beximco said.The largest contract, worth Tk 2.61 billion, is for the installation and commissioning of...
Three members of a family, including a child, have been burnt after a fire broke out at their tin-roofed house in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur.The victims have been identified as Sohel Rana, 35, his wife Labni Akhtar Hawa, 25, and their two-year-old son Md Moslin.The fire started at the shed in the Nobody Housing area around 2:45 am Wednesday morning and the victims were taken to the Sheikh Hasina National Burn Unit and Plastic Surgery Institute for treatment. Two units from the...
Kamal Saudagar has made his living gathering fish eggs from the Halda River for many years. In the past two days, since Cyclone Yaas made its way inland, he has collected eight buckets of fish eggs, only a quarter of his usual haul.The Halda River in Chattogram’s Raozan and Hathazari areas is one of the largest natural breeding grounds for fish in South Asia.Usually, fish release eggs into the river just ahead of the monsoon season, when conditions are favourable....
News Desk A heated debate has broken out in parliament about clubs in Dhaka city, and their involvement with alcohol and gambling.The unplanned discussion saw members of the Awami League, Jatiya Party, BNP and Tarikat Federation exchanging loud barbs over the issue.The debate began at the start of the session on Thursday with a point of order from Jatiya Party senior MP Mujibul Haque, nicknamed Chunnu.The Awami League’s Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, the BNP’s Md Harunur Rashid, the Tarikat Federation’s...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered local authorities not to take any risks and impose lockdowns on those areas seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases.Hasina asked the cabinet members to send her message to the local administrations that they have the authority to impose restrictions, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said after a meeting on Monday. “We have already issued a letter on the matter and she insisted on reminding everyone of not taking any risk. If they are comfortable...
Rajshahi has recorded a higher tally of COVID-19 cases than Dhaka and Khulna over a 24-hour period as it emerged...
Dr Mashiur Rahman, who was previously the pro vice chancellor at National University, has been promoted to the position of vice chancellor.Rahman, who also teaches in the Department of Social Science at Dhaka University, will replace Dr Harun-or-Rashid.Harun-or-Rashid completed his second term as vice chancellor on Mar 5 and the government appointed Prof Mashiur Rahman as the interim vice chancellor.The Ministry of Education’s Directorate of Secondary & Higher Education issued a notice on Sunday formalising his appointment to the post...
The University Grants Commission has allowed the public universities to hold the honours and master’s final exams in person or online after more than a year of shutdown due to the pandemic.The authorities issued a letter on Friday asking the public universities to take necessary measures to hold online and in-person exams following the approval from the academic council of each university.The universities have also been asked to follow guidelines issued by the UGC on Dec 22. The notice also...
Bangladesh has recorded 1,292 new cases of coronavirus infection in a day, taking the tally to 794,985.The death toll from COVID-19 rose by 22 in a daily count to 12,480, according to the latest government data released on Thursday.Another 1,291 people recovered from the illness through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the tally of recoveries to 735,157.As many as 15,915 samples were tested across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 8.12...
