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24 days remand sought for Mamunul

Police sought for 24 days’ remand of Hefazat-e-Islam’s former  Joint Secretary  Mamunul Haque in three separate cases.Sonargaon police and Narayanganj Detective Branch (DB) of police sought the remand.Narayanganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Jayedul Alam confirmed it. Senior J...

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Two engineers held currency faking materials

Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two engineers from the city in connection with fake currency manufacturing on Sunday.Talking to the Bangladesh Post, Deputy Commissioner ( DB-Gulshan Division) Md Moshiur Rahman confirmed it on Sunday. He said getting secrete information a ...

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468 people die in road accidents in April

Around 468 persons were killed and 507 were injured in 432 road crashes across the country during the nation-wide lockdown in April, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity  disclosed the information to media in a press statement on Sunday.Six people were killed in eight railway accidents and 38 people ...

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Bangladesh okays China’s Sinopharm vaccine

Bangladesh has approved China's Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19 for emergency use.Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) Major General Mahbubur Rahman on Thursday announced at a press conference that their expert panel took the decision after reviewing the clinical trial documents.&ldq...

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Garment workers smart from Covid shocks

A new report released on Thursday said that ‘vulnerability’ of garment workers increased in Bangladesh due to COVID-19 pandemic.The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the Institute for Human Rights and Business, with support from ...

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Ex-MP Abdul Wahab new chairman of Red Crescent

Former member of the parliament from Magura-1 constituency Maj Gen (rtd) ATM Abdul Wahab has become the new chairman of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society.President Md Abdul Hamid who is also the President of the Red Crescent Society appointed him for the next three years on Thursday, according to a st...

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Sputnik V jab approved

Bangladesh has approved the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, the director general for drug administration has said.Maj Gen Md. Mahbubur Rahman told Bangladesh Post that an expert committee took the decision in a meeting on Tuesday after evaluating all the documents related to th...

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‘Impose specific taxes on tobacco to hike price’

Anti-tobacco campaigners have demanded increasing prices of cigarettes and other tobacco products by imposing specific taxes.It is needed to make Bangladesh a tobacco-free country by 2040, as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.The Research and Advocacy Organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Prog...

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Wear mask or face music

The Covid-19 infection rate falls further in Bangladesh, but the strict measures to prevent the virus spread will continue. The government also issued a separate order to enforce mask using among the public. On Monday, the health directorate said they tested 12.82 percent samples positive in th...

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Bangladesh to get Pfizer vaccine in May

Bangladesh will receive 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 in May through the Covax mechanism, a spokesperson of the health directorate has said.Covax or COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access is a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,...

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Rate of new Covid cases falling, but deaths still high

The daily positivity rate of Covid-19 out of the tested samples is failing in Bangladesh, but the deaths remained high as usual.In the last 24 hours till 8am of Sunday, 2,922 new cases were detected by testing 21,922 samples. The positivity rate was 13.33 percent.This rate was over 20 percent in rec...

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Bangladesh stops giving first dose of Covid jab

The government has ordered to stop giving the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine from Monday until further notice.The Directorate General for Health Services (DGHS) sent an order in this regard to all the vaccine centers through civil surgeons. The Bangladesh Post has obtained a copy of the order.The de...

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Red Crescent distributes Ramadan food package

The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has started distributing Ramadan food package among 15,300 poor, helpless and Covid-19 affected families of the country with the support of the Qatar Red Crescent.The package includes dates, dal, soyabean oil, sugar, salt, puffed rice, chira, semai, and suji, amon...

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Radicals seek compromise, govt tough

Although Islamist radical organisation Hefazat-e-Islam is trying to reach a compromise with the government, the ruling Awami League is not willing to spare them for their violence and destructive activities, said sources in the government.According to sources, the government is determined to take le...

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Covid antigen test starts in Dhaka from Saturday

The government is expanding the antigen testing facilities for quick detection of Covid-19 in Dhaka with the surge of new cases.Under the overall supervision of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), BRAC will launch antigen-based Covid-19 rapid testing on Saturday for suspected patients...

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Five Hefazat leaders remanded

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed five leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam on five-day remand each in a case lodged over the Islamist group's anarchy in the capital's Paltan and adjacent areas in 2013.The  remanded accused are central assistant secretary general Khurshid Alam Kashemi, Hefazat-e-I...

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Hefajat leader Korban on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court  on Wednesday placed Hefajat-e-Islam Dhaka city unit vice-president Mawlana Korban Ali on seven-day remand in a case lodged over the mayhem in capital’s Paltan area in 2013.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order.Earlier police produced Korban, also a j...

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Mamunul involved in N'ganj violence: CID

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has primarily found involvement of controversial Hefazat-e-Islam’s Joint Secretary General Maulana Mamunul Haque in some cases filed in connection with the recent violence in Narayanganj.Additional Inspector General (Adl IGP) Barrister Mahbubur Rahman, w...

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Top Hefazat leaders meet home minister

Senior leaders of the radical Islamist organization  Hefazat-e-Islam met Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at his residence in the capital Dhaka on Monday night.Around five to six Hefazat leaders held a meeting with the minister for over an hour.Some senior police officers were also present ...

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Jubo League leader sues ex-DUCSU VP Nur for stoking ‘religious hatred’

A Bangladesh Awami Jubo League leader has filed a case against former DUCSU Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur for calling the party supporters and leaders ‘fake Muslims’ in a Facebook live show. In that show, Nur also justified radical Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam’s violence du...