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The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries: NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Wednesday morning said that the total number of COVID-19 cases...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) says it is deeply saddened by the passing of Mrs Niloufer Manzur, a renowned educationist and founding principal of Sunbeams School, according to a...
A Roman mosaic floor has been discovered under a vineyard in northern Italy after decades of searching. Surveyors in the commune of Negrar di Valpolicella north of Verona published images...
The Indian capital, Delhi, saw temperatures rise to 47.6C on Tuesday, as most of north India faced severe heatwave conditions. The heatwave, which officials say is likely to last until...
Bangladesh on Wednesday registered 22 more fatalities caused by the novel coronavirus, the health directorate said, bringing the total count to 544. Authorities also reported 1,541 new infections in the...
The Australian High Commission in Dhaka has planned to arrange a special flight for its 120 citizens to return home from Bangladesh on June 13. "The flight will require minimum...
The government is set to decide whether to lift or extend the ongoing lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday. The nationwide lockdown orders have been in effect since March...
Tesla said on Wednesday it will cut prices of its electric vehicles in North America as the firm ramps up car production at its Fremont, California, factory after the easing...
Three people have died after a microbus lost control and fell into a roadside ditch in Munshiganj's Gazaria Upazila. Eight others were injured in the accident which took place on...
At least four people, including two children, were crushed to death by falling trees and collapsing walls after a nor'wester slammed into Joypurhat shortly after Tuesday midnight. The incidents were...
Three more bodies were recovered on Wednesday morning after a boat capsized in the Jamuna River in Chauhali upazila of Sirajganj district on Tuesday, raising the death toll to five....
The15th annual Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) will be held as a virtual and live-streamed event on June 15-19 focusing on a sustainable future. The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the...
The Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing, China has sent a rejoinder to a news item published on the The Financial Express (Online) on May 23, 2020 under the headline ‘China exit:...
Three people were killed in separate lightning strikes in Ghorapakhia union of Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Rumali Begum, wife of Faruk...
The government has ordered all public and private hospitals in Bangladesh to provide treatment to coronavirus (COVID-19) and other patients in separate units. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare...
Apple Inc plans to reopen about 100 US stores, mostly with curbside pickup but some with walk-in service, the company said on Tuesday. Apple shuttered stores worldwide as the novel...
Volkswagen AG is in final talks to seal its largest investment deals with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) firms, two sources said, as the German automaker accelerates its push into the...
Saudi Arabian airlines are preparing to resume some domestic flights from Sunday as the Kingdom eases coronavirus containment measures, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing the state news agency. Sixty flights...
Global rating and research agency CRISIL has said that India was facing one of its worst phases of recession, amid the Lockdown imposed to contain novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak....
A nor’wester accompanied by rain and gusty wind swept the capital early Wednesday. “The nor’wester was blowing with wind speed of 78kph in Dhaka. It was 83kph in the Hazrat...
A group of Singaporeans worked feverishly to arrange a special flight to Bangladesh to grant a dying man his wish to celebrate one last Eid-ul-Fitr in his home town Dhaka,...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday a draft blueprint on safely starting travel between New Zealand and Australia will be presented to both governments in early June....
More than 4000 policemen have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as the deadly virus continues to spread fast across the country. Some 152 cops were found to be...
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, the founder and trustee of the Gonoshasthaya Kendra, has undergone convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus infection while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checked on his health. He said...
A National Bank director and his brother have been accused of threatening two top executives of Exim Bank with death. A case was started at Gulshan Police Station on May...
The Americas have emerged as the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a Tuesday briefing, as a US study forecast deaths surging in...
The coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks, but drug traders in Bangladesh enjoy a booming business. The police say incidents of drug cache seizure and arrest of...
Boeing Co is expected to announce US job cuts this week after disclosing last month it planned to shed 10 per cent of its worldwide workforce of 160,000 employees, people...
Business organisations will be able to submit value added tax (VAT) return for the months of March and April without paying late fees until Jun 9, the National Board of...
Niloufer Manzur, Founding Principal of Sunbeams School and wife of the country's eminent industrialist Syed Manzur Elahi, was laid to eternal rest at Banani Graveyard on Tuesday afternoon following necessary...
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has said other countries "have no place" interfering in the territory, as she robustly defended a controversial national security law planned by China, reports BBC....
It was 1973. As the country has just been liberated, people started getting optimistic about future. A young teacher with two toddlers of her own took a unique initiative to...
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka has expressed condolence at the sad demise of the country's renowned educationist, founding principal of Sunbeams School Mrs Niloufer Manzur. The country's...
Saudi Arabia will allow mosques to open for Friday prayers, state TV reported on Tuesday, as the kingdom eases restrictions on movement to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Mosques...
Cyclone Amphan that battered the country’s coastal districts on Wednesday damaged infrastructures and trees worth Tk 16.7 million in the Sundarbans’ eastern part, according to UNB. The forest department sources...
A white American woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City has been suspended from her...
Douglas Ross, a junior minister in the Scotland Office, resigned from the British government on Tuesday over the handling of accusations that the prime minister's senior adviser had broken the...
Two people drowned and 30 others went missing as a boat capsized in Padma River in Chauhali upazila of Sirajganj on Tuesday. Rashedul Islam Biswas, officer-in-charge of Chauhali Police Station,...
The European Union (EU) has said it will address immediate needs of populations affected by cyclone Amphan, as well as protect humanitarian aid and health workers from their exposure to...
Some 1,200 Bangladeshis who were marked as undocumented or irregular workers have recently returned home from the Maldives. Bangladesh High Commission in the Maldives made the disclosure through an emergency...
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the custom of visiting relatives on the day after Eid-ul-Fitr as most people have opted to stay home rather than risk catching the infection by...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has waived traders from payment of penalty and interest for not filing value-added tax returns for the months of March and April with a...
The Kamlapur Inland Container Depot (ICD), a key gate of the country’s external trade in Dhaka, has been congested following slow delivery of goods. As of Tuesday noon, it has...
The Afghan government urged the Taliban to extend a three-day ceasefire which is due to end on Tuesday night and also announced that it would release 900 prisoners from the...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Anwara Begum, the wife of Deputy Speaker of Jatiya Sangsad Fazle Rabbi...
No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8am on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Only one dengue patient is currently...
Indian states witnessing millions of migrant labourers returning from the big cities are recording rising coronavirus infections, officials said on Tuesday, fearing that the pandemic could spread through villages where...
The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 47,000 on Tuesday, a dire human cost that could define the premiership of Boris Johnson. The Office for National Statistics said 42,173 people...
Uber Technologies will cut around 600 jobs in India as part of its plans to cut 23 per cent of its global workforce, as the company navigates a lockdown that...
The coronavirus pandemic is interrupting immunisation against diseases including measles, polio and cholera that could put the lives of nearly 80 million children under the age of 01 at risk,...
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