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Students are worried that the coronavirus lockdown is going to have a negative impact on their studies and decrease the chances of nailing a job. They find themselves in a...
Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent...
Indian health ministry Wednesday morning said 37 new deaths of COVID-19, besides an additional 999 positive cases were reported since Tuesday evening across the country, taking the number of deaths...
Facebook will buy a 10 per cent stake in the digital business of India’s Reliance Industries for $5.7 billion, as the social media firm looks to leverage its highly popular...
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...
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)...
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 Services,...
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...
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...
The Rome government sees Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio surging to between 155 per cent and 159 per cent of national output this year, sources close to the matter told Reuters, as...
Missouri on Tuesday became the first US state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the outbreak that originated in Wuhan...
Four in five workers in country’s readymade garment sector received their salary by mid-April for the work they performed in March, despite the economic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, data from...
Global coronavirus infections surpassed 2.5 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with US cases surpassing 800,000. The figure includes more than 170,000 deaths, two-thirds of which have been...
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...
President Donald Trump has said his new US immigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking ‘green cards’ for permanent residency in an effort to protect Americans...
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 said. With...
Poor agri-mechanisation has posed a fresh challenge to the current Boro crop harvest in Bangladesh for labour scarcity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, agriculturists have said. They have...
Earnings of most of the listed food & allied sector companies plunged in July-December, 2019 compared to the same period of the previous year. Market analysts said many companies are...
The US Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved $484 billion in fresh relief for the US economy and hospitals hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, sending the measure to the House of...
Cement manufacturers have urged the government to facilitate them creating the scope of gradual installments to pay the bills of gas and electricity and other taxes for July to December....
The 23rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Grameenphone Ltd was held on Tuesday. In compliance with the directives set by the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission and considering the health...
The interest rate on Bangladesh Government Treasury Bonds (BGTBs) dropped on Tuesday as the commercial banks preferred investing their surplus liquidity created due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country....
Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) has demanded of the authorities concerned to include its member factories in the Tk 50 billion stimulus package to help them pay the workers' wages....
All commercial wings abroad have been instructed to be alert to the supply chain of their respective countries and update the government, officials said. This precaution is taken as Bangladesh...
Most of the vessels are now sailing from Chattogram Port jetties half loaded, mainly with empty containers, due to a dearth of export cargo in the lockdown period amid COVID-19...
The government is considering revising further the tax collection target for the current fiscal year (FY2019-20) in view of the impact of coronavirus pandemic on the economy. The ministry of...
Huawei on Tuesday announced its business results for the first quarter of 2020. In Q1 of this year, Huawei generated USD 25.7 billion in revenue, an increase of 1.4% year-on-year....
Praava Health introduced several new telemedicine options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for all Patients and the broader community. These services include a dedicated COVID-19 hotline and video consultations...
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...
In this worldwide 'lockdown' situation enforced for preventing Covid-19, expatriate Bangladeshis are relying on online-to-wallet money transfer service to send remittance to their loved ones back home. During this time...
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....
In a bid to combat Covid-19 pandemic, the 'social distancing' or lockdown that is now in force across the country since the government announced 'general holidays' on March 26 has...
Britain is marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 94th birthday with silence Tuesday, as the nation in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic forgoes the usual gun salutes and ringing of bells. According...
In this article and the next, the Post-COVID Recovery series assesses some of the positive and negative spillovers, respectively, of the very pandemic. Some have been referenced, but navigating them...
Modern Monetary Theory has received unprecedented attention now that policymakers are pursuing extraordinary economic-policy measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussing the US Federal Reserve's "whatever it takes approach," CNBC's...
It is recognised that the concept of banking revolves around TRUST and within banking functionality, banks safeguard the interests of their clients who entrust them with their money and use...
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,...
The central bank is set to create a large bail-out package for farmers following the signs of collapse in the farm sector. It may be noted that despite repeated insistence...
Big players are counting big amount of losses and creating big noise, prompting governments worldwide to ready big stimulus packages, just without engaging fully the biggest number, the masses. Still,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that any lifting of lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus must be gradual, and if restrictions were to be...
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 Department of...
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...
Italy will announce before the end of this week its plans for the gradual reopening from a lockdown imposed to fight the coronavirus emergency that will be applied starting from...
At least 20 people have been arrested in south India for violently preventing the burial of a prominent doctor who died of Covid-19, reports BBC. Dr Simon Hercules' friends and...
The Bangladesh economy is losing Tk 33 billion every day from its service and agriculture sectors during the nationwide shutdown over the coronavirus outbreak, a new study says. Researchers from...
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