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UNHCR on Tuesday warned of life-threatening consequences of Refugees if annual monsoon preparations cannot be completed on time in Bangladesh amid the global outbreak of COVID-19. As countries around the...
Bangladesh Autorickshaw-Autotempo Transport Workers Federation (BAATWF) have urged the government to make special allocation for them during the general holidays. BAATWF, an association of the transport workers, in statement on...
As deadly coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, strategies for developing a safe and effective vaccine are rapidly moving forward, according to reports carried by various global news media....
Several hundred people besieged the office of Sarail upazila nirbahi officer on Tuesday demanding relief. Residents of different unions including Syed Tola and Bepari Para unions of the upazila gathered...
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak on Tuesday said the country may face a food shortage if the farmers in the haor areas cannot harvest Boro paddy timely. To this effect,...
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against chairman of Perli Union Parishad of Kalia upazila in Narail district for embezzling government rice. Assistant director of ACC, Jashore...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests that the novel coronavirus originated in bats in China late last year and it was not manipulated...
Bangladesh on brought back the second batch of its nationals who were stranded in India due to flight suspension amid the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 169 Bangladeshi...
The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP)...
The government has planned to operate special flight on Dhaka-Delhi-Dhaka route to bring back Bangladesh nationals home who got stuck in New Delhi or adjacent areas due to countrywide lockdown...
Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC) has started selling sugar as part of its initiative to supply better quality sugar to consumers ahead of Ramadan. According to sources at...
Local administration put Bogura district under lockdown in an effort to prevent transmission of coronavirus as three people, including a policeman, found infected with the virus. Deputy Commissioner Foyez Ahmed...
A total of 154 Turkish citizens, who were stranded in Dhaka due to COVID-19 pandemic left, the capital on Tuesday by a charter flight while the first special flight taking...
The government has planned to operate special flight on Dhaka-Delhi-Dhaka route to bring back Bangladesh nationals home who got stuck in New Delhi or adjacent areas due to countrywide lockdown...
Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged all concerned to continue the relief distribution work properly and warned that no discrimination in it will be allowed. Quader, also...
The government has allocated Tk 1 billion to provide subsidy to farmers for buying agricultural machinery in fiscal 2019-20 to reduce production costs and increase crop yield. The Ministry of...
The country's largest mobile phone operator Grameenphone, or GP, wants idle spectrums from the government at a discounted rate as opposed to free of charge spectrums sought by three other...
Nigerian airports will remain closed to international flights for another two weeks from Thursday as part of measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country, said...
Migrant rights organisations recently launched an online campaign for providing emergency support to the returnee female workers, who are in a vulnerable situation because of COVID-19 pandemic. Anirban Survivor Voice...
Saudi Arabia has extended the suspension of praying in the Grand Mosque and Prophet’s Mosque during the fasting month of Ramadan to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the Presidency...
The government will publish results of the SSC and equivalent exams two weeks after the reopening of the offices following the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus...
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary meeting of the OIC Executive Committee at the level of foreign ministers via video conferencing on Wednesday as part of...
The highly infectious coronavirus disease has killed nine more people in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 110 in the country. Meanwhile, the total number...
At least 170 Bangladeshis died of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, in New York in the last 29 days until Saturday of this week, according to a local...
Workers at Ferrari are signing up en masse for voluntary coronavirus screening so they can return to work as soon as possible in an ambitious scheme that could serve as...
Twenty Bangladeshis were brought back from Turkey by a chartered flight on Tuesday. Confirming the information, Bangladesh Civil Aviation sources said 154 Turkish citizens left Dhaka at 1:10pm. A chartered...
The first special chartered flight taking British visitors from Bangladesh to the United Kingdom will leave Dhaka for London on Tuesday afternoon. It is scheduled to take off from Hazrat...
US crude oil bounced back into positive territory on Tuesday, but a historic plunge below zero rattled investors and triggered the steepest drop in Asian stock markets in a month....
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Monday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 191,900 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures amid...
Two of the 11 Bangladesh nationals, arrested by India for violating visa conditions and remanded in judicial custody, tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, Indian media have reported. The entire...
A northwestern Chinese province on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus reported on Tuesday its first cases in nearly three weeks, all involving travellers from overseas, as imported infections...
The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country's outbreak began, authorities have said. As of Monday, there...
Two youths were diagnosed with coronavirus in Nawabganj on Tuesday, taking the number of confirmed cases in the upazila to eight. Nawabganj Upazila Health Complex’s Medical Officer Dr Hargobinda...
The US state of New York has launched a large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing starting on Monday in an effort to find out how much of its population has been infected...
Some shops and businesses opened in rural India on Monday as part of a staggered exit from a weeks-long lockdown that has left millions out of work and short of...
The Jashore University of Science and Technology (JUST) is testing coronavirus samples collected from seven districts in Bangladesh’s south eastern region. “We’re conducting tests at Genome Centre at the university...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (Met office) has forecast rain in all eight divisions of the country in its 24 hours bulletin. In a regular update on Monday evening, it said...
The price of a barrel of benchmark US oil plunged below $0 a barrel on Monday for the first time in history, a troubling sign of an unprecedented global energy...
Some listed multinational companies (MNCs) including Grameenphone will hold their annual general meeting (AGM) through digital platform avoiding public gathering to contain COVID-19 infection. The move came after the securities...
Indonesia will ban the mass exodus tradition, locally known as ‘mudik,’ at the end of the Muslim fasting month in May in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus...
Nialco Alloys, a manufacturer of grade bronze and brass ingots, is awaiting the regulatory consent to raise a capital worth Tk 100 million from the SME Board of the Chittagong...
The global death toll from coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 170,435 on Monday morning. So far, 2,481,253 cases have been confirmed around the world after disease was first reported in China in...
The first flight carrying deported Bangladeshis will arrive by this week from Kuwait by a special flight of the Kuwait Airlines. More than 10,000 undocumented and convicted Bangladeshi workers are...
The World Health Organization 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 relaxed...
Oil prices rebounded on Tuesday, with US crude turning positive after trading below $0 for the first time ever, but gains were capped amid unresolved concerns about how the market...
Electricity and gas connections of the houses will be severed if landlords harass coronavirus-infected patients or doctors, nurses, health workers, emergency service workers or journalists or anyone staying in home-quarantine....
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. “In light of...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to review the turnover of some selective sectors that are in full-fledged business during coronavirus lockdown. The sectors include tobacco, pharmaceuticals and...
Despite a sustained surge in coronavirus patients in the capital, many city dwellers aren't following social distancing guidelines, intensifying the risk of more infections here. The situation was too worst...
The central bank's policy support is helping banks manage their funds, despite higher withdrawal pressure on cash even as deposits shrink in the aftermath of coronavirus outbreak. People are now...
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