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Low-income people of the country are suffering great losses in their earnings since the enforcement of social distancing and lockdowns to fight the novel coronavirus. Extreme poverty has risen 60...
Amidst the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of deadly coronavirus, return of thousands of readymade garments (RMG) workers to Dhaka from other parts of the country drew a round...
Family members of Abdul Mazed, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, have visited him in jail ahead of his imminent execution. Keraniganj Police chief Shah Zaman on Friday...
Not to diminish the superhuman efforts of nurses, doctors, and health-care workers worldwide, but sometimes, no matter how hard one tries, and no matter how selflessly one sacrifices, one stands...
To offset any pre-Ramadan tendency of essentials' price hike, the government's trading wing, the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), has been, as usual, engaged in supplying such commodities at a...
The Belt and Road Forum Initiative and Chinese Institute of Traditional Medicine have donated 2,000 COVID-19 testing kits to Bangladesh. Bangladesh Ambassador to China Mahbub Uz Zaman received the kits...
Global e-commerce giant Amazon will build its own coronavirus testing lab to monitor the health of its staff. Cases of Covid-19 were reported at more than 50 Amazon facilities across...
The country’s two bourses will remain closed until April 25 as the government further extended the ongoing holiday to contain the spread of deadly coronavirus. The government has further extended...
Locals on Friday caught at least 200 people who were trying to enter Satkhira in trucks from Madhabkati Bazar under Sadar upazila in Satkhira. They were later handed over to...
Even after the city lockdown was lifted, Liu Qi, a taxi driver in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, said he only had half the number of fares compared with before...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for tighter supervision of workplace safety to effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property. As the country is resuming work and production,...
Mastercard’s unwavering commitment to making transactions more convenient, safe and seamless through tap-and-go card payments has taken on new urgency and importance as the spread of COVID-19 highlights the imperative...
The spread and rising number of coronavirus cases have forced the local administration to put two districts and a number of areas across the country under lockdown to prevent further...
Bangladesh is seeking $700 million in financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, Tokyo-based Nikkei Asian Review reports. "We are currently...
Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists say, a scenario that spells catastrophe for...
Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise. Workers in hazmat outfits...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested four suspects and recovered gold, cash and laptop which were stolen from a flat in the capital’s Kalabagan Central market road area on March 31....
Summit Group and China Merchant Port Group (“CMPort”) have jointly provided high quality two thousand Protective Suits and fifty thousand masks specifically made for serving the Covid-19 patients. The air...
The coronavirus crisis has hit beauty establishments hard across Dhaka as most salons and beauty parlours remain shuttered for a second straight week amid a nationwide lockdown to stem the...
The suspension of international and domestic flights, fall in air travel demand and economic uncertainty following the outbreak of coronavirus across the world continue to cause huge losses to airlines...
As coronavirus spreads in Japan, the chief executive of the Tokyo Games said Friday he can't guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next year — even with a 16-month...
The government has extended the shutdown of educational institutions for the fourth time as the country grapples with coronavirus outbreak. Schools will now remain closed until Apr 25 in line...
The Bangladesh Bank has instructed all banks to shut down their branches in the areas put under lockdown by the government or local administration to prevent the spread of coronavirus....
After managing to keep on top of the first wave of coronavirus outbreaks, Singapore is grappling with an alarming rise in infections among migrant workers housed in crowded dormitories. Such...
The readymade garment (RMG) factories would remain closed until April 25 in line with extended public holidays in a bid to slow the spread if corona virus. The Bangladesh Garment...
The government has introduced a hotline number, 16430, to provide emergency legal aid services to people free of cost amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Information gave the...
Gender and social inequalities that underpinned societies in Asia and the Pacific before COVID-19 are now exacerbated, making bad situations for women and girls even worse, warns a new report...
A 60-year-old man was arrested for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at Gaidghat of Bagharpara upazila in Jashore. “Jafar Ali Molla had been raping the child for the past four...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will monitor disbursement of relief goods for needy people under different social safety net programmes to detect potential irregularities and misappropriation. The commission instructed all its...
The government has instructed all citizens of the country not to come out of home after 6:00pm and if anyone defies this will be brought under legal action. “Moving from...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has said it will not tolerate any corruption in the government-run relief programmes amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country. “The Commission will not tolerate...
A total of 123 European citizens left Dhaka for their country on Friday. A special chartered flight of German government carrying its citizens took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport...
The death toll from coronavirus rose to 27 in Bangladesh as the country confirmed six more deaths on Friday. This is the largest single-day death toll due to the virus...
The government is likely to extend its holidays by 11 more days to April 25 from April 14 in an effort to contain the coronavirus spread in the country. A...
Twelve Bangladeshi migrants have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus infection in Malaysia, The Star, a Kuala Lumpur-based newspaper, reports. As many as 416 foreigners in the country have tested...
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka again ranked the worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. Dhaka had a score of 186 at 08:07am, indicating that the air quality was...
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka again ranked the worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. Dhaka had a score of 186 at 08:07am, indicating that the air quality was...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been conducting mobile courts across capital to check that people do not come out of their homes unnecessarily amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown. A DMP...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already turned healthy places around the world into living hells with massive death tolls because of its fastest-spreading nature, and continuously leading to lockdowns in...
The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh have arranged a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families. The flight, the final US government-organised flight returning to...
"If our workers don't die from coronavirus, they'd die of starvation." This is the stark assessment of how the pandemic is impacting the clothing industry from garment factory owner, Vijay...
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to spike in Bangladesh, health experts have warned that the country’s fight against the deadly virus may suffer a big blow due to...
Local administration put Biramkadi village in Titas upazila of Cumilla district under lockdown as a resident of the village tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on Thursday. Rasheda Akter, Upazila Nirbahi...
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits has surged for a third week as the economic toll tied to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic intensifies. More than 6.6 million people filed...
Early voting in South Korea’s parliamentary election kicked off on Friday, with coronavirus patients casting ballots at designated stations and candidates adopting new ways of campaigning to limit the risk...
Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) has said it plans to ship millions of face masks to its active drivers and food delivery people around the world to help prevent the spread...
The South Korean city of Daegu, which endured the first large coronavirus outbreak outside of China, on Friday reported zero new cases for the first time since late February, as...
One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt. As well as the saltshaker, in that instant, they shared...
A madrasha teacher died after showing flu-like symptoms at Sadar hospital in Laxmipur district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased aged about 61 was an assistant teacher of Sufia Darul Aman...
A sexagenarian man with fever and breathing problem died at Shibpur in Feni sadar upazila on Thursday evening. The deceased used to work at a fish enclosure and returned home...
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