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The Supreme Court (SC) authorities extended effectiveness of some court orders-- bail in criminal cases, or temporary injunction order in civil cases -- for two weeks effective from the opening...
The Islamic Foundation on Saturday in a statement urged all Muslims in the country to offer prayers on the holy Shab-e-Barat at home to prevent the coronavirus pandemic. “All have...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSSC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday called upon the Commerce Minister to consider shutdown of garments factories to prevent the spread of coronavirus. He made the...
Americans are seeking unemployment benefits at unprecedented levels due to the coronavirus, but many are finding more frustration than relief. State websites and phone lines across the country have been...
Thousands of readymade garment (RMG) factory workers started heading back to Dhaka from northern and southern districts on Saturday to save their jobs, ignoring risks to their lives and a...
The clouds that gathered over the complaint made to the EU Ombudsman by some international labour right groups against the European Commission (EC) for the latter's alleged failure to initiate...
A total of 8,718 foreign returnees, out of the 12,569, have returned to normal life after completing the 14-day home-quarantine period in Khulna division. They were kept in home-quarantine to...
IDLC Finance Limited has taken an initiative to donate essential food items for low income people & daily wage-earners living in different parts of the country from April 4. In...
PRAN-RFL Group, one of the business conglomerates of Bangladesh has stood beside the helpless and poor people who have been affected by the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak. The group...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed the commercial banks to allow maximum 5 per cent letter of credit (LC) margin for baby food import on the basis of bank-client relationship to...
The Ministry of Shipping is taking preparations to use passenger launches as isolation units to fight against the novel coronavirus. State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday said...
The government will sell subsidised rice at Tk 10 per kg in Dhaka from Sunday with a view to helping the poor during the shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak,...
The history of the country records April 4, 1971 as a crucial day for the subsequent course of the Liberation War as the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi acknowledged...
NRBC Bank has formed a special Health Desk comprised of a group of renowned specialized doctors from home and abroad. The Health Desk will provide necessary medical advices regarding prevention...
Britain’s main opposition Labour Party named Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions who opposed the country’s exit from the European Union, as its leader on Saturday. Starmer, who...
The staff of Meghna Bank Limited has come forward to stand by the people affected by the corona virus situation, who are out of the social safety-net. The staff of...
The coronavirus situation in Bangladesh is better than developed countries in Europe and the USA, ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said Saturday. According to UNB, he made this...
Awami League’s Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Saturday warned of taking stern actions against those involved in extortion in the name of helping poor during the COVID-19 pandemic....
BNP on Saturday proposed to a special fund of Tk 870.00 billion to tackle the impacts of coronavirus disease, COVID-19, on the country’s economy. The party has urged the government...
Thirty five more Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in West Bengal during the ongoing lockdown in India, returned home through Benapole check-post on Saturday morning under an special arrangement. Among...
Two members of police were sent to isolation unit of two separate hospitals for having symptoms of coronavirus infection in Bagerhat on Saturday. Meanwhile, 1,683 people are maintaining home quarantine...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will announce the government’s work plan at a press conference on Sunday to overcome the possible impacts of the coronavirus (COVID 19) outbreak on the economy....
Prime minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of Britain’s opposition parties to work with him during this “moment of national emergency”, saying he wants to hear their views during...
Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) is set to start test to detect coronavirus or COVID-19 infection using the Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) machine on April 11. The test kits have already...
The Bangladesh Bank has ordered banks to waive penal charges for credit card customers until June for any late payment amid the ongoing lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak. The...
Australia reported a sustained fall in new coronavirus infections and conducted the biggest peacetime maritime operation on Sydney Harbour on Saturday, refuelling foreign cruise ships before expelling them from local...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), for the 11th consecutive day on Saturday, continued spraying disinfectants in the capital in an attempt to contain the spread of coronavirus. The DMP is...
Sterion, a part of Rusatom Healthcare, has signed a contract with Delrus to sterilise more than 58 million medical masks using radiation technology. Rusatom Healthcare is a concern of Russia's...
The government has extended its ongoing suspension on all modes of public transportation until April 11 as part of its efforts to contain the coronavirus spread. The decision came from...
According to the data updated by the Health Ministry of Pakistan late Friday night, the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) has risen to 2,547 in the country,...
A man suffering from fever and cold died at Kafuria in Natore Sadar upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Dulal, UNB reports. Doctor Mahabubur Rahman, upazila health...
The World Bank has approved a fast-track $100 million financing to help Bangladesh prevent, detect, and respond to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and strengthen its national systems for public health...
The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases worldwide has risen above 1.1 million, according to a new tally from Johns Hopkins University on Saturday, reports Xinhua.
Bangladesh has expressed deep condolences at the loss of lives due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in China as the latter is observing Mourning Day this day or...
Two more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to eight. Besides, nine other people were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the period,...
US President Donald Trump notified Congress on Friday (US standard time) that he is firing the inspector general of the US intelligence community who was involved in triggering an impeachment...
The number of COVID-19 positive cases in India exceeded 3,000 and the death toll touched 91 on Saturday, according to State and Health Ministry reports. Despite the rise in cases,...
Local administration put a house under lockdown after the death of a two-year old boy at Torabganj village in Kamalnagar upazila of Lakshmipur on Friday night with breathing complications. Following...
World Bank Group president David Malpass on Friday said the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic was expected to cause a “major global recession” that would likely hit the poorest and most...
It is not the financing, but the poor condition of health logistics and infrastructure that has now become the main concern of the country in its fight against the deadly...
Square Pharmaceuticals, country's top pharmaceutical company witnessed a steady performance in operational, financial and profitability thanks to its product quality and expanded market. The country's largest pharma company's turnover was...
The family members of a man have alleged the authorities forced them away to bury him after his death as a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College...
China on Saturday mourned the thousands of “martyrs” who have died in the new coronavirus outbreak, flying the national flag at half mast throughout the country and suspending all forms...
Animals of the Dhaka city streets, especially the dogs, are facing a severe food crisis in the prevailing situation amid the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis has been triggered in the...
The number of people who have died from the COVID-19 illness in France jumped by 61 per cent to 6,507 over two days after data from nursing homes were included,...
Application engineer and molecular biologists of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine vendors will provide training to the people deployed in the newly set up laboratories for Covid-19 tests across...
It’s the most dramatic government intervention into our lives since World War II. To fight the coronavirus outbreak, governments across the globe have closed schools, travel and businesses big and...
The flow of inward remittance dropped by nearly 12 per cent in March following coronavirus outbreak in different parts of the world, officials said. Remittances from Bangladeshi nationals working abroad...
The authorities in Bangladesh have put 321 foreign members of the Tabligh Jamaat into two mosques in Dhaka as India has quarantined thousands after hundreds linked to a gathering of...
Two of the principal US coronavirus hot spots - New York and Louisiana - reported their biggest jumps in COVID-19 deaths yet on Friday, as the White House sent mixed...
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