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Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Tuesday said the government’s aid programmes for the poor and destitute badly affected by the coronavirus-induced shutdown are inadequate. In a statement, he called...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities concerned to act immediately about checking mosquitos in order to prevent the re-emergence of dengue across the country. She came up with...
The government has decided to extend the ongoing general holidays for five more days until April 9, merging it with the following two-day weekend, to contain the spread of deadly...
In the face of a looming financial tsunami this year, due to spread of deadly coronavirus, an agency of the United Nations called for $2.50 trillion crisis package for developing...
Two more people have been tested positive in Bangladesh for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 52, acccording to...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been spraying disinfectants through water cannons for the last seven consecutive days in the capital to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic. The DMP...
A married couple and their car driver were killed as the vehicle plunged into a roadside canal in Bangra Bazar area of Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla on Tuesday morning. The...
Three patients who were admitted to Sylhet’s Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital with fever and cold were tested negative for coronavirus. Sushanto Kumar Mohapatro, residential medical officer of the hospital confirmed...
AFC Health Fortis Heart Institute has recently launched a Corona Care Hotline to provide free information and advice regarding the novel coronavirus. Anyone from any part of the country can...
Residents of China’s Wuhan city, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic, have mixed emotions as containment measures are lifted and the community infection rate slows to a trickle, with some...
Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and motorbike helmets while fighting the coronavirus, exposing the weak state of the public health system...
Japan’s industrial output rose in February at a slower pace than the previous month and factories expect production to plunge in March, adding to growing signs the coronavirus pandemic is...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Bangladesh and the other countries where internet shutdowns are in place to lift them immediately amid the COVID-19 crisis saying blocking or...
Britons made over 79 million extra grocery shopping trips in the four weeks to March 21 year-on-year as they stocked their “pandemic pantries”, driving a 20.5 per cent jump in...
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Germany has risen to 61,913 and a total of 583 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch...
Police on Monday night arrested a leader of Jubo League's Ishwardi Municipality unit for allegedly spreading rumour over coronavirus infection on social media. The arrestee is Abdus Salam, 32, son...
Hollstadt Consulting CEO Molly Jungbauer has had to let go 30 of the 150 employees at her St. Paul, Minnesota firm to weather the drop in revenue from travel industry...
Ford Motor said on Monday (US standard time) it will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days at a plant in Michigan in cooperation with General Electric’s healthcare unit,...
The coronavirus epidemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for large-scale...
Myanmar reported its first coronavirus death on Tuesday, a 69-year-old man who also had cancer and died in a hospital in Yangon city, a government spokeswoman said. He had sought...
India’s health ministry on Monday invited doctors in Indian-administered Kashmir to an online training session on managing ventilators - critical equipment for patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the...
The local administration on Tuesday lifted lockdown imposed on Baraichhara village of Harirampur upazila of Manikganj district after a women who died while suffering from fever and cough tested negative...
All programmes centring on the Pahela Baishakh will be cancelled due to the coronavirus situation in the country, prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said. In a video conference with all...
A man, his wife and their daughter have been found dead in a home at Panishail Sonali Palli in Gazipur city under mysterious circumstances, according to the police. Akbar Ali...
Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) has temporarily suspended vehicle production in order to prevent the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from spreading, Vietnam News Agency reported. The outbreak has impacted all aspects of...
As a negative consequence of the ongoing ‘lockdown,’ introduced to fight COVID-19, a social unrest may emerge in the country as a large number of low-income and poor people are...
The newly-introduced 'CNI-DSE Select Index (CDSET)', comprising well performing companies, tumbled 12 per cent in the just three months amid virus outbreak. The Dhaka Stock Exchange launched the index on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government declared holiday to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 might be extended till April 9. "We've announced a 10-day holiday, but this...
The ACME Laboratories registered a steady growth in EPS (earnings per share) during the last five fiscal years riding on increased revenue earnings realised during the period. The 'A' category...
The coronavirus pandemic is expected to sharply slow growth in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as well as China, the World Bank said in an economic update...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has started the process of settling the Tk 5.0-billion claims of Japanese contractors through a third-party opinion. The builders worked on a big project...
The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, the deadliest day yet in the country’s mounting crisis, while New York cheered the arrival of a...
Bangladeshi photojournalist A Hai Swapan died from coronavirus in New York on Monday night. He breathed his last at local time 12:50pm (10:50pm BdST) at Queens Hospital. Bangladeshi journalist Abdur...
American Airlines has confirmed it will seek $12 billion (£9.7 billion) of financial support from the US government because of the impact of coronavirus. Employees were told in an email...
The country's customs authority will release import-export goods on a 'limited scale' during the general holidays, declared by the government until April 04, to contain the spread of coronavirus. The...
Businessmen have been passing time by reading books, watching videos or doing indoor exercise as they stay home, compelled by nationwide shutdown. Some said they have been involved in office...
Economists on Monday urged the government to provide financial support to local industries and service sectors to help those cushion the impact of the new coronavirus. The Tk 50-billion package...
The Ministry of Finance issues a notification today (Tuesday), detailing the modalities of Tk 50-billion stimulus package for the export-oriented industries designed to pay salaries of employees. The money, in...
As Cox’s Bazar is hosting 1.1 million Rohingya refugees, the district deserves special attention from both government and international agencies amid coronavirus outbreak, said journalist from both Cox’s Bazar and...
A number of organisations have come forward to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) in a bid to ensure safety of the health-service providers to fight against COVID-19. They have started...
The government has so far allocated Tk 90 million in cash and 31,000 metric tonnes of rice for the low-income people across the country as they remained without any work...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division has introduced four digital platforms, including a personal risk assessment web tool, to create awareness among people and provide latest information about coronavirus. The...
The world economy is hugely disrupted by the outbreak of novel coronavirus (Covid-19. Countries across the global are facing a risk of an outright disintegration as global supply chain is...
The overall state of dislocation created in society as a result of the impact of Covid-19 has caused a large section of the population to lose their livelihoods in the...
In the present world economic order, it doesn't take much time for a country to feel the impact of a massive disaster. If the calamity is global, scores of nations...
The corona virus disease (COVID-19) situation has come to such a pretty pass that no continent on earth could escape the assault of this speedily transmitted virus except the remote...
If you watch the dynamics of a near perfectly competitive free market (stock market), a monopolistically competitive market (oil market) or a government regulated bond market and you have some...
Employee retention has become an issue. As the COVID-19 pandemic takes the turn to an economic crisis, businesses across the board, irrespective of size, are feeling the burn. Letting employees...
One of the underlying messages of the four-part Scopus Covid-19 series that ended last week is how the global economy has been either irrevocably shattered or rests upon too fragile...
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said Monday human testing of its experimental vaccine for the coronavirus will begin by September and it could be available for emergency use authorisation in early...
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