A total of 269 US citizens left Dhaka on Monday evening by a special chartered flight as the US government arranged the aircraft for those who opted to go back...
Buyers have so far cancelled orders of readymade garment (RMG) products worth US$ 2.87 billion till Monday afternoon in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, according to BGMEA sources. About 1,041...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Monday continued distributing food among 2,500 homeless, destitute and poor people in the city amid global coronavirus pandemic outbreak. As part its initiative, the DMP...
The Office of the Ombudsman of the European Union (EU), turned down the plea for withdrawal of GSP facilities by the EU for Bangladesh for violating labour rights. The EU...
Next year's Olympic Games have been set to begin on July 23, 2021 and will run until Aug 8, the head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, Yoshiro Mori said...
The Islamic Foundation asked people having coronavirus symptoms, sick, elderly people or those arrived here from corona-hit countries or regions not to go to mosques but to offer prayers at...
Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said the government and the mass media will work more closely to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The minister made the remarks after a meeting...
Health Minister Zahid Malik has said the government will establish at least 17 new laboratories across the country to accelerate the testing process for the coronavirus. The minister gave the...
269 US citizens along with nine dogs will return to their country on Monday evening. They are scheduled to board a flight of Qatar Airways at 6 pm, according to...
The prices of daily essentials fell significantly in Dhaka’s kitchen markets as hundreds of thousands of people left the capital during the government announced holiday to prevent the spread of...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) continues spraying disinfectants through water cannons in the capital to prevent the spread of coronavirus pandemic for the sixth consecutive day. The DMP is spraying...
In a letter to the customers, Mr Rahel Ahmed, managing director and CEO of Prime Bank Limited urges all to maintain social distance to combat coronavirus and also assures that...
The global death toll from the coronavirus has jumped by about 4,000 in a day to 34,005, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, according to bdnews24.com. Since it...
All the customs houses and customs stations will remain open during the government declared general holidays in limited scale. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Monday issued an order...
China reported a drop in new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as drastic curbs on international travellers reined in the number of imported cases, while policymakers turned their efforts...
Prisoners in southern Iran broke cameras and caused other damage during a riot, state media reported Monday, the latest in a series of violent prison disturbances in the country, which...
The state-run Sangsad Bangladesh Television is set to broadcast pre-recorded lessons for primary school students after the government was forced to shut down educational institutions across the country in order...
At least 20,000 workers of different tea gardens here went on work abstention on Monday morning demanding suspension of their work to prevent the transmission of the deadly coronavirus. Raju...
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing machines, used for detecting coronavirus infection and other complicated diseases, reached Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) and Sylhet's MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Monday...
At least four people have died in Rangpur’s Pirgachha upazila, after a locomotive ploughed into an autorickshaw on the level crossing, reports bdnews24.com. The accident took place at the Anandanagar...
The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief preparing a list for providing the support The government has taken an initiative to provide food assistance to those who used to survive...
Australia will spend A$130 billion (64.5 billion pounds) to subsidise the wages of an estimated 6 million people, marking a third tranche of stimulus designed to limit the fallout of...
The total number of mobile phone subscribers in the country reached 166.114 million at the end of February 2020, according to data by telecom regulator. The number of subscribers of...
US President Donald Trump has said that the country is stepping up the development of treatments for COVID-19 (COVID-19 patients), including experimenting with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and blood-related therapies....
President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April, dropping a hotly criticised plan to get the economy up and running by mid-April after a...
China's central bank unexpectedly cut the rate on reverse repurchase agreements by 20 basis points on Monday, the largest in nearly five years, as authorities stepped up measures to relieve...
Greece announced new tax breaks and economic assistance to thousands of businesses and workers on Monday to buffer its economy from a national lockdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. Greece’s...
Vietnam has asked its local mask producers to ramp up their production to make 5.0 million masks a day, the government said on Monday, as coronavirus cases in the country...
The state owned Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd has ramped up its production of hand sanitizers following the growing demand of it among the people, official said. The company has...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a video conference with the officials of 64 districts on Tuesday to coordinate the ongoing activities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The...
Nine people, including two doctors and five staff of Kushtia Sadar Hospital, were kept in quarantine after an auto-rickshaw driver suffering from cold and breathing problems died there on Monday....
The central bank has relaxed its rules of foreign exchange release considering the situation of the travelling card holders stuck abroad due to restrictions arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic....
India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said on Monday, as it struggled to keep essential supplies flowing and...
One more person has been diagnosed with COVID-19 disease in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 49, said the...
Coronavirus testing machines and related equipment were sent to Sylhet's MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Monday morning. Brig Gen Md Yunusur Rahman, director of the hospital, said the RT-PCR...
Air pollution has decreased in urban areas across Europe during lockdowns to combat the coronavirus, new satellite images showed on Monday, but campaigners warned city-dwellers were still more vulnerable to...
A mild heat wave sweeping over Faridpur, Madaripur, Sitakundu and Rangamati may continue, the Met Office said in its regular weather forecast on Monday. Temperature during the day may remain...
A student of Dhaka University has remained missing for three days after going home at Baliakhora village in Ghior upazila of Manikganj during holidays. The student, Saiful Islam, 26, is...
Police generally produce more than 200 arrestees in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court of Dhaka in a day, but the number dropped to 26 on Sunday amid a nationwide shutdown...
Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, who had been hospitalised after being infected with the new coronavirus, has died, public broadcaster NHK reported on Monday. He was 70. Shimura, one of the...
Mainland China reported a drop in new coronavirus infections for a fourth day as imported cases fell, while authorities shut the borders to foreign travellers and drastically slashed the number...
The local administration has locked down five houses in Chowgaccha upazila under Jashore district after a teenage girl was admitted to Jashore Medical College Hospital on Sunday night with symptoms...
How much damage has the coronavirus and the oil price collapse inflicted on global financial markets this year? Put simply, it has probably been the most destructive sell-off since the...
Toyota Motor said on Monday that it would extend a suspension at all of its factories in Europe with the exception of Russia until further notice, with a restart expected...
The data server of Bangladesh Bank is again found to be at risk of cyber attack due to malware transmission, officials have said. The Bangladesh Computer Council, or BCC, has...
Online food delivery business in the country has been going through tough times in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. Despite lucrative offers extended to customers, online food orders witnessed a...
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Italy fell for the second consecutive day on Sunday but the country still looked almost certain to see an extension of stringent containment...
Global spread of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent fall in liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices in international market turned to be a 'boon' for the state-run Petrobangla. Like another major...
H&M, one of the country's largest global apparel buyers, has decided to temporarily suspend placing new orders to its listed supplier factories in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus outbreak. Sources said...
The city's healthcare services for non-COVID-19 patients have come to almost a halt due to the abrupt absence of doctors who are staying home to prevent contracting new coronavirus, hospital...
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