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The global death toll from coronavirus or COVID-19 reached 16,510 on Tuesday -- a mortality rate of 14 per cent. The virus has so far infected 378,842 people around the...
The 2020 Olympic Games will be postponed by one year because of coronavirus, says International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound. It comes after the chairman of the British Olympic Association...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Britons on Monday to stay at home to halt the spread of coronavirus, imposing curbs on everyday life without precedent in peacetime. All but...
Mainland China saw a doubling in new coronavirus cases driven by a jump in infected travelers returning home from overseas, raising the risk of transmissions in Chinese cities and provinces...
All inhabitants of a residential area of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, or BUET, have gone into home quarantine after one of them tested positive for the coronavirus....
Myanmar reported its first confirmed cases of coronavirus in two men who had recently travelled to the United States and the United Kingdom. The Southeast Asian nation had been the...
Amid COVID-19 outbreak, the government requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday to provide support worth US$100 million for strengthening the country's laboratories and testing facilities as well as...
Amid the outbreak of COVID-19, the BGMEA has requested the German government to encourage buyers in Germany to receive the apparel items already produced in Bangladesh and allow the suppliers...
Prices of key essentials remained almost unchanged at their previous highs. However, the low income people, especially the daily earners, have been hit hard due to low presence of people...
Autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies have started returning surplus funds to the public exchequer in line with the government's order, officials say. After the passage of a law in parliament, the...
Bangladesh is in close touch with China in an attempt to stem further spread of novel coronavirus in the country. Both the foreign minister and the health minister had several...
The government has put COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, on its list of communicable diseases in a move that is expected to scale up efforts to contain...
Air pollution is one of growing environmental hazards in Bangladesh. As such the country has now been grappling with air pollution. Exposed to various diseases and financial losses caused by...
Since the very beginning of the onslaught of novel coronavirus, its impact on world tourism has been quite graphic. A spot was the coast off Japan. A cruise-liner filled with...
This year's World Water Day theme, 'Water and Climate Change' could not be more appropriate because the two are inextricably linked. Roughly two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with...
Bangladesh Bank has decided to cut repo rate to 5.75 per cent from 6 per cent as part of efforts to boost liquidity amid a coronavirus pandemic. According to bdnews24.com,...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday suggested all the public and private universities introducing online education to run academic activities during the coronavirus pandemic. The UGC also suggested installing...
FBCCI President Sheikh Fazle Fahim on Monday described the central bank’s decision to buy Treasury bills and bonds from banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) as a landmark step to...
The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is now being witnessed at all levels and the irrevocable financial damage, which may be considered secondary to matters of health and safety,...
The coronavirus pandemic is now a major threat to global health and wellbeing. As of March 23, about 339,337 people have been infected and at least 14,703 people have died...
Mapping the COVID-19 spread-effects shows a resemblance with the Great Recession of 2007-10 and the Black Monday-anchored 1987 recession. On the one hand was an epicentre located in the global...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is responsible for management of national, regional and district road network of bridges under the Bangladesh government and construction and maintenance of major road...
One thing is clear about the COVID-19 pandemic, as stock markets tumble, schools and universities close, people stockpile supplies and home becomes a different and crowded space: this is not...
Banks will remain open during the Mar 26-Apr 4 general holidays announced to stem the coronavirus spread, according to Bangladesh Bank. But their operations will be scaled back in this...
Bangladesh Army will assist the civil administration at the field level in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak as Bangladesh has confirmed 33 infections with three deaths. Cabinet Secretary Khandkar...
The Hungarian government is seeking to extend indefinitely the state of emergency introduced on March 11 because of the coronavirus epidemic, leading some to fear an unjustified power grab and...
The Islamic Foundation (IF) of Bangladesh has urged all to follow the directives of the World Health Organization (WHO) for performing janaza and burial of coronavirus victim. The Islamic Foundation...
The High Court (HC) on Monday stayed for six months the sentence of Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam who was convicted by a mobile court for one-year imprisonment after the law...
Two garment factories were shut down in Savar on the outskirts of the capital in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The decision taken on Monday...
Garment workers will receive their monthly wages timely amid the ongoing corona virus crisis, BGMEA president Dr Rubana Huq said. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) chief made...
Though 860 Bangladeshis returned from overseas in Chowgaccha upazila of Benapole in one month, only 17 people are under home quarantine. After getting a list of returnees from Home Ministry,...
A mobile court fined two returnees from Brunei Tk 7,000 for breaching home quarantine rules at Chandipur village in Joypurhat district on Sunday night. According to UNB, Sobuj Ali and...
The coronavirus epidemic continued to spread in locked-down Italy on Sunday with total cumulative number of infected cases reaching 59,138 and deaths reaching 5,476, according to the latest data released...
All governmen and private offices and courts will be closed from March 26 to April 4 to contain the spread of coronavirus, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam announced on Monday....
Renowned educationist and writer Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir died of old age complications at his Gulshan residence in the city on Monday. He was 84. The Ekushey Padak winning author had...
All government offices will be closed from March 26 to April 4 to contain the spread of coronavirus, Cabinet Secretary said on Monday. The shutdown will not affect emergency services....
Another person has died in Bangladesh after testing positive for Covid-19, taking the total death toll to three, said Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR). Besides, six more...
The United Nations will create a fund to support the treatment of coronavirus patients worldwide, Norway's foreign ministry said on Monday. "A multi-donor fund under UN auspices will provide predictability...
One man in Taiwan had a particularly expensive night out after authorities fined him $33,000 (£28,480) for violating his quarantine to go clubbing, reports BBC. The man was supposed to...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said a 500-member committee has been formed to tackle the coronavirus situation in the country. The committee has been formed with prominent...
A US court has dismissed a civil case filed by Bangladesh Bank against Manila-based bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp, individuals and firms over $81m cyber-hacking in 2016. Bloomberry Resorts Corp...
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic on March 11 this year, which has now spread to 170 countries and territories and infected...
Bus services from Khulna to others parts of the country including the capital will remain suspended from Wednesday due to growing concern over coronavirus. Khulna Motor Workers Union and Bus...
Apple has dropped a two-device limit on online purchases of iPhones, a check of its web stores showed on Monday, just days after changing the checkout procedure amid a coronavirus...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has risen to 22,672 and 86 people have died from the disease, a tally by public health agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI)...
Stocks posted a modest gain on Monday, snapping a single-day losing streak, as the securities regulator imposed circuit breaker to boost the ailing market. DSEX, the key index of the...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken a decision to allow advance payment up to US$ 500,000 or equivalent other foreign currency in importing coronavirus-related lifesaving drugs, medical kits or equipment and...
The Department of Immigration and Passports has stopped receiving new applications for passports due to the coronavirus outbreak. The decision was effective from Monday, said the government agency's Director General...
The death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus SARS-Cov-2, has reached 14,655 globally. It has so far infected 337,570 people around the world, UNB reported citing worldometer.com...
A 60-year-old man, who returned from Italy recently, died at a private hospital in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district on Sunday night with coronavirus symptoms, doctors said. Abdul Khalek returned...
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