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Worldwide, many countries continue to experience an extended period of Covid-19 risks. There are no off-the-shelf solutions for managing such a complex crisis, in which measures to prevent transmission will...
The nation's guiding lights are leaving us one by one. First, it was national professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury who was on his eternal journey and now national professor Anisuzzaman follows...
The world is eagerly waiting for an effective vaccine against novel coronavirus that has been wreaking havoc for the past three months. Though the peoples across world got disheartened, to...
The long coronavirus-triggered shutdown has prompted a number of changes to the lifestyle of people in the country. The urban areas dominate the scenario. Apart from learning to adapt to...
Battery-run rickshaws usually operate in alleys to dodge the police as these are banned in Dhaka due to the risk of accidents involved with the high-speed light vehicles. But with...
Former US President Barack Obama has criticised his successor Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis. In an online address to graduating college students, he said the pandemic had shown...
Robi Axiata Limited has been recognised as the best socially devoted brand in the world for the first quarter (Q1’20) of 2020 by unified social media marketing platform and online...
Australia urged China on Sunday to respond to its requests to discuss easing tensions between the two trading partners after Canberra called for an international enquiry into the origins of...
Water Resources Ministry Secretary Kabir Bin Anwar on Sunday asked officials concerned to take necessary preparations as a severe cyclonic ‘Ampan’ is likely to hit the coastal areas of Khulna...
Different lower courts in virtual hearing across the country granted bail to 3,447 people on Sunday. The matter was confirmed by Md Saifur Rahman, special officer of High Court Division....
Winning the case against Niko Resources is the outcome of professional efficacy and integrated approach, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) Nasrul Hamid has said. Institutional corruption...
China’s foreign ministry has said the United States needed to stop the ‘unreasonable suppression’ of Chinese companies like Huawei, and a Chinese newspaper said the government was ready to retaliate...
A writ petition has been filed on Sunday with the virtual High Court bench of the Supreme Court seeking its directives upon the government to ensure the health protection of...
Stating that over 80 per cent areas in Bangladesh are still free from coronavirus, noted health expert Dr Be-Nazir Ahmed thinks the government needs to take a crash programme to...
The government has appointed Professor Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, who teaches banking and insurance at Dhaka University, as the chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, reports bdnews24.com. Prof Shibli,...
Some 1,090 Bangladesh nationals, mostly patients and medical tourists, have returned back through Benapole International Check Post in the last four days. The travellers, who got stuck in India due...
The government is going to impose a 65-day ban from May 20 to July 23 on fishing in the Bay of Bengal in the interest of the national economy, said...
A Bangladeshi medical team has said they found combination of two widely used drugs to have yielded ‘astounding’ results in curing patients with acute COVID-19 symptoms amid desperate global efforts...
China’s ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday, an Israeli police spokesman said. The spokesman did not comment on...
Police have tightened restrictions on the flow of people into and out of Dhaka even as the lockdown rules were eased by the government amid a surge in coronavirus cases...
At least 61 per cent doctors at private hospitals have not been receiving their salaries on time amid the coronavirus shutdown, a survey has found. The survey, run by Bangladesh...
A Rohingya refugee with suspected ties to drug trafficking was killed in a ‘shootout’ with Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf Upazila. The deceased was identified as Md...
The world’s second-largest hospital dedicated to treating coronavirus patients opened its doors on Sunday at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital. Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the...
The government has begun drafting a policy to implement online education programmes at public and private universities amid the coronavirus outbreak. So far, public universities have not shown much interest...
Nepal’s health authorities confirmed the country’s first death from coronavirus on Saturday. The 29-year-old woman died while being taken to a hospital on the outskirt of Kathmandu, Nepal's Ministry of...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said the recruitment process of 5,000 new medical technologists is underway to strengthen the medical sector. He came up with the information while inaugurating...
People out on Eid shopping at markets and shops in the capital are too reluctant about maintaining the recommended physical distance to protect themselves and others from coronavirus infection. Traders...
Mobile courts fined a number of houses and establishments Tk 46,000 on Sunday for having the larvae of Aedes mosquito on their premises in different parts of Dhaka North City...
India said on Sunday it would privatise state-run companies in non-strategic sectors and stop fresh insolvency cases for a year, as the economy grapples with a coronavirus-related standstill. A list...
Indonesia reported 489 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, taking the total to 17,514. Indonesia also reported 59 deaths from the COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus, bringing the...
A total of 243 Bangladesh citizens stranded in the USA amid coronavirus pandemic returned home by a special chartered flight from Washington DC on Sunday. A chartered aircraft of Qatar...
Bangladesh confirmed 1,273 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 22,268. Meanwhile, 14 more people died of the lethal disease in the...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte outlined a further loosening of movement restrictions on Saturday (local time), including opening borders to travellers from Europe from next month to unwind one of...
When a lawyer logged in to an online court hearing with his smartphone, his initial reaction was one of confusion, which soon turned into embarrassment, bdnews24.com reports. ‘Hello learned Samsung,’...
The government has appointed Md Mustafizur Rahman, current High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore, as the next Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations offices and other international organisations...
India should speak with Taliban militants if it feels that it will help the peace process, Pakistan's envoy to Washington said on Saturday, after a series of attacks in Afghanistan...
Two months into the coronavirus pandemic, the authorities concerned of all domestic and state-run airlines have suffered a loss of Tk 13.61 billion over the months of March and April...
Malaysia has contracted to import a record 100,000 tonnes of rice from India for shipment this month and next, four industry officials told Reuters, in a further sign of improving...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Iqbal Mahmood has asked its officials to closely monitor government’s rice procurement programme across the country following allegations of corruption. The Commission chief gave the...
The 40th Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is being observed on Sunday. On this day in 1981, Sheikh Hasina returned home from India after...
The number of coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia topped 50,000 on Saturday, the health ministry said. A ministry official reported 2,840 new cases, taking the cumulative total to 51,980. That...
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local warning signal number 4 as cyclonic storm ‘Amphan’ approaches. ‘Amphan’ moved northwestwards over the southeast...
The government’s decision to run distance-learning programmes after it shut down educational institutions amid coronavirus outbreak is gradually bringing out the social disparity. Only students with smartphones and digital devices...
India is expected to produce a record 107.18 million tonnes of wheat this year, the farm ministry said in its third forecast for the crop year to June 2020, marginally...
New York’s new confirmed COVID-19 cases are predominantly coming from people who left their homes to shop, exercise or socialise, rather than from essential workers, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on...
The demand for digital needs among people has risen significantly in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic is fast turning society towards technologies to respond to this crisis. A vast...
A leading banker Saturday suggested large-scale merger and acquisition (M&A) of banks and financial institutions of the country to cope with COVID-19 pandemic challenges. Another banker while participating in a...
"Give me some money for purchasing rice and potato. I don't have anything to cook at my home today," Nilufar, a 35-year-old woman who worked at a garment factory in...
Many small businesses, specially clothing retailers, are counting loss, as the city dwellers prefer to stay home ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr in fear of getting infected with coronavirus. Shopkeepers, other...
The customs authority has offered duty benefit to the local manufacturers of personal protective gears, disinfectants and masks. It has exempted import tariffs from raw materials, including filaments and fabrics,...
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