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Though coronavirus pays no attention to borders, race and nationality, its infection and mortality data suggest this virus is deadlier for men than women all over the world, including Bangladesh....
The government is bringing back its nationals from a number of countries in phases so that all returnees can avail of quarantine facilities institutionally. "There's pressure on us. We’re bringing...
The Local Government Division (LGD) is going to suspend two union parishad chairmen and three members over irregularities during relief distribution following the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The ministry...
Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) on Saturday urged the concerned authorities to extend the duration of kitchen market by three more hours to lessen the pressure in the morning. BHRC...
Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) filed a total of 3,445 cases against different modes of vehicles as people came out of their homes unnecessarily amid the coronavirus...
The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Japan rose to 10,000 on Saturday, just days after a state of emergency was extended to the entire nation in an attempt...
There are many ways to help people in need. A man in Tahirpur upazila has come up with a noble initiative to stand by the poor people of his locality...
Four chartered flights from Bangladesh to the UK will take 850 British nationals home. The charter flights will depart for London from Dhaka on 21, 23, 25 and 26 April,...
Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 623 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 5,050. The ministry also said that 69 per cent...
Russia has registered a daily record of 4,070 COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, with the total number reaching 32,008 as of Friday, official data showed. The death toll...
As the coronavirus outbreak intensifies in Bangladesh, the government has launched several emergency hotlines for citizens seeking guidance and forwarding concerns about the diease. Testing for COVID-19 is being conducted...
The Jatiya Press Club (JPC) has constituted a panel of five doctors for providing emergency medical services to its members during this time of coronavirus crisis. JPC members can call...
With much of the world living in lockdown, the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first detected in China late last year is beginning to slow in some...
The seventh session of the National Parliament is set to open on Saturday evening in order to fulfil its ‘constitutional obligation’ amid a worsening coronavirus crisis in Bangladesh. The session...
A star-studded special concert is to be live-streamed and broadcast on TV to support frontline workers tackling the coronavirus outbreak. The One World: Together At Home show will see more...
Four farmers were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in four upazilas of Sunamgan district on Saturday. In Shalla upazila, the farmer Shangkar Sarker, 28, son of Surendra Sarker...
GD Assist, a subsidiary of Green Delta Insurance Company, has arranged the evacuation of 48 nonresident Bangladeshis stranded in Bangkok of Thailand and brought them back home on Friday. A...
Several thousand people attended the namaz-e-janaza of Mawlana Jubayer Ahmed Ansari at Bertola village in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria on Saturday ignoring the risk of coronavirus transmission. Mawlana Jubayer Ahmed...
The country’s single month merchandise shipments in March’20 witnessed 18.29 per cent negative growth to $2.73 billion US dollar, the lowest during the current fiscal year, according to data. Export...
The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh are planning to arrange a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families who voluntarily want to leave Bangladesh. The flight,...
Bangladesh recorded nine more coronavirus deaths and 306 positive cases in the last 24 hours to 8:00am on Saturday. With the latest, the total death and case count reaches 84...
A young man died from fever at the isolation unit in Rajshahi Infectious Disease Hospital on Saturday morning. Doctor Azizul Haque, associate professor of medicine department of Rajshahi Medical College...
Around 95.89 per cent readymade garment workers of its member factories have received salaries and wages for the month of March, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has said,...
The World Bank (WB) is providing emergency funds to Bangladesh and other countries like developing and low-income ones across the world to strengthen their efforts to battle the rapidly spreading...
Walmart Inc said on Friday it would hire 50,000 more workers at its stores, clubs and distribution centres to meet a surge in demand for groceries and household essentials from...
The World Bank Group (WBG) is expected to launch health emergency programs in over 100 countries by the end of April to support the fight against COVID-19, with 64 already...
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq’s mother, Jahanara Huq, has died of old-age complications at a hospital in Dhaka city. She was 85. She died around 3.40am at...
Gilead Sciences Inc on Friday increased enrollment target by 3,600 for a trial testing its experimental drug, remdesivir, in severe COVID-19 patients, a day after a media report said the...
Dhaka ranked 4th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. The capital city of Bangladesh had a score of 153 at 8:02 am, indicating that the air...
M Aminul Islam, Labour Counsellor of Bangladesh Mission in Jeddah, tested positive for coronavirus, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen prayed for...
A man who tested positive for coronavirus died at Kolatia area on Friday night, raising the death toll to three in Keraniganj upazila. The deceased was identified as Abul Hannan...
The US coronavirus crisis took a sharp political turn on Friday as President Donald Trump lashed out at four Democratic governors over their handling of the pandemic after having conceded...
A surge in fighting between the Myanmar military and insurgents has killed at least 32 civilians, mostly women and children, in the restive Rakhine and Chin states, the UN human...
Doctors and nurses in England are to be asked to treat coronavirus patients without fully protective gowns and to reuse equipment due to shortage fears. The decision came in a...
Officer-in-Charge of Jhenaigati Police Station in Sherpur has been tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19), said Qazi Ashraful Azim, superintendent of district police. The local administration has put two hospitals in...
The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 150,000 on Friday, according to a Reuters tally. The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan...
The UK will operate four special flights from Dhaka to London for British tourists, short term visitors and their direct dependants to return to the UK from Tuesday (April 21-26)....
The government has waived certain formalities involved in the disbursement of funds meant for autonomous bodies to help meet their expenditures on development and non-development activities without any interruption. Funds...
Large cap companies having notable impact on key index played a pivotal role behind the rise of broad index which crossed 4000-point mark in five sessions conducted before the closure...
Vegetable farmers have been incurring big losses for weeks due to supply chain disruptions and a poor demand following the countrywide lockdown. The stay-at-home holiday that started on March 26...
The government has stepped up measurers for enhancing imports of key essential commodities to keep their supply and prices stable in the market during Ramadan which will start in late...
When the country is passing through an unprecedented crisis due to spread of deadly coronavirus, irregularities and misappropriation of relief materials clearly show how bad the governance system is. Despite...
The world is passing through an unprecedented crisis on account of coronavirus. It has already cost more than one hundred thousand lives. Whereas the first 50,000 deaths occurred in 80...
The ongoing shutdown has its most disastrous impact on two of the country's key farm sub-sectors - poultry and dairy, though other farm sub-sectors like fisheries and horticulture are also...
Health Minister Zahid Malik has urged COVID-19 patients not to hide information so that doctors can get protection, claiming that 80 per cent cases do not need treatment for recovery....
In the beginning, it should be clarified that SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 are two different terms by definition. SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2) is the virus that causes the disease...
Food safety is an important determinant for public health and nutrition. So, access to safe and nutritious food is key to promoting and protecting good health including boosting body immunity,...
A spinning mill caught fire at Konabari of Gazipur city on Friday afternoon, reports UNB. Md Mamunur Rashid, deputy director at Gazipur Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire...
Health systems in both developed and developing countries are now struggling to respond to the challenges posed by Covid-19. As of April1 15, 210 countries and territories have been affected...
Since the beginning of February coronavirus has been spreading astonishingly throughout the United States. The governments at the federal as well as in the states level were at first unprepared...
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